or the harmful ultraviolet rays is obviously welcome it isnt always the listeners who take a liking for umbrellas former naxalite ayinoor vasu known to keralites as grow vasu took to umbrellamaking as a pastime and a means of livelihood the octogenarian reflects the deep bonding that keralites have to umbrellas a local adage capturing kerala communists fondness for their chinese comrades talks of holding an umbrella when it rains in china china has changed and the courts have banned roadside political meetings that disrupt normal life in the state but keralites have held on to their umbrellas amidst such strong gusts of social winds