![]() ![]() Perhaps an average Malayali, or sophisticatedly Keralite, the eternally peripatetic human specimen who may have put his footprints even in the mythical 14 worlds, can bask in pride that during the times of Maveli, we lived in an egalitarian world, which was not brought about after a violent revolution. One is almost tempted to remember the French ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’. So paying tributes to the good old immortal king is akin to living a socialist dream, and in that sense savouring an experiential recipe made of utopia, nostalgia, mirth and bonhomie. In its symbolic quintessence, it delineates Onam, which is traditionally a 10-day long jubilation culminating on the D-day of the most auspicious Thiruvonam, which is almost the finale, as a time to rejoice, celebrate and rekindle the spirit of equality and universal compassion. ![]() ![]() A rough translation that encapsulates the socialist spirit of the poem, may read like - “In the yonder days of Maveli, the demon king, everything was fair and kind on the land, and men lived equal, without discriminating each other.” ![]()
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