KERALA DOES NOT NEED ZUMBA DURING TRAGEDY

Minister Chinchu Rani should have known better than to perform dance steps while discussing the electrocution of a student

- BY MANOJ NAIR | Business Editor

For a change, Keralites united over a cause, forgetting their political affiliations or any of their other usual strong likes and dislikes.

This bonding is around the issue of Nimisha Priya, a Malayali nurse who is on death row in a jail in Yemen. Yes, she’s guilty of a murder — and compounded it by trying to dispose of the victim’s body. But for Keralites, it’s not about whether Nimisha is guilty or not, but trying to find some way to prevent her execution according to the laws of the land she is in.

Kerala politicians too have shown maturity in bringing wider attention to Nimisha’s situation, and working with the central government to reach out to Yemeni authorities for the death sentence to be commuted.