This man deserves more coverage than our Indian Politicians put together, he never gave up on his one imp mission to know how his son died. Our media covers only glamour sad very sad, a father fighting for this unique cause is ignored......
When the Emergency was at its peak, I came across, scribbled shabbily on a public wall, 'Andhere mein ek prakash, Jai Prakash'. But who remembers J.P. today? It is not very long back, when he led the movement against the Emergency, the vilest political act of Indira Gandhi, to hold on to power. J.P. was let down by his own power hungry supporters. This is the problem with our people. Real heroes big or small, like J.P. and Prof. Warrier, are forgotten and we go for plastic heroes. Thank you Mr.Srinivasan for reminding us of Prof. Warrier.
I am moved to tears. As much with the story as with our profound lack of interest in the inspiring lives of our heroes. As a society we have transformed our selves in to ugly self-deluded bunch of money chasers without any respect for finer points of life - let alone eroism of our fellow beings. I have not heard of this story before. I am not ashamed of it. For I know bout it now and I hope to convey it to a few more. Thank you Rajeev, Srinivasachary
I was in Kerala at the time of Eachara Warrier's death and noticed that it was front page news for all Malayalam papers. In fact most of them also had editorial features and one newspaper had a full page obit.
He was not forgotten in Kerala.
Of course, none of the mainstream English press found any newsworthiness in the death of this Hero. In any case mainstream English print media in India is trash; and to give them a benefit of doubt in this case- it can be be argued that its readers at large would not have known about Eachara Warriers struggle.
I have read your other articles and would mostly disagree with it, since i felt you consider urself part of the Right-wing parties.
Yes, at this point we need to find the real heroes of India. Warrier is indeed one such hero, who proved that no one is above the land's rule of law. He is an example for every person how anyone can takeon a wrong system.
The irony is karunakaran is still alive !
Hope one day we would get to know what really happened to Rajan.
I do not have words to pen. The tribute by Rajeev cannot be bettered. It shall not be in writing. May be in action. If only you and I can muster courage and raise our voices against all such brutalities. Salutes to Prof. Warrier who was in life a true warrior.
I agree, our true heros r forgotten. For instance, one can ask what have AISHWARYA RAI has done...Answer will come that she encourages people to donate eyes and also she has already decided to donate her eyes. But the answer still not enough to satisfy completely. Her eyes will help just one person not the whole INDIA. Therefore SO CALLED HEROS must do something personally for whole community not just for individual cause. They should stop acting like LAZY politician.... Entire generation must understand this and they must not over-rate any individual....Only TRUE HEROS must be respected not the PRETENDERS.....
Kudos for highlighting a fact which was there,but was heinously ignored till now.As rightly pointed out in the article anybody can be a victim of state tyranny anytime.And the saddes part is that nobody helps anybody Forget helping they don't even have the patience to listen to the facts.
Its indeed sad that slowly but surely we are becoming like hijadas(now-a-days i think they are more better than normal people) with no power to react.Just folwing a ritualistic life....Indeed God save this people and country.
