Babu, I discussed this with my brother two years back. But he doesn't remember it. The fat nude paintings of women were a decoration in that house in Ferozeshah Road. I am telling him to continue painting and photography rather than trying to become an academician. He is a good artist. Sometimes people do not do what they are good at.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 7:29 PM Pandavath Baburaj < [email protected]> wrote: > For me the enduring image of com. K. Damodaran is of him sitting in his > room in the M P's Bungalow in New Delhi writing something serious > sorrounded by nude paintings. Well buxomed nude women smiling at him from > the walls, all in flaming red !!.The great comrade did not seem very upset > about the nudity around him. Sasi's mother told me they were Mohan's > paintings. I was twelve years old then. Much later Sasi told me that he was > very upset when Mohan tried to remove Guruvayoorappan's photo from the > wall. Sasi's mother a devotee had hung it there. He told his son how > important it is to respect other people's beliefs. Once Sasi was smoking > when Damodaran came into the room and Sasi tried to hide the cigarette. > Damodaran was very angry at Sasi not for smoking but for hiding it. I have > been Sasi's friend, disciple and associate since the early 1980s. Com. > Damodaran was always with us in our long journey together..... > BABU > > On Sat, 22 Jun 2019, 8:15 am KP Sasi, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Any exploration into the life of my father makes me more than humble. Our >> father, comrade K. Damodaran was recognised as an intellectual who >> instilled Marxism into the minds of Keralites from its early stages. I >> tried my level best to find out how many years our father spent in jail. >> Even now, I do not really know. The information I have received is between >> 12 to 16 years in total. If it is 16 years, he spent one fourth of his life >> in jail. If it is 12 years, then he must have spent around one fifth of his >> life in jail. The underground period is different. >> In fact, there is an interesting story around it. >> >> Once he received permission from Kannoor jail on parole, to go to his >> house for four days. On his way, he stopped at Ponnani. Ponnani beedi >> workers' union was initiated by K. Damodaran. There was a strike of the >> beedi workers union for better wages at that time. Naturally, he got >> involved with it instead of going home. He gave a speech quoting Quran at >> that time. Ponnani was filled with Muslim beedi workers. The merit of >> K.Damodaran was that he was well versed with Bible, Qur'an and Sanskrit >> texts of the upper caste Hindu spiritualities. I am convinced that this guy >> is the first liberation theologian in India. Liberation theology entered >> India only in 1968. But he spoke about it in India a couple of decades >> before. >> >> After the speech among the striking beedi workers, K. Damodaran was >> arrested. Then he told the inspector who arrested him: `You can't put me in >> jail. You have no authority.' The inspector asked him: `Why not?' And he >> said: `I am already in Kannoor Jail. I have come out on parole. It is >> physically impossible for me to be in two jails at the same time.'😊 >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greenyouth/CAEuZ0T3v1YyKbT9sqxj7vnnmvL9yieLcHh1WNphD3SwK7UM4Yw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
