Here are the two Malayalam songs I mentioned on the Random Language Thread yesterday along with my attempts at a translation of the lyrics. They're songs that seem to be criticizing religion as a whole and I think were meant to help promote communism (IIRC, by this time, Kerala was ruled by a communist government already). One is "Manushyan Mathangale Srushtichu" from
Achanum Bappayum (1972). My mom knows this song I think entirely by heart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn1toEsNc1ALyrics:
http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?2743 (click on "language" and then "English" to see the lyrics transliterated into Roman letters. Note that "India" in the lyrics should be "lokam")
Man created religions.
Religions created gods.
Man, religions, and gods
Divided up the land,
Divided up minds together.
[Repeat from beginning]Man created religions.
He became Hindu;
He became Muslim;
He became Christian.
We became unrecognizable to each other.
The world turned into a mental asylum. (He became Hindu...)
Thousands of human hearts
Turned into arsenals.
God is dying in the street;
The devil is laughing.
Man created religions.
Where is truth?
Where is beauty?
Where is independence?
Where are our blood relatives?
Where are the types of(?) everlasting love?
Where are those prophets(?) that come
Once in a thousand eons?
Man is dying in the street;
Religions are laughing.
[Repeat first verse]And this is another similarly themed song called "Eeswaran Hinduvalla" from
Postmane Kananilla, released the same year. I don't think I'd ever heard this song at all until I discovered it yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_RRhzLOJFoLyrics:
http://www.malayalasangeetham.info/s.php?2862CHORUS:
God isn't Hindu.
He isn't Muslim.
He isn't Christian.
He is neither
Indran nor
Chandran.
Oracles on white-smeared tombs,
You built temples, built ashrams,
And invented a thousand masks.
God invented a thousand masks.
(Chorus)
You betrayed Krishna.
You betrayed Buddha.
You betrayed Lord Jesus.
You betrayed the Prophet [Muhammad].
You betrayed Marx.
You pretended to be good people,
Pretended to be good people.
New moons following the dusk
Tinged with red ochre,
You hid the
Vedanta of India [i.e. ancient Indian school of philosophy],
The
Advaita Vedanta,
With the
Bhagavad Gita.
You hid it with the
Bhagavad Gita for so long.
(Chorus)
God isn't Hindu.
He isn't Muslim.
He isn't Christian.