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Documentary ‘Memoirs of Devaki — Oru Ammoommakkaalam’ captures the musings of a 91-year-old on pandemics

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Devaki is a star at the age of 91, thanks to her grandson Vinu Janardanan. Memoirs of Devaki – Oru Ammoommakkaalam, a short documentary shot and directed by Vinu, looks at COVID-19 through the eyes of the nonagenarian, as she reminisces about the epidemics and contagious diseases that Kerala has encountered till date.

This “lockdown documentary”, as Vinu calls it, is set at his ancestral…

Documentary ‘Memoirs of Devaki — Oru Ammoommakkaalam’ captures the musings of a 91-year-old on pandemics

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Devaki is a star at the age of 91, thanks to her grandson Vinu Janardanan. Memoirs of Devaki – Oru Ammoommakkaalam, a short documentary shot and directed by Vinu, looks at COVID-19 through the eyes of the nonagenarian, as she reminisces about the epidemics and contagious diseases that Kerala has encountered till date.

This “lockdown documentary”, as Vinu calls it, is set at his ancestral…

Nice response to the piece below in Livemint website. I wish The Skeptarian, whoever she or he is had said some more. I don’t agree with her or his notions about culture as talking to sweeper. That’s my milklady version.

The Skeptarian • 7 hours ago − This article just re-articulates a certain sameness in our thinking, a tired view of culture that equates it with the arts. Culture is not that…