Taking off from yesterday's widespread cases of arson, looting and violence, the 'Sabarimala Karma Samithi' had called for today's hartal. Though the association of shop owners and business houses have vowed to keep the shops and hotels open and the private bus owners stressing that their buses would ply on the roads, nothing seems to have gone as per their calculations. The protesters seem to have had their way!
Our maid has not been able to make it and Lekha was managing the kitchen front. The kitchen renovators consisting of Anil and Ashokan had come around at their usual time and resumed their work....that was the only consolation.
Maman's son, Chambu, was shifted from SK hospital, Edapazhanji to the KIMS hospital at Thiruvananthapuram - late in the night - with high fever. Samples of his blood and urine, coupled with other tests, are being undertaken to arrive at the right prognosis of his ailment, by a process of elimination! The lad is in the ICU!!
The kitchen renovation work is gonna extend till Saturday afternoon. Spoke to the head carpenter, Rajesh, to confirm the initial inputs and was seething with anger at the extension of the number of days and it was then that I realised that he was fulfilling his initial estimate of 10 man days! Anyways, to expect any sort of leeway from them is a tough proposition!!
In the evening comes the maid's phone call saying that she would not be coming in tomorrow because her medical review was gonna take place tomorrow. So, the chores associated with the house will have to be handled by Lekha and me.
The rest of the evening was a quiet affair.
Tailpiece.
There has been widespread destruction of property - the KSRTC buses and the shops, that dared to remain open - and injuries to people and policemen in the wake of the clashes between various groups all through the day. The consensus between various organisations to resist bandhs and hartals, stitched up just a fortnight ago, seems to have fallen apart. Damn sad!
Our maid has not been able to make it and Lekha was managing the kitchen front. The kitchen renovators consisting of Anil and Ashokan had come around at their usual time and resumed their work....that was the only consolation.
Maman's son, Chambu, was shifted from SK hospital, Edapazhanji to the KIMS hospital at Thiruvananthapuram - late in the night - with high fever. Samples of his blood and urine, coupled with other tests, are being undertaken to arrive at the right prognosis of his ailment, by a process of elimination! The lad is in the ICU!!
The kitchen renovation work is gonna extend till Saturday afternoon. Spoke to the head carpenter, Rajesh, to confirm the initial inputs and was seething with anger at the extension of the number of days and it was then that I realised that he was fulfilling his initial estimate of 10 man days! Anyways, to expect any sort of leeway from them is a tough proposition!!
In the evening comes the maid's phone call saying that she would not be coming in tomorrow because her medical review was gonna take place tomorrow. So, the chores associated with the house will have to be handled by Lekha and me.
The rest of the evening was a quiet affair.
Tailpiece.
There has been widespread destruction of property - the KSRTC buses and the shops, that dared to remain open - and injuries to people and policemen in the wake of the clashes between various groups all through the day. The consensus between various organisations to resist bandhs and hartals, stitched up just a fortnight ago, seems to have fallen apart. Damn sad!
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