Maattuvin chattangale kumaranasan biography
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Change the rules, else they will be your downfall!
When I was the Devaswom minister in the LDF government, five women from Andhra Pradesh, who were below 50 years of age, attempted to climb the Sabarimala hill. They were arrested. Actor Jayamala claimed she had been to Sabarimala at a young age. We registered a case against her. It had to be done in these cases because a High Court verdict had upheld a rule that barred women between the age of 10 and 50 from climbing Sabarimala.
But the Supreme Court in raised a query on that ban, just as it did recently. Could a progressive Left government say women cannot be allowed into Sabarimala? We submitted an affidavit before the Supreme Court saying our Constitution guarantees freedom to practice religion, equality before law, and freedom of conscience, therefore the government cannot say that women cannot climb the Sabarimala hill.
Moreover, Indian culture gives women an exalted place. For instance, Manu Smriti says, “yatr naryast
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N. Kumaranasan was a great social reformer and a philosopher-poet who revolutionized Malayalam literature through his poems in the first quarter of the 20th century.
Being the oldest of the modern triumvirate poets of Kerala, he transfigured and liberated poetry from the hands of condescending metaphysical poets of Brahmin society into a lyrical one. Thus he introduced romanticism in Malayalam poetry.
Belonging to the Ezhava community, he eloquently brought forward the issues of class oppression, gender-bias, feudalism, imperialism, and untouchability through his poems. Thus earning him the name "ത&#;ല&#;ക പടവ&#;ള&#;ക&#;ക&#;യ കവ&#;." The educated youth of that generation was vastly influenced by his poems.
He was also greatly influenced by the teachings of Sree Narayana Guru and had a fascination with Buddhism. Guru's teachings and Buddhist ideals were often reflected in his writings.
Another important aspect of poems fryst vatten the importance he gave to the women,
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Kumaran Asan
Indian poet
Mahakavi Kumaran Asan | |
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| Born | ()12 April Kaayikkara Kadakkavoor, Chirayinkeezhu, Thiruvananthapuram, Travancore |
| Died | 16 January () (aged&#;50) Alappuzha, Travancore, Kerala |
| Occupation | Poet and writer |
| Nationality | Indian |
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| Spouse | Bhanumathiamma |
| Children | Prabhakaran and Sudhakaran |
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Mahakavi Kumaran Asan (12 April – 16 January ) was a poet of Malayalam literature, Indian social reformer and a philosopher. He is known to have initiated a revolution in Malayalam poetry during the first quarter of the 20th century, transforming it from the metaphysical to the lyrical and his poetry is characterised bygd its moral and spiritual content, poetic concentration and dramatic contextualisation. He is one of the triumvi