Saturday, November 7, 2009

Amma manam

Amma Manam (Mother perfume) is an article written by the renowned Malayalam Poet Dr.D.Vinayachandran .And, it published in the Malayalam magazine Vanitha in the month of September. This particular work is a musical or lyrical musings of Mother and son time Rather than his mother the writer profess the mystical endurance of mother’s love or devotion to the creative and innovative minds .Moreover, he also establish two innovative mother archetype in this writing For instance throughout this work Dr Vinayachandran compare two floras with his mother’s love and affection .And, the two plants are Tulasi (Sacred Basil) and vanaya tree .Scent of vanaya and tulasi is astonishing. It seems his mother used to make a vayana ada .let us have a brief overview on this hidden ingenious culinary skill. Among the other Adda is one of the delicious dishes of Malayalee.
The vayana Adda is so sweet dish. And, the perfumed substance of vianaya makes the ada too tasty to remember. To make this peculiar dish initially we have to fold the Vianaya leaf like cone shape and fill the sweet rice pulp .After fill the delicious sticky rice pulp we have to boil it. After boiling the rice transformed according to the corn shape of leaf .Once it cooked we can peal and have the delicious dish .The process of the preparation almost resemble to the Tibetan dish Momo .Among the verity of dishes it is one of the delicious dishes of southern Malayalee cuisine in general particularly the vayana Adda is famous in the places like kottayam, Ponkunnam and many more. He muses such a way that the up growing and blooming vayana trees like his mother


Kerala is a place which blessed with luxuriant and green vegetation among the various flora and fauna Vinayachandran’s mother like Tulasi. Vinayachandran seeing vayana and Tulasi from a poet’ and his mother’s affection towards these foliage .Later the abstract and immeasurable phenomenon like love , affection caring, incarnate through the simple blooming vegetation like Tulasi and Vayana. When we read the work of VinayaChandran we read it as a article but it evoke or perfume an audible or lyrical sense reader’s psyche .He also acknowledge and appreciate his mothers contribution on his poetic meditation .Here he acknowledge the mother like a heavenly being for instance, initially, she use to collect various works of different writers and copy it in a book later as a writer it was one of the inspiration which he incorporated from his mother He amazingly narrate or elaborate this peculiar creativity to the reader .

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