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Ramanan (Malayalam: രമണന്) is the most celebrated work of Malayalam poet Changampuzha Krishna Pillai. It is a play written in the form of verse. It is a pastoral elegy written after the death of his friend Edappally Raghavan Pillai. Written in 1936 it is the bestseller of Malayalam literature. Changampuzha’s Ramanan became such a big hit the Kerala University prescribed it as a text book in Malayalam literature class.