October 31, 2024ByAnn MorganinBook of the month,Europe,Post-world,The storiesTags:Belgium,book review,books,culture,David Van Reybrouck,Dutch,Flemish,Hugo Claus,translation8 Comments A few weeks ago, I found myself having lunch next to the Belgian authorDavid Van Reybrouck. We were in the wr...
On this blessed strip of coast where Malayalam is spoken, the flesh and bones of his ancestors have leached into the soil, made their way into the trees, into the iridescent plumage of the parrots on swaying branches, and dispersed themselves into the breeze. The story itself moves at a ...
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Lakshadweep, meaning 'a hundred thousand islands' in Malayalam, is a group of breathtakingly beautiful coral islands in the Arabian Sea, off the western coast of India. This Union Territory is the smallest in terms of both area and population, but it stands as a gem in the Indian Ocean, ...
Language and word play are central. Although writing in English, Unnikrishnan folds terms from tongues including Arabic and Malayalam, as well as a wide array of references (everything fromFawlty Towersto theRamayana), into the text. In so doing, he creates a series of idiolects informed by...
1. Does Velir mean white. In Malayalam vella means white. 2. If Vellalas are are velir, then they are white. And since Agastya first brought the Vellala person to the south it is possible that he was also white. 3. Which means the Vellalas are also white and therefore are Indo Aryan...
I was also delighted to chair a session with prolific Malayalam author Benyamin, whose Goat Days (translated by Joseph Koyippally) is set to be a major film, and to speak to Goan author Damodar Mauzo, who writes in Konkani, the only language to appear in five different scripts. A winne...
‘Vishu’ in Sanskrit means ‘equal’ or when day becomes equal to night, possibly denoting the equinox when this festival originated. The Malayalam New year as per solar calendar is celebrated around 14th or 15th of April every year. The first of day of Malayalam year (as per older traditi...
has now found place in an upcoming Malayalam film, Sudani from Nigeria. The trailer for the film was released on Saturday. Starring actor-directorSoubin Shahirand African actorSamuel Abiola Robinson, the film is about a football player from Nigeria, who joins a football club in Malappuram fo...
In those desperate times, the Staff did not hide or flee but chose to become protectors of the guests and lead them to safety. Plausible. A more reverberating explanation was that because of their humane culture, the Tata Companies evoked a deep sense of loyalty and responsibility from their ...