martes, 27 de enero de 2009

Una bonita historia de Kerala

"Mi abuelo tenía un elefante" es una novela escrita por el autor indio keralés Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908-1994).
"Ntuppuppaakkoraanaendaarnnu" ("Me Gran'dad 'ad an Elephant", 1951) is a fierce attack on the superstitious practices that existed among Muslims. Its protagonist is Kunjupathumma, a naive, innocent and illiterate village belle. She falls in love with an educated, progressive, city-bred man, Nisaar Ahamed. Illiteracy is fertile soil for superstitions, and the novel is about education enlightening people and making them shed age-old conventions. Velichathinentoru velicham (a crude translation can be 'brightness is very bright!') one of the most quoted Basheer phrases occurs in Ntuppuppaakkoraanaendaarnnu. People boast of the glory of days past, their "grandfather's elephants", but that is just a ploy to hide their shortcomings
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaikom_Muhammad_Basheer )

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