Saturday, August 28, 2004
dothis, lungis and more
I just realized how racially discriminatory my last blog was. I was talking about stuff like lungis dothis, mallus and other things without realizing that most of the people who read this blog may not understand what this is all about. Yeah right. Most of the people who read this blog are me. However, it is not right to do such things in a blog (such thing being defined as being discriminatory) and hence this glossary of terms.
Mallu : short for malayalee, a native of the southern state of India called Kerala.
Onam : our annual festival which is the root cause of all this trouble anyways.
Lungi: A long piece of cloth tied around the waist in lieu of trousers, traditional casual wear for malayalees and tamilians (our neighbours in terms of states) and some others
Dothi : A long piece of cloth tied around the waist in lieu of trousers, traditional casual wear for malayalees and tamilians (our neighbours in terms of states) and some others.
oh... oh... wait a minute that didn't go too well did it ? Well you see the difference between a dothi and a lungi is that a lungi is usually colored in all sorts of irritating colors while a dothi is always whit.e. This means that a lungi can be hardly worn as formal attire but a dothi can. In fact most of true malayaless never wear a pair of trousers. The dothi is more than enough for most of us.
Ok back to our glossary
kurta pyjama: Another traditional attire, albiet this time it is more for the northern states, though it is gaining in popularity nowadays in the southern states but make no mistake, in mallu land the dothi still reigns supreme.
macha: form of address for any one you don't know the name of ; also form of address for anyone you know the name of.
pal payasam : sweet dish, rice pudding of sorts, milk based
pal : milk
payasam : go figure
well i guess that leaves us in good shape... so till more trouble happens...
naveen
Mallu : short for malayalee, a native of the southern state of India called Kerala.
Onam : our annual festival which is the root cause of all this trouble anyways.
Lungi: A long piece of cloth tied around the waist in lieu of trousers, traditional casual wear for malayalees and tamilians (our neighbours in terms of states) and some others
Dothi : A long piece of cloth tied around the waist in lieu of trousers, traditional casual wear for malayalees and tamilians (our neighbours in terms of states) and some others.
oh... oh... wait a minute that didn't go too well did it ? Well you see the difference between a dothi and a lungi is that a lungi is usually colored in all sorts of irritating colors while a dothi is always whit.e. This means that a lungi can be hardly worn as formal attire but a dothi can. In fact most of true malayaless never wear a pair of trousers. The dothi is more than enough for most of us.
Ok back to our glossary
kurta pyjama: Another traditional attire, albiet this time it is more for the northern states, though it is gaining in popularity nowadays in the southern states but make no mistake, in mallu land the dothi still reigns supreme.
macha: form of address for any one you don't know the name of ; also form of address for anyone you know the name of.
pal payasam : sweet dish, rice pudding of sorts, milk based
pal : milk
payasam : go figure
well i guess that leaves us in good shape... so till more trouble happens...
naveen
