Déjà vu! This time, this happened over phone. Someone called me up, at my office, in the middle of the day, and told me that they are looking for a Malayalam interpreter in Brooklyn, New York. It was strange enough that I thought I'll help out by blogging about it (again).
If you're interested in serving as a Malayalam interpreter, will be in Brooklyn on August 14th or 16th (and I suppose you may have to be eligible to earn in the US), please consider contacting Mathew Salinas of aLanguageBank, at 212-213-3336.
And in another similar (but probably less strange) incident, someone mailed me out of nowhere (OK, from Princeton, which is not exactly nowhere), and asked me if I could translate a couple of lines of Malayalam poetry for her. Apparently she is working on a Ph.D. thesis which looks at subnationalism in Kerala (among other things). She's also interested in knowing the publication years of the poems. I did the translation, but if anyone out there knows the publication years, please let me know. Here are the lines:
> paaTam paaTam uRachchu naam paaTippaaTi pOvuka
> paarilaikya kEraLaththin kaahaLam muzhakkuvaan.
> nam navaraNangngaLil, nammaL than thyaagangngaLil
> naam rachikkumaapputhiya kEraLam manOharam!
And,
> bhaaratham enna pEr kETTaalabhimaana
> poorithamaakaNam antharamgam.
> kEraLamennu kETTaalO thiLakkaNam
> chOra namukku njarampukaLil!
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You probably know this already...but that second couplet is by Vallathol. Can't speak authoritatively to the publication date, but I believe it was in the mid 20s. Vague memories of school history books tell me this poem coincided with the Vaikom Satyagraha or Guruvayoor Satyagraha. I could be complete off, of course, but there it is.
http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%B3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B3%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B3%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D_%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D
In the above Wiki Malayalam page, the publication year of various Vallathol Books are given. Kindly try..
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