Athijeevithamar is the #richness of this #house.

#Athijeevithamar is the #richness of this #house.

Now Kerala politics is shifting to a serial format: Pinarayi-1, Pinarayi-2, Pinarayi-3, and in parallel with it, Athijeevitha-1 (Victim-1), Athijeevitha-2, Athijeevitha-3. Seasons change, characters change, but the plot twist never ends. 

The most famous of these is the new hit dialogue "Love you to the moon and back".

Although Athijeevitha-1 borrowed it from the 1994 children's book "Guess How Much I Love You", this sentence, which was even printed on the Chief Minister's teacup, may now become a political poem on par with the Pinarayi-1 slogan "LDF will come, everything will be fine". 

The immeasurable love to the moon and back - is now evolving into a symbol of governance and power. The beauty of this phrase lies in its simplicity. The feeling of covering a distance of 3,84,400 kilometers forward and the same distance back in a single breath. A firm declaration that love is not a one-way street, but a round trip.

Usually, it is used between a mother and her child, or between a lover and her lover. But in Kerala, it has found a new use - politics or the succession of rulers. A strange combination of devotion and security. The confidence that "everything will be fine" no matter how confusing things get, a way of expressing it with the moon as a witness.

When we remember that the young MLA went to look for the survivors again and again without knowing this, the eyes of the ordinary Malayali who loves the channel get filled with tears. Because one day, if all the survivors-1, 2, and 3 come home looking for the MLA, it will not be a "round trip" but a "Kattappoka". Let's hope that such a season does not come.  Otherwise, the next slogan might be: "Love you to the moon, but please don’t come back!" 

- K. A. Solaman