Thanks for this great post!
People from kerala, especially those who live and work around Trivandrum are a highly conceited lot and will avoid anything that will even remotely make themselves lose face. Im surprised that she would put herself through this,( Im sure she knows how embarrassing she sounds!).
Im what people would (derisively) refer to as a "fraud mallu" (a mallu born and raised abroad, not fluent in malayalam and non observant of many facets of kerala culture),and the 7 years that I spent in Kerala was a real eye opener into the psyche of my 'native' cousins.
I can seriously vouch for the fact that,most native born mallus, harbour a very strongly felt deep seated secret desire to be able to speak fluently in English! I say secret because, for some reason, mallus are very afraid of being caught by their fellow native born mallus for doing the same!
When I went to college, some of the worst abuses , snide remarks etc, were reserved for me, my status as a "fraud mallu" being roughly analogous to that of a Jew in Nazi Germany. But what amazed me the most was the sight, (behind closed doors, or at night), when the very same people , who took such vehement pleasure in tormenting me, would come to me literally pleading for ways to improve their English!(spoken, they didnt care shit for writing in English). They usually came alone, away from their hound-pack aggregations that mallus are notorious for, and more often than not, they came drunk.
Anyone who (even) occasionally watches mallu movies will ascribe to the fact that characters who speak english in them are often portrayed in a very (usually negative) stereotypical way. They are either shown as being the haughty "snob" distant type , or the "pseudo intellectual" type or as being the helpless , "just fresh of the boat" Non resident Keralite type , being preyed upon by his/her 'worldly wise" native cousins. There is another actor, who is probably familiar to the mallus/frauds here , famous for delivering histrionic/bombastic dialogue (Just Mind It!, Shit!) in English. Never once will you ever see people speaking normally to one another in english, except maybe a couple of lines in a few, NRI-set romance movies.
This combination of a deep seated desire to communicate effectively and fluently in English , coupled with their inability to do so, has led to a lot of these people to develop severely hypocritical views on this issue, deriding and denouncing such people in public, while secretly lamenting their weakness in private.
I used to harbor feelings of terrible hatred for these people, but the more you come to understand them, the more i feel terribly sorry for them.
A famous Indian philosopher once remarked that "Kerala is a lunatic asylum". Sure as shit, it still is. All the social problems they go through there, the alcoholism, the suicides, the sex scandals, the child molestations, etc are all indicative of the fundamental weakness inherent in the psyche of the native born mallu. Of course there are progressive mallus, even native born, who are not what I described above, but they are just a few drops in the ocean of insanity that is contemporary Kerala, and even certain types of "progressive mallus" engage in this kind of lunatic behaviour once among the hound-pack of their native cousins.
i know i'll receive a lot of hate mail and denials/rebuttals on this issue, but everything i have said is true to my knowledge, and attests to 7 years of personal experience. These observations come from a person who possesses a unique vantage point of being both an "insider" and "outsider" to contemporary Kerala society.
These beautiful ladies will be joining the teaching staff at the United Indian School. Finally, we have some hot sizzelling hot mallu aunties as teachers!
If you can't see this, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfzWhXYM8-k (my thanks to the anonymous submitter!)
Turn on your speakers! If you can't see this video, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZlGHwByoOo
Here are some pictures and sounds dedicated to the beautiful students of the United Indian School Kuwait brought to you by the UIS Blog (unitedindianschool.com)
Look here what I found! An Ajai Malhotra (His Excellency Indian Ambassador to Kuwait - Ajai Malhotra The Great) look-alike!
Don't they look like long-lost brothers?
Dipu Harilal - a mallu with a mallu accent trying to imitate the American accent....hilarious! If you can't see the video, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoS34X1Amf4
This is a reply to the lady who put up the blog – Fired for being a Goan
Let me first tell you that I am truly sorry that you had to go through such discrimination at the hands of my countrymen. I do identify with your anguish. Before you start shooting fire from your eyes let me tell you that I do not deny the characteristics you attributed to mallus in your blog. There are mallus who are vile and look out only for themselves. But just because you and your relatives came in contact with those characters does not mean all mallus are exactly the same. Yes there are many of that sort. Believe me even mallus are not spared when it comes to such treachery. My only concern with your blog is the level of generalization you go to when you say – “Whoever out there thinks malyalees are holy or hardworking people are shit-eaters.” Just because you met a couple of wrong people from a particular community does not make the whole community bad. Also the discrimination you described is something that is practiced by many communities, not just mallus. Any company that has a mafia running has such discrimination. In some it’s the pakis, in some it’s the Egyptians, so on and so forth. So highlighting a discrimination you faced as something unique to what mallus do is at best an exaggeration.
You also seem to demand some kind of loyalty from people you claim you hired despite their lack of skill or qualifications. First off, did you hire them or did the company hire them on the basis of your assessment? At best you would have been responsible for an interview with these 5 people in which you were required to provide you assessment on them. So please don’t claim that you “hired” anyone. You dint hire anyone. Your company did based on your assessment. Secondly, if you identified these 5 people as devoid of skill and qualification, why on earth did you hire them?!? Shouldn’t you be providing an accurate assessment to your company? From what you describe I can only gather that, you gave an inaccurate assessment of the people because you sympathized with them and then go on to expect them to be loyal to you.
I am sorry that you had to go through such discrimination and I hope your experiences has not left you sore and made you stereotype an entire community on the basis of the actions of some amazingly vile people. I know its been 2 years now since this blog has been up. I happened to stumble upon this blog quite recently.
To the Blogowners:
I understand the anguish you have against mallus and from your blogs I gather you have come across many unpleasant characters along the way. But do you really think the right way to go about releasing such frustration is to set up a racist blog site against mallus in the name a school? I am no fan of mallus myself, but I am dead against racism. And what your blogs promote is racial hatred. Reading your blogs were most enjoyable, but its sad to see your exceptional writing skills being wasted on spreading racial hatred.
BVG