Thiruvananthapuram: After the salary arrears controversy, a new controversy has become a headache for Youth Commission Chairperson Chinta Jerome. Chinta Jerome is subjected to severe ridicule after discovering a serious flaw in his research paper. One of the famous poems in Malayalam, Changampuzha’s ‘Vazhakula’ is written in Vailopilly, which led to criticism.
Chinta, who received his doctorate in 2021, completed the research by Kerala University Pro Vice Chancellor Dr. P. P. It was under the supervision of Ajayakumar. The research was on the ideological basis of Malayalam commercial cinema in the neoliberal era. There is a serious flaw in the first chapter of the said research paper itself.
A serious flaw enters the thesis when it discusses the changes in Malayalam cinema in the 1980s under the influence of neoliberal ideas. The thesis says that the films of Priyadarshan and Ranjith are against the imitative ideals of Kerala formed by the left government and add water to the centuries-long struggles and revolutions. In the next line, the thought is described as Vazhakula by Vailoppilly, a prominent renaissance poet of Kerala. According to the thesis, Priyadarshan’s Mohanlal movie Aaryan openly stated that banana is outdated.
After the news came out, there was severe criticism on social media. A political observer, Adv. A. Jaya Shankar’s sarcasm. Meanwhile, Ph.D. A pro-thought argument is being raised on social media with the claim that typos and factual errors will still occur in essays and that this is natural.