Friday, December 05, 2014

LIFE


Small things.
A look.
A smile.
A pat.
Thoughtful gifts.
Some love.
A little compassion.
Life!



ലൈസന്‍സ്




വണ്ടിയിലോടാന്‍ വേണം ലൈസന്‍സ്
വട വില്‍ക്കാനും വേണം ലൈസന്‍സ്
കുടയുണ്ടാക്കാന്‍ വടിവെട്ടാനും
കുട്ടനുവേണം ലൈസന്‍സൊന്ന്.

കുഞ്ഞുണ്ടാക്കാന്‍ കല്യാണം,
അടിയുണ്ടാക്കാന്‍ കാക്കിത്തൊപ്പി,
പീഡിപ്പിക്കാനാണ്‍ജന്മം,
അഴിമതികാട്ടാന്‍ ഖദറുമതി.


മോട്ടിക്കാനോ ബാങ്കിനു പറ്റും,
പറ്റിക്കാനോ കുത്തക പലത്,
വെട്ടിലുവീഴ്ത്താന്‍ ബിസിനസ്വീരര്‍,
അങ്ങനെ പലവിധ ലൈസന്‍സ് ലഭ്യം.

വ്യഭിചാരത്തിനു കിട്ടും ലൈസന്‍സ്
കൊള്ളപ്പലി‍‍ശയ്ക്കാകാം ലൈസന്‍സ്
ലൈസന്‍സില്ലേല്‍ തിരിമറി കുറ്റം
ലൈസന്‍സാണേല്‍ കാശിനുകിട്ടും!

Saturday, November 22, 2014

Father is the son

Death leaves a void no words can fill.

When my dear ones lose, I lose too.
And when they are lost, I am lost.
And the pain! It is staggeringly immense.
Every nerve swells and breaks,
Every cell explodes,
And the heart splatters blood into hair and nails.


He is gone!
After a year, I still bleed.
All that blood cannot fill that void he left.
I realize that the father is the son.
And when a man dies, he lives till his son dies.



Leftovers

They remained.
No one called their names.
No one took them.
They remained. They had to.

They sat oozing death from their eyes.
Through smoking dreams emerged sadness,
Like from a lonely sad chimney.
No place to go. They remained. They had to.

Memory was a curse there
A happy memory always slipped
And hunger, pain lurked fearless
Like vultures waiting for life to flee.


Some thought: of their kids-
Swollen with lust for food;
Of life- lusting with swelling fears.
So they remained. They had to.

Beyond them lay fields dusty.
For no one had a hope to plant!
And when a breeze strayed there,
Desperate dust settled on dry, smacking lips.

So they remained for the end to approach.
A feast for the waiting vulture.
All they had to do was to wait. Just to wait.
So they remained. They had to!



Tuesday, August 12, 2014

DIY cool refrigerator


Summer is really hot and one would never say that a refrigerator is an unnecessary accessory to keep one's vegetables and beverages fresh and cool. But the price of a refrigerator is so high that one would think of enduring the heat of summer rather than buying that costly apparatus. But here is an idea that can cut cost by 150 times and works quite smart.

This is a DIY (Do It Yourself) project. You can build it yourself. The items you need to assemble this cool refrigerator are available in any village market and are damn affordable- less than the cost of two days' vegetables! And, you don't need to worry about electricity bills. It works on capillary principle-doesn't need electricity!

I have built it a few months ago and it still works well for me. I spent Rs. 110 on two pots. The rest of the items were picked from household articles. A fridge at Rs.110 is quite an attraction, isn't it? Try it. You will like it.


These are the items you need


1. a plastic basin
2. two flower pots 
(with a difference in size so that one can be inserted into the other)
3. a towel
4. water
5. a handful of clean sand
6. a plastic sheet



7. a cleaning cloth



















How to make it your cool refrigerator
1. place your plastic basin in an appropriate location where there is sufficient breeze and no direct sunlight.


2. place the bigger pot in the basin. 
(Note: some flower pots have a drain hole in the bottom. For both the pots, you should plug it using cement before you place them in the basin.)
3. spread a thin layer of clean sand at the bottom uniformly 
(so that both the pots do not grind against each other and damage each other)


4. place the smaller pot inside the bigger one



5. place the plastic sheet inside the smaller pot.
 This prevents moisture troubling your vegetables.


6. arrange your vegetables neatly in the pot. 
Hard ones below and soft ones on top.





7. fill the space between both the pots with clean water, upto the brim

8. wet the towel generously


9. spread it over the pot, carefully covering it. 
(the towel should stay within the plastic basin so that your house remains clean)


10. Ready. Your DIY cool refrigerator is ready. 
Open it after a few hours and feel the vegetables. They will be ice cool.









How to maintain
  1. one should take out the vegetables everyday at least once and dry the walls of the inner pot using a cleaning cloth.
  2. everyday, one should replenish the space between both the pots with fresh water. Never let it dry. This is the engine of your DIY cool refrigerator! If there is no water there, your DIY cool refrigerator dies.
  3. twice everyday, wet the towel and spread it over your DIY cool refrigerator.

NOTE: Some vegetables need deep freezing. They cannot be kept for long in your DIY cool refrigerator. But vegetables like carrot, beetroot, brinjal, snake guard, ivy gourd, etc.

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