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Facts about mallus which Google won't tell you :)Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-87809871250002369872017-10-28T17:24:00.002+05:302017-10-28T17:25:15.667+05:30Chinthas or Thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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other day, there happened a speech which took the state of Kerala by storm. In
that speech, the person wondered “Do all mothers in Kerala wear Jimikkis? Do
all fathers steal the mothers’ Jimikkis? If at all they do, do the mothers whose
Jimikkis are stolen, drink Brandy in Kerala? <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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that logic, let us all wonder a bit more </span></i><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">J</span></i><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Ennil Ninnum parannakannoru painkili malar thenkili –</span></i></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Does
this mean a person has 1000 eyes? If there are 1000 eyes, are all the eyes used
to wait for someone? Just because the person moved away from you, are you
calling the person a bird? Does that mean all gulf malayalees are birds?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Malare ninne kanathirunnal…Mizhivegiya
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<i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Does
this mean this person singing the song is a Gardener? I say so because he is
talking only about flowers. If he s a gardener, why is he thinking only about
flowers and not about plants? He says if he doesn’t see the flowers, he feels
like all the colors are fading away. I am asking him which colors are fading away?
He should specify that!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Appangelembadum ottakku chuttammayi…ammayi
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<i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Why
did the ammayi make the appams all alone? Why was there no one to help her? Is
this reflection of our society in these times? That too, look at the
patriarchy! Ammayi made the appams for the marumon. Not for the marumol. These
customs need to change!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Why
are we talking only about the moon? Why are we not talking about the sun who
works hard all day long? Poor Sun. He is being ignored. Also, why is the moon
standing at the top of staircase? Ask him to come down!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-23905835989426454242017-07-24T22:14:00.002+05:302017-09-01T18:16:42.065+05:30Alternate endings #3 ~ Bharatham<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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is by his side as a strong pillar of support. At every performance, he
remembered his brother. He ensured that his nephew, Appu got the best in class
training in music. He took Appu along for all the concerts too. At one of the
international concerts, after singing a few Keerthanams, he said that his voice
is strained. He asked Appu to sing. He was hesitant. Gopi insisted that he
sings and sing he did. The audience appreciated with a thunderous applause. The
musicians asked him, “Is the history repeating itself?” He just smiled. On the
way back to the hotel, Devi asked “Even after singing continuously for three
nights, your voice has never strained. It did not strain today also, did it?” .
He smiled and replied “ After all these years, I will find peace in tonight’s
sleep”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-68189493113582210362017-07-24T22:07:00.000+05:302017-07-24T22:15:26.290+05:30Alternate endings #2 ~ Manichitrathazhu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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However, we wish if only the ending could have been different. ‘Alternate
endings’ is an effort to imagine just that – what if those movies had different
endings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nakulan and Ganga moved back to Calcutta. They were happily
settled with 2 kids – Naga and Gulan. Sunny used to visit them often. One day,
to his surprise, Sreedevi was also there at Nakulan’s house. He was in touch
with Sreedevi through letters and phone calls. He asked “You never said you are
coming?” “I wanted to surprise you”,
said she. “I hear that doctors who treat psychiatric patients themselves fall
ill by the end of their careers. Is that true?, she asked. He said “Yes. At times, that happens. We deal
with someone else’s mind for so long that we lose our own. But why are you
bothered?”. She said “I was just thinking, it will be difficult to look after a
mad psychiatrist in old age”.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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However, we wish if only the ending could have been different. ‘Alternate
endings’ is an effort to imagine just that – what if those movies had different
endings.</span></div>
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different ways at the traffic signal. They continued living their lives. She
was fed up of the advertising job and put her heart and soul in to studying and
prepared for a bank exam. Her first posting was in a Bank of Baroda branch in
Hyderabad. One day, she got a loan application. She was going through it and
came, the applicant. He was applying for his home loan. Upon seeing him after
so long, she was overjoyed. She could see the happiness in his eyes too.</span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt;">“On whose name will the house be? Yours or in
the name of someone close to you or someone you trust?”, she asked expectantly.
“I am registering the house in my name itself till I find someone I can trust”,
he told her.</span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16pt;">She let out a sigh
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<i><span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: purple;">Uncle went on to explain “All the time, my son roams around on a bike. From time to time, he tells his mother that he wants “space” and “freedom”. Our house is quite big. I don’t know why he says that. And freedom from what? The British? Then he says that it is his life, his decisions, his individuality and his destiny. I agree to all of that. But does he know anything about his destiny? Where he is headed? Also, he says he wants to do things differently. That is what all youngsters are saying these days. If all of them start doing things differently, won’t all of them again become similar? Isn’t these things that Dulquer Salman says in his movies? That’s why I say my son has become a Dulquer”<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Malayalam is said to be one of the toughest languages. May be this
is why Malayalees learn other languages faster. The flip side is that we add
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small pizza and a large Co**. No, we are not being perverts. All we want to
order is a large Coke. But the way we say it makes it sound a tad bit vulgar.
It’s just the influence of the language you see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So now that we have made peace with it, understand that not all
malayalees speak that way! Stop telling us that you don’t sound like a mallu!
And accept the fact that whichever state you are from, your English has its own
regional dialect. Just that we don’t take the pain to point it out every time </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">J</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. It is
just a language and none of us are perfect. So stop pointing it out and let’s simBly have a coofee BRAWWWW!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-57743571716958383942016-09-14T10:53:00.000+05:302016-09-14T10:53:45.592+05:30Thattu Kada, The Heavenly eateries in Kerala<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ESqt9XfxV-E/U8quZvhRI2I/AAAAAAAACCU/JJNAeM7cOdE/s1600/thattukada.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ESqt9XfxV-E/U8quZvhRI2I/AAAAAAAACCU/JJNAeM7cOdE/s1600/thattukada.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 26px;">If you travel across Kerala especially in the nights, you will see roadside eateries. These eateries are called ‘thattu kada’. These shops serve mouthwatering food. They will be very brightly lit and a lavish spread will be available. It is something to be learned as to how they manage to wrap up all of the equipments and put them in to a small cart. Another interesting thing is these shops come alive only in the evening. In the mornings, they easily camouflage in to the background of a bus stop or a tree’s shade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 26px;">There will be a cook who will be dishing out ‘dosas’ or ‘omlets’ or ‘appams’. He might also be steaming the ‘idlis’ , ‘puttu’ or frying meat too. Then there is a person who takes orders and collects cash. This person has to be really good at multi taking and memorizing. These people have to be extremely fast because there aren’t enough seats to accommodate more people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-3065685032153011462016-06-19T20:20:00.000+05:302016-06-19T20:20:11.500+05:30Kambili Puthappu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The title of this blog in Malayalam
means a blanket(made of wool to be specific). But it gained an entirely different
meaning once the movie ‘Ramji Rao speaking’ released in the early 1990s. <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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in the movie where in a lady calls up the hero and ask him to bring “kambili
Puthappu” for her. The hero pretends as if the telephone line is not clear and he
is unable to understand what she is saying. This was to avoid the
responsibility and thus the expense to bring the blanket. From then on, people
of </span><span style="font-size: 17.3333px; line-height: 18.5467px;">Kerala</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%;"> have been using this word whenever we want to dodge a request or we
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I9MvBEznsS0/V2awtZS5Z5I/AAAAAAAAETE/1t-CcTVPF142huNYvvFm0tcOSYoxODINgCLcB/s1600/airtel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I9MvBEznsS0/V2awtZS5Z5I/AAAAAAAAETE/1t-CcTVPF142huNYvvFm0tcOSYoxODINgCLcB/s200/airtel.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now you might wonder what the 4G girl has got to do with this entire thing. I strongly feel this girl who is sort of a brand ambassador for a particular firm should
be replaced and the lady in the picture should be given that role. This makes
more sense since people have been complaining about the network issues of that
particular provider. What say?<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-19138550453558153072016-05-11T13:37:00.000+05:302016-07-08T10:30:29.726+05:30Po Mone Modi ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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trending on Twitter ~ #PoMoneModi . I do not endorse or criticize the politics
about the hashtag. But I must say it’s quite smart and funny. So all of us from
Kerala know what the hashtag means.</span></span></i><br />
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God’s own voter id, here is all you need to know. There was a time in Malayalam
cinema where the heroes used to have super human powers. Thankfully, we are
over that phase. In that forgettable era of Malayalam cinema, there was a film
called ‘Narasimham’ which starred Mohanlal (we call him Lalettan). To be fair,
that was a good movie but the ones which followed and imitated that movie were
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inspired from “Po Mone Dinesha”, a dialogue from the film which literally
means, “You Go Mr. Dinesh”, said in a contemptuous way. It caught on big time
in kerala. Everyone from a little ‘Tintu mon’ to a matriarch started using this
phrase. Like many phrases in Malayalam, it has a tone as to how you say it.
Also, it has different connotations to it. Primarily, it is used as a
dismissive phrase. Also, it is like belittling the other person in a way by calling him a kid. So
how it is used in this hashtag here is for you to judge </span><span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">:)</span></i></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-20805242434773788162016-04-06T20:53:00.002+05:302016-07-08T10:36:22.561+05:30Know your kuttans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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which all the 80’s and early 90’s kids remember with fondness from the
movie, No.20 madras mail. He has caught the imagination of many a train travelling
malayalee.</span></i></span><br />
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ha ha surprise!) and he is drunk( ha ha big surprise! </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> ) and he is in a train. The
TTR comes for checking, becomes friends with him and he starts singing this
song. “Innallenkil naale varum…naale allenkil mattannal varum..Tony Kutta…Tony
kutta..” . The essence of the song is in stressing on the Kutta part. You need
to be careful in adding some air to the pronunciation of the word, Kutta!<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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Kerala, seek out the TTR and sing this song to him. If he is a malayalee, he
will throw you out of the train </span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. If he is not a malayalee,
he will think you have gone mad. So a safer idea is to sing this to your
friends.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Does this song or character have
a great deal of importance in the Kerala society’s fabric? Not in a serious
sense. But we like the song. We like Tonykuttan. Tonykuttan travels by train.
Tonykuttan has good friends. Tonykuttan sings songs. Be like Tonykuttan.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 36.078px;"><i>P.s. There are Kuttans of different variety.There is a harmless kuttan in movie Blore days. But the moment you add thampuran as second name to kuttan, the entire scenario changes!!!</i></span></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-67373452112284543152016-02-23T21:55:00.001+05:302016-07-08T10:41:29.042+05:30New Gen!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></i><i><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"> <span style="color: purple;">This is the time of
‘New Generation’ wave in Kerala. Anything and everything is New Gen to the
extent that it has almost become part of a present day malayalee’s lexicon.
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-size: 13.0pt;"> These days, the famed lungies of kerala are a disappearing attire. They have
been replaced by shorts and track suits. It is beneath the new gen to wear
lungies. Thankfully, they still wear Mundu(dhoti) proudly during Onam
celebrations in their colleges. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Further to this, they have done away with the
endearing ‘Chetta’ term. Even if you are elder to a person by a month or a
decade, you will be invariably called ‘Bro’! And if you are someone who has a
special place in their hearts, then you become a ‘chunk’ or a ‘freak’ with
random numbers of alphabet ‘z’ before and after. Illustration :
^^^^^zzchunkzzzz, freakzzzzzz#####~~~~~. This expression is usually found
on Facebook. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Also, it is mandatory for these youngsters to be part of at least
one short film. If not, a photoshoot where in these people will be staring you
down with different ‘attitudes’. Do not miss the hairdo in these pics. You
might think they are carrying a Pomeranian puppy on their heads. Nope, it is
just a hairstyle</span></i><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"> <span style="color: purple;"><i>:)</i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-size: 13.0pt;"> When so much is happening around, how can Malayalam cinema go unaffected?
Infact, the term newgen was coined to depict cinemas of today. The speciality
of these films is that the hero will not wear a mundu. He will sport boxers!
Malayalam cinema has much to thank Fahad Fazil for this. Also, the only
relationships portrayed in the films will be of friends. There won’t be any
character playing a mother’s role or a father’s role. There is no question of
extended family or siblings.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-size: 13.0pt;"> Another newgen transition that has happened is that the ‘thattu kadas’ have now moved inside the malls from the road sides. Also, the wedding photo shoots that
have emerged. About that, we shall discuss in another blog.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-35882141063510206152016-01-26T15:06:00.000+05:302016-01-26T15:06:16.134+05:30Crossing the Pamba!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "" "lucida calligraphy" "" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">These
days, river pamba is a hot topic of discussion in Kerala. For those from
outside Kerala, river pamba is on the foothills of Shabarimala. Should women
enter pamba, cross pamba or see pamba at all? Too much time and words are spend
over such discussions. So Pinklungy as always shall provide a different
perspective to pamba.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "" "lucida calligraphy" "" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There
is a usage called 'Pamba kadannu' which literally means 'crossed pamba'.
It is used to indicate something on the lines of 'Elvis has left the
building'. So if someone had fever and is feeling better now, one can say 'pani
pamba kadannu' which translates to 'fever crossed pamba' which means fever has
long left the person. So next time someone says 'pamba kadannu', don't ask them
"oh! On a boat or did you swim?" :)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: ""lucida calligraphy"",serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">p.s. Now don't start
saying it is Pampa! It is not the Kerala English at work. It really is PamBa! :)</span><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "" "lucida calligraphy" "" , serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">2nd p.s. Lord Ayyappa is the
one of the most secular and progressive Gods. His best friend Vavar, is a
believer of Islam. He doesn't care what religion his devotees belong to. How we
wish if we all were so progressive!</span></i></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-11393956253919446432016-01-04T23:41:00.000+05:302016-07-08T10:46:55.515+05:30Hollywood bows down to Kerala!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> It
is a known fact that Malayalam Cinema is respected across the world. It has
national and international recognition be it for the flawless scripts or for the understated yet powerful acting skills of famed artists who belong to this industry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not many of you would have realized that Hollywood is also indebted </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">to
Malayalam Cinema. Ask me why? I hope you have seen Avatar. What is the story
line? The hero goes in to an unknown territory, becomes friends with the people there and tricks them in to believing what he wants to say. A while later, he has a
change of heart and he becomes part of people from this unknown territory
leaving his bosses high and dry. Now go and watch the movie ‘Vietnam Colony’.
And you tell me that the story line is different! Isn’t Vietnam Colony,
Pandora? It is! All that is lacking is the blue beings of Pandora are not
singing “Pathiravayi neram..panineerkulirambily…”</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> Now
you might brush it aside as a coincidence. Then what about the movie Judge?
When I saw the trailer itself, I knew it is a rip off of Narasimham! What is
the story line of Narasimham? “A judge who is known for his exemplary honesty
and pristine career has a high achiever son. Once, the judge has to pass a judgment
against his own son. This leads to them drifting apart. Then comes a time when
the son has to rescue his dad from a sticky situation which leads to
reconciliation” Now go and read the synopsis of Judge and you tell me that it
is not inspired from Narasimham!</span><span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">p.s. We malayalees are well-read and well-travelled enough to know that
what is mentioned above is a long stretch of the imagination. But we are among
those who like to laugh at ourselves ;)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-77828007841406422632015-12-16T19:59:00.000+05:302016-07-08T12:30:44.308+05:3024 Hours!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Twenty four hours is a significant
duration of time in God’s own country. It is as much time our officers take to
crack a case in Kerala. Yes you read it right. Our police force is at par with
the Scotland Yard police force. Within that time, we prove crimes in Kerala;
however hardened a criminal is or however twisted a crime is!</span></i></span></div>
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frame? Did we do some sort of analysis? Is it some sort of a global benchmark?
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police officer protagonist have existed, there is one constant dialogue that
rings in the theatres. “24 manikoorinullil, ithu njan kandu pidichirikkum” (
Rough<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>translation ~ I will crack this
case in 24 hours). Be it Suresh Gopi who kind of is the Gold standard in Malayalam
cinema Police officer roles or the new gen police officers, every one sticks to
24 hours rule. If the movie is a political drama, there will be at least one scene
where the home minister generously gives 24 hours’ time to a police officer.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now what will happen if a Hartal
is announced in between this 24 hours duration? What a question! Ofcourse, we
push the deadline and tune in to Asianet with a plate of Porotta and that which
must not be named!</span></i></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-61404051827853373752015-10-05T09:46:00.002+05:302017-01-12T08:32:40.024+05:30I ate beef cutlet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> You might be wondering what is so
special about this blog. Even I never thought the title of this blog will ever
be controversial. Sadly, that is what we all have come to.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Do you realize, Kerala is one of the few
places in India</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uxpaiTDHiKM/V39OhXLqyuI/AAAAAAAAEUY/LS5CdfbrbNoml8ckaLNNJUi5ZLOqgDNpwCLcB/s1600/beef.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uxpaiTDHiKM/V39OhXLqyuI/AAAAAAAAEUY/LS5CdfbrbNoml8ckaLNNJUi5ZLOqgDNpwCLcB/s320/beef.jpg" width="266" /></a></span></div>
<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> which doesn’t judge you if you tell the title of this blog out
aloud? A couple of reasons. One, we are educated enough to understand that what
one eats is his/her personal choice. Whatever my religion is or of that of the
person who eats it has nothing to do with that choice. When I say educated, it
does not mean the number of people with a degree from a university. By
educated, I mean the ability to embrace pluralism – ability to understand
another person’s view point.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Secondly, the social fabric of the state
is such that we have all the three larger communities living at peace with each
other. Not only at peace, but with much love also. I think one of the reasons
is the fact that we all have friends in all the communities. So the thought of
a person is good or bad just because he/she is from a particular community does
not cross our minds. We celebrate all the festivals without thinking of which
book it originates from.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The good thing is that in Kerala, we are
still free to eat what we want. We all love the biriyani from Kozhikode, the
beef curry from Kottayam and the sambar from Palakkad. We will continue to love
these dishes. Along the way, we will continue loving the people who make them
too </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">J</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%;">P.s. Is eating beef cruelty towards animals? Yes. Should we stop it? May be we should start trying. But reason should be that and not anything else. Having said that, isn't eating chicken and mutton also cruelty? Should we stop that too? I'm an ideal world, we should.</span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-15021730509997102462015-08-29T10:45:00.001+05:302016-07-08T12:32:57.952+05:30The curious case of Premam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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curious case of Premam</span></span></h2>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In Kerala, black is not
considered as an auspicious colour. It is not usually worn during celebrations
or auspicious occasions. But all that and much more has changed this year,
thanks to the movie “Premam”. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For those of you who don’t know,
“Premam” is a recently</span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> released much loved Malayalam film with “Nivin Pauly” in
the lead. The film was so successful that it inspired many firsts among the Kerala
youth. Onam celebration in the colleges are heavily influenced by this film.
All the guys will be wearing black shirts and a mundu (dhoti). It has become
such a rage that all the colleges look like they are dyed in black. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The movie brought back beards in
to vogue. Beards had made an exit from Kerala campuses long before except for a
stubble here and there may be. But today, every kuttan, appu and Kannan worth
his adolescence is growing a beard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy";"><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">This movie was a </span><span style="font-size: 17.3333339691162px; line-height: 26px;">pleasant</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;"> departure from the-at-times - synthetic-new-gen movies. It had heart, soul and essence of the early 90s of Kerala. Unlike today's campus movies, it showed a smattering of politics too.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Usually, the movies inspire
style trends in girls. This was the first time that a movie redefined the style
statement of guys on such a large scale on the kerala shores. </span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">And yes, we guys in Kerala now are a confused and divided lot - to like Malar, Mary or Celine is the question ;)</span></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-81116500048379456532015-08-28T09:16:00.000+05:302019-09-11T11:24:10.983+05:30The real Malayalee Onam<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Today, all the malayalees around the world are celebrating Onam.
You read that right. Of the little things we malayalees are proud of is the
fact that it is not a festival bound by religion – every keralite celebrates
onam. All one need to celebrate Onam is to have watched Asianet at one point or
the other in his/her lifetime ;)</span></div>
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<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qZZ_PO_0W3E/V39Q9D2zyeI/AAAAAAAAEU4/k6FHeHaTPs80135g5RH8oNKw9ewlLBZiACLcB/s1600/onM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qZZ_PO_0W3E/V39Q9D2zyeI/AAAAAAAAEU4/k6FHeHaTPs80135g5RH8oNKw9ewlLBZiACLcB/s1600/onM.jpg" /></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lemme tell you how a real onam pans out. The day before, we would
have done a small pooja at home to welcome our erstwhile King, Mahabali – not Bahubali
but Mahabali. Today, we wake up to a usual kerala breakfast with an addition of
boiled banana – this is a must for onam. There will be a floral carpet and king
Mahabali’s clay incarnations just outside the door. We take pictures of it and
circulate among the whatsapp groups </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. This is followed by incessant
forwarding of messages and whatsapp pings about Onams – Ponnonam, Onam
anshamkal, Thiruvonam and all the variants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The relatives start coming home. Television will be ON with a
smattering of these programs – a cine actor giving an interview, a “thattu
polippan(block buster) film being screened, some onam songs and games, an
interview by a tamil film actor(yes</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> ), in
the breaks many Malayalam film actors saying “Onam ashamsakal” and such. Once
the relatives have reached, we exchange gifts. It is usually clothes for
children and the elderly in the family. Then we have the Sadya(the main lunch with
payasam). Right in the middle of the Sadya, we get a call from a cousin who is
abroad – mostly gulf. All of us talk about how we miss him/her. He/She will say
how they miss the sadya and the usual question – when are you coming next?. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talking – yes, no one watches the TV but it has to be on. In the evening, there
will be upperi (banana chips) with tea. There will be a detailed evaluation on
the quality of chips </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. Once this is done, all of us go out to some place or the other.
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">How can I miss out the Facebook and Instagram uploads with all the malayalee hashtags in the world! Guys will be in their mundu magnificence and girls will be unleashing their Kerala Saree swag on the social media universe. Reams white cloth that is spun around Kerala just for this day is unbelievable! </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">There is a perception that malayalees work really well once they
leave the state of Kerala. This has a
slight bearing on the way we celebrate onam too. Outside of Kerala, Onam
celebrations are on a much larger scale – with fun and games and celebrations
galore </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. But be it outside or within the state, Onam is one time when we
are at our celebratory best </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. Wish you all a very happy
Onam!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-90751671601673526632015-08-06T21:00:00.002+05:302016-07-08T12:41:22.216+05:30Tharakkallu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y-IHulk_rus/V39SCtEUM5I/AAAAAAAAEVI/sF4NT_q28A8oyt2RIyxcF_zFsQNEPRNfACLcB/s1600/thara.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y-IHulk_rus/V39SCtEUM5I/AAAAAAAAEVI/sF4NT_q28A8oyt2RIyxcF_zFsQNEPRNfACLcB/s320/thara.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Kerala is not a state exactly known for job opportunities.
Neither is it famous for the developments which our political leaders bring in
to the state. This is one reason why almost every young guy or girl have to
leave the beautiful state in search of job and live in constant nostalgia. This
is truer for people who work in the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">But one thing which our politicians love doing is laying the
foundation stone. ‘Tharakkallu’ is the Malayalam word for foundation stone. All
our politicians do is announce schemes and lay the foundation stone. The
schemes rarely pick up. In every important project of the state, you will see
it etched in granite – “Foundation stone laid by so and so”. It is a major ceremony.
I am sure it is a practice in other states too. </span></div>
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built over this foundation stone. These days, things have improved slightly.
But if we collect all the ‘tharakkallus’ laid over the past years, we can
comfortably build an Engineering college. By the way, that is the latest fad in
Kerala these days – building engineering colleges!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Recently, I was having tea
with some of my friends. One of them is from Tamilnadu and some are from
Calcutta. During the conversation, I realized we Keralites have a long standing
relationship with Vim! How I realized it was when I cracked a joke regarding
Vim and only my malayalee friend laughed. The others did not get it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For those of you who have
stayed long enough in Kerala or know Kerala well, you would have already got
the joke I am referring to. For others, let me explain. The joke goes like
this. In Malayalam, it is “Enikku Vim kalakki Kodukkan thonni!”. In a bit of
pretentious English, it goes like this “I felt like offering a drink laced with
Vim!”. This sentence doesn’t ring a bell in any other part of the country. Only
people from Kerala get the context of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The context is that if
there is a person whom you are not very fond of and you want to exercise that
displeasure, one of the ways of conveying the displeasure is by saying the
above statement. Here, the intention is not to kill the person but you dislike
the person enough to create a large degree of discomfort or an upset stomach </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hosts. But during a visit to kerala and you hear ‘Vim’ in the conversation, just
be a bit careful will you? </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;">J</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-32498743531342565562015-07-26T12:22:00.000+05:302015-07-29T21:39:31.072+05:30The Question to Gulf Malayalee<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;"><span style="color: purple;">A large population of Kerala is in Gulf so much so that at least one member of the family will be somewhere in the middle east.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;">A person coming from gulf is an occasion for the family. All the members will go to the airport to receive him/her. Although the anticipation of what is there in the bag of duty free shoppe bags is always there, as much is the love for the person </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;">The ‘gulf malayalee’ or ‘pravasi’ (in a more refined Malayalam) faces this perennial question right from the moment he/she lands at the airport. “Enna thirichu?” which means when is the return date?. Every single person; be it a friend, a relative, an acquaintance or even the local shop keeper will greet the gulf malayalee with this question </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;">Ofcourse, no harm intended .It is just that it is the opening line to strike a conversation with a gulf malayalee. One might think that is not a justification at all. There are many other things to talk about in this world. But to understand its reasoning, you need to be a malayalee </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;">.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20.7000007629395px; text-indent: 0px;">Keywords : Malayali blog, Malayalee blog, Kerala blog, Mallu blog, Kerala, Malayalee, Namaskaram, Malayalam, Onam, God's own country, Back waters, Coconut, Coconut oil, Coconut trees</span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-65859298583123115132015-07-25T12:42:00.000+05:302015-07-25T13:14:42.888+05:30Ranjini Haridas & Anakkattil Eappachan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"> These days, the kerala tea table
conversations feature this lady, Miss. Ranjini Haridas quite often. For those
of you who do not know her, she is a television anchor from Kerala. Now why
should she feature in Pink Lungy? The reason is that she is so damn popular in
our state!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"> She is not your typical quite well
mannered demure television anchor. She is gutsy, free spirited and
unconventional as far as social norms are concerned. To borrow a few words from
Eappachan of Lelam film, she is outspoken and irreverent. I think she is very similar
to Eappachan. He also never behaved as per the social norms. Remember the scene
between him and Jagannatha Varma?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YTT09zxAAv4/VbM2XW409oI/AAAAAAAACfQ/oAmgOcGcIrk/s1600/11ububb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="96" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YTT09zxAAv4/VbM2XW409oI/AAAAAAAACfQ/oAmgOcGcIrk/s200/11ububb.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;">Now,
these are not exactly the qualities which the audience are used to. Add to
this, her lack of perfect Malayalam diction. Like audience in other parts of
the country, it took some time for the Kerala audience to get used to her. But now I feel people have begun accepting
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"> You may like her, You may dislike her.
But she is damn good at her job. Should she bring down the decibel level a few
notches? I personally think she should. But then again it is her personal
choice and as long as the audience like it, why should I complain?</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-72877221322109718722015-06-19T21:30:00.001+05:302015-06-21T00:11:31.672+05:30Nale aanu, Naale aanu <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"> Till the late 1990s, the heading of this
blog used to be heard across Kerala, particularly in crowded bus stands. The English
translation is “It is tomorrow, It is tomorrow”. The ‘it’ here refers to draw
of lottery tickets and finding out who the winner is.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mj1zLbF2SnU/VYQ8kA8maCI/AAAAAAAACb4/bTq_R-y5y9s/s1600/mqdefault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mj1zLbF2SnU/VYQ8kA8maCI/AAAAAAAACb4/bTq_R-y5y9s/s1600/mqdefault.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: purple;"> It seems most of the malayalees are firm
believers of luck. Why else will we have so many lottery agencies across the
state? Even the state government (a rare scenario again across the country)
owns a lottery establishment. There used to be a time when this business was so
good that ambassador cars used to go around making the above announcement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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during festive season. For instance, there are Onam bhagyakuri (lottery’s Malayalam)
, Vishu bhagyakuri et al. I think the politicians should adopt this naale aanu
naale annu as their tagline since it is also reflective of the development
opportunities which the politicians promise but never bring in to the state.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you visit Kerala, you will hear this name, quite often – Tintu Mon. Who is TintuMon? He is a mythical little boy who has admirers across Kerala. He is
funny, smart and suave.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Monotype Corsiva"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="color: purple;"> Tintu
mon was created by the famed catoonist, Mr. B.M.Gafoor. If I remember right, ‘Tintu
mon’ was first popularized in the main stream by the celebrated malayalam cine
actor, Mr.Innocent. In one of the olden movies, he used to mention master Tintu
mon in a funny manner.As per Innocent, Tintumon usually studies in Nadathara LP
school. Because of his intelligence, he is stuck in UKG forever , UKG – B to be
specific.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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days, almost all the jokes that are being told in Kerala has Tintumon’s
presence. He even has a girl friend, Dundu Mol. Mon and Mol are endearing terms
used to refer to boys and girls respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is someone who believes in technology due to which he lives through facebook
posts, whatsapp forwards and even sms jokes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-81617519200215696052015-06-14T10:56:00.000+05:302015-06-14T11:04:21.546+05:30Shoe flower & Kerala<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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of you would have seen shoe flower – the beautiful red flower with broad
petals. It is called Hibiscus if I still remember my biology lessons from
school and in malayalam, it is called 'Chembarathy'. This plant’s leaves are said to be very good for one’s hair. In Kerala,
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might wonder as to what is so peculiar about shoe flower in Kerala. Usually,
after a temple visit, people keep flowers either on their hair or just above
their ears. But if you choose to wear a shoe flower over your ears, the whole
meaning changes drastically! It indicates that you have lost your mind. In less
euphemistic terms, you have gone mad! Such a harmless flower and see what
damage it can do to you!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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in films, there are scenes where this quirkiness of shoe flower gives rise to a
few laughs. In the film ‘Kalyana soungandhikam’, the lead actress, Divya Unni
wears shoe flower all over her hair in a scene as advised by a fake guruji
played by Dileep. This scene had the theatres erupting in laughter. Another
famous scene from the film ‘Manichitrathazhu’ between Mohanlal and Pappu is
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Arun Babuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09878732188053987709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098712802232280493.post-53079463876205107922015-05-14T08:26:00.003+05:302015-06-24T18:46:17.494+05:30Elixir of Kerala : Coconuts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;"><span style="color: purple;">It even goes in to our head- hair, I mean. We light lamps with the same oil and fry the chips too! Scrambled eggs is made out of it and so is the foo yung.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 19.9333343505859px;"><span style="color: purple;"> Don’t even get me started with the source of the elixir – the Coconut. We use it in all ceremonies ranging from poojas to final rites. We start a new car breaking a coconut and enter a new house the same way.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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