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Kerala’s economy and culture have been heavily shaped by migration to the Middle East since the 1970s. Malayalam cinema captured this phenomenon with striking accuracy. The pain of separation, the struggles of blue-collar workers in foreign lands, and the sudden influx of wealth into rural Kerala homes became central themes. The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent boom of
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