K-for Korea
You can reach Korea by flying for half a day from India. Korea and Kerala only start with ‘ka’. Korea is conquering Kerala. BTS grew up with Saiya’s Gunnum style songs. Our new generation dreams of Korea in a frenzy through albums. Koreans are good at everything from pop music to serial beauty care. K-Pop, K-Drama, K-Beauty. But K-Rail, K-Phone etc. is another thing! Korea is the country where a North Korean school student was sentenced to 14 years in prison for watching a South Korean movie and the death penalty for bringing a copy of Squid Game. The world is talking about South Korea with admiration, not North Korea, where even Covid delayed because of the fear of the president. Gunnam-style covers YouTube with Kim Deok’s romance and natural beauty. The Korean menu features fresh live octopus on the plate. They will fit right up to the stove on the dining table. Rupa Dayabaji (female) said that Korea is also famous for plastic surgery.
‘Distress’ at Asan Memorial
Jose Panachipuram on the plight of the Chief Minister’s security arrangements for Mahakavi Kumaranashan’s 150th birth anniversary in Phudaikal.
Even the vice-chairman of the celebration committee was arrested and kept in custody at the police station to maintain law and order. This is a time of foreboding fear. Escorted by 45 police vehicles and a bullet-proof car, you have to go to the Secretariat by helicopter or drone without fear! New variants of democracy are being introduced every day. Could it be that Aasan has foresaw such future plights and named them as plights in his poem? (Manorama).
Pre-Bhagavatam songs
Nanchiamma wins the National Award for Best Female Singer with her head-scratching singing power in Attapadi, where good news is reluctant to come down from the mountain. Their song has its roots in our tribal heritage. A nation of rice and blood. Urin’s singer since the age of thirteen. Even death is a time of song for the rollers. A place where no one teaches anyone anything. Knowing everything by seeing and hearing. There is no program to call one or a few children and teach them. A song is a melody. A tune for every occasion. ‘Kalakatha sandalwood’ should be told as a joke to the baby to make it laugh. Our songs are a combination of melody and story. Our song and dance must always be here. K.C. wants the government to help keep the song down. Subyot Nanchiamma (Mother’s Week).
Festival every day
Mookambika is a great temple with festivals every day. Narasimha Adiga said that the speciality of Mukambika is the Shiveli festival three times a day, Varotsavam every Friday, Masotsavam on the full moon day, Navratri festival and Rathotsavam which is an annual festival. Mukambika is one of the Shakti Peethas among Ashtadasa main Peethas. It was given by the independent Gemini. Nowhere in the world is this special. R. said that Vidya Rambha became so important because of the matching of the three deities. Subrahmanya Adiga to Jayakrishnan (Weekend Kaumudi).
Right to Repair
The time has come to earn the right to open, repair and improve any device on your own. A statement called ‘Rite to Repair’ has been started for this purpose. These activities started in 1950 when the computer age started. But Apple has created a new kind of formula to prevent anyone else from opening the iPhone. Costs will increase if you have to go to authorized centers only. Quality will decrease. New products also have a predetermined expiry date. After that period they automatically become inactive. Sushma Vaishakatil says that companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Tesla stand for the right to repair. Our own neighborhood workshops have lay technicians waiting (discipline).
A poem that is only a daily newspaper
Some of today’s poems are just like a daily newspaper, just like a novel is only history. Because of the situation of taking a news story and turning it into a poem. Our senior poets are responsible for this. These are some of the understandings they have made. It was necessary when they started. All of them bring a social dimension to poetry when poetry has gone into a bad state. Here some people decide who is a poet and what is a poem. Ezra Pound was a megaphone for Hitler. So his poetry cannot be said to be bad. Similarly, TP asked Ghanshyam what is wrong if a poet becomes an upper caste. Rajeev (writing).
Colonial killers
Even though we are saying goodbye to the Saip neck tie, our children and school students who are dedicated to learning English have not been freed from it. Ty’s death was announced on June 27. Rammohan Paliath said in a web campaign that the heads of the US, Italy, Canada, France, England, Japan and Germany were not wearing ties when they posed for a photo at the 48th summit of the G-7 countries held in Gammisch-Patten Kirsch, Germany. But at the same ceremony last year in Cornwall, England, everyone wore ties. New Zealand political leader Raviri Waititi called Tye a colonial killer. There are those who ask what is the relevance of tike exported from the cold country of Britain in the hot countries of India and the Gulf. But it is interesting to note that Tai had great prominence in the Lok Kerala Sabha held in Thiruvananthapuram. The old saying is that you have to worry about your habits? (Mother. Week).
Anujat Sindhu Vinay Lal
Neena Attingal talks about Anujat Sindhu Vinay Lal’s ‘Enikku Uttam Enthent Karchakal’, who gained world attention with his single film ‘My Amma and Neighboring Ammas’, held in Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Kozhikode and Thrissur galleries. All the mothers in the neighborhood he saw were tired like his own mother who had worked for days on end. This film became the focus of Anujith’s attention for all housewives as it was for his own mother. What distinguished these exhibitions were the simple and subtle sketches that conveyed the views of familiarity, as opposed to the intellectual themes found in ordinary art exhibitions (Writing).
Paipra Radhakrishnan
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