Winning bouquets for poetry, brickbats for views
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December 23, 2020 23:42 IST
While Sugathakumari’s poems were deeply meditative and lyrical, her political views often triggered a debate
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While Sugathakumari’s poems were deeply meditative and lyrical, her political views often triggered a debate
Five years ago, when cow vigilante groups began to unleash terror in the north, poet Sugathakumari wrote an article in a newspaper in which she took beef eaters for Muslims, putting the onus on them not to provoke cow-worshippers.
Around the time, she also gave audience to then Bharatiya Janata Party national president Amit Shah who was touring the State ahead of the impending Assembly elections. While her article decried political and religious violence, there was no reference to the violence fomented by Hindutva outfits which attracted criticism.