മലയാള സിനിമ OTT വഴി ഇന്ത്യയിലുടനീളമുള്ള നഗരങ്ങളിലെ ഉന്നതർക്ക് എത്തുന്ന ഈ കാലത്ത്, മലയാള സിനിമകളെ വളരെക്കാലമായി ആസ്വദിച്ചിട്ടുള്ള ഗൾഫ് കുടിയേറ്റക്കാർക്കിടയിലെ പ്രദേശാന്തര കാഴ്ച്ചക്കാരെ നാം മറക്കുന്നു.[…]
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Tag: migration
Watching ‘Malabari Films’ in Bihar: Gulf Migration and Transregional Connections
Even as OTT brings Malayalam cinema to urban elites across India, we forget the transregional viewership that Malayalam cinema has long enjoyed among Gulf migrants. Drawing from his own life, Nehal reflects on how Malayalam cinema speaks to the Bihari Gulf migrant experience.
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Do We Belong At Home?
As thousands of middle-class Malayali women migrate to cities outside Kerala, Ashwathy provides an intimate portrait of how they might negotiate questions of home, belonging, and anonymity.
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Playful Pastiche, Hybrid Subjects: David Kalal’s Diasporic Art
New York-based artist David Dasharath Kalal takes us through selections from his “Ravi Varma Recreational Vehicle”(RVRV) series combining the heavily reproduced work of Raja Ravi Varma, ever-familiar to the Malayali, with present-day South Asian Americans.
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(Mis)Representations of the NRI Gulf Kid in Malayalam Cinema
Aathma Dious argues that Malayali filmmakers have failed to move past popular—often stereotypical—tropes when it comes to representing second and[…]
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Provocative Sounds: Work, Leisure, and Malayalam Radio in Qatar
What can the radio-listening practices of working-class Malayalis in the Gulf, and the inter-ethnic tensions they produce, tell us about[…]
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A Savarna By Any Other Name, or a Personal History of Caste Privilege
Many people of Malayali origin bear surnames that indicate their upper-caste status. Are they just relics of a feudal past that hold no meaning in today’s world? Shilpa Menon examines the larger implications and histories of such surnames through a personal reflection on her surname.
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Ala Podcast: LGBTQIA+ ആക്ടിവിസത്തിൻറെ രാഷ്ട്രീയ പാഠങ്ങൾ
ഈ പോഡ്‌കാസ്റ്റിൽ അലയോടൊപ്പം സംവദിക്കുന്നത് ബാംഗ്ലൂരിലെ മലയാളി LGBTQIA ആക്ടിവിസ്റ്റായ സുനിൽ മോഹൻ ആണ്. രണ്ടു ദശാബ്ദങ്ങളോളമുള്ള തൻ്റെ പൊതുപ്രവർത്തനത്തിലെ അനുഭവങ്ങൾ, കേരളത്തിലെ LGBTQIA രാഷ്ട്രീയത്തിന്റെ സങ്കീർണ്ണതകൾ എന്നീ വിഷയങ്ങളെക്കുറിച്ചു സുനിൽ സംസാരിക്കുന്നു.
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Dreaming Dar es Salaam: Forced Migration and the Impossibility of Return
Moving between memory and history, poetry and prose, Kerala and Tanzania, May Joseph reflects on her parents’ experiences as Malayali migrants to Tanzania in the mid-twentieth century.
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COVID-19 and Marriage Migration in Kerala
Marriage migration is the largest permanent migration in the state of Kerala, and the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about changes[…]
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