This is the beginning of a glorious race in India. I should state the origin (old people say) and a brief history of mallu civilization. (I should do it fast, because people started saying the world is going to end by 21st December, 2012. (Hollywood movie effect). But my hidden agenda is to become a historian. Who knows what happens to this tiny peace of land, if the world crashes one day? The next creation of God (If at all He commits an error again) should know how their ancestors once lived. (This is my open agenda). You know this mallu land has another name. (For the sake of tourism development, we ourselves named our tiny piece of land). It is known as the “God’s own country”. If someone asks me to support my claim that it is a land of God, I should admit that I have no answer. After all, how does the land of God look like? God’s land is an imaginary world, or rather creation of our minds with all the virtues and no vices. I don’t think we can find toddy shops and brandy shops in every nook and corner of God’s land. I don’t think I can find politicians going for opponents throats for a piece of power in God’s land. I don’t think I can see hartals and bandhs in God’s land. So, our claim that it is God’s land is without any substance. I have put down only three examples. However, my aim is not to tarnish the name of my state. It is better than many other states in our great country in many aspects. So, we say it is God’s own land.
What is the history of mallu world? They say, a sage named Parasuraman, once threw his holy axe into the sea, and the sea backed off till the point where the axe landed, and this landmass was created. Of course, Parasuraman was not simply a muni (sage), he must have possessed enormous physical strength to throw the axe to such a distance. Who bothers? Anyhow, the land is created. Mind you, there is no place for logical thoughts in mallu world. Others say, we are a race with lots of political consciousness. I beg to differ. If bandhs and hartals for even simple reasons is the criteria for measuring one’s political consciousness, yes we are, but I don’t that is the parameter for being politically conscious citizens. And this land was created. Then what happened. Nothing! Literally nothing.
03 December 2009
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