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7dec2021arsenalfc · 4 years ago

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ArdraM

I'm excited for you about the fact that in Namibia, ratified ILO C190 will enter into force, on Dec 9th!

On thanksgiving evening, I listened to you speak on the Femicide from awareness to accountability global16 days campaign. After the talk/Q&A, you seemed pleasantly surprised by the attendance of a student of your mother’s; I almost unmuted for a quick Hello too, but my son was screaming, it was close to his bedtime, but here I am...

While speaking about Rashida Manjoo’s Direct Categories you mentioned about taking an intersectional approach, and highlighted a few times, the Femicide data gap on vulnerable census like Disability/Non-Binary....really this is why I had thought to listen-in to you in the first place. I liked the reverse-interesction of a Malayali person speaking, even if in passing, about the Disability/Non-binary demographic to which I belong. “ a largely invisible problem, as data on this issue is not consistently collected and remains anecdotal if it is collected at all.”

You also spoke about different actors,eg. Healthcare Sector, coming together to initiate community conversation and hold accountability before things ‘spiral out’. I used to work at Boston Medical Center, pre-emptive data is collected on the most underserved population in and around Boston, there is a Violence Intervention Advocacy Program and Community Violence Response Team as part of Public Health approach....my knowledge is entirely peripheral, but after listening to you I feel like looking it up more.

"Misogyny.Male Entitlement. Entrenched Patriarchy"... something which you rehighlighted and which I recall, along with "Recognition of this as Hate-crime". As a late-diagnosed Malayali Autistic person, I wish to share with you one of the first ever detailed reports I came across a few years ago, which gave me first glimpse on disability violence that is rarely acknowledged. It is the same report that I have been resharing ever since Hack Surveillance began, to highlight violence against autistic women.

Rarely have I anything to say on the US political scenes, but one thing I always feel indignant about is.... the press and everyone always talk about racism and minority violence all the time, but rarely is it mentioned that more than 33% of police violence are on the Disabled. The word ‘disability’ is very rarely acknowledged. //SilenceAndOmissions

You had started your talk with something about Iceland (I am blanking out), before highlighting the date Dec 6th, 1989. It's significance is now registered inside my head, thank you...plan to watch the film ‘Polytechnique’ if/when I feel ready to stomach the violence. A feedback, if you ask is...... as someone who had once tried to end life by suicide, I wish to say that, the usage 'commit suicide' is not helpful.

Maybe you don’t remember sharing your poem ‘Chemistry’ with me back in June/July...? Anyways, I bought this cool periodic table skirt for my 4yearold niece. Three years ago,when Hack-Surveillance begain in mid-June 2018, thank you for sharing the poem ‘What they did Yesterday Afternoon’ by Warsan Shire. At the time, everything was a blur for my flash-freezing brain, but three years later I still remember the words ‘ i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere’.

https://twitter.com/ardramanasi/status/1016105549480505345

https://twitter.com/ArdraManasi/status/1267995177236467712

ps. Is the Catskills among your regular-getaway-places-from-everydayNYC? I first learnt about the Catskill Mountains and its interesting Jewish-Alps history from 'The Marvelous Mrs.Maisel' TVseries. About it at one time being 'the lifeline of millions of members of the local Jewish community, the embodiment of the American Dream'...and the resort food being our Indian Coffee House equivalent sort of, with their famous beetroot-in-everything Eastern European soup culture! Have never been there nor any likely to visit, but I’m a fan of the place, thanks to Mrs.Maisel. And now you. Google says, in the 21st century it is less of a Borscht belt and more of a Buddha Belt.... this lake, what's it named?

https://twitter.com/ArdraManasi/status/1464975488020013066

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7dec2021arsenalfc · 4 years ago

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DorkBergkamp

https://twitter.com/sidin/status/1447599448658427905

Raag Bhimpalasi is in Hindustani....when it comes to Carnatic, it is ‘Abheri’. To jog memory quick..... Lalettan’s Vishnu mesmerisingly sings സ ഗ മ പ നി സാ... and PoornamViswanathan’s NRI Menon sings back സ നി ധ പ മ ഗ രി നീ സാ...and NedumudiVenu’s Adv. Kaimal goes ഓഹ് എന്നാ നോക്കാം before they all burst into the 6-minute electric നഗുമോമു ഗനലേനി in the malayalam film ചിത്രം.

So here’s a story. I began my Carnatic Music lessons while in primary school. We used to have a teacher come in during lunch break everyday. After being made to finish lunch in ten minutes, a few of us music students would be rushed to our music lessons. It was never a real Carnatic class in any sense, we were taught random songs without swara lessons or thala practice or any of the prep-rigor of regular Carnatic lesson plans. It was mostly the school management pretending to offer classical music excellence, and parents thrilled to see their wards performing as an MS or Chembai on School Annual Days!

Carnatic trainings mostly start with a sampoorna ragam like ‘Mayamalavagowla’ because it has the 3 basic intervals, also the identity of the ragam can be retained even if rendered flat without gamakas, and it’s easy to learn etc. But as a 7 year old, I started my first ever lesson with a random ragam, ‘SuddhaDhanyasi’. I still remember being enthusiastic about it all, mainly because the first line of the song I was taught had in it, my mother’s name ‘Latha’.

It goes ‘ഹിമഗിരി തനയേ ഹേമ ലതേ ...’ though only much later I learnt that in the context, the song is really about ‘Parvathy’, daughter of the mountains, which meant my first song was my namesake’s! Anyways, by then I had also learnt some proper ‘Lakshmy’ songs, as ‘Lakshmy’ is my mother’s middle name; it was never hard to find ‘Lakshmy’ songs in the Carnatic corner.

I say all this here because my first ragam can be said to be the cousin of the ragam Bhimpalasi/Abheri, a favorite with you and which according to you was invented following the peppy ‘Tu cheez badi hain mast mast’. Bhimpalasi/Abheri is often confused with SuddhaDhanyasi, the difference is that Abheri has ധ and രി in the descent while SuddhaDhanyasi is pentatonic symmetric.

A popular malayalam song around SuddhaDhanyasi is in the malayalam film അധിപൻ where Lalettan’s Adv.Shyam is mesmerised by Parvathy’s DoordarshansingerRadhika going

നിസ ഗസ നിസ ഗസ നിസ ഗസ നിസ ഗസ പ സഗ മഗ സഗ മഗ സഗ മഗ സഗ മഗ സ സനിപ നിപമ സനിപ നിപമ സനി ധസ മഗ പമ നിപ സനി ഗനിസ പനിസ നിസഗ സഗമ ഗമപ മപനി പനിസ നിസഗ സസഗ മപ നിപ മപ സഗ മപ നിപ മപ

before the most lovely pallavi ശ്യാമമേഘമേ നീ. Music is by Samuel Joseph who was renamed ‘Shyam’ by maestro MS Viswanathan.

ps. All the ragam talk aside, I do not know how much you have listend to the popular ‘Delilah’ song by Plain White Ts, but bet you haven’t come across the girls' version of it, this singer rewrote the original lyrics, changed the perspective, and still managed to keep it good, so even if you have listened to it before, let’s listen again for creativity everywhere....and also for your mother ‘Delilah’.

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7dec2021arsenalfc · 4 years ago

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TribalChief

https://twitter.com/chief_tribal/status/1203000847329660929

https://twitter.com/chief_tribal/status/938598585058320385

There was a FaceBook post by the Hacker on campus killings in Kerala that had me wondering if, the unnamed star in the post marked around the year 1977, was G. Bhuvaneswaran. Which then led me to your tweets back in March. I do not know what it is with you and martyrs in general, but I am convinced that, among other things, you must be the twitter patronsaint of martrys. Not just Com. Bhuvaneswaran. Com. Sandeep, Com. Siyad, Com. Haq Mohammed, Com. Mithilaj, Com. Abhimanyu, Com. Abhimanyu again, Com. Pushpan, Koothuparamba martrys, Kolar Gold Field martrys, Kayyur Martyrs, ThalasseryRiot martyrs, BabriMasjidRiot martyrs....

In 1977, when Bhuvaneswaran died, AK Anthony was chief minister; though KKarunakaran had become CM in the ‘77 elections post Emergency, he had had to resign bcoz of the Rajan case during his prior HomeMinistership. I learnt this as I was trying to get to know a little more about Bhuvaneswaran-and-the-world-at-large then. I was born in MGR’s Tamilnadu 7 years later, and by then in Kerala KKarunakaran was back at being CM. Three more decades, and it's now when Pinarayi is CM in 2021 that Bhuvaneswaran comes into my life, 40+ years after his death. Back in August, around Onam, I had mentioned that it was MagicalRealism...making a Hammer-Sickle-Star pookkalam by the water for him. I won't be hurt if you don't remember this, it has all been a personal experience only for me. I'm aware that you are busy tweeting like this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this.

Still felt like sharing the following with you here...

Magical Realism is not actively believing in anything otherworldly, rather, an absence of disbelief.

“The term originally was coined in 1920's by German art critic Franz Roh. The magical realism we know today is rooted in its political origins: a tool responding to the marginalisation of Global South territories at the hands of colonial empires. It is the previously shunned voice of the subaltern, drawing on traditional religions, mythologies and spirituality to provide rich and intricate narratives.The acceptance of these supernatural elements is an important assertion of their value, given their lack of legitimacy in the eyes of conventional Western intellectual and theological traditions. There is an undeniable power in novels with global acclaim that unreservedly normalise mystical interpretations of history, and of life itself." //Magical Realism as Social Protest

"Magical realist literature emphasises the validity and universal value present in cultural understandings and memories rather than the ‘rationality’ of archival documents. It might be an asset we can use to imagine a better future, to learn about situations not too dissimilar from our own, and to carry the courage it inspires into our daily lives and political involvement." //Magical Realism as Political Activism

Google informed that there is a book 'Magical Marxism' out there. This new finding then sent me down a rabbit hole and made me listen to an interesting talk 'On Magical Communism' by the University of the Underground : "Is there a space in communism for the esoteric?" They proceed to find out by examining the communist Soviet, and talk about a documentary film Seven steps beyond the Horizon(1968), then Brezhnev's spirituality....the conversation spirals and for lack of time, stops with urban farming in Detroit. I think it piques our interests just enough toward further learning.

ps. Q: ‘Which is an account you started following in 2021 for the first time, and will recommend to everyone else?’ A: ‘TribalChief’.

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7dec2021arsenalfc · 4 years ago

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MalluComrade

We used to live in an apartment building across from Swati Tirunal Music College in Thiruvananthapuram. Naturally, Navaratri meant default-listening to ST’s Navaratri kritis. My sister and I now carry forward this tradition with our children.

This past Navaratri on Ashtami, I learnt from you that it was Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s birthday as well. So instead of Devi Kritis, started playing NFAK’s qawwalis. There were mainly 3 Kritis which I repeat-played to my son and for every Kriti there was a Qawwali.

1. Devi Jagat Janani (Swati Tirunal) followed by Yeh Jo Halka Halka Suroor Hain (Ustad NFAK)

2. Pahi Mam Vageeswari (Swati Tirunal) followed by Mera Piya Ghar Aaya (Ustad NFAK)

3. Pahi Parvata Nandini (Swati Tirunal) followed by Dum Mast Kalandar (Ustad NFAK)

From here on, all our Navaratris will be NFAK-flavored, entirely thanks to you! This matters especially because my niece is growing up in North India. Unlike in Kerala, there is not going to be much of a secular upbringing on the cards there. Following fresh Navaratri violence on the Muslim population this time around, you had frustrated-requested to all your followers, to please ensure that at least the next generation is brought up mindfully. So, just wanted to let you know that because of you, a 4 year old and a 1 year old will be forced for life to sing DeviKriti-Qawwali combo every Navaratri season as part of Inclusivity-Equity. രണ്ട് അണ്ണാൻകുഞ്ഞുങ്ങളും തന്നാൽ ആവത്!

https://twitter.com/mallucomrade/status/1448229276889718784

https://twitter.com/mallucomrade/status/1450792011129257998

Back in July, around the time ‘Malik’ malayalam movie was released, you definitely wouldn’t remember, but we had minor exchanges around Anwar Ali’s lyrics, mainly on how it was tough to sing this song compared to the far easier 6-വരി viral song ‘Raheemun Aleemun’ in the lovely voice of Hida Chokkad.

In particular, Sameer Binsi’s words Assayrulil Haqqi Fi Sayyri Habeeba (Translation: the journey to the Truth is the beloved walk) had made us all smile then.

All this had made me listen to more, and I discovered this beautiful Naat. Did you know Naat is song in praise of Muhammad, while Hamd is in praise of Allah? I didn't.

Most likely you already know this since it is a popular മാപ്പിളപാട്ട് , have been listening to different versions of it over these past months, do you have a pick?

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QPnYsoCG34 (Music MSBaburaj, Singers: P Susheela, Jikki Movie: Subaida(1965))

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksWghdWHjn0 (Music: MKArjunana, Singers: KJ Yesudas& co Movie: Adimachangala(1981))

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOvIa2Mv2e4 (Music:JamesVasanth Singer: Vilayil Faseela Movie: Pareeth Pandari (2017))

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TprdHpSR8sM (Ayesha Basith)

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtEKXRs_xac (Huda Sisters)

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH8L6PVXX5Y (Ertugrul Ghazi)

7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3WfvLJ6p3k (A R Rahman)

ps. “Hassan ibn Tabat was famous for his poetry that defended Muhammad in response to rival poets who attacked him and his religion. Therefore, Hassan is known as the first sana-khawaan (naʽat reciter) of that time. After that many a poet followed this trend and totally dedicated themselves towards writing of naʽats.”

https://twitter.com/mallucomrade/status/1327318772626071552

https://twitter.com/mallucomrade/status/1386926507973509120

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7dec2021arsenalfc · 4 years ago

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Advaid

https://twitter.com/Advaidism/status/1154962430532808705

https://twitter.com/Advaidism/status/1448689376402153482

https://twitter.com/Advaidism/status/1134133924618096640

Vladivostok (Trans–Siberian Rail), MachuPichu(Peru), Isfahan (Iran), Barcelona (Spain), Turkey/Japan/Egypt/Germany. Are there reasons for why you wish to go to these places in particular, or is it just like that? Because you are such a huge fan of Tintin, Advaid,where is Brussels on your list? Go to Brussels, and on the way back, maybe visit Boston too.....?

ps. Got the Illustrated Young Readers' edition of Tim Marshall's 'Prisoners of Geography' for my 1yearold. I too read Geopolitics to babies at bedtime, yes!

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7dec2021arsenalfc · 4 years ago

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അർജുൻBro

https://twitter.com/aju000/status/1461662817279299593

That photo of Com.Abdulla at Muzhapilangad Drive-in Beach which you shared following the FarmBill repeal news..... never knew there were Hammer-Sickle-Stars on Kerala beaches. :)

Your recent exchanges with Sanghedkarites(in your words) made me ROFL https://twitter.com/aju000/status/1462391884270039044

Since I’m mostly politically ignoramus, Ambedkar’s views on Moplah Rebellion, Hindi etc. were new to me, thank you for educating me through your tweets. You made me want to read velivada.com more often too.

You had tweeted... “We began our revolution, we are ruling the state with highest social development indices. The question is did islamophobic Ambedkarite boys club figure out how to do anything apart from being keyboard warriors? “

No, you did not ask... but I feel that usage of ‘keyboard warriors’ as a derogatory term is uncalled for. I may be speaking out of context here, but for some... they may only have the keyboard as a channel for political activism, they may not have any other accessible framework in the first place, to bring about systemic changes etc. Even otherwise, Ambedkarites have been historically more persecuted than everyone else, so (Savarna) communists especially owe it to not indulge in pseudo-challenging, knowing very well that it’s not a fair challenge. It doesn’t matter if there are a few rogue ‘Sanghedkarites’ out there, think its still unfair to normalize the ‘Sanghedkarites’ usage...even when 'Savarna communists’ is normalized-derogatory!

ആരും ചോദിക്കാതെ തന്നെ, വെറുതെ ഒരു അഭിപ്രായം പറഞ്ഞെന്നേയുള്ളൂ കേട്ടോ...സ്ഥലത്തെപ്രധാന Sanghedkarites-നോട്, വീറോടെ വാശിയോടെ തുടർന്നും പൊരുതുവാൻ communistBro ആയ അർജുൻBroയ്ക്ക് ഹൃദയാശംസകൾ! https://twitter.com/aju000/status/1461601337217458177

Around two weeks ago, you had retweeted Arsenal WomenFC. https://twitter.com/ArsenalWFC/status/1461299802256429060

I had mostly always known that you are a Miedema admirer, but this piqued my interest too. And so when the other day I started to play around with Tableau Public free software, as part of their MakeoverMonday community project there was this ArsenalFC stats from 2018/2019 season lying around, and I used that to make my first ever Dataviz attempt. Then thought of you and Miedema, tweaked all the data w.r.t. Arsenal WomenFC players, to create this Dataviz dashboard to share with you. Couldn’t download 2021-22 season data for Arsenal Women, but what do you think?

Please use a desktop or laptop and view only in full screen. And If you click on a Arsenal WomenFC player, their country and metric stats come up. Also, I have added Amrutha Aravind, current head coach of Kerala State Women’s League. And, Jess Bhamra, the heroine of the football film ‘Bend it like Beckham’. So yes, its mostly imaginary data in there, with barely any accuracy. But do take a look sometime.

ps. Hope your cat, the-only-person-who-parties-in-Palakkad-after-10pm, is doing fine.

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7dec2021arsenalfc · 4 years ago

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AryaStark

https://twitter.com/aryaprakash/status/1459563829428469761

ഇത് കൊള്ളാല്ലോ videon.

During pregnancy, I started watching the adult-animation ‘Undone’ mainly because of Rosa Salazar, who had starred as ‘Alita’ in the cyberpunk action film. ‘Undone’ is also a sisters-story in sci-fi, so didn’t need any further reason to try.

Only after reading your Bojack tweet last month, I discovered that 'Undone' creators are the same ones behind your ‘Bojack Horseman’!!!

Looks like after making a splash with Bojack and it becoming a little bit of cultural cache, the creators...instead of prepping for their major mainstream blockbuster, went in the opposite direction and were like What if we went even weirder? what if we went even more mindbending now that we have this opportunity?

Like BoJack Horseman, Undone deals with complex depictions of mental health and psychological trauma...stings you with the same kind of uncomfortable truths in its melancholy portrait of millennial ennui. Bob-Waksberg says that BoJack taught him about pacing and gave the confidence on how deep he could dive into darker, more off-beat stories, which he has put to the test with Undone. AryaStark... I wonder what are your thoughts about these following Bojack episodes? Undone’s Kate Purdy wrote them.

Downer Ending (Season 1). Best Thing That Ever Happened (Season 3). The Old Sugarman Place (Season 4). Time's Arrow (Season 4). The Lightbulb Scene (Season 5).

"Purdy is responsible for some of BoJack’s most beloved episodes, including “Time’s Arrow,” which explores BoJack’s mother’s battle with dementia. But Bob-Waksberg points to another of her episodes, season 1’s drug-trip spectacle 'Downer Ending', as the starting point for Undone." “Raphael and I had so much fun doing that together, afterwards I was really honored he approached me and said we should do a show together that sort of starts from this place. Instead of it being the 11th episode, what if this was one of the first episodes of the season?”

"Bojack Horseman and Undone are two shows that depart radically from the traditional tone and subject matter of animated shows. Why do you think this shift is happening?

Bob-Waksberg: I don’t think animation is unique in that way. I think that’s just true of TV in general in every genre. There’s a widening of an idea of what a TV show can be or how it can be told, and that’s partially in the diversity of the creators and the stories. Because there are so many new networks and streaming services popping up every day that need more content, there are more opportunities to take risks."

II.

Back in September, we had a brief exchange following your tweet. https://twitter.com/aryaprakash/status/1441084121057427462

Around the time, I happened to be reading the book ' A Swim in the Pond in the Rain: in which four russians give a master class on Writing, Reading, and Life', and one of the stories they explore is 'In the cart' by Chekhov, and the protagonist Marya Vasileyvna reminded me of you.

Because Marya is a teacher too, and the lines Chekhov writes about her had made me smile at the time asI felt Marya was you: "She had felt no call to be a teacher; want had forced her to be one. Teachers, struggling with their heavy labors, have not even the consolation of thinking that they are advancing an ideal, and helping mankind. Their life is tedious and hard. Only those stand it for any length of time who are silent beasts of burden, like Marya Vasileyvna. Those who are sensitive and impetuous, and who talk of their mission in life and of advancing a great ideal, soon become exhausted and give up the fight."

Or maybe I felt that way only because Marya = (m)Arya. Either ways, will always be happy to be eyerolled at!

III.

I follow DisabilityTwitter in the UK a lot, they seem to be way ahead than everyone else in the space. I came across a research project 'Autism through Cinema' that explores how autism can transform the cinema and its reliance on normative codes of body language and social interaction... thought to share with you as you are a Film Studies scholar.

It had me wonder..... AryaStark talks a lot about നിവിമ്പോളി, has she watched his film 'Hey Jude'? Is there a review by you, please share if there is one. Just like how you call out patriarchy in Malayalam films, is there anyone who calls out misguided disability portrayal in Malayalam films? Would love to read them, disability is not to remain some niche intersection for niche consumption... the diversity of gender, race, caste,class,disability, it is all to remain everyone's all-time struggles! Right?

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7dec2021arsenalfc · 4 years ago

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3rd HackAnniversary തുടർന്നുവന്ന ഓണം, ജീവിതത്തിൽ ഭുവനേശ്വരൻ വന്നുചേർന്ന ഓണം. #MagicalRealism

Following Hack Surveillance(midJun2018-), I am starting ‘Waterlog’ from today on my profile. Every week, I shall share water stories from around central Kerala here. And just like on a blackboard, wipe clean and start afresh the next week. Because it will just be like writing on water. Please do check twitter.com/brainfrozt_ once in a while, for random water stories from around central Kerala. If it is a slow newsweek, then random snippets about the place.

I wish to share this with you here hoping you remain curious about central Kerala islands too. Probably you already know a lot, or maybe not.

Vypin Folklore Fest organized in coordination with Kerala Folklore Academy is going on from Dec 1- Dec 31. A highlight will be a 25-km graffiti, which could be the biggest in Kerala. It will be painted on 75 walls in the region, in tandem with the 75th year of Indian Independence, and will comprise representations of local themes and cultural heritage. The festival was inaugurated at Illathupadi near Edavanakkad.

The occasion will also see portraits being readied of people from Vypin who played a role in Kerala’s Renaissance movement. Few people know that the march taken out in connection with the Paliyam Satyagraha, the first post-independence satyagraha in Kerala, began from Vypin.

Over the year I have been learning little things about the Greater Kochi Islands. Only last month I came to know that NSM’s Jessica (ലന്തൻബത്തേരിയിലെ ലുത്തിനിയാകൾ) was born in Vypin, I haven’t read the novel yet. Did you know that when Communist Party was banned at one time, they used to rebel-stage നിങ്ങളെന്നെ കമ്മ്യൂണിസ്റ്റാക്കി around Kadamakkudy? Malayalam Literature stalwarts സെബീന റാഫി പോഞ്ഞിക്കര റാഫി were from around too. I didn’t know this either before.

Recently, there was a plaque installation at Edavanakkad Juma Masjid as protest against ICHR proposal of deletion of names of Moplah rebellion martyrs from the Dictionary of Martrys: Indian Freedom Struggle. Names of all 387 martrys will be engraved on plaques and installed in 16 mosques affiliated to the Vypeen zonal committee of the Ernakulam District Muslim Jamaat Council.

The Grassroute community in Nayarambalam panchayat did an experimental project last month planting 20 mangrove saplings that are six-month-old each, parallel to the seawall at the northern border of Nayarambalam beach. Since they are only capable of thriving in saline marshes, the members set up an artificial habitat on the beach sand for them to flourish. If a positive result comes out of it, instead of demolishing the Western Ghats and building seawalls, stronger and sustainable biological seawalls can be grown along the entire coast of Kerala, they say!

‘Squid Game’ Episode 6 Gganbu-ഇൽ contestant no.67 പറയുന്നുണ്ട് ഒരാഗ്രഹം ജേജുദ്വീപ്-ഇൽ പോകണമെന്നതാണെന്ന്. കാരണം ആദ്യംകണ്ടപ്പോൾ അത് കൊറിയയിൽ ആണെന്ന് വിശ്വസിക്കാൻ കഴിഞ്ഞില്ല അവർക്ക്! അത് തന്നെയാണ് വൈപ്പിൻകര ആദ്യമായി കണ്ടപ്പോൾ എനിക്ക് തോന്നിയത്.

ഞാൻ ജനിച്ചത് തമിഴ്‌നാട്ടിൽ, കന്യാകുമാരി ജില്ല. കേരളത്തിൽ ആദ്യം ജീവിച്ചുതുടങ്ങിയത് തിരുവനന്തപുരത്തു, ചാലയിൽ. സ്കൂളിൽ പോകാൻ തുടങ്ങിയത് കോട്ടയം, തുടർന്ന് ആലപ്പുഴ, തിരിച്ച്‌ തിരുവനന്തപുരം. പ്ലസ് ടു പൂർത്തിയാക്കി ആദ്യമായി വീട്ടിൽ നിന്ന് മാറി കോളേജ് ഹോസ്റ്റലിൽ താമസിച്ച്‌ പഠിച്ചത് എറണാകുളത്ത്. ജോലി ചെയ്തു തുടങ്ങിയത് മൈസൂർകർണാടകത്ത് ഒരുഹോസ്റ്റലിൽ നിന്ന്, പിന്നീട് തിരിച്ച്‌ തിരുവനന്തപുരത്ത് വീട്ടിൽ നിന്ന്. late 2000sഇൽ ആണ് വീട്ടുകാരിൽ നിന്ന് പൂർണമായുംവിട്ട്, കേരളംവിട്ട്, ഇപ്പോഴുള്ള quasiപ്രവാസി ജീവിതം തുടങ്ങിയത്.

ഇത്ര വളച്ചു കെട്ടി പറയാനുദ്ദേശിക്കുന്നത്…. കേരളത്തിലാണ് ജീവിതgraph ഒട്ടുക്കാകിലും എനിക്കാനാട് ഒട്ടും തന്നെ പരിചയമില്ല! ഞാൻ late-diagnosed Autistic person ആണ്. copingmechanisms ഒന്നും അറിയാതെ accomodations ലഭിക്കാതെ സമൂഹത്തിൽ നിന്നും കഴിവതും ഒഴിഞ്ഞുമാറിയാണ് ജീവിച്ചിരുന്നത്. Invisible Disability is what made it thus, not anything else… my sister or my mother was never confined to the metophorical അടുക്കള the way I seemed to be. They are totally today’s conventional women, having mostly always lived, well-adjusted to and quite immersed in the world around, whenever whereever.

I had once written back in April…

“എന്റെ അമ്മ ജനിച്ചത് ആലുവയിലാണ് എന്നാണെന്റെ ഓർമ. ഞാനും എന്റെ അനുജത്തിയും ആദ്യമായി വീട്ടിൽ നിന്ന് മാറി, UndergradHostelഇൽ താമസിച്ചു ആദ്യമായ് ഇത്തിരിയെങ്കിലും, ഒരു പൊടിക്കെങ്കിലും, സാധാരണക്കാരൻ-സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യം മണത്തറിഞ്ഞത് (കാര്യമായി അനുഭവിച്ചിട്ടില്ലെങ്കിലും…നമ്മുടെ ശരണലോകങ്ങൾ എല്ലായിടങ്ങളിലും Libraryകൾ മാത്രം #NoCountryForAutWomen) എറണാകുളം ജില്ലയിലാണ്. ” “എറണാകുളത്ത് കോളേജ് കാലത്ത് ഹോസ്റ്റലിൽ വെള്ളക്ഷാമം ഉണ്ടായിരുന്നപ്പോളൊക്കെ വൈപ്പിൻഐലൻഡിൽ പോയി താമസിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. അവിടെഏതു ടൗണിലാണെന്ന് ഓർമയില്ല. I was too inside my head then, overprotected by hostelmates, and all I remember is seeing Dolphins from the Ferry. lately, have been reading up on the island,surroundings, people, life and sea. also, electoral politics. everyone in our lives seems to have always been thinking in KeralaThis,KeralaThat. looks like finally I am microscoping in on Kerala too. നമുക്ക് ഇഷ്ടംതോന്നുന്നഇടമല്ലേ നമുക്ക് hometown? നാഴിയിടങ്ങഴി കടലോരം!ps.വൈപ്പിൻകര 1341ഇലെ വെള്ളപൊക്കത്തിലുണ്ടായതെന്ന് ചരിത്രം.“ "And I don’t need to zone out on all things KeralaNostalgiaമാങ്ങാത്തൊലി from here on, as I begin to feel like I have a space in Kerala too, like everyone else! :)”

I rarely engage on social media, unlike you. I know you are mostly amidst a variety of people on social media, a variety of interactions happen for you on social media, I do not even know if you are reading this, you must be occupied with something important in your life, or something important happening on Malayalam twitter or pan Indian twitter or World twitter.

Not me though. Before Hack Surveillance began in mid-June 2018, I rarely engaged with anyone, now it’s all irriversably changed... Hack Surveillance is to be the most complicated thing in my life after my parents. And if not for it, how would ArsenalFC have happened?!

Thank you ArsenalFC friends, just in case you feel like looking me up, I will be here, maybe shall tag you at random too, like how everyone attempts to communicate on social media.

Here’s to us, hopefully living quiet uneventful lives, as സാധാരണക്കാർ of Kerala.

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