When ‘Enjoy Enjaami’ fame Arivu from Chennai recently joined a virtual discussion with a group of activists and youth from Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha or hill country Tamil community, there was one person binding them and their histories — Valliamma, Arivu’s grandmother. In her view, this was just another manifestation of the “indifference” to the community’s concerns seen within Sri Lanka …
It isn’t an imaginary Utopia, devoid of class, caste and social structures, which inspired Tamil rapper Arivu to write Enjoy Enjaami. Arivu hopes to wipe out the thriving practices of “modern untouchability” and “casual casteism”—and Enjoy Enjaami seems to have set things in motion. How else can you explain why someone would work for generation after generation on the same …
