Her Better Half!

(A mini story)

As she crossed the brink of her wedlock, the flight of her hope took her amidst the brightness of the stars.   With milk in hand and mirth on lips noiselessly she stepped into the conjugal room. She took a few moments to realize that she was not dreaming because the room was highly decorated as if it was an exhibition hall.  The nuptial bed was adorned with an ornate sheet which seemed identical to a garden of multi-coloured blooms. Moreover, flowers fresh from the garden were sprinkled on the sheet and that made it difficult to differentiate the design from the real flowers. Ranjini though favoured not much snobbishness, somehow developed a fascination towards the decorations in that room.

Her better half had already established the ownership of his space on the bed.He was lying near the wall turning towards it.

She sat on the bed,” Milk.”

 He didn’t heed attention or pretended so. Ranjini slightly raised her voice,” Milk.”  He turned straight a little and lay facing the ceiling.

“Please drink a better half of the milk and give me the other half, “ Ranjini’s sound had captured a little anxiety in that.

“…….,”Parthip.

“Amma told me to give the milk to you.,” Ranjini with a tint of sobbing in her voice.

“…….”Parthip.

“It is the custom, half you will have and the other half for me.”

“What custom? Don’t pretend. You are not that simple. I know you have a boyfriend. Together you were on beach, theatres and..  um….I don’t tell much,” his voice had attained more decibels in volume. 

An unforeseen thud hit her head and she slipped and directly fell into the abyss.  Such an awful blow, she couldn’t think of.

Ranjini’s sound was reluctant to come out; it held tightly to her throat. Her eyes instead started speaking by letting surge her tears in abundance. Her mind went on persuading her to pour her thoughts out through the throat.

Thinking, come what may she said,” How can you say so? Can you tell me the name? Who told you like that? A series of interrogations spurted out of her lingual part.

“Then why didn’t you withdraw? What for all these luxuries? You could turn back from this exercise,”  she said.

 “Having a boyfriend is not a big thing. No male will marry a flirting girt. I am not of that sort.My parents are very strict and I was fully in my studies.” continued she.

“I came to know the things yesterday only. I didn’t want to put up a show at this eleventh hour in front of all.”

“Okay, impossible to live with you, I’ll call my parents .I’ll go now itself,” she took a right turn and stepped towards the door.

A strong arm encircled her and another arm snatched the milk spilling it on the floor. Before understanding what had happened, she was in the close clutches of his arms.

“You know I am a cine-actor. How was my performance?” holding her more tightly.   

വിട ചൊല്ലാം!

  (വൃത്തം - ദ്രുതകാകളി)

   

എന്നുള്ളിന്നുള്ളിലായോടിയോർമ്മകൾ,

പിന്നിലൂടൊഴുകിയ   ആണ്ടുകൾ താണ്ടി.

മന്നിലായ്   നന്മകൾ നൽകിയ  ഗേഹം  

മാനസം   'ക്ലിക്ക്' ചെയ്ത    ചിത്രമായി. 

 

 എന്നുമേ ഞങ്ങൾക്കു  പെറ്റമ്മപോൽതാൻ,

വന്നവളെന്നാലെൻ   വാസനം തൃപ്തം,

 പാർത്തു  ഞാൻ സ്നേഹസമൃദ്ധിയിലായി,

ഭർത്തൃ മാതാപിതാവേകീ നൽരക്ഷാ.

 

ലാളിത്യം കുമ്പിട്ട മാതാവു കാത്തു,

ഓളങ്ങൾ സൃഷ്ടിച്ച സുന്ദര  വാസം.

കാർക്കശ്യമാർദ്രതയും  താതൻ കാട്ടി, 

പാരമൂട്ടീ   പ്രേമം ഭർത്തൃസോദരർ.

ആഞ്ഞിലി  ഗർവോടെ മേവുന്നൊരങ്കണം

പഞ്ഞമില്ലാതേകി  വീടിനു ഭൂഷ.  

കുമ്പിട്ടു  നിൽക്കുന്ന  ഒട്ടുമാവെല്ലാർക്കും

 മാമ്പഴം മൈത്രിയിൽ  വച്ചുനീട്ടി.

പത്രസമൃദ്ധമാം കൊച്ചു വൃക്ഷങ്ങൾ,

പ്രീതിയോടെ തമ്മിലുരുമ്മി ചെമ്മേ.        

 തൊട്ടാലോ  വാടുന്ന  മുള്ളുള്ള  സസ്യം,

കാട്ടി  ഹൃദ്യം ചിരി  സുമങ്ങളാലേ.

പാർശ്വത്തിൽ നല്ലൊരു സാറ്റിൻറെ പർദ്ദ 

വിശ്വസാമർത്ഥ്യംപോൽ    നെൽപ്പാടമുണ്ട് .

 പിച്ചിയോ കാണിച്ചു   സുന്ദരീഭാവം 

 കൊച്ചുചെടിയെക്കാൾ   ചേതോഹരിയെന്നും .

രാവിൻറെ  വർണ്ണത്തിൽ പക്വങ്ങൾ  പേറി  

 ഞാറകൾ   താളത്തിലാടി  നിൽപ്പായി .

'ഞാറയ്‌ക്കാട്ടേത്തെന്നു ശോഭിച്ചു നാമം,

ഞാണു  തൊടുത്തു മൂല്യാംശുവെയ്യാൻ. 

ആരുപോയാലും  വിളിക്കുന്നു പ്ലാവ്,

അണ്ണാനും  കുയിലും  കാക്കയും മിത്രർ.

അൻപോടു കൊമ്പുകളെ സ്വന്തമാക്കി,

 ആനന്ദപൂർവ്വം   കേളിയാടീയവർ .

 ഉമ്മറം വിട്ടങ്ങകത്തേക്കു  പോയാൽ 

 പഞ്ചാര മണ്ണുള്ളയുൾമുറ്റം കാണാം.

പുത്തൻ ഗൃഹത്തിൻറെ   ജന്മമുണ്ടായി,

പണ്ടത്തെയാലയമനാഥയായി.

                                               

ക്രൂരനാം മാരുതൻ  താണ്ഡവമാടി

കാരുണ്യംകിട്ടാതെ  ശവമായി  വാസ്തു. 

കാടുവളർന്നുള്ളിൽ, കാണുന്നു  ക്ലേശം.

വീടു     പൊളിയ്ക്കുന്നവേള ചൊല്ലാം വിട.

എന്നും യാഥാർത്ഥ്യത്തിൽ  വയ്ക്കേണമോർമ്മ,

 പിന്നിൽ കവാത്തായി  മൃത്യുവുണ്ടെന്ന്.

പൊന്നായ ജീവിതം പാവനമാക്കാൻ, 

നന്നാക്കാം  ശീലങ്ങൾ  കല്മഷം പോക്കാം.

Mystic Night!

Dawn, a quiet kid

 When grows into youth, attains

Might and power much.

Noon sights her making his pal,

Noisy Evening envies Dawn.

Wakes up to morning

Stillness,Dawn spreading splendor;

Noon cuddles cute Dawn.

Frowns Evening at Noon and waits

For Dusk with lust to hug her.

Arrives mystic Night

To alert all residents,

For meditation.

For a long rumination

The dwellers well close their eyes.


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Corporate Bodies!

Part-2

Now let us look into the ills, the society faces on account of corporate bodies’ presence. Can the corporate stand as a panacea for all that are unwell? No, the corporate bodies never care about what goes on around. Their eagle eyes aim  only at profit making and expanding their business empire, as they have been and are pro-profit entities. The corporate heads live in glass houses embedded in luxury and lavishness.

 Why to blame only the corporates, what about the politicians?  They too reside in star facilities at the cost of poor tax payers' money. The wealth amassed by them crosses even that of the corporates. If their legal and illegal deposits inside and abroad are shaken, that will suffice  to fulfill the countries commitments.And so stand their accomplices' savings also.

Another matter is the companies are bothered the least while acquiring the possession of people staying nearby for launching companies or inflating their business. Nor do they show any clemency to extent any aid to such people. They have hesitation naught to crush down all that blocks their fervor.  
           

 There are corporate houses  that are seldom bothered about the goings-on around.  The atmosphere entirety becomes polluted as the corporate allows emergence of smokes to Air, disposes waste to land and water. And the waste from their produces stays about without rotting, injuring the purity of the environment. Health hazard is a vicious issue amidst the people residing nearby.

The corporate shouldn’t act blind in all those situations. They should keep their eyes wide open to learn the impediments that the people suffer from. They should do the needful to recuperate the harm and hurt brought by them to the habitat and inhabitants of the terrain.

Since the corporate employees draw remuneration at high rates, their spending ability goes high affecting the prices of goods which often mark inflation. Expansion of land cost, expense of building construction etc. nip the yen of men to have an own residence, in the bud itself.  Education becomes a twin sibling of corporate, as quality education is available only in self-financing institutions. Therefore good education remains as a discontented dream for the common man. 

Another main factor is, as it is said in its commencement, is lack of time on the part of corporate employees. While they immerse their heads in laptops, their offspring spend their babyhood in maids’ laps or in crèches. The corporate staff do not experience the exquisiteness of sunrise and sunset. They cannot enjoy rains or chills. They don’t have time enough to eat well, sleep snug and even bathe neat. Human relation’s warmth dies in the heart, rather being killed in the heart.  Here we should understand that  life does not mean only money.

  Corporate Heads should value the lives of their staff as there is only one life for both the heads and subordinates. As is stated earlier the children are deprived of their parents’ patting and pampering, since the time waits for none and instead waves it goodbye to all. Such children, the tomorrow’s citizens may not understand the warmth of human liaison and when they grow up their old age parents may be left uncared.  And moreover act they may against the interest of the country due to scarcity of patriotism. 
 

Citizens’ paramount affairs like family rapport, recreation, housekeeping, communication with kith and kin, merging with the society etc. will flee the environs and vanish from the vicinity. People lead a mechanical mode of life with little cognizance about the occurrences around. What the corporate should do is they should employ more persons for each job, i.e. the load will get distributed among more people lessening the employees’ weight of their physique as well as psyche.

The case in point is that a job with two employees can have three or four and the amount earmarked for two’s salary may suffice for three or four, provided it is not too measly. The staff will obtain a life good to live in spite of the fact that their take home salary becomes a little less.

 The corporate bodies should consider the staff’s family life too, so that their satiated souls will find ease in working more efficiently. Peaceful mind of the employees will love their companies wholeheartedly and work earnestly with full spirit; the advantage will lie with the company only. The quality and quantity of a companies’ produce will then undoubtedly mark significant updation and upgradation. A strong bond among kin of the staff, will lead to family link, extended family relation and social communication and eventually the Nation will become the utmost beneficiary.

Corporate Bodies!

Part-1

 ‘The toddler is screeching at the highest pitch of its voice seeking the mother’s presence. The loudness in fact pierces the ears of the child- minder, despite the latter’s all the exercises to set the kid calm. Mother reached home late by one hour more than the usual. She is working in a corporate concern. Every now and then it so happens while the tender mind tends to await its mother’s entry after a long severance from morning till night. The mother is a staff in a corporate company.’

I have quoted this paradigm just to express the predicament one faces being a part of corporation. What the corporate bodies do is in fact extracting the juice of their employees. At the same time they are the main sources of revenue for people. Let’s now have a scrutiny over the pros and cones of corporation which forms the backbones of almost all the nations now.

 The Corporate Body signifying here is a business concern owned by a single man or a group assisted by a board of directors. Families’ survival in general revolves around corporations.  I have heard many a man blindly speaks ill of corporations in our country. Corporate bodies are often titled ‘Corporate Monsters’, the income bagged from them by the employees is enormous though. The journey of people seek  posh four wheelers, their slumber wants outsized mansions and their households come from classy shops and all these happen because of the corporate cash in their account.

  Many of the families’ survival itself will become a question mark, until unless at least one member is a member of a conglomerate. Lately it has become a dream for youngsters to get into a corporate organization to fulfill their ambition for a luxuriant life. And they feel that their goal is reached when they see offer letters for the job of their option very fervent. On an evaluation of the merit-demerits of corporate bodies, we come across both benefits and barriers, though not in the same style.

Let us now ponder over its advantages which no doubt we experience in a great deal. The youths, when reach the conclusion of their education, rather before its completion even, see themselves land in some corporate jobs.  The recent trend is that companies grab the youths from campuses, unlike the period prior to corporate propagation, when they had to desperately hunt for a career. So the education lately becomes a fail-safe affair as far as obtaining an employment is concerned. At the finishing point of each Month, astounding amount of pecuniary benefits surge to the employees’ bank accounts. In such situations, who is there that hates corporate service?

Corporate employees ‘progeny obtain their education from elite institutions on account of their financial status, even if the IQ level of the former is slightly dim. Higher studies are no more a nightmare for want of fund. Self-financing Schools and colleges spurt up like grasses in soil after rains. And they too provide plentiful jobs to people all over.

 Trades of various natures both petite and fat run straightly or obliquely on the roads built by corporate economy. Generating fund for existence has gained ease when compared to the time, two or three decades ago.

Corporate employees’ dependability on various other skilled workers such as domestic help, ironing man, gardener, milk man, driver and so on provides the latter ones to make both ends meet. Since the corporate employee draws a striking salary, it flows to the society in diverse ways influencing the lives of many. As the society’s buying competence is much more than earlier, the shopping also has augmented at numerous places hiking the benefit of shop people. Here we can see that corporate companies become instrumental to bounteous residences’ livelihood. Rareness of revenue has shrunken extensively, the result a decline is noticed in poverty level as a whole. The outer shell of residential areas in totality has attained a refined look.

The conglomerates’ existence amounts to the advancement of infrastructure of surrounding areas so that one can make use of a trouble-free accessibility. Snag in obtaining indispensables peters out, as goods of all sorts become easily available.  If we mull over the gains we acquire from corporation, they are no doubt profuse. Though the critics contempt the corporate, abandoning of this culture after its cultivation in sizable scales today, will instill carnages in society.

[to be contd]

കാരുണ്യദീപം!

     (വൃത്തം-മഞ്ജരി)

അയ്യപ്പസ്വാമീ നിൻ ദിവ്യ  ചരിതങ്ങൾ

അൻപോടു മണ്ണിൽ നിറഞ്ഞുനില്പ്പൂ.

ലോകശാസ്ത്രേ! നിൻറെ പാദപങ്കജങ്ങൾ   

പാകിനിൽപ്പൂ ഭക്തർ മാനസത്തിൽ.

പന്തളരാജനാം, പാണ്ട്യ മഹാമന്നൻ, 

ചിന്തിതൻ  അനപത്യദുഃഖംമൂലം. 

കാന്താരംതന്നിലായ്  കണ്ടോരു ബാലനെ,  

 പുത്രനാക്കി വൻസന്തോഷപൂർവ്വം. 

  

കണ്ഠത്തിൽക്കാണായി ദിവ്യമൊരു മണി,  

പണ്ഡിതർ 'മണികണ്ഠൻ' നാമം നല്കീ.

ആനനം ദിവ്യൻറെ കാണുമ്പോൾ നിത്യവും, 

ആനന്ദത്താൽ ലോകർ നൃത്തമാടി. 

മാനസഭൂഷണമായ് മാറ്റി റാണിയിൽ 

മന്ത്രിതൻ ഏഷണീഭാഷ്യങ്ങളും.   

പോറ്റമ്മതന്നുടെ  കാപട്യരോഗത്തിൻ    

പെറ്റപുലിപ്പാലൗഷധംപോലും.

ആശങ്കയ്ക്കു  ഭയമയ്യനേപ്പുൽകുവാൻ,

ക്ലേശംവിനാ വീരൻ  കാടുതേടീ.

സുന്ദരവക്ത്രത്തിൽ   തോഷംനിറച്ചവൻ 

മന്ദിരം പുല്കി വ്യാഘ്രപ്പുറത്തായ്. 

വിസ്മയം  ചുറ്റിനുമായീ വന്നണഞ്ഞു,

തത്സമയേ കൂപ്പുകൈകൾ  പൊങ്ങീ.  

 അദ്രിയിലയ് കാന്താരജന്മമായ്,

ഛിദ്രമനസ്സുകൾക്കാശ്രയമായ്.

ശബരീകാനനക്കുന്നിനു  മീതെയായ്, 

ആബാലവൃദ്ധം  തൊഴുതു നിൽപ്പൂ. 

 സാലവൃന്ദങ്ങളും സർവ്വജനങ്ങളും,

ചേലെഴും ഭക്തിയിൽ കൂപ്പൂ മിഴി.

മന്ദസമീരനുമാടുന്നു ഭക്തിയിൽ  

മന്ദം  മൂളുന്നൂ  ചകോരം ഗീതം.

താളത്തിൽ   സസ്യങ്ങൾ ശിരസ്സുക്കളാട്ടുന്നു,   

ഓളത്തിൽ   പത്രൻ   കരം കൊട്ടുന്നൂ 

 മക്കളെ  താരാട്ടും  അമ്മ വസുന്ധര,

 മൂകമായ്  അയ്യനാമം ജപിപ്പൂ .

മണികണ്ഠസ്വാമി!നിൻ മാന്ത്രികവേലകൾ , 

വർണ്ണിയ്ക്കാൻ  വാക്കുകളില്ലായെന്നിൽ.

  

 ഞങ്ങൾതൻ ദർപ്പത്തെ മായ്ക്കണം ദിവ്യമായ് , 

ദർപ്പണേ  കാണണേ ശുദ്ധരൂപം.  

 കാരുണ്യദീപം ജ്വലിപ്പിക്കൂ ഞങ്ങൾക്കായ്

പാരിലായ്  ദ്വേഷത്തമസ്സു മാറ്റൂ.

  

Quietude!

Quite often hear we, calm and quiet,

Silence and peace and rest and sleep.

 But nowhere, we see any of these,

 But witness in fact, a hell very large,
 Of hustle and bustle and unrest and clash

 And sure, a race hurried for cash.

 

Tired we are of blast and blare,

Smoke and fumes and dust and dirt.

Around us we observe when,

One thing we can recognize;

Silence travels sure to distance

From the homes of homo-sapiens.

 

Seem they busy, they become engaged,

Occupied they act with freedom zero.

Moms of children on heels and wheels

Have to skip from kitchen to office

And pops go away from tiny kids

Far on tour from time to time.

 

Having time seldom to converse,

The dear and near part with people.

Shrink visits, triumph mobiles,

Spoiling the warmth of kinship, 

Pomp and pretence dance and dwell

 Here, with the pleasure of a high degree.

Faith and trust and all such values

Have fled the globe in the vast fuss.

Ah! Yes, go to the huts in villages

They stay there with hitches nil.

Fondling follows frowning there

And that too with a touch of quietude.