Shining Path

Four months into my first job, I realized quite a few interesting facets of the regular Indian man and woman. The people I work with can be regarded as quintessential Malayalis in all aspects. Even though education has slightly tampered the true Malayali-ness in them, they still hold tightly on to their innate behavior.

Lets divide Malayali diaspora into a number of categories.

So called educated modern Malaylis :- Most who fall under this category come from lower middle class to middle class families. They can be graduates or post graduates who does a 8 to 5 job for a living and crib about it. Men and women who are in the late or early twenties and unmarried would mostly have taken up a professional undergrad course which would guarantee them a good buy in the job and marriage market. 

Malayali girls, most of them, are hardwired to work towards one single goal- land upon one random stranger from a pool of random strangers. Their compatibility would be judged by the apparent positions of the sun, moon, stars and planets at the time of their birth. 

Malayali men, again, I cant generalize, but still.