tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440341513810099821.post2261028899902838196..comments2024-03-06T02:14:31.192-08:00Comments on മലയാളവേദി കോട്ടയം: മലയാളവേദിക്ക് ചെന്നൈയിലെ ഭാഷാസ്നേഹികളുടെ ഐക്യദാര്ഢ്യം: ചെന്നൈയില് ചേര്ന്ന യോഗം വിദ്യാഭ്യാസമന്ത്രിക്കു നല്കുന്ന നിവേദനംമനോജ് കുറൂര്http://www.blogger.com/profile/14574430239097887833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440341513810099821.post-4358966569311014742009-05-18T23:19:00.000-07:002009-05-18T23:19:00.000-07:00This comment was actually posted some time ago but...This comment was actually posted some time ago but somehow I find it had failed to reach the site.( Instead, it came to my blog!!<br />Perhaps I need to be more literate not just in the matter of posting comments in Malayalam but in the exercise of blogging itself.<br />Please excuse me:-<br /><br /><br />Malayalam - a language spoken by 30-35 million people (about 0.5- 0.6<br />percent of all living humans!)- certainly needs to be "protected"!<br />At the same time, it also needs to be unshackled of its narcissistic<br />fetishism; you will certainly and most naturally like to communicate<br />with other Malayalees ; but your editor is more likely to decide that<br />"this kind of stuff(often a translation, or any original text<br />comprising a particular political theme or an idea rarely discussed in<br />the mainstream Malayam socio-political and cultural space)will not<br />suit the taste of our readers".<br />I am afraid dearth of creativity itself, or language per se is not<br />the problem rather than the extremely debilitating habit of not<br />looking around and relocating ourselves vis a vis the rest of humans.<br />As we prepare to fight against newer forms of onslaughts on our<br />language, we owe a concurrent commitment to radicalize it by attempts<br />in democratizing, de-gendering,<br />de-patriarchalizing , de-casting /de-brahmanizing the language.<br />For example, we are still able to cling on to cliches like<br />"agolavalkkaranathinte chathikkuzhikal"as evidenced by the Women's<br />Commission's advertisement on March 08 suggesting women and girls ways<br />to defend themselves against "peedanam" : virtually to shun public<br />places, keep out of the range of hostile mobile phones (as they would<br />be photographed and ultimately end up as victims of some sex racket)<br />keeping out of the range of cyber crimes by avoiding chats,etc through<br />the internet and so on. Surprisingly but quite understandably from the<br />Malayalee/Kerala background of common sense, it invokes hardly any<br />idea of resistence by the women either collectively or as ndividuals.<br />We look as though more than complacent with our language and culture<br />and apparently don't want to instil dynamism in the language..why else<br />we continue to buy the drab stories and features of these mainstream<br />Malayalam newspapers and journals without any questions? Don't we<br />realize that by employing a feudal,patriarchal and brahmanical<br />vocabulary ostensibly catering to the peoples' tastes they often<br />literally "cover" events, rather than speak truth? It is probable that<br />many of us no longer want to move ahead of the little circles of<br />professions,peculiar ways of realpolitik-ing , family gatherings,so on and so forth.Kmvenuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04074009924275249249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1440341513810099821.post-13577940741878280782009-04-30T11:23:00.000-07:002009-04-30T11:23:00.000-07:00Being the first malayalam news paper run by Arabs,...Being the first malayalam news paper run by Arabs,Our (Malayalam news daily) support is guaranteed.<br />Rgds<br />Hassankoyaമനോജ് കുറൂര്https://www.blogger.com/profile/14574430239097887833noreply@blogger.com