Family

Like many communists of his generation, thoughts of a family dawned rather late on Sri. V.S.Achuthanandan. He was 40 when he married Smt. Vasumathi, then a staff nurse at the Medical College in Alappuzha. She retired as Head Nurse 15 years back.

The couple has two children and three grandchildren. Son Sri. Arun Kumar is assistant director at IHRD and daughter Dr. Asha is scientist at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram. Their daughter in law Dr.Rajani is tutor at the Medical College Thiruvananthapuram and son in law Dr. Thankaraj is surgeon at the General Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram.