Vango Peshalam...

 Vango Peshalam...

"Machummela moromchadam kottinen, kollelendu chanachuranai eduthund vayen." - not everyone can understand the real meaning of this typical palakkad iyer Tamil sentence. We can hear such language from any agraharams in Kerala. But, only a few young parents who live outside Palakkad district take the time and effort to teach and ask their children to speak their 'native language' at home. We can't deny the fact that love for our typical palakkad Iyer Tamil is diminishing in the younger generation. Young parents are in the rush of professional education and languages helping with it. And these English-speaking young kids need not make an effort to speak our palakkad Iyer Tamil later just to speak with their paati and thatha. 

Yes, it's true that there is no major use of our typical Palakkad Iyer tamil because we can't use it for any professional purpose or address the audience on any stage. Not even in Kerala Brāhmaṇa Sabha meetings!! 

Native language plays an important role in shaping our thoughts, emotions, our proud culture and formation of an individual. If this is how things are, the survival of languages Palakkad Iyer language (outside Palakkad) will be languages of extinct languages after 50 years! So, Think! 

- Uma Narayanan

Memories

And then summer again. I wait for summer every year just for yummy jackfruit and juicy mangoes. Jackfruits, mangoes and summer vacation remind me of the good old days at Ammama's home.

Sharing unlimited jackfruits and mangoes with cousins and relatives sitting in the backyard is a nostalgic one.

The old House with a cow shed on the front side and back porch will be filled with firewood all year long. No nearby houses, towering groves of trees, sound of crickets and frogs at the night, wild flowers and me not plants.

Tasty mambazha pulissery cooked by ammama in kalchatti gives me yearning and wistful memories of the past. Raw mangoes and a number of juicy mangoes and sharing huge jackfruit gives me beautiful food memories.

Playing with wooden toys, swinging, bathing in the pond and surrounded by lots of people at home. I think those were the holidays in real sense, without any worries about bills being paid.