MALAYALAM CAN ATTAIN
GREATER HEIGHTS
Chief
Minister Oommen Chandy has said that the government does not propose to rest on
the attachment of ‘classical’ status for Malayalam.Speaking at a function here
on Tuesday to honour renowned linguist and translator R.E. Asher and release
poet-scholar Puthussery Ramachandran’s interpretative study of Kannassa Ramayanam, the Chief Minister said
the government’s efforts now would be to ensure that the limitless
possibilities of the language were realised. Malayalam, he said, had the
potential to rise to higher levels of global recognition, he said.
Chairing
the session, Cultural Affairs Minister K.C. Joseph said Malayalam had received
the ‘classical’ status because of its innate strength rather than political
intervention, though that too played a part in the entire process.Responding to
the felicitation accorded to him, Prof. Asher said he was happy that Kerala now
had a university exclusively to promote Malayalam. Dr. Puthussery Ramachandran
said Kannassa Ramayanam,
written long before Ezhuthachan came out with his work, had functioned as a
catalyst for Ezhuthachan’s Ramayanam.State
Institute of Languages director M.R. Thampan, linguists B. Ramakrishna Reddy,
M. Sreenathan, Ravisankar S. Nair, S.K. Shanawas and P. Sreekumar, among
others, spoke.
Prof. John Kurakar
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