Poet Balachandran Chullikkad has come out against the remuneration paid to him for delivering a lecture on January 30 at the International Literary Festival of Kerala organised by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi in Thrissur recently.
In a social media post, Mr. Chullikkad said that the organisers paid him ₹2,400 as remuneration for delivering a talk on Kumaranasan’s Karuna.
“I spoke for two hours on the topic. I had to spent ₹3,500 as taxi charges for travelling from Ernakulam to Thrissur, including the waiting charges and driver’s batta. The ₹1,100 that I paid over and above the remuneration of ₹2,400 was earned as my wages for acting in serials,” he wrote.
