Thiruvananthapuram: Sahitya Akademi president K Satchidanandan has responded to Sreekumaran Thambi's allegation that he insulted her by asking her to write a Kerala song for the government.
The Kerala song is decided by a committee. Sreekumaran Thambi's song was rejected by that committee. Sachidanandan said that he informed Sreekumaran Thambi about the rejection of the song by the Academy Secretary and that he is a person who respects his songs.
The rejection of Sreekumaran Thambi's song was not a decision of one person but a decision of a committee. No one in the committee seemed to agree with Sreekumaran Thambi's song.
Satchidanandan also said that the song was rejected due to many reasons including clichés and not a simple song that everyone can sing.
Sreekumaran rejected that particular song, not Thambi's song world. Sreekumaran Thambi's song had clichés.
He was asked to make some changes. Satchidandan also said that Sreekumaran Thambi did not change the song.
After that BK Hari Narayan's song was adopted with some modifications. Harinarayan and Bijipal will be invited to add music. Later he said that the song will be presented to the committee.
He added that he doubts whether there are some forces behind the continuous controversies against the academy.
Sreekumaran Thambi made the allegation through social media the other day. K Satchidanandan and Academy Secretary Abu Bakar wrote the song as requested.
Later, the two rewrote the song as requested. But it was not known whether the corrected song was accepted or not. Sreekumaran Thambi wrote in a Facebook post that he saw an advertisement inviting Kerala songs from poets.
His allegation was that he had to be humiliated in front of KC Abubakar, a prose poet who had written more than 3000 songs.