Malabar saga 5
Valia chachan and Che Guevara stands together on the wall. Framed and nailed.They haven’t met each other in their lifetime, but they were fortunate enough to share the wall. Ammu had serious apprehensions whether it was really Che Guevara or Jesus Christ in his college days.

We are staunch communist reminds the elders every time .They are against capitalism and accumulation of money, but the elders of the Plathottathil family fought with each other for the chicken leg piece, for the mangoes, for the coconuts, for the cashew nuts,for the jackfruit tree, for the land, road and house.

Caste is a peculiar Indian reality. And Casteism is verbally absent inside Plathottathil house.Plathottathil communist read B.R Ambedkar and Karl Marx.But they won’t allow inter- caste marriages within the family. They are staunch communist. Later Ammu realised that there are three classes in the society as a whole: ‘Haves’ , ‘ More Haves’ and ‘Have nots’ .And in India caste is there at home, in the bus, in the hotel, inside the classroom, in the toilet, inside the theatre, in the film, inside the bread , butter and bun