This Mother's Day fell on a Sunday

 This Sunday I had this urge to go to Church. It is not a easy thing as I have to drive 80 kms and back. But I decided to honour this urge and drive on. On the way while listening to the stereo and in the Church, I don't know why the prayers to Mother Mary kept touching a chord. 

I am not a person who worships Mary, but belong to the denomination that respects her. Later in the day I learnt that it was the Mother's Day. Day where mothers and their role are celebrated

There is no better icon for a Mother's Day than Mary. Deeply misunderstood in her times, got pregnant before she was married and that too in a patriarchal society. She was nearly abandoned and then had to flee her country, gave birth , alone and in a  cattle shed. Had to see her son drawing ire of the establishment and then get killed at 33. She is still despised by her own sect, the Jews

Can we see a better example

One-Five years

  Only when I opened my email yesterday did I realize that I had completed 15 years in this humungous organisation

And maybe it takes quite a while to realize that you have ended up in the wrong place and you have sunk too deep to get out.

And the reason I opened my email was to send out a complaint against a branch in my own organisation who refused to open a account. The people around are changing so fast, and you are stuck up as a fossil

Big Boss Malayalam- A cultivation ground for BJP?

 This election season comes up with some very interesting picture in the demography of Kerala politics

Bit UDF and LDF barely fields one or two celebrity candidates where as BJP easily comes up with many

Even interesting scenario is most of these candidates shot to frame or came to limelight after their tenure in Malayalam TV program Big Boss. Now it goes without saying the program is hosted in Asianet which is owned by BJP state president Rajeev Chandrashekhar

So the question is - Is Big Boss a fertilizing ground for BJP agenda? If you look at the last few seasons, they put in In-your-face contestants with toxic outlook versus people with a 'privileged-liberal' outlook (aka LGBTQ) . There is toxicity on both sides of the court and they are packaged to family audiences as 'game-plan'

I know people as in men and women irrespective of age sitting late into night watching the show. The juicy bits are cut short and packaged as reels the next day. There are fan fights and debates and 'armies'.

In the end only right wing fascist content prevails

MOVIE REVIEW- വിവേകാനന്ദൻ വയറലാണ്

 ഒരു കാലഹരണപ്പെട്ട സംവിധായകൻ viral ആകാൻ ശ്രമിച്ച പടം

The faultline of scripts of the so called ‘golden age’ of Malayalam cinema was that they could not treat the problems faced by a group of individuals or a society. The story was always about an individual and how he dealt with the problems

കഥ പറചലിൻ്റെ രീതി മാറിയപ്പോ ഇവരൊക്കെ പകച്ചു പോയി എന്ന് പറയുന്നത് ആവും ശരി 

തൻ്റെ ഭാര്യയെയും , live in partner എയും പീഡിപ്പിച്ചു സുഖം നേടി ജീവിച്ചു പോകുന്ന ഒരു സാധാരണ സർകാർ ഉദ്യോഗസ്ഥന് ആണ് വിവേകാനന്ദൻ. ഇങ്ങനെ സഹികെട്ട ഈ  3 സ്ത്രീകൾ കണ്ട്പിടിക്കുന്ന വിചിത്രമായ പോംവഴിയാണ് കഥയുടെ ബാക്കി ഭാഗം.

എന്തായാലും കുറചു കഴിയുമ്പോ എന്ത് ചെയ്യേണം എന്ന് ഈ സ്ത്രീകൾക്കൊ നാട്ടുകാർക്കൊ സംവിധായകനോ അറിയാതെ പോവുകയും, ഇതിൽ നിന്ന് എല്ലാവരെയം നമ്മൾ കാണികളെയും രക്ഷിക്കാൻ വിവേകിൻ്റെ അച്ഛൻ തൻ്റെ പഴയ setup നെ വിളിച്ചു കൊണ്ട് വന്നു moral of the story പറഞ്ഞു ഈ പരാക്രമം അവസാനിപ്പിക്കുന്നു.

Nirbhaya or Without Fear

Over the years the rape and abuse cases in India (irrespective of geography ) have increased and what would be the reason

1. Commodification and overt sexualisation- Women have become a product to be sold and utilised. The alarming trend is today the commodification has lowered its age limit. Post Covid and influx of social media is now showing very young woman sexualising themselves. Unfortunately, revenue generated is normalising and even glorifying sexual perversion. A few days ago a girl as yound as 12-13 was selling an ointment which would remove dark spots under armpit. I am not taking sides, but we should have a serious thought on where we are heading.

2. Our mythology and religious texts which define our society has set a clear hegemony in terms of caste and gender. The reading of our religious texts haven't evolved but has gone backwards over the year. Glorifying the caste dynamics or even supressing women has impacted our thought processin a very evil way

Confining women to motherhood or and then gloorifying and sanctifying repression should not work in a modern society. So deep insode a man , a woman who moves out of these confines have to be disciplined and abuse becomes normalised

Even now the public 'feelings' or reactions to a rape are largely dependent on the social status of the accused and 'aukat' of the prepetrator

Where are our teachers

As we debate on the gruesome death of a student, unfortunately the debate goes off to politics and upcoming elections

But here are a few things we have to answer

Where are our teachers? We have one of themost developed education system, with highly payed teachers. But where are they?

Do they know their students? Are they able to stimulate them?

Learning frpm the pigs

My friend who was married off to a rich family, just after high school. She is now a proud mother of three, planning to marry off her daughter as soon as she turns 18. But I believe they’re liberal as per their standards. And I think so because thkids wear their headgear rolled up like a turban and she reposts ‘wailing Palestinian kids’ in her instagram story every other day.

Last day she puts up a post on how ‘not only pigs are unhealthy to eat but also people eating people get certain straits of pigs’. 

I asked her if her post was based on some scientific stidies?

‘But don’t your Bible says so?’

‘Every Semitic religion says the same things. It was based on the knowledge the people had at that time. Today we know pigs is healthy as any other food.’

Eating or wearing something based on you stupid belief is your choice. But claiming exclusivity and judging people who think differently based on your belief system is ridiculous

No religious text is a carta blanc. It should be treated as a point of reference