During the course of reporting on a student agitation, Ajithkumar was caught in the middle of  a  ferocious police crackdown. The incident had the entire 4th estate up in arms and  the hue and cry abated only after the Chief Minister expressed  regret at the turn of events and the errant police officers were suspended . Such is the standing that Ajithkumar commands in the journalistic fraternity.

Ajithkumar entered the hallowed portals of journalism as a 22 year old cub reporter for Mangalam and matured over the years into more responsible positions of Bureau Chief, Resident Editor and  Associate Editor. Besides the scores of features, stories  and write-ups that he did for the daily, over a 1000 of his  articles have appeared in periodicals and newspapers such as Malayalam Vaarika, Veekshanam, Chandrika, Janayugam, Kanyaka etc.

The mettle of a journalist is measured not  so much by the number of   articles he has produced as by the impact made by the reports he has published. Ajithkumar’s   political exposes and  series of reports have blown the lid off scams, boldly debunked sacrosanct  practices and  knocked down officials from their lofty perches  :   the  Rajkumari land  hoax which cut short the ministerial tenure of T.U. Kuruvila; bringing to light the practice of the CPI  Politburo and Central Committee of taking clandestine decisions on public issues ; the disclosures on the corruption rampant in the Thiruvithancore  Devaswam Board  which led to it being disbanded -  are just a few of his prominent scoops.

Honors came thick and fast in search of the journalist who had no hesitation in calling a spade a spade– he won the Kerala State Government Award in  1994 for the series Madyam Manakkunna Rashtriyam that revealed the extent of the unholy nexus between politicians and the liquor lobby ; the K.C Sebastian Award  instituted by the  Trivandrum Press Club for excellent political reporting ; the State Government Award once again in  2005 for laying bare the shocking misappropriation of funds in the sacred sanctorum of the Thiruvithancore  Devaswam Board.

He has been active in the visual media too, trying his hand as moderator for the talk show ‘Nerkku Ner’ and interviewer in the Doordarshan’s ‘Thuranna Manassode’ .

Ajithkumar continues to turn up the heat on wrongdoing and  those who have felt the whiplash of his writing will aver that the old dictum ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’ is wholly appropriate in his case.