Thursday, July 25, 2013

Controversial poem no more in Kerala varsity syllabus | ummid.com

Controversial poem no more in Kerala varsity syllabus | ummid.com
"Please understand when this was recommended to the syllabus, only the merit was looked into and how can people know the antecedents of the writer as some now say he is an Al-Qaeda man, while some others say it's not true. How are we to know these facts," asked Basheer. - See more at: http://www.ummid.com/news/2013/July/25.07.2013/poem_in_kerala_uv.html#sthash.Ang5VG1d.dpuf
The poem, 'Ode to the Sea', written by Ibrahim al-Rubaish, a former detainee of Guantanamo Bay camp of the US, was part of the text 'Literature and Contemporary Issue Studies' for third semester BA and BSc students.