Thrissur: Noted writer and Kerala Sahitya Academy president K Satchidanandan said that he had read Maoist Roopesh’s novel in PDF form and has no objection to publishing it. Maoist Roopesh is currently lodged in Viyyur Central Jail. Meanwhile, the Kerala Prisons and Correctional Services hasn’t given permission yet to publish Roopesh’s novel. The department submitted a report, which stated that the novel contained remarks and comments against the government.

The Kerala Prisons and Correctional Services has reported to the home ministry that the protagonist in the novel is a poet who is arrested on UAPA charges. Although the poet’s name isn’t mentioned anywhere in the novel, the poems that are used in it belong to Kerala Sahitya Academy president K Satchidanandan. The writer has now expressed that he has no problem in publishing the novel. He added that he didn’t find any faults with the novel, that are mentioned in the report submitted by the Prisons and Correctional Services.

Satchidanandan stated that the head of the Prisons and Correctional Services may have approached the novel as a critique. He even urged those who say that he had never been arrested to check the files at the Irinjalakkuda police station that are at least 43 years old. Satchidanandan claimed that he was arrested for singing the universal theme song of the communist parties and that he was spared from being jailed because the then district collector was his classmate.