കേരളം ലിബറലായത് എങ്ങനെ? | The Bloody Story of How Kerala Became Liberal | RK Bijuraj | SORA EP 28

🎙 SORA EP 28 Host: Nidheesh MK Click CC to turn on English subtitles. കേരളം പിറന്നത് 1956 നവംബർ ഒന്നിനാണോ? അതോ 1946-ൽ പുന്നപ്രയിലും വയലാറിലും തോക്കിന് മുന്നിലേക്ക് വാരിക്കുന്തവുമായി ഓടിയ മനുഷ്യർക്കൊപ്പമോ? 1947 ജൂലൈ 25-ന് സർ സി പിക്ക് വെട്ടേറ്റ ദിവസമോ? കേരളം എങ്ങനെ ഉണ്ടായി എന്ന് പുസ്തകങ്ങളിലൂടെ രേഖപ്പെടുത്തിവെക്കുന്ന പത്രപ്രവർത്തകനും ചരിത്രകാരനുമായ ആർ കെ ബിജുരാജ് ആണ് ഈ ആഴ്ച SORA-യിൽ. 'പുന്നപ്ര വയലാർ ചരിത്രരേഖകൾ', 'നക്സൽ ദിനങ്ങൾ' എന്നിവയ്ക്കായി അദ്ദേഹം തേടിപ്പിടിച്ച മനുഷ്യരുടെ കഥകളാണ് ഈ സംഭാഷണത്തിൽ. പാർട്ടി ഓഫീസിന് പോലും വിലാസം അറിയാത്ത സമരനായികമാർ. വധശിക്ഷ കേട്ട് പൊട്ടിച്ചിരിച്ച ഒരാൾ. തലയിലെ പാട് കാണിച്ച്, ഇത് തന്നത് ആരാണെന്ന് അറിയാമോ എന്ന് ചോദിക്കുന്ന ഒരു വൃദ്ധൻ. Was Kerala born on 1 November 1956? Or in 1946, when farm workers and fishermen in Punnapra and Vayalar ran at the guns of a British-backed Travancore armed with arecanut spears? Or on 25 July 1947, the day someone took a large knife to CP Ramaswami Iyer, then most powerful man after the king of Travancore? This week on SORA, journalist and historian RK Bijuraj, whose books record how the Kerala we know came to be. We talk about the Travancore behind the welfare-state story, the price paid for a united Kerala, the reels that say monarchy was better, and the question he has asked everyone for years: what did you do during the Emergency? He talks about the people he tracked down for his books: women who risked their lives to protest against the authoritarian regime of 1946 whose addresses even their party had lost, a man who laughed when he was sentenced to hang after such protests, an old comrade who bends his head to show a scar given to him by one of Malayalam most famous heroes. SORA is Indian Express Malayalam's long-form conversation series, hosted by Nidheesh MK. *** Chapters 00:00 Intro: Kerala Piravi, CP, Punnapra-Vayalar 02:04 The room of books 03:10 When was Kerala really born? 06:38 The day the Diwan was attacked 08:19 Who was CP? A salary of 72,000 rupees 11:25 Was Travancore a welfare state? 15:29 The Diwan's "American model" 17:53 Every reason a united Kerala shouldn't have happened 21:44 Why the Tamil taluks were lost 24:03 History from memory 25:03 Stories where everyone is the hero 29:06 Searching the archives 30:56 Why did they walk into the guns? 33:32 How many died? 34:42 The night the bodies were piled up 36:07 The blood behind November 1 38:08 Even the right to walk a road 39:59 The people he tracked down 42:33 "Go and find out yourself" 44:24 Heroes who got nowhere 49:02 History's branches are in the present 51:02 Rajan, Eachara Warrier and a son 52:32 What did you do during the Emergency? 54:23 The question stays, but no right to judge 55:44 "Finish your studies, then suffer" 58:11 The market for royal history 1:02:04 Why Kerala never became Jaipur 1:04:04 "The trains ran on time" 1:07:37 The beedi worker who read the paper aloud 1:12:20 SIR: why not just go to court? 1:15:03 Writing history between deadlines 1:20:03 "Why don't you go abroad and make money?" Camera: Sumiesh S / Sajith OK Edit: Sumiesh S ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Sora is a weekly podcast by Indian Express Malayalam. #KeralaHistory #Travancore #keralapolitics #keralanews #KeralaPiravi #Kerala70 #PunnapraVayalar #malayalampodcast Promo Music: “Day" by Stephen Hilton