Funny Usages in Malayalam

There are several usages  in Malayalam language that hilariously represent a situation. These are not necessarily proverbs; because proverbs carry a message or a kind of advice. However, these funny usages how no messages as, but only refer to plight of the situation.  Most popular of these are listed here.

• Adinaye patti yakkuka

        ആടിനെ പട്ടിയാക്കുകന്നു 

• Appol kanunnavanaye Appannu vilikkuka

          അപ്പോൾ കാണുന്നവനയെ അപ്പാന്നു വിളിക്കുക .

• Kannadachu iruttakuka

          കണ്ണടച്ച് ഇരുടട്ട് ആക്കുക 

• Kurangantae kaayil pomala kittiyapol

          കുരങ്ങന്ടെ കൈയിലു പൂമാല കിട്ടിയ പോലെ  .

• Yenna thallandammava njan nannakilla

          എന്നെ തല്ലണ്ട അമ്മാവാ ഞാൻ നന്നാവില്ല .

• Onamathinidakku puttu kachavadam 

           ഓണനിടക്ക് പുട്ടു കച്ചവടം .

• Like dog went to market

      പട്ടി ചന്തക്കു പോയതുപോലെ 

• Like a dog got a full coconut

      പട്ടിക്കു മുഴുവ്ണ്‍  തേങ്ങ കിട്ടിയപോലെ 

• Picturing a goat as dog.

       ആടിനെ പട്ടിയാക്കുക 

• Doing things thinking others are ignorant

       കണ്ണടച്ച് പാല് കുടിക്കുക 

See related popular poverbs and sayings in malayalam proverbs page

Few Great Novels For Reading

The Alchemist

A beautiful novel with no names for the characters. It is the story of a young Shepard who start out chasing him dream to discover the treasure. The novel repeatedly urges "If one decides to chase his dream the entire world will conspire in helping to make him achieve it". The Spanish boy sets out to the Egyptian coast after selling his herd and crosses the desert towards the pyramids. The adventures along the desert route is well narrated and depicted as real. 

Moreover the book has nothing obscene and could be recommended as a good read for any age. 

The Good Earth – Pearl S Buck

This novel narrates the story of an enthusiastic and hardworking peasant named Wang Lung. The hard works he and his wife put in farming the land ultimately makes them rich and prosperous.

Wang Lung’s father also a wise farmer gives him correct advices especially at the time of selecting women as wife. Wang Lung wanted his wife to be beautiful, but the old father questions him – ‘What will we do with a pretty woman?’.

Wang Lung accepts a young woman slave named O- lan from the local landlord as wife. Though she was not any good-looking, was intelligent and equally hardworking as her husband.

Wang Lung and O lan go through several hardships in life, but overcomes all odds with the hard works they put in on land. Many times O lan surprises Wang Lung with her intelligence and pragmatic solutions. Gradually they get wealthier and richer.

Towards the end, the riches slightly change the habits of Wang Lung but not his love for land and the earth that gave him everything. This is evident when he overhears a discussion between his sons. In the last chapter, his two sons can be seen discussing about selling the land and investing the money in shipping and rice trade. The moment Wang Lung hears this; he burst into tears and pleads with his sons not sell the land.

The Good Earth won Pulitzer Prize. The novel was translated into over thirty languages.

Pearl S Buck was born in 26 June 1892, and spent her childhood in China. Her other novels are East Wind, West Wind, A House Divided, Dragon Seed, The Time is Noon. She was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1938.

One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The novel narrates the history of Bundias family. The reader gets an experience that almost makes it impossible to distinguish between reality and fantasy.

Adujeevitham - by Benyamin

This is the story of a poor Muslim youth from rural Kerala going to a gulf country in search of better job and prospects. In Kerala he `lived as a very friendly villager with the neighborhood and had immense freedom as a free bird. The situations when he reached his dream land were exactly opposite to his experiences in home country village. There he had to live in bondage under hostile employers who denied him even his primary needs.

The author is successful in narrating the incidents happened as if he himself had experienced and gone through every bit of it. Gulf countries are seen as a dream land by many youngsters in Kerala. But the attitudes of the Arabs towards them are not always amicable. Here he was a slave by all means in a goat farm. And for several years he could see the outside place or contact others.

The bitter experiences are extremely touching and how he escapes is also breathtaking. Author for some reason presents him as an optimistic and staunch believer of God. But, at the end few good people and the government of India comes to rescue bringing him to peace and home where his wife and son was waiting all these years without even knowing anything about him.

The entire experiences can be coined to a single proverb in Malayalam – ‘Akkarapachha’. Meaning that we have great regards for foreign land; blindly tend to imitate their customs forgetting the greatness and blessings of home land.

Men who surprised the world

 1. Alexander the Great

Alexander the great is the first in this list. He lived almost 2300 years ago and did what no one could do even today. He was the king of ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedon. He lived during BC 356 – 323 and had become king at the age of 20 after the death of his father Philip II.

He set out to conquer the world and defeated Egypt and the Persia at the age of 25. His invasion continued till the northern border of India. He died at the age of 33 and the reason of his death is suspected to be poisoning and loss of health due to excessive drinking.

He is important even today because he is still a benchmark against whom military heads compare themselves and his war strategies are still said to be taught in military schools.

Two things to be known to live in this earth

 The world is a big stage. Two things that are essential these can be narrow downed as:

1. Be a good actor 

2. Forget about the truth, and adopt all possible routes to march towards the goal.

But, know that at the end of a tunnel there is light. The success of the fraud hence will not stand long.

Kerala Nurses

Recently there are reports about Nurses from Kerala being held hostages in Iraq.

Nurses from Kerala can be found in every part of the world. Many sarcastically speak and look down at this profession. Recently, a leader from a Delhi based political party made fun at nurses from Kerala.

But I respect them for services they render. We realize the greatness of their service and value better while hospitalized. In those times at bed, every one wishes to be looked after and taken care off. These nurses are best in that. As a real sister or guardian they take care of all the patients.

On the other side, these ladies have to suffer a lot. Many of them have to work continuously for 12 hours. They have to be away from their children and family. Taking a day off is, most of the times extremely difficult. To add to this, the payment they get is very less in many private hospitals. Even in the midst of all these odds, they nurse people with utmost care.

One has to respect them more, because they earn a living through hard work. On contrary, we can find most of the youth today is after fast money. Many go after ant-national activities as smuggling and fake currency trafficking for making money for a luxurious life. Good things should be accepted and appreciated. And bad things should be discouraged or punished. 

"One should eat food from the sweat of his own brow only".