It was this bizarre news about a young man, who’d killed his 70-day old child by hitting it on the ground(Reminded me of Kamsa and his ways of handling his sister, Devaki's children), that shocked me. The tragedy becomes unacceptable as the incident happened in a fisherman’s family at Punnapra in Alappuzha, Kerala.
The story goes something like this. The family was blessed with a son, seventy days back and there was all round happiness. On the 28th day after childbirth, when the usual ceremony of tying the sacred thread on the child was being performed, the astrologer at hand predicted that the child would bring about extreme hardship and the end of the father! This was the trigger for the father to carry out the gruesome killing – which he’d carried out under the influence of liquor!
So it’s official, literate Kerala is uneducated and isn't it paradoxical that we, malayalees have the gumption to deride the ‘backwardness’ of Bihar?
The professor's woes continues.
The professor whose hand was hacked a month back by muslim youth, belonging to an extremist outfit, has been ousted from the institution thanks to the pressure from the church! Mr. Joseph’s cup of woes seems to continue to overflow!! A donation drive towards his welfare, thanks to the media, has been a step in the right direction and there has been a tremendous response from the mallus which is good news!!!
Tailpiece.
Today’s the 9th anniversary of the destruction of the 'twin towers' by Al Qaida operatives. I remember that I was watching the TV at the time when the first visuals of the destruction were being beamed and was quite annoyed at some sort of a computer game disturbing the viewing of my favourite programme. That it turned out to be a tragedy of monumental proportions sank in slowly as I could never believe that such a thing could ever happen, even in the wildest of my dreams. The deep wound that was handed over, by virtue of the ghastly incident, continues to fester amongst a sizeable number of Americans and likeminded people, the world over! My prayers for those, who’d lost their lives.
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