Ex-Kerala Minister visits CIIL
The Hindu
Former Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja visited the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) and the Southern Regional Language Centre (SRLC) here recently.Ms. Shailaja, MLA from Mattanur in t
Former Kerala Health Minister K.K. Shailaja visited the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) and the Southern Regional Language Centre (SRLC) here recently.
Ms. Shailaja, MLA from Mattanur in the neighbouring state, was admired for her work as the Minister when Kerala was in the grip of COVID-19 last year.
She collected details about educational development programmes, setting up of language laboratory, career guidance and counselling cell, and structure of the new school system.
Unfurling the zine handed to us at the start of the walk, we use brightly-coloured markers to draw squiggly cables across the page, starting from a sepia-toned vintage photograph of the telegraph office. Iz, who goes by the pronouns they/them, explains, “This building is still standing, though it shut down in 2013,” they say, pointing out that telegraphy, which started in Bengaluru in 1854, was an instrument of colonial power and control. “The British colonised lands via telegraph cables, something known as the All Red Line.”
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