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Lavishing Praise : Union Minister Suresh Gopi Describes Indira Gandhi As ‘Mother of India’, K Karunakaran A Courageous Administrator

Union Minister Suresh Gopi described former PM Indira Gandhi as the “mother of India” and late Congress Chief Minister K Karunakaran as a “courageous administrator”.

The comment by Gopi is sure to rankle the BJP which has been been very critical of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and have slammed her for imposing emergency in 1975.

The BJP leader also called Karnuakaran and Marxist veteran E K Nayanar as his “political gurus”.

Gopi was speaking to reporters after visiting the memorial of Karunakaran, “Murali Mandiram” located in Punkunnam .

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) sole Lok Sabha MP from Kerala, earlier took charge as the Minister of State (MoS) in the Ministry of Tourism . Soon after assuming the office, Gopi said he would have to study the tourism ministry and the terrain of the country to be able to do justice to his role.

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TribalChief

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There was a FaceBook post by the Hacker on campus killings in Kerala that had me wondering if, the unnamed star in the post marked around the year 1977, was G. Bhuvaneswaran. Which then led me to your tweets back in March. I do not know what it is with you and martyrs in general, but I am convinced that, among other things, you must be the twitter patronsaint of martrys. Not just Com. Bhuvaneswaran. Com. Sandeep, Com. Siyad, Com. Haq Mohammed, Com. Mithilaj, Com. Abhimanyu, Com. Abhimanyu again, Com. Pushpan, Koothuparamba martrys, Kolar Gold Field martrys, Kayyur Martyrs, ThalasseryRiot martyrs, BabriMasjidRiot martyrs....

In 1977, when Bhuvaneswaran died, AK Anthony was chief minister; though KKarunakaran had become CM in the ‘77 elections post Emergency, he had had to resign bcoz of the Rajan case during his prior HomeMinistership.  I learnt this as I was trying to get to know a little more about Bhuvaneswaran-and-the-world-at-large then. I was born in MGR’s Tamilnadu 7 years later, and by then in Kerala KKarunakaran was back at being CM. Three more decades, and it's now when Pinarayi is CM in 2021 that Bhuvaneswaran comes into my life, 40+ years after his death. Back in August, around Onam, I had mentioned that it was MagicalRealism...making a Hammer-Sickle-Star pookkalam by the water for him. I won't be hurt if you don't remember this, it has all been a personal experience only for me. I'm aware that you are busy tweeting like this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this.

Still felt like sharing the following with you here...

Magical Realism is not actively believing in anything otherworldly, rather, an absence of disbelief.

“The term originally was coined in 1920's by German art critic Franz Roh. The magical realism we know today is rooted in its political origins: a tool responding to the marginalisation of Global South territories at the hands of colonial empires. It is the previously shunned voice of the subaltern, drawing on traditional religions, mythologies and spirituality to provide rich and intricate narratives.The acceptance of these supernatural elements is an important assertion of their value, given their lack of legitimacy in the eyes of conventional Western intellectual and theological traditions. There is an undeniable power in novels with global acclaim that unreservedly normalise mystical interpretations of history, and of life itself." //Magical Realism as Social Protest

"Magical realist literature emphasises the validity and universal value present in cultural understandings and memories rather than the ‘rationality’ of archival documents. It might be an asset we can use to imagine a better future, to learn about situations not too dissimilar from our own, and to carry the courage it inspires into our daily lives and political involvement." //Magical Realism as Political Activism

Google informed that there is a book 'Magical Marxism' out there. This new finding then sent me down a rabbit hole and made me listen to an interesting talk 'On Magical Communism' by the University of the Underground : "Is there a space in communism for the esoteric?" They proceed to find out by examining the communist Soviet, and talk about a documentary film Seven steps beyond the Horizon(1968), then Brezhnev's spirituality....the conversation spirals and for lack of time, stops with urban farming in Detroit. I think it piques our interests just enough toward further learning.

ps. Q: ‘Which is an account you started following in 2021 for the first time, and will recommend to everyone else?’ A: ‘TribalChief’.