YOUTH DAA.... YOUTH. (ENGLISHE KOLRADA....)

It’s been ages since a new post. It’s not a creative vacuum but I guess I need a constant spur to talk about things. Something on which I should feel an urge to talk about. And guess what, I’ve found this amazing TV channel which can give you a thousand reasons to cry; a thousand reasons to laugh. Sounds like a phony book cover but yes... A youth channel which makes you curious about who exactly is the ‘youth’ intended. It makes you wonder if you are a Kryptonite. Well the thing is, once you watch this channel, you would bloody well want to be a Kryptonite.

I debated a lot whether I should be revealing the identity of the channel. (Well what’s the issue? Four or five people read this blog anyway, including me :p) But the channel authorities have two or three other channels, which feature bearable programs, and there is this great actor who is, I guess the general manager of the channel. (So you get the general picture.) But the youth channel...

There are a few Malayalis who feel a stab on their sensibility when some fellow Malayali goes... “enikyu malayelem kurachyu kurachyu...”I’m proud to say that I’m one among them. And I’ve noticed this syndrome is seen in people who had spent practically their whole life in Kerala. Or once you spend two or three years elsewhere, you go like, “these mallus are so difficult to put up with.”Give them a big solid whack on their ass and they will go screeching in solid Malayalam. I once had this classmate who was always going like” I flunked in Malyalem, guys... I need tuition. AWWWWW..... (The universal noise made by wackos.) And people go around appreciating her. It troubled me a lot that the same treatment was not meted out to Maths flunkies (They need it the most, you know? :))

But very few of us feel agitated when somebody does injustice to English. I don’t know why, maybe because it is still perceived as an alien tongue. But a language is a language. The above mentioned channel is a mixture of disrespecting English and disrespecting Malayalam. The guys over there have somehow developed this notion that Malayalam is inferior, and as ‘youth’, “vee talking in inklees....” My question is, what exactly is wrong with our mother tongue? It IS a beautiful language. And the channel guys don’t need to fear that Non-Malayalis would care to watch their programs. They would run for their lives. And the reason why Malayalis like us (read me and my friends) watch their programs is that 'WE' HAVE AN EXCELLENT SENSE OF HUMOR.(pun intended)

You might think I’m exaggerating. Well, here is an excerpt from one of their fashion related programs.( did someone say fashion? Njan chirichu chaakum :P)

Anchor: ( don’t call them ‘VJ’S. “ANKOR” IS MORE THAN ENOUGH.) We should change our attitude, dress, fashion. All change. Hope you all segments. Thank you.

Whoa!

I know I’m having fun having tuned in to this channel the whole day. I hope this is not a sin.

 I’m not saying that everyone should be speaking in flawless English. But please don’t degrade a language like this. More importantly, please don’t keep such a besmirched concept about “what youth want.” And thank you channel guys, for making us laugh so much.