Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Without going into the political and societal implications, I’ll go straight to what I think might happen. If it becomes compulsory that the national language should be known to all and if the example of Kerala is anything to go by, then Tamil Nadu might also teach Hindi in school…
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How come South India is considered safe for females when it objectifies females a lot in its movies?
South India is considered safer in comparison to North India which leads to assumption that people here respect females. But their movies speak a complete different stories. What is the reality, is it a mask which still is hanging on faces, and reality is same everywhere in India. Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Hmm…this question…
Does only Bollywood have the finest singers of India? Does any other film industry have such singers?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: I don’t think that music has any boundaries, and yet, I’ll hazard the risk of saying that yes, there are plenty of extremely gifted singers in south Indian film industry as well. I am not very sure about the musical prowess of singers in other regional film industries, and so…
Who are some great Indian women that most people have not heard of?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Dr. Lalitha Regi Dr. Lalitha Regi (nee Varma) was born into the royal family of Cochin in Tripunithura, Kerala. All hell broke loose in her uber conservative family when she decided to get married to the love of her life Dr. Regi M. George whom she met while studying at…
How did Draupadi from being a panchala princess became the deity as Draupadi Amman in the villages of Tamilnadu?
There are many Draupadi Amman temples in villages of Tamilnadu and Druapadi probably is being worshiped as Mother Goddess along with other deities. Even in Karnataka there is a festival Karaga festival related to Draupadi. How did she evolved in to Goddess in far away in a different cultural zone? Answer by Raakhee V. Menon:…
What are the famous dishes from Tamilnadu and chettinad cuisine?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Having lived in Tamil Nadu for four years at a stretch and having had the good fortune to have so many Tamilian friends who have treated me to the best homemade dishes ever, I think I am quite well-experienced to answer this 😀 I must admit that I am not…
Why doesn’t the Indian central government care about Tamil Nadu and the Northeast?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Thank you for the A2A. I would like to add Kerala along with Tamil Nadu, because in such concerns, we are almost at par. Although I am not entirely sure if there is any factual basis to the question, if it were true, I think I just might have a…
Is it not better to have common alphabet for Malayalam and Tamil so that the two languages can enrich themselves by making them mutually readable?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: I don’t think that would be possible. Although there are many similarities in the scripts, Malayalam script has more alphabets because the words are pronounced exactly as they are written, much like languages that have Devanagari scripts. We have alphabets corresponding to all alphabets of the Devanagari script, plus some…
What do Malayalis think about Tamil people?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Thank you for the A2A. There are actually two schools of thought among Keralites when it comes to what they think about Tamil people – the majority (who have very stereotyped notions about Tamil people) and then the minority (like me, who have actually lived with/among Tamil people for a…
Is there a difference between the style and swag of wearing a mundu (veshti) between men of Kerala and Tamil Nadu?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Thank you for the A2A. Why I believe that there is definitely a difference in the way the Thamizh pasanga wear their veshtti and how the Malayali chekkanmaar wear their mundu. For starters, though both are essentially cotton, the bleached smooth pure white variety is more popular in Tamil Nadu,…
What was your biggest cultural shock while moving to any other state of india?
Answer by Raakhee V. Menon: Tamil Nadu I moved to Tamil Nadu for four years to do my engineering. I am from Kerala and, to be honest, I didn’t expect too many cultural shocks when I moved there as both Kerala and Tamil Nadu are states in South India. But I was in for not…
