E for Elephant

E for Elephant

          A crowded city bustling with traffic and people; there are supermarkets, apartment complexes, schools and all that you can find in a city. In the middle of all this, an Elephant walks through along with a man with a thin slender stick in his hand. If you find this to be usual and common place, you are a Keralite J. Believe me, for people from other part of the world, this will be as horrifying as seeing a Tiger or Lion on the road.

      We love our elephants. A festival cannot be complete without elephants. In spite of them going mad once too often and wreaking havoc, we still insist on this giant presence as part of our celebrations.

          It is a sight to behold the black beauty in all its caparisoned beauty. But we should also make sure knowingly or unknowingly, we do not cause discomfort for those poor big(not lil) things.

          People who are not from Kerala might be shocked to know that there are fan clubs for elephants across our state. Even more amusing will be the fact that we can tell one elephant from the other looking at its features J.

          Right from childhood, we are told to run out of home and watch whenever we hear the clinking of an Elephant’s chain and that curiosity remains with a mallu till last breath J.

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Newspaper & Mallu Fathers

Newspaper & Mallu Fathers

Newspapers and Mallu fathers are an inseparable pair.  When a child leaves for school, the father will be sitting with the paper. Same is the case when the child returns from school.

When his in-laws come visiting, the mallu man of the house will be even more stuck to his News paper.

When the child grows up and his/her friends comes visiting, there goes the father seeking solace in the News paper. This is especially true when the friends are of opposite genders.

This is so much a part of our culture that there is at least one frame in a Malayalam film where the father is reading a newspaper.

AS much is the interest in the happenings in the society, expressing displeasure is also achieved by a typical mallu head of the house by reading (or pretending to) the Newspaper J.

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