J Nandakumar believes that the communist and Islamist historians who have tried to distort Indian history, have also glorified the 1921 Moplah massacre, depicting it as a freedom struggle
Amidst the ongoing campaign to "secularise" the Moplah massacres and portray it as a freedom struggle, Smitha Rajan has put out a Facebook post recounting how legendary Mohiniyattam performer Kalyanikutty Amma and her family had to flee from their own house in Kerala during the Moplah massacres in 1921.