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Articles for Malayalis

The Malayalis of Macondo
2 weeks ago

The Malayalis of Macondo

New Indian Express  

KOCHI: Time doesn’t flow linearly in Macondo. Time alone bears witness to this magical town by the river, founded by patriarch José Arcadio Buendía, who dreamt of a city of mirrors. Often regarded as the greatest novel of the 20th century, Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, transforms Macondo into a sprawling character on its own. The …

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The Malayali on a high in Poland
4 months ago

The Malayali on a high in Poland

New Indian Express  

Now that he had the perfect recipe, he needed a name. “What better name than ‘Malayali’?” chuckles Nallur, who grew up in Palakkad, Kerala. They launched the beer on November 13, 2022, using both Mohanlal and Kathakali images on the bottles—the logo featured a man wearing the headgear of a Kathakali artiste wearing Aviators and a moustache as sported by …

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Karnataka govt to teach Kannada to Bengaluru Malayalis, 20 tuition centers to be launched
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Karnataka govt to teach Kannada to Bengaluru Malayalis, 20 tuition centers to be launched

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka government is all set to launch a Kannada learning programme for Malayalis living in Bengaluru. Karnataka govt to teach Kannada to Bengaluru Malayalis in 20 tuition centers Speaker UT Khader will inaugurate the event on Thursday, and KDA will reportedly set up 20 Kannada learning centres in Bengaluru. He also called Kannadigas ‘generous’ and said they must create …

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Road from Kerala to Keralam laid over a path of cultural identity, politics
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Road from Kerala to Keralam laid over a path of cultural identity, politics

Hindustan Times  

The seemingly elementary correction of renaming the southern state of Kerala to its native name ‘Keralam’ by the state assembly has many undertones, political analysts, cultural activists, and civil society have said. KV Thomas, senior CPM leader and special representative of Kerala to the Centre said the state’s name change is along the same lines. In the recently concluded fourth …

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Manjummel Boys | Writer Jeyamohan faces social media backlash for derogatory references on Malayalis
9 months, 1 week ago

Manjummel Boys | Writer Jeyamohan faces social media backlash for derogatory references on Malayalis

The Hindu  

Writer B. Jeyamohan’s blog post on the Malayalam film ‘Manjummel Boys’ kicked up a storm in social media on Sunday, with the writer facing a backlash over several sweeping statements and derogatory comments that he made on Malayalis. In the rest of the long blog post, he makes generalised statements on Malayalis, especially the tourists, whom he accused of engaging …

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Malayalis Bond at Carnival
1 year ago

Malayalis Bond at Carnival

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Malayalis bonded during a carnival in Secunderabad at St Mary’s School grounds on Sunday. Organised by the All India Malayalee Association, Telangana Unit, Malayalee families participated in games, enjoyed Kerala food and took in music and cultural programmes at the event. Families enjoyed a gastronomical delight at the food stalls, which offered ‘appams’, traditional fish curry, kappa biryani, ‘pazhampuri’ …

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What Google Won’t Tell You podcast: Murali Sreeshankar on long jump, basketball, speed cubing and sacrificing his beloved parotta
1 year, 4 months ago

What Google Won’t Tell You podcast: Murali Sreeshankar on long jump, basketball, speed cubing and sacrificing his beloved parotta

The Hindu  

In this episode of What Google Won’t Tell You, Jonathan Selvaraj and Ipsit Mohapatra speak to Asian Championships and Commonwealth Games silver medal-winning long jumper Murali Sreeshankar. He doesn’t have to say anything like get ready for the evening, or get good sleep or eat at this time because I am programmed that way from a very young age, so …

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'Malayalis delaying Kerala trips': Chief Minister writes to Centre on airfares
1 year, 5 months ago

'Malayalis delaying Kerala trips': Chief Minister writes to Centre on airfares

India Today  

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday wrote to the Central government, expressing concerns over the skyrocketing airfares to southern state, especially from the Gulf countries. In a letter addressed to Union Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Pinarayi Vijayan expressed deep concern over the exorbitant air fares to Kerala during the Onam season. Demanding urgent intervention into the matter, Pinarayi Vijayan …

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Karnataka elections: Kerala rejoicing at the victory of three Malayalis
1 year, 7 months ago

Karnataka elections: Kerala rejoicing at the victory of three Malayalis

The Hindu  

The neighbouring State of Kerala too has something to celebrate in the Karnakata elections, the results of which were announced on Saturday, giving the Congress a thumping victory. While Mr. George and Mr. Khader had a cakewalk, Mr. Harris made it to the Assembly for the fourth time in a row by giving a tough fight to the BJP. A …

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Malayalis touring the world this summer
1 year, 8 months ago

Malayalis touring the world this summer

The Hindu  

The excruciatingly humid summer weather and the unrealised yearning to travel abroad during the pandemic era have led to an upsurge in demand for outbound travel from Kerala this year. Over the years, people from Kerala have matured as international travellers, thanks to credible information from travel vloggers and other platforms and the yearning among senior citizens and families to …

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How conflicts between Governors and State governments are playing out
2 years ago

How conflicts between Governors and State governments are playing out

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 01, 2022 10:50 IST KERALA ‘First watchdog’? Khan interpreted this as an assault on national unity and claimed that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s government was “initiating a breakdown of the constitutional machinery”. Though the Governor versus State government “war” in Tamil Nadu is not a street battle as it had become in Bengal, it has the makings …

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For M Mukundan, Delhi’s scattered spaces are inspiration
3 years, 1 month ago

For M Mukundan, Delhi’s scattered spaces are inspiration

Live Mint  

I was born and raised in a village called Mayyazhi, also known as Mahé, in Puducherry. The space of this novel suggested itself from the locales occupied by such residents of Delhi. When the desire to write about hunger burgeoned in me, the first thing that came to my mind was the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun’s novel, Hunger. The German …

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Claims against The Family Man Season 2 of being 'anti-Tamil' are a farce; Raj & DK's show is true pan-Indian television
3 years, 6 months ago

Claims against The Family Man Season 2 of being 'anti-Tamil' are a farce; Raj & DK's show is true pan-Indian television

Firstpost  

Multilingual television is a step forward for Indian culture since it is an admission of the country’s cultural plurality in which the spoken language plays a key part. There is an unseemly controversy, evidently political, which is erupting, over the portrayal of Eelam Tamils in the trailer of The Family Man Season 2. I overheard a local telling another at …

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Why Kerala may not swing this time round
3 years, 8 months ago

Why Kerala may not swing this time round

Live Mint  

Earlier this summer, a diaspora Malayali travelled from Yemen to Kerala in order to campaign for his favourite communist politician, A. Pradeep Kumar, in Kozhikode. But we will not let the party be harmed in any way now.” The man represents a notable category: a large section of Malayalis who’ve been drawn into politics this election season by the prospect …

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SPB brought Tamil songs closer to Malayalis
4 years, 2 months ago

SPB brought Tamil songs closer to Malayalis

The Hindu  

Balasubrahmanyam, who died in Chennai on Friday at the age of 74, rendered over 100 songs in Malayalam, and some of them topped the charts too. It, in fact, would be no exaggeration to say that he, along with Ilaiyaraaja, the composer who worked with him most, played a big role in making Tamil songs popular with Malayalis. Instant hit …

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Pandemic dampens spirit of Onam for Malayalis in Chennai
4 years, 3 months ago

Pandemic dampens spirit of Onam for Malayalis in Chennai

Deccan Chronicle  

The pandemic and subsequent lockdowns dampened the spirit of Chennai Malayalis to celebrate the annual harvest festival Onam. The legend says Vamana, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu, sent Mahabali to netherworld by stomping on his head after he failed to provide three-feet of land to conduct Yagnya ‘We celebrate Onam this year only online’, says P.N. Usually Chennai Malayalis celebrate …

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