A rather innocuous place name which used to evoke nothing more than curiosity, has now been entangled in a cultural controversy dictated by larger geo-political events. For decades, a small region in Kunnathoor grama panchayat, located near the border of Kollam and Pathanamthitta districts in Kerala, has been known as Pakistan Mukku. ‘Mukku’ means Junction in Malayalam.
Now, after the Public Works department (PWD) put up a board indicating the place name after a road renovation work, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kerala State general secretary Anoop Antony Joseph has attempted to rake up a controversy.
