Friday, July 12, 2013

The Ouroboros USAha is

Once upon a time there was a convict named USAha who escaped prison and landed in a village far away from home. He lived there, knew the people and enjoyed their benevolence. One fine day, he killed the richest villager and appropriated his wealth, wife and house. Villagers feared him because he was now not only cruel, but also rich.

Slowly USAha became influential and prominent among the neighbouring villages too. He made donations to local church and orphanage and funded childrens' holiday programmes and built parks for public. Everyone became his admirers. Time erased the blood stains on his hands- at least in the minds of the villagers. He would talk to villagers and intimately knew everyone. Secretly he maintained a diary of the details he gathered from the villagers. Whenever there was a problem in the village he would use the secret diary to tackle the problem or the problem maker. He also used the diary to promote his business and farming. Because of the details in the diary, he know whom to approach or attack and what the best time for that was!

Year after year, USAha grew richer and villages grew poorer and his debtors. All knew he was doing it, but no one knew how, or were too afraid to blow the whistle.

Once, USAha's own son Snowy went to the market and told everyone how they became poor and how his father became richer. He told them about the secret diary he kept about them. He told them what minute details of them were in the diary. People were angry but did not know what to do. People from neighbouring villages who came to the market were also angry as they were also becoming debtors of the cruel man, gradually.

When USAha came to know of his son's doings, he was furious. He never wanted the villagers to know about his secret diary of collected details. He pledged to kill his own son. Knowing this, his son decided to run away to a neighbouring village. but the cruel man announced in the market that he would stop supplies to those villages that gave him refuge. He publicly raged and threatened to finish off such rival villages. Most villages send representatives and informed the cruel man that they wont give him refuge, because they depended on the cruel man for their livelihood. They couldn't afford to be his enemies. But some village heads were really courageous. They announced that if Snowy came to their village seeking refuge, they would provide him with shelter and protection at any cost.

USAha fumed in anger and stopped all business with those villages. but that time his son had already taken refuge in a village called Equal Doors. The head of the village Ralph Korroeah was a courageous man who stood up against injustice and evil. He gathered more information on how the cruel man used his secret diary to control and deceive them. He communicated with his villagers and heads of other villages about the impending danger the cruel man was pausing to their lives, families, villages and their future. They all understood the dangerous situation and decided to act together.

They decided to pay USAha back in the same coin that he served them with. They set up another market where they traded freely, independent of the cruel man's market forces. They also talked to the cruel man's villagers to come and trade in their free market. Though reluctantly in the beginning, they overcame fear and broke free from the cruel man's fetters. They joined the new market.

Thus everyone in the country by-passed the USAha's evil network designed using his secret diary. USAha was fuming with anger, but had nothing to do. He had to witness his own disintegration. Slowly, he lost his control over the people of his own village. He became an icon of shame. Like a clown, he walked the streets of the country reminding the villagers of his evil, wicked ouroboros- a snake eating its own tail.

Thursday, July 04, 2013

shiva shiva

കവിഞ്ഞൊഴുകും പുഴ
കൊടുംകാറ്റമറും മരുഭൂമി
പച്ചമാംസം കോർത്ത്  ചോര ചീറ്റും തേറ്റ,
തമ്മിൽ ഭ്രമിച്ച കമിതാക്കളും!



















കാർമേഘം വാനിൽ തീർത്ത 
നിറമറ്റ കാൻവാസുകളെൻ 
കണ്ണി രസതന്തുക്കളെ 
കൊന്നു തിന്നുമ്പോലെ, നിൻ 

ചത്ത കണ്ണിൽ തേച്ചു മുനകൂട്ടിയ 
മൗനവും നെടുവീർപ്പുകളും
നേർത്ത ചോരപ്പാടു കോറിയെൻ 
നെഞ്ചിലല്ലോ തീർത്തൂ വടുക്കൾ!

കാലമേറെയില്ല കയ്യിൽ,
കണ്ണീരിലൊഴുക്കാൻ കളയാൻ.
സ്നേഹമൊക്കെ തോന്നുമ്പോഴെ കൊടുക്കണം,
പിന്നെക്കയ്യിലുണ്ടാവുമോ ആവോ? ശിവ ശിവ!

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Kannadakal

1
കണ്ണ് തുറന്നാൽ കാഴ്ചകൾ തെളിയാൻ,
കണ്ണിൽ വേദന നിറമായ്‌ തെളിയാൻ,
കണ്ണിനു മുൻപേ മനസ് തുറക്കാൻ,
കണ്ണിൽ മനസ്സിന്നാർദ്രത തെളിയാൻ
   കണ്ണ് കണക്കൊരു ഹൃദയം കിട്ടാൻ
   കണ്ണടകൾ വേണം, വർണക്കണ്ണടകൾ വേണം.

2
തലമുറകൾ തോറും തലവെട്ടി തമ്മിൽ
കണ്ണുകൾ ചുഴന്നാടി കൊലവിളികളോടെ
രക്തം  നിരന്നോഴുകി പോതുവഴികൾ നിറയെ
മതവും ചരിത്രവും കൈകെട്ടിനിന്നു
   കണ്ണടകൾ വേണ്ടേ നമുക്കിനി കാണാൻ
   കണ്ണടകളേ കാഴ്ച തിരികെതരില്ലേ?


3
കണ്ണുകളേ നിങ്ങളറിയുന്നുവോ കണ്ണു-
വേണമീ ധരണിയിൽ ചുവടുവയ്ക്കാനെന്നു?
ചുവപ്പും  കറുപ്പും വിഷങ്ങൾ തളിച്ചു നിൻ
കാഴ്ച തകർക്കുന്നോരാണ് ചുറ്റും.
   കണ്ണേ നീ നില്ക്കുക, ഉറങ്ങുക,മയങ്ങുക
   കാഴ്ചകളിലേയ്ക്കു നീ മടങ്ങുക..
   കനവിൻ കാഴ്ചകളിലേയ്ക്ക് നീ മടങ്ങുക..




"മങ്ങിയ കാഴ്ചകൾ കണ്ടു മടുത്തു, കണ്ണടകൾ വേണം"

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Definitely, Maybe


Love comes into life through ways obscured by paths chosen! How many lessons does it take for any one of us to learn this? There always are questions that face us upright and leave us dumb. We sometimes answer 'definitely', sometimes 'maybe'. But somethimes we answer, 'definitely, maybe'.

But when finally you do find love, you end up loving it like you never have done, because love happens only once, and it is irreplaceable, incomparable and inevitable. For some, it shatters their live's achievements and leaves them with sheer NOTHING. Still, they learn to love life, since they have discovered LOVE.

Love-when it comes- changes everything. Even the ways we look at happiness and suffering. Love happens for good, for 'good'.

Life is such- mysterious. And mysterious indeed!

Saffron Catholics of Kerala

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