Malayalis

But when you go to that same platform in US or Canada, you don't see it.

You just heard a Malayali working professional I spoke to, who is currently settled with his partner in Vancouver.

Both he and his wife, also a Malayali working professional, are enthusiastic consumers of regional content.

So what do they do when they can't find what they're looking for? Well, it's a whole bunch of things.

Password sharing, hacky streams, torrents.

Completely brainless.

Nostalgia is something that comes up across households across the globe.

A Malayali nurse based in Leeds, UK, mentioned that she often returns to old Malayala movies uploaded on YouTube.

Meanwhile, a UP vlogger's attempt to portray Kochi's Kashi Art Cafe, a cafe-cum-contemporary art space, as a symbol of an alleged Muslim threat to Kerala, has triggered a political backlash, bringing the ruling Congress and opposition CPIM together in defence of the state's secular identity and communal harmony.

The BJP too has weighed in with its state president, Rajiv Chandrashekhar, saying that only the Malayalis get to decide what is to be done in Kerala.

even as it slammed the ruling Congress government for allegedly not responding to those making anti-India statements.

In other major news, as investigators grapple with the flat-shock market trajectory for more than two years now, discussions within the government in the run-up to Budget 2027-28 include lowering the long-term capital gains tax from 12.5% now for both domestic and foreign investors and letting foreign investors pay this tax on capital gains made in dollar terms as opposed to in rupee terms to boost market sentiments.

Vaidehi used to sit at a cash counter of the grocery store to assist her husband.

Apparently, about a couple of months ago, she had fallen in love with a Malayali boy who used to visit their shop for the pygmy collection and had eloped with him.

Her devastated husband was said to have grieved a lot for his missing wife.

Naturally, everyone in our house was looking at Vaidehi very curiously.

Let's start with a song by Lalan Fakir.

I have a song that is very familiar to Malayalees.

It's called Shobhulok Kekuye Lalan

Kijat.

And the cuisine is very coconut heavy, coconut.

And in fact, when I spoke to Kiso from Sri Lanka, because of its proximity to Kerala, being in the south of southern tip of India and, you know, closer Sri Lanka, he said the closest cuisine in India would be Keralite food because both of them have a lot of coconut in their cuisine.

So there's this fantastic restaurant called Tata in Chicago, which we, again, this is, we really try and deeply research before we enter a city and not try and go in blind.

We like to know what we're getting into.

So some of them went into nursing homes and they died alone or in poverty and others returned to their home village in China.

For the naval base, it was also the end of the Malayali culture, which is called Ko Chu Kerala or Little Kerala.

The naval base had been known as Little Kerala, Ko Chu Kerala.

It had been a Malayali enclave with a...

With a rich local culture, Malayalam was the common language used in the naval base.

There were many Malayali plays in Malayalam at the naval base.

There was also a Kerala library with books in Malayalam.

And the Sri Narayana Mission, which was an organization following the teachings of the Sri Narayana Guru.

It's like you merely adopted the darkness.

I was born in it, raised by it, and I'm Malayali.

So like I come from a long lineage of jungle-dwelling Odias who worship Kali so that it's like part of the blood, like part of the very fibers of my being that these things don't seem that contrarian or transgressive or shocking to me having grown up in that Bhagavathi Amman kind of sphere.

But coming to the West and teaching here in America and teaching on the internet, even to people in Bharat, especially in, uh, parts, parts of Bharat that have seen Mughal and British Raj colonization, like there are parts that are rural, parts that are urban.

Tell me.

Malayali movie.

Mm-hmm.

And it's called Unmadam.

But then there's, like, a lot of twists and turns and stuff.

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

Malayali movies are very good with this.

You've said this a lot.