I want to thank all the people who helped me to write this post. Without their help, I would not have been able to get enough details for this post. As my parents are no more I am currently staying in my sister's house in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The people to whom I asked help took their precious time to search for all the details I wanted. My heartfelt thanks to all of them. I will not reveal their names as this post is related to an unpleasant matter. The phone numbers of most of them were obtained from the internet. I am painfully saying sorry to the Azhvanchery family, the Desamangalam family, the Pandarathil family, the Varanat family, the Elamana family, and the Cochin royal family for mentioning their family names in this post. The person with whom I conversed had used these family names while chatting. I dedicate this post to all those Keralite Sanatanis who have suffered because of leftists and Non-Hindu fanatics.
In India, there are thousands of castes. The religions which began in India are Sanaatana Dharma, Buddha Dharma (Buddhism), Jaina Dharma (Jainism), Sikh Dharma (Sikhism), Sreenarayana Dharma, Veerashaiva Dharma (Lingayatism), and Ayyavazhi. Every caste has its own religion. Some castes are strictly closed and endogamous. These strictly religious castes never allow people of other castes and communities to join their caste and it's the part of practicing their faith. But that doesn't mean that they are narrow-minded and look down on other castes or communities. A person who is born in a caste is obliged to follow its rules. If they don't like to follow its rules they should leave their caste officially. It is true that the ancestors of Sanaatanis used to call the ancestors of some communities Neech and Mleccha because of the cultural differences. But they have never harassed or tortured them.
Though the Hindus were rich and wealthy till the 20th century they were not inhuman like the leftists are trying to portray. The faiths followed by the Hindu community are Sanaatana Dharma, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism. None of these religions support violence and cruelty. Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism are branches of Sanaatana Dharma because these religions were found by spiritual leaders who were born in Sanaatani families. When you ask a Hindu about their sub-community they will proudly speak a lot about it. Every sub-community of the Hindu community is distinctive.
In Wikipedia, the pages about the Nair community are tissues of lies. Mr. Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, said in an interview that this website is not trustworthy and it has been taken over by the left. In the talk pages of Wikipedia, I have seen the complaints of the members of many Indian communities which say that many incorrect details have been included in the articles related to their communities. Most of the details added in the articles related to the communities of Kerala are taken from the book written by Duarte Barbosa. Duarte Barbosa was not a scholar. He only had knowledge of the Bible. So, it is intelligible that how he viewed the idol-worshipping communities. Also, he didn't know any of the Indian languages. Whereas, Mr. Edgar Thurston, who did research about the southern Indian communities with Shri. K. Rangachari and wrote The Castes and Tribes of India, was an educated man and a teacher in Madras Medical College.
For two years I am watching a person called Rakhi Venugopal who is writing nonsense about the Nair community. I found some of her posts very disturbing. I don't know what is her purpose behind it. On Quora, she has registered her account with the name Raakhee V. Menon and she is pretending that she is a Kiriyathil Nair. She is also writing some blogs. I chatted with Raakhee in the message section of Pinterest. I have taken the screenshots of the entire chat and also I have video recorded the whole chat for proof that the screenshots of the chat which I have shared in this post are not fake. I argued with her about what she wrote about Nairs and in the end, both of us blocked each other. Few days after that I came to know that she has written a post about me, calling me "Corona", in her blog called Ente Keralam (which means 'My Kerala'). She has used the phrase "our friend". I am not her friend. I don't like to have friendships with people like her. Also, she has lied in that post that I had threatened her while chatting.
I mistakingly wrote the word 'fraudster' in place of 'imposter'. Actually, I meant imposter in the first message. After the chat, I decided to search for these details to find if they are true or not. This is what Raakhee gave me as her family details. Please click on these photos to enlarge and read.
Pandarathil Family
Raakhee says that her father's Tharavadu's name is Pandarathil (पंडारत्तिल्) and it is in a place called Desamangalam (देशमंगलम्). When I searched about it on the internet I found that there is a Tharavadu with the same name in Desamangalam. When I asked a person from Desamangalam about Pandarathil Tharavadu he said that it is in a village called Kondayur (कोण्डयूर). I don't know to which community or caste this family belongs. I got the mobile number of one of its members from a website called Rocket Reach. He is working as an executive director in a government company. I chatted with him on WhatsApp. He is a very polite person. When I asked him about Raakhee's father he told me to wait for few minutes and he asked his relatives about it. After few minutes, he replied on WhatsApp. And the reply was, "Mr. Venugopal is from Pandarathil only and his wife Mrs. Jayanthi is from Tripunithura, and daughter's name is Rakhi. I don't have any further details." Then I asked, "Is Raakhee's mother's family name Varanat?". He said, "I don't have details."
I felt puzzled. Because those communities in Kerala who follow the Tharavadu system know their relatives and distant relatives very well. When I asked more questions, in the reply he requested me to spare him. I felt that he was very scared and there is something he doesn't like to talk about. So, I thanked him and stopped the conversation. I didn't ask him anything about personal matters of his family because I only wanted to know if Raakhee's father belonged to this Tharavadu or not.
Azhvanchery
Raakhee said that her mother's family traces their origins to Azhvanchery (आष्ज्यवांचेरी) and Thiruvilwamala (तिरुविल्वामला). There is a place called Thiruvilwamala in the Thrissur district. But when I searched on the internet if there is a place called Azhvanchery, I didn't find it. I got the phone number of Azhvanchery Mana from a Temple. It is in the Malappuram district. 'Mana' is a suffix added to the names of Brahmin Tharavadus in Kerala. 'Mana' is also used as a synonym for Brahmin house in Malayalam conversations. I called on that number and talked to a member of that family. I asked him, "Is Azhvanchery only the name of a Mana or is there also a place with the name Azhavanchery?" He said, "Azhvanchery is the name of a Mana. I have never heard of a place with the name Azhavanchery." Then I asked him, "Do you relatives in Tripunithura?" He said, "No. We don't have relatives in Tripunithura."
Varanat Family
I don't know how Varanat is pronounced. When I searched about Varanat family on the internet I came to know about Shri. Varanat Aashaan, who is famous for his performance in a Temple ritual called Mudiyettu (मुडीयॆत्ट). His Tharavadu is in a place called Koratty (कोरट्टी) in Thrissur district. I got his mobile number from a college professor and I got the golden chance to talk to one of the famous and respectable persons in Kerala. He is a very old man and a very humble person. He told me that his family name is pronounced as Vaaranatt (वारनत्त) and his family belongs to the Kallattu Kurup (कल्लाट्ट कुरुप्प) community. Kallattu Kurup is a community that performs rituals called Mudiyettu and Kalampattu (कळम्पाट्ट) in Hindu temples. There community organisation is Kallattu Kurup Samajam. When I asked him if he has a relative called Raakhee, he thought for a few minutes about it and said, "I don't think I have a relative called Raakhee." Then I asked him if he has relatives in Tripunithura (त्रिपूणित्तुरा). He said, "No. I don't have relatives in Tripunithura."
These two photos, shown below, were obtained from Raakhee's sister's Instagram account. Her Instagram handle name is "@miyamenon". In the caption she has mentioned that the building shown in the old photo is Varanat Tharavadu, it is one of the oldest Tharavadus of Tripunithura, later it was bought by an NRI and he renovated the building and now it looks like as shown in the second photo. But she has not mentioned in which locality of Tripunithura her Tharavadu was.
I sent these two photos to a resident of Tripunithura who is very active in social media and waited for nine days so that they can get enough time to search. After nine days, when I messaged them again asking if they found such a house in Tripunithura, their reply was "No".
There is an astrologer who is living in Tripunithura for many years but he is from another district of Kerala. When I asked him about the Varanat Tharavadu he said he has never heard about such a Tharavadu. He assigned two people who know about Tripunithura very well to search this Tharavadu. They searched for Varanat Tharavadu in Tripunithura but they couldn't find it.
Few days after that, I called the famour Sree Poornathrayisha Temple (श्री पूर्णत्रयीश क्षेत्रम्) and talked to a Temple employee who was born and brought up in Tripunithura. He too said that he has never heard about a Tharavadu called Varanat. Then I called another Temple of Tripunithura and asked one of the Temple employees about the Varanat Tharavadu. He too has never heard about it. I told him about Raakhee and sent the photos of Raakhee, her mother, and her sister which I had obtained from social networking sites. He said he has never seen them in the locality where he lives. But he requested one of his acquaintances to search about Raakhee. From them I came to know that Raakhee and her family live in a place called Palliparambukavu (पळ्ळिप्पर्रम्बुकाव).
When I searched about Palliparambukavu on the internet I saw that there is a Goddess Temple in that village. I called the Temple employee of that Goddess Temple and asked him about the Varanat Tharavadu. He said he has never heard about such a Tharavadu. Then I told him about Raakhee and also messaged Raakhee's, her mother's, and her sister's photos on his WhatsApp number. He said he has never seen these three women in Palliparambukavu. In my continuous search, I got numbers of two people from the internet. One of them is a resident of that locality and the other lives in a neighboring locality. They too said that they have never heard about a Tharavadu called Varanat.
In the Alappuzha district, there is a Temple called Sree Varanad Devi Temple (श्री वारनाड देवी क्षॆत्रम्). It is in a place called Cherthala. I called that Temple and asked if there is a Tharavadu called Varanat in Cherthala. The person who attended the phone said that he has never heard about such a Tharavadu.
Elamana Family
Raakhee said in the Pinterest chat that Shri. Elamana Achutha Menon had taken "a wife" from her mother's family. That "a wife" has no name. And they had four sons and two daughters. When I searched about Shri. Elamana Achutha Menon I found that on a website called www.geni.com his family has given the details of him, his spouse, and their children with photos. Shri. Elamana Achutha Menon was married to Smt. Nani Amma of Kovilakath Tharavadu and they had a son and two daughters. The names of their daughters are Smt. Sharada Amma Kovilakath and Smt. Subhadra Kovilakath. The name of their son is Shri. Raman Menon.
Cochin Royal Family
Raakhee said that her great-grand aunt was the spouse of HRH Prince Shri. Chowwarayil Theepetta Thamburan. The Prince was married to Smt. Kunjiyamma of Elamana Tharavadu. But none of the Raakhee's parents belong to the Elamana Tharavadu. Then how Smt. Kunjiyamma became Raakhee's great-grand aunt?
When I called a person who knows the Cochin royal family very well and asked him the phone number of the Cochin royal family he asked me back, "What is the purpose?" I said, "I just want to ask them about some Princes of the Cochin Royal family." He said that he can't give the phone number without their consent and told me to call him the next day. When I called him the next day he said, "the Cochin royal family normally don't give their phone number to anyone and they said their family details are available on their website."
Raakhee asked me why I am not revealing my official name and is it because I am a coward. Not at all. It is because I love to live a simple life. Now, look at this photo posted by Raakhee.
Intercaste marriage is forbidden in Manusmriti
The Kiriyathil and Illathu Nairs are allowed to marry from their own community, from genuine Brahmin communities, and from Hindu royal families only. It is because, in the 9th chapter of Manusmriti, one of the holy scriptures of Sanaatanis, it is mentioned that if a man marries a woman of his same caste then only he will become her master. I am sharing a part of page number 8 of Rasikaranjni, a magazine that was published by HRH Prince Shri. Rama Varma XIII of Cochin royal family.
I have downloaded a Manusmriti which was published in the year 1939. I have read in it that if a Brahmin accepts any other Varna he can come back to Brahmin Varna whenever he wants.
Nair women and freedom
Raakhee says that Nair women enjoyed a lot of freedom and she has never heard of other communities having such freedom.
A Keralite astrologer who knows Tamil very well once told me that in the previous generations of the Nadar community, the house was ruled by the wife. The husband worked and earned for the family but the decisions were taken by the wife in all the matters of family. Whereas, in Kiriyathil and Illathu Nair castes, the house was ruled by Karanavars or elder male members of the family. If the Karanavars were not in the house the eldest female member and remaining adult male members used to take care of the house. The eldest female member had the right to make decisions alone only if the adult male members were not there in the house. But, females lived a very secure life as the male members of the family were very protective.
Raakhee has said in some of her posts that the Nair community was fiercely or extremely feminist. No, not at all. None of the communities in Kerala was feminist to an extreme level. Fiercely feminists are those women who don't belong to any religion or any community. So, they live by their own rules.
Keralolpatthi and Keralamahathmyam
Raakhee said that she has done 15 years of research on the Nair community and Keralolpaththi and Keralamaahaathmyam were written by Brahmins to cleanse the Nair community. How can she prove it? How can she prove that Nair was an uncivilized community before Keralolpathi and Keralamaahaathmyam were written?
Now let's see what Raakhee, who claims that she has done 15 years of research, has written about the origin of Kerala in her blog Raakhee's den.
Keralolpaththi mainly contains the details of what all happened in Kerala until a particular time after its formation. Like, what Lord Parashurama had instructed to the Brahmins and who were the kings who ruled Kerala etc. I haven't read Keralamahathyam. But from Martial Races of Undivided India written by Sushri. Vidya Prakash Tyagi I came to know that in Keralamahathmyam it is mentioned that Nair community was formed when some men of the Nambuthiri community had married women of supernatural tribes like Yaksha, Gandharva, and Rakshasa.
I am 101% sure that in these two scriptures there is no mention that Nair was an uncivilized community and it needed to be cleansed.
Poor women of ancient Kerala
Raakhee lied about a Brahmin family, Desamangalam Mana, of her father's hometown that in ancient days it was customary for slaves to present their bride in front of the men of that Mana. In rich Sanaatani families, there were many domestic helps and they were not slaves. They were not forced to obey their masters. They were paid for their work and they were free to leave their job whenever they wanted. I asked about this to a man of the Veluthedathu community whose Tharavadu is from Desamangalam. He is a very polite and straightforward person. When I asked him if has heard about what Raakhee said about Desamangalam Mana, he said, "No."
Raakhee also said that there were gallows in the front yard of Desamangalam Mana where the members of that family used to hang people who were found guilty. A member of the Padinjare Pandarathil (पडीञ्ञार्रे पंडारत्तिल्) family of Desamangalam is currently living in Thiruvananthapuram. When I called and asked her if there were gallows in front of Desamangalam Mana, she said, "I have never heard so". She also said that, at present, her brother is staying in the Padinjare Pandarathil Tharavadu.
I came to know about the four stages of life from a book called Swadharmaanusthanam (स्वधर्मानुष्ठानम् ). It was a book published by The Yogakshema Sabha, the community organization of Nambudiri or Malayali Brahmins, in the year 1917. I had downloaded this book from the internet in 2019 or 2020.
Now, look at the lifestyle of the Nambuthiris of that era. On pages number 8 and 9 of the book called Samudayamithram (समुदायमित्रम्), written by Shri. Avinjikkattu Bhavadasan Bhattathiripadu, published in the year 1920, daily rituals of then Nambuduthiris are clearly given. It is as shown in the screenshots below,
What is written in this screenshots is as follows,
"ഒരു നമ്പൂതിരി വെളുപ്പാൻകാലത്ത് എഴുന്നേറ്റാൽ, പ്രതഃസ്നാനം, സന്ധ്യാവന്ദനം, ആദിത്യനമസ്കാരം, സ്വാദ്ധ്യായം, അല്ലെങ്കിൽ ബ്രഹ്മയജ്ഞം, മദ്ധ്യാഹ്നികം മുതലായ നിത്യകർമ്മങ്ങളെ കൊണ്ടുതന്നെ ഏകദേശം പകൽ പന്ത്രണ്ട് മണിവരെ സമയം കഴിക്കേണ്ടതായിട്ടാണ് ഇരിക്കേണ്ടത്. അതിന്റെ ശേഷം അതിഥികൾ ഉണ്ടെങ്കിൽ അവരെ ഊട്ടിയതിന് ശേഷം താൻ ഭക്ഷണം കഴിക്കുന്നു. അത് കഴിഞ്ഞാൽ പിന്നേയും അവർക്ക് വിശ്രമമില്ല. അദ്ധ്യയനം, അദ്ധ്യാപനം, ഗ്രന്ഥനിർമ്മാണം മുതലായ സദ്വിഷയങ്ങളെ കൊണ്ടാണ് പിന്നത്തെ കാലയാപനം. സന്ധ്യയാകുമ്പോഴേക്ക് പിന്നേയും കുളിക്കും തേവാരത്തിനുമുള്ള സമയമായി കഴിയും. ഇങ്ങിനെ നോക്കിയാൽ ഇവർക്ക് വൈദീകവൃത്തി ഒഴിച്ച് മറ്റ് ലൗകീക കാര്യങ്ങളിൽ ഏർപ്പെടുവാനുള്ള സമയം വളരെ കുറവാണെന്ന് കാണാവുന്നതാണ്."
(Translation: When a Namboothiri wakes up in the morning, he has to perform daily rituals such as morning bath, evening salutation, Adityanamaskar, Swadhyayam, or Brahma Yajna and Madhyahnikam till 12:00 pm. After that, if there are guests, he should feed them, and then only he should have food. Even after that, they have no rest. The latter period is characterized by good subjects such as study, teaching, and bibliography. In the evening, it is time for bathing again. If we look at it like this, we can see that they have very little time to engage in worldly matters other than priestly work.)
The above picture shows one of the replies of Raakhee when we were chatting about the Nair sub-castes. Below the picture, I have added my opinion about her reply. Those communities who are known as backward Nairs are actually independent communities. These communities had decent and moral traditional occupations. Veluthedath community's traditional occupation was washing clothes. Members of this community also had knowledge of dyeing technology. I think the origin of this community is from Tamil Nadu. Because in Tamil the meaning"Velu" is "to wash." Members of the Vilakkithala community were barbers and mid-wives. They are actually members Nai community of India. Women of this community were gynecologists of ancient Kerala. Members of Chakkala/Vattekad community did the trade of oil. Before 1921, the Chakkala community was known as "Chakkala Maran." I have read that in Census Reports. The men of the Pallichan community were Palanquin bearers. Most of the communities in India had a decent traditional occupation. In those days, their traditional occupations were their sources of income. They never forced their women for immoral activities.
It is recorded in the Census Reports of India that financially backward communities used to practice fraternal polyandry to adjust the cost of marriage. That is, the biological brothers of families belonging to financially backward communities used to marry a single woman and made her remain as their common wife. But it is not given these documents that women of financially backward communities used to sleep with rich men for money and to raise social status. I don't know if one or two communities did it secretly for money. But I personally don't think that all financially backward communities were like so.
Veli and Sambandham
In the Nambuthiri community, the word for marriage was Veli (वॆळि) and in the Kiriyathil and Illathu Nair castes, the word for marriage was Sambandham (सम्बन्धम्). An old Malayalam movie called Poothali (पूत्तालि), released in 1960, shows a fictional story of a Nair family. There is a dialogue in that movie, "Penninte Sambandham Nadathende?(पेण्णिन्त्टे सम्बन्धम् नडत्तेण्डे?/പെണ്ണിന്റെ സംബന്ധം നടത്തേണ്ടെ?)." Which means, "don't we have to marry her off?"
Raakhee said that I am trying to whitewash Sambandham and trying to show it as a relation equal to marriage. In the chat, she replied disrespectfully about the parents of Shri. Mannathu Padmanabhan. In The Report on Malabar Marriage Commission (1892), It is given that "Sambandham is a principle Malayalam word for marriage as Vivaaham is in Sanskrit."
Those who are trying to portray Sambandham as cohabitation have not read The Report on Malabar Marriage Commission (1892). Because, if they read it and accept it they will not be able to make Kiriyathil and Illathu Nairs give up Sanatana Dharma.
Secret Lovers and Bedrooms with front-doors and back-doors
In a blog called "Raakhee's Den" she has written that Nair women had secret lovers, every Nair Tharavadu had front doors and back door, and the secret lovers used to enter through the front door and leave through back door. She is trying to typify the entire Nair community with these types of false details. I am sharing a screenshot of that post below. I have also merged the screenshot that contains one of the replies of the chat in which Raakhee has said the opposite of what she wrote in the blog.
When I searched about bedrooms with front doors and back doors on the internet I found a detail related to my search in the book From Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works By S. Beal. It is as shown below,
"Ironically, a novel about Brasília describes a brothel's architecture in more depth than any monumental government buildings. The narrator describes the Marten Chalet in which traffic flows smoothly in one direction as men enter the waiting room and bar through one entrance, then through one of the six doors along the backwall that open into Specific bedrooms, then exit through the backdoors of the bedrooms without ever retracing their path."
So, I think bedrooms with front doors and back doors, in which women with secret lovers stay and allow their secret lovers to enter through front doors and exit through back doors are found in the red-light area.
In a post with the title "A discussion on Khajuraho...." Raakhee has said that "All these morals and stuff you see today are a result of cultures brought in from outside." See the screenshot below.
Prostitutes or loose women were isolated in society. Good men and good women never talked to them. Even when they saw these women from distance they used to frown and look away. Some of the highly religious people used to expectorate when they saw loose women or an incident related to them. This tradition is still followed because keeping moral values with oneself is considered a must in Indian culture.
I am sharing a video of a scene from the movie "Nanma Niranjavan Sreenivasan (translation: Sreenivasan, a virtuous person)." It was released in 1990. I got this video from YouTube. In this scene, Sreenivasan, a decent man working in the police department, is ordered by his senior to take some eatables to a woman called Thresyaama. Thresyaama is a promiscuous woman. But poor Sreenivasan doesn't know that. On the way to Thresyaama's house when Sreenivasan asks the location of her house to an aged man, that man says "get lost". When he tells a female acquaintance that he is going to Thresyaama's house she too becomes angry and when he asks the way to Thresyaama's house to a group of men they make fun of him.
I read the comments on the post of Raakhee. Some of her supporters have commented pretending that they are Nairs. My reply to all of them is that "you fake Nairs will never be accepted in the Nair community. Ask any Nair about it." I don't know why these people want to drag Nairs into their group which is hated by all religious Hindus.
Please don't hack this website and don't make changes in the posts.
