The renaissance movement in Kerala can only be equated with the civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States and the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa in the international level, Shashi Tharoor, MP, has said.
He was speaking after inaugurating an open forum on Kerala renaissance organised as part of a History Congress organised under the aegis of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
“Though the struggle for the civil rights of the oppressed people in Kerala occurred during the period of the British rule, the struggle was not against the Britishers but was against the oppressive elements in our own society, who tried to oppress the subaltern society in all possible ways. The social advancements and achievements in the human development index made by Kerala were the results of this renaissance movement,” said Mr. Tharoor.
