MALAYALAM
Endless struggle
H. RAMAKRISHNAN
IDAPEDALUKALKKU AVASANAMILLA: V. S. Achuthanandan; DC Books, DC Kizhakemuri Edam, Good Shepherd Street, Kottayam-686001. Rs. 95.
AS THE Chief Minister of Kerala and, more than that as a responsible public worker, V. S. Achuthanandan’s stand on a wide range of issues carries the wisdom of an octogenarian who has a passion for his native soil and its sons.
This book, meaning “unending interventions” is a compilation of 48 articles on as many topics. They present him as a man of the masses, a humanitarian to the core.
He is frank and totally uninhibited in his views.
“It is said in a lighter vein that even if you go to the moon, you can see a Malayali already there. Malayalis would make a beeline to wherever one can earn a living through hard work.” This he writes after participating in the “ground breaking ceremony” for the Kerala House in Chennai.
On the Smart City project, he justifies the delay in signing the contract, since “the primary interests of the State could be safeguarded.”
On the fallout of globalisation, he does not mince his words. He does not believe that globalisation is irreversible. He calls for uniting the working class worldwide against globalisation.
His views on a number of current topics have already appeared in his earlier book, Struggles Have No Intervals. In this book his views are sharper and clearer. He is emphatic that the life-long mission of a comrade is an endless struggle.
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