I have this habit of checking my referrers every now and then and as I was checking it yesterday, there was an incoming link from a Facebook Group topic. I was happy at first knowing the fact that someone is discussing about one of my blog posts in Facebook but to my surprise, the group was “Malaysian Malayalees“. Oh, there it goes again. This time, it was something new. Not Mallu guys, no more “why we should be different” topics and no more “no mix marriages” topics. They were discussing on an email being circulated by a Malaysian Mallu girl in a Yahoo! Malayalees-related group (Source: From the topic starter). I’m not sure where the email was circulated at first and how many people would have received it but one thing for sure, the writer seems to be so daring to the extent that she puts her name in the end of her email. As for when the email was sent, well, based on the screenshot below (via Google Cache), the email was sent exactly 2 months ago. It is quite a pity though that I’ve never came across this email earlier but anyway, it’s better late than never.
To: All Malaysian Malayalees
I have comments and suggestions about this association and all Malayalees. There are few things that I need to say and hopefully most of you can take this, realize it and change for the better.For our information and as we all know that Hindi is a national language for Indians (not only in India). In Malaysia, Bahasa Malaysia & English is used for our daily routine. Malayalam is our Malayalee mother language. As an Indian, we should fluent in Hindi language at least the basic. And the culture of Bollywood. As a Malayalee, we should maintain and modernize our culture (Such as Bollywood - modernized Indian culture). This is for the eye of global. What most people love to see and that is what we suppose to expose it. I realize that many of our
Malayalees are following “Tamil” culture and speaking in their language. That is
why some of us who doesn’t know to speak “Tamil” are victims for the Tamil’s
critics. Do not be surprise when they say “You are an Indian and must know how
to speak in Tamil”. It always happens to me. In this case, they do not know what
and who is Indian suppose to be. They thought us to be “Tamil” not as an Indian
(actually). It’s their revenge, so that all Indians able to promote their language and culture since they are been rejected by the Malaysian society. They cause so many problems such as “Hindraf”, gangsters and more.
We Malayalees know that “Tamil” people are who and what are the problems will occur in future if we meet with them. They are not supposed to be allowed in our community and association. Even any of our matters. We can make a good partnership with those other Malaysians Race who is non-Tamils. There are
some Tamils in our association because the rules & regulations in our society are not strict enough to check every member’s identifications. This association is only and for only Malayalees. That is what we call All Malaysian “Malayalees” Association. Every Indian race has their own association. For example; Punjabi / Telegu (Co-operate and good relationship among own community, maintain & modernized of culture & people). Take this an example to build our True Malayalees.
This is not a racism statement. But to protect our Malayalees name,
culture, people and future. Hope for the best!
Thank you.
Regards,
Presana Narayanan
As funny as it may sound, she wrote all that and even mentioned that those are “not racism statement”. Not racism statement my foot! The moment I finished reading that mail, I quickly did a search for that person in Facebook and surprisingly, a girl’s profile came up (And that girl was ‘Presana Narayanan’). Thank god she made her profile to be “public”. I looked around her profile just to ensure that she was the one who wrote that email and the first thing that I decided to do was to check her “Groups“. She DID joined some of those groups related to Malayalees. Oh, there comes my first hint.Then, I noticed that she is having her own website :
http://www.presanagraphics.webs.com In which if you clicked her “About Me” page, you will notice the following:
Ethnic Group: Malaysian Malayalee (Indian)
Well, I guess that I should start adding an “Ethnic Group:” detail in my “About Me” page as well.
Now, with her name being stated there as the author of the email and having joined some groups related to Malayalees in Facebook, I was curious to know what she gotta say about that email as I DID sent her a message in Facebook yesterday itself asking whether did she really wrote that email but to my despair, no reply till now. But, I could still see her taking some “Facebook quizzes” like 3 hours ago. I believe most of us would have been “immuned” to the content of the email above but this particular email by Presana Narayanan seems to be interesting. Dear all, I would appreciate if any of you could kindly send her a message in Facebook asking for clarification on this matter and let me know if she replies you. In addition to that, please let me know should you guys have any further details about the email above. Click the link below for her Facebook profile:Presana Narayanan’s Facebook And by the time I’m writing this, the Facebook Group topic that I mentioned earlier has been deleted for somewhat reason. I could still remember that some of the posters were condemning her email so badly. To you guys, thank you for being civilised. To whoever that wrote the email above, **** you.
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