Shashi Tharoor, MP, with the president of MISH PV Chandran, Vice President K. Moidu, the Treasurer CE Chakkunni and others at the Visu-ID-Easters meeting organized by the Malabar initiative for community harmony in Kozhikode on April 11. Photo credit: K. Ragesh
Congress deputy, Shashi Tharoor said that the idea of India was a great copy in the idea of Kerala, which defends the idea of Mahatma Gandhi of ‘Unity in Diversity’. Inaugurating the celebrations of the first anniversary, as well as the Viscu-Id-Easter meeting organized by the Malabar initiative for social harmony (MISH) in Kozhikode on Friday (April 11), Mr. Tharoor said that Kerala welcomed all cultures and communities with open arms.
“Unlike northern India, Islam did not come to Kerala raising swords, but in a friendly way. The Arab community mixed with the people of Kerala for more than two thousand years, sharing culture, religion and news,” said Tharoor, citing the example of Cheraman Perumal, who went to Mecca. The Jewish diaspora in India, especially Kerala, was the only one in the world that never faced the religious persecution of native culture, Hey added.
Mr. Tharoor said that Kozhikode was a lighthouse of cultural confluence and progressive thoughts.
“This is the place where diversity is not tolerated, but celebrated. It is part of DNA or Kozhikode,” he said. The president of MISH, PV Chandran, highlighted the need for unity among people in the middle of the growing disturbances in the name of religion, caste and politics.
Vice President or Mish K. Moidu, Treasurer CE Chakkunni, President or Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan, Kozhikode, AKB Nair, Acting Quazi Safeer Saqafi and Priest in the CSI Ti Ti James Church were present.
Published – April 11, 2025 11:20 pm ist
