Plea to install CV’s statue in city

Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran presenting the C.V. Raman Pillai award to director N. Rajan Nair in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.

Tourism Minister Kadakampally Surendran presenting the C.V. Raman Pillai award to director N. Rajan Nair in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.  

Minister promises to look into demand of novelist’s admirers

A fervent plea for installing statue of novelist C.V. Raman Pillai in the capital city was made by the organisers of his 160th birth anniversary celebrations here on Saturday.

Responding to the plea, Tourism and Cooperation Minister Kadakampally Surendran, who inaugurated the event and presented the CV Puraskaram to theatre person N. Rajan Nair, said the demand would be considered favourably.

Efforts

All efforts would be made to ensure that a statue was erected before the end of the year, he added.

Delivering the keynote address, D. Benjamin said the way CV delineated his characters in his novels had only few parallels.

His novels were a quaint brew of politics, democracy, and domesticity, he pointed out.