Kerala Adding Colors to India

Namaskaaram

Photo Location: Trivandarum, Kerala

Reading Color at first gives an impression of an art or culture. This is what we have made an impression of colors in our lives.  We have different meaning for different colors; a black may signify darkness, whereas a red may be termed as color of love and thus we could find different meanings of it. It is not how I saw colors in Kerala. A color there has meaning to life- a color of unity, a color of understanding.

We have seen the world as racist, be it any part of the world. I count India amongst it as well, when it comes to religions, cast, gender, and the list would go on. These are all, the colors of life; this is what sets us apart from each other. Kerala, a state of India, I see it as a nation, a nation of color, full of unity, understanding between the people, at most a nation where everyone contributes colors to it. Kerala is a color of simplicity in itself, food or people are an example where we see the simplicity, though the variety is less, so are the demands, be it the five star or a four star or for a fact any small stalls (what we call Thelas in India).  The rich environment, the soft-spoken people of a nation full of stars I say. A star we would recall as a hero or a savior. I say they all are stars of India contributing their lifetime creating a rich color India.

Food served on a Banana Leaf

I do not say any other state or any other culture is not adding colors to India, all are adding in some or the other way, but Kerala has been the richest of all colors. I was here a few months back for an official visit, what augmented my impression were the people and the simplicity as I mentioned above they have in them. Though being from North India, I thought how I would get used to the local language, but people there we so understanding at times, that, be it any shop or place, through expressions or sign language I could get my work done. I would say that at certain point one might face challenges in coping up with understanding different languages in different regions, but if you can understand yourself and others around you, a language will not be a barrier for you and I pretty much experienced it there.

At some point, in life, I thought if Kerala as a place would have proper homes, how the people would be. I realized only now, how wrong I was to judge a place.  Knowing these beautiful colors of India had helped me know a nation in itself “Kerala – A Nation of Colors making India Colorful”.