N MADHAVANKUTTY----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For you dear Comrade and friend TN Joy where my elegy may yet get a hearing for you still suffer and suffer like no one and for everyone. Feeling ashamed and lost . While I was in a conversation on Another Cosmopolitanism with some of the most civilized minds of my country at Kochi, this visitor to my state Kerala , Jonathan Baud a bright young politically inquisitive Swiss Leftist languishing in my next door Irinjalakuda sub jail and his fellow traveler girlfriend locked up in her hotel room in Kannur under close watch . Is it a crime Mr Ommen Chandy &Mr Ramesh Chennithala for a tourist to look for living history in what you sell as Gods own land ? Is it a crime to be a visiting Communist in a state where your own party shared power with Kerala Communists and one of your Congress led Central govts ruled with support of Indian communists for almost a full term? Do you know honorable sleuths of Modys Intelligence Bureau that there is in the civilized democracies something like academic tourism , history tours? That in Bolivia they take every tourist to where Che fought his last battle , in China they take you to Hunan caves where Mao thought through the liberation of his country ? That I myself could join an anti Clinton sit in in front of White House while visiting US on a US visa ? Would you have arrested Baud if he had joined the Mourning for a Bal Thackery who many consider as right wing extremist ? Would you have jailed the French Philosopher Badieu who is an unrepentant Maoist .Why did you not arrest that maverik Solvenian Philosoper Zizek, a Leninst insurrectionist when he lectured in Kochi coming here on a tourist visa.Why did you not arrest Jan Myrdyl Jr who travelled in the Maoist red corridor to write a book ? I know that I am talking to a wall.But you can shut me up only by jailing me with Baud .But then you will be gifting me the company of a proud young Communist comrade and a true internationalist who is younger than my son Bala who during his study in the US on a US scholar visa could demonstrate in soldidarity with Palestine and against the US policy of war .===========================N MADHAVAN KUTTY And to the vulture media of which I still remain a part .Shame on you who are discreditinng a proffession that was supposed to to take on such crass stupid police action but instead joined their obscene celebration of impotent power .And thats why I am ashamed in many different ways , as a proud Indian , proud Malayalee and as a proud journalist , my calling of choice even in my sad twilight years.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:10:00 +0000
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