Writer’s critical remarks on Ezhuthachan spark off arguments on language, literature

An incidental captious remark connected Thunchath Ezhuthachan, poet, translator, and a cardinal fig successful the Bhakti movement, by Kerala Sahitya Akademi award-winning writer Vinoy Thomas has sparked disconnected fierce arguments successful favour of and against his position. Mr. Thomas, meanwhile, posted an apology connected societal media.

While delivering a lecture to people the 140^th day of Deepika paper successful Kannur recently, the writer had attempted to springiness an alternate presumption connected the improvement of Malayalam language. Mr. Thomas besides spoke astir the important relation played by Christian missionaries successful the process on with the intermixing of overseas languages and primitive Malayalam owed to the power of traders. In between, helium challenged the relation of Ezhuthachan arsenic the “father of modern Malayalam language”. Mr. Thomas said determination was nary impervious for Ezhuthachan’s beingness oregon his literate works.

Though helium had spoken besides astir the important changes brought astir by the Malabar migration and cultivation of rubber and tapioca, the remarks connected Ezhuthachan were picked up and discussed threadbare connected societal media and among literate circles.