Who Will Change A Mother's Name?

Who Will Change A Mother's Name Because It Is Not Modern?

P.S.Remesh Chandran,

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum.

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Have anyone heard about anyone who wants to change his mother's name

just because it is not fashionable in his outlook and also because it

does not keep up with the newest trends? Kerala seems to have given

birth to such brutes too. Kerala is the land of Malayaalees, a name

endeared to hundreds of thousands of Malayaalees and Non-Malayaalees

in India and abroad for so many years. This name Kerala was derived

from Kera which means the Coconut Tree and Alam which means Where

Something Is In Abundance. Thus Keralam means The Land Of Coconut

Trees. This has ben known to the world and accepted by the world since

the time of Trans-Ocean Travels. This name has been being loved by the

whole world without any problem so far. But now some crooked-minded

people in Kerala are vigorously working on changing this beautiful,

meaningful and respected name of Kerala to suit their private needs.

They are simply aiming at the huge amounts of money they can pocket

through the immense contracts for effecting the change in name in the

millions of Governmental and other records, printed stationery,

display boards, buildings, vehicles, doors, carpets and even on

glasses and ash trays. People who would even sell their mothers for a

few Dollars! They shout Madras was changed as Tamil Nadu, Andhra as

Andhra Pradesh, Bombay as Mumbai and so on. But the wise people in

these states have been thinking, how decent and loyal a model state is

this Kerala for not even thinking about changing their mother's

natural virgin name, sacred to uncountable millions everywhere!

This hideous plan for changing the name of Keralam to something like

Kerala Desam or Malayaaala Nadu or to whatever it is, has not been

hatched out in a single night out of greed for money alone. There have

always been plans going on hatched out to divert people's attention

from the utter administrative failure in curtailing corruption,

bribery, misappropriation of huge amounts of government money,

inablity to cope with the newly arising serious, serial outbreak of

epidemics and other health hazards and above all, the abandoning of

political figure-heads by their own so-called followers.

The time at which this idea of changing Kerala's name was released

from some corners was the time at which noted power-politicians were

undeniably accused of corruption and threatened with prosecution.

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