A cultural and political row has broken out in Kerala over Jnanpith laureate M.T. Vasudevan Nair’s caution against strongmen rulers and personalist politics characterised by allegiance to an individual leader rather than a party or ideology.
Writers and politicians attempted to read meanings into Mr. Nair’s written speech delivered in the presence of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at a literary festival in Kozhikode on Thursday.
The Congress claimed that Mr. Vijayan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi were at the receiving end of Mr. Nair’s speech.
