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[[File:Ayinoor Vasu.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Grow Vasu during a meeting at [[Kozhikode]].]]
'''Ayinoor Vasu (GROW Vasu)''' (born 1930) is a well known Human rights activist and respected trade unionist in [[Kerala]], India. He is also known as ''GROW Vasu'' as he was the leader of Gwalior Rayons Workers' Organisation (GROW).

Mr. A. Vasu is also an environmental activist. He is well known for his bold stands in the fight for justice for Dalits, Tribals and minority communities. He was the first public figure in Kerala to take a stand against the arrest of [[Abdul Nazer Mahdani]].

He began working in the ''Commonwealth Trust Weaving Mill'' in [[Kozhikode]] at the age of 16 in 1946. He has participated in many social and human rights activities and got arrested many times. The leader of Ayinoor Vasu was one of the biggest labour movements in Kerala.<ref>{{Cite news | url = https://www.facebook.com/DalitCameraThroughUnTouchableEyes/posts/385033451549849 | title = Ayinoor vasu was the biggest labour movements in kerala | access-date = 2016-05-22}}</ref> In 2019 he signed a joint human right statement for the release of Student Activist [[Rinshad Reera]] .<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://keyboardjournal.com/joint-statement-of-human-rights-activists-demand-withdrawal-of-sedition-charged-on-students-of-malappuram-government-college-over-a-poster-they-pasted-regarding-kashmirs-freedom/|title=Joint Statement for the release of Students|work=Keyboard journal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601021808/https://keyboardjournal.com/joint-statement-of-human-rights-activists-demand-withdrawal-of-sedition-charged-on-students-of-malappuram-government-college-over-a-poster-they-pasted-regarding-kashmirs-freedom/|access-date=2019-02-23|archive-date=1 June 2019|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Grow Vasu was one of the forefront leaders in the Thirunelli [[Naxalite]] action in 1970 in which [[Arikkad Varghese|Varghese]], a Naxalite leader was killed. Following this he was imprisoned at the Kannur Central Prison for seven years. After being released from jail, many refused to offer him employment because he was a Naxalite. To subsist, he made and sold umbrellas, a craft he learned in 1955 to raise funds for buying a band set for the Communist Party in [[Kozhikode]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=indian express|title=this revolutionary earns a living by making umbrellas|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/article534782.ece}}</ref>

==References==
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*{{Cite web |url=http://newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/article534782.ece |title=This revolutionary earns a living by making umbrellas |work=[[The New Indian Express]] |date=4 June 2012 |access-date=24 July 2012}}

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