Will you believe this story? The best soul nourishing 71st Independence day gift I got.
"Kada, adakkyar-ayilley? Enda mazhaya inn." "Onathinn naati ponniley?" "Potta?" Three simple questions in Malayalam. Without context they mean nothing much and can at best be courteous pleasantries between two people. But there's more to this given the context in which I heard those three questions. I believe that religions should not have any more status in our lives than the bus tickets we buy. The moment we allow them to define our identity, they separate us from others and create most of the problems in the world that we see today in addition to what history has been a witness to. I guess the best commentary on this subject is to be found in this song from the 1972 Malayalam movie 'Achhanum Baapayum' which says: "Man created religions Religions created Gods And then, man, religions and gods divided this earth and divided the hearts as well. We became, Hindus, Musalmans and Christians, we cannot be recognised any m...