60 SOCIAL SCIENTIST with the conferences and seminars, the study circle members are active in the work of the Indian School of Social Sciences, the rural library movement and dozens of drama and dance samithis and film societies. Workers of the study circle when invited, participate in other literary forums organized at times in opposition to it. We use such occasions to explain our viewpoints and reciprocate the courtesy by invitations to debates on our platforms. Though the Academies under government patronage and old established literary bodies like the Sahithya Parishath are rather reluctant to have many of us in their functions, they cannot altogether write us off or keep us out. For,, we have come to stay in Kerala^s cultural life and no one can afford to ignore our existence except by minimizing one's own relevance. We eagerly look forward to closer cooperation, and exchange of notes and ideas with comrades and fellow-writers in other states. In the difficult days that we are passing through, such contacts and exchanges are bound to be of immense mutual benefit. [The original version of this note was prepared/or the Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers9 Conference at Madurai on 12 and 13 July 1975.] P GOVINDA PILLAI