Vakkom Abdul Khader 25.5.1998

History can’t write off this valiant freedom fighter and Martyr of India Vakkom Abdul Khader.   

At Malay Khader joined  the Indian Independence League led by Rash Bihari Ghosh. Later he became an active member of Indian National Army (INA) of Subash Chandra Bose. 

Two submarines were sent to the Indian coast in September 1940 with INA soldiers. Khader was in the second one and he left Malaysia for India on 18 September. He was accompanied by Muhammed Gani of Trissinapalli, C.P Eappen of Thiruvananthapuram, George of Alappuzha and Ananthan Nair of Thiruvananthapuram. Khader and his party landed  in Rubber boats at Tanur, the coastal town in the Malabar region of  Kerala.

However he was captured and sent to jail at Calicut. He was tortured by the police to get secret information, but despite all the atrocities he stood firm without revealing any secrets. He was taken to Madras and Delhi army camps for questioning. But his companion Balakrishnan under acute pressure from the army revealed all the secrets regarding the INA activities to the authorities. 

Khader was brought to trial before E.E.Mak, the Special Judge for treason and spying for the enemy. The accused were convicted. The first accused was Vakkom Khader. Among the 19 accused fourteen were freed without any evidence. The remaining five were sentenced for severe imprisonment for five years and execution after that. Fauja Singh, Ananthan Nair, S.C. Bardan, Bonyface were among others who had been sentenced to death.  

Mohammad Abdur Rahiman Sahib 15.5.1998

Mohammad Abdur Rahiman (also Mohammad Abdur Rahiman Sahib) (1898 – 23 April 1945) was an Indian freedom fighter and Indian National Congress politician from Kerala.

In 2011 the Malayalam film Veeraputhran, based on N.P. Mohammed's bookMohammed Abdurahiman Oru Novel, was released. Directed by P. T. Kunju Muhammed, it had the actor Narain playing Abdur Rahiman Sahib. The movie became controversial after writer Hameed Chennamangaloor alleged it of insinuating that Sahib was poisoned to death while medical reports and Sahib's official biography state that he died of a heart attack. The Indian Union Muslim League also expressed its reservations over its depiction in the film.

Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon 6.10.1997

Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian nationalist, diplomat and statesman, described as the second most powerful man in India by Time magazine and others, after his ally and intimate friend, Jawaharlal Nehru.

In 1957, Menon set the record for the longest speech before the U.N. Security Council while defending India's rights to the disputed territory of Kashmir, in the process earning widespread popularity and the sobriquet "Hero of Kashmir" in India.

Returning to India, he was repeatedly elected to both houses of the Indian parliament from constituencies as varied as Bombay, Bengal, and his native Kerala, and served as a minister without portfolio, and later as Minister of Defense, overseeing the modernization of the Indian military and development of the Indian military-industrial complex, and spearheading the Indian annexation of Goa. He resigned in the wake of the Sino-Indian War, following allegations of India's military unpreparedness, but remained counselor to Nehru, member of parliament and elder statesman until his death.

Mannathu Padmanabhan 2.1.1989

Mannathu Padmanabhan (January 2, 1878 - February 25, 1970) was a social reformer and a freedom fighter from the State of Kerala, India. He is recognised as the founder of the Nair Service Society, which claims to represent the Nair community that constitutes almost 14.5% of the population of the state. Padmanabhan is considered as a visionary reformer who organised the Nair community under the NSS.

Svāti Tirunāl Rāma Varma 2.5.1988

Svāti Tirunāl Rāma Varma (16 April 1813 – 27 December 1846) was the Maharaja of the Kingdom of Travancore, British India. He is also considered as a brilliant music composer and is credited with over 400 classical compositions in both Carntic and Hindusthani style.

A well-formulated code of laws, courts of Justice, introduction of English education, construction of an observatory, installation of the first Government printing press, establishment of the first manuscripts library were amongst the many initiatives taken by Svāti Tirunāḷ‍, as a King, to modernise Travancore. 'Efficiency was the key word and corruption a taboo', according to the article The Monarch Musician in The Hindu.

Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara 20.12.1987

The first day cover depicts the St. Joseph's Church, in Mannanam.

Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara was a Syrian Catholic saint and social reformer from the Indian state of Kerala. He is the second canonised saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church of the Saint Thomas Christian community founded by St. Thomas the Apostle in the first century. He was the co-founder and first Prior General of the first congregation for men in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, now known as the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, and of a similar one for women, the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel.