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Politics succeeds where religion fails: Azhikode

Staff Reporter

`Religion seeks to invoke the past'

MAKING A POINT: Sukumar Azhikode, social critic, inaugurating a function organised in connection with the Kannur Mahotsavam in Kannur on Sunday.

KANNUR: Sukumar Azhikode, social critic, has said that politics in the State has succeeded to a certain extent where religion has failed over the last 50 years.

He was inaugurating a public function on `Kerala over the last 50 years' on Sunday held in connection with the Kannur Mahotsavam.

Prof. Azhikode said that though political activities in the State faced erosion of values over the last five decades, politics here could ensure unity, as it is active in the State.

Religion, on the other hand, sought to invoke the past, he said.

Referring to the statement of P.K. Narayana Panicker, general secretary, Nair Service Society, non-Brahmins should not be appointed as priests in temples, Prof. Azhikode said that the statement was perhaps the standard for measuring the progress of the State over the last 50 years.

"Was Mr. Panicker referring to the Brahmin as envisaged in the Bhagavad Gita who could bring about the unity of the people," he asked. The present leadership of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam also portrayed the decline of the second half of the 20th century, he added.

Underlining the importance of creating a new Kerala, he said that the Indian National Congress was now undergoing spiritual bankruptcy. He cautioned the Marxists not to go the way the Congress had.

Kannur University Pro-Vice-Chancellor K. Kunhikrishnan presided over the function.

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