Interim Solutions

For a change another of the short stories I have scribbled, copyrighted. Also – please note it is a fictional piece of work set in a narrative style, resemblance to any person/s known or unknown is coincidental. © 2010 Manoj Chennamangalam The train was gradually approaching the gray coloured cement platform of the station. A bright yellow board announcing the name of the station in three languages characteristic of the Indian Railways slowly started becoming visible. Station names are written in black bold letters in 3 languages – English, Hindi and the local one. I remember as a kid when I used to travel in trains, I used to read the English alphabets, followed by Hindi and finally Malayalam. All that has changed - reading, writing and dreaming in English has made me thirsty for reading the well rounded letters of my mother tongue. I read only the Malayalam alphabets – ഒറ്റപാലം (Ottapalam) and blissfully ignore English and Hindi. In a smaller font at the bottom right of the boar...

Made couple of path breaking discoveries over the long Onam weekend.Of course the discoveries are on myself and I am amazed at the scope of experiments one can do on one's own psyche and rest assured one will be doubly amazed by the outcomes.By the way the title may be misleading, post did not turn out to be as complicated , kept the title unchanged for the kick it gave. Discovery 1) Cribbing seems to be a general theme of my posts. Did a wordweb on "cribbing" - apparently doesn't mean what I meant, so please replace("crib", "complain'). What does that mean ? should I be worried ? am I becoming a 'bellyacher' ?? . Time to get the towel - DoN't pAnIc (mixed case helps as well in keeping it down) ((http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Panic_(The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy)#Don.27t_Panic)) Discovery 2) I am not punctual as I used to be say a few years back.I clearly remember that some 20 years back I used to be on the dot (so w...

There was this tragic incident where in the hand of a college professor in Kerala was cut-off. They have apparently got hold of the chief pepertrator and guess what every single image of the culprit that flashes on the TV channels has a tiny toddler's arm extending across his shoulders. News channels/ law enforcement have obviously cut his photograph out of family albums for display and in the process have cut the rest of the toddler's image off. How ironic - tiny, beautiful, loving arms around the "hand decapitator". Weird world we do live in .. M