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A spineless group of Kerala writers who vanishes when CPIM comes into power and reappears when CPIM goes out of power
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
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A group of writers appear on the Kerala scene each time when the Communist Party of India (Marxist) goes out of power and issues a lot of press releases, speeches and videos on a wide variety of issues that may put the governments in the centre and the state at a spot. When Marxist Party comes into power in Kerala and these critical issues continue and new and graver issues appear, this group of writers vanishes, only to surface again when Marxist Party has gone out of power. So, they criticize governments which they know are tolerant towards criticism and will not break their legs, and withdraw themselves from criticizing the actions of the government and the ruling political party when the Marxist Party is in power in Kerala and ‘shrink to their holes, cells and cellars’ as the English revolutionary poet Shelley who predicted a workers’ revolution in England put it in his famous poem Song To The Men Of England, because they know this party is an intellectually ugly party as it was with the Shiv Sena in the past and is not at all tolerant towards any kind of criticism. These Kerala writers who call themselves ‘Literary Leaders’ either fear Marxist Party for its intolerance or they are the Marxist Party. It is only a question of having a backbone, a spine, to question and criticize a government which they do not have. And we do not still know what worthy ‘literature’ they produce or which people or movements they ‘lead’. The names of these impostors are worth noting because we will need sometime soon to remember the names of these literary fascists.
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The topics, subjects and issues they spoke upon, released press releases on or made videos about were listless during the reign of tolerant governments like those led by the long-ruled Indian National Congress. But during the time of the Marxist rule, the topics, subjects and issues about which speeches are to be made, press releases issued and videos made were endless but people never saw them appear anywhere and respond to this multitude of immediate issues. Why? They were once making this noise so that they would be noted by the Marxist party and given noted positions in government or in the hundreds of governmental and non-governmental bodies under the control of the government. A few of these who made the loudest of noises were appointed indeed in posts such as Press Advisers to government and the lesser strident as members or chairmen of hundreds of peripheral government bodies which posts do have a government car and a government seal. This long list of bodies start from the Kerala Literary Academy, Kerala Music and Drama Academy, Kerala Folklore Academy, Kerala Film Academy and such, which do have enough posts to engage and keep happy all these puny little minds who raised all this noise in the past just for a government car, a government seal, a little government allowance, and a little governmental authority. Still, they call themselves the ‘cultural and literary leaders of Kerala’, the cream of the crop of Kerala. The names of these opportunists and betrayers of the people of Kerala are endless and someday these names will need to be collected and compiled from their previous joint press releases condemning previous other governments, though it would be easier to go to the almanacs of these govermantal and non-governmental institutions and look up the names of their members and chairmen straight.
Written and first published on: 07 September 2020
Tags:
Communist Party of India (Marxist), India Kerala Politics, Kerala Film Academy, Kerala Literary Academy, Kerala Literary Leaders Writers, Kerala Music Drama, Kerala Press, Literary Fascism,
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