{"id":4478,"date":"2010-08-23T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T08:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2010-08-23T16:20:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T10:50:16","slug":"oh-numb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2010\/08\/23\/oh-numb\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, numb!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While I was handling the high frequency burping that signifies the completion of the meal above, my phone rang. It was an ex-colleague, but more importantly, dear friend and a fellow mallu. I picked it up, expecting a loud ‘Happy Onam’ from the other end. She was working, and wanted a person’s number. I wished her a happy onam, and without missing a breath, got a “Oh, I forgot” response.<\/p>\n

That perhaps typifies this generation of living-outside-Kerala Malayalis. That’s a generalisation, of course, and a huge one at that, because thankfully, I know many of my fellow Keralites who religiously go home every Onam, come what may, and have a blast. But as every Onam passes, I can feel it slipping away.<\/p>\n

Ten days of holidays – a cousin reunion, the hustle and bustle of a sadya preparation, to a day taken off from college to visit a relative’s house for the sadya, to figuring out which new movies are being shown on the telly for Onam and scanning the papers for a restaurant that serves a good sadya, obviously it wasn’t just me who grew up.<\/p>\n

I suspect that it might not get any better, and as a statement in Malayala Manorama went,\u00a0 I might even get used ‘eating a sadya in the mind’. This generation still has its (mostly office) pookkalams and the sadya. For those that come later, the sadya will perhaps just be a meal by itself.<\/p>\n

until then, happy onam \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

PS: The legend<\/a>, the Ram Gopal Varma version<\/a>, and the tag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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