There is too much pressure to define oneself as per the neat categorisations of the LinkedIn header. Agile should not only be an adjective, let us embrace the verb too. Life is messy.

The devotional music paying homage to Sabrimala and Lord Ayyappa sonically enveloping the community centric diaspora store with a Puja offerings section and the spices section stocking up on MDH and Shan opens the possibility of the transnational as a local site of familiar sensibilities. The emotional switchboard in the words of Prof Ato is electric and immediate and transports me to temple town Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu being present physically in Singapore, which is a global site for Tamil Culture.Cultural bubbles in the everyday are the placeholders of the creole in the multicultural global city.

The lifeblood of millions of families. Remittances matter. I grew up on them.

Since the past year, there has been an evaporation of ambition and the dream has been a blur, which i feel is normal in a world which has undergone so much loss.

Or the sublimation creates a new frame for the dream, where new rules are created?

Congratulations to the Le Thinnai Kreyol Project Team, @banglarmeyeajk Prof Ananya and Ari Anna etc on one year of globally remote yet intimate conversation on Creole circulation. I have learnt so much over the past year from Pune and now Singapore. As a writer and now as a PhD scholar at NUS it does matter.

The project now has a holding page and journal- Thinnai Revi which will be a fascinating site for knowledge production and dissemination.

It is a fascinating online community of thinkers which is creative, critical and analytical. The founders I may add are very kind!

I plan to scribble on Kreyol Muscat\Khaleej soon! Creole is a concept which is interesting to frame the Gulf, often seen from a linear lens.

Thank you for the shout out, as a second-third generation migrant it means a lot to write about the places I write on from Dubai to Singapore which do not find a spot in the archive.

Congratulations once again ! Be ambitious, please!

There is a sense of valorisation of the Kerala Model among the secular, liberal community. However, there is an amnesia regarding a rather small positive externality; the decades of Gulf remittances that pads up the over all quality of life.

The hard work should not be erased of the Malayali who would do jobs which they would not do at home. There is a social cost as well. Having watched Asianet while growing up, Malayalam saturates the desert shamal of the littoral port city.

You will find a Kerala Kada in the middle of the desert with news playing in the background.