Kookkanam Rahman (also known as M. T. P Abdul Rahman) is a social worker, writer, orator and retired teacher living in the South Indian state of Kerala. Rahman was born on 8 November 1950 in Kookkanam, a tiny hamlet of the Karivellur-Peralam Grama Panchayat in Kannur district. After receiving primary education at Olattu Aided Upper Primary School, he went on to study at Government High School at Karivellur (currently known as A.V. Smaraka Government Higher Secondary School), Government College at Kasaragod, Sree Narayana Teachers’ Training Institute at Nileshwaram and Government Training College at Thalassery. He began his career as a teacher at North Upper Primary School in Karivellur on 3 August 1970. Later, he served at Government Upper Primary School at Panappuzha (Kannur district), Government Lower Primary School at Mavila Kadappuram (Kasargod district), Government Upper Primary School at Padanna (Kasargod district), Government Fisheries High School at Cheruvathur (Kasargod district), Government High School at Kuttamath (Kasargod district) and Government High School at Pilicode (Kasargod district). In between, he worked as the Kasargod District Co-ordinator of the Total Literacy Campaign in 1990 that made Kerala the first Indian State to achieve 100 per cent literacy, Project Officer during the second phase of the literacy campaign, District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) trainer and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) programme officer in his 36-year long career.
