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`Malayalam being given the go-by'

Staff Reporter

Thiruvananthapuram: The `NRI culture' and a skewed system of education are distancing Malayalis from their mother tongue, writer Sethu has said.

Addressing the 10th Malayala Sammelan organised by State Bank of Travancore here on Saturday, Sethu said Malayalis were consciously forgetting Malayalam. Nowhere else in the world would any community treat its mother tongue with such disdain, he said.

Kerala Gandhi Smaraka Nidhi chairman P. Gopinathan Nair lauded SBT's valuable contributions in the financial and cultural spheres of the State. The Malayalam literary awards for 2005, instituted by SBT, were presented to T.N. Prakash for short-story writing; Manoj Kuroor for poetry; V. Krishna Vadhyar for children's writing; and K.T. Rajeev of Desabhimani for the best human interest story in the media.

SBT chief general manager Pradip Shanker was among those who spoke.

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