Digital World of Osama Manzar and Ad Lib by Ambi M.G. Parameswaran in Mint are worth morning reads. Digital change in villages and Ambi on Malayalam film, How old are you. Have seen the film but never got the subtlities Ambi finds. That's why Ambi is where he is and me where me is. 'Getting back to the Malayalam movie, I was able to decode several societal dynamics the writer and director had explored. A wife in a dead-end job. An unappreciative husband and daughter...' Curiosity (for fun's sake, please do not read anything else): Is Ambi a Palghati Brahmin from Noorni? Yes Ambi, you are on to something. Women are making ambitions. In far away 1976, Rama came to Dombivili from far away Alleppey, knowing not Bombay manners. In Alleppey, her parents did not allow her to roam streets fearing Mallu men. At St. Joseph's College for Women, she was advised by nuns to go for Masters. She did not. When she told them of her marriage, nuns were disappointed. In those times, men earned, women were in the kitchen. In 1976 at 21, she did not take up a job and blame me for it. Me never thought of it. With her father-in-law went to Canara Bank in Dombivili (East) to open a savings account, she operated, she still holds the account; Ravi Krishnan writes of Canara Bank sinking but Rama thinks otherwise; its her first emotional step into banking... nay freedom.... and all that... Today, she pulls out currency from ATM machines; me knows nothing of ATMs, have never stepped into a kiosk, preferring hard cash which she liberally parts with. She kept and keeps the home, three kids, taught and teaches them, for sometime ran tution classes.. She had no objection when Dakhi married Rajesh Patil, Vidya went to Chennai to run her life alone ...... now Vidya is into Chennai lingo of Prachnai enna theriyuma... Amma for Amma to smile. A fact, me cannot tweek a mobile; Rama is into ipad (Ganesh has bought her a new one), selfies, whatsapp, android for about 8 hours a day with three hours going for Malayalam films .... she is not comfortable with Hindi....she follows Saina Nehwal ... Rama did it all on her own as now her daughter Dakhi makes athletes of Shreya and Chiyu .... Shamik Chakrabarty has finely scripted Lili Das, a sprinter in The Indian Express: Racing tattered shoes, Lili the bright new hope for Indian athletics.... yes women are into giant potwheels of ambition.. but for ads, women are sex, dark women are to be abhorred ... women in Malayalam and Indian films never lead...till date no Ray, no Adoor, no Sai Paranjape has thought of a woman film... if Rama can put up a home, a female can a film... hope one day Ambi Parameswaran will provide some clues. Women are cooking ambitions in modular kitchens. Anyway Ambi am buying your book: Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
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Digital World of Osama Manzar and Ad Lib by Ambi M.G. Parameswaran in Mint are worth morning reads. Digital change in villages and Ambi on Malayalam film, How old are you. Have seen the film but never got the subtlities Ambi finds. That's why Ambi is where he is and me where me is. 'Getting back to the Malayalam movie, I was able to decode several societal dynamics the writer and director had explored. A wife in a dead-end job. An unappreciative husband and daughter...' Curiosity (for fun's sake, please do not read anything else): Is Ambi a Palghati Brahmin from Noorni? Yes Ambi, you are on to something. Women are making ambitions. In far away 1976, Rama came to Dombivili from far away Alleppey, knowing not Bombay manners. In Alleppey, her parents did not allow her to roam streets fearing Mallu men. At St. Joseph's College for Women, she was advised by nuns to go for Masters. She did not. When she told them of her marriage, nuns were disappointed. In those times, men earned, women were in the kitchen. In 1976 at 21, she did not take up a job and blame me for it. Me never thought of it. With her father-in-law went to Canara Bank in Dombivili (East) to open a savings account, she operated, she still holds the account; Ravi Krishnan writes of Canara Bank sinking but Rama thinks otherwise; its her first emotional step into banking... nay freedom.... and all that... Today, she pulls out currency from ATM machines; me knows nothing of ATMs, have never stepped into a kiosk, preferring hard cash which she liberally parts with. She kept and keeps the home, three kids, taught and teaches them, for sometime ran tution classes.. She had no objection when Dakhi married Rajesh Patil, Vidya went to Chennai to run her life alone ...... now Vidya is into Chennai lingo of Prachnai enna theriyuma... Amma for Amma to smile. A fact, me cannot tweek a mobile; Rama is into ipad (Ganesh has bought her a new one), selfies, whatsapp, android for about 8 hours a day with three hours going for Malayalam films .... she is not comfortable with Hindi....she follows Saina Nehwal ... Rama did it all on her own as now her daughter Dakhi makes athletes of Shreya and Chiyu .... Shamik Chakrabarty has finely scripted Lili Das, a sprinter in The Indian Express: Racing tattered shoes, Lili the bright new hope for Indian athletics.... yes women are into giant potwheels of ambition.. but for ads, women are sex, dark women are to be abhorred ... women in Malayalam and Indian films never lead...till date no Ray, no Adoor, no Sai Paranjape has thought of a woman film... if Rama can put up a home, a female can a film... hope one day Ambi Parameswaran will provide some clues. Women are cooking ambitions in modular kitchens. Anyway Ambi am buying your book: Nawabs, Nudes, Noodles.
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