chords of my heart

A few months from now when we were a five member family it was totally a different scenario when ever I came back home after a temple visit or shopping.I used to be welcomed in a special manner, making me wonder whether I had just left house a few hours back or weeks and months before. Taking a little time to reach the gate due to old age and eyes deep red after a long morning nap figuring outwith a fixed glance and assuring its me. Then authoritatively questioning me with his wordless speech and waiting for all the answers and all my love in just one glance. Those few seconds I still consider as the most beautiful and precious moments of my life.A feeling of wantedness.How courageous I felt with him around is incomprehensible .No body dared to raise an eyebrow or even speak in a raised tone, none dared to pluck even a leaf from my garden, no cats meowed bravely from the nook or corners ,snakes crawled sluggishly with their tender selves not daring to cross into my compound .Cockroac...

Disgusting,shocking and unbelieveable.That actually are not appropriate words for a henious crime being done on yourself and an innocent life within you.What could actually be done for reducing or banning such illegal activities stands before us as a mountainous task.A few years from now and a few states of india will face a huge shortage of girls.Now that the ratio of female to male stands at 940\1000,this could create a further imbalance with more and more clinics conducting the banned sex-determinig tests.The state of the maharajas which reports of approx. 300 female child being aborted daily is by no doubt a national shame.Every man needs a women but not all fathers wish for a daughter.You dont have to break your brains or conduct debates to get to the reason for this unjust and uncaliberated way of thinking.It is very simple.A word which has no relevancy may be anywhere in the world except two places one in india and the other in the dictionary.Yes 'Dowry' the five le...

Kerala the little south-west part of india is just not a piece of land famous for its scenic beauty comprising seas and rivers and greenery,or for the name earned earnestly as 'gods own country'.It has by now many beautiful feathers in its splendid crown and we are the fortunate ones to being a part of it. when people around the world come in hundreds to veiw its beauty,study our traditional and cultural values,and taste our delicacies we become the proud hosts getting goose-bumps because less do we see them sighing over the ill-maintained roads and shop premises which are always strewn with waste papers and plastic bags or bottles.We are known for our high literacy rate.But where do we show it?In communication, cleanliness, or godliness.Our children struggle to complete one sentence in english without a grammatical error.Thanks to the government and the right to education scheme.Teachers are putting their best and no blaming them cause thats how things have been since years....

The most loved, cherished and awaited day of every person whether in school or in office is undebatedly a 'holiday'.It would be a pleasure for all if one or more holidays were added to the prevailing national and state holidays.Imagine if we were to have one each for every caste? we would then have very few working days and lo! it will give a boost to the day by day increasing casteism and inter-caste egoes and fights.Yes our state kerala,the 100% literate state of which we are and will always be proud of, has set an example by declaring a holiday to the nair sect for the mannam-jayanthi in memory of the great leader mannathu padmanabhan who dedicated his life for the betterment of human and fought for their rights.His cause was not religion-biased but the given holiday is surely one.Which could not be appreciatd or accepted.Why then is sree Narayana guru jayanthi and Ambedkar jayanthi state and national holidays?.Life of people are advancing blindly into an advanced world ...