Monday, April 11, 2016

At the Foundation.

I'd got up earlier than usual, went through my chores and recited my prayers. Was ready well in time as Maman had said that we'd to go early, before hitting the sack last night. By the time we left home, it was 9. After meeting a couple of people we'd gone to the newly opened 'PN Panicker National Institute for Social Development' and I felt proud of the latest facility that we've set up.

Not only does it look neat and elegant but it also has the latest tools for imparting instructions! The And the beauty is that state-of-the-art-technology is available to the poorest of the poor. The 'green jobs' course' has been going on smoothly and two new courses have commenced since there's a lot of enthusiasm among the participating students. What I was particularly delighted was to see girls in superior numbers compared to their male counterparts!

The staff seemed to be a committed lot and I was reminded of the saying, "If you were to provide the right environment, the participation will be automatic coupled with enthusiasm". Had a few more people to meet at the Government Secretariat and saw the 'lame duck' government in action. While the bureaucrats and their staff were at their tables browsing through files, the ministers were away in their constituencies on electoral pursuit. The entire atmosphere had a soporific hue with even the sentries, on duty, looking absolutely relaxed and not restricting the ingress of visitors!

We made our way to a friendly bureaucrat's house to offer our condolences on the passing away of his mother due to age related problems. We rounded off our day's activities with a debrief of the day's activities while having a quick run through the morrow's activities.


Tailpiece.

(a) Tomorrow's gonna be another hectic day with a dash to Paravoor, scheduled before lunch.
(b) Was in two minds about meeting up with the young lady who'd lost her husband because her mom       didn't give me the time to visit her despite the fact that she told me that she was aware of the
      conversation that I'd with her daughter, the other day! The old lady is currently looking after the
      institute.
(c) Was touched by my Academy course mate, Shivajee's call during the day to find out as to
      whether my family was affected by yesterday's mishap at Paravoor. Damn sweet and thoughtful           of him!
      

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