![]() She knew that we were too smart for reason. None of us would touch it and like all parents, mine would say, “Taste it, why don’t you? How would you know if you like it if you don’t taste it?” But not my grandmother. It is a dish made from not one, not two but 10 different vegetables and it’s all mashed into this thick, morbid looking thing that screams at you to run from the moment it’s on your plate. It is also every strictly carnivorous individual’s worst nightmare. ![]() Avial, pronounced as aah-vhee-al is a dish that is uniquely Keralean. Sweet for the obvious reasons and bitter because of just one – Avial.Oh don’t worry, don’t reach for the dictionary – it’s not your lack of vocabulary. Her visits always brought the same sense of bittersweet joy. Kerala, my home state, is a very matriarchal society. "Our" soldiers are always dispensed from the observance of the Commandments.Order, calm and common sense prevailed only when my grandmother showed up at home. You can see muslim priests giving spiritual comfort to terrorists, as rabbies in the Israel Army do to soldiers who killed a Palestinian family. Usually, the religious hierarchies are always in the side of the political power. But the official Church, including the papal nuncio, the rest of the bishops, and specially the "military vicars" (who gave "spiritual comfort" to torturers and pilots who threw human bodies to the River Plate) where in the same role that Pio XII and the Vatican staff. Some bishops (De Nevares, Hesayne, Novak, perhaps another one) fought for human rights. In my country we had a lot of missing or killed Catholic priests and nuns. ![]() Perhaps his tale about the role of the Catholic Church can offer some doubts to Europeans and North-Americans subscribers of IMDB, but people who lived in Argentina during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983) can agree that there are coherency. ![]() The new movie from Costa-Gavras is as believable as his former ones: Z, The Confession, State of Siege, Missing. ![]()
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