KGS, Sarah Joseph support Anupama

Thrissur: Poet Prof

K G Sankarappillai

and activist writer

Sarah Joseph

have come out in support of

Anupama

, who has launched a fast in front of the

secretariat

demanding return of her

baby

, who has been forcibly separated from her and reportedly given for

adoption

by her parents.

In a succinct but poignant poem posted on a social media platform, Prof Sankarappillai links the pleas of Anupama for her baby with the wailing of a mother character for her child in the court of King Solomon referred to in the Old Testament. He then refers to similar pleas of different mothers to different despots and like Stalin and the devil character in the acclaimed poem “Bhoothapppatt” of Edassery. The poetry also subtly relates the links of Anupama’s pleas with the agonies faced by Late Eachara Warrier, who carried out a protected struggle to locate his son Rajan, who went missing after police arrested him during the Emergency. The poem also refers to the struggles of the mother of the daughters who were killed in Walayar.

Joseph in her post demanded that the government not delay any more the return of the baby to Anupama. She said the heads of the child welfare committee and child development department should not be permitted to continue in their posts as they betrayed a mother and a baby. tnn