A Malayalam poet has been subjected to a vicious cyber attack over his poem that gave a literary voice to widespread public concern about the Left government’s pet project of a semi-high-speed rail link connecting the two ends of Kerala.
Popular poet-lyricist Rafeeq Ahamed had recently written the poem — Hey K — about the state government’s contentious 530km K-Rail project connecting Kerala capital Thiruvananthapuram in the south to Kasaragod in the north. The project is facing objections from all quarters, mainly over environmental and ecological concerns, but the Pinarayi Vijayan government is in no mood to relent.
