Are the so-called woman cultural leaders dead body eaters?

Nobody will disagree with me that to spread a canard about a woman is a dirty thing to do  Nevertheless, it is a pastime for many in our society to indulge in such activity. Moreover, without bothering to examine whether any iota of truth is there in this canard this is transmitted from person to person like wild fire in no time. In most of the occasions this kind of canards are found to be baseless which are borne out of animosity or dislike towards that lady.

Be that as it may, how can we dcescribe when such a canard is spread  about  a woman who is no more? Can we term it as wretched, obnoxious, cruel  or dirty? If a canard or allegation is raised about a man/woman who is alive, he/she will be in a position to defend himself/herself or deny the same and explain the factual position. Nevertheless, it will be appreciated that it is not possible in the case of a dead lady.

The matter which I am referring here is about the  startling and damaging revelations made recently about Malayalam’s famous literary personality and poetess, Kamala Surayya who is known as Madhavikkutty by two so-called women cultural leaders of Kerala viz., Indu Menon, an upcoming literary personality and Leela Menon, the famous lady journalist. It is ironical that they have made these revelations even while claiming to be close friends of Kamala Surayya.

To elaborate, the first among them viz, Indu Menon had made these disparaging revelations about Kamala Surayya in an interview published in Malayalam weekly ‘Mangalam’ claiming that she had maintained close links with the latter. In that interview Indu Menon had alleged that Kamala Surayya is a prey to the so-called ‘Love Jihaad’. She further stated that Madhavikutty had nurtured casteist feelings and allowed only her into Madhavkutty’s private room. Interestingly, even though  she had not named the person for whom Madhavikutty was said to have been converted to Islam and who had cheated her by refusing to marry, she gave enough indications as to the person involved.She had disclosed in the said interview that Madhavikutty had fallen in love with a very important person who is a political leader  in Kerala having three wives and who is very fond of poetry and ghazal for whom she had got converted to Islam. She further stated that due to the threat from his community and party, he had cheated Madhavikkutty.

As for Leela Menon, she had made the disparaging remarks about Madhavikutty in an article published in ‘Janmabhoomi’ which happens to be the mouthpiece of Sanghparivar who had ruffled feathers at Madhavikutty’s converting to Islam. The interest of RSS-Sanghaparivar combine to publish such an article in their mouthpiece is well taken which is nothing but their anti-Muslim stance. In a democracy, anybody is free to trust any religion. It is upto the individual himself/herself to decide which religion he/she should trust for which other’s permission is not required. In our country there were many such instances of Hindus converting to Muslim or Christianity. Understandably, Madhavikutty is one among them to have embraced Islam for whatever reasons.

It is to be mentioned here that Leela Menon had disclosed the name of the Muslim League leader for whom Madhavikutty was said to have been converted to Islam. She had also indicated that the cultural leaders including her, Sugatha Kumari  and Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri had planned to conduct a one-day dharna at Kannur in protest against the murder of RSS leader Jayakrishnan Master in which Madhavikutty had agreed to participate; nevertheless she could not make it as she had gone to the residence of that Muslim League leader on his invitation where they had sex…

What are the reasons that had prompted these two so-called women cultural leaders to make such disparaging and dirty disclosures about Madhavikutty and tried to denigrate her image in the eyes of the public? Whether they had stooped to such a level to spread canards about her with a view to get cheap publicity or was it part of any conspiracy is not at all clear.

It can be stated without mincing any words that the disparaging and damaging disclosures made by both the above gentle women cultural leaders about Madhavikutty while claiming to have maintained closed links with the latter when alive, is nothing but an insult to the pride of women Moreover, surprisingly, these women are well-educated and who boast themselves to be the custodians of good cultural values. It is thus shocking and  intriguing that these women have chosen to make such damaging disclosures that too about a woman who is no more while natural  justice demands people to desist from such a filthy action.

Under the circumstances, words are not enough to describe the attempts at making damaging disclosures about such a person who had made a mark in literature and poetry and has thus become famous. In a nutshell this can be described as degradation of the mindset or mean acts of sadists. Such kind of people who find enthusiasm in spreading canards about a dead woman can be called as dead body eaters. Cultural Kerala can only be ashamed to have given birth to such people who stoop to any level to denigrate the image of even the dead while pretending to be her close friends.

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