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Human rights - a historical documentary

  Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/197661/ Date: 10-Mar-2024   He is generally considered as one of Kerala's finest Chief Minister, academician and humanitarian - the late C.H. Mohammed Koya. He established Kozhikode University. The only Chief Minister of Kerala that was from Indian Union Muslim League. He is the only Muslim leader to have been accepted outside of the Muslim community. His numerous quotes and funny stories are still prevalent in Politics.  Once Mohammed Koya said this while justifying a Police violence. "It is the intrinsic wish of the general populace that the police force must be brutal. But when that brutality becomes a problem, the same people become human rights activists. If a crime or misdeed should occur, they would ask what the police is doing and whether their guns are meant for scratching their backs. If they feel that Police's approach is crossing threshold, they would immediately raise up. Neither police nor the people know that limi...
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Ancient, Modern historiography & Fiction - 3

  Original Source: https://stage.jeyamohan.in/197258/ Date: 24-Mar-2024   As soon as the modern historiography began in India, so did modern historical fiction. In fact, both evolved hand in hand. Even in case of European history, it can be understood that the situation was the same - that is modern historiography and modern historical fiction evolved together. What's more surprising is the fact that in 16th century AD, even as the ancient historiography was making way for the modern one, the trend of fictionalizing the early set of history books had begun. Shakespeare arranged his plays inspired by the books on Ireland and Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and Edward Hall. Alexander Dumas fictionalized the writings of French Historical author Pierre de L'Estoile. In Europe, modern historiography could be seen twinned with fictional literature.  India's modern historiography started in 18th century. Even as the history of Bengal was getting written, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee...
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Blood and tear soaked footmarks

Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/6028/ Date: 1-Jan-2010   In early July'97, retired IAS officer V. Ramamurthy went to the office of 'The Hindu' newspaper, met with its editor N. Ravi and asked whether he would be interested in publishing as a series, his upcoming work on 'the last 200 days of Gandhi' in his newspaper. Ramamurthy remarked that Gandhi's last days had the makings of a Greek tragedy. Ravi agreed to it. Half a century back, Gandhi was killed on 30-Jan-1948 - a Friday. Similarly, 30-Jan-1998 was a Friday. The series on Gandhi's last 200 days began on that day with sketches from Keshav - 'The Hindu's cartoonist. The series ran continuously and concluded by 200th day. It was later published as a book. Bharathi Puthakalayam published in 2007 its tamil translation by K. Ilakkuvan. This is quite an important work among those about Gandhi in Tamil. It provides an experience of co-travelling with Gandhi in those historically volatile day...
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