The Pot that Broke Below a Hundred Other Pots
Towards the middle of Aaraam Thampuran, a 1997 movie with Malayali actor Mohanlal in the lead, the hostile villagers are steadily awakened to the true ‘noble’ roots of the bad man who has bought the big house. The villagers – and the audience – are given broad hints that he isn’t just the goonda from Bombay they thought...
Read Me in Malayalam
My piece on Malayali nurses (an early outtake from my upcoming book) was in the very pretty Outlook Onam special issue. Buy it here and sing hosannas to the superb translator Pramod.