The discussion, involving former Kerala Director General of Police Hormis Tharakan, author and professor at JNU Susan Visvanathan, author and journalist Ravi Shankar, threw up many answers but remained largely inconclusive.
As Hormis Tharakan writes in his memoir “Sitrep Seventies”, “there are no easy answers”. Or as Susan Visvanathan in her entry “Odd Morning” writes, “When people ask me who I am, I always say I’m a Malayali. And they all seem to know what that means.”