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KPAC Lalitha draws flak

Writer and critic Saradakkutty said Lalitha's statement was a disgrace to the office she is holding.

Kochi: Kerala Lalitha Kala Akademi chairperson KPAC Lalitha has come under criticism from feminists and left-leaning commentators on the social media for what they called her insensitive response to the tussle between AMMA and the Women in Cinema Collective on the actor abduction and rape case.

Lalitha, while responding to the allegations raised by the WCC about the stand taken by the AMMA on the case, suggested that the members of the WCC who quit AMMA will be taken back if they apologised for their act. "Let those who resigned apologise for their mistakes first," she said.

Writer and critic Saradakkutty said Lalitha's statement was a disgrace to the office she is holding. "We can understand that your mouth had been shut for the past 50 years," she said in a Facebook post on Monday. "But now, you are holding the office of the chairperson of Kerala Lalitha Kala Akademi. You shouldn't have come to the public defending AMMA with those statements. The long span of acting career and the leftist life you have lived have not given you the sense of not telling the actors of new generation that they should apologise for their 'mistakes'."

"I have lost the little respect I had for her," read another post. "What an irony! As someone who revealed she was harassed by the late Adoor Bhasi and one who knows the lurking danger in the tinsel world, KPAC Lalitha should have supported the fight against inequality in the industry," it said.Many have asked her to quit her post at the Akademi as the Left Democratic Front, which appointed her, had always claimed it stood for the rights of womene.

Some commentators lamented that the LDF picks from the cultural world, including Innocent, who is a member of Parliament, and M. Mukesh and K.B. Ganeshkumar, who are members of the state legislative Assembly, have failed to represent the left values on the rights of women.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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