Ruing the state of affairs in Kerala, actor-director Balachandra Menon took to Facebook and said the state is indeed 'a lunatic asylum' as social reformer Swami Vivekananda once said.
Shocked by the atrocities meted out to women and children in the state, Menon aired his concerns about the 'pathetic political condition' and 'moral degradation'.
He began the Facebook post recalling his childhood days when he used to hate Swami Vivekananda for naming Kerala a lunatic asylum.
“But now, when things are clearer, the words of Vivekananda seem true,” Menon stated in Facebook post.
The actor-director, who is now in the United States, listed out a number of recent 'shocking' incidents that took place in Kerala. Menon mentioned rapes, Sree Krishna Jayanti and Onam turning vote banks and novel modes of protests in the state.
The actor also shared an experience he had in the US while having coffee at a cafeteria in a shopping mall for a comparison. In the mall, he accidentally threw a piece of rusk on the carpet. The swift manner in which a waitress appeared and cleaned up the area reminded him about the presence of a responsible government in that country, which is vigilant about things happening all around.
"Please don't criticize me if I simply wish that the government in our state too could be like this without demonstrations, hunger strikes or water canons," Menon wrote in the Facebook post.
He concluded the post by tendering apologies to Vivekananda for his earlier repudiation of the latter's statement about the state.