We 'mallus' are regressive!

The High Court of Kerala has been the harbinger of very many pathbreaking judgements. Years back, it had passed a ruling to say that ‘bandhs/strikes’ that caused undue hardships to the common man were illegal and people should refrain from exercising this option to air their grievances. We, mallus, were genuinely thrilled that we’d seen the last of these bandhs, as it was common knowledge that the only thing that happened during such times was the unwanted destruction of public property coupled with harrowing times for genuine patients or travellers who’d the misfortune to fetch up in the state that particular day.
But the political parties and their goons had other ideas and have continued to resort to the same rigmarole with a change in nomenclature –‘hartal’ – and carry out their antisocial activities under this new garb.
The High Court of Kerala, last week, has come up with yet another landmark ruling in that it has warned that all roadside activities – even under makeshift arrangements- that caused disruption to traffic and normal communication, should be done away with as they came under the ambit of illegal activities. And as expected, there has been a flurry of negative reactions from political parties, across the spectrum and what really crossed personal decorum and code of conduct was when a local legislator from the CPM said that the judges who’d passed this order were morons. It was definitely ungentlemanly!
But then, when were we mallus ever decent?
O, we Mallus!

We mallus also take the law into our own hands
A few months back, a lecturer of a college in Thodupuzha of central Kerala had set a language question paper that covered some negative aspects of the Prophet. Consequently, the muslim student outfits had organized agitations which brought about the suspension of the said lecturer from his job, pending legal investigation. During the course of the agitations, the guys had said that they’d chop off the hands and legs of the lecturer for his folly and today, those guys carried out that threat of theirs in broad daylight! The lecturer was immediately transferred to a hospital in Kochi for stitching the mutilated hand back into its place and his left leg,that has had a hack with an axe, is out of danger.
What have we mallus become? A clutch of blood thirsty people who doesn’t believe in the laws of the land? May God be with us, or is he scared too?