In institutions where you have different students from different nationalities studying togther you can always listen each other being called bongs, mallus etc. While studying at acj, chennai the racially 'opponent' groups were mallus and bongs, though they have *communism* to share about.
I think the Bongs resisted being called as bongs. Bcoz the ONG in the Bbong sounded true to the Bhadralokic pomposity. Mallus referred themselves as Mallus. It sounded like Lalu, rural wit with corporate wisdom. ( speaking tough hindi at IIM). Bongs behaved as they were direct descendants of Tagore and Ray, even though they never tried reading or viewing. Mallus were very clever. With their GK and Current affairs analysis and film viewing culture, they tried to overwhelm. Mallus actually appropriated the semantics of the word and made it a cliche. Now no malayalee have problem in being referred as Mallu. Perhaps the word originated to reveal the hidden depths of malayali hypocrisy. Since this has became a cliche like MCP. A new word has to be derived which reflects the times. It should incisively points to malayalle male madambi * Hypocracy* (like aristocracy) sensibilty.What would be that. Here is my suggestion: M-ALPANS ( Malayalee Male Alpans). It is gender neutral in case of woman representing same castes of the mind. But they are numerically few. Pls. utter MALPANS in malayalam. Not as easy as mallus. If we secretely uttter thrice a day, begnning with morningcoffee/tea (as the wife brings it), postr lunch ( after egotistic blast over colleagues and extra perfomance with powe point (only MS), finsihing dinner ( after making kid read all the stupid stuff), one will realize how "MALPANS" are we and perhaps transform ourselves at least while being at this group discusion. Little bit flexible and listening. damodar On 7/1/08, sanjeev s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > once i had suggested an alternative to "mallu" to my amalayali friends, * > THENGA.* > it's archetypal,short,easy to pronounce, has got a hard shell, soft and > sweet innards and moreover commands a modest price in the market once in > while:-) > > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Salil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> In a way it is true .. but in many posts I have observed that we >> ourselves are using 'mallu' with some putcham .. !! may be I >> misunderstood and took that in negative sense :-) >> >> >> >> On Jul 1, 4:26 pm, Clash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > As mentioned above, these are more or less campus terms. I found it >> > always easy to call a bengali a bong, a Andhraite a gult, a Gujarati a >> > gujju, a Marathi a ghati, while i was in college. In turn i never felt >> > it derogatory when somebody addressed me mallu. if we draw >> > comparisions to madrasi, i would say calling some one from North- east >> > chinki is obscenely rascist. then everything depends on your >> > perception! >> > >> > Cheers! >> > >> > On Jul 1, 10:26 am, satchidanandan k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > > Salil, >> > > These are campus terms, Mallu, Punj, Bong... nothing to worry about. >> It is only an abbreviation employed by the young, they do't mean harm.But >> 'Madrasi' was part ignorance and part 'othering', it irritates me too though >> now there is a growing awareness of Kerala as different from Madras and even >> a growing recognition of Malayali intelligence, literacy etc.But I do >> agree,we can always use Malayali in full...Look at things from below.> Date: >> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:13:24 -0700> Subject: FOURTH ESTATE CRITIQUE Who is a >> mallu> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Some how I don't like that >> terminology - may be because at least here> - that terminology is not used >> with a good intention ( some thing> similar to 'Madrasi' ) .. when ever I >> need to use a term to address> keralites in general, I use either keraleeyan >> or keralite or> malayali ...> > mallu is again shortened .. it is "Mal" now >> .... people ask these> days like "Are you a Mal" .. I feel really >> uncomfortable hearing> that ...> > > >> _________________________________________________________________ >> > > 2000 Placements last year. Are You next ? Find outhttp:// >> ss1.richmedia.in/recurl.asp?pid=499 >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
