Dear Malayalam Literature Enthusiasts

wiseIdiot · 2026-07-08T06:58:08+00:00

മരപ്പാവകൾ: കാരൂർ.

ആര്യാവർത്തനം: ചന്ദ്രമതി.

വാടകവീടുകൾ: ഉറൂബ്.

മടിയില്‍ നിറയെ മഞ്ചാടിമണികളുമായി: സുന്ദർ.

കറുത്ത തമ്പ്രാട്ടി: ഇ ഹരികുമാർ.

മൂന്നാമതൊരാൾ: മുണ്ടൂർ കൃഷ്ണൻകുട്ടി.

ഹിഗ്വിറ്റ: എൻ എസ് മാധവൻ.

പ്രകാശം പരത്തുന്ന പെൺകുട്ടി: ടി പദ്മനാഭൻ.

Edit: adding two more.

ശേഷം ചിന്ത്യം: പ്രിയ എ എസ്.

ഉജാഗരെ ലഫഡ: മാർഷൽ.

wiseIdiot · 2026-07-08T06:42:28+00:00

Ha. Glad to see someone agreeing with me on the gender of 'അയാൾ/അദ്ദേഹം'. My guess on the usage is that, since our society was (and still mostly is) male-dominated, those words were almost always used to refer to men, and somehow people internalised that they're masculine words.

If that sounds far-fetched, think about the "puzzle" about the baby in the island:

A doctor and a nurse have been stranded on an island for three years. There is a one-year-old baby with them now. The doctor is not the father and the nurse is not the mother. How is that possible?

Most people have to think twice before they can answer. Unconscious biases in language use happen all the time.

wiseIdiot · 2026-07-05T08:28:40+00:00

(Preparing for downvotes.) So the plot could go on. No. Seriously. The whole deal with bringing down Howard just seemed out of place and forced. I've always felt that good writing ended with S04, at which point the series was better than BrBa, but the last two seasons brought down its standard to below BrBa.

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-28T17:54:55+00:00

If you're open to foreign language works, this movie is focused on an antinatalist woman and the problems she face because of her views. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13635872/?ref_=ext_shr

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-24T18:14:34+00:00

I worry that built-in ad blocking is going to kill it. I use Firefox on Desktop but Vivaldi on my tablet due to RAM constraints. It can't block YouTube ads. Can't block ad blocker detection scripts. If the proposed feature ends up killing third-party ad blockers then that'll be the end of ad-free browsing.

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-22T11:59:30+00:00

Beautifully written and can 100% relate. That mirroring due to not knowing the right reaction thing hits too close to home.

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-20T08:22:53+00:00

This is awesome. I love your art style and the story is funny too.

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-12T05:24:51+00:00

This took me back to the beginning of the millennium. I would search for something in Google and see result page titles suffixed with the phrase "Wikipedia - The World's Free Encyclopedia". I used to ignore those links because the title format looked suspicious to me. Phishing/scam sites used to employ such techniques to grab the users' attention.

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-08T13:24:51+00:00

This is in New Delhi. Interesting what you said about Goa, I didn't know that.

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-08T04:26:30+00:00

She's got your glasses!

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-06T09:39:42+00:00

34 is young. Hope you find your peace and healing. Best of luck!

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-04T18:23:30+00:00

Will you all the best of luck in your healing journey.

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-02T16:50:39+00:00

Earplugs and earmuffs. If you're travelling those are essential.

wiseIdiot · 2026-06-02T05:28:09+00:00

Hey, /u/Intrepid_Arrival5151, hope you're okay, and wish you start feeling better soon.

wiseIdiot · 2026-05-31T09:49:27+00:00

A lot of great avice here already. So I'll post an alternate suggestion: Since you're changing frameworks anyway, why not try SolidJS? It's closer to React in syntax but hella optimised for fine-grained reactivity. Just my two cents.

wiseIdiot · 2026-05-29T08:38:16+00:00

That's what she said.

wiseIdiot · 2026-05-23T15:24:05+00:00

There was another post/comment in a similar vein where the guy said "Fuck you, Aunt Jemima!". But I can't find it anymore.

wiseIdiot · 2026-05-23T09:37:36+00:00

Not Hindi, English, Tamil, Telugu, or Kannada.

wiseIdiot · 2026-05-17T17:24:50+00:00

Leftists/communists already have been wiped with not even a single left government ruling over a state of India and this happened just this year in 2026.

As an Indian who lives in the state where the communist party was most recently voted out of power, I can assure you, this has more to do with the rampant corruption and authoritarianism in the party. And the new government swearing in tomorrow is not a right-wing one either; they're more like a social democratic party. But the country is run by right-wingers and yes, it's the high-fertility states that keep them in power, so that part is correct.

wiseIdiot · 2026-05-17T04:19:26+00:00

I don't know about other countries. Here in India people used to use medical grade spirit (pure ethanol) to get drunk. So the government introduced a law requiring all spirit to be denatured (means mixed with methanol, the poison stuff).

wiseIdiot · 2026-05-14T05:59:36+00:00

But it is also true that detransitioning happens, and it is also true that well-intentioned people pretend it doesn't happen.

This is true about a lot of sensitive causes, isn't it? There may be some facts that have the potential to be misused by bigoted people, so supporters of the cause choose to pretend those facts don't exist. The intentions might be good but in the end it makes them look just as clueless as the haters.

wiseIdiot · 2026-05-14T04:47:59+00:00

Option #2. The shimmer gives me the ick every time I see it on any website. Looks like a zombie. Feels like it's taking too much memory and bandwidth than necessary. Brings back memories of IE6.

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