The present-day plural society that accommodates aspirations of various ethnic groups in India is facing stiff challenges from a vested group who vociferously champions for a single language and religion, Tamil poet and writer Rajathi Salma has said.
What we see today is the growing intolerance various spheres fostered by influential group in the society and the murders of Maharashtrian rationalist-author Narendra Dabholkar, Leftist writer Govind Pansare, and noted litterateur and Kannada University Vice-Chancellor M.M. Kalburgi are a sheer testimony to the disturbing tendency, she says.
Inauguration
Ms. Salma was speaking after inaugurating the 4th South India Writers’ Ensemble held at the famed Edeneer Mutt near here on Sunday. Documentarian and Malayalam poet Anwar Ali presided over the function, also addressed by Congress leader and former MLA P.C. Vishnunath.
Murders of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, and M.M. Kalburgi are a testimony.
