Parameswaran, A Warrior For Dharma In The Intellectual Battlefield

If one is to describe P. Parameswaran, then perhaps, it should be thus — a Parasurama whose Parasu or axe was his pen. He wielded it the way Parasurama wielded his axe and fell before it powers that distorted history and intellectual discourse in this country.

- Aravindan Neelakandan

The kids of the 1970s and the 1980s would have encountered in their school days ‘Book Exhibition’ – stalls opened by Soviet books and related sales of Marxist literature.

Among the books sold was a book on Swami Vivekananda. The Marxist exercise was to contain Vivekananda within the Marxist framework and prove that at best, he was only a petty Bourgeois.

Marxists excel in doing this. They try their best to reduce every Hindu spiritual phenomenon to fit into their framework. When Soviet Union was alive, these works usually had the support of not only the masters in that Mecca of Marxism – Moscow, but also Macaulay-Nehruvian Indian establishment, which in its core, harboured the colonial inherited self-hatred for anything Hindu.

With such a staunch establishment set against Hindu Dharma and nation, in 1986 appeared a book in Kerala – the very state where the entire intellectual life has been like the Yamuna, terrorized by Kaalinga serpent — called Marx and Vivekananda: A Comparative Study.

The book made a comparative study of Marx and Swami Vivekananda from a refreshingly holistic point of view. Consider the following passage: