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cosmicrhetoric · 1 year ago

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woh. finally got a good chunk of the way into ponniyin selvan and maybe it's just my translation but theres a little explanation section at the end of every chapter to help with some tamil words....but fr they explain maybe 1 out of every 5 bits that would be ILLEGIBLE to anyone who doesnt have a good handle on specifically south indian hindu myth and tamil nadu history. im doing ok language wise 👍🏾 like its been a few years since i was really in that world but if im struggling idk how non brown ppl would manage. even little things, poetics, word games....kuruvaikoothu scene was interesting though

#there was a line like 'wow youre a chanakya among men' and i was like???? ur just not gonna translate that?????#15 yrs of bharathnatyam were all training for reading this book fr. im literally only relying on what i learned in dance #this is not my actual family's bag #and the language/spelling is an issue theres a looooong passage in the koothu where i didnt know what god they were talking abt #cause i had never heard the name before. and then they mention the name of a slain demon thats similar to one i knew and i was like #OH. oh its him. okay. cool. but it took work #most of the language stuff im ok with though. a lot of the words are old enough that i can muddle thru with sanskrit roots #this is so crazy i cant believe going to a dance school that was so traditional my parents thought she was crazy is finally paying off #i remember going to kalakshetra and being like. yo this is wild why are we learning the same thing in the same way countries apart #i mean those dancers were better of course this was like. their whole life. but curriculum and vibe was exactly the same #like we had to show up hair braided formal dupatta and all. halfways thru she finally started letting us wear leggings under #a salwaar kameez top instead of the cotton pants they come with #learned nattuvangam too. and she didnt let us perform until we had a solid grasp on different talams #like when i got older half of class was sitting and listening to a tape and tapping out what beats fit #but yeah i just wonder if a more international translation exists! this really seems For south indians #but maybe this is why i had barely heard of it until the film came out my parents arent big readers but they should've at least known it #reading: ponniyin selvan

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