“To hear my fellow legislators on the other side tell it, nothing is more important in this country than the rights of estate and plantation owners. Apparently, if estates and plantations are safe, then the state is safe. The extreme excitement which some of my fellow legislators have displayed for the owners of estates and the idea of an estate or plantation, though not infectious, is certainly thought provoking.

A sharp rebuttal to the article published in The Economic Times about CPI(M) politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan and his candidature in the forthcoming legislative assembly elections in Kerala. The author points out the factual inaccuracies and logical flaws in the original article.

It is not usually my habit to read political analysis about Kerala in English language media.