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Dear Sri Balachandran, Thank you for your excellent words with the fine sentiments expressed. It is people like you who enrich the quality of the 'Second Home'. Regards, M.P. Aiyappan
Dear Mr. Aiyappan, Brilliant!. It was a remarkable fea t to collect these many articles for the second home, especially from the editors. previous Your comments on the authors are apt, accurate, interesting,subtle and to the point. Actually those are ma piece performances. May you be the ster permanent editor! Congrats for a wonderful performance. Regards Kaimal Chettan
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Dear Kaimal chettan, Thank you very much, but I presume we are very good friends and that you have not even an iota of dislike towards me. You know the trauma and toil one has to endure in bringing out a good quality 'Second Home'. Then why extend a wish that I should go through the ordeal permanently, though it is giving immense gratification. Regards, M.P. Aiyappan 2
The Second Home
Contents
Presidential Address..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . R. Thulasi . . . . . . 04 Secretary's Secretaire..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adv. K. Krishna Kumar . . 05 kvt\-lm-Z-c-§-tfmsS: - Editorial Feature . . . . . . . . . . Fw.-]n. A¿-y¸³ . . . 06 S. Kumar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 08 P. Velayudhan Pillai (Bajaj Velappan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Dr. N. Vijayakrishnan Nair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 S.V. Das . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 V. Sreedharan (Regal Sreedharan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 M.S. Mani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 M. Ramaswamy Iyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 A. Kurian (Ooppoottil Kurian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 A.P. Shenai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 T.S. Padmanabhan (S. Chandran) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 First Indian Secretary of Our Club Maj AK TAMPI . . . . . . . . . S. Ayyappan Nair . . . 21 s‑F.-F.-Fk‑v (d‑n-«‑)‑, P.(-d‑n-«‑)‑, d‑n«(-d‑n-«‑) . . . . . . . . . . . tUm. Un. _m-_p-t]mÄ . 22 cmjv{Sobw: i_vZhpw thK-hpw . . . . . . . . . . . . . k-¡-dnb . . . . . . 24 \pdp-§pIÄ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . kqcym Ir-jv-W-aqÀ-¯n- . 26 The New Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lida Jacob . . . . . 29 Book review : On a clear day you can see India . . . . . . . . . Baby P.S . . . . . . 30 sS¶okpw {Snhm³{Uw ¢ºpw Hcp \mepaWn¸qhpw . . . . . . F. t‑laN{‑µ³ . . . 32 s‑k¡â‑v t‑l‑m‑w: {‑]‑uV‑w K‑w`‑oc‑w C‑u BX‑nY‑y‑w . . . . . . . . F‑w.F‑w. k‑ps‑s‑_À . . 34 The master game called life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dr. Abraham Abraham . . 41 Lee Kuan Yew, Father of modern Singapore . . . . . . . . . . . M. Ganesan . . . . . 43 N. Mahesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Would my touch be all? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nileena Bhuvanendran . . 47 Homestead landscaping in Kerala . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viswanathan. G . . . . 48 My Faith and The Godmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kalyanikkutty .R . . . . 50 Hcp hnam\w ]d-¸n-¡-ensâ IY... H¸w Hcp {]mW-k-¦-S-¯nsâbpw Fkv. AtimI³ . . . 52 Krishnakumar's 'Nikunjam Constructions' - a success story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Flight IC 167 & Kathel Chicken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dinesh B.P . . . . . 56 lk‑vXa‑p{‑Z-IÄ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tKm-]n-\m-Yv IrjvW . . 58 ach‑p‑w agb‑p‑w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . s‑I.-P‑n.- I‑p-c‑p-h‑nf . . 60
{‑]X‑n-k-Ô‑n-Is‑f F§s‑\ \½Ä XcW‑w s‑N¿‑p‑w. \½‑ps‑S {‑]X‑n-I-c-W-t‑ij‑n \a‑p¡‑p \j‑vS-s‑¸t‑«‑m? . . . . . . . c‑mP³ a‑mt‑S‑m-e‑n . . . 61 kX‑y‑w kX‑ya‑mb‑n Hc‑p k‑w`hIY: l‑rZb]‑qÀÆ‑w . . . . . . . ad‑nb‑w a‑mX‑y‑p . . . . 62 Know your Affiliated Clubs: PYC Hindu Gymghana, Pune . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 65 An extraordinary Underwater Hotel in Fiji . . . . . . . . . . . . Varghese Mathew . . . . 66 Know our Elders....: Dr. S.S. Pillai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Editing, Design & Layouts: M.P. Aiyappan e-mail: mpaiyappan@gmail.com Front Cover: The Glimpses of Regal Heritage - The Palaces of Trivandrum Courtesy: The Institute of Architects, Trivandrum Centre; Thanks to Ar. G. Viswanathan(L-0971) The club takes no responsibility for the statements and opinions expressed by the contributors. The Second Home
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Presidential Address.....
R. Thulasi
{‑]n‑ b-s¸ ‑ « A‑wK-§s‑f,‑ FÃ‑mh - À¡‑pw‑ Fs‑â h‑nj‑pþC‑uÌÀ Z‑n\‑mi - w‑ k - I - Ä. {‑In‑ k‑vXp‑ a- k‑vþ]‑pX‑ph - Õ - c- m‑ t- L ‑ m‑ j - ] - c- n‑ ] - m‑ S- n‑ I - Ä b‑ms‑Xm‑ c‑p I‑pdh‑pw‑ hc‑ms‑X a‑nI¨ \‑ne-bn‑  \S-¯m‑ ³ Ig‑nª - X - n‑  F\‑n¡‑v AX‑nb - m‑ b kt‑´m‑ j - a- p‑ ï - v.‑ ]‑pX‑ph - Õ - c- m‑ t- L ‑ m‑ j Z‑n\-¯n‑  h‑n`-hk-ar‑ ² - a- m‑ b A¯‑mg- t- ¯ ‑ m‑ S- p‑ I - q‑ S‑n Ah-Xc- n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¨ ]‑pX‑pa \‑ndª Ie‑mh - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑v Hc‑p h³h‑nP-ba- m‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ kl‑mb - n‑ ¨ FÃ‑m A‑wK§Ä¡‑pw‑ Ah-cp‑ s‑S I‑pS‑pw‑ _ - m‑ w‑ K - § - Ä¡‑pw‑ P‑oh-\¡ - m‑ À¡‑pw‑ Fs‑â l‑rZ-bw‑ K - a- a‑ m‑ b \µ‑n Ad‑nb - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Ie‑m] - c- n‑ ] - m‑ S- n‑ I - f - p‑ s‑S N‑pa-Xe hl‑n¨ `c-Wk - a- n‑ X‑n A‑wK‑w {‑io‑ . F{‑_l‑mw‑ t‑Xm‑ ak‑v {‑]i‑wk AÀl‑nb - v¡ ‑ p‑ ¶‑p I‑qS‑ms‑X CX‑ns‑â h‑nP-b¯ - n‑ \‑p bX‑v\n‑ ¨ `c-Wk - a- n‑ X‑n A‑wK-§Ä‑, {‑]m‑ t‑bm‑ P - I - À‑, Aa‑rX S‑n.-hn‑ .b‑ps‑S a‑m[‑ya- k - p‑ l - r‑ ¯ - p‑ ¡ - Ä F¶‑nh - À¡‑pw‑ \µ‑n t‑cJ-s¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - p‑ IbmWv. Z‑oÀL-Im‑ e - a- m‑ b‑n ¢º‑v s‑]m‑ X‑pt‑bm‑ K-§f - n‑  A‑wK-§Ä D¶-bn‑ ¨ ""¢º‑n\‑v Hc‑p a‑mÌÀ ¹‑m³ t‑hW''-sa‑ ¶ Bhi‑yw‑ C‑u `c-Wk - a- n‑ X‑n {‑]m‑ hÀ¯‑nI - a- m‑ ¡ - n‑ b (Trivandrum club Master Plan Vision 2030) I‑mc‑yw‑ kk-t´ ‑ m‑ j‑w Ad‑nb - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . AX‑n\ - m‑ b‑n Hc‑p h‑nZK‑v[ ka‑nX - n‑ s‑b FS‑p¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \‑v `c-Wk - a- n‑ X - n‑ s‑b Ig‑nª s‑]m‑ X‑pt- b ‑ m‑ K‑w N‑pa-Xes‑¸S‑p¯ - p‑ I - b - p‑ ï - m‑ b - n‑ . ¢º‑ns‑â `‑mh‑n h‑nI-k\ - § - Ä Gs‑Xm‑ s‑¡ c‑oX‑nb - n‑  A‑wK-§Ä¡‑v {‑]t‑bm‑ P - \ - I - c- a- m‑ b‑n \S-¸n‑  hc‑p¯ - m‑ s- a‑ ¶ - p‑ Å - X - n‑ s‑\¡‑pd‑n¨‑v ]T‑n¨‑v d‑nt‑¸m‑ À«‑v kaÀ¸‑nb - v¡ ‑ p‑ I F¶-Xm‑ W‑v C‑u ka‑nX - n‑ b - p‑ s‑S ZuX‑yw‑ . AX‑n\ - p‑ t- h ‑ ï‑n A‑wK-§f - p‑ s‑S h‑ne-tb ‑ d- n‑ b \‑nÀt‑±i - § - f‑pw‑ A`‑n{- ] ‑ m‑ b - § - f‑pw‑ Bc‑mb - p‑ h - m‑ ³ 2014 a‑mÀ¨‑v 2þ‑mw‑ X‑obX‑nb‑pw‑ 16þ‑mw‑ X‑ob-Xn‑ b‑pw‑ cï‑v s‑ka‑n\ - m‑ d- p‑ I - Ä k‑wL-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b - p‑ ï - m‑ b‑n. {‑]k‑vXp‑ X s‑ka‑n\ - m‑ d- p‑ I - f - n‑  kP‑oh - a- m‑ b‑n ]s‑¦S- p‑ ¯ A‑wK§Ä¡‑pw‑ a‑mÌÀ ¹‑m³ ka‑nX - n‑ b - p‑ s‑S A²‑y£ - \ - m‑ b t‑Km‑ ]‑nt- ¨ ‑ «- \ - p‑ w‑ ,‑ ka‑nX‑n A‑wK-§Ä¡‑pw‑ {‑]k‑nU - â‑v F¶ \‑ne-bn‑  \µ‑n Ad‑nb - n‑ ¡ - s‑ «. A‑wK-§Ä \e‑vIn‑ b h‑ne-tb ‑ d- n‑ b A`‑n{- ] ‑ m‑ b - § - Ä¡‑p ka‑nX‑n a‑p³X‑q¡‑w s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ - W - s- a‑ ¶‑v B{‑Kl - n‑ b - v¡ ‑ p‑ ¶ - p‑ . N‑mc‑nä- _ - n‑ Ä s‑km‑ s‑sk ‑ ä‑n BI‑vS\ - p‑ k - c- n‑ ¨‑v cP‑nÌ - À s‑Nb‑vXn‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ \½‑ps‑S C‑u I‑q«‑mb‑va N‑mc‑nä‑n {‑]hÀ¯-\§ - Ä¡‑v F¶‑pw‑ a‑p¶‑n Xs‑¶b - m‑ W - v.‑ X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c‑w d‑oP-W I‑ym‑ ³kÀ s‑kâ-dn‑  Z‑pc‑nX - a- \ - p‑ `- h - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ t‑cm‑ K‑nI - f - p‑ s‑S t‑£a-¯n‑ \ - m‑ b‑n A‑wK-§f - n‑  \‑n¶‑pw‑ k‑w`‑mh - \ - b - m‑ b‑n 500 c‑q]‑m h‑oX‑w k‑zc‑q] - n‑ ¡ - W - s- a‑ ¶ `cW ka‑nX - n‑ b - p‑ s‑S A`‑n{- ] ‑ m‑ b - ¯ - n‑ \‑v A‑wK-§f - n‑  \‑n¶‑pw‑ A\‑p`- m‑ h - t- ¯ ‑ m‑ S- p‑ I - q‑ S- n‑ b h³ {‑]X‑nI - c- W - a- m‑ W‑v e`‑n¨ - p‑ s- I ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ ]e A‑wK-§f‑pw‑ Ct‑¸m‑ Ä Xs‑¶ 500 c‑q]‑ a‑pX 10‑,000 c‑q]‑m hs‑cb - p‑ Å X‑pI-IÄ k‑w`‑mh - \ - b - m‑ b‑n \e‑vIn‑ Ig‑nª - p‑ . P‑oh-\¡ - m‑ c- p‑ s‑S s‑hÂ^-bÀ s‑km‑ s‑sk ‑ ä‑n 12500 c‑q] k‑w`‑mh - \ - b - m‑ b‑n \e‑vIn‑ . C‑u al-¯m‑ b {‑]hÀ¯-\¯ - n‑ \‑v k‑w`‑mh - \ - I - Ä \e‑vIn‑ kl-Ic- n‑ ¨ - p‑ s- I ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ A‑wK-§Ä¡‑pw‑ P‑oh-\¡ - m‑ À¡‑pw‑ \µ‑n t‑cJ-s¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . F¶‑m hfs‑c I‑pd¨‑v A‑wK-§Ä k‑w`‑mh - \ \e‑vIp‑ ¶ - X - n‑ t- \ ‑ m‑ S‑v h‑nt‑bm‑- P‑n¸‑v {‑]I-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¨‑n«- p‑ Å I‑mc‑yw‑ t‑JZ-]q‑ ÀÆ‑w Ad‑nb - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . ]‑pX‑nb ¢º‑v Ub-dI - vS‑ d- n‑ b - v¡ ‑ p‑ - t‑hï - n‑ b - p‑ Å {‑]hÀ¯-\§ - Ä ]‑pt‑cm‑ K - a- n‑ ¡ - bmWv. Ub-dI - vS‑ d- n‑ b - n‑  ]c-ky‑ § - Ä \e‑vIn‑ kl-Ic- n‑ ¨ FÃ‑m A‑wK-§Ä¡‑pw‑ Ø‑m]-\§ - Ä¡‑pw‑ CX‑n\ - m‑ b‑n {‑]hÀ¯‑n¨ - p‑ s- I ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c- n‑ b - v¡ ‑ p‑ ¶ `c-Wk - a- n‑ X‑n A‑wK-§Ä¡‑pw‑ P‑oh-\¡ - m‑ À¡‑pw‑ \‑nÊ‑oa- a- m‑ b \µ‑n Ad‑nb - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . \‑mf‑nX - p‑ h - s- c‑ b - p‑ Å ¢º‑ns‑â {‑]hÀ¯-\§ - Ä a‑nI¨ c‑oX‑nb - n‑  \S¯‑ns‑¡m‑ ï‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ I - m‑ ³ C‑u `c-Wk - a- n‑ X - n‑ b‑v¡p‑ k‑m[‑n¨ - X‑n F\‑nb‑v¡v‑ A`‑na- m‑ \ - a- p‑ ï - v.‑ AX‑v X‑oÀ¨-bm‑ b‑pw‑ s‑k{‑I«- d- n‑ ,‑ {‑SÌ‑n,‑ {- S‑ j - d- À‑, I½‑nä‑n A‑wK-§Ä F¶‑nh - c- p‑ s‑S I‑q«‑mb {‑]hÀ¯\‑w H¶‑p s‑Im‑ ï‑pa- m‑ {- X ‑ a- m‑ W - v.‑ P‑oh-\¡‑mc- p‑ s‑S AÀ¸W at‑\m‑ `- m‑ h - t- ¯ ‑ m‑ s- S‑ b - p‑ Å kl-Ic- W‑w {‑]i‑wk AÀl‑nb - v¡ ‑ p‑ ¶ - p‑ . C¯h-Ws- ¯ "sk-¡âvt- lmw' (amÀ-¨v ]-Xn¸v) am-Kk - o-\n\v H-cp {]-tXy-IX - b - pïv. ¢-ºn-se G-ähpw X-ea- q-¯ ]-¯p-sa-¼Àam-sc-¡p-dn¨v, A-hÀ- \-evIn-b tk-h\ - § - s- f-¡p-dn-¨v F-Un-äÀ {io. Fw.]n. A-¿y-¸³ H-cp {]-tXy-I ^o-¨À X-¿m-dm-¡nbn«p−v. H-cp N-S§ - nÂ-sh-¨v Cu tPy-jvTk - t- lm-Zc- · - m-sc t\-cn-«v B-Zc- n-¡p¶-Xn-t\m-sSm-¸w Cu ]-Xn-¸v {]-Im-in-¸n-¡m-\mWv D-t±-in-¡p-¶Xv. Hc‑n¡ - ÂI‑qS‑n FÃ‑mh - À¡‑pw‑ Bi‑wk - I - Ä t‑\À¶‑ps- I ‑ m‑ ï - v.‑ k‑vt\ ‑ l-]q‑ ÀÆ‑w \‑n§-fp‑ s‑S k‑z´‑w BÀ. X‑pfk‑n 4
The Second Home
Adv. K. Krishna Kumar
Secretary's Secretaire.....
Dear Members, On the outset let me wish you and your family a happy Vishu and Easter. As per the General Body decision the Executive Committee constituted a “Vision 20-30 Master Plan Committee� consisting of: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Sri. P. Gopinath (R-0763) Sri. G. Viswanathan (L-0971) Sri. S. Nizamudeen (R-1197) Sri. V. Sunlal (L-1289) Sri. Sarosh. P. Abraham Prof. Jayakumar (R-2266) Sri. B. Sudhir (R-2295) Sri. Jayakrishnan. K.B (R-3571) Sri. G. Unnikrishnan (R-1371)
10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
Sri. C. Suresh Babu (L-1450) Sri. J.P. Raju (L-1711) Sri. R. Reghunath (L-0909) Sri. Suresh. M. Pillai (R-1093) Sri. R. Thulasi, President Adv. K. Krishna Kumar, Hon. Secretary Sri. K.S. Sethunath, Treasurer and Dr. M. Suresh Kumar, Joint Secretary
Sri. P. Gopinath our past President was elected as Chairman of the Master Plan Committee. The Master Plan Committee had about 10 sittings and conducted two seminars, one on 02.03.2014 and another on 16.03.2014. Both the seminars were well attended and suggestions from Members were very encouraging. A general idea which came out in discussion was that Club should not try for any construction in our open spaces and should limit constructions to the existing constructed areas vertically. I take this opportunity to thank Sri. P. Gopinath, Prof. J. Jayakumar and Sri. B. Sudhir who made the presentation in an exemplary manner. I have pleasrue in informing you that Sri. M.P. Aiyappan, Editor is bringing out the March Edition of the Second Home with a special feature on the ten senior most members of our club, many of whom have made significant contributions to the club, which most of the new members may not be aware of. We are going to honour these ten elders in a function and the magazine will be released in that function. We have added another laundry unit to the existing laundry to meet the demands and clear off back logs. I personally thank Sri. P.V. John for his help and technical support. Printing of the Members Directory has started and I hope to bring it out in the month of April. The President Sri. R. Thulasi, Treasurer, Joint Secretary and all Committee Members are taking tremendous efforts to keep the atmosphere of the Club in peace and harmony. Thanking you,
K. Krishna Kumar The Second Home
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Ct‑¸m‑ Ä Ah-[n‑ ¡ - m‑ e - a - m‑ W - t- à ‑ m‑ . AX‑ps - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v Hc‑p h‑nt‑\m‑ Z- b - m‑ {- X ‑ b - n‑  \‑n¶‑v X‑pS-§m‑ w‑ þ D‑u«‑nb - n‑ t- e ‑ b‑¡ v v‑ Xs‑¶ Bbn-t¡ms« þ Ah‑ns‑Ss‑b¯‑n¡ - g- n‑ ª v‑ B t‑Nt‑Xm‑ l - c-am‑ b {‑]I‑rX‑nb‑pw‑ a\Ê‑p XW‑p¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ B I‑pf‑nÀa-bp‑ s‑am‑ s‑¡ A\‑p`- h - n‑ ¨‑v Bk‑zZ- n‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä \‑mw‑ F§s‑\ Ch‑ns - S- F¯‑nt- ¨ ‑ À¶‑ps - h ‑ ¶‑v Bt‑em‑ N - n‑ ¨ - n‑ «- p‑ t‑ïm‑ ? t‑Lm‑ c-h\ - a - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ \‑oe-Kn‑ c‑nb‑ne‑qs‑S C§s‑\s‑bm‑ c‑p t‑dm‑ U‑,‑v k‑ml-kn‑ I - c - m‑ b \½‑ps‑S ]‑qÀÆ‑nI - À \a‑p¡‑v Bk‑zZ‑n¡ - m‑ ³ t‑hï‑n Hc‑p¡ - n‑ b Aa‑qe - y‑ a - m‑ b s‑s] ‑ X‑rI k¼¯‑pIf‑n H¶‑tÃ? AX‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ s‑e GI-tZ‑ i‑w Ht‑¶I‑m \‑qä‑mï - n‑ \‑v a‑p³]‑v Ottob‑pw‑ DaimlerD‑w BenzD‑w FordD‑w Hs‑¡ h‑nI-kn‑ ¸ - n‑ s - ¨ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ I‑md‑pI - f - m‑ W‑v C¶s¯ Ne‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ s‑Im‑ «‑mc - § - f - m‑ b - X - .v‑ C¶s‑¯ P‑oh‑nX k‑uI-cy‑ § - s - f ‑ Ã‑mw‑ A\‑p`- h - n‑ ¨‑v k‑wX‑r] - X v‑ n‑ b - S- b - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä \½‑ps‑S ]‑qÀÆ‑nI - t- c ‑ m‑ S‑pÅ IS-¸m‑ S‑p \‑mw‑ h‑nk‑a v c - n‑ ¡ - m‑ t‑am‑ ? `‑mh‑n Xe-ap‑ d - b‑¡ v p‑ \‑mw‑ F´‑mW‑v s‑Nb‑X v s - X ‑ ¶‑v Hc‑p Bß-hn‑ a - Ài\‑w I‑qS‑nb‑mb - m‑ t‑e C‑u N‑n´ ]‑qÀ®-am‑ I - q‑ . t‑km‑ tj‑ym‑ f - P - n‑ b - n‑ se "EW‑'§ - f ‑ m‑ W‑v H‑mÀ½bnse-¯nbXv. a‑mX‑rE - W - w‑ ,‑ ]‑nX‑rE - W - w‑ ,‑ K‑pc‑pE - W - w‑ ,‑ Ah-km‑ \ - a - m‑ b‑n ka‑ql - ¯ - n‑ t- \ ‑ m‑ S- m‑ s - I ‑ b - p‑ Å IS-¸m‑ S‑,‑v CX‑n\ - n‑ S- b‑¡ v v‑ Hc‑p k‑pl‑rX‑E v W‑w I‑qS‑nb‑nt‑Ãs - b ‑ ¶‑p t‑Xm‑ ¶‑n. C\‑n \½‑ps‑S ¢º‑ns‑â I‑mc‑yw‑ Xs‑¶s - b ‑ S- p‑ ¡ - m‑ w‑ . 1875 b‑qt‑dm‑ ¸ - y‑ ³ ¢º‑v Ø‑m]‑n¨ Oliver Henry Benselybn \n¶p X‑pS-§n‑ b Hc‑p \oï Xe-ap‑ d - ,‑ I‑mS‑p] - n‑ S- n‑ ¨‑pI‑nS- ¶ At‑©¡ - À Øe-¯n‑ s‑\ C¶s‑¯ ]©-\£ - {‑X k‑uIc‑y§ - f - p‑ Å Trivandrum Club B¡‑n a‑mä‑p¶ - X - n‑ \‑v \S-¯n‑ b‑n«- p‑ Å {‑]b-X\ v‑ § - s - f ‑ ¡ - p‑ d - n‑ ¨‑v \‑mw‑ H‑mÀ½‑n¡ - m‑ d - p‑ t‑ïm‑ ? AX‑ns‑â ^e‑w C¶‑v Bt‑hm‑ f‑w Bk‑zZ- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ ]‑pX‑nb Xe-ap‑ d, C¶s‑¯ C‑u k‑wh‑n[ - m‑ \ - § - Ä s‑I«‑n¸ - S- p‑ ¯ - ,‑ Ct‑¸m‑ Ä h‑mÀ²I‑y kl-Pa - m‑ b I‑mc-W§ - f - m‑  ¢º‑n Ft¸mgpw hc‑m³ Ig‑nb - m‑ X - n‑ c - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - h - c‑mb \½‑ps‑S I‑mcW-h· - m‑ s‑c¡‑pd‑n¨‑p N‑n´‑n¨ - n‑ «- p‑ t‑ïm‑ ? C¶s‑¯ s‑sl ‑ s‑SI‑v BÀ`‑mS- § - f - n‑  a‑p§‑n\‑ne‑¡ v p‑ ¶ s‑Nd‑p¸ - ¡ - m‑ s‑c¡‑mf‑pw‑ "I‑nS‑ne‑'a‑mb‑n«‑mW‑v C‑u hµ‑yh - t- b ‑ m‑ [ - n‑ I - À Ah-cp‑ s‑S s‑Nd‑p¸ - I‑me - ¯‑v P‑oh‑n¨ - X - .v‑
Hc‑p I‑me-L«- ¯ - n‑  ¢º‑ns‑â s‑\S‑pw‑ X - q‑ W‑pIf‑mb - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ C¶‑v ]‑nX‑rØ - m‑ \ - o‑ b - c- m‑ b - ,‑ t‑Py‑ j‑T v k - t- l ‑ m‑ Z- c- Ø - m‑ \ - o‑ b - c- m‑ b‑, Ct‑¸m‑ g- s‑¯ ]¯‑p- Senior most membera‑msc‑ ]‑pX‑nb X-eap-db - ¡ ‑v v‑ Ad‑nb - m‑ ³ t‑hï‑n "k‑tv \ ‑ l‑mZ- c - § - t- f ‑ m‑ s‑S....' F¶ t‑eJ-\§ - f - n‑ e - q‑ s‑S BZ-cn‑ ¡ - b - m‑ W‑v Ch‑ns‑S. I‑qS- p‑ X -  h‑nh - c-§Ä t‑iJ - c - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \ - m‑ b - n‑ a‑q¶ - p‑ a - m‑ k‑w a‑p¼ - p‑ a - p‑ X -  _‑mw‑ ¥ - q‑ c - n‑ Â-\n‑ ¶ - v‑ C-hc‑n FÃ‑mt- ] ‑ c - p‑ a‑mb - n‑ Rm³ ]-e{- ] ‑ m‑ h - i‑yw‑ _-Ôs - ¸ ‑ «‑p. G-äh - p‑ w‑ IqSpX B-IÀ-jn‑ ¨-Xv‑ A-hc - p‑ s - S‑ ¢-ºn‑ t- \ ‑ m‑ S- p‑ Å - h‑mÕ - e - y‑ h‑pw‑ i‑p`{- ] ‑ X - o‑ £ - I - f - p‑ a - m‑ W‑.‑v s‑]c - p‑ a - m‑ ä- ¯ - n‑ s - e ‑ I‑pe - o‑ \ - X - b‑pw‑ h‑n\ - b h‑pw‑ F-s¶ ‑ I‑og- s -v‑ ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - n‑ ¡ - f - ª‑p. ¢-ºn‑ s - â ‑ I‑mc - y‑ § - Ä k‑wk - m‑ c- n‑ ¡‑m³ F-hn‑ s - S‑ - t‑hW - s - a‑ ¦ - n‑ e - p‑ w‑ h-cm‑ s - a‑ ¶ - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ h‑o«- n‑ Â-\n‑ ¶‑pw‑ A-[n‑ I - w‑ ]‑pd- ¯ - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ I - m‑ ¯ - C‑u h-µy‑ h - t- b ‑ m‑ [ - n‑ Icn ]-ecpw k-t´ ‑ m‑ j - t- ¯ ‑ m‑ s - S‑ A-dn‑ b - n‑ ¨ - X‑.v ¢-ºn‑ s - e ‑ a‑q¯ - I - m‑ c- W - h - c- m‑ b - ,‑ 14 hÀ-jw‑ s‑k{- I ‑ «-dn‑ F-¶ s‑dt- ¡ ‑ m‑ À-Un‑ \ - p‑ S- a - b‑mb - I‑pa - m‑ À-tN ‑ «- ³ i‑mc - o‑ c - n‑ I - a - m‑ b - A-hi-XI - f - p‑ s - ï ‑ ¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ a-\Ê - n‑ \ - v‑ H-cp‑ ZuÀ-_e - y-hp-anÃmsX, \à H‑mÀ-½i - à - n‑ t- b ‑ m‑ s - S‑ F-t¶ ‑ m‑ S- v‑ ]-gb - k‑w`- h-§Ä h - n‑ h c - n‑ ¨ - p‑ X - c - n‑ I - b - m‑ b - n‑ cp¶p. I‑pa- m‑ À-tN ‑ «- ³ {‑Sk - ä-v‑ n‑ s‑a¼ - d- m‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶ ‘94s‑e I-½n‑ ä - n‑ b‑n t‑Pm‑ b - n‑ â‑v s‑k{- I ‑ «- d- n‑ b - m‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶ - I‑me - ¯ - m‑ W‑v A-t±‑ l - ¯ - n‑ Â- \‑n¶‑v F-\n‑ ¡ - v‑ ¢ºn-s\-¡p-dn-¨pÅ ]-gb ]-e ckI-cam-b kw`hI-YI - f‑pw‑ A-dn‑ b - m‑ ³ I - g- n‑ ª X‑.v c-ïp‑ {- ] ‑ m‑ h - i‑yw‑ s‑k{- I ‑ «- d- n‑ b - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - t‑he - ¸ - ³-tN ‑ «-sâ ‑ Fhn-sS meet sN-¿W - s - a-¶p tNm-Zn-¨p-sImïpÅ t‑^m‑ ¬ t- I ‑ m‑ Ä _‑mw‑ ¥ - q‑ c - n‑  I‑n«- n‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä k-t´ ‑ m‑ j - h‑pw‑ A-`n‑ a‑m\ - h‑pw‑ D-ïm‑ b - n‑ . ¢-ºn‑ s- â ‑ hcpam\w I‑q«- m‑ \ - m‑ b - n‑ k‑p{- _ ‑ Ò - W - y‑ w‑ l - m‑ f - n‑ t- \ ‑ m‑ S- p‑ t- N ‑ À-¶v‑ H-cp‑ s‑sU ‑ \ - n‑ w‑ K - l v‑ m‑ Ä ]-Wn‑ bp¶- n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \‑m Xn\v ¢-ºn‑ \ - v‑ i-cn‑ b‑mb Title Deeds CÃ‑mX k‑z´ - w‑ P‑ma - y‑ ¯ - n‑ e - m‑ W - v‑ A-t±‑ l - w‑ _‑m¦ - n‑  \ - n‑ ¶ - v‑ t‑em‑ ¬ F-Sp‑ ¯ - X‑.v a‑m¯ - \ - p‑ a - m‑ b‑n (Z‑nh - w‑ K - X - \‑mb - a‑p³s‑k{- I ‑ «-dn‑ A-Kk - ä-v‑ n‑ ³ a‑mX - y‑ q‑ )‑ t‑NÀ-¶v‑ F-s´ ‑ m‑ s - ¡ ‑ ]‑pX‑nb ]-²X - n‑ I - f - m‑ W - v‑ I-f¦ - c - ln-Xa - mbn A-t±‑ l - w‑ \-S¸ - n‑ e - m‑ ¡ - n‑ bX‑.v C‑u ]-gb - I‑mc - y‑ § - s - f ‑ Ã‑mw‑ ]pXn-b X-ea - pd-sb A-dnbn-¡W - s - a-¶v B-hi - y-s¸-«t- ¸mÄ, H-cp‑ \à t‑eJ - \ - h‑pw‑ F-gp‑ X - n‑ ¯ - ¶‑p.
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t‑Um‑ . F³. h‑nP - b - I - r‑ j - W v-‑ ³-\m‑ b - À A-hÀ-If - p‑ a - m‑ b - n‑ F-\n‑ ¡ - v‑ t‑\c- n‑ «- v‑ A-Sp‑ ¸ - a- n‑ Ãmbn-cp¶p. P-bI - r‑ j - W v-‑ ³ t‑N«-sâ ‑ t‑Py‑ j - vT‑ ³ F-¶ Adnhv a‑m{- X ‑ t- a‑ b - p‑ ïmbn-cp¶pÅ‑q. A-Sp‑ ¯ - t‑¸m‑ g- m‑ W‑v WHOb‑n U-bd- Î - d- m‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶ - G-Ia- e - b - m‑ f - n‑ b - m‑ W - v‑ A-t±‑ l - w‑ F-¶v‑ a-\Ê - n‑ e - m‑ b - X‑v. apXnÀ-¶h - À-¡v A-`n-am-\n¡m\pw ]p-Xn-b X-ea - p-db - ¡ v- v A-\p-Ic - n-¡m\pw ]-än-bXm-Wv A-t±-l¯ - n-sâ career path. C‑u Ign-ª hÀ-j§ - f‑n ]-e a‑oä- n‑ §‑pI - f‑nepw k‑pa - p‑ J\‑mb - H-¯ B-Im‑ c- k - u ‑ jvTh-ap‑ Å - H-cp‑ h-tb ‑ m‑ [ - n‑ I - ³ L-\K‑w`- o‑ c - a‑mb - i-Я‑n s‑Nd - p‑ ¸ - ¡ - m‑ t- c ‑ ¡‑mÄ i-àa - m‑ b - n‑ A-`n‑ {- ] ‑ m‑ b-§Ä {‑]I - S- n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¨ - n‑ c - p‑ ¶‑p. A-t±‑ l - a- m‑ W - v‑ C-¶s - ¯ ‑ \-½p‑ s - S‑ {‑Sk - ä v-‑ n‑ s‑a¼ - À {‑io‑ . F-kv.‑ h‑n. Z‑mk - v.‑ k‑z´ - a - m‑ b - n‑ t‑]äâ‑v F-Sp‑ ¯ - n‑ «- p‑ Å - , s‑sZ‑ \ - w‑ Z- n‑ \ - m‑ h - i - y‑ § - Ä-¡p‑ Å - ]-e D-e] v-‑ ¶ - § - f‑pw‑ A-t±‑ l - ¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ k‑w`- m‑ h - \ - b - m‑ b - n‑ «- p‑ ï - v.‑ B-tc ‑ m‑ K - y‑ ] - c - a‑mb - ]-cm‑ [ - o‑ \ - X - I - s - f ‑ m‑ ¶‑pw‑ X-SÊ - s - ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¯‑m³ k-½X - n‑ ¡ - m‑ s - X ‑ C¶‑pw‑ N‑pd - p‑ N - p‑ d - p‑ t- ¡ ‑ m‑ s - S‑ P‑oh - n‑ ¡‑p¶ - H-cp‑ h‑yà - n‑ b - m‑ W - v‑ d‑oK -  {‑io‑ [-c³ t‑N«³. ¢-ºn‑ s‑â IY-IÄ ]-dª p‑ X - c‑p¶-Xn‑ \ - m‑ b - n‑ t‑hW - s - a ‑ ¦ - n‑  ]p-dt¯-bv¡p h-cm‑ s - a ‑ ¶ - p‑ k-kt- ´ ‑ m‑ j - w‑ A-dn‑ b - n‑ ¨ - v,‑ “\‑n§ - Ä R§-sf ‑ B-Zc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä R-§Ä A-t§ ‑ m‑ «- v‑ F-s´ ‑ ¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ s‑Nt- ¿ ‑ t‑ï? k‑m[ - p‑ ¡ - Ä-¡v‑ D-]t- b ‑ m‑ K - {- ] ‑ Z- a‑mb - H-cp‑ ]²X‑n a-äv‑ H³-]X - p‑ t- ] ‑ c - p‑ a - m‑ b - n‑ t‑NÀ-¶v‑ \-S¸ - n‑ e - m‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ s - \ ‑ ¸ä‑n NÀ-¨s - N ‑ b - X v-‑ p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p.” F¶m-Wv A-t±-lw {]-Xn-Ic - n¨Xv. cïp-am‑ k - w‑ a‑p³-]v‑ ]-X\ v-‑ o‑ k - t- a‑ X - \ - m‑ b - n‑ a-{Z‑ m‑ k‑n c-ïp‑ t‑]c - p‑ w‑ B-ip‑ ] - {- X ‑ n‑ b - n‑  N‑nI - n‑ Õ - b - n‑ e - m‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶ - A-hk - c - ¯ - n‑ e‑mW - v‑ R‑m³ F‑w.Fk‑v. a-Wn‑ t- ¨ ‑ «-s\ ‑ _-Ôs - ¸ ‑ S- m‑ ³ {‑ia - n‑ ¨X‑v. ]‑n¶ - o‑ S- v‑ A-t±‑ l - ¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ A-fn‑ b - ³ t‑Um‑ . \‑mc - m‑ b - W {- ] ‑ k - m‑ Z- n‑ e - q‑ s - S‑ a-I³ {io. kp-Ip-amc³a-Wn‑ b - p‑ a - m‑ b - n‑ _-Ô s- ¸ ‑ «- n‑ «- m‑ W - v‑ C‑u writeupD‑w N‑n{- X ‑ § - f‑pw‑ I‑n«- n‑ b - X‑v. H-cp‑ I‑me-¯v‑ X‑nc- p‑ h - \ - ´ - ]‑pc-¯n‑ s - â ‑ G-äh‑pw‑ i-àa‑mb - G-I a- p‑ J - y‑ [ - m‑ c- m‑ ]-{X ‑ a- m‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶ - t‑Ic- f - I - u ‑ a- p‑ Z- n‑ b - p‑ s - S‑ F-Un‑ ä- ÀþC³þN‑o^ - m‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶ - a-Wn‑ t- ¨ ‑ «-sâ ‑ k‑w`- m‑ h - \ - I - Ä hf-sc ‑ h‑ne - s - ¸ ‑ «- X - m‑ W‑v. X‑nc - p‑ h - \ - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c-¯v‑ h‑n{- i ‑ a - n‑ ¨ - p‑ - X‑ma - k - n‑ ¡‑m³ F-\n‑ ¡ - v‑ G-äh‑pw‑ C-ãa- p‑ Å - Ø-ew‑ t‑Im‑ h - f - s - ¯ ‑ K-h¬-sa‑ â‑v K-käv-‑ v-‑ l‑uk - m‑ W‑v. k‑pµ - c - a‑mb - {‑]I - r‑ X - n‑ t- b ‑ m‑ S- v‑ k‑wK - a - n‑ ¨ - p‑ t- N ‑ À-¶ B at\mlc-am‑ b a-µn‑ c - ¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ i‑ne - ] v-‑ n‑ b - m‑ W - v‑ c‑ma - k - z‑ m‑ a - n‑ A-¿À k‑mÀ. ]‑mÀ-¡n‑ ³-k¬-kv‑ t‑cm‑ K - ¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ i-ey‑ a- p‑ s - ï ‑ The Second Home
¦‑ne‑pw‑ C¶‑pw‑ X-fc - m‑ ¯ a-\Ê - p‑ a - m‑ b - n‑ ]-X\ v-‑ n‑ t- b ‑ m‑ s - S‑ m‑ ¯ - v‑ h-gp‑ X - b - ¡ v-‑ m‑ S- v‑ morning walk\‑v C-d§ - m‑ d- p‑ ï‑v. A-t±‑ l - ¯ - n‑- s - â ‑ cousin Bb {‑io‑ . h‑ni - z‑ \ - m‑ Y - \ - p‑ w‑ nephew B-b {‑io‑ . a-tl ‑ j - p‑ (BÀ-¡n‑ s - S‑ I - ä v-‑ p‑ a - m‑ À‑)a‑mW - v‑ A-t±‑ l - s - ¯ ‑ ¡ - p‑ d - n‑ ¨ - p‑ Å - h‑nh - c§Ä \-eI v-‑ n‑ b - X‑v. I‑pc - y‑ ³-tN ‑ «- t- \ ‑ m‑ S- v‑ (D-¸q‑ «- n‑ Â‑) 17 hÀ-jw‑ a‑p³]‑,v‑ Queen Elizabeth F-¶ AX‑ym‑ V - w‑ _ - c - I - ¸ - e‑n I‑pS- p‑ w‑ _ - k - t- a ‑ X‑w Cruise s‑Nb‑X v- I‑mc - y‑ w‑ s‑k¡ - â‑tv- l ‑ m‑ a - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡ - v‑ F-gp‑ X - n‑ ¯ - c - m‑ t‑am‑ s - b ‑ ¶ - v‑ R‑m³ t‑Nm‑ Z- n‑ ¨ - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä A¶t±lw h‑n\ - b - ] - q‑ À-Æw‑ H-gn‑ ª p‑ a - m‑ d - p‑ I - b - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶‑p. C¯-hW - F-sâ ‑ i-àa‑mb k-½À-±w‑ - a‑qe - w‑ H-cp‑ e-Lp‑ h - n‑ h - c-Ww‑ X-¿m‑ d - m‑ ¡ - n‑ ¯ - ¶‑p. C¶‑pw‑ G-äh‑pw‑ X‑nc- t- ¡ ‑ d‑nb - H-cp‑ h³-hy‑ h - k - m‑ b - n‑ b‑mb - A-t±‑ l‑w B-hi - y‑ s - ¸ ‑ «- t- ¸ ‑ m‑ s - g‑ m‑ s - ¡ ‑ Csa-bn-en-eq-sSbpw ¢º‑n h-¶pw ]-gb - h‑nh - c-§Ä ]-dª p‑ X - ¶ - v‑ F-s¶ ‑ k-lm‑ b - n‑ ¡ - p‑ I-bm‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶‑p. {‑io‑ . F.]‑n. t‑jW - m‑ b - n‑ \-½p‑ s - S‑ ¢º‑n A-{X ‑ k‑p] - c - n‑ N‑nX - \Ã. F-dW - m‑ I - p‑ f-¯v‑ j‑n¸ - v‑ d‑n¸ - b - d - n‑ w‑ K - v‑ _‑nk - n‑ \-kv‑ \-S¯‑p¶ - A-t±‑ l - w‑ hÃ-t¸ ‑ m‑ g- p‑ s - a‑ m‑ s - ¡ ‑ t- b ‑ X‑nc - p‑ h - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c¯‑v h-cm‑ d - p‑ Å‑q. R‑m³ ]-et- ¸ ‑ m‑ g- m‑ b‑n A-t±‑ l - ¯ - n‑ s - \ ‑ ¡ - p‑ d - n‑ ¨‑pÅ - h‑nh - c§Ä B-hi - y‑ s - ¸ ‑ «- t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä k-t´ ‑ m‑ j - ] - q‑ ÀÆ‑w t‑^m‑ W - n‑ e - q‑ s - S‑ b‑pw‑ C-sa ‑ b - n‑ e - n‑ e - q‑ s - S‑ b - p‑ w‑ I-¯p‑ a - p‑ t- J ‑ \ - b - p‑ s‑am‑ s - ¡ ‑ D-Ss - \ ‑ X - s - ¶ ‑ (F¶‑m h-fs - c ‑ ¡ - p‑ d-¨p‑ Imcy§Ä a‑m{- X ‑ w‑ )‑ A-dn‑ b - n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶‑p. ]-¯m‑ a- s- ¯ ‑ k‑o\ - n‑ b - À A‑wK - w‑ I‑pa- m‑ À-tN ‑ «-sâ ‑ A-\p‑ P - \‑mb N-{µ ‑ ³-tN ‑ «- \ - m‑ W‑v. A-t±‑ l - ¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ a-¡t- f ‑ m‑ S- v‑ h‑nh - c-§Ä t‑Nm‑ Z- n‑ ¨ - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä Ct§m«p t‑^m‑ ¬ s‑Nb - X v-‑ n‑ «- v‑ Imcy-§Ä kw-km-cn¡m³ R‑m³ F-hn‑ s - S‑ h-cW - s - a‑ ¶ - m‑ W - v‑ B he‑nb a-\Ê - n‑ s - â ‑ D-Sa - b‑mb - A-t±‑ l - w‑ t‑Nm‑ Z- n‑ ¨ - X‑v. N-{µ ‑ ³-tN ‑ «- ³ k‑w`- m‑ j - W - §Ä¡nS-bn‑  \evInb h‑nh - c - § - f - m‑ W - v‑ t‑eJ - \ ¯‑n ]-IÀ-¯n‑ b - n‑ c - n‑ ¡‑p¶ - X - v.‑ Cu Kp-cp-Øm-\o-bcm-b tPy-jvTk - tlm-Zc - · - mÀ-¡v B-bp-cm-tcm-Ky-ku-Jy§Ä t\À-¶p-sImïv, kvt\-lm-Zc - § - t- fmsS,
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He is the patriarch or the Senior most member of the club, the biggest ‘family’ of Kerala comprising of 3160 members. Sri. S. Kumar was born on 14.4.1930 at Trivandrum. His father is the late P. Subramoniam (of Merryland Studios and Neela Productions) and mother the late C. Meenakshi Ammal. He had his education in the Model School and University College, Trivandrum He started his career by taking over the management of the New Theatre. From there he started a film distribution company by name Kumaraswamy & Co. which was one of the leading distributors of Malayalam films. Then he shifted his area of operation to Madras where he was production-in-charge. Later he came back to Trivandrum and took over the administration of the Merryland Studios. At present he is managing the various theatres along with his brothers. He is married to Dr. (Mrs.) Komalam Kumar and they have three daughters and two sons. Smt. P. Neela is married to Sri. Rajendraprasad and they are running a school in Pathanamthitta. The second daughter Smt. Uma’s husband Dr. Rajachandran is no more. The third daughter Ms. Meena P. Kumar is a Lecturer in the Mercy College, Palakkad. The elder son Subramoniam Kumar, is managing Sastha Printers, Trivandrum. His wife Smt. Sandya is working at the AG's Office, Trivandrum and the younger son Dr. Subramonian Padmanabhan is working in Kannur as ENT Surgeon and his wife is Adv. Sanika. Sri. Kumar joined the club in 1964. He has completed 50 years of membership A Golden Jubilee! He became the Secretary on 1972 and continued up to 1984 and again from 1986, totalling to 14 years which is the longest tenure in that post held by any member in the club. He faced many difficult situations during this long tenure, including a strike of the employees, jointly organized by 8
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the three major clubs of Trivandrum and he almost single handedly faced it and came out successful. He has held many top positions in the social and professional organizations like Rotary Governor Grand Master, Lodge Trivandrum Commandant of Home guards Chairman, South Indian film Chamber Chairman, Kerala Film Chamber and Chairman Film Distributers Association Kerala., Sri. Kumar has four brothers, Sri. T.S. Padmanabhan, Director of City Theatres (P) Ltd., Dr. M.S. Sivakumar working at the Amritha Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalamasserry, Sri. S. Karthikeyan (Engineer) and Sri. S. Murukan are managing their theatres in Trivandrum. His only sister Smt. M. Leela is the wife of the late Sivathanu Pillai of the Imperial Trading Company. Sri. Kumar’s is the first family of Malayalam Cinema, started by his grandfather the late Padmanabha Pillai and expanded by the son (father of Sri. S. Kumar) the late P. Subramoniam, who established the film studio Merryland and Neela Productions in Trivandrum and he set up a chain of theatres New Theatre, Sree Padmanabha, Sreekumar, Karthikeya and Sree Visakh in Trivandrum. And also a distribution company by name M/s Kumaraswamy. Thus the family had total lead in all the aspects of the Malayalam film industry in Kerala, so far unparalleled by any other group. Sri. S. Kumar, along with his wife is at present residing at ‘Ramaneeyam’, Pura-8, Nethaji Road, Poojappura, Trivandrum-12 Ph: (R) 0471-23505152 (O) 0471- 2336085 Mob: 9447779222 w
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My official name is P. Velayudhan Pillai but I am commonly known as “Velappan”.
I was born on 6th August 1933. I completed my education from Scott Christian College, Nagercoil. I was married to P. Saraswathy (late). I was the Managing Director of United Agencies (Tvm) Pvt. Ltd., manufacturer of Kerala Fans and was also the All Kerala Distributor of Ms. Radio Lamps Ltd which was renamed Bajaj Electricals Ltd., under the leadership of my friend Shekar Bajaj. Over a period of time I was known as “Bajaj Velappan”. I became the member of Tvm Club on 31/12/1964 when the Late Dr. S.S. Pillai was the Secretary and the late Elankom K. Narayanan Pillai or “Banker Chettan”, was the only Trustee. The late S.V. Pandit, a family friend was instrumental for my membership which was difficult at that time. The Club had very limited people usually 15 or 20 including guests were coming regularly in the evenings to play billiards, table tennis, cards and tennis. With the limited staff of 15 in the kitchen and service, the Club had tasty food incomparable with no hotels down south of India then. There was only the Club house with the Lounge, Table tennis cum dining hall, Billiards room, the present store as kitchen and the room adjacent to the lounge was the Secretary’s room. Mr. M.S. Mani, Mr. Vakkom Purushothaman, the lateV. Nirmalan Thampi, the late M.K.K. Nair and myself used to play rummy till 10 P. M in the lounge. The dining table was converted into a table tennis table. Club did not have any licensed bar, but we had liquor, purchased with permit. The entire area of 5 acres and 13 cents except the Club house was vacant with trees and tall grass grown around. We got information that the government was contemplating to acquire the vacant land we got from the Travancore Kingdom. We decided to construct a shuttle court cum Marriage Hall in front of the Club house. We persuaded the Government to drop the idea of acquirement of our land. Through Mr. M. Ramaswamy Iyer, Chief Architect to Kerala Government, we got the plan and license. The foundation stone was laid by the late Dr. S.S. Pillai. After sometime Sri. S. Kumar was selected as Secretary for the Club. For raising finance we decided to enroll new members by ballot and to increase the entrance fee. At the final stage there was a crunch for funds and Mr. S. Kumar donated Rs. 25,000 and the hall was named after his father Sri. P. Subramaniam. As many new members were enrolled, the dining hall was not enough to accommodate the members and their family. Hence it was decided to construct a hall by getting deposits and also an advance of Rs 200/- from all members and to reimburse the same at the rate of Rs. 20/- per month. The dining hall was constructed on a war footing and was inaugurated by Sri. Vakkom Purushothaman on 31/12/1973 Again the Club got information that the government had a plan of acquiring the left end corner of the club campus for the Police Headquarter’s. The club management headed by Mr. S. Kumar as Secretary decided to construct 5 cottages there with a donation of Rs. 15, 000/- each from - Kerala Kaumudi, Mr. A. Kurian, Mr. P. E. Subramanian, Dr. Krishnan Nair & Mr. Narendran and Ador Welding Ltd., without which the construction would not have been possible and we would have lost that part of the land. During the year 1984 the new Executive Committee was elected and I was unanimously elected as Secretary. Club was having good bookings for the Subramanian Hall with its thatched dining hall. During the first month of my tenure the thatched dining hall and Subramanian hall’s cloth bound false ceiling caught fire, at midnight, due to a short circuit. I along with my son P.V. Subramonian reached the hall immediately. At late night the kitchen was opened and 10
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sandwiches were served for the fire force people. The fire force department directed us not to maintain a thatched hall for a public utility. Then the committee decided to construct a dining hall. Since club did not have enough funds Mr. Nanda Kumar (then Regional Manager, Paravoor Central Bank) agreed to put up a proposal for a loan of 10 lakhs. I simultaneously discussed with Mr. N. Mahesh(nephew of Ramaswamy Iyer)who was not member then, to design and prepare the plan for constructing the hall. The registered original documents of the club was demanded by the bank and as there was no original documents, I offered my personal guarantee for the loan. Mathan and myself were in charge of the construction on a war footing. The workers and the supervisors were stationed in the club campus, working day and night. The dining hall has a foundation for 4 storeys. The bookings for the marriage hall increased to a great extent and the revenue for the club increased substantially. The then ADM Mr. M. Sasikumar and Mr. Velappan Nair helped the subsequent committee, get the title deeds for the club at the time of the late M.R.R. Menon as Secretary. After sometime an incident occurred in which, the food served to a member’s family had a centipede in the fried rice. Immediately food orders were cancelled for that day and the kitchen was cleaned completely. Everyday the cleaning process took place, till the alternative kitchen was ready. Mathen (Joint Secretary) was given the charge of fabrication. Since the time and amount demanded by the fabricators was high Mathen volunteered to fabricate the same in his industrial unit at the earliest and at the lowest cost. For the dining hall construction the small lawn in front of the club house was relaid to the place adjacent to the kitchen complex (lawn in front of the bar) and a family lawn was made near the tennis court. The new kitchen was opened by the eldest senior member the late J.P. Subramaniam (J. P. Swamy) father of the late S. Padmanabhan and Mr. S. Balu (former presidents of the club) on 23/10/1985. I appreciate the sincere efforts of my brother Mathan. He was always with me for the execution of the development projects of the club during my tenure. I was the Secretary of the Club for 2 consecutive years (1984-86) unanimously. And was followed Augustine Mathew (Mathen) by Mathen as Secretary for two consecutive years during which Sri. M.P. Aiyappan and my son P.V. Iyyappan were the Joint Secretaries. Mathen’s ambition was to construct a modern swimming pool, health club and a parlour and thus the present Mathen’s Block came into existence. He travelled at his own expense to study the similar facilities of Bangalore Club and Presidency Club, Chennai, before commencing the work. My sons P.V. Iyyappan and P.V. Subramonian, My sons-in-law Dr. K. Shanmuga Sundaram (Urologist) and Mr. S. Giridhar (Director of Sree Shakthi Paper Mills) and my grandsons Dr. M.S. Murugan and V.I. Jaganath are continuing as members. I will be failing in my duty if I did not mention the names of Sri M.S. Mani, the late V. Nirmalan Thampi, the late Dr. M.R.S. Menon and the late Dr. V. Jayakumar who had been very helpful in my efforts. I was also the member of Sri Moolam Club and continued the membership for 10 years. I was the member of Rotary Club Main. I am also the member of Trivandrum Tennis Club and Trivandrum Golf Club. I am a founder member of Lodge Trivandrum and became its master and also the founder member of Lodge Sarvothama, Cochin and Lodge Vivekananda, Kanyakumari. I have been associated with the club for the past 50 years. Even at present I am one among the Trustees. During my club life I have considered Trivandrum Club as my Second home and I have made only good friends. w
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His second son P.V. Subrmonian (Murugan) was elected as the Secretary of the Club for the year 2012-13. His committee renovated and air conditioned the dining hall of P.S.Hall which was constructed during his father’s tenure as Secretary. Murugan has the privilege to become the first Secretary, who is a son of a past Secretary. 11
Dr. N. Vijayakrishnan Nair was born in Trivandrum on Nov. 1938, son of Dr. V.R. Narayanan Nair (who was the first Director of Health Services, Kerala and last Surgeon General of Travancore Cochin State). Dr. Nair (that is how he is known around the world) studied in Model School, Trivandrum, and graduated in Medicine from Madras University and JIPMER, Pondicherry. Did his MS from NIN, Hyderabad and MPH from Cornell, USA. Various honorary degrees were conferred on him from China, Vietnam, Philippines and Japan over the years. Dr. Nair was Asst. Director of Health Services, Kerala (from which post he resigned); Asst. Director General of Health in New Delhi, and Nutrition Adviser to Govt: of India. In 1978 he joined the World Health Organization. For the next 21 years, he served the Western Pacific Region comprising 35 Countries as Regional Adviser for Nutrition, MCH, Prevention of Blindness, Non Communicable Diseases etc. Also served as WHO's representative to Philippines and Malayasia as well as in the Expert Committees WHO Head Quarters. Dr. Nair was not sponsored by Govt. of India or by anybody else. India was not a member state of that Region but there were very powerful countries like China, Japan, Australia, N. Zealand, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia etc. And Dr. Nair was promoted as Director which demonstrated his acceptance or recognition. He is the only Keralite who became a Director of WHO among the one or two from S. India)
Dr. Nair has been a visiting Professor of many universities and continues as an Emeritus Professor of Tokai University Japan. His greatest achievement was propagating prevention of blindness in children and helping countries to develop facilities in difficult times like in China after the cultural revolution, after the Vietnam War, and in Cambodia after the Pol Pot regime. People in these countries still have a friend in Dr. Nair. India may not remember him but there are many in these countries who will never forget him. Dr. Nair joined the club in 1965. He is a keen golfer and has won S.W. India Championship twice. He is member of TTC, Trivandrum Golf Club, India International Centre N. Delhi etc. He is married to Smt. Radha daughter of Dr. S.S. Pillai, who is a happy housewife. They have two daughters, the elder Suchitra is married to Mr. S.K.Nair an engineer and planter with one son in college. The younger Subhadra is in the USA working. Dr. Vijayakrishnan Nair is residing at 'Prasanthi', 9/1501, SMRA-10, Radhapurakunnu, Sasthamangalam, Trivandrum-10, Phone: 0471-27221815, 3251795, email: nvknair@satyam.net w
Receiving the Award for 20 years of creditable service in WHO.
Addresing the International Olympic Association in Japan
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Mr. S. V. Das hails from Kumbakonam in Tanjavur District. He had his school education in his native town and went to Madras for college education and obtained Bachelor’s Degree in Science from Madras University. He came to Trivandrum 55 years ago. His sister’s marriage and her subsequent shift to Trivandrum brought him to this city. He stayed with his sister and later married a girl from Trivandrum and settled here. His sister’s sons are Mr. K. Srikant and Mr. K. Lava, members of our club. He was in construction business and his specialization was in design and construction of Water retaining structures, Water treatment plants and Effluent treatment plants. Water tanks in Observatory hill, Thirumala and Vellayambalam are some of the works executed by him. He had to say goodbye to construction works due to old age and heart problems. He has innovative faculty. He had obtained Patent for “A clip for holding together reinforcement rods in cement concrete constructions”. His another Patent is for “A disposable under-arm perspiration pad”. Presently he is getting the disposable pads manufactured from Gujarat and marketing the same. He has also applied for Patent for “Eco-friendly cleaning powder”. This invention is among the 10 selected out of 36 entries from all over India, for presentation at TECH-TOP 2013 Convention held under the aegis of Technopark in association with MIT, Media Lab. He has also some more inventions up his sleeve which cannot be divulged before applying for Patent. Mr. Das joined the club in 1967. He is at present the Trustee Member of our club. He is a keen sportsman. He was in Madras University Tennis team during 1953-55. In spite of his advancing age, he is a frequent visitor to our club and enthusiastically participates in the activities of the club. He is married to Kalyani and has a son and a daughter. His son, Mr. V. Swaminathan, resides in Mumbai and his daughter, Mrs. Yeshodhara Narasu lives in Chennai. Both of them are members of our club. Sri. S.V. Das residing at 'Sreevilas', TC 36/709(2), Perunthanni, Trivandrum-8. Phone: 0471-2466094, 2450078, 9387803286 w One of the patented products of Sri. S.V. Das The Second Home
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Sri. V. Sreedharan (Regal Sreedharan) was born on the 3rd April
in 1928. His father the late P. Velayudhan established the Regal Tiles at Kollam in 1942 which is a reputed name in the tile industry for its quality products, tiles and wirecut bricks. His mother was the late Lakshmi. Mr. Sreedharan had his School education in the Fort English High School, Trivandrum and Intermediate from the Loyola College, Madras and graduation from the University College, Trivandrum. He started his career in the Regal Tiles as an assistant to his father Later he ventured out into his own choice of business, taking up civil construction works in the Kerala PWD, CPWD & MES where he maintained high standards of quality and timely delivery with the advice of none other the late P. Ratnaswamy (PRS) one of the most trusted names in the builder fraternity. After a successful 10 year stint in this line he switched over to rubber plantations at Nilambur where he raised a new rubber estate of 100 acres, which he planted in 2 years time. He continues to be a planter for the last 50 years. Even at the age 84 he visited his estate in the distant hilly terrain of Nilambur in 2012. Mr. Sreedharan has three sisters the late KamalakshiGovindan,Smt.SarojiniRamachandran and Smt. Vimala Ravindran and Three brothers the late V. Prabhakaran, Dr. Babu Subash and Sri. V. Mohan Kumar. He is married to Smt. Vimala and they have The 'macho' Sridharan in his estate two daughters, Smt. Jaya who is married to Sri. Murugesh Narendran who runs an industry manufacturing rubber products at Kollam, and Smt. Suja, wife of Sri. Sunil who has his own unit in the IT City, Dubai.
Mr. Sreedharan was an avid gymnast and body builder during his college days and his favourite hobbies are photography, playing cards and collection of vintage limousines. He joined the club in 1967. Now he is leading a settled life with at Regal House in the Belhaven Gardens, Kawdiar Trivandrum-3. Phone 0471 2315231, 9495629723 w M.P.A.
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Sri. M.S. Mani was born on 4th Nov. 1941 in the district of Kollam. the late C.V. Kunjiraman
the doyen of Malayalam Literature and Journalism was his grand father and lived in Mayyanad. Padmabhushan K. Sukumaran and Smt Madhavi Sukumaran were his parents. He has studied up to BSc Chemistry at the University College of Trivandrum. During his student life he was an active leader of Students Federation. He has travelled through out most states of India as a student. In 1961 he became a staff reporter of Keralakaumudi and in 1962 was posted to Delhi as a Parliament Correspondent. In the early 60s he covered both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and also carried several exclusive news items in the newspaper. Two major news items in his name include the entry of Indian troops into Goa which was under the Portuguese regime and the split in the Communist party of India. He has attended many north Indian village meetings with the Opposition party leader of the Lok Sabha, AK Gopalan. In 1962 he covered the Chinese aggression into Indian territory in Assam and Meghalaya area. In the Himalayas he travelled with the Indian troops upto Bomdilla and was a witness to receiving wounded soldiers to the Red Cross by the Chinese authorities. Several Indian soldiers had died in that attack. In this connection he stayed in Bomdilla to learn about the life of tribes in that mountainous region. In 1965 he returned to Trivandrum and took over the functions of the editorial department of Keralakaumudi with the aid of his father known as Pathradhipar among the people of Kerala. In 1965 he married Dr. Kasthuri Bai. He reported several exclusive items during this time for the newspaper which gave high profile and credibility to the newspaper. Being the only newspaper from the capital at that time it was very influential compared to other newspapers. His reports made governments fall and new governments step in. His influence on the public of Trivandrum helped the election of Sri V.K. Krishna Menon an independent candidate to the Trivandrum Loksabha constituency while Congress and other parties opposed him. On invitation from the different governments he has widely travelled across the world and accompanied Prime Ministers and Presidents of the country in their visits abroad. He started Kalakaumudi Publications in 1975 and also the first Malayalam daily from Mumbai. He was member of the Indian Newspaper Society’s national executive committee and also member of the All India Newspaper Editors' Conference. He is a recipient of Ambedkar and Kesari awards. He joined the club in 1967 and was an active regular member for a long period. He has participated in all the development activities of club. Kerala Kaumudi has donated one cottage in the club. His daughter Valsa Mani looks after the online editions of his publications. His son Sukumaran Mani is the Managing Director and Editor of Kalakaumudi Publications Pvt Ltd which publishes Kalakaumudi, Vellinakshatram, Ayurarogyam, Muhurtham, Snehitha, Big News and Kalakaumudi Mumbai edition. Sri. M.S. Mani is residing at Kalakaumudi Gardens, Kumarapuram, Trivandrum-11. Phone: 0471-2461010, 2470196, 9446077666. w From the family album: From LtoR Vaibhav Krishna - Grand daughter, Bhasurachandran - Son-in-law, Visakh Shaji - Grandson, Sukumaran Mani - Son, Amelie Weiget - Daughter-in-law, Dr. Kasthuri Mani - Wife, Valsa Mani - Daughter The Second Home
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Sri. M. Ramaswary Iyer, son of the late N. Mahadeva Iyer and the late Alamelu Ammal, was born on 29.6.1934. He took his SSLC from the Model School, Trivandrum, degree in Civil Engineering from the College of Engineering Trivandrum and Hons: Graduation in Architecture from IIT, Kharagpur. He joined KPWD as Junior Architect and rose to become the first designated Chief Architect of Kerala State in 1989. He has supervised the design of the many landmark public buildings like Kerala House, Delhi, Government Guest House, Kovalam, Legislature complex (in the initial stages). He was the consultant Architect of Trivandrum club and he had designed our P. Subramoniam Hall. He is at present, partner of M/s. Iyer & Mahesh Architects, Trivandrum. Mr. Iyer had two brothers the late M. Narayanan who was an M.Pharm. from BHU and became the Drugs Controller of Kerala (Sri. N. Mahesh, architect is his son) the late M. Krishnan, Retd. Superintending Engineer, KSEB and sister Smt. Krishnammal wife of the late Harihara Subramoniam (Retd. General Manger, LIC of India) Mr. Ramaswamy is married to Smt. Lokanayaki and they have two sons and one daughter. The elder son Mahadevan is no more. He was an M.Tech from IIT, Kanpur. The second son Sri. R. Ramakrishnan is Environmental Engineer working in Bahrain. His daughter Smt. Meenakshi Ammal did her MCH and is at present in the USA, married to Sri. Gopal Iyer. Mr. Iyer was the Rotary Governor and is one of the most revered senior leaders of Free Masonry. He joined the club in 1967. At present due to health reasons he is not that active like he was. But attends office and he stays at 15/2001, VRA-10, Women’s College Lane, Trivandrum 14. Phone 0471-232451, 2325543, 928753305, Email: mriyer08@bsnl.in w M.P.A.
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Sri. A. Kurian or Ooppoottil Kurian was born on 27-3-1937 to the late Kurian Abraham and the late Mariamma Kurian at Kottayam. His father was a planter who started the rubber plantations in 1944. Sri. Kurian did his schooling in the Madras Christian School and had his college education in Madras Christian College, Chennai. After graduation he joined the family’s plantation at Koothattukulam. The Velimalai Estate at Nagarcoil was established in 1960 having an extend of 2000 acres. He started the latex business in 1955 with centrifuging of latex. At present his company manufactures 1.5 million pairs of surgical gloves per day and their market share in India is 60%, apart from exports. The group has a combined turnover of Rs. 500 crores/annum employing more than 2000 people. They are one of the earliest firms to invest in wind energy with 12 windmills of capacity of 3MW at Aruvamozhy. He is the Managing Director of M/s Kurian Abraham (P) Ltd., Director in Vellimalai Rubber Co. Ltd., Cottanad Plantation Ltd, Nilambur Rubber Co. Ltd. and Ooppoottil Kurian (P) Ltd. Sri. Kurian is married to Smt. Mary Kurian and they have four daughters. Smt. Yasmeen Kurian, is a doctor working in UK. Smt. Nazreen Varkey is in charge of the company's depot in Bangalore. Smt. Rabeca Joy is a homemaker in Trivnadrum and Smt. Parveen Mathew is running a ICSE School at Nagercoil. Sri. Kurian has two brothers, Sri A. Jacob, Managing Director, Velimalai Rubber Co. Ltd.; Sri. Ravi Abraham - Managing Director, Kanam Latex Industries (P) Ltd. and three sisters, the late Mrs. Indira Kuruvila, wife of the late E. John Kuruvila; the late Mrs. Gracy Joseph, wife of the late E.K. Joseph and Mrs. Annamma Varghese, wife of Sri. Mammen Varghese of the Malayala Manorama. He joined the club in 1967. His hobbies are Music, Playing Hockey, Travelling. Sri. Kurian is permanently settled at Ooppoottil, 254. K.P. Road, Nagercoil-3. Ph: (R) 04652 - 2322808, 231934 (O) 04652 - 230330 / 230225 e-mail: kurian@ka-latex.com w M.P.A.
Latex factories at Nagercoil
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Cruise - Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)
My foot on the red carpeted gang plank, I savoured every step as I walked up to one of the
most impressive ships in the world. I was soon on board the QE 2 which had dockeed at Mumbai port. From the shore, I could barely see the ship end to end as it is about 294 metres long and 12 decks high. It seemed to me as tall as lighthouse as I walked up. This experience is one of the most memorable in my life. It was around 18 years ago that I travelled with my sisters and their families on the QE 2 which still remains fresh in my mind. For it was long journey from my boat paddling days in Kottayam where we had to cross a river to visit my aunt and uncle in a small vallam Once aboard. we unpacked into well appointed rooms and made our way quickly to the lounge area. The ship left Mumbai port on time and anchored out to sea due to a few late arrivals who had to join us by boat.The air conditioned lounges encased in glass gave you a vantage view of the Arabian Sea as we chanced on some dolphins out at sea. It was a perfect start to a luxury holiday. The ship is so enormous that you can barely feel it moving which is truly deceptive when the ship is actually doing a brisk speed. Except for the occasional high wave we seemed to be on a movable island. With over 1000 staff to attend to around 1700 guests, it was a pampered existence. Well life on the QE 2 for the next four nights could be equated to a floating Las Vegas. Exotic food in a variety of restaurants, dozens of free entertainment shows every evening and casinos to keep you busy if you are inclined. The shopping arcade, all connected by elevators included the famous Harrods besides the enjoyment of the pool, which I naturally did not try out. The amenities are immense and varied that it is nearly impossible to do justice to every activity. Besides, the chance of getting lost is always there, which is what happened to my brother in law. One of the highlights was meeting the Captain of the ship, along with his senior officers who were in traditional white with gold braiding much like a decorated naval officer. One is made to feel like a celebrity as you cross the threshold to shake hands with the captain. Flash bulbs pop as you go in to accept your glass of wine followed by a British style dinner service. Sure your photograph is up on the board the next morning but for a price unfortunately. Fortunately, it was a small price to pay as the captain told us and that in the olden days, crossing the equator required the sacrifice of a sailor being thrown out into the ocean. Luckily for us, we crossed the equator with a prayer and safely made landing at Seychelles en route to mombassa which was to be our final stop on our ocean voyage. The vegetation in Seychelles is very much like Kerala though the high streets were very reminiscent of british colonial times. One of the highlights was the botanical garden and seeing the coco de mer or sea coconut. The difference being that the nut is partially split in the middle, much like a double hulled boat and less round in shape. the day out at Seychelles passed quickly and soon we were heading to Mombasa with its pristine white beaches. Before long we would have to leave Mombasa also and go on to see the big five (elephant, lion, rhino, bison, cheetah) in the open spaces of the Masai Mara and the tea, coffee and pineapple plantations of Kenya. w Onboard Queen Elizabeth 2
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Sri. A.P. Shenai was born at Mattancherry, Kochi on 26th March 1934 to the late Appulla Shenai and the late Sundara Bai. He did his Schooling in the T.D. High School, Kochi and then went to Sacred Heart College, Thevara for his Pre University. He established Shenai Engineering works at Kochi which is a leading ship repairing company in the Cochin Harbour Area. Sri. Shenai married Smt. Sabitha and they have one son Mr. P.B. Prakash (our member) who is now looking after their family business of ship repairing. Mr. Prakash is married to Smt. Aarthi. Mr. Shenai’s elder daughter Dr. Anuradha Shenai is working with her husband Dr. Ranjith Kumar at Muscat. The younger daughter Smt. Sunitha Shenai is married to Sri. Prabhakar Kini who owns the Gardening - his favourite hobby Kinship Services in the Willington Island, Kochi, Mr. Shenai’s brother Suresh Shenai is a Marine Engineer, who is the Fleet Master of Star Ship Management at Chennai. Sri. A.P. Shenai is the Managing Trustee of the Thirumala Devaswam Trust for the last 42 years. This trust has the biggest temple of Sarawsatha Brahmana Samooham in Kochi. For the last 36 years he is in the Board of Directors of the Sudheendra Medical Mission, Ernakulam. Sri. Shenai joined the club in 1967. He is one of the senior most members of the Free Masonry in Kerala. He is leading an active social life at Kochi in ‘Aswini’, Y.N.P. Trust Road, Kochi- 2 Ph. 0484-2224891(R), 2224890(O) Mob: 9895130777 E-mail: shenai@eth.net w M.P.A. The Second Home
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likes to be called Chandran Sri. T.S. Padmanabhan (S. Chandran) was born on 28-8-1941. Father the late P. Subramoniam and mother the late C. Meenakshi Ammal. He is the younger brother of Sri. S. Kumar our present senior most member. Sri. Chandran had his education in Model School and M.G. College, Trivandrum. He joined the family business of films in the Exhibition side. He was managing the theatres viz. New Theatre, Padmanabha, Sreekumar, Sree Visakh and Karthikeya in Trivandrum along with his brothers Sri. S. Kumar, Sri S. Karthikeyan & Sri. S. Murukan. This family was the pioneers in the field of film making in Malayalam in all the aspects of it; Film Studio, Production, Distribution and Exhibition based at Trivandrum. In 1960 Sri. Padmanabhan took charge of the Padmanabha at East Fort, Trivandrum which was then a semi permanent theatre. Today it is a multiplex with 2 screens now being managed by his son Sri Girish Chandran. They have a pre-stressed conerate pole making unit used for electric posts, at Kollamkode, managed by his son Sri Mahesh P. Subramaniam.
100 years of Indian cinema: Receiving the LEGEND Award for his father the late P. Subramoniam from Sri. Pranab Mukherji, Hon. President of India. 20
Sri. Chandran is married to Smt. S. Santha and they have 3 daughters viz Smt. Geetha (W/o Sri, Sanjeev Sunu of Sakthi Wood Treats, Trivandrum) Smt. Siva (W/o Sri. N. Raja, Chartered Accountant, Chennai) Smt. Minnu (W/o Sri. P. Palani, Charted Accountant Chennai and two sons, Sri. Mahesh Subramoniam married to Smt. Rani and Sri. Sabari Girish married to Smt. Renu (Advocate). Sri. Chandran joined the club in 1967. He was the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Trivandrum for 3 consecutive years, He is the President of Vanchi Poor Fund, Trivandrum started by the Maharaja of Travancore. He is the Chairman of Lions Club Trivandrum Host’s Charitable Foundation and the Chairman of Kerala State Film Exhibitors Federation. Sri. Chandran is the Director of City Theatres (P) Ltd Trivandrum and he is staying in their ancestral house ‘Mani Mandiram’ at Thampanoor, Trivandrum, built by his father Sri. P. Subramanian in 1948. Phone 0471 2322999 (R) 2333354 Mob: 9447163999.w M.P.A.
Sri. S. Chandran with Smt. Indira Gandhi, Hon. Prime Minister of India, Sri. R. Sankar, Hon. Chief Minister of Kerala, Sri. A.S. Menon IAS and Er. S. Ramanatha Pillai - discussion for starting a Jawahar Balbhavan at Trivandrum by the Lions Club. The Second Home
First Indian Secretary of Our Club
Maj AK TAMPI (1913-1967)
This is a very rare photograph and a valuable piece of information. There is a strange coincidence that Mahatma Gandhi after his European Education, packed the British away from our country and Col A.K. Tampi, who was also born on the 2nd October, replaced the Europeans and became the first Indian Secretary of the erstwhile European Club, which became the Trivandrum Club later! M.P.A.
Major Arumana Krishnan Tampi was the first Indian Secretary of our club. Till the end of 30s, only Europeans were admitted as members in the erstwhile European Club which was re-designated as Trivandrum Club on a later date. Maj AK Tampi was born in an aristocratic family of Travancore on 2nd October,1913 to the late N. Srinarayanan Tampi of Nagarcoil Amma Veedu and the late Lakshmi Pillai Kochamma of Arumana Ammaveedu. The late N. Srinarayanan Tampi was the son of HH the Maharaja Srimoolam Thirunal and Srimathi Lakshmi Pillai Kochamma was the granddaughter of HH the Maharaja Vishaghom Thirunal. Maj AK Tampi was commissioned in the Indian Army in 10 Baluch Regiment during 1940. He had actively taken part in the World War II and was recipient of a gallantry award. After partition he was transferred to the Second Battalion of the First Gorkah Regiment [2/1GR]. He joined the Club by the end of 1930s along with his two brothers. He was posted to NCC Directorate in Trivandrum during 1959 and he started actively taking part in the affairs of the Club. He became the first Indian Secretary of Trivandrum Club from 10-09-'60 to 18-08-'62. Maj AK Tampi, a chronic bachelor passed away in Bangalore on 15 Oct 1967. His two brothers Lt Col AS Tampi and AP Tampi also joined the club along with him and their names figure as membership no NR 0002 and NR 0003 respectively in the Directory published by the club in the year 2000.Their brother-in-law Sri VM Tampi was an active member of the club during the 50s and was a member of the executive committee in 1957. Thanks to Sri. S. Ayyappan Nair, IAS (Retd.) (L-1783), President of our Seniors Forum for this valuable input The Second Home
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s‑¸S- p‑ ¶ t‑eJ-\§ - Ä‑, ]‑pk‑X v I - § - f - p‑ s‑S Ah-Xm‑ c- n‑ I - I - Ä Ig‑nª s‑Im‑ Ã‑w 239 {‑]k‑wK - w‑ ,‑ 150 t‑eJ-\w‑ ,‑ 23000 I‑n.-ao‑ . t‑dm‑ U‑pb - m‑ {- X ‑ ,‑ \‑me‑v KÄ^‑v kµÀi\‑w,‑ 73þ‑mw‑ hb-Ên‑  C{‑Xb‑pw‑ t‑]m‑ s‑c t‑Pm‑ e‑n!‑ kab‑w t‑]m‑ b‑n¡ - n‑ «- m‑ ³ h‑nja‑w CÃ. Ad‑p] - X‑mw‑ hb-Ên‑  s‑]³j-\m‑ b - m‑  aä‑v ]W‑n H¶‑pw‑ t‑XSc‑pX‑v F¶‑mW‑v Fs‑â ]£‑w. I‑n«‑m¯ a‑p´‑nc- n‑ § - s- b ‑ ¡ - p‑ d- n‑ ¨ - p‑ Å k‑rK‑me - a- X‑w BhÀ¯‑n¡ - b - m‑ s- W ‑ ¶‑v [c‑n¡ - c- p‑ X - .v‑ H‑mw‑ _‑pU - k v‑ av‑ m‑ ³ ]Zh‑n t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - p‑ h - m‑ § - n‑ b - X - à - . h¨‑p\ - o‑ «- n‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä HX‑p¡ - p‑ I - b - m‑ s- W ‑ ¶-dn‑ b - m‑ s‑X k‑zo‑ I-cn‑ ¨ - X - p‑ a- à - . ]‑ns‑¶b‑pw‑ Hc‑p s‑Im‑ Ã‑w kÀh‑ok - p‑ ï - .v‑ N‑o^‑v s‑k{‑I«- d‑n B¡‑mX - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ s‑a\ª t‑Ik‑pI - s‑fÃ‑mw‑ ]‑mf‑n. k‑zØ-am‑ b kab‑w. Xc‑p¶ - X‑v h‑m§‑nb - n‑ s- à ‑ ¦ - n‑  ]‑ns‑¶ hc‑p¶ - X‑v ]‑mc Bh‑pt‑am‑ F¶ i¦-aq‑ e‑w P‑oh\‑pw‑ s‑Im‑ ï‑v H‑mS‑pI - b - m‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶‑p F¶‑v ]d-bm‑ w‑ . B t‑Pm‑ e‑nt‑bm‑ ? dh\‑yq‑ U‑n¸‑mÀ«‑ps- a‑ â‑ns‑e Hc‑p C³k‑s v ] ‑ I - Sv‑ À s‑Nt‑¿ï - X‑pw‑ Xl-io‑ ÂZ‑mÀ t‑aÂt‑\m‑ «‑w hl‑nt- ¡ ‑ ï - X‑pw‑ BW‑v k‑wK-Xn‑ . AX‑n\ - m‑ W‑v s‑sl ‑ t‑¡m‑ S- X‑n PU‑P v n‑ b‑pw‑ N‑o^‑v s‑k{‑I«- d- n‑ b‑pw‑ Hs‑¡ Ig‑p¯ - n‑  t‑Im‑ WI‑w s‑I«‑n It‑kc- b‑¡ v v‑ s‑_©‑v F¶‑v t‑]c‑n«‑v Cc‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - .v‑ Ie‑nI - m‑ e s- s‑ h ‑ `- h‑w F¶‑v hb‑¡ v p‑ I. GX‑mb - m‑ e‑pw‑ s‑]³j³ {‑]m‑ b‑w C§s‑\ I‑r{‑Xn‑ a- a- m‑ b‑n \‑o«‑ns- b ‑ S- p‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑  he‑nb IY Cà F¶‑v Xs‑¶ BW‑v Fs‑â k‑pN‑n´ - n‑ X - a- m‑ b A`‑n{- ] ‑ m‑ b - w‑ . Hc‑p N‑o^‑v s‑k{‑I«d‑n s‑sl ‑ t‑¡m‑ SX‑nh - n‑ [‑n hg‑n cï‑v s‑Im‑ Ã‑w i¼-fh‑pw‑ s‑]³j\‑pw‑ H¸‑w h‑m§‑n¡ - f - ª‑p!‑ ]‑nc‑nt- b ‑ ï - X - n‑ \‑v Hc‑p Z‑nhk‑w a‑p³]‑v k‑zt‑a[ - b‑m ]‑nc‑nb - p‑ ¶ - X - m‑ b‑n IS-em‑ k - p‑ ï - m‑ ¡‑n ]¯‑p a‑p¸-Xn‑ \ - m‑ b - n‑ c‑w c‑q]‑m k¼‑mZ- n‑ ¨ - h - ³ Ch³ Xs‑¶. ]‑nc‑nb - p‑ t‑¼m‑ Ä X‑nI-bp‑ ¶ hbk‑v Ad‑p] - X - .v‑ Xt‑e¶‑v X‑nIª hbk‑v A¼-¯n‑ s- b ‑ m‑ ³]-X.v‑ Ah‑ns- S‑ b - m‑ W‑v If‑n. Ia‑yq‑ t- «‑ j - ³ \‑nc¡‑v t‑hs‑db - m‑ W‑v Hc‑p s‑Im‑ Ã‑w t‑\cs‑¯ ]‑nc‑nª - m‑ Â. Ch‑ns‑S Hc‑p Z‑nhk‑w t‑\cs‑¯,‑ B Z‑nhk‑w Xs‑¶ R‑mbÀ. CX‑n\ - m‑ W‑v _‑p²‑n t‑hW‑w F¶‑v ]d-bp‑ ¶ - X - .v‑ s‑Nb‑X v X - n‑  k‑mt‑¦X - n‑ I - a- m‑ b‑n s‑Xs‑äm‑ ¶‑pa- n‑ à - . \‑mW-t¡ ‑ S‑v t‑Xm‑ t‑¶ï - h - À¡‑v t‑Xm‑ ¶‑p¶ - n‑ s- à ‑ ¦ - n‑  t‑ij‑w P\‑w h‑nj-an‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - s- X ‑ ´ - n‑ \‑!‑v B t‑Pm‑ e‑n¡‑v A´Ê‑pw‑ ]{‑Xm‑ k‑pw‑ Dï‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . as‑äm‑ c- m‑ Ä s‑]³j³ Ig‑nª‑v Hc‑p ]W‑nt- X ‑ S‑n kÀh‑ok - n‑ e - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä ]©-]p‑ Ñ - a- S- ¡‑n a‑p¶‑n \‑n¶‑v c‑mj‑{v S‑ o‑ b - ¡ - m‑ c- s‑â h‑nf‑n¸ - m‑ S- n‑ e - m‑ b‑n Ig‑n¨‑p I‑me‑w I‑ps‑d. C\‑ns- b ‑ m‑ c‑p h‑nZ‑zm‑ ³ Ih‑nb - m‑ W - ,‑v AX‑v kl‑n¡ - m‑ w‑ . Bc‑v h‑o«‑n s‑N¶‑me‑pw‑ Xs‑â Ih‑nX h‑mb‑n¨ - p‑ t- I ‑ ĸ‑n¡ - p‑ w‑ . F§-s\ ‑ b - p‑ ï‑?v Bs‑cb - m‑ W‑v H‑mÀ½ hc‑p¶ - X‑?v s‑jÃ‑n,‑ t‑hU‑k v v‑ hÀ¯‑,‑v Fe‑nb - «- ,‑v ]‑q¨-b«‑?v \½‑ps‑S Ih‑nb - p‑ s‑S k‑\ v p‑ j‑m] - n‑ X - m‑ h‑v ]d-ªp‑ . FÃ‑mw‑ s‑Im‑ Å‑mw‑ . C‑u {‑]t‑bm‑ K‑w a‑m{‑Xw‑ IS‑p¸‑w!‑ s‑]³j-\m‑ h - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä DÅ {‑][‑m\ - s- ¸ ‑ « I‑pg¸‑w \‑mw‑ I‑me-lc-Ws- ¸ ‑ «hc‑mW‑v F¶‑v X‑nc‑n¨ - d- n‑ b - m‑ ³ s‑sh ‑ I‑p¶ - X - m‑ W - .v‑ t‑Zi‑m`- n‑ a‑m\ - n‑ b - n‑  ]{‑Xm‑ [ - n‑ ] - À¡-Sp‑ ¯‑v Cc‑p¶ Hc‑mÄ Hc‑p IY ]d-ªp‑ . kÀ¡‑mc- n‑  ]W‑ns- b ‑ S- p‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä DÅ ]c‑nN - b‑w h¨‑v \½‑ps‑S Hc‑p ""d‑n«'' IY-IÄ Fg‑pX - p‑ w‑ . IYt‑bm‑ {‑]m‑ t‑Zi - n‑ I - h - m‑ À¯t‑bm‑ F¶‑v t‑hÀX‑nc- n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ h¿. ]‑ns‑¶ t‑^m‑ ¬ h‑nf‑nb - m‑ W - .v‑ kJ‑ms‑h,‑ F´‑mb‑n? Hc‑n¡ -  Hc‑p a‑nU‑nÂk‑I v q‑ Ä h‑nZ‑ym‑ ÀY‑n IY \‑nc‑q] W‑w s‑Nb‑X v p‑ h - s- {‑ X ‑ . AX‑v Iï-tX ‑ m‑ s‑S \½‑ps‑S ""d‑n«‑''{‑]X‑n`] - ¯‑n aS-¡n‑ . kÀh‑ok - n‑ e - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä \½‑ps‑S h‑m¡‑n\‑v Hc‑p I‑nt‑em‑ `‑mc‑w A‑wK‑oI - c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ P\‑w \‑mw‑ s‑]³j-\m‑ b - m‑  BZ‑mb - h - n‑ e - ] v‑ \ - b‑ps‑S a‑qU‑ne - m‑ h - p‑ w‑ . h¼‑n¨ I‑ng‑nh - .v‑ `‑mc‑w Cc‑p\ - q‑ ä- n‑ b - ³]X‑v {‑Km‑ w‑ a‑m{‑Xw‑ . AX‑v \‑mw‑ X‑nc‑n¨ - d- n‑ ª - m‑  \‑mW‑ws- I ‑ S- m‑ s‑X Ig‑nb - m‑ w‑ . Hc‑p I‑me¯‑v R‑m³ {‑]`‑mX - k - h - m‑ c- n‑ b - p‑ s‑S Hc‑p `‑mK‑w F\‑n¡‑v a‑p³]‑pÅ Xe-ap‑ d- b - n‑ s‑e ""d‑n«''It‑fm‑ s- S‑ m‑ ¸‑w \S-¡p‑ a- m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . \‑mS‑v \¶‑m¡ - m‑ \ - p‑ Å Hä-aq‑ e - n‑ I - s- f ‑ Ã‑mw‑ ]‑pd-¯p‑ h - c- p‑ ¶ kab‑w Bb‑nc- p‑ ¶‑p AX‑.v ""A§‑v kÀh‑ok - n‑ e - n‑ c- n‑ s‑¡ C‑u _‑p²‑n t‑Xm‑ ¶‑nThe Second Home
b‑nc- p‑ ¶ - n‑ s‑Ã?‑'' F¶‑v \½Ä t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¡ - b - n‑ à - . B H‑mÀa DÅ-Xn‑ \ - m‑  Ct‑¸m‑ Ä hà s‑Nd‑p¸ - ¡ - m‑ c‑pw‑ Fs‑â a‑p¶‑n h¶‑v h‑oW‑m Ct‑§m‑ «‑v ]d-bp‑ ¶ - X‑v t‑IÄ¡‑pI - ,‑ t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \‑v ad‑p] - S- n‑ b‑pw‑ t‑XS‑p¶ D]-tZ‑ i - h‑pw‑ a‑m{‑Xw‑ At‑§m‑ «‑v s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ - p‑ I - ,‑ k‑ml‑nX - y‑ h‑pw‑ t‑Zi‑ob c‑mj‑{v S‑ o‑ b - h‑pw‑ Hc‑p ""_‑pP‑n'' Xe-¯n‑  NÀ¨ s‑N¿‑pI Fs‑¶m‑ s- ¡ ‑ b - à - m‑ s‑X kÀ¡‑mc- o‑ b - ¯ - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑v s‑]m‑ X‑ps‑h IS-¡m‑ d- n‑ Ã. `‑mk‑I v c- ³ \‑mbÀ Fs‑¶m‑ c‑p N‑o^‑v s‑k{‑I«- d‑n Dï‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p Ch‑ns‑S,‑ AX‑n{- ] ‑ K - Â`³‑, At‑±l - ¯ - n‑ \‑v X‑pe‑yw‑ as‑äm‑ c- m‑ s‑f ] d-bm‑ \ - n‑ à t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑ Â. Gäh‑pw‑ AS‑p¯‑v hc‑p¶ - X‑v \½‑ps‑S X‑pfk‑oh - \‑w c‑ma-N{- µ ‑ ³\‑mb - À BW‑.v F¶‑m k‑zb‑wI‑rXh‑pw‑ ] c-Ir‑ X - h‑pw‑ Bb I‑mc-W§ - Ä At‑±l - ¯ - n‑ s‑â I‑me‑n s‑I«‑nb IÃ‑pI - f - m‑ b - n‑ . AX‑v t‑hs‑d h‑nj-bw‑ ,‑ C‑u `‑mk‑I v c- ³\‑mb - À 1980  s‑]³j-\m‑ b - n‑ . F¶‑m R§-sf‑ m‑ s‑¡ ]‑nc‑nb - p‑ t- h ‑ m‑ f‑w At‑±l - s‑¯ I‑qs‑S¡ - q‑ s‑S H‑mÀ¡‑pw‑ . Hc‑p N‑o^‑v s‑Xä‑v s‑Nb‑X v m‑  ""`‑mk‑I v c- ³\‑mbÀ k‑mÀ CX‑v s‑N¿‑pa- m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - n‑ Ã‑'' F¶‑pw‑ \ÃX‑v s‑Nb‑X v m‑  ""`‑mk‑I v c- ³ \‑mbÀ k‑mÀ CX‑v Xs‑¶ s‑N¿‑pa- m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p'‑ ' F¶‑pw‑ ]d-bp‑ I hg‑n At‑±l - t- ¯ ‑ m‑ S‑v R‑m³ CX‑v ]d-ªn‑ «- p‑ ï - .v‑ B al‑mß‑mh - n‑ s‑â Ø‑nc‑w ad‑p] - S‑n ""X‑m¦‑v b‑q _‑m_‑p. _«‑tv U ‑ m‑ ï‑v e‑nh‑v C³ Z ]‑mÌ‑.v s‑eäk‑v t‑\m‑ «‑v t‑Sm‑ ¡‑v t‑jm‑ ¸‑,‑v s‑sh ‑ t‑Um‑ ï‑v b‑p I‑w S‑p Z t‑Km‑ Ä^‑v ¢_‑v dK‑pe - Àe‑n?‑'' F¶ a«‑n Bb‑nc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . AX‑mh - W‑w a‑mX‑rI - . H‑mt‑cm‑ ]‑pX‑nb s‑F.-F.-Fk‑v _‑m¨‑pw‑ hc‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä Ahs‑c D]-tZ‑ i - n‑ ¨‑v Is‑¯g- p‑ X - p‑ I - ,‑ H‑mt‑cm‑ ]‑pX‑nb a‑pJ‑ya-{´ ‑ n‑ ¡‑pw‑ N‑o^‑v s‑k{‑I«- d- n‑ ¡‑pw‑ \‑mS‑p \¶‑m¡ - p‑ ¶ k‑q{‑Xw‑ ] d-ªp‑ s- I ‑ m‑ S- p‑ ¡ - p‑ I Cs‑Xm‑ ¶‑pw‑ s‑]³j³I‑mc- s‑â \‑nt‑bm‑ K - a- à F¶‑v X‑nc‑n¨ - d- n‑ ª - m‑  DÅ h‑ne If-bm‑ X - n‑ c- n‑ ¡‑mw‑ !‑ "hc‑p¶ - p‑ ï - ,‑v t‑_m‑ d³' F¶‑v s‑Nd‑p¸ - ¡ - m‑ À ]d-bm‑ X - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - s- «‑ . Ct‑¸m‑ Ä s‑F.-F.-Fk‑/v s‑F.-]n‑ .-Fk - .v‑ Fg‑p¯ - p‑ I - m‑ À I‑ps‑d Dï‑.v \à I‑mc‑yw‑ . F¶‑m s‑]³j-\m‑ b - n‑ ¡ - g- n‑ ª - m‑  Ct‑§m‑ «- m‑ h - i - y‑ s‑¸S- m‑ s‑X Hc‑p t‑eJ\‑w Fg‑pX‑n ]{‑Xm‑ [ - n‑ ] - À¡‑v Ab-¨p‑ I - f - b - c- p‑ X - .v‑ Ab-¨m‑  t‑eJ-\a- m‑ b‑n \‑mw‑ c‑q]-Ie - ] v‑ \ s‑N¿‑p¶ - X‑v ]{‑Xm‑ [ - n‑ ] À¡‑pÅ I¯‑mb‑n A¨-Sn‑ ¨‑v hc‑m\ - n‑ S- b - p‑ ï‑v F¶‑v H‑mÀ¯‑nc- n‑ ¡ - W‑w. Hc‑p t‑Çm‑ I‑w Ct‑Ã? ""h‑n\‑mb - I‑w {‑]I‑pÀh‑mt‑Wm‑ cNb‑m a‑mk h‑m\c‑w'‑ ' c‑q]-Ie - ] v‑ \ s‑Nb‑X v X‑v KW-]X - n‑ s‑b; h¶‑p`- h - n‑ ¨ - X‑v aÀ¡-S³. AX‑n\‑v CS‑w s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ - m‑ X - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - . s‑]³j-\m‑ h - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ s‑â t‑Zm‑ j‑w Iï‑nt‑Ã? ]d-bc- p‑ s- X ‑ ¶‑pw‑ s‑N¿-cp‑ s- X ‑ ¶‑pw‑ \‑n§Ä CX‑v hs‑c h‑mb‑n¨ - X - n‑ \‑v C‑u I‑pd‑n¸‑v Xs‑¶ DZ‑ml - c- W - a- m‑ b - n‑ t‑Ã? ""Ø‑mt‑\ Ø‑nXk‑y ]ßk‑y a‑nt‑{X ‑ hc‑pW `‑mk‑¡ v c‑u Ø‑m\‑mX‑v {‑`j‑Sv k‑y ]ßk‑y t‑im‑ jI‑u t‑]m‑ j-Im‑ h - ]‑nx‑ '' F¶ {‑]a‑mW‑w s‑]³j³I‑mÀ ad-¡c- p‑ X - .v‑ F-¦n‑  k‑pJ‑w ^e‑w. t‑ij‑w N‑n´‑yw‑ i‑p`‑w. w
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C¯-hW {‑io‑ k¡-dn‑ b - m‑ b - p‑ s‑S [‑mÀ½‑nI - t- c‑ m‑ j‑w, s‑Nh‑n¡ - Ã‑v s‑]m‑ «‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ i_‑vZt- I ‑ m‑ e - m‑ l - e - § - f - p‑ a- m‑ b‑n Bt‑Lm‑ j - n‑ ¡ - s - ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¶ s‑Xc-sª ‑ S- p‑ ¸‑v a‑ma‑m¦ - t- ¯m-SmWv. t‑Im‑ f‑m¼‑n s‑sa‑ ¡‑pI - Ä \‑nt‑cm‑ [ - n‑ ¨ - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä Ah he‑nb s‑]«‑n¡ - p‑ Å - n‑  Dd-¸n‑ ¨‑v IhÀ s‑Nb‑vXv‑ t‑_m‑ I‑vkv‑ ssa¡pI-fm‑ ¡‑n Uk³I-W¡ - n‑ \‑v Hc‑pa- n‑ ¨‑v _Ô‑n¸ - n‑ ¨‑v PSLV- t‑]m‑ I‑pt - ¼ ‑ m‑ g- p‑ Å - X - n‑ t- \ ‑ ¡ - m‑ f‑pw‑ DbÀ¶ s‑Uk‑n_ - e - n‑  P\-§s‑f A£-cm‑ À°-¯n‑  ]‑oVn-¸n‑ ¡ - b - m‑ W‑v C¶s‑¯ c‑mj‑v{S‑ o‑ b ]‑mÀ«‑nI - f‑pw‑ aX-§f - p‑ w‑ . t- I ‑ m‑ S- X - n‑ b - p‑ s‑S D¯-ch - p‑ I - f - p‑ s - ï ‑ ¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ AX‑v \S-¸n‑ e - m‑ t- ¡ ‑ ï `c-Wm‑ [‑nI - m‑ c- n‑ I - f‑pw‑ Dt‑Zy‑ m‑ K - Ø - ³a‑mc‑pw‑ K‑pï-If - p‑ s - a‑ m‑ s‑¡ t‑NÀ¶‑pÅ‑ Hc‑p Ø‑nc‑w Ipdpa‑p¶W‑n k‑wh‑n[ - m‑ \‑w \‑ne\‑n¡‑p¶ - n‑ S- t- ¯ ‑ m‑ f‑w I‑me‑w C‑u ]oV\w \‑nÊ-lm‑ b - c- m‑ b - P\‑w kl‑nt‑¨ ]ä‑q. Fs‑â sNdp¸I‑me - ¯‑v X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c‑w s‑aU‑n¡ -  t‑Im‑ t‑fP‑v Gc‑nb - b - n‑  t‑lm‑ ¬ \‑nt‑cm‑ [ - n‑ ¨ - p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - p‑ Å t‑_m‑ ÀU‑pI - Ä Ø‑m]‑n¨ - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ `‑mK¯‑v Bc‑pw‑ t‑lm‑ ¬ AS‑nb - v¡ ‑ m‑ ³ s‑s[ ‑ c‑ys - ¸ ‑ «- n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - n‑ à - . t‑]m‑ e‑ok‑pw‑ AX‑v IÀi-\a- m‑ b‑n ]‑me‑n¨ - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . F¶‑m C¶s‑¯ AhØ Uk³I-W¡ - n‑ \‑v s‑sa‑ ¡‑pI - Ä s‑I«‑n {‑]k‑wK - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ (A-[n‑ I{‑]k‑wK - w‑ )‑ "c‑mj‑v{S‑ o‑ b \‑mb-I· - m‑ À' s‑N¿‑p¶ "t‑kh\‑w' F´‑ms - Wt‑¶m‑ ? {‑]k-hn‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ X‑mak‑w t‑\c‑n«‑v Bi‑p] - {- X ‑ n‑ b - n‑  Ig‑nb - p‑ ¶ KÀ`‑nW - n‑ I - Ä¡‑v \‑na‑nj - t- \ ‑ c‑w s‑Im‑ ï‑pÅ kpJ{‑]h-kh‑w! hf-sc‑ ¡ - m‑ e‑w Ig‑nª - p‑ ï - m‑ b KÀ`-[m‑ c- W - ¯ - n‑ \‑v t‑ij‑w N‑nI - n‑ Õ - b - v¡ ‑ m‑ b‑n Bi‑p] - {‑Xn‑ b‑n hc‑p¶ - h - À¡‑v \‑nÀ_-Ôn‑ X At‑_m‑ Àj³‑! P\‑n¨ - p‑ h‑og- p‑ ¶ ]‑n©‑pI - p‑ ª - n‑ \‑v P·-Zn‑ \ - k - ½ - m‑ \ - a- m‑ b‑n _[‑nc- X - b‑pw‑ s‑aâ tjm¡pw. A§s‑\ t‑]m‑ I‑p¶‑p B t‑_m‑ Wk‑pI - Ä. {‑io‑ k¡-dn‑ b ]d-bp‑ ¶ - X - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s‑e ]c‑nj - vI ‑ r‑ X - a- m‑ b At‑ac- n‑ ¡ - ³-þb - q‑ t- d‑ m‑ ] - y‑ ³ c‑mP‑y§ - s - f ‑ t- ¸ ‑ m‑ s‑e i_‑vZa- e - n‑ \ - o‑ I-cW‑w \‑nb-{´ ‑ n‑ ¨ - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶hc‑mW‑v A]-cn‑ j - vI ‑ r‑ X - s‑c¶‑p‑ \‑mw‑ a‑p{‑ZI - p‑ ¯ - p¶ B{‑^n‑ ¡ - ³ t‑Km‑ {‑Xh - w‑ i - c- m‑ P - y‑ § - Ä t‑]m‑ e‑pw‑ . I‑mewa‑md- p‑ Ib‑mW‑v AX‑ps‑Im‑ ï‑v; a‑mä‑ph - n‑ ³ i_‑vZ§ - s‑f... As‑æ - n‑ e - h \‑mä‑pa‑o \‑n§-sf ‑ ¯ - m‑ ³‑...!
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s‑sI ‑ I‑mc‑yw‑ s‑N¿‑p¶ - X‑v \‑mS-Io‑ b - a- m‑ b Hc‑p i_‑vZt- I ‑ m‑ e - m‑ l - e - t‑af - b - m‑ bm-Wv.‑ Gäh‑pw‑ D¨-¯n‑  Ae-dp‑ ¶ - h - \ - m‑ W‑v Gäh‑pw‑ I‑qS‑pX -  t‑hm‑ «‑p I‑n«‑pI F¶‑v AhÀ h‑ni‑zk - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s‑e t‑Xm‑ ¶‑pw‑ . Gäh‑pw‑ I‑qS‑pX -  s‑]«‑n k‑v]o‑ ¡-dp‑ I - f - n‑ e - q‑ s‑S Gäh‑pw i_‑vZ¯ - n‑  ]‑m«‑phb‑v¡p‑ ¶ - h - \ - m‑ W‑v P\‑m[ - n‑ ] - X - y‑ \ - m‑ bI³ F¶‑v AhÀ h‑ni‑zk - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ s - h ‑ ¶‑v Ic‑pX - W - w‑ . i_-Zva‑ m‑ W‑v Gäh‑pw‑ he‑nb kt‑µi - w‑ . h‑m¡‑pw‑ AÀ°h‑pw‑ AX‑ns- e ‑ m‑ c‑p s‑Nd‑nb LSI‑w a‑m{‑Xw‑ . Medium is the message F¶‑v a‑mÀj a¢‑ql - ³ ]d-ªp‑ . i_‑vZw‑ Xs‑¶b - m‑ W‑v kt‑µi - h‑pw‑ F¶‑v h‑ni‑zk - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ cï‑v {‑][‑m\ I‑q«-cp‑ ï‑v C´‑yb - n‑ Â. H¶‑v: c‑mj‑v{S‑ o‑ b - ] - m‑ À«‑nI - Ä. cï‑v: aX-§Ä. C´‑yb - n‑ s‑e h‑nh‑n[ ka‑ql - § - f - p‑ s‑S s‑sZ‑ \‑wZ- n‑ \ P‑oh‑nX-¯n‑  Gäh‑pw‑ `‑oI-ca- m‑ b i_‑vZa- e - n‑ \ - o‑ I - c- W‑w \S-¯p‑ ¶ {‑][‑m\ - i - à - n‑ I - Ä ChÀ Xs‑¶b - m‑ W - v.‑ i_‑vZw‑ DbÀ¯‑pI - b - à - ,‑ i_‑vZw‑ X‑mg‑v¯p‑ I - b - m‑ W‑v k‑wk‑vIm‑ c- ¯ - n‑ s‑â AS-bm‑ f‑w F¶-dn‑ ª‑pI - q‑ S- m‑ ¯ - ,‑ AYh‑m Ad‑nb - m‑ ³ h‑nk-½X - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - ,‑- cï‑v c‑m£k‑ob - i - à - n‑ I - f - m‑ W‑v c‑mj‑v{S‑ o‑ b - ] - m‑ À«‑nI - f‑pw‑ aX-§f - p‑ w‑ . aX-§Ä þC-Xn‑  l‑nµ‑pþa‑pÉ‑ow‑ þ s‑s{‑ I ‑ k‑vXh h‑yX‑ym‑ k - § - f - n‑ à þ GX‑mï‑v FÃ‑m c‑mj‑v{S‑ o‑ b - ¸ - m‑ À«‑nI - Ä AX‑v Gäh‑pw‑ A[‑nI ‑ w s‑N¿‑p¶ - X‑v s‑Xc-sª ‑ S- p‑ ¸‑v ka-b¯ - m‑ W - v.‑ Bc‑m[ - \ - m‑ e - b - § - f - p‑ s‑S ka‑o] - ¯‑v X‑ma-kn‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \ - m‑  \‑ni-_vZ‑ X - s- b ‑ ´ - v.‑ F¶‑v Ad‑nb - m‑ X - m‑ b - h - s‑c F\‑n¡ - d- n‑ b - m‑ w‑ . Ae-
d‑p¶ B²‑ym‑ ß - n‑ I - X - t‑b AhÀ¡‑v ]c‑nN - b - a- p‑ Å - q‑ . t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑ Â‑, c‑mj‑v{S‑ o‑ b - ¸ - m‑ À«‑nI - Ä FÃ‑mb - vt‑ ¸ ‑ m‑ g‑pw‑ i_‑vZw‑ De‑v]m‑ Z- n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ d- n‑ à - . Ah-cp‑ s‑S ià‑n{- ] ‑ I - S- \ - § - Ä \S-t¯ ‑ ï ka-bs- a‑ ¯ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ t‑f AhÀ \‑m«‑pI - m‑ c- p‑ s‑S t‑a s‑]«‑n k‑v]o‑ ¡-dp‑ I - f‑pw‑ k‑n\‑na‑m ]‑m«‑pa‑mb‑n I‑pX‑nc- I - b - d- m‑ d- p‑ Å - q‑ . ae-bm‑ f - n‑ I - f - p‑ s‑S IÀ®-]p‑ S- § - f - p‑ s‑S t‑a IS¡‑ng- h - · - m‑ s - c‑ t- ¸ ‑ m‑ s‑e ]‑nS‑n¨ - p‑ X - q‑ §‑n F¶‑pw‑ Ae-dn‑ s‑¡m‑ t- ï ‑ b - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑v aX-§f - m‑ W - v.‑ Hc‑p s‑Nd‑nb aX-þB - t- L ‑ m‑ j-¯n‑ \ - m‑ b - n‑ t- ¸ ‑ m‑ e - p‑ w‑ ,‑ Hc‑mg‑vN \‑os‑f Hc‑p Bh‑mk - {- ] ‑ t- Z‑ i‑w a‑pg‑ph\‑pw‑ AhÀ‑, \‑nj‑vTq‑ c- a- m‑ b‑pw‑ k‑wk‑vIm‑ c- i - q‑ \ - y‑ a- m‑ b‑pw‑ IÀ®I-tT‑ m‑ c- a- m‑ b i_‑vZw‑ h‑nkÀÖ‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . AX‑ns - \ ‑ X - n‑ s‑c s‑Nd‑nb i_‑vZw‑ t‑]m‑ e‑pw‑ DbÀ¯‑p¶ - h - s‑â IY Ig‑nª p‑ . c‑mj‑v{S‑ o‑ b - ¡‑mc- ³ Xs‑â AeÀ¨-bm‑ W‑v t‑hm‑ «Àa‑ms‑c A\‑pk - c- n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ I F¶‑v Ic‑pX - p‑ ¶X‑pt‑]m‑ s‑e Xs‑¶b - m‑ W - ,v‑ aX-§Ä X§-fp‑ s‑S AeÀ¨-bm‑ W‑v h‑ni‑zm‑ k - n‑ I - s‑f Xe-Ip‑ \ - n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ I F¶‑v Ic‑pX - p‑ ¶X‑v F¶-Xn‑  k‑wi-ba- n‑ à - . t‑em‑ I-¯n‑ s‑â h‑nh‑n[ `‑mK-§f - n‑ e - p‑ Å c‑mP‑y§ - f - n‑  k©-cn‑ ¡‑m³ F\‑n¡‑v `‑mK‑yw‑ e`‑n¨ - n‑ «- p‑ ï - v.‑ Hc‑p hi¯‑v ]‑mÝ‑mX - y‑ c- p‑ s‑S k¼-¶k - w‑ k - vI ‑ m‑ c- § - f‑pw‑ ad‑ph - i - ¯‑v B{‑^n‑ ¡ - b - n‑ s‑e Db-cm‑ ³ ]W‑ns- ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¶ Id‑p¯ - h - c- p‑ s‑S k‑wk‑vIm‑ c- § - f‑pw‑ I‑mW‑m\ - n‑ S- h - ¶ - n‑ «- p‑ ï‑v. F¶‑m i_‑vZw‑ s‑Im‑ ï‑pÅ ]c-ky‑ h‑pw‑ \á-hp‑ a- m‑ b s‑]m‑ X‑p P‑oh‑nX - m‑ {- I ‑ a- W‑w C´‑yb - n‑ e - à - m‑ s‑X as‑äm‑ c‑p ka‑ql - ¯ - n‑ e‑pw‑ R‑m³ Iï‑nà - . i_‑vZw‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v ka‑ql - ¯ - n‑ s‑e Hc‑p \‑yq‑ \-]£‑w `‑qc‑n-
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1960I-fn‑  Xncp-h\ - ´ - ] - pcw t‑am‑ U - Â-kv‑¡ - q‑ f - n‑ e - p‑ Å - \-½p‑ s- S‑ k‑mb - m‑ Ó - I - q‑ «- m‑ b - v‑a- b‑n h-¶n‑ c‑p¶ - B ]-Xn‑ \ - m‑ d- p‑ I‑mc- ³ t‑Ic- f - ¯ - n‑ s‑â Cultural Ambassador Bb‑n C-¶v‑ A-t\ ‑ I - c- m‑ P - y‑ § - f - n‑  k‑m¶ - n‑ ² - y‑ a- p‑ Å - ,‑ B-ïn‑  365 Z‑nh - k - h‑pw‑ I-em‑ h - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - p‑ \-ev‑Ip‑ ¶ - ,‑ t‑em‑ I - ¯ - n‑ s - e ‑ X-s¶ ‑ h-en‑ b - I-em‑ k - w‑ L-S\ - s‑I«- n‑ ¸ - S- p‑ ¯ - v‑ hÀ-j§ - f - m‑ b - n‑ A-Xn‑ s - \ ‑ ]-cn‑ ]‑me - n‑ ¡‑p¶ - Hc‑p Brand Icon B-bn‑ ¯ - o‑ À-¶p‑ þ k‑qc‑ym‑ I‑rj - v‑W - a- q‑ À¯‑n. a‑qÀ-¯n‑ s‑]m‑ X - p‑ t- h ‑ A-ev‑]w‑ K‑uc - h - k - z‑ `- m‑ h - a- p‑ Å - I-Wn‑ i - ¡ - m‑ c - \‑mb - H-cp‑ k‑wL - m‑ S- I - \ - m‑ W‑v. F¶‑m C‑u ‘\‑pd- p‑ § - p‑ IÄ’ F-¶ s‑Im‑ ¨ - p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ¨ - p‑ I-YI - f - n‑  a‑qÀ¯‑n N‑nc - n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡‑m\‑pw‑ N‑n´ - n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ \ - p‑ w‑ I-cn‑ b - m‑ ¡ - m‑ \‑pw‑ H-s¡ ‑ b‑pÅ - k‑w`- h-§Ä e-fn‑ X - a- m‑ b - n‑ ,‑ k-ck - a- m‑ b - n‑ hÀ-®n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b - m‑ W‑v. ]‑pX‑nb - I‑md‑n AÑ-sâ ‑ t‑]c‑p I‑p¯ - n‑ h - c - ¨ - k‑w`- h-IY - s‑sh ‑ t- e ‑ m‑ ¸ - n‑ Å - n‑ b - p‑ s - S‑ a‑m¼-gw‑ t‑]m‑ s - e ‑ I-®p‑ \ - n‑ d- b - n‑ ¸‑n¨‑p. a-cW - ¯‑n A-\p‑ t- i ‑ m‑ N - n‑ ¡‑m³ s‑N¶ - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä C³-jp‑ d- ³-kv‑ X‑pI - X‑n«- s - ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¯‑p¶ - k-tl ‑ m‑ Z- c - s - \ ‑ ¡ - p‑ d- n‑ ¨ - p‑ kqcym Ir-jW v- a- qÀ-¯nh‑mb - n‑ ¨-Xv‑ ]-ïv‑ R‑m³ _‑m¦‑n t‑Pm‑ e - n‑ s‑Nb - v‑X - n‑ c‑p¶ - k-ab-¯v‑ Hc‑p NRI Customers‑S a-cW - w‑- A-t\ ‑ z‑ j - n‑ ¨ - p‑ t‑]m‑ b - \-½p‑ s - S‑ Hc‑p Branch Manager-s‑S I-Yb - m‑ W - p‑ H‑mÀ-½b - n‑ s - e ‑ ¯ - n‑ bXv. ]-tc ‑ X-sâ ‑ `‑mc - y‑ b - p‑ s - S‑ a‑p¼ - n‑ e - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - v‑ I-®o‑ À h‑mÀ-¯n‑ «- v‑ i-hZ- m‑ l - w‑ I-gn‑ ª v‑ C-d§ - n‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä A-ht- c ‑ m‑ S- v‑ a-cn‑ ¨ - B-fn‑ s - â ‑ Pension Benefits h-cp‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä R§-sS‑ _‑m¦ - n‑ ¯-s¶ ‑ X-ct- W ‑ s - b ‑ ¶ - Z‑mc- p‑ W - a‑mb - A-t] ‑ £ - b - p‑ a- m‑ b - m‑ W‑v At±lw b‑m{- X ‑ m‑ s - a‑ m‑ g- n‑ - \-S¯ - n‑ b - X‑v! ]«n-bv¡ - v N-{I-hÀ-¯n-am-cp-sS t]-cv sIm-Sp-¯n-«v aw-¥o-jn Command sN-¿p-¶h - s - c-¡p-dn-¨p hm-bn-¨t- ¸mÄ, F-sâ-sbm-cp kp-lr-¯v `m-cy-bp-sS Cw-¥ojv Improve sN-¿p-¶X - n-\m-bn Cw-¥ojv CommandIÄ am{Xw a-\Ê - nemIp-¶ Hcp German Shepherds\ k-½m-\n¨p - t]cv Commander. ]-«n-tbm-Sv ssI D-bÀ-¯n-bn-«v k-eyq-«v F-¶v ]-dª - n-«mWv amUw Cw-¥o-jv kw-km-cw Xp-S§ - p-¶X - v. DS-s\ ]-«n ap³Im s]m-¡n k-eyq-«v sN-¿pw. A-t¸mÄ H-cp kwi-bw CXn B-cv B-sc-bm-Wv BZyw k-eyq-«v sN-¿p-¶Xv? Bcv B-sc-bm-Wv command sN-¿p-¶Xv!
Hc‑p _‑nÃ‑v h‑nZ‑ym‑ c- w‑ ` Z‑nh-k¯ - n‑  R‑m³ ]X‑nh - m‑ b‑n ae-bm‑ f at‑\m‑ c- a- b‑n Fg‑p¯ - n‑ \ - n‑ c- p‑ ¯ - m‑ \ - m‑ b‑n t‑]m‑ I‑md- p‑ ï - v.‑ Cc‑p¶ - q‑ t- d‑ m‑ f‑w I‑p«‑nIÄ¡‑v BZ‑ym‑ £c‑w I‑pd‑n¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ h - m‑ \ - p‑ Å `‑mK‑yw‑ FÃ‑m s‑Im‑ Ãh‑pw‑ F\‑n¡‑p s‑sI ‑ hc‑md- p‑ ï - v.‑ he‑nb Hc‑p X‑pI Z£‑nW - b - m‑ b‑n I‑n«‑pw‑ . B X‑pI IW‑ni - a- m‑ b‑pw‑ I‑pª‑p§ - f - p‑ s‑S I‑mc‑y¯ - n‑ \ - m‑ b - n‑ ¯ - s‑¶ R‑m³ h‑n\‑nt- b ‑ m‑ K - n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . Fs‑â h‑o«‑nt- e ‑ ¡‑p s‑Im‑ ï‑ph - c- m‑ d- n‑ à - . X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- s‑¯ aZÀ s‑Xt‑ck - b - p‑ s‑S t‑Im‑ ¬s‑hâ‑n I‑ps‑d A\‑mY i‑ni‑p¡ - f - p‑ ï - v.‑ Dt‑]£ - n‑ ¡ - s- ¸ ‑ «- h - À. AhÀ¡‑p ]‑mÂs‑¸S‑n h‑m§‑ns - ¡ ‑ m‑ S- p‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . Cs‑¡m‑ à - s‑¯ X‑pI R‑m³ X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c‑w i‑mk‑vXa- w‑ K - es‑¯ Hc‑p s‑aU‑n¡ -  t‑jm‑ ¸‑n s‑Im‑ S‑p¯ - p‑ . e‑mI‑vtS‑ m‑ P - ³ ]‑mÂs‑¸m- S‑n¡‑mb - n‑ . X‑pI he‑nb - X - m‑ b - X - n‑ \ - m‑  R‑m³ _‑nÃ‑p t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - p‑ . F¶‑n«‑p ]d-ªp‑ ,‑ _‑nÃ‑n Fs‑â t‑]c‑pw‑ ae-bm‑ f at‑\m‑ c- a- b - p‑ s‑S t‑]c‑pw‑ Fg‑pX - m‑ ³. I¼‑yq‑ «- d- n‑ e - m‑ W‑v _‑nÃ‑nM - v.‑ ]‑pX‑pX‑mb‑n ]W‑n¡ - p‑ t- N ‑ À¶ Hc‑p s‑]¬I‑p«- n‑ b - m‑ W‑v _‑nÃ-Sn‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ I¼‑yq‑ «- d- n‑  he‑nb {‑Km‑ l‑ys - a‑ m‑ ¶ - p‑ a- n‑ à - . F§-s\ ‑ t‑bm‑ AhÀ _‑n X¿‑md- m‑ ¡ - n‑ ¯ - ¶ - p‑ . h‑o«‑n h¶‑p _‑nÃ‑n t‑\m‑ ¡‑nb - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ g- m‑ W‑v Iï-Xv.‑ AX‑n AS‑n¨ - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ t‑]j‑yâ‑v : k‑qc‑y I‑rj‑vWa- q‑ À¯‑n t‑Um‑ I‑vSÀ : ae-bm‑ f at‑\m‑ c- a s‑aU‑nk - n‑ ³ : e‑mI‑vtS‑ m‑ P - ³!
Hc‑p H‑uN‑nX‑yw‑ cï‑mb - n‑ c- m‑ a- m‑ ï‑v‑ P‑qs‑se ‑ H¶‑n\ - m‑ W‑v Fs‑â A½ ac‑n¨ - X - v.‑
s‑]m‑ S‑p¶ - s‑\b‑mb‑nc- p‑ ¶‑p ac-Ww‑ . {‑]X‑o£ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ s‑X h¶ acW‑w FÃ‑m AÀ°-¯n‑ e‑pw‑ Fs‑¶ XfÀ¯‑n. F\‑n¡‑p c‑mh‑ne - s‑¯ `£W‑w Xc‑pI - b - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . s‑]s‑«¶ - m‑ W‑v s‑\©‑pt- h ‑ Z- \ h¶X‑pw‑ DSt‑\ Bi‑p] - {- X ‑ n‑ b - n‑  s‑Im‑ ï‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ b - X - p‑ w‑ . R‑m³ I‑qs‑Sb - p‑ ï - m‑ b‑nc- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . {‑It‑aW - b - m‑ W‑v l‑rZ-ba- n‑ S- n‑ ¸‑v \‑ne-¨X - v.‑ I‑qs‑Sb‑pï‑mb - n‑ c‑p¶ Ft‑¶m‑ S‑v t‑Um‑ I‑vSÀa‑mÀ t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - p‑ . s‑\©‑n CS‑n¨‑v h‑oï‑pw‑ l‑rZb‑w {‑]hÀ¯‑n¸ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ Hc‑p Ah-km‑ \ {‑ia‑w \S-¯t‑« F¶‑v. R‑m³ k½X‑w a‑qf‑n. Ft‑¶m‑ S‑v ]‑pd-¯p‑ \ - n‑ e - v¡ ‑ p‑ h - m‑ ³ ]d-ªp‑ . Hc‑p aI\‑pw‑ AX‑p Iï‑p\ - n‑ e - v¡ ‑ m‑ \ - m‑ h - n‑ à - t- {‑ X ‑ . R‑m³ ]‑pd¯‑p \‑n¶‑p. ]‑ns‑¶ ]‑pd-t¯ ‑ ¡‑p h¶X‑v A½-bp‑ s‑S PU-am‑ W - v.‑ Aca-Wn‑ ¡ - q‑ À a‑p³]‑v F\‑n¡‑p `£W‑w h‑nf-¼n‑ ¯ - ¶ A½. R‑ms‑\s‑â I‑md‑ne - m‑ W‑v A½s‑b Bi‑p] - {- X ‑ n‑ b - n‑  F¯‑n¨-Xv.‑ X‑nc‑ns‑I s‑Im‑ ï‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ I - p‑ ¶ - X‑v B‑w_‑pe³k‑ne‑pw‑ . F§s‑\b - n‑ s - X ‑ Ã‑mw‑ Häb‑v¡v‑ R‑m³ t‑\c‑n«‑p F¶‑v Ct‑¸m‑ Ä Bt‑em‑ N‑n¡ - m‑ ³ I‑qS‑n h¿. h‑o«‑ns - e ‑ ¯ - n‑ . Bc‑pw‑ Ad‑nª‑p X‑pS-§n‑ b - n‑ à - . h‑o«‑ne‑pw‑ A[‑nI-am‑ c- p‑ a- n‑ à - . I‑pd¨‑pt‑]À a‑m{‑Xw‑ . FÃ‑mw‑ R§Ä Xs‑¶ s‑Nb‑vXp‑ . At‑¸m‑ g- m‑ W‑v F\‑n¡‑v Hc‑p t‑^m‑ ¬ h¶-Xv.‑ _‑mw‑ ¥‑qc- n‑  \‑n¶‑v Hc‑p \À¯-In‑ b - m‑ W - v.‑ As‑¡m‑ à - s‑¯ k‑qc‑y s‑^Ì‑nh - e - n‑  Ah-sc‑ ¡ - q‑ S‑n DÄs‑¸S‑p¯ - W - s - a‑ ¶ - m‑ W‑v Bh-iy‑ w‑ . R‑m\-hs‑c Ad‑nb - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . Fs‑â A½ ac‑n¨ - n‑ «‑v Ac-aW - n‑ ¡ - q‑ t‑d Bb‑n«- p‑ Å - q‑ . Ct‑¸m‑ g- m‑ W‑v PU‑w h‑o«‑ns - e ‑ ¯ - n‑ ¨ - X - v.‑ DS³ Ah-cp‑ s‑S ad‑p] - S- n‑ . ""F¦‑n Hc‑p Ac-aW - n‑ ¡ - q‑ À Ig‑nª‑p h‑nf‑n¡ - m‑ w‑ .‑''
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The Second Home
Hc‑p Ah-Xm‑ c - I - ³ h‑nJ‑ym‑ X - K - m‑ b - I - ³ a‑pl-½Z‑v d‑m^‑nb‑ps‑S P·-Zn‑ \‑w X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- s‑¯ Hc‑p k‑wL-S\ Bt‑Lm‑ j - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . kZ-Ên‑ Â R‑m\‑pa- p‑ ï - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . ]c‑n] - m‑ S- n‑ b - p‑ s‑S Ah-Xm‑ c- I - ³ ]dª‑pX - p‑ S- § - n‑ b - X‑v C§s‑\: ""al‑m\‑mb a‑pl-½Z‑v d‑m^‑nb - p‑ s‑S P·-Zn‑ \-am‑ W‑v C¶‑v. Hc‑p I‑me-¯,v‑ `‑mc-X¯‑ns‑â Ie‑mI - m‑ b - n‑ I - c- w‑ K - § - f - n‑ Â X‑nf-§n‑ \ - n‑ ¶ h‑yà‑n{- ] ‑ `- m‑ h - a- m‑ b‑nc‑p¶‑p a‑pl-½Z‑v d‑m^‑n.'' R‑m³ DSs‑\ Ah‑ns - S‑ \ - n‑ ¶ - n‑ d- § - n‑ t- ¸ ‑ m‑ b - n‑ .
Hc‑p ]ck‑yw‑ ae-bm‑ f - ¯ - n‑ s‑e Hc‑p ]{‑X¯ - n‑ Â h¶ ]c-ky‑ w‑ . Fg‑p] - X‑p hbÊ‑p {‑]m‑ b‑w hc‑p¶ Hc‑p t‑cm‑ K‑n¡‑v Hc‑p h‑r¡ Bh-iy‑ a- p‑ ï - v.‑ \e‑vIm‑ ³ X¿‑md- p‑ Å - h - À¡‑v cï‑pe - £‑w c‑q]-hs‑c {‑]X‑n^ - e‑w \e‑vIm‑ ³ X¿‑mÀ. ]‑ns‑¶ h‑ne‑mk - h‑pw‑ t‑^m‑ ¬ \¼d‑pw‑ s‑Im‑ S‑p¯‑n«- p‑ ï - v.‑ Hc‑p k‑m[‑mc- W ]c-ky‑ w‑ . t‑hW-sa‑ ¶ - p‑ Å - h - À¡‑v I‑nU‑v\n‑ s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ - m‑ w‑ . X‑pI s‑sI ‑ ¸-äm‑ w‑ . AÃ‑m¯ - h - À¡‑p h‑mb‑n¨‑p If-bm‑ w‑ . ]t‑£,‑ C‑u ]c-ky‑ ¯ - n‑ s‑â Xe-hm‑ N - I - a- m‑ W‑v Fs‑¶ At‑em‑ k - c-s¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - n‑ b - X - v.‑ Xe-s¡ ‑ «‑v C§s‑\: A Muslim Kidney wanted.
Hc‑p s‑R«Â B s‑R«-en‑  \‑n¶‑v C¶‑pw‑ R‑m³ t‑am‑ N‑nX - \ - m‑ b - n‑ «- n‑ à - . aZ‑nc‑mi - n‑ b - n‑ s‑e {‑]i-kvX ‑ b - m‑ b Hc‑p `c-X\ - m‑ S‑yw‑ \À¯-In‑ b - m‑ W‑v F\‑n¡‑v B s‑R«Â k½‑m\ - n‑ ¨ - X - v.‑ FÃ‑mb - vt‑ ] ‑ m‑ g‑pw‑ h‑nf‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ i‑oe-sa‑ m‑ ¶‑pw‑ AhÀ¡‑nà - . hÃt‑¸m‑ g- p‑ t‑a h‑nf‑n¡ - q‑ . Hc‑p P\‑ph - c‑n a‑mk‑w. Ah-cp‑ s‑S h‑nf‑n h¶‑p. FS‑p¯ - ] - m‑ t‑S Hc‑p t‑Nm‑ Z‑yw‑ : ""Fs‑â \‑r¯‑w Cs‑¡m‑ à - s‑¯ k‑qc‑ys - ^ ‑ Ì - n‑ h - e - n‑  DÄs‑¸S- p‑ ¯ - n‑ b - n‑ «‑pt‑ïm‑ ?‑'' R‑m³ X‑nc-¡n‑ . ""Ft‑´ C{‑X [‑rX‑n? HI‑vtS‑ m‑ _ - d- n‑ e - t‑à s‑^Ì‑nhÂ? C\‑nb‑pw‑ ka-ba- p‑ ï - t- à ‑ m‑ ?'' AhÀ¡X‑p t‑]m‑ c. DS-\d- n‑ b - W - w‑ . ""Cs‑¡m‑ Ã‑w ]c‑nK - W - n‑ ¡ - m‑ s‑a¶‑v ]d-ªn‑ c- p‑ ¶ - X - t‑Ã?‑'' R‑m³ h‑oï‑pw‑ X‑nc-¡n‑ . ""Ft‑´ C{‑X [‑rX‑n? aä‑v H‑m^À hÃX‑pw‑ HI‑vtS‑ m‑ _ - À a‑mk-¯n‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑p h¶‑n«- p‑ t‑ïm‑ ?'' ad‑p] - S- n‑ b‑mW‑v Fs‑¶ s‑R«‑n¨ - X - v.‑ ""R‑m³ KÀ`‑nW - n‑ b - m‑ W - v.‑ C¶-se ‑ b - m‑ W‑v d‑nk«‑p I‑n«‑nb - X - v.‑ HI‑vtS‑ m‑ _ - d- n‑  R‑m³ \‑r¯‑w s‑N¿‑p¶ - p‑ s- ï ‑ ¦‑n F\‑n¡‑p I‑pª‑ns‑\ abort‑ s‑N¿-Ww‑ .‑'' R‑m\-hc- p‑ s‑S \‑r¯‑w As‑¡m‑ Ã‑w h¨‑nà - . ]‑ns‑¶ Hc‑n¡ - e‑pw‑ h¨‑nà - . h¨‑m N‑ne-t¸ ‑ m‑ Ä Hc‑p s‑Im‑ e-]m‑ X - I - n‑ b - p‑ s‑S t‑e_ F¶‑n ]X‑nb - p‑ t‑am‑ F¶ `b‑w. a‑p³I‑q«‑n s‑^Ì‑nh -  s‑jU‑yq‑ Ä {‑]J‑ym‑ ] - n‑ ¨ - m‑  C¯c‑w B]¯‑pI - Ä Hf‑nª n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ s - h ‑ ¶‑pw‑ R‑m³ a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ ¡ - n‑ .
Hc‑p IW-¡p‑ I - q‑ «- Â {‑]i-kvX ‑ b - m‑ b Hc‑p \S‑n. Ahc‑pw‑ AÑ\‑pw‑ A½b‑pw‑ kt‑lm‑ Z- c‑nb‑pw‑ Hc‑p h‑na‑m\m]-IS- ¯ - n‑ Â ac‑n¨ - p‑ . I‑pS‑pw‑ _ - ¯ - n‑ Â Ah-ti ‑ j - n‑ The Second Home
¨X‑v Hc‑p kt‑lm‑ Z- c- ³ a‑m{‑Xw‑ . h‑na‑m\ - ¯ - n‑  Ab‑mf - n‑ à - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . A]-IS‑w \S-¶X - n‑ s‑â a‑q¶‑mw‑ Z‑nhk‑w R‑m³ kt‑lm‑ Z- c- s‑\ I‑mW‑m³ t‑]m‑ b‑n. Z‑px‑ J-¯n‑  Ae‑v]s - a‑ m‑ ¶‑v Bi‑zk - n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ Ig‑nb - p‑ s - a‑ ¦ - n‑  Bb‑nt- ¡ ‑ m‑ s‑« F¶‑p Ic‑pX - n‑ . F´‑p ]d-ªm‑ W‑v Bi‑zk - n‑ ¸ - n‑ t- ¡ ‑ ï - X‑v? Hc‑p c‑q]-hp‑ a- n‑ à - . Fs‑¶ Iï‑m Ic-¨n‑ e - S- ¡ - m‑ ³ {‑]b‑mk - s - ¸ ‑ S- p‑ t‑am‑ ? h‑nd-¨p‑ h‑nd- ¨ - m‑ W‑v Ah‑ns‑S Ib-dn‑ b - X - v.‑ \‑me‑p acW‑w Hc‑p a‑n¨‑v \S¶ h‑oS‑mW - v.‑ Rm-\h - n‑ s‑S s‑N¶-t¸ ‑ m‑ Ä IïX‑v Ah‑ni - z‑ k - \ - o‑ b - a- m‑ b I‑mg‑vNb - m‑ W - v.‑ ac‑n¨ \‑me‑pt- ] ‑ c- p‑ t- S‑ b‑pw‑ C³j‑pd- ³k‑v X‑pIb‑pw‑ FbÀs‑se ‑ ³k‑ns‑â t‑Im‑ w‑ ]³t‑kj - ³ X‑pIb‑pw‑ Fg‑pX‑n I‑q«‑nX‑n«s‑¸S- p‑ ¯ - p‑ I - b - m‑ W‑v Ab‑mÄ. Hc‑p t‑em‑ «d‑n AS‑n¨ kt‑´m‑ j - a- m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p a‑pJ-¯v.‑
Hc‑p Fk‑v.F - w‑ .-Fk - v.‑ "s‑Nd‑p'‑ IY AÑ\‑pw‑ cï-ch - b - Ê - p‑ Å aI-\p‑ a- m‑ W‑v IY‑m] - m‑ {- X ‑ § - Ä. aI\‑v AÑ-s\ ‑ ¶‑p ]d-ªm‑  P‑oh-\m‑ W - v.‑ X‑nc‑n¨‑pw‑ A§-s\ ‑ ¯ - s - ¶ ‑ . Aѳ Ae‑v]w‑ a‑p³t‑Im‑ ] - n‑ b - m‑ s- W ‑ ¶‑p a‑m{‑Xw‑ . At‑±l‑w Hc‑p ]‑pX‑nb I‑md‑ph - m‑ § - n‑ . BZ‑ya- m‑ b‑n aI-s\ ‑ b‑pw‑ s‑Im‑ ï‑v Hc‑p b‑m{‑Xt‑]m‑ b - n‑ . Hc‑p ]‑nI‑v\n‑ I - v.‑ I‑p«‑n If‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \ - n‑ S- b - n‑  IÃ‑ps - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v I‑md‑n I‑p¯‑nh - c- ¨ - p‑ . a‑p³t‑Im‑ ] - n‑ b - m‑ b Aѳ Ahs‑\ AS‑n¨ - p‑ ; s‑Xm‑ g‑n¨ - p‑ ,‑ F¶‑n«‑pw‑ aX‑nh - c- m‑ s‑X I‑md‑ns‑e e‑nhÀ FS‑p¯‑v Ahs‑â ]‑n©‑p s‑sI ‑ If‑n Bª-Sn‑ ¨ - p‑ . Ahs‑â \‑me‑ph - n‑ c- e - p‑ I - Ä Aä‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ b - n‑ . I‑pª‑v t‑am‑ l‑me - k - y‑ s - ¸ ‑ «‑p h‑oW‑p. Ab‑mÄ¡‑v t‑Im‑ ]‑w AS-§p‑ ¶ - n‑ à - . Ah‑ns‑S I‑nS-¡s‑« F¶‑v Ab‑mÄ Ic‑pX - n‑ . t‑Im‑ ]-sa‑ m‑ ¶ - S- § - n‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä‑, Ab‑mÄ I‑p«‑ns‑b Bi‑p] - {- X ‑ n‑ b‑ns - e ‑ ¯ - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . s‑sh ‑ I‑nt- ¸ ‑ m‑ b - n‑ . h‑nc-ep‑ I - Ä X‑p¶‑nt- ¨ ‑ À¡‑m\ - p‑ Å kab‑w Ig‑nª p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ b - n‑ . I‑pª‑n\ - n‑ \‑n \‑me‑ph - n‑ c- e - p‑ I - Ä Dï‑mh - n‑ à - . AX‑pw‑ heX‑p s‑sI ‑ b‑nÂ. I‑pª‑n\‑p t‑_m‑ [‑w h¶‑p. AÑ-s\ ‑ b - m‑ W‑v BZ‑yw‑ X‑nc-¡n‑ b - X - v.‑ Iï-t¸ ‑ m‑ Ä AÑs‑â s‑sI ‑ I-fn‑  ]‑nS‑n¨ - p‑ ,‑ F¶‑n«- h - ³ AÑs‑\ t‑\m‑ ¡‑ns‑bm‑ ¶‑p N‑nc‑n¨ - p‑ . \‑nj‑vIf - ¦ - a- m‑ b N‑nc‑n. Aѳ I‑pä-t_ ‑ m‑ [ - ¯ - m‑  h‑nX‑p¼ - n‑ . Ab‑mÄ¡‑p aIs‑â a‑pJ¯‑p t‑\m‑ ¡‑m³ h¿. Ab‑mÄ ]‑pd-t¯ ‑ ¡ - n‑ d- § - n‑ . ]‑pX‑nb I‑mÀ Ah‑ns - S‑ ¯ - s - ¶ ‑ b - p‑ ï - v.‑ aI³ I‑p¯‑nh - c- ¨ `‑mK-t¯ ‑ ¡‑v Ab‑mÄ t‑\m‑ ¡‑n. I Love you, my dad F¶‑ms - W ‑ g- p‑ X‑nb - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ AS‑p¯ Z‑nhk‑w Ab‑mÄ Bß-lX‑y s‑Nb‑vXp‑ .
Hc‑p Xa‑mi ^‑qe³t‑Zh‑n Hc‑n¡ - Â h‑oc-¸s - \ ‑ ¡ - p‑ d‑n¨‑v ]dª‑p: ""Ab‑ms - f ‑ m‑ c‑p {‑In‑ a‑n\ - e - m‑ W - v.‑ ]‑nS‑n¨‑v X‑pd‑p¦ - n‑ e - S- b - v¡ ‑ W - w‑ .‑''
Hc‑p I‑pe-s¯ ‑ m‑ g - n‑  C¶‑pw‑ P‑nh‑n¨ - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ N‑nes‑c ]c‑nN - b - s - ¸ ‑ S‑p¯ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . t‑]c‑n \‑n¶‑pX - s‑¶ Ah-cp‑ s‑S I‑pes‑¯m‑ g- n‑  \a‑p¡‑p a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ ¡ - m‑ w‑ . t‑]c‑pI - Ä FÃ‑mw‑ bY‑mÀ°‑w. s‑s^ ‑ \‑m³k‑v I¼\‑n \S-¯p‑ ¶ Hc‑mÄ þ t‑Pm‑ k‑,v‑ ]ä‑n¡ -  k‑vIq‑ f‑n D¨-¡ª‑n s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ - p‑ ¶ Hc‑mÄ þ ]t‑{X ‑ m‑ k - ,v‑ s‑h«‑n¡ -  S‑n¡-än‑ à - m‑ s‑X s‑{S‑ b‑n³ b‑m{‑X s‑Nb‑vXp‑ ]‑nS‑n¡ - s - ¸ ‑ « Hc‑mÄ þ D®‑nI - r‑ j - vW ‑ ³‑, I‑pg‑nb - n‑  27
a‑n¡-hm‑ d‑pw‑ a‑pS-§p‑ ¶ s‑s{‑ ] ‑ hä‑v _Ê‑ns‑â H‑mWÀ þ a‑mX‑yp‑ ,‑ I«-¸p‑ d- ¯‑v Hc‑n¡ - Â I‑qS‑n ]d-bs - «‑ ,‑ t‑]c‑pI - Ä bY‑mÀ°‑w.
Hc‑p t‑Nm‑ Z‑yw‑ Bc‑mW‑v S‑mP‑val -  ]W‑nX - X‑v? I‑p«‑n i‑ne‑v]n‑ b - p‑ s‑S t‑]s‑cg- p‑ X - n‑ . ]‑qP‑yw‑ a‑mÀ¡‑v. t‑Nm‑ Z‑yw‑ h‑oï‑pw‑ . Bc‑mW‑v S‑mP‑val -  ]W‑nX - X‑v? as‑äm‑ c- p‑ I - p‑ «‑n j‑mP-lm‑ s‑â t‑]s‑cg- p‑ X‑n þ ^‑pÄa‑mÀ¡‑v.
Hc‑p h‑o«½ I‑p«-\m‑ S- n‑ s‑e Hc‑p h‑o«‑n C‑ub‑ns‑S t‑]m‑ b‑n. Ah‑ns‑S \‑me‑p ]«‑nI-fp‑ ï - v.‑ k‑okÀ‑, l‑mw‑ s‑eä- ,v‑ _Ê‑m\ - n‑ t- b ‑ m‑ ,‑ HYt‑Ãm‑ F¶‑mW‑p t‑]c‑pIÄ. t‑jI‑vkv] ‑ n‑ b - d- p‑ s‑S Bc‑m[ - n‑ I - b - m‑ W - t‑{X ‑ h‑o«-½. (F‑w.-Sn‑ . b‑ps‑St- b ‑ m‑ ,‑ _j‑od- n‑ s- â ‑ t‑bm‑ Bc‑m[ - n‑ I BI‑mX - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - X‑v `‑mK‑yw‑ .‑) N«b‑pw‑ a‑pï‑pa- m‑ W‑v h‑o«-½b - p‑ s‑S t‑hj‑w. a²‑yt- I ‑ c- f - ¯ - n‑ s‑â `‑mj B k‑v{X ‑ o‑ b‑ps‑S ae-bm‑ f - ¯ - n‑ \‑v B {‑]t‑Zi - ¯ - n‑ s‑â N‑phb‑pï - v.‑ Ft‑¶m‑ S‑v I‑ps‑d k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¨ - p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . CS-bv¡ ‑ n‑ S- b‑v¡v‑ ]«‑nI - Ä I‑pc-bv¡ ‑ p‑ w‑ . At‑¸m‑ Ä At‑§m‑ «‑v X‑nc‑nª‑v Ah-tc‑ m‑ S‑v k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . ]«‑nI - t- f ‑ m‑ S‑v AhÀ C‑w¥‑oj - n‑ e‑mW‑v k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ Don't shout Caeser, Sit calm Hamlet, Come here Othello Fs‑¶m‑ s‑¡ ]d-bp‑ w‑ . X‑nc‑ns‑I h¶‑v Ft‑¶m‑ S‑v ae-bm‑ f - ¯ - n‑  k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¡‑pw‑ . ]‑n¶‑oS- m‑ W‑v a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ ¡‑nb - X‑v t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑  a‑n¡ h‑o«-½a- m‑ c‑pw‑ ]«‑nI - t- f ‑ m‑ S‑v C‑w¥‑oj - n‑ e - m‑ W‑v k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¡‑p¶ - X - v.‑ t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑  Ct‑¸m‑ Ä a‑n¡ ]«‑nI - Ä¡‑pw‑ C‑w¥‑oj - p‑ a- m‑ {- X ‑ t‑a Ad‑nb - m‑ h - q‑ . ]«‑nI - Ä F¶‑p ]d-ªX‑v ic‑n¡ - p‑ Å ]«‑nI - s - f ‑ ¡ - p‑ d‑n¨ - m‑ W - v.‑
Hc‑p k‑wib‑w Hc‑p h‑o«‑n Ie‑ym‑ W‑w \S-¡p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä þ Ie‑ym‑ W - ¡ - p‑ d‑n C‑w¥‑oj - n‑ e - m‑ W‑v. At‑Xh - o‑ «- n‑  acW‑w k‑w`-hn‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä ac-W¡ - p‑ d‑n ae-bm‑ f-¯n‑ e - p‑ w‑ .
Hc‑p ]‑me‑w X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- ¯ - p‑ \ - n‑ ¶‑v s‑\¿‑mä- n‑ ³I-cb - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑p t‑]m‑ I‑p¶ hg‑n¡‑v Hc‑p ]gb ]‑me‑w Dï‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . I‑pd¨‑p hÀj-§Ä¡‑pa‑p¼‑v B ]‑me‑w h‑oX‑n I‑q«‑n ]‑pX‑p¡ - n‑ ¸ - W - n‑ X - q‑ ,‑ ]‑pX‑nb ]‑me‑w DZ‑vLm‑ S- \‑w s‑N¿‑ms - \ ‑ ¯ - n‑ b a{‑´n‑ s‑b NS-§n‑  k‑zm‑ K-X{- ] ‑ k - w‑ K-I³ A`‑nk - w‑ t- _ ‑ m‑ [ - \ s‑Nb‑vXn‑ § - s‑\: ""_l‑pa- m‑ \ - s- ¸ ‑ « ]‑me‑w DZ‑vLm‑ S- \‑w s‑N¿‑ms- \ ‑ ¯ - n‑ b a{‑´o‑ ...‑'' B ]‑me‑w H¶‑p h‑nd-¨p‑ . B h‑nd-b C¶‑pw‑ X‑pS-cp‑ ¶ - p‑ .
Hc‑p ]‑m]-`m‑ c‑w Hc‑p k‑wK‑ot- X ‑ m‑ Õ - h - ¯ - n‑ s‑â DZ‑vLm‑ S- \ - ¯ - n‑ \‑v Fs‑¶ £W‑n¡‑m\ - m‑ b‑n I‑pt‑dt- ¸ ‑ À h‑o«‑n h¶‑p. k‑wK‑oX - c- w‑ K - s‑¯ hÃ-hs - c‑ b‑pw‑ £W‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - t‑à DN‑nX - 28
s‑a¶‑v R‑m³ Ah-tc‑ m‑ S‑v X‑nc-¡n‑ . \‑nj‑vIf - ¦ - a- m‑ b D¯c‑w ]‑pd¯‑ph¶‑p. ""A§-s\ ‑ b - m‑ s - c‑ b‑pw‑ I‑n«‑nb‑nà kÀ....‑'' Ah-cp‑ s‑S kX‑yk - Ô - X - s‑b a‑m\‑n¨‑v R‑m³ t‑]m‑ b‑n. k‑zm‑ K-X{- ] ‑ k - w‑ K - I - ³ Fs‑¶ ]c‑nN - b - s‑¸S- p‑ ¯ - n‑ b - X‑v C§s‑\: ""k‑qc‑ym‑ - I‑rj - vW ‑ a- q‑ À¯‑nb - p‑ s‑S K‑pc‑p\‑mY - \ - m‑ W‑v F‑w.-Sn‑ . h‑mk‑pt- Z‑ h - ³ \‑mbÀ. At‑±l - ¯ - n‑  \‑n¶‑mW‑v k‑qc‑ym‑ - I‑rj - vW ‑ a‑qÀ¯‑n k‑wK‑oX‑w A`‑yk - n‑ ¨ - X - v.‑ '‑ ' R‑ms‑\m‑ ¶‑p s‑R«‑n!‑ F¶‑n«‑p {‑]m‑ À°‑n¨‑p: ""K‑pk‑vXn‑ a- Õ - c‑w DZ‑vLm‑ S- \‑w s‑N¿‑m³ Fs‑¶ £W‑n¡ - c‑pt- X ‑ .‑'' F¦‑n B ]‑m]-`m‑ c- w‑ I - q‑ S‑n F‑w.S‑n.¡‑p N‑pa-t¡ ‑ ï - n‑ h - c- p‑ w‑ .
Hc‑p s‑hS‑n i‑nh-Im‑ i - n‑ b - n‑ s‑e {‑]k‑n² - a- m‑ b ]S-¡\ - n‑ À½‑mW - i - m‑ e - b - m‑ W‑v
Paragon Fire Works (t‑]c‑p bY‑mÀ°-aà - )‑ .
Gs‑d ]g¡‑w s‑N¶ Ø‑m]-\a- m‑ W - X - v.‑ ]W‑w h‑mc‑p¶ Ø‑m]-\w‑ . e‑m`‑w I‑pa‑nª p‑ I - q‑ S- n‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä AhÀ Hc‑p h\‑nX - m‑ t- I ‑ m‑ f - P‑v X‑pS-§m‑ ³ X‑oc‑pa- m‑ \ - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . B t‑Im‑ f-Pn‑ s‑â t‑]c‑v: "Paragon Fire Works College for Women'
Hc‑p Ì‑n¡À X‑nc‑ph - \´]‑pc‑w s‑k³{‑S Pb‑ne - n‑ \ - I - ¯‑v Hc‑p al‑mK - W - ]-Xn‑ t- £ ‑ {- X ‑ a- p‑ ï - v.‑ s‑]m‑ X‑pP\-§Ä¡‑pw‑ Ah‑ns- S‑ t- ¸ ‑ m‑ b‑n s‑Xm‑ g‑mw‑ . ]‑qP‑mZ- n‑ I - À½§Ä hfs‑c N‑n«-bm‑ b‑n \S-¡p‑ ¶ s‑Fi‑zc- y‑ a- p‑ Å Hc‑p t‑£{‑Xw‑ . hÃ-t¸ ‑ m‑ g- p‑ s - a‑ m‑ s‑¡ R‑m³ Ah‑ns‑S s‑Xm‑ g‑m³ t‑]m‑ I‑md- p‑ ï - v.‑ ]X‑nh - m‑ b‑n Ah‑ns‑S s‑Xm‑ g‑m³ t‑]m‑ I‑p¶ Hc‑mf - n‑ s‑â h‑o«‑n C‑ub‑ns‑S t‑]m‑ b‑n. h‑oS‑ns‑â t‑Kä‑n Hc‑p Ì‑n¡À H«‑n¨ - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . "s‑k³{‑S Pb‑n KW-]X‑n C‑u h‑oS‑ns‑â s‑Fi‑zc- y‑ w‑ .'
Hc‑p {‑]kh‑w C‑ub‑ns‑S F\‑n¡‑v KÄ^‑n \‑n¶‑p Hc‑p s‑]¬I‑p«- n‑ b - p‑ s‑S Fk‑v.F - w‑ .-Fk - v.‑ h¶‑p. AX‑n Fg‑pX - n‑ b - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑v C§s‑\: "Sir, I have a piece of good news to share. I am happy to inform you that I am blessed with a healthy baby boy. Thankyou Sir, for the support and co-operation.'
Hc‑p FÊ‑v.F‑w.-FÊ - v.‑ C‑u FÊ‑v.F‑w.FÊ‑v. BW‑v R‑m³ Bc‑mW‑v F¶‑v Fs‑¶ a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ ¡‑nX¶-Xv.‑ Fs‑â AS‑p¯ k‑pl‑r¯ - m‑ W‑v F\‑n¡‑v C‑u FÊ‑v.F - w‑ . FÊ‑v Ab-¨X - v.‑ Gs‑d hÀjs‑¯ ]c‑nN - b - h‑pw‑ AS‑p¸ - h - p‑ a- p‑ ï‑v R§Ä X½‑nÂ. FÊ‑v.F‑w.-FÊ - v.‑ C§s‑\: "F\‑n¡‑v Hc‑p hc‑pa- m‑ \ - h - p‑ a- n‑ à - m‑ ¯ I‑me‑w. A¶‑p R‑m³ F§s‑\t‑bm‑ A³]X‑p s‑s] ‑ k k‑wL-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¨‑v I‑mW‑n¡ - b - n‑ «‑v s‑sZ‑ ht‑¯m‑ S‑v {‑]m‑ À°‑n¨ - p‑ . F\‑n¡‑p \s‑Ãm‑ c‑p k‑pl‑r¯ - n‑ s‑\ I‑n«-tW ‑ .' s‑sZ‑ h‑w F\‑n¡‑v A§s‑b X¶‑p. F¶‑n«‑p s‑sZ‑ h‑w ]dª‑p: ""A³]X‑p s‑s] ‑ kb‑v¡v‑ C{‑Xs - b ‑ m‑ s - ¡ ‑ t‑b I‑n«‑q.'' w The Second Home
The New Woman B lack, silent, invisible humans they,
Faceless, nameless, they plod their way, Bemoaning their fate in life's dense trek. For daughters are so low, the undead dead, Far, far below her lordly peerless son, Generations of shame and lamenting, Bent backs and swollen frames. Shunted and invisible, cursed to a corner She moans and seeks respite and light. We say you hold the spark of life within Shut you inside dark fortressed walls And crushed your screams and pitiful sighs.
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Awakening to the universal clarion call Arises a daughter someplace, caring and warm, My girl child, my precious flower You are valued and you are dear. Never again shall they snip your baby-life. You are free at last to test your wings, To dream, to carve your niche, to soar In search of esteem, passion and pride. You glow as you move emboldened, Destined to share a space in God's sunlight,. To endure all for learning's light. w
This time Smt. Lida Jacob draws our attention to the most discussed and ‘discarded’ subject’ The agony of the girl child’. We are aghast with the torture inflicted on the girl child even from the parents. Female foeticide, child rape, child marriage, dowry deaths, (dis)honour killings all staring at the conscience of the society. But in this beautiful poem the author presents an optimistic picture of hope and happiness for the new era girl child. The new woman is no longer the silent invisible person, but the warm and caring individual, who part takes of the divine grace of God. She has come out of the fortressed wall of abomination, awakening to the all encompassing light of knowledge that floods her life with happiness. The poetess subtly brings across the voice of the voiceless Smt. Lida Jacob, IAS(Retd.), W/o. Sri. Jacob Punnen is the Advisor to Government of Kerala, Gender and Child Protection. The Second Home
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Book review
On a clear day you can see India* by C. BALAGOPAL
“If it was a clear day we could have seen Bangladesh down below”. These were the words at Sri. P. J. Bazeley former Chief Secretary and then Chairman of the Electricity Regulatory Commission, Meghalaya (one of the ‘Seven Sisters’ of the North East). The title of Sri Balagopal’s book brought back the memories of our rain soaked trip to Chirapunji in Meghalaya, where there will be heavy downpour continuously for 24 hours, 30 days a month! The entire water from these mountain ranges flows down irrigating the valleys of the neighbouring Bangladesh. Manipur means the land of Jewels’, which Lord Irwin referred as the Switzerland of India. As we all know that classical Manipuri style of dances are in the blood of every Manipuri and it is a must for all women to learn and perform dancing. Sri. Balagopal who is one among the rare breed of executives who coolly called it a day to a coveted civil service carrier at a very young age and established a totally new industrial enterprise in Kerala successfully. Now he is back to his favourite pastime of pursuing literature and thus we are fortunate to get this wonderful book - “On a clear day you can see India”.
Chandrasekhar Balagopal (Bala) is a brilliant man.
Apart from outstanding academic achievements at school and university, Bala was selected for the IAS in 1977 and was allotted to the Manipur cadre. He left the service in 1983 to become a very successful entrepreneur in Kerala. Thirty years later, having hung up his boots, Bala has taken to writing and his first, very impressive offering is his diary of recollections and anecdotes from his time in Manipur as a twenty something, wonderfully titled On A Clear Day You Can See India (Harper Collins, 2013). I was naturally very keen to read this book and I am glad that I have. The very first chapter explains the title when, as a mere probationer in Tamenglong in the West District of Manipur, his Deputy Commissioner (DC) takes him to a vantage point in the district and pointing with his walking stick, says, "East is in that direction...Ukhrul and Burma.... To the north lie Nagaland and Assam....To the south lies Central District, then South District, and then Burma.... and there, to the west, my young friend, on a clear day, you can see India". For any young person at the time, living in a remote and inaccessible part of the country thousands of miles from home, many wistful glances would have been made westwards, towards home and the more familiar parts of India. That Bala liked and admired his first DC, "RN", is very apparent from his narrative. He begins with the DC suspending the Block Development Officer (BDO) who had drawn funds, and provided fictitious accounts, towards the cultivation of a pineapple plantation that clearly did not exist. Later, he is witness to a conversation that the
DC has with the Chief Secretary of the state who wants prohibitory orders under section 144 to be imposed and a dusk to dawn curfew be declared over some incident. The DC does not believe that the situation warrants it and lets the C. Balagopal superior officer know. On the latter's insistence, the DC refuses to comply, pointing out that any attempt to interfere with his work in his capacity as the District Magistrate would amount to contempt of court. Later the DC tells the young officer, "Of course there will be consequences. I will probably be transferred". However, "in a place like Manipur, one has every reason to be honest and correct. You are anyway thousands of miles from home. If you are transferred, you are only going to be a few miles further from home.... So, what the hell?" The young and idealistic Bala had learnt an important lesson. Always stand up for what is correct, the right thing to do. He does just that in a later chapter when he rejects a list of beneficiaries for a government scheme drawn up by a Minister's half-brother for a correct, properly drawn up list, only to be transferred the very next day! Another time, when he was supervising the imposition of a curfew, a senior officer directed him to issue curfew passes to a local bigwig who wanted to host a party to which he had invited people from Kolkota and Guwahati! Bala refused and on being threatened that important people would not be happy at this development, asked the person to leave
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telling us, "Something in me snapped at this, and images of the previous night rolled past my eyes--of young men being beaten for violating curfew, suspected insurgents and security forces locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse game, people on both sides of the law doing their chosen jobs with commitment and fear and heroism and desperation. And here was this smug fellow, grinning and worrying about his party." There are other incidents and events, from the normal to the extraordinary, that Bala talks about. Being visited by Peter, "SDO, Ukhrul" on his first day in office, when Bala was in fact the SDO there, and seeing the latter's surprised reaction, the assurance, "I am with the Revolutionary Government of Manipur" (Bala's description of his feelings and reaction at being visited by a member of the underground is worth reading); the wisdom of an elderly head constable who let the chilly winds of the season disperse a large group of protesters that was picketing the Raj Bhavan, while he, the man in-charge, was fretting over the possible use of force; the visits to the only real book
shop in Imphal; evenings spent with the two Malayalis in town, the catholic and protestant priests, and their good natured banter; the conduct of elections from the point of view of a young officer; tea with the distinguished L P Singh, then Governor of Manipur (and most of the north east) and so much more. Bala is a wonderful storyteller. He has an easy style and all the chapters of his book are truly entertaining, full of wit and humour on the one hand while being sensitive and poignant on the other. He talks about a little known but troubled part of India through the eyes of a young man on a quest to do something for his country. While he stays true to each incident he describes and has chosen them for their "entertainment value", the political and social issues, conflict and strife and the colonial character of the administration are never far away. This book is a must read for all civil service aspirants, and indeed most young people on the threshold of a professional life. It will find pride of place in my library. - Baby P.S. * Harper Collins, 2013
POSTINGS
K. Padmakumar IPS Addl. Director General of Police South Zone, Kerala
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A. Hemachandran IPS Addl. Director General of Police (Intelligence), Kerala
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" º‑v P‑oh‑nX‑w ]c‑nj‑vIr‑ X P‑oh‑nXc‑oX‑nb‑v¡v‑ AX‑y´‑mt‑]£‑nXa‑mW‑v'. Cs‑Xs‑â A`‑n{‑]m‑ baÃ. _l‑pa‑pJ {‑]X‑n`b‑mb‑nc‑p¶ C.h‑n. I‑rj‑vW]‑nÅ 1937þ t‑cJs‑¸S‑p¯‑nbX‑mW‑v. Trivandrum ClubþD‑w R‑m\‑pa‑mb‑pÅ I‑mÂ\‑qä‑mï‑v \‑of‑p¶ _ Ô¯‑ns‑â a‑pJ‑yLSI‑w s‑S¶‑ok‑v BW‑v. s‑S¶‑ok‑nt‑\m‑ S‑v F\‑n¡‑v {‑`a‑w X‑pS§‑nbX‑v X‑ri‑qÀ F©‑n\‑nbd‑nw‑ K‑v t‑Im‑ t‑fP‑n ]T‑n¡‑pt‑¼m‑ g‑mW‑v. Ieie‑mb {‑`a‑w Dï‑ms‑b¦‑ne‑pw‑ R‑m\¶‑v s‑S¶‑ok‑v If‑n¨‑n«‑nÃ. I‑mcW‑w ef‑nX‑wþ As‑¶\‑n¡‑v d‑m¡ä‑v DbÀ¯‑m\‑pÅ Bt‑cm‑ K‑yw‑ Dï‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑nÃ. R‑m\¶‑v t‑_y‑ m‑ ¬t‑_m‑ ÀK‑ns‑âb‑pw‑ h‑nPb‑v Aa‑rXc‑mP‑ns‑âb‑pw‑ IS‑p¯ Bc‑m[I\‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. Ahc‑ps‑S h‑nw‑ _‑nÄU¬ a‑m¨‑ns‑â Iaâd‑n,‑ AS‑p¯ k‑pl‑r¯‑pw‑ a‑nI¨ I‑mb‑nIX‑mch‑pa‑mb‑nc‑p¶ PG Kt‑Wj‑ns‑â a‑pd‑nb‑n Ø‑nc‑w t‑I«‑nc‑p¶‑p. IPS e`‑n¨‑v s‑sl ‑ {‑Z_‑mZ‑ns‑e kÀZ‑mÀ hÃ`‑mb‑v ]t‑«Â \‑mjW t‑]m‑ e‑ok‑v A¡‑mUa‑nb‑n s‑{S‑ b‑n\‑nw‑ K‑n\‑v t‑NÀ¶ t‑ija‑mW‑v BZ‑ya‑mb‑n s‑S¶‑ok‑v d‑m¡s‑äS‑p¯X‑v. Horse Riding a‑pX Rock Climbing hs‑c \‑of‑p¶ IT‑n\]c‑ni‑oe¯‑n\‑nSb‑n h‑oW‑pI‑n«‑nb h‑nes‑¸« I‑pd¨‑v kab‑w s‑S¶‑ok‑v t‑Im‑ À«‑ne‑pw‑ s‑Nehg‑n¨‑ps‑h¶X‑v H‑mÀ¡‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä Ct‑¸m‑ Ä h‑nk‑vab‑w t‑Xm‑ ¶‑p¶‑p. If‑n "A¸‑w' Ad‑nb‑ma‑mb‑nc‑p¶ klIPSI‑mc³ IÀ®‑mSI¡‑mc\‑mb KK³Z‑o]‑v Bb‑nc‑p¶‑p ’Coach’. AÔ³ AÔs‑\ \b‑n¡‑p¶ AhØ. s‑S¶‑ok‑v t‑Im‑ À«‑nÂ‑, s‑S¶‑ok‑v _‑mf‑pw‑ s‑S¶‑ok‑v d‑m¡ä‑pw‑ D]t- b ‑ m‑ K‑n¨‑v \S¯‑p¶ GX`‑ym‑ ks‑¯b‑pw‑ s‑S¶‑ok‑v F¶‑v h‑nf‑n¡‑ms‑a¦‑nÂ‑, AX‑pw‑ s‑S¶‑ok‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. hfs‑c I‑pd¨‑v I‑me‑ws‑Im‑ ï
hk‑m\‑n¨ C‑u H¶‑ma¦¯‑n R‑m³ h‑nes‑¸« Hc‑p ]‑mT‑w ]T‑n¨‑p þ CX{‑X Ff‑p¸¯‑n If‑n¡‑mh‑p¶ Hc‑p If‑nbÃ. ]‑ns‑¶ \‑me‑phÀjs‑¯ \‑oï CSt‑hf Ig‑nª‑mW‑v s‑S¶‑o k‑ns‑â cï‑ma¦‑w Act‑§d‑nbX‑v þ c‑mP‑v`h\‑ns‑e s‑S¶‑ok‑v t‑Im‑ À «‑nÂ‑, R‑m³ KhÀWd‑ps‑S ADC Bbt‑¸m‑ Ä. H‑ut‑Zy‑ m‑ K‑nIa‑mb‑n Hc‑p X‑nc¡‑pw‑ CÃ‑mX‑nc‑p¶ A¡e‑m¯‑v k‑w`h‑n¨ Hc‑p \à I‑mc‑ya‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p s‑S¶‑ok‑v. {‑io‑ . h‑nt‑\m‑ Z‑vdm‑ b‑v (]‑n¡‑mes‑¯ {‑]KÛ\‑mb CAG)‑ Bb‑nc‑p¶‑pA¶‑v t‑Im‑ À«‑ns‑e X‑mc‑w. Ct‑¸m‑ gs‑¯ X‑mca‑mb Ej‑nc‑mP‑v k‑nw‑ K‑,v‑ APbI‑pa‑mÀ‑, Ac‑p¬I‑pa‑mÀ k‑n³l k‑o\‑nbÀ‑, k‑p{‑_t‑Xm‑ _‑ni‑zm‑ k‑,v‑ c‑mt‑Pj‑v Z‑nh‑m³ X‑pS§‑nbhc‑pa‑pï‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. Ej‑nc‑mP‑v k‑nw‑ K‑ns‑â Bt‑hit‑¯m‑ s‑Sb‑pÅ N‑ne t‑jm‑ «‑pIÄ A\‑pkcWb‑nÃ‑ms‑X t‑Im‑ À«‑v IS¶‑v c‑mP‑v`h³ _‑uïd‑nb‑nt‑eb‑v¡v‑ ]‑mª‑nc‑p¶‑p. t‑_m‑ f‑n\‑v ]‑nds‑I s‑Xc¨‑ne‑n\‑mb‑n R§Ä¡‑pw‑ ]‑pdt‑¯b‑v¡v‑ t‑]m‑ t‑Iï‑nh¶‑p. Hc‑p Z‑nhk‑w U_‑nÄk‑v If‑n¡‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä Fs‑â ]‑mÀ«‑vWÀ Bb‑nc‑p¶ h‑nt‑\m‑ Z‑v d‑mb‑n k‑mÀ s‑\ä‑n\S‑p¯‑v \‑n¡‑pIb‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. kÀÆ ià‑nb‑ps‑aS‑p¯‑v R‑m³ Serve s‑Nb‑vXp‑ . t‑_m‑ Ä \‑nb{‑´Wa‑nÃ‑ms‑X t‑\s‑c s‑N¶‑p ]X‑n¨X‑v At‑±l¯‑ns‑â Ig‑p¯‑nÂ. At‑±l‑w s‑R«‑n¯‑nc‑nª‑p. “Sorry Sir” F¶‑p R‑m³. ]I¨‑p \‑n¶‑nc‑p¶ Fs‑¶ t‑\m‑ ¡‑n \‑nk‑mc`‑mh¯‑n As‑Xm‑ c‑p Xa‑mib‑m¡‑n At‑±l‑w N‑nc‑n¨‑p. AX‑v B h‑yà‑nX‑z¯‑ns‑â alX‑zw‑ . c‑mP‑v`h³ s‑S¶‑ok‑ns‑e as‑äm‑ c‑p Ah‑nk‑vacW‑ob k‑m¶‑n²‑ya‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p ]‑n¡‑me¯‑v DGP Bb‑n h‑nca‑n¨ {‑io‑ . t‑Pm‑ k^‑v t‑Um‑ k¬. At‑±l‑w ]e s‑sh ‑ I‑pt‑¶c§f‑ne‑pw‑ Fs‑¶ Singles
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If‑n¡‑m³ h‑nf‑n¨‑nc‑p¶‑p. a‑p³I‑q«‑n Fs‑¶ t‑^m‑ ¬ s‑Nb‑vXv‑ 5.30 pm Fs‑¶m‑ s‑¡ I‑rX‑ya‑mb‑n kab‑w Fix s‑N¿‑pw‑ . R‑m³ I‑rX‑yk - ab¯‑pXs‑¶ t‑Im‑ À«‑ns‑e¯‑n I‑m¯‑p\‑n¡‑pw‑ . Ff‑nab‑ps‑Sb‑pw‑ e‑mf‑nX‑y¯‑ns‑âb‑pw‑ {‑]X‑oIa‑mb‑nc‑p¶ At‑±l‑w,‑ Xs‑â k‑vIq‑ «d‑n 10-15 a‑n\‑n«‑v s‑sh ‑ I‑n F¯‑pw‑ . Fs‑¶ Iï DS³ “you came early?” F¶‑p ]db‑pw‑ . ad‑p]S‑nb‑mb‑n “Sir, I came at 5.30” F¶‑pa‑m{‑Xw‑ ]dª‑v At‑±l‑w s‑sh ‑ I‑n F¶‑v R‑m³ ]db‑ms‑X ]db‑pw‑ . s‑S¶‑ok‑v At‑±l¯‑n\‑v he‑nb Bt‑hia‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. At‑±l¯‑ns‑â If‑nt‑bm‑ S‑pÅ Bt‑hih‑pw‑ If‑n¡‑m\‑pÅ Ig‑nh‑pw‑ X½‑n s‑]m‑ c‑p¯a‑nÃ‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p F¶‑ms‑c¦‑ne‑pw‑ ]dª‑m t‑Um‑ k¬ k‑mÀ AX‑v \‑nt‑j[ - n‑ ¡‑m³ k‑m² - y‑ XbÃ. GX‑m\‑pw‑ a‑mk¯‑n\‑pt‑ij‑w F\‑n¡‑v Be¸‑pg SP Bb‑n Øe‑w a‑mä‑w I‑n«bt‑Xm‑ s‑S c‑mP‑v`h\‑ns‑e s‑S¶‑ok‑v P‑oh‑nX‑w Ahk‑m\‑n¨‑p. 3 hÀj¯‑n\‑v t‑ij‑w 1994 X‑nc‑ns‑I X‑nc‑ph\ ´]‑pcs‑¯¯‑nbt‑¸m‑ g‑mW‑v R‑m³ {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ ¢º‑n s‑S¶‑ok‑v If‑n¡‑m³ X‑pS§‑nbX‑v. GX‑mï‑v cï‑v ZiI‑w As‑Xs‑â \‑nX‑y P‑oh‑nX¯‑ns‑â `‑mKa‑mb‑n. Trivandrum Club BW‑v ic‑n¡‑pw‑ s‑S¶‑ok‑v Fs‑¶ ]T‑n¸‑n¨X‑v. AX‑ns‑â s‑{I ‑ U‑nä‑v ]‑qÀ®a‑mb‑pw‑ t‑Im‑ ¨‑v h‑nPb\‑pÅX‑mW‑v. X‑nc¡‑pw‑ k‑wLÀjh‑pw‑ \‑ndª t‑]m‑ e‑ok‑v P‑oh‑nX¯‑ns‑e \‑nX‑ykt‑´m‑ ja‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p ¢º‑ns‑e s‑S¶‑ok‑v. t‑ZhZ‑mk‑,v‑ Ak‑ow‑ ,‑ t‑{] ‑ a³‑, A\‑nÂ‑, AP‑n¯‑,v‑ ¢‑nt‑^m‑ ÀU‑,v‑ k‑pt‑cj‑v (Engineer and Paramount),‑ \‑nÊ‑mw‑ X‑pS§‑n A\h[‑n k‑pl‑r¯‑p¡f‑pw‑ AX‑ns‑â `‑mKa‑mb‑n. ¢º‑v P‑oh‑nX s‑¯¡‑pd‑n¨‑pÅ t‑eJ\¯‑n C.h‑n. I‑rj‑vW]‑nÅ Fg‑pX‑nb t‑]m‑ s‑e "‑ s‑S¶‑ok‑v If‑nb‑n Hc‑mÄ at‑äb‑mf‑ns‑\ t‑Xm‑ ¸‑n ¡‑p¶‑p. t‑Xm‑ äb‑mÄ¡‑pw‑ Pb‑n¨ BÄ¡‑pw‑ As‑Xm‑ c‑p k‑pJ‑w‑ F¶X‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p R§f‑ps‑S s‑S¶‑ok - v‑ ^ ‑ nt‑em‑ k^‑n'. Club‑s - e ‑ s‑S¶‑ok‑ns‑â {‑]t‑bm‑ P\‑w F\‑n¡‑v ic‑n¡‑pw‑ e`‑n¨X‑v R‑m³ X‑nc‑ns‑I s‑sl ‑ {‑Zm‑ _‑mZ‑v \‑mjW t‑]m‑ e‑ok‑v A¡‑mUa‑nb‑n s‑U]‑yq‑ t‑«j\‑n t‑]m‑ bt‑¸m‑ g‑mW‑v. Ah‑ns‑S F¯‑n Hc‑p a‑mk¯‑n\‑pÅ‑n A¡‑mUa‑nb‑n IPS s‑{] ‑ m‑ t‑_ jWÀa‑mc‑pw‑ ,‑ Facultyb‑pw‑ FÃ‑mw‑ ]s‑¦S‑p¡‑p¶ s‑S¶‑ok‑v S‑qÀ ®s‑aâ‑v Dï‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. Ah‑ns‑S 3 hÀj‑w X‑pSÀ¨b‑mb‑n N‑m¼‑y \‑mb‑n "s‑sj ‑ ³‑' s‑Nb‑vXn‑ c‑p¶ AÊ‑nÌâ‑v UbdÎÀ S.N. {‑][‑ms‑\ t‑Xm‑ ¸‑n¨‑v R‑m³ s‑S¶‑ok‑v N‑m¼‑y\‑mb‑n. a‑q¡‑nÃ‑mc‑mP‑y¯‑v a‑pd‑na‑q¡³ c‑mP‑mh‑v F¶ s‑Nm‑ Ã‑v R‑m³ X‑nI¨‑pw‑ A\‑zÀ°a‑m¡‑n. I‑q«¯‑n Fs‑â `‑mc‑y a‑me‑n\‑nb‑v¡v‑ c‑mÚ‑n¸«h‑pw‑ N‑pf‑ph‑n e`‑n¨‑p. I‑mcW‑w Mixed Doubles aÕc‑w R§Ä cï‑pt‑]c‑pw‑ t‑NÀ¶‑v Pb‑n¨‑p. C‑u h‑nPb¯‑ns‑â clk‑yw‑ ,‑ k‑pl‑r¯‑v U.P t‑IUd‑ns‑e Bi‑nj‑v K‑p]‑vX C§s‑\ k‑w{‑Kl‑n¨‑p “Madam remained a ’sleeping partner’ in the tennis court also”.
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Trivandrum Clubs‑e s‑S¶‑ok‑v s‑Im‑ ï‑pï‑mb as‑äm‑ c‑p t‑\«‑w I‑qS‑n t‑cJs‑¸S‑p¯‑n CX‑v Ahk‑m\‑n¸‑n¡‑mw‑ . R‑m\¶‑v ¢º‑n\‑v s‑Xm‑ «S‑p¯‑v Xs‑¶b‑pÅ t‑]m‑ e‑ok‑v s‑lU‑vIz‑ m‑ Àt‑«g‑vkn‑  DIG Bb‑n t‑Pm‑ e‑n t‑\m‑ ¡‑pIb‑mW‑v. H‑m^‑ok‑n t‑Pm‑ e‑n¯‑nc¡‑pï‑mb‑nc‑p¶ Hc‑p Z‑nhk‑w s‑sh ‑ I‑n c‑m{‑Xn‑ 10 aW‑nt‑bm‑ s‑S R‑m³ H¶‑mw‑ \‑neb‑n \‑n¶‑pw‑ ]S‑nb‑nd§‑n hc‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä X‑ms‑g Hc‑p s‑Nd‑nb BÄ¡‑q«‑w. R‑m³ a‑pt‑¶m‑ «‑v \‑o§‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä BÄ¡‑q«¯‑n \‑n¶‑pw‑ Hc‑p i_‑vZw‑ þ ""B t‑]m‑ W t‑la{‑µ³ k‑md‑ns‑\ R‑m\g‑nb‑pw‑ ''. h‑m¡‑pIÄ Ak‑v]j‑vSs‑a¦‑ne‑pw‑ D¨¯‑ne‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. Hc‑p SOS kt‑µi‑w I‑n«‑nbt‑]m‑ s‑e R‑m³ t‑hK‑w AS‑p¯‑v s‑N¶‑p. Hc‑p I‑q«‑w t‑]m‑ e‑ok‑pI‑mc‑ps‑S \S‑ph‑n BS‑nb‑mS‑n \‑n¶ \‑mc‑m bW³I‑p«‑n (t‑]c‑v h‑ym‑ P‑w)‑ Fs‑¶ Iï DS³ ""k‑mÀ {‑Sn‑ h‑m{‑Uw‑ ¥º‑ns‑e s‑a¼gt‑Ã'' F¶‑p s‑am‑ g‑nª‑p. F´‑mW‑pï‑mbs‑X¶‑v X‑nc‑n¡‑nbt‑¸m‑ Ä ""k‑mÀ Cb‑mÄ I‑pS‑n¨‑v e¡‑nÃ‑ms‑X PHQ t‑Kä‑v IS¶‑p,‑ XSª U‑yq‑ «‑n¡‑mcs‑\ ic‑n¡‑pw‑ s‑Xd‑nh‑nf‑n¨‑p'' Fs‑¶m‑ c‑p t‑]m‑ e‑ok‑pI‑mc³ ]dª‑p. {‑]i‑v\a‑mWt‑Ãm‑ F¶‑v R‑m³ a\k‑n Ic‑pX‑nbt‑¸m‑ Ä \‑mc‑mbW³I‑p«‑n h‑oï‑pw‑ ""¥º‑m¶‑v t‑Xm‑ ¶‑n t‑Id‑nbX‑m'' F¶‑mb‑n. s‑Xd‑nh‑nf‑n¨s‑X´‑n\‑mW‑v F¶‑v R‑m³ t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨‑p. ""t‑]m‑ e‑ok‑m¶g‑nª‑nÃ‑, ¥º‑v s‑kI‑yq‑ c‑nä‑o¶‑m t‑Xm‑ ¶‑nt‑b''. AX‑pw‑ AX‑n\¸‑pdh‑pw‑ t‑Xm‑ ¶‑mh‑p¶X‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p \‑mc‑mbW³I‑p«‑nb‑ps‑S Ø‑nX‑n. ic‑n¡‑pw‑ ¢º‑ns‑e A‑wK‑w Xs‑¶b‑mt‑Wm‑ F¶‑v R‑m³ X‑nc¡‑nbt‑¸m‑ Ä I‑p«‑n B Ø‑nX‑nb‑ne‑pw‑ A\‑nt‑j[‑ya‑mb s‑Xf‑nh‑v \‑nc¯‑n. ""]‑ns‑¶ k‑mÀ s‑S¶‑ok‑v If‑n¡‑p¶X‑v R‑m³ Iï‑n«‑pï‑v''. aZ‑yelc‑nb‑n ]ä‑nb A_²a‑mW‑,v‑ a\¸‑qÀÆaà F¶‑p]dª‑v t‑]m‑ e‑ok‑pI‑ms‑c R‑m³ i‑m´c‑m¡‑n. ¢º‑v s‑kI‑yq‑ c‑nä‑nb‑mb‑me‑pw‑ N‑o¯ ]dbc‑ps‑X¶ D]t‑Zi‑w \ÂI‑n I‑p«‑ns‑b R‑m³ t‑am‑ N‑n¸‑n¨‑p. I‑p«‑n BS‑nb‑mS‑n \S¶‑v PHQ t‑Kä‑v IS¶‑v CSt‑¯m‑ «‑v X‑nc‑nª‑v hg‑ns‑Xä‑ms‑X ¢º‑nt‑eb‑v¡v‑ Ibd‑n. X‑pSÀ¶‑v h‑o«‑nt‑eb‑v¡v‑ I‑md‑n b‑m{‑Xb‑mI‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä R‑m³ H‑mÀ¯‑p þ Trivandrum ¢º‑n k‑qt‑cy‑ m‑ Zb¯‑n\‑v a‑p³t‑] F¯‑p¶ A‑wK§Ä a‑pX I‑p«‑ns‑bt‑¸m‑ s‑e hfs‑c s‑sh ‑ I‑ns‑b¯‑p¶hc‑pa‑pï‑v. s‑]s‑«s‑¶s‑â a\k‑n ]ï‑v ]T‑n¨ O.N.V. I‑pd‑p¸‑v k‑md‑ns‑â "‑ "\‑me‑paW‑n¸‑q¡Ä'' F¶ Ih‑nX s‑Xf‑nª‑ph¶‑p. ¢º‑ns‑e A‑wK§s‑fÃ‑mw‑ at‑\m‑ lc§f‑mb ]‑pj‑v]§Ä Xs‑¶. s‑S¶‑ok‑pI‑mc‑mb R§Ä {‑]`‑mX]‑pj‑v]§f‑ms‑W¦‑n I‑p«‑n s‑sh ‑ I‑nh‑nSc‑p¶ at‑\m‑ lca‑mb Hc‑p \‑me‑paW‑n¸‑qh‑mW‑v F¶ h‑yX‑ym‑ kt‑ab‑pÅ‑q. "‑ "I‑p«‑n k‑w`h‑w'‑ ' R‑m\‑mt‑cm‑ S‑pw‑ ]dª‑nÃ. ]t‑£ I‑p«‑n ]et‑cm‑ S‑pw‑ ""C‑u t‑laN{‑µ³ k‑ms‑dm‑ c‑p Gentleman Xs‑¶b‑mW'' F¶‑p]dªX‑mb‑n R‑m³ Ad‑nª‑p. Fs‑â a\k‑n \‑me‑paW‑n¸‑qh‑ns‑â at‑\m‑ l‑mc‑nX h‑oï‑pw‑ hÀ²‑n¨‑p. w
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\‑mw‑ I-ïp‑ a- p‑ «‑p¶ - ]-{X ‑ {- ] ‑ h - À-¯I - c- n‑  \-sà ‑ m‑ c- p‑ h‑n`- m‑ K - ¯ - n‑ \‑pw‑ A-e] v-‑ w‑ K‑uc- h - a- p‑ Å - I‑mg- N v-‑ ¸ - m‑ S- m‑ W - v‑ FÃ‑m¯ - n‑ t‑\m‑ S- p‑ w‑ . F¶‑m I-SI - h - n‑ c - p‑ ² - a- m‑ b - n‑ , k-Zm‑ ]‑p© - n‑ c - n‑ ¡‑p¶ - K‑pc - p‑ X - z‑ a- p‑ Å - H-cp‑ \à k‑pl - r‑ ¯ - m‑ W - v‑ {‑io‑ . k‑ps - s ‑ _ ‑ À. hÀ-j§ - Ä-¡p‑ a‑p¼ - v‑ ]-cn‑ N - b - s‑¸«- A-tX ‑ a‑pJ - h‑pw‑ A-tX ‑ `‑mh - h - p‑ w‑ . I-ïÎ - À-¡v‑ S‑n¡-äv‑ A-Sn‑ ¨ - p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ S- p‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s - e ‑ , ]‑pX‑nb s{Sbn\n Xm³ I-ïn‑ «- n‑ Ã‑m¯ Xsâ Big Boss {‑io‑ . F‑w.Fk‑v. a-Wn‑ t- b ‑ m‑ S- v‑ ]-{X ‑ {- ] ‑ h - À-¯I - s- â ‑ s‑si ‑ e - n‑ b‑n Triavndrum Club h‑mÀ-¯ t‑iJ - c- n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ t‑]m‑ b - k‑w`h‑w c-kI - c - a- m‑ W‑v. ¢-ºn‑ s - \ ‑ ¡ - p‑ d- n‑ ¨ - p‑ Å - B-ßm‑ À-°a‑mb - A-ht- e ‑ m‑ I-\w‑ h‑mb - n‑ ¨ - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä - \-ap‑ ¡ - v‑ \-½p‑ s - S‑ Ø‑m] - \ t- ¯ ‑ m‑ S- v‑ a-Xn‑ ¸ - v‑ I‑qS- p‑ I - b - m‑ W - p‑ ï - m‑ b - X‑v. aebm-äq-cn-s\-¡p-dn¨pw ¢-ºn‑ s- e ‑ G-äh‑pw‑ k‑o\ - n‑ b - À Ì‑m^‑mb - {‑io‑ . A-¿¸ - s- \ ‑ ¡‑pd- n‑ ¨ - p‑ Å - h-kX v-‑ p‑ \ - n‑ j - vT ‑ a‑mb - A-`n‑ {- ] ‑ m‑- b§Ä X‑nI - ¨‑pw‑ l‑rZ- y‑ a- m‑ b - n‑ . X‑nc- p‑ h - \ - ´ - ]‑pw‑ F-©n‑ \ - n‑ b - d- n‑ w‑ K - v‑ t‑Im‑ t- f ‑ P - n‑ s- e ‑ R§fp-sS sa-¡m-\n¡Â s‑{] ‑ m‑ ^ - k - d- m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - ,‑ \-½p‑ s- S‑ k‑o\ - n‑ b - À s‑a¼ - d- m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - F‑w.BÀ.s‑I. t‑at- \ ‑ m‑ ³ k‑md- n‑ s - \ ‑ k‑zb - w‑ k‑pº - ¿ - c - m‑ ¡‑nb - k‑ps - s ‑ _ ‑ d- n‑ s - â ‑ I-Y A-tX ‑ t‑Im‑ t- f ‑ P‑n C‑w¥ - o‑ j - v‑ ]T‑n¸ - n‑ ¨ - n‑ c‑p¶ - C‑ut‑im‑ k‑mÀ, C-´y‑ m‑ ¡ - m‑ À¡‑v t‑em‑ I - ¯ - p‑ Å - B-tc ‑ b‑pw‑ C-´y‑ ³-hw‑ i - P - c - m‑ ¡‑m³ I-gn‑ h - p‑ s‑ï¶ - p‑ ]-dª I-Yb - m‑ W - p‑ H‑mÀ-½h - c - p‑ ¶ - X‑v. “]-ïv‑ C-´y‑ b - n‑ s - e ‑ H-cp‑ k‑wk - I v-‑ r‑ X - ] - Þ n‑ X - \ - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - t‑ij - s - s ‑ ¸ ‑ A-¿À t‑Zi - m‑ S- \ - ¯ - n‑ \ - n‑ S- b‑n ]‑mI - n‑ Ø - m‑ \ - n‑ s - e ‑ ¯ - n‑ ,- t‑jI - v] ‑ o‑ À B-bn‑ a‑md‑n, D-dp‑ Z- p‑ h‑n {‑]m‑ h - o‑ W‑yw‑ t‑\S- n‑ s - b ‑ ¶‑pw‑ ]‑n¶ - o‑ S- v‑ C‑w¥ - ï - n‑ s - e ‑ ¯ - n‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä t‑jI - k v-‑ ] v-‑ n‑ b - d- m‑ b - n‑ Cw¥o-jnse ¢mÊnIv {‑KÙ - § - s - f ‑ m‑ s - ¡ ‑ c-Nn‑ ¨ - p‑ - F¶pam-Wv‑ H-cn‑ ´‑y³ `‑mj - y‑ w‑ .”
U‑nk‑w_d‑ns‑e Ahk‑m\ Bg‑vN. D¨b‑v¡v‑ Hc‑p t‑^m‑ ¬ I‑mÄ t‑IcfI‑ua‑pZ‑nb‑nb‑ps‑S k‑nä‑n _‑yq‑ t‑dm‑ b‑ns‑e¯‑n. {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ I‑vf_‑ns‑e H‑cp‑ {‑]ZÀi\h‑pa‑mb‑n _Ôs‑¸«‑v AS‑n \S¶‑p. h‑nhc‑w Ad‑nª DS³ _‑yq‑ t‑dm‑ N‑o^‑v s‑I.P‑n. ]ct‑ai‑zc³ \‑mbÀ Fs‑¶ {- S‑ n‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ I‑vf_‑nt‑e¡‑v Ab¨‑p. R‑m\‑ms‑W¦‑n ]{‑X{‑]hÀ¯I\‑mb‑n t‑IcfI‑ua‑pZ‑nb‑ns‑e¯‑nb‑n«‑v a‑q¶‑v a‑mkt‑a Bb‑n«‑pÅ‑p. FÃ‑mw‑ AS‑p¯d‑nb‑m\‑pÅ {‑ia‑w X‑pS§‑pt‑¶b‑pÅ‑p. {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ I‑vf_‑v I‑mW‑m\‑pÅ Ahkca‑mb‑n Iï R‑m³ DS³ Xs‑¶ Hc‑p Bt‑«m‑ h‑nf‑n¨‑v Ah‑ns‑Ss‑b¯‑n. t‑\s‑c d‑nk]‑vj\‑n s‑N¶‑p. t‑IcfI‑ua‑pZ‑nb‑ps‑S t‑eJI\‑ms‑W¶‑v Ad‑nb‑n¨‑p. Ch‑ns‑S \S¶ AS‑ns‑b¡‑pd‑n¨ - d‑nb‑m³ h¶X‑mW‑v. I‑uie¡‑mc\‑mb P‑oh\¡‑mc³ Hc‑ms‑f N‑qï‑n¡‑mW‑n¨‑p X¶‑p. \à h®h‑pw‑ I‑pd¨‑v I‑pShbd‑pa‑pÅ Hc‑mÄ. d‑nk ]‑vj\‑p a‑p¼‑ns‑e N‑phc‑n {‑]ZÀ i‑n¸‑n¨‑n«‑pÅ I‑qä³ I‑m«‑pt‑]m‑ ¯‑ns‑â
Xeb‑v¡v‑ X‑ms‑g as‑äm‑ c‑mf‑pa‑mb‑n k‑wk‑mc‑n¨‑v \‑ne‑v¡‑pIb‑mW‑v. R‑m³ t‑\s‑c s‑N¶‑v ]c‑nNb s‑¸«‑p. BKat‑\m‑ t‑±ih‑pw‑ Ad‑n b‑n¨‑p. ""Ch‑ns‑S s‑Nd‑ns‑bm‑ c‑p AS‑n \S¶‑p. I‑vf_‑ns‑â l‑mÄ h‑mSI b‑v¡v‑ FS‑p¯‑v {‑]ZÀi\‑w \S¯‑nb‑nc‑p¶ cï‑v {‑Kq‑ ¸‑pIÄ X½‑ne‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p AS‑n. \‑nk‑mc k‑w`h‑w. As‑Xm‑ ¶‑pw‑ t‑IcfI‑ua‑pZ‑nb‑n s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ï.'' BÚ‑m k‑zc¯‑ne‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p \‑nÀt‑±i‑w. ]{‑X{‑]hÀ¯Is‑\¶ \‑neb‑n Fs‑â C‑uÀj‑y ]‑pd¯‑v h¶‑p. CX‑v a\k‑ne‑m¡‑nb‑n«‑mb‑nc‑n¡W‑w BÄ k‑zb‑w ]c‑n Nbs‑¸S‑p¯‑n. ""R‑m³ F‑w.Fk‑v. aW‑n. s‑I.P‑n.t‑bm‑ S‑v ]d‑, R‑m³ ]dª‑p C‑u h‑mÀ¯ s‑Im‑ S‑p¡s‑ï¶‑v.'' AS‑p¯ t‑Nm‑ Z‑yw‑ ,‑ ""t‑IcfI‑ua‑pZ‑nb‑n t‑NÀ¶‑n«‑v F{‑X\‑mf‑mb‑n?''. k‑ua‑yXt‑bm‑ s‑Sb‑pw‑ k‑vt\ ‑ lt‑¯m‑ s‑Sb‑pw‑ Ft‑¶m‑ S‑v t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨‑p. R‑m³ I‑mebfh‑v ]d-ªp‑ .
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s‑Xm‑ «S‑p¯‑v s‑hf‑p¯‑v k‑pµc\‑mb Hc‑p s‑Nd‑p¸¡‑mc³ R§ f‑ps‑S k‑w`‑mjW‑w t‑I«‑v ]‑p©‑nc‑nt‑bm‑ s‑S \‑ne‑v¡p‑ ¶‑pï‑mb‑n c‑p¶p. aW‑nk‑mÀ B s‑Nd‑p¸¡‑mcs‑\ ]c‑nbs‑¸S‑p¯‑n. CX‑v BÀ.s‑I.h‑n.b‑ps‑S aI³ A\‑nÂ. Ch‑ns‑Ss‑¯ A‑wKa‑mW‑v. ]{‑Xm‑ [‑n]À s‑I. k‑pI‑pa‑mcs‑â a‑q¯aI\‑mW‑v aW‑nk‑ms‑d¶‑v F\‑n¡‑v Ad‑nb‑ma‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. Bs‑f t‑\c‑n«‑v Iï‑n«‑nÃ. A¶‑v Ie‑mI‑ua‑pZ‑nb‑ps‑S N‑o^‑v FU‑näd‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p aW‑nk‑mÀ. s‑N¶ t‑hK¯‑n Xs‑¶ R‑m³ Øe‑w I‑me‑nb‑m¡‑n. ]‑n¶‑oS‑v t‑Icf I‑ua‑pZ‑nb‑ps‑S FU‑näÀ C³ N‑o^‑mbt‑¸m‑ Ä k‑md‑nt‑\m‑ s‑Sm‑ ¸‑w F{‑Xt‑bm‑ XhW I‑vf_‑ns‑e¯‑nb‑n«‑pï‑v. _‑yq‑ t‑dm‑ b‑ns‑e¯‑n s‑I.P‑n. k‑md‑nt‑\m‑ S‑v \S¶ k‑w`h§Ä Ad‑nb‑n¨‑p. I‑q«¯‑n aW‑n k‑md‑ns‑â \‑nÀt‑±ih‑pw‑ ]c‑nNbs‑¸« I‑mc‑yh‑pw‑ . {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ I‑vf_‑ns‑â h‑mÀ¯IÄ {‑i²‑n¨‑v s‑Im‑ S‑p¯‑m aX‑n. \½‑ps‑S a‑mt‑\P‑vsa‑ â‑n e‑pÅ a‑n¡hc‑pw‑ Ah‑ns‑S A‑wK§f‑mW‑v. {‑S‑nh‑m³{‑U‑w I‑vf_‑pa‑mb‑pÅ Fs‑â _Ô‑w A§s‑\ X‑pS§‑n. BÀ.s‑I.h‑n. A\‑n ]‑n¶‑oS‑v Ah‑ns‑S s‑k{‑I«- d‑nb‑mb‑n. AX‑n\‑v a‑p¼‑pw‑ ]‑n¶‑oS‑pw‑ ]e I‑mc‑y§f‑pw‑ NÀ¨ s - N ‑ ¿‑m³ A\‑ne‑pa‑mb‑n I‑vf_‑ne‑nc‑p¶ Z‑nhk§Ä \‑nch[‑nb‑mW‑v. k‑ul‑rZ¯‑ns‑â a‑mk‑vac‑n IXb‑pÅ A\‑n \t‑½m‑ s‑Sm‑ ¸a‑ns‑æ‑ne‑pw‑ B _Ô‑w A\‑pP³ kt‑´m‑ j‑pa‑mb‑n Ct‑¸m‑ g‑pw‑ X‑pSc‑p¶‑p. \Kc¯‑ns‑e Gäh‑pw‑ BV‑y¯‑w \‑ndª I‑vf_‑v. BY‑nX‑ya‑ms‑W¦‑n {‑]u ‑ VK‑w`‑oc‑w. d‑nk]‑vj\‑n s‑NÃ‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä Xs‑¶ B {‑]u ‑ V‑n \a‑p¡‑v t‑_m‑ ²‑ys‑¸S‑pw‑ . Hc‑n¡Â s‑N¶‑m C‑u I‑vf_‑v \½‑ps‑S cï‑mw‑ `h\(s‑k¡â‑v t‑lm‑ w‑ F¶‑v C‑u I‑vf_‑n\‑v t‑]c‑n« al‑m\‑v Fs‑â hI Hc‑p A`‑n\µ\‑w)‑ a‑mb‑n a‑md‑ps‑a¶X‑n k‑wib‑w t‑hï. A{‑Xb‑v¡v‑ Bß_Ô‑w If‑v_p‑ a‑mb‑pï‑mI‑pw‑ . FÃ‑m \‑neb‑ne‑pa‑pÅ Bf‑pIs‑f Ch‑ns‑S k‑ul‑rZ¯‑ne‑m¡‑mw‑ . ]{‑X{‑]hÀ¯Is‑\¶ \‑neb‑n C‑u k‑ul‑rZ‑w ]et‑¸m‑ g‑pw‑ F{‑Xt‑bm‑ \à h‑mÀ¯IÄ¡‑v kl‑mbI a‑mb‑n«‑pï‑v. aeb‑mf¯‑ns‑e he‑nb Fg‑p ¯‑pI‑mc‑ns‑em‑ c‑mf‑mb aeb‑mä‑qÀ c‑ma I‑rj‑vWs‑\ Ch‑ns‑S h¨‑mW‑v BZ‑y a‑mb‑n ]c‑nNbs‑¸S‑p¶X‑v. {‑_n‑ t‑K U‑nbÀ IYIf‑n Ch‑nS‑w A\´ aebmäqÀ cmaIr-jvW³ The Second Home
]‑pc‑n I‑vf_‑mb‑n. _‑md‑ns‑e A¿¸³ _S‑veÀ ]¸\‑pw‑ . A¿¸s‑â k‑ua‑ya‑mÀ¶ s‑]c‑pa‑mäh‑pw‑ H‑mÀ½ ià‑nb‑pw‑ Bc‑n e‑pw‑ _l‑pa‑m\a‑pï‑m¡‑pw‑ . H‑mt‑cm‑ AX‑n Y‑nb‑ps‑Sb‑pw‑ {_m³UpIÄ A¿¸\‑v I‑mW‑m¸‑mTa‑mW‑v. BÄ Cc‑n¸‑nS¯‑n F¯‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä Xs‑¶ readymix A¿¸³ l‑mPc‑m¡‑nb‑nc‑n¡‑pw‑ . {io. A-¿¸ - ³ (kvä- yq-hÀUv) t‑IcfI‑ua‑pZ‑nb‑ps‑S _‑yq‑ t‑dm‑ N‑o^‑m b‑nc‑p¶ F³.BÀ.Fk‑v _‑m_‑ph‑pa‑mb‑n Hc‑n¡Â I‑vf_‑ns‑e ¯‑n. _‑nÃ‑ym‑ ÀU‑vkv‑ d‑qa‑ns‑â AS‑p¯ CS\‑mg‑nb‑nembn-cp¶p R§Ä Cc‑p¶X‑v. {‑]m‑ ba‑pÅ Hc‑mÄ R§f‑ps‑S AS‑p¯ It‑kcb‑ns‑e ¯‑n. _‑m_‑pk‑mÀ BKX\‑v Fs‑¶ ]c‑nNbs‑¸S‑p¯‑n. Fs‑â t‑]c‑v At‑±l¯‑n s‑Xä‑n²‑mcW ]c¯‑n. k‑pº¿³ F¶‑mW‑v
t‑I«X‑v. DS³ t‑Nm‑ Z‑yw‑ h¶‑p. ""GX‑v A{‑Kl‑mc¯‑ne‑mW‑v X‑mak‑w?'' Fs‑¶ t‑\m‑ ¡‑n Is‑®m‑ ¶‑v Cd‑p¡‑nb t‑ij‑w _‑m_‑pk‑mÀ Hc‑p A{‑Kl‑mc¯‑ns‑â t‑]c‑v ]dª‑p. At‑±laX‑v h‑ni‑zk‑n¨‑p. ]s‑£ a«\‑pw‑ N‑n¡\‑pw‑ Ig‑n¡‑p¶ Fs‑¶ t‑\m‑ ¡‑n h‑ni‑zk‑n¡‑m\‑mh‑ms‑X At‑±l‑w A´‑wh‑n«‑p. Ah‑nS‑w h‑nS‑m³ t‑\c‑w bY‑mÀ° t‑]c‑v At‑±l¯‑n\‑v t‑_m‑ ²‑ys‑¸S‑p¯‑ns‑Im‑ S‑p¯‑p. ]‑n¶‑oS‑v Hc‑p s‑]m‑ «‑n¨‑nc‑nb‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. Ft‑Sb‑v A\‑pP \‑o Bf‑p s‑Im‑ Å‑mw‑ Fs‑¶m‑ c‑p Iaâ‑pw‑ . I‑vf_‑n {‑]k‑nUâ‑mb‑nc‑p¶ ]tc-Xcmb t‑Um‑ : F‑w.BÀ. BÀ. t‑at‑\m‑ s‑âb‑pw‑ {‑]ik‑vX l‑rt‑{Z‑ m‑ K h‑nZK‑vZ\‑mb t‑Um‑ : F‑w.BÀ.Fk‑v. t‑at‑\m‑ s‑âb‑pw‑ kt‑lm‑ Zc‑\m‑ b F‑w.BÀ.s‑I. t‑at‑\m‑ \‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p B BKX³. {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ I‑vf_‑pw‑ R‑m\‑pa‑mb‑pÅ _Ô‑w C§s‑\ \‑nch[‑n k‑w`h§f‑pa‑mb‑n s‑I«‑v ]‑nWª‑v I‑nS¡‑p¶‑p. A¨S¡¯‑n\‑v I‑vf_‑n\‑pÅ ]‑mc¼c‑yw‑ C¶‑pw‑ I‑m¯‑v k‑q£‑n¡‑p¶‑p. A‑wK§Ä¡‑pw‑ Aht‑cm‑ s‑Sm‑ ¸s‑a¯‑p¶ AX‑nY‑nIÄ¡‑pw‑ k‑zm‑ X{‑´y‑ w‑ [‑mc‑mfa‑pï‑v. ]s‑£ AX‑nc‑pIh‑nª‑m A]ISa‑mI‑pw‑ . w 35
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The master game called life Dr Abraham Abraham
Dr. Abraham Abraham or Dr. Nebu to his friends was my senior in the Model School, Trivandrum. His name comprises of two same words. In the game of life the word “Self” is 'You' as the central point consisting of two different entities according to Acharya Rajaneesh (Osho). The one you show to the society called the ‘Cultivated Self’ and the other one your 'Real Self' ie. self and self! Dr. Nebu who practises Neuro Linguistic Programming, a different form of approach for the disorders of the mind like Phobias, Fears, Complexes, angularities etc. Here in this interesting and thought provoking and a totally different write-up in which he takes us to the complexities of the master game called life. There is quote in it “Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well, which took me to my days in the Engineering College, Trivandrum. There is no replay button in life. So whatever faculties gifted to us by the Al mighty must be utilized to the best way possible. I was very much interested in Architecture from my high school days. But in the Engineering Collage the prestigious branch was Mechanical. Because of my marks in the Machine Drawing I landed up in the Mechanical branch, which I regret even today because I have nothing 'mechanical' about me in my life. In the college library I was reading about the master crafts of Sir Edwin Lutyens in the design of New Delhi and the White Hall Cenotaph and the wizardry of Le Cor-busier the creator of Chandigarh. I know a Civil Surgeon who wanted to study Mathematics and participate in the Maths Olympiads, but was forced by his dad to take up Medicine which the laments even now. Dr. Nebu winds up with a word of caution” “Never be too proud of who you are and what position you hold because, after a game of Chess the king & the pawns are tossed into the same box!"
“Life is like a game of tennis. The player who serves well seldom loses.” The game of life is won through being clear about the meanings we give to things in life from questions asked by others, teachers, mentors, or by self. It is checking and updating our assumptions, our beliefs and our meanings (rebooting the mind) and then performing with the strong self-belief in those new meanings to enhance our inner (mind) game. We are the meaning makers; meaning is an inner game, lived and expressed through our outer game (behavior). Knowing something is giving meaning
and all that is known is the meaning (your map of the world) given and not the real thing (actuality). We know what we believe to be right or to be beautiful yet do we really know what is beautiful, for beauty is an inside game (a perception). Human beings have been in this earth for hundreds of years and we have been playing this game of life even in our sleep. Do we really know how we are playing what we are playing and are we really bothered or do we just let the game go as it goes and then wish things could have been better. We know that birds migrate, seasons change etc, but we're not sure which way we want to go. We know a lot of things and play a lot of games and we have been doing not too badly till now. Do we really know HOW we do what we are doing? As humans, we are doing creatures and so when we're not doing something, we’re thinking about doing or not doing something, which, in its own way, is doing something. Life Is a Metaphor; There are many models for life: analogies and metaphors to help us understand something as complicated,
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intricate, and seemingly un-understandable as life. "From unseen sources the cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt." Josh Billings completed the thought: "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." So is our mind. "Like A, life is a single letter in the alphabet. It can be meaningless. Or it can be part of a great meaning." "Life is an onion," Carl Sandburg wrote. "You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." Someone once said that we were born as little GOD-like (omnipotent) beings and then we grew up and became humans. As we walk through life, we become habituated (programmed), like getting upset when things go bad or a hostile statement about us. The games that we play from the day we were born till the end determines the quality of our achievements or losses. As Tim Gallwey says, there are two arenas in life. The outer arena is the environment where the act of life is played and the inner arena although hidden from life really controls everything. Therefore life is the greatest game that one can play and also the greatest teacher, lesson and gift in the world. We can neither master nor win the game of life unless we have the wherewithal to master the rather “takenfor-granted’ thinking inner Game of Life. This is the game that takes place in our mind against ourselves and our habits. Is it any wonder that we take so long to break a bad habit and learn a new one? It is because we try to break the habit and not the thinking that caused the habit in the first place or concentrate on creating the new one to replace it. "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing." -- Theodore Roosevelt
What do we need to get on with it? We need the best thinking system in the world; oh, we already have one; the worlds one and only One million GB neck top PC. There is a catch though; there are no instruction manual and no driver soft ware. When we know how we think and how that affects our behavior we now have the manual to the workings of our mind so that we can make it work the way we want to get we only dreamt of having. WOW!!! We have all the tools to succeed in the world and now we have the user-friendly methodology. All our life we have been going after what others think is good for us. It is like having the best butter in the world and then going out to buy ghee from someone else. We now know that we can melt this butter we have to produce the best ghee in the world, our ghee. "If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot." --Dean Smith Life is like a playing field. Where we see, hear and feel what we experience. The field is virtual and in our mind and is run like a movie. The director, actor and everybody else are virtual and controlled by us. The reality that matters to us, is what we think and make it to be and not what really happens. It is this virtual reality that governs our action. So we can make it to be whatever we want it to be. We came into this world without any prior knowledge of who we are, who our parents were, where we were going and what to do when we got here. Yet we managed to learn from our efforts and feedbacks through the learning ladder and got to where we are now. Managing the Matrix of life; The Matrix was one of the most popular and thought-provoking movies of all time with a primary message: People get into deep trouble when they mistake what they perceive for reality. The Matrix is described as an elaborate Artificial Intelligence computer simulation that's so captivating that people mistake it for reality. People perceive they are walking about and interacting with others, while all the time their physical bodies are actually submerged in fluid-filled pods, "plugged into" the Matrix, and their vital life force harnessed to power the Matrix. After Neo (Keanu Reaves) learns the truth, with the help of Morpheus's (Lawrence Fishburne) training, he is able to overcome his misconception that the Matrix is reality. Neo rebels against the machines that create his false reality and, eventually, he escapes the limitations of the Matrix. To others, he has developed superhuman abilities, but, "in reality," he has merely recognized the truth.
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Lee Kuan Yew,
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M. Ganesan
Mr. Ganesan, an old friend is a mild mannered, knowledgable and unassuming gentleman who maintained a low profile even when he was holding high posts. He used to discuss with me about the issues of the Second Home long back and I then started demanding an article from him. Now we are getting an interesting piece about the growth of Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew. When the Prime Minister Thunku Abdul Rahman of Malaysia separated Singapore from their federation on ethnical issues (since Singapore's population is predominantly Chinese) after independence from Britain, Singapore a tiny, marshy piece of land (smaller than Trivandrum Dist.) was left to mend its own fate. Then came the messiah Lee Kuan Yew. In the second national election he became so popular that all the legislators elected were from his party. In the subsequent elections he did not field his party candidates in some constituencies, so that the voice of the opposition will be heard in the legislature! Mr. Ganesan takes us for a brief journey through the past years showcasing how Singapore rose to become a powerful country steadily under the able and disciplined leadership of Lee Kuan Yew.
‘Singapore’. Few gave this tiny island-country in Southeast Asia (area of 714.3 sq. km), much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it then, today, in a span of 50 years, it has the world's best airport, the third best airlines, fourth-biggest financial centre, and the second busiest container ports? It is one of the world's leading commercial hubs and busiest port of trade. It has a GDP of 300 Billion US$, third-highest Per Capita Income of 61,000 US$ and ranks high in international rankings of education, healthcare, government transparency, and economic competitiveness.
[In comparison, Kerala has a land area of 38,863 sq km (54 times more than Singapore) and population of 320 lakhs (6.8 times more). We have abundant natural resources and are blessed with one of the most beautiful landscape. Why is it then, the GDP of Kerala is only 53 Billion US$ and the Per Capita Income of a Keralite is only 1,025 US$? Which means Singapore and its citizens are around 60 times better off than Kerala and a Keralite.] The reason: Singapore had Lee Kuan Yew (Lee) as its Prime Minister. One of Asia's most famous statesmen, Lee has long been renowned for his dynamism and sharp
Sri. M. Ganesan (L-0812), Chartered Accountant, is the former Member, Kerala Water Authority.
Escaping the Matrix is a metaphor for the path to selfenlightenment. The Matrix is the world that we perceive which includes the physical world and the higher planes of emotions and thoughts, which also affect us. Without introspection, the Matrix gets darker and denser. Anyone who blindly accepts these prevalent, negative thoughts will have his or her life path dictated by the Matrix. The outer world is a reflection of our inner thoughts and beliefs, whether individual or collective, which have been conditioned by our experience in the Matrix. We are, as Shakespeare pointed out, merely "actors" in a divine play. When we wake up to this knowledge, the play does not stop. We are free to act or interact, in bliss and peace, unattached to the Matrix. We have within us the power to create "heaven on earth." Never be too proud of who you are and what position you hold because, after a game of chess, the king & the pawns are tossed into the same box! w The Second Home
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analytical mind. Rising from a legacy of divisive colonialism, devastation of the Second World War, general poverty and disorder, Singapore successfully became a city of the future. An outstanding student from a middle-class, Englishspeaking home, Lee's education was interrupted by the Japanese occupation in World War II. After a stint as a black-market entrepreneur during the war, he made his way to England following the Japanese surrender and convinced Cambridge University to admit him. Upon passing the British bar exams, he returned to Singapore and soon became enmeshed in the complex politics of independence. The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew The miraculous history of Singapore is dramatically recounted by Lee, who not only lived through it all but fearlessly forged ahead and brought about most of these changes, in the first volume of his memoirs, the Singapore Story. Meticulously referring to his own notes as well as previously unpublished government papers and official records, Lee details in his book the extraordinary efforts made by him for survival. He recounts the battles against colonialists and communalists that led to Singapore’s independence. He explains how he and his cabinet colleagues finished off the threat of anti social elements to the state's security and began the arduous process of nation building - constructing basic infrastructural roads through a land that consisted primarily of swamps, creating an army from a racially and ideologically divided population, stamping out the remainders of colonial era corruption, providing mass public housing and establishing a national airline and airport. Nothing in Singapore escaped his watchful eyes - whether choosing shrubs for the greening of the country, restoring the romance of the historic Raffles
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Hotel, or persuading young men to marry well educated women. Today's safe, tidy Singapore bears Lee's unmistakable stamp. With shrewd political moves, he countered adversaries in a single minded pursuit of Singapore’s interests. He was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Singapore on 9th August 1965, fighting all the way through. In his memoirs, Lee also gives a close account of his family life and writes tenderly of his wife and professional partner, Kwa Geok Choo and of their three children, the eldest of whom is now Singapore's Prime Minister. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story During his post-independence administration, Lee had three main concerns - national security, the economy, and social issues. The vulnerability of Singapore was deeply felt, with threats from multiple sources including the communalists and Indonesia with its confrontation stance. Singapore's lack of natural resources, a water supply that was derived primarily from Malaysia and a very limited defensive capability were the major challenges that Lee and the Singaporean government faced. In the second volume of his memoirs, From Third World to First: The Singapore Story, Lee relates how through sound policies Singapore achieved the ninth highest per capita income in the world by the 1990s. (The march is continuing and in 2013 it reached the 3rd position). As Singapore gained admission to the United Nations, Lee quickly sought international recognition of Singapore's independence. He declared a policy of neutrality and non-alignment, following Switzerland's model. At the same time, he took steps to build up the Singapore Armed Forces and requested help from other countries, particularly Israel, for advice, training and facilities. Lee introduced a recruitment policy whereby all able-bodied male Singaporean citizens of age 18 and above are required to serve National Service either in the Singapore Armed Forces, Singapore Police Force or the Singapore Civil Defense Force. Singapore has been ranked consistently in the top five positions in the Global Competitiveness. Report in terms of its reliability of police services and consistently been ranked as the safest country in the world. Lee always placed great importance on developing the economy, and his attention to The Second Home
detail on this aspect went even to the extent of connecting it with other facets of Singapore, including the country's extensive and meticulous tending of its international image of being a "Garden City" (Something that has been sustained to this day). The rule of law, an independent judiciary as well as a stable, competent, and honest government that pursued sound macroeconomic policies with budget surpluses almost every year were the foundations for the successful management of the economy. This also led to a strong and stable Singapore dollar. (Singapore Dollar was always backed by 100% foreign currency reserves). Like many countries, Singapore too had problems with political corruption. To counter this, Lee introduced legislation giving the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau with greater powers to conduct arrests, search, call up witnesses, and investigate bank accounts and income-tax returns of suspected persons and their families. He believed that ministers should be well paid in order to maintain a clean and honest government. In 1994, he proposed to link the salaries of ministers, judges, and top civil servants to the salaries of top professionals in the private sector, arguing that this would help recruit and retain talent to serve in the public sector. In 1983, Lee sparked the 'Great Marriage Debate' when he encouraged Singapore men to choose highly educated women as wives. He was concerned that a large number of graduate women were unmarried. Some sections of the population, including graduate women, were upset by his views. Nevertheless, a match-making agency Social Development Unit was set up to promote socializing among men and women graduates. In the Graduate Mothers Scheme, Lee also introduced incentives such as tax rebates, schooling, and housing priorities for graduate mothers who had three or four children, in a reversal of the oversuccessful 'Stop-at-Two' family planning campaign in the 1960s and 1970s. (By the late 1990s, the birth rate had fallen so low that Lee's successor had extended these incentives to all
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married women, and gave even more incentives, such as the 'baby bonus' scheme). One of Lee's abiding beliefs has been in the efficacy of corporal punishment in the form of caning. Lee's government inherited judicial corporal punishment from British rule, but greatly expanded its scope. Under the British, it had been used as a penalty for offences involving personal violence, amounting to a handful of caning sentences per year. The PAP government under Lee extended its use to an everexpanding range of crimes. By 1993 it was mandatory for 42 offences and optional for a further 42. Those routinely ordered by the courts to be caned now include drug addicts and illegal immigrants. From 602 canings in 1987, the figure rose to 3,244 in 1993 (and to 6,404 in 2007). The spectacular achievement of Singapore in 50 years is miraculous. After leading the People’s Action Party founded by him in the year 1954 to victory in seven elections, Lee stepped down on 28 November 1990, handing over the prime minister ship to Goh Chok Tong. He was then the world's longest-serving Prime Minister. What is given above is only a miniscule of the contents of the two volumes of the Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew as well the views of his critics. After reading through them, one would wonder why other countries could not emulate the Singapore model of administrative reforms. The argument that Singapore is a tiny nation is only an excuse for non performance. Lee had proved “if there is a will there is a way�. I have tried to present very briefly the achievements of a tiny island-country under the talented leadership of Lee Kuan Yew, its visionary Prime Minister for 25 years. The information is gathered from the two volumes of the Memoirs of Lee and the articles of critics. I wonder why our own Kerala with far better resources is unable to go anywhere near to it and that excuses will not help; if there is a will there is a way. w
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N. MAHESH I have observed the growth trajectory of Sri. Mahesh with interest and appreciation from our college days, because we both hail from Vazhuthacaud and used to board the CET college bus from there in the 60’s. He passed out with the 1st Rank from the University of Kerala. Mahesh started his career as a lecturer in the CET and left it to join Charles Korreah's firm. Later he formed his own company M/s Iyer & Mahesh in partnership with Sri Ramaswamy Iyer his ‘Chithappa’, retried Chief Architect of Kerala and made it so big that he has been recognized in AD 50 as one of the 50 most influential Indians in Architecture and Design by the prestigious journal ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST. Congratulations Mahesh..!
• Principal Architect & Chief Consultant, Iyer & Mahesh, Trivandrum • Chairman & Managing Trustee, College of Architecture Trivandrum (C.A.T) • Chairman, Promag Project Management Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., Trivandrum Honours & Awards: Honoured by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, H.E. The President of India on 18th November 2002 at Trivandrum for design of RGCB Complex at Trivandrum. “The most influential Indians in Architecture & Design” by Architectural Digest - prestigious design magazine Poovar Island Resort has won the National Energy Conservation Award from H.E. The President of India Sri. Pranab Mukherjee Iyer & Mahesh are the first architects in South India to have 5 Platinum & Gold Rated Buildings under IGBC-LEED Programme. Technopark-III I.T. Building selected as Outstanding Concrete Structures in Kerala for 2013 jointly by Indian Concrete Institute and Ultratech Endowment. CNBC Award for design of Tamara Resort, Coorg - 2013 A+D & Cera Award for design of Tamara Resort, Coorg - 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award by IIA, Kerala Chapter in 2011. ‘Business Excellence Award 2009-10 - in Architecture’ by the Chamber of Commerce, Trivandrum ‘Vasthu Kala Ratna’ by Kerala Brahmana Sabha in the year 2003 Technopark Phase III
Title ‘Sthapatheeyam’- an event honouring masters of architecture by the Designer Magazine in the year 2009 Selected for ‘The Best Architect’ award by the Indian Institute of Architects, Trivandrum Centre in 1997. Conferred the title of ‘Vastu Silpa’ by the Saradalayam Trust, Chennai (in 2001). w Sri. N. Mahesh (L-0768) is the Managing Partner of Ms. Iyer & Mahesh, Architects, Trivandrum
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Would my touch be all? It was a pleasant surprise to receive a beautiful poem from my Engineering College mate Bhuvanendran’s daughter Nileena. What struck me immediately was an old song "GXm-Wv kq-cy³? F-´m-Wv N-{µ³? F-t´ sh-fn-¨w?...." (Which is the sun? What is the moon? How will the light be?) sung by a blind man in the local trains long back. A normal person with a sense of aesthetics can derive total ecstasy from the enchanting beauty of the scenery, the mellowing touch of the breeze, the hugging feel of the chill and the melodious symphony of the world around. Just close your eyes and try to gauge what the blind miss in life? You don’t know how you or your near and dear ones look like! How can the colours be imagined! Love is blind so they say. But what about the blind? Don’t they fall in love? The poetess weaves a poignant Nileena Bhuvanendran poem which articulates the feelings, emotions and pangs of love. Overcoming all physical hindrances love is all encompassing yet unique to everyone. Love’s language is universal.
A serene dawn, had a few stars to melt away, A silent silver moon, was yet to fade away, As the first lights of the day touched the horizon, the veil of darkness melted away. As the curving river shined, in shades of an enticing dawn, As the valley bloomed, to garland the day, As the red berries, of the green trees lay scattered on brown and fading yellow rustles. As the fields swayed to the tunes of the mild breezes As the radiant dawn is welcomed by the melody of the early birds I held my mate’s hand and whispered to him ‘My mate my friend the moment is divine.’ For the darkness of the night had melted away to a profound day. For an enticing maiden with her seductive eyes, and sensuous curves, was making her way for the day. Carrying the fragrances of the valley, that had bloomed to her seductive splendour. As she moved, her fragrances of her garlands, of jasmines, marigolds, roses and lilies filled the air. As I passed a smile to her seductive glance; she shied away with a luscious smile, only to look away. Swaying her sensuous curves, to rhythms of her tinkling angle bells, She swayed passed us, as her enticing charms swayed away with her. For the darkness of the night had melted away to a profound day. For the divine glory of incense spread away, the worship chimes sang away to the heavens above. As the bliss of the alluring dawn filled my soul, I touched my mate’s hand, who was blinking into his wilderness, Tapping away, his long cane onto the grounds below, I know not, what my mate was searching for, For I knew, if he wasn't blind he too would be mesmerized by the beauty of this serene dawn. As I held him closer, I marvelled if he ever dreamt? And I marvelled, how his dreams would be? I marvelled, I marvelled, if ever in his dreams he saw a beauty beyond his touch. As for now, all I had for him was this gentle touch of mine. w Smt. Nileena Bhuvanendran is d/o G. Bhuvanendran (I-544), Ernakulam The Second Home
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Sri. Viswanathan is a person born with a rare gift, a beautiful mind to keep his cool even if he is provoked to the hilt. We had a firm in the name "Aiyappan & Iyer Associates", Approved Valuers started 18 years back. Then I could closely associate with him and I formed the opinion about him, which I have mentioned above. Viswam is an Architect with his Post-graduation in Landscape Architecture from the Delhi School of Architecture. He has done the landscaping for our Legislature Complex and many other beautiful projects. You name any professional or social organization in Trivandrum, Viswanathan's name is there as a reputed member. He is an expert member of the many high profile committees of the Government. In the short write-up Viswam gives some valuable tips for the home garden makers, the dos and don'ts in landscaping with respect to the type and location of the site. He is an ardent fan of the indigenous variety of plants and creepers most suited for our climatic conditions.
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hen I was asked to write a note on homestead landscaping in Kerala context by my good friend Mr. Aiyappan, my thoughts went back on the following. (1) Is it on houses situated in undulated properties. (Eg: Idukki, Ponmudi etc). (2) Or water logged properties (shallow land) (Akkulam-Poonthi area) (3) Urban property with 5 or 10 cents with two storied residential buildings. Then it was a choice on typical vegetations. The following are some of the names of the species that are suited for small extents of property. • Kanakambaram(Crossandrainfundibuliformis) • Thetty (Ixora) • Shankupushpam (Clitoria ternatea) • Pavizhamalli (Nyctanthes arbor-tristic) • Rajamalli (Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Jillissi) • Nanthyarvattom (Tabernaemontanam divaricata) • Chembarathy (Hisbiscus Mani hot) • Thulasi (Ocimum tenuiflorum) • Jasmine (Sambac) Ground Cover • Zebrina Petulla • Setcrecia Purpuria • Storbilanthes • Pilea Muskosa • Arukapulle (Cynodon dactylon) Climbers • Shankupushpam (Clitoria ternatea) • Qiscolis indica (Rangoon Creeper) • Aglonima Leptopus Sri. Viswanathan. G (L-971), Architect and Landscape Designer is the Managing Partner of M/s. Architecture Incorporated, Trivandrum. 48
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As Kerala falls within the ideal tropical zone with predominant rain fall regions, it is better to go for vegetations that celebrate our climatic conditions and avoid generally, the maintenance demanding groups like rose, dahlia, and orchids etc. Traditional Kerala homesteads always add kitchen gardens in the rear side of the house (Drumstick, Ladies finger, Brinjal, Bitter gourd etc are some of the kitchen garden species). The setback rules of the Kerala Building Rules also support this idea of the rear side/kitchen garden for houses. Front side set back of 3 meters and rear setback of 2 meters encourages garden settings. It is not advisable to plant large trees like Teak, Neem, Tamerind, Ficus etc. in small properties, as this can interfere with the foundation of buildings. Now let us look at the planting of some of the shrubs. Eg: Pavizhamalli (Nyctanthes arbor-tristic), Jasmine etc. These shrubs which are scented flowering in nature, should be planted closer to the bed rooms or the living rooms or on areas of south-west sides where the wind direction is towards the house. If the homestead or house is having the courtyard, the vegetation selected in the courtyard should be of minimum illumination demanding, in the sense that it should demand minimum of light. Eg: roses should not be planted in the courtyard where the intensity of light is low. Similarly jasmine demands high intensity of light. Such vegetations should not be planted inside the courtyards, but cluster of thulasi can be planted in the middle of the courtyard. If you are going to have water bodies in your compound, specific vegetations which goes well with the water bodies should be planted. Eg: Bottle brush tree (calistomon lanceolatus), Russelia Floribunda shrubs etc. can be planted by the side of a water body or a fountain. Application of pesticide should be very discrete. It is better to go for organic pesticide and manures. When applying pesticide cover your nose and fore arms, to safe guard from allergic reactions. Let me sign off now. w
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My Faith and The Godmen In the early mornings if you happen to pass the temples like Pazhavangadi Ganapathy, Sree Padmanabha Swamy or Sreekanteswaram, you will not miss a black Mitsubishi Car parked there daily. You may come across a handsome, cheerful, gentleman in dothi in the car. He is none other than our member Sri. P. Mohankumar, F/o Ms. Kalyanikkutty, author of this article.
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The only daughter of the staunch devotee is a God-fearing person. Having done her studies in the National School of Law, Bangalore and LLM from NewYork University, USA, naturally she will have her own clear cut opinions about God and the so called 'Godmen', which she shares with us here in a well studied, beautifully and powerfully worded, thought provoking article. We are living in a time where every open space is covered with flex boards. We can tolerate the filmi and political persons doing self promotion whether it is fair or not, but what about the promotion of Sanyasis, Priests and Godmen in the same fashion in all the media. A priest or a sanyasi means kw \y-kn-¨b - mÄ þ FÃmw Xy-Pn-¨b - mÄ (one who has renounced all material pleasures to become the true disciple of God.) But what we see is a lucrative, well organized, with many things concealed and camouflaged business and in some cases for the satisfaction of lust, many times forcefully in the name of the faith. Those who dare to question them will be dealt with strong muscle! We have to apply our rational minds and study the murky and dangerous situation as an outsider and express our concerted opinion for the benefit of the society.
“…that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God” Paul’s Proclamation, Corinthians 2.5 Watching a volatile yet futile interview on television a couple of weeks back, got me thinking about God, Godmen, spirituality and faith. But before we start analyzing this, there are two questions that I need to answer the readers. Firstly, why “Second Home” where the readers expect a light Sunday afternoon read. Well the answer to this is the age old paradox in our culture and our proclaimed ability to think. In Kerala and among Keralites, the Onam festival is celebrated. Its theme is that a good and benevolent king Mahabali visits his subjects once a year on that day. The subjects are happy that the king lives at least one day a year for them. In North India, Mahabali is a rakshash who is killed by Vishnu, and whose death was necessary so that the world may exist. So, now, what is faith and whose faith is true, the North Indians for condemning Mahabali, or the Keralites for worshipping him. Secondly what can an independent metro-
politan 26 year old woman possibly talk about spirituality and faith. The answer to this is simple - my faith in God. Historically, the Godmen syndrome emerged in the wake of the failure of religious establishments. In Europe, the scientists like Bruno, Servatus, and Galileo suffered immense torture at the hands of powerful mediators of the institutional religions. The rational thinkers, scientists had to face imprisonment or other harassment for discovering things like Earth is round, diseases are not due to wrath of God etc. But certain prophets stood for radical changes in the society, to come out from the evils prevalent in society, they were for change and for justice. The institutions built in their name are there for status quo and for preserving the system but today a very few benefit and most in the society suffer. Caught in a shadowy time between tradition and globalisation, post liber alised India's fascination for Godmen still continues. We have witnessed a massive upsurge of multitude of religio-mystical cults of Godmen, swamis gurus, particularly during the last three decades.
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The Bollywood, the politicians, they all seek 'good' dates for muhurats, swearing in ceremonies and well-off Indians speed dial astrologers with fingers sprouting 'lucky' stones before constructing vaastu - compliant homes, are everyday examples. In a recently published book, the Australian born writer describes how she was sexually abused in an ashram in India, for about 20 years. Another Godman claiming to be a Yoga Guru has reportedly built a 1500 crore empire. Elsewhere, a "Bapu!" is currently in jail on sexual assault charges. Don’t these episodes dramatize the thin line between faith and blind faith, and the near complete merger of faith, politics and money in contemporary Indian society? Don’t these episodes dramatize the thin line between faith and blind faith, and the near complete merger of faith, politics and money in contemporary Indian society? There are thousands of others who exploit the susceptible by promising health, wealth, prosperity and peace of mind in exchange of money, devotion. Many of them, if not all exhibit their 'godliness' by performing so called miracles to attract the gullible into their net. These Godmen have come to look at themselves as ‘modern day gurus’. And the disciples of the Godmen consider them as god's gift which in turn elevates the persons to God stature. After all these examples, one has to wonder how these spiritual experiences operate and why do people flee from God to Godmen? Gandhiji said, “If I had a guru, and I am looking for one, I should surrender myself body and soul to him. But in this age of unbelief a true guru is hard to find. A substitute will be worse than useless, often positively harmful. I must therefore warn all against accepting imperfect ones as gurus...Has a man ever learnt swimming by tying a stone to his neck?” Let's be clear that one has no problem with faith in any form and we concede that it can be placed in any guru or religious teaching or in yourself, if it gives you solace. But unwittingly, we invite irrationality, existential insecurity and a life driven and riven by falsehood, hypocrisy and moral anarchy. Nothing is being done to man - man is doing it. Sure, there are some other ultra- dimensional players in there too, but their dominion is unexpectedly slight. Freewill is always primary and all ensouled humans have it. It is not nofaith, but false-faith. The choice is not between trusting and not trusting God. The choice is between trusting God and surrendering oneself to Godmen. Nevertheless, we know in our gut when we are in the presence of someone who radiates goodness, just as we know when we’re with someone who radiates wrongness. We just know. We can tell… The Second Home
In stark contrast to the Godmen and gurus, is the case of the recently slain antisuperstition activist Narendra Dhabolkar, who was not only a tireless champion of rationality and a fearless crusader against all forms of faith-based exploitation, but also an acclaimed journalist and writer. The assassination of Narendra Dhabolkar does not prove the greatness of individual con men or the worth of teachings they mouth. It proves the sickness of the age in which we live. The only possible counter to surrendering of your mind to fake gurus is true faith. Faith may give strength, it may impart confidence and it may even imbue one with optimism. But blind faith in individuals of dubious reputation almost always leads to exploitation, harassment and often even loss of life. Of course, seen from a different perspective blind faith is an extremely lucrative milking cow. The antidote to blind faith is true faith. God and God alone can be the centre of true faith. And the ultimate realization that God does not do favours, he simply protects the balance of life. Rationality can be taught. It needs to be part of the curriculum in all schools and colleges. Perhaps then some of our fellow countrymen will escape from the prisons they willingly put their minds into. Perhaps then gurus will need to be truly spiritual before they get to be called “gurus” and Godmen will be forced to set an example by behaving responsibly as there are millions who follow them. Despite revelations of wrongdoings and corruption by God men, their roaring business remains in tact. This institutionalized exploitation of man by man should be brought under the radar of law. Public opinion has to be mobilised to influence the political rulers to enact Legislation to watch minutely the activities of god-men and auditing in a specialised manner the wealth amassed by them. And then may be one day, faith will find its true meaning in our society. Disclaimer: This article is general in nature. The material is not meant to hurt any religious or social feelings of individuals. It strictly imparts the author’s personal view on the subject. w
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Ifnse HmÀ½. A¶v KFC, KATC Bb Imew KFC F¶v tI«m Kentucky Fried Chicken Ft¶m, Kerala Finance Coroporation Ft¶m Bbn-cn¡pw HmÀ½bnÂ-hc - p-¶Xv F¶m CXv thsd. Kerala Flying Club, Kerala Aviation Training Centre Bb Ime-L«- w. hnam\w ]d-¸n-¡p-hm-\pÅ tamlw ImcWw flying club  AwK-am-Im³ At\z-jn¨p sN¶-t¸m-gmWv AdnªXv KFC CÃ. KATC Bsb-¶pw, AwK-am-Ip-hm³ {]thi\ ]co£ ]mkm-IW - s- a¶pw Hs¡. BZy-_m-¨m-Wv. B{Klw aq¯-Xn-\m Hcp hn[w ]Tn¨v {]th-i\ ]co£ H¶mw dmt¦mSp-IqSn ]mkm-bn. ]ns¶ A`n-ap-Jw, {]th-i\w Air Experience apX-em-bh - . cïv koäv am{X-apÅ ""aª-¸£n'' F¶v sNÃt¸-cpÅ ""]pjv]Iv'' hnam-\a- mWv A¶p-ÅX - v. Air Experience F¶v ]d-ªmÂ, aXn-bm-¡m³ Dt±-in-¡p-¶h - ³ A¶v Xs¶ aXn-bm¡nt¸mWw F¶ a«m-sW¶v tXm¶n-t¸m-Ipw.
The late Col. G.V. Raja (2nd from right) the founder of KFC
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Krishnakumar's
'Nikunjam Constructions'
- a success story
S. Krishnakumar
Ten years back I had a discussion about a flat being constructed by Sri. Krishnakumar at Jagathy and I could visualize from his well studied presentation and replies to queries that, this young man is going to go places. That was the level of knowledge and calculations he had about his projects. A Mechanical Engineer, who left his comfortable, convenient and safe job at ISRO in his home town and ventured out into the competitive world of real estate where there are equal number of success and failure stories. Here Krishnakumar with no family business background or no godfathers, has built up a model business enterprise based on the trust he could establish with his customers. Now Nikunjam Builders is in the forefront of the builder fraternity of Trivandrum and have acquired some of the key locations in the city and around. They have created the right product-mix of Residential and Commercial Structures, one for outright sale and the other for the regular income to their company respectively. Krishnakumar is an affable, cheerful and always available old friend. From the Fiat to the Rolls Royce, 'Nikunjam Constructions' is a real success story which will be an inspiration to many aspiring new entrepreneurs. (Due to my persuation only he reluctantly gave this write-up.)
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he year 1998 was a water shed year in my career. I had a good 14 years in ISRO where my career, as in many Government of India Engineering departments is more or less predictable. I was working through the usual 9am to 5pm working hours, anticipating retirement at 60 with an assured pension and medical benefit thereafter. Being a trifle pragmatic, I never had any big ambitions in ISRO, so that my life was relatively comfortable. I knew that what extra ordinary ambitions could do to any young engineer. I am a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering Trivandrum 1985. I settled myself for a career with more of personality development and useful interaction with some good talents across India. To my horror, although ISRO had modest programmes and ambitious targets, these good talents across the states were seldom recognized. I had the opportunity to see some of the well run businesses in Kerala and with some land of my own I tried to construct and sell few apartments which became an instant success during the mid 90’s. Buoyed by the surprising success, I weighed my options between an
assured and hassle free Government job in my hometown, stress free but enormous status in front of the home crowd versus an aspiring builder where success depends solely on your ability to work hard with a definite strategy. The success could leave a legacy in my hometown, become
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a hero amongst family and fulfil life long passions. With personal success comes self confidence and self esteem which always carried inherent risk for the fact that I don’t come from a business family, no mentor since I lost my father at a very young age. I had during 1998 decided to take the plunge by submitting my resignation and was relieved from ISRO service on the afternoon of December 23rd 1998. It was painful, nevertheless my self confidence was sky high since I have set my mind to create a legacy of my own and failure never ever flashed through my mind. I didn’t come from a business family nor do I had a mentor. I had to set my own bench marks and do that extra bit of hard work to be able to rub shoulders with others in a highly competitive field, where mistakes are seldom forgiven or forgotten. My Company Nikunjam Constructions Pvt.Ltd., has in the past 14 years has constructed some elegant and landmark buildings in Trivandrum which includes the 36 storied i Park which would definitely go down as a landmark in the city of Trivandrum. I was born in a middle class family, both parents hailing from Central Travancore. I have travelled widely and am a great family man. Wife, Sindhu is a home maker, daughter Arathi a 5th year student of Architecture and son, Siddharth a 12th standard student. w
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Dr. Chithra Andrew MD, DNB D/o Sri P. S. Pandian IAS (Retd.) (L-434) - Awarded Post Doctoral Fellowship in Fetal Medicine by the MGR Medical University, Chennai. She is Professor in Sri. Ramachandra Medical College and University, Chennai.
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Sharath Kumar Nambiar S/o Sri. Anand Kumar (Nandu) (L-1315) of Class 10, Doon School, Dehradoon attended the 9th International Student Science Conference 2013 at Australia. His Topic: Evaluation of Birds in the Lesser Himalayas.
B. Arjun S/o Commander Balagovind Kunjuraman and Smt. Sujatha Balagovind (R-1967) (Grandson of Capt. P.K.R. Nair, our former President), XIth Class Student, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Pattom, Tvm. A1 in all subjects for Class X & IX. Gold Medal Winner in the Science Olympiad.
Isabelle Mar Thomas D/o Sri. Tony Thomas (R-2091) B.Com - CA Student, Stella Mary's College, Chennai A1 in all subjects for 12th Standard CBSE from Navy Childrens School, Kochi.
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Flight IC 167
Dinesh B.P
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Kathel Chicken
I will start from where Sri. Dinesh concluded this article..... The flight from Bangalore landed at Trivandrum. My wife, myself and our two year old granddaughter were heading towards the cabin door. The hostess as usual was there in her robotic customary posture with folded hands repeating the words ‘Namastae, Bye’ and smiling at every disembarking passenger. Many of them gracefully returned the gesture and the others took no heed of it. But our kid, who was still 'airborne', hugging to her grandma’s bosom, not only returned the ‘Namastae’ but passed a flying kiss at the hostess saying ‘Umma’. The lady was immensely pleased. She returned the kiss and stepped forward to pat the kid by cupping her palms around her cheeks. What I inferred from this was that the child acted out of its own instincts and not by any training. PR and social skills originate from birth as inheritance, then developed by observation, learning and training. In the case of Kathel Chicken..... I had a different experience. I am a poor eater and left eatable chicken portions as waste. Kathel Sahib expressed his displeasure to my friend the late Keerthy Krishnankutty chettan "Muthalali don't bring this type of people to my hotel". It was just shot of him boxing on my ear with his hands! And coming back to Dinesh..... He is an old family friend with varied interests like reading, travel, sports, art etc. He successfully ran an Advertising & PR Company 'Renfrew' and an event management firm 'Prasthan' which he started way back in 1992. Now he has founded 'Mediant', an entertainment company. In this short but structured article, laced with a tinge of humour, Dinesh had driven home the subject through an interesting, informative and stylish narration.
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adies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please. This is the last and final boarding call for passenger Dinesh B. Panicker flying to Trivandrum by Flight IC 167. The passenger is requested to board the aircraft immediately. Fellow Members and friends, This was the welcome I received as I rushed into the airport with suitcase in one hand, a briefcase in the other, back pack behind me, a couple of packages tucked in my armpit and of all things, a rose which the concierge assigned to drop me to the Airport by the Hotel had given to me gripped between my teeth. Imagine my plight rushing past the check in counter, squeezing through the security, racing along the
tarmac, struggling up the ladder - to be greeted by a growling, grumbling face of air hostess. I still remember her name - Genelia. It is in moments of such grave crisis that my PR skills come to my rescue. It prompts me to say something most appropriate however inappropriate situation may be. I extended the rose “Genelia, this is for you, for taking care of us every time we fly. ” As soon as we were airborne and the seat belt sign was switched off I was summoned to the front of the aircraft. And there stood Genelia, now with a gentle smile on her face. “Sir, we have the pleasure of upgrading you to the business class. ” And as she eased me into the seat, she whispered “Never
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in all these years of flying has anyone thanked be for taking care of them before I actually took care of them.” Reclining on the luxurious seat, cruising at 30000 feet, I realised the significance of what I had done. I had given Genelia something without asking for anything in return. And she in return was teaching me great lesson that in giving we receive. If that day Genelia taught me the power of giving unconditionally, so did Mohammed Abdul Khader aka “Kettle Sahib” or more precisely in local lingo-“Kathel” many years ago. Those were the seventies and not many in the city knew him. But everyone knew the restaurant he owned. No map, no GPS will take you there. But your nose would. The aroma of fried chicken wafting from there would lead you past the vegetable market into a small lane, at the far end of which stood a board, on which a red rooster proudly announced “Hotel Rahmania”. Inside there stood a large wok full of sizzling oil in which pieces of chicken coated with a thick marinade of Kerala spices bobbed up and down, up and down. And behind stood Mr. Kathel with a white prayer cap above, a flowing white beard below and a benevolent smile in between. Hotel Rahmania had only one dish to offer. Khader’s Fried Chicken. We children used to call it KFC. Many years later an American by name Colonel Sanders from the State of Kentucky copied that name and recipe and made a lot of money ! I remember my Dad’s friend Mr. Abu Mohamed from Quilon (F/o Mr. Najeeb, former Secretary & Commisioner, Corporation of Trivandrum) who took me along to Rahmaniya one day evening. The instant you sit down in Hotel Rahmania, Mr. Kathel will pile your leaf with golden brown crunchy crisp ‘KFC’. The moment you finished it, there he was politely pleading you to have some more. And when you were done with that, there he was again this time ordering you with stern generosity “One last piece”. After many such last pieces, there came the ultimate surprise - the bill. Khader had a simple billing formula for us children - the more we eat, the less we pay. Inspite of his failing health Mohammed Abdul Khader spent most of his life, frying chicken, on a fire wood stove the way only he could and the rest of it in making people relish it. He did not have the time to worry what he would get for all that he gave. When asked, he would say “The more I give the more I get. ” Then, I did not know who the unseen banker up there was. My reverie was interrupted by the announcement The Second Home
from the flight deck that we had started our descent to Trivandrum. Soon I would be meeting the mother of all givers, an obsessive compulsive giver - my mother then alive who left us two and a half years back. All her life, as she had only refrain -“Give, give and give more” which even our fish vendor Ms. Eliamma would vouch for. My mother, when she left us at the age of seventy had only one desire - to give her eyes away to someone who could not see, when she was gone. I still remember the day she taught me most valuable lesson in giving - the day I had to give one of my many toys to the maid’s son. Unable to contain my loss, I was in a fit of rage, throwing tantrum, crying incessantly, when my mother scooped me up into her lap and whispered “Remember this, it hurts only when you give with your hand, not when you give from your heart. ” As the flight descended on the final glide path, I remembered how my two year old daughter, Prarthana taught me a valuable lesson in the art of giving. Once out on shopping three years back, she was there in the parked car, playing with a balloon she had just acquired. She then noticed another baby her age with her mother outside pointing at the balloon she was holding to her mother. Without a word being spoken she sensed that the other baby wanted the balloon and without batting an eyelid, extended the balloon to the other child. Her mother tried giving it back, but Prarthana refused to accept it. Finally as they moved away with the balloon, she waved them a cheerful bye. For a child to give away any of her possession is a great act of generosity. I often wonder how did she learn the art of giving at two years of age which I am now desperately trying to learn after four decades of existence. So you see, I had some amazing teachers in my life teaching me the art of giving unconditionally. But the moot question is, did I bother to learn? Unfortunately, no. Life to me was constant battle to take more and give less. And in this struggle, I forgot to learn the lessons that life was trying to teach me. That in giving we receive. That the more we give, the more we get. And that no matter what you give, give it from your heart. “Ladies and gentlemen, we have now landed at Trivandrum International Airport. The outside temperature is 32 degrees Centigrade. Thank you for flying with us.” w 57
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(22‑) DW-DÀ- ®Z‑m\‑w (23‑) a‑pI‑pf‑w (24‑) IS-Im‑ a- p‑ J - w‑ . C‑u a‑p{‑ZI - f - p‑ s‑S I‑qs‑S At‑\I‑w k‑wÚ-IÄ Dï‑v. ]X‑mI F¶ Hc‑p a‑p{‑Z¡‑v a‑m{‑Xw‑ cï‑p s‑sI ‑ s‑Im‑ ï‑p I‑mW‑nt- ¡ ‑ ï 36 k‑wÚ-If‑pw‑ ,‑ Hc‑p s‑sI ‑ s‑Im‑ ï‑p I‑mW‑nt- ¡ ‑ ï 10 k‑wÚIf‑pw‑ Dï‑v. C§s‑\ H‑mt‑cm‑ AS‑nØ - m‑ \ a‑p{‑ZI - Ä¡‑pw‑ At‑\I‑w k‑wÚIÄ Dï‑v. IY-If‑n Bk‑zZ- n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ BZ‑ys‑¯ \‑me‑pw‑ AS‑nØ - m‑ \ a‑p{‑ZI - f‑pw‑ B AS‑nØ - m‑ \ a‑p{‑ZI - f - p‑ s‑S H‑mt‑cm‑ a‑p{‑Zb - p‑ s‑S I‑qs‑Sb‑pÅ 16 k‑wÚI -- f - p‑ w‑ Ad‑nª m‑ Âa-Xn‑ . ]X‑mI a‑p{‑ZI - f - n‑  Hc‑p k‑wÚ-bm‑ W‑v I‑mf. IY-If‑n \S³ I‑mfs‑b I‑mW‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑v C{‑]I - m‑ c- a- m‑ W - v.‑ CS-Xp‑ s‑sI ‑ Xe-bp‑ s‑S CS-¯p‑ h - i - ¯‑pw‑ he-Xp‑ s‑sI ‑ he-¯p‑ h - i - ¯ - p‑ w‑ ,‑ DÅ‑w s‑sI ‑ IÄ a‑pt‑¼m‑ «- m‑ ¡‑n ]X‑mI - b - n‑  ]‑nS‑n¡ - p‑ I - . `à‑nb‑v¡p‑ t‑bm‑ P‑n¡‑pw‑ h‑n[‑w I¬a‑ng- n‑ I - Ä DbÀ¯-Ww‑ . ISIa‑p{‑Zb - n‑  Hc‑p k‑wÚ-bm‑ W‑v h‑oW. CS-Xp‑ s- s‑ I ‑ s- I ‑ m‑ ï‑p DbÀ¯‑n aeÀ¯‑n a‑pt‑¶m‑ «‑p IS-I¯ - n‑  ]‑nS‑n¡ - p‑ I - . heX‑p s‑sI ‑ h‑ne-§s‑\ ISI a‑p{‑Zb - n‑  DbÀ¯‑n CSX‑p s‑sI ‑ ¿‑ps‑S h®-bn‑  t‑NÀ¯‑p h‑oW h‑mb‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ a«‑n Ne‑n¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - .\ S³ C‑u kab‑w AÛ‑pX - i - y‑ w‑ K - m‑ c- `- à‑n {‑]I-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - W - w‑ . a‑p{‑ZmJyw F¶ a‑p{‑Zb - n‑  DÅ k‑wÚ-If - n‑  H¶‑mW‑v k‑zÀ¤‑w. CX‑p IY-If‑n \S³ I‑mW‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑v C{‑]I - m‑ c- a- m‑ W - v.‑ Xe-¡p‑ a- o‑ t‑X a‑pt‑¶m‑ «‑p \‑o¡‑n h‑nc-ep‑ I - Ä apIfnt‑em‑ «- p‑ w s‑sI ‑ a‑pt‑¼m‑ «‑pw‑ Cc‑n¡ - p‑ w‑ h - n‑ [‑w s‑sI ‑ IÄ AS‑p¸ - n‑ ¨‑v ]‑nS‑n¡ - p‑ I - . A\´c‑w a‑p{‑Zb - n‑  CS-t¯ ‑ m‑ «‑pw‑ he-t¯ ‑ m‑ «‑pw‑ AX‑mX‑p s‑sI ‑ IÄ AIä‑n \‑nd‑p¯ - p‑ I - . C‑u kab‑w \S³ `à‑nc- k‑w {‑]I-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - W - w‑ . a‑rj‑vSn‑ F¶ a‑p{‑Zb - n‑  DÅ Hc‑p k‑wÚ-bm‑ W‑v hS‑n. he-
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¯‑pI - c‑w hes‑¯ s‑\©‑n\‑p a‑p¶‑n a‑rj‑vSn‑ ]‑nS‑n¨‑p a‑pt‑¶m‑ «‑pX - Å‑n hS‑n D‑u¶‑n¸ - n‑ S- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s‑e Dd-¸n‑ ¨‑p ]‑nS‑n¡ - p‑ I - . C‑u ka-b¯‑v \Ss‑â a‑pJ¯‑v h‑oc-ck‑w {‑]I-Sa- m‑ h - W - w‑ . IY-If - n‑ b - n‑  lk‑vXa- p‑ {- Z‑ I - Ä s‑Im‑ ï‑pa- m‑ {‑Xw‑ B‑wK‑nI - m‑ `- n‑ \b‑w ]‑qÀ¯‑nb - m‑ h - p‑ I - b - n‑ à - . s‑sI ‑ a‑p{- Z‑ I - Ä s‑Im‑ ï‑p I‑mc‑yw‑ ]db‑ms- a‑ ¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ a\‑pj - y‑ i - c- o‑ c- ¯ - n‑ s‑e FÃ‑m `‑mK-§f - p‑ t- S‑ b‑pw‑ kÀK‑mß-Ia- m‑ b {‑]hÀ¯\‑w s‑Im‑ ï‑p a‑m{‑Xt‑a a\‑pj - y‑ h - n‑ I - m‑ c- § - Ä {‑]I-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ h - m‑ ³ Ig‑nb - p‑ I - b - p‑ Å - q‑ . Hc‑p DZ‑ml - c- W‑w s‑Im‑ ï‑p CXv h‑yà-am‑ ¡ - m‑ w‑ . IY-If‑n \S³ Hc‑p X‑ma-c¸ - q‑ h - n‑ s‑\ hÀ®‑n¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä lk‑vXa‑p{‑Z a‑m{‑Xw‑ I‑mW‑n¡ - p‑ I - b - à s‑N¿‑p¶ - X - v.‑ X‑ma-c¸ - q‑ h - n‑ s‑â c‑q]-`m‑ h - §f‑pw‑ ]‑pj‑v]n‑ X‑mh - Ø - b - p‑ s‑S s‑h¼-ep‑ I - f‑pw‑ B {‑]I-S\ - ¯ - n‑  {‑]I-Sa- m‑ b - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . \S³ BZ‑ya- m‑ b‑n B X‑ma-c¸ - q‑ h - n‑ s‑â \‑neb‑nt- e ‑ ¡‑v X‑mW‑p\ - n‑ ¶‑v AX‑ns‑\ t‑\m‑ ¡‑n¡ - m‑ W - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . AX‑ns‑â h‑nI-kn‑ ¨‑p hc‑p¶ at‑\m‑ l - m‑ c- n‑ X - b - n‑  BI‑rj - vS‑ \ - m‑ b‑n AÛ‑qX-ck‑w Xs‑â I®‑pI - f - n‑ e‑pw‑ Ih‑nf - p‑ I - f - n‑ e‑pw‑ N‑pï‑pI - f - n‑ e‑pw‑ {‑] X‑n^ - e - n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡‑pw‑ C§s‑\ lk‑vXa- p‑ {- Z‑ m‑ Z‑n \S-¶n‑ X - \‑p ]Ý‑m¯ - e‑w \S³ Hc‑p§ - n‑ ¡ - g- n‑ ª p‑ . AS‑p¯ - X - m‑ b‑n \Ss‑â s‑sI ‑ ¯-e§ - Ä a‑pj‑vSn‑ ap{Zbn heX‑ps‑sI ‑ CSX‑p s‑sI ‑ b‑v¡p‑ a‑pI-fn‑ e - m‑ b‑n I‑pd‑ps‑I ]‑nS‑n¨‑v H¶‑p N‑pgä‑n a‑pj‑vTn‑ a- {-‑ Z‑ m‑ l - k‑vXw‑ Xt‑gm‑ «- m‑ ¡‑n X‑pd-¶p‑ h - n‑ S- p‑ I - b‑pw‑ AX‑nt‑\m‑ s- S‑ m‑ ¸‑w s‑sI ‑ ¯-e§ - Ä s‑]m‑ ¡‑n,‑ I‑q«‑n¸ - n‑ S- n‑ ¨‑p X‑ma-cs- a‑ m‑ «- n‑ s‑â BI‑rX - n‑ b - n‑  It‑]m‑ \ - l - k - vX ‑ a- m‑ b‑n ]‑nS‑n¡ - p‑ I - b‑pw‑ s‑N¿‑p¶ - p‑ . Pe-¸c- ¸ - n‑ \‑p a‑pI-fn‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑v I‑pX‑n¡ - p‑ h - m‑ ³ s‑h¼Âs‑Im‑ Å - p‑ ¶ X‑ma-cs- a‑ m‑ «- n‑ s‑â {‑]X‑oI - a- m‑ W‑v C‑u a‑p{‑Z. C‑u lk‑vXa- p‑ {‑Z {‑It‑aW hf-cp‑ I - b - p‑ a- m‑ b - n‑ . C‑u lk‑vXa- p‑ {‑Zm‑ ]c‑nW - m‑ a- ¯ - n‑  BI‑rj - vS‑ c- m‑ b‑n Cc‑n¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä \Ss‑â I®‑pI - Ä X‑ma-c¸ - q‑ h - n‑ s‑â hfÀ¨-bn‑ s‑e H‑mt‑cm‑ Ne-\§ - f - n‑ e‑pw‑ a‑pg‑pI‑n B Ne-\§ - s‑f ]‑n´‑pS- c- p‑ I - b - m‑ W‑v. h‑nd s‑Im‑ ï‑p k‑v]µ‑n¨‑p Ne‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ \Ss‑â h‑nc X‑p¼‑pI-fn‑ ¡‑qS‑n B ]‑pj‑v]Z- f - § - Ä Hs‑¶m‑ ¶ - m‑ b‑n h‑nS-cp‑ I - b - m‑ W - v.‑ Ch‑ns‑S s‑Nïb‑pw‑ a±-fh‑pw‑ h‑nSÀ¶‑p hc‑p¶ B ]‑pj‑v]¯ - n‑ s‑â The Second Home
\‑ni-_vZ‑ a- m‑ b Zf-aÀ½-c§ - s‑f [‑z\‑n¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Ah-km‑ \‑w B X‑ma-c¸ - q‑ h‑v a‑pg‑ph - \‑pw‑ h‑nSÀ¶‑p Ig‑nª - p‑ . h‑nSÀ¶ ]‑pj‑v]w‑ Iï‑n«‑v \Ss‑â a‑pJ¯‑v B\-µm‑ \ - p‑ `- q‑ X‑n \‑r¯-am‑ S- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . B ]‑pj‑v]¯ - n‑ s‑â k‑pKÔ‑w \‑pI-cp‑ h - m‑ ³ \S³ \‑mk‑mc- {- Ô ‑ § - s‑f h‑nSÀ¯‑p¶ - p‑ . \S³ ]‑pj‑v]¯ - n‑ s‑â k‑pKÔ‑w \‑pI-cp‑ ¶ - X - m‑ b‑n `‑mh‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . CX‑n \‑n¶‑pw‑ a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ Ig‑nb - p‑ ¶ - X‑v lk‑vXa- p‑ {- Z‑ I - Ä As‑æ - n‑  a‑p{‑Zm‑ `- n‑ \ - b‑w I‑qS‑pX -  ^e-{] ‑ Z- a- m‑ I - p‑ ¶ - X‑v at‑\m‑ [À½ {‑]t‑bm‑ K - § - Äs‑Im‑ ï - m‑ W - v.‑ lk‑vXa- p‑ {- Z‑ I - Ä¡‑v B‑wK‑nI `‑mj-bn‑  A£-c§ - f - p‑ s‑S Ø‑m\-am‑ W‑v DÅ-Xv.‑ A£-c§ - Ä t‑NÀ¯‑v h‑mI‑y§ - Ä Dï‑m¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s‑e a‑p{‑ZI - t- f ‑ m‑ S‑v Ne-\§Ä t‑NÀ¯‑v B‑wK‑nI `‑mj-bn‑  h‑m¡‑pI - Ä \‑nÀ½‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . C¯c‑w lk‑vXa- p‑ {- Z‑ m‑ h - m‑ I - y‑ § - Ä k‑wt‑bm‑ K - m‑ ß - § - f - m‑ b‑n _Ô‑n¸‑n¨‑p {‑]I-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä a‑m{‑Xt‑a AÀ°-h¯ - m‑ b B‑wK‑nI - h‑mI‑yw‑ ]‑qÀ®-am‑ h - p‑ I - b - p‑ Å - q‑ . AX‑ps - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v B‑wK‑nI - m‑ `- n‑ \ - b‑w ]‑qÀ®-am‑ b‑n a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ ¡ - p‑ h - m‑ ³ A`‑n\ - b - {- I ‑ a- § - Ä t‑\c‑n«‑p Xs‑¶ I‑mW-Ww‑ . ]‑pk‑vXI - ¯ - n‑ s‑e h‑nh-c§ - Ä Hc‑p ]c‑n[‑n hs‑c kl‑mb‑n¡ - p‑ w‑ Ft‑¶ DÅ‑q. w
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""ISe‑n a-ca- n‑ Ã-tà ‑ m‑ F-¶n‑ «- p‑ a-g s‑]¿ - p‑ ¶ - n‑ t‑Ã?'' F-¶ k‑oX - n‑ l - m‑ P - n‑ b - p‑ s - S‑ b‑pà - n‑ t- ¨ ‑ m‑ Z‑yw‑ H‑mÀ-½b - n‑ t- à ‑ . F-sâ ‑ C-ãk - p‑ l - r‑ ¯ - m‑ b - {io. I‑pc- p‑ h - n‑ f - b - p‑ s - S‑ C‑u t‑eJ - \ - ¯ - n‑- s‑e \‑nK - a- \ - § - f - n‑  ]-eX - n‑ t- \ ‑ m‑ S‑pw‑ F-\n‑ ¡ - v‑ t‑bm‑ P - n‑ ¸ - n‑ Ã. P-\k - w‑ J - y‑ I‑qS- n‑ b-Xv‑ P-eZ- u ‑ À-e`- y‑ ¯ - n‑ \ - v‑ I‑mc- W - a- m‑ b - n‑ F¶-Xv‑ H-cp‑ h-kX -v‑ p‑ X - b - m‑ W - .v‑ ]-t£ ‑ H-cp‑ a-g s‑]¿ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ į-s¶ ‑ \-Kc- § - f - n‑ s - e ‑ Ã‑mw‑ a‑p³-Im‑ e - ¯ - n‑ à - m‑ ¯ - s‑hÅ - s - ¸ ‑ m‑ ¡ - w‑ F-´p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - m‑ W - p‑ ï - m‑ I - p‑ ¶ - X - ?v‑ (X-¼m‑ \ - q‑ c- n‑ s - e ‑ \‑nc- ´ - c- a‑mb i-Xt- I ‑ m‑ S- n‑ s‑h«- n‑ ¸‑ns - â ‑ I-Yb - à ]-db - p‑ ¶ - X - )v‑ . \-Kc- § - f - n‑ e - p‑ ï - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - h-be - p‑ w‑ ,‑ X‑mg- ¶ -v‑ {- ] ‑ t- Z‑ i - § - f‑pw‑ N-Xp‑ ¸ - p‑ Ø - e - §f‑pw‑ I‑p¶ - n‑ ³-sN ‑ c- p‑ h - p‑ I - f‑n a-s® ‑ m‑ e - n‑ ¸ - v‑ X-Sb - m‑ \ - m‑ b - n‑ h-fÀ-¯n‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶ - a-c§ - f - p‑ s- a‑ m‑ s- ¡ ‑ CÃ‑ms- X ‑ b - m‑ ¡‑nb - `‑qa- m‑ ^ - n‑ b b - t- à ‑ C-Xn‑ \ - p‑ I - m‑ c- W‑w? Water Table D-bÀ¯‑p¶ - a-gs - h ‑ Å - ¯ - n‑ \ - v‑ `qan-b¡ v pÅn Xmgv¶ - n-d§m³ Ø-ea- n‑ Ã‑m¯ - X‑ps - I ‑ m‑ ï - t- à ‑ {‑]f - b - w‑ h‑nX - ¨ - n‑ «- v‑ D-St- \ ‑ I-Se - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡ - v‑ H-gp‑ I - n‑ t- ¸mIp-¶X‑.v C-¶s - ¯ ‑ N‑qS- p‑ I‑qS- p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ s - \ ‑ ´ - m‑ I‑mc- W - w‑ ? Global WarmingD‑w,‑ Carbon MonoxideD‑w H-s¡ ‑ I‑mc- W - a- m‑ W - .v‑ ]-t£ ‑ ]-sï ‑ m‑ s- ¡ ‑ t‑Ic- f - ¯ - n‑  hÀ-jw‑ a‑pg- p‑ h - ³ G-It‑Zi - w‑ H-tc‑ X‑m] - \ - n‑ e - b - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p. a-g s‑]¿ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä s‑Nd‑nb - I‑pd-hp‑ h-cp‑ s - a‑ ¶ - p‑ a‑m{- X ‑ w‑ . C-¶v‑ s‑^{- _ ‑ p‑ h-cn‑ a‑mk - ¯ - n‑  35°Cb‑ne - t- à ‑ \‑mw‑ h-dp‑ s - ¯ ‑ S- p‑ ¡ - s - ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¶ - X‑.v s‑kz‑ ä- À [-cn‑ ¨ - p‑ a- m‑ {- X ‑ w‑ \-S¶ - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - s‑^{- _ ‑ p‑ h - c- n‑ a- m‑ k - ¯ - n‑ s - e ‑ _‑mw‑ ¥ - q‑ c‑n C-t¸ ‑ m‑ Ä I‑pS- b‑pw‑ ]‑nS- n‑ ¨ - p‑ ^‑m\ - p‑ a- n‑ «- p‑ a- m‑ {- X ‑ t- a‑ P‑oh - n‑ ¡ - m‑ \ - m‑ h‑q. h‑nI - k - \ - ¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ t‑]c‑n e-£¡ - W - ¡ - n‑ \ - p‑ ac-§Ä a‑pd- n‑ ¨ - p‑ H-cp‑ he‑nb - t‑Im‑ ¬-{I ‑ o‑ ä- v‑ I‑mS- v‑ D-ïm‑ ¡ - n‑ b - X - n‑ s - â ‑ X‑o£ - W -v‑ ^ - e - a- m‑ W - n‑ X‑.v A-Xp‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - v‑ \-ap‑ ¡‑v ""a-c¯ - n‑ s - \ ‑ b‑pw‑ a-gs - b ‑ b‑pw‑ ]-ck - ] v‑ c- w‑ h‑nS- s - N ‑ m‑ Ã‑mw‑- '' F-¶p‑ ]-db - m‑ s - X ‑ h‑oï‑pw‑ H-¶n‑ ¨ - p‑ t‑NÀ-¶p‑ ]-gb - X - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s - e ‑ i‑m´ - k - p‑ µ - c- a- m‑ b - n‑ P‑oh - n‑ ¡ - m‑ \ - p‑ Å - {‑ia- w‑ \-S¯ - m‑ s - a‑ ¶ - t- à ‑ ]-dt- b ‑ ï - X‑.v
agb‑pw‑ ach‑pw‑ X½‑ne- p‑ Å _Ô-s¯ ‑ ¡ - p‑ d- n‑ ¨‑v Hc‑p k‑wh‑mZ‑w
Db-cp‑ ¶ kµÀ`-¯n‑  D±-Þ] - c- Z- Þ - {- ] ‑ Z- y‑ p‑ · - ³a‑mc- m‑ b k‑mw‑ k‑vIm‑ c- n‑ I \‑mb-I³a‑mt‑cm‑ ]c‑nØ - n‑ X‑n I‑ma‑pI - o‑ I - m‑ a- p‑ I - ·‑mt‑cm‑ AÃ‑m¯ Hc‑p ]¨-bm‑ b a\‑pj - y‑ s‑â h‑nN‑mc- h - o‑ [ - n‑ b - n‑  BZ‑yw‑ H‑mS‑n F¯‑p¶ k‑ma‑m\ - y‑ _ - p‑ ²‑n k‑oX‑nl - m‑ P - n‑ k - m‑ b - z‑ n‑ t- â ‑ X‑mb‑n Ie‑v]n‑ ¨‑p s‑Im‑ S‑p¯ - n‑ «- p‑ Å At‑X Bib‑w Xs‑¶b - m‑ W - v.‑ agt‑bm‑ act‑am‑ BZ‑yw‑ P·-sa‑ S- p‑ ¯ - X‑v? ac-an‑ s - à ‑ ¦ - n‑  ag-bp‑ ï - m‑ I - n‑ à F¶‑ps - ï ‑ ¦ - n‑  A\-´h - n‑ i - m‑ e-am‑ b ka‑p{- Z‑ a- ² - y‑ ¯ - n‑  F§‑ns‑\ ag-bp‑ ï - m‑ I‑pw‑ ? ""k‑w`-hm‑ a- n‑ b - p‑ t- K ‑ b - p‑ t‑K'' F¶ Ac‑pf - ¸ - m‑ S‑v A\‑zÀ°-am‑ ¡‑n k‑m£‑m al‑mh - n‑ j - vW ‑ p‑ h - n‑ s‑â A‑wi-¯n‑  \‑n¶‑pw‑ b‑pK-]p‑ c‑pj - \‑mb‑n P·-sa‑ S- p‑ ¯ {‑io‑ I‑rj - vW ‑ `- K - h - m‑ s‑â A´‑yt- ¯ ‑ m‑ s‑S Z‑zm‑ ]c-bp‑ K - ¯ - n‑ \ - p‑ X - s‑¶ A´‑yw‑ I‑pd‑n¡ - s- ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Ej‑n] - p‑ w‑ K - h - \ - m‑ b `‑yK‑pa- l - Àj‑n a‑md‑n N‑mÀ¯‑ns - ¡ ‑ m‑ S- p‑ ¯ {‑io‑ hÕ‑w t‑]m‑ e‑pw‑ A‑wK‑oI - c- n‑ ¡ - s - ¸ ‑ S- m‑ ³ BZ‑ni - ¦ - c- \‑v s‑sZ‑ z‑ X‑w Dt‑]£ - n‑ ¨‑v H‑mw‑ I‑mc-¯n‑  GI-Xz‑ h‑pw‑ {‑Xo‑ X‑zh‑pw‑ DÄs‑¡m‑ t- Å ‑ ï‑n hc‑p¶‑p. `‑mK‑y¯‑n\‑v `K-hm‑ s‑â I‑me¯‑p I]-S\ - m‑ S- I - ] - U - p‑ ¡ - f - m‑ b k‑mw‑ k‑vIm‑ c‑nI - \ - m‑ b - I - · - m‑ t‑cm‑ ,‑ ]c‑nØ - n‑ X - n‑ h - m‑ Z- n‑ I - t‑fm‑ c‑mj‑v{S‑ o‑ b¡‑mt‑cm‑ Dï‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - n‑ à As‑æ - n‑  b‑pK‑m´ - y‑ ¯ - n‑ s‑â I‑mc-Wa- m‑ b‑n ac‑ws - h ‑ «‑pw‑ aWÂh‑mc- e‑pw‑ Is‑ï¯ - p‑ I - b‑pw‑ t‑\X‑ra- m‑ ä- ¯ - n‑ t‑\m‑ `c-Wa- m‑ ä- ¯ - n‑ \‑p Xs‑¶t‑bm‑ a‑pd-hn‑ f‑n Dï‑mh‑pa‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. I‑mcW‑w {‑Kq‑ ¸‑nk‑w A¶‑pw‑ \‑ne-\n‑ ¶ - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - t‑Ãm‑ ? s‑si ‑ h-]£ - h‑pw‑ s‑sh ‑ j‑vWh-]£ - h‑pw‑ X½‑ne - p‑ Å i‑mà‑oI aÕc‑w Hc‑p \‑qd‑pX - e - I - f - p‑ Å \{‑km‑ W‑n h‑n`‑mK - § - f - p‑ s‑S X½‑ne - S- n‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s - e ‑ t‑bm‑ j‑nb‑mk - p‑ ¶‑n XÀ¡-§Ä t‑]m‑ s‑et‑bm‑ At‑¶ DS-se ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ h - s - à ‑ m‑ . agb‑ps‑S Hc‑p \‑qd‑ph - Àj‑w a‑p³]‑pÅ IW-s¡ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - m‑  A¶‑pw‑ C¶‑pw‑ Ht‑c \‑ne-bn‑ ¯s‑¶b‑ms‑W¶‑p I‑mW‑mw‑ . ]c‑n-
Ø‑nX - n‑ h - m‑ Z‑w s‑Im‑ ï‑v DZ-c] - q‑ c- W‑w \S-¯p‑ ¶ - h - À C‑u kX‑yw‑ a‑qS‑n hb‑v¡p‑ ¶‑p F¶‑p a‑m{‑Xw‑ . ]‑ns‑¶ Ft‑´ ]ï‑nà - m‑ X - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ IS‑p¯ Pe-Zu ‑ Àe`‑yw‑ Ct‑¸m‑ Ä? \‑ym‑ b-am‑ b t‑Nm‑ Z‑yw‑ !‑ \‑mt‑em‑ At‑©m‑ a‑mk‑w a‑m{‑Xt‑a ag-bp‑ Å - q‑ s - h ‑ ¶‑pw‑ At‑¸m‑ Ä Ic-`q‑ a‑n t‑iJ-cn‑ ¨ - p‑ h - b - v¡ ‑ p‑ ¶ Pe‑w a‑m{‑Xt‑a ]‑n¶‑oS- p‑ Å a‑mk-§f - n‑  e`‑ya- m‑ h‑q F¶‑pa- p‑ Å k‑ma‑m\ - y‑ h - n‑ Ú m‑ \‑w BZ‑yw‑ DÄs‑¡m‑ Å-Ww‑ . Hc‑nc- p‑ ] - ¯ - ©‑p hÀj‑w a‑p³]‑pÅ P\-kw‑ J - y‑ b‑pw‑ {‑] X‑nI - p‑ S- p‑ w‑ _ PeD]-t`‑ m‑ K - h - p‑ a- m‑ t‑Wm‑ Ct‑¸m‑ g- p‑ Å - s- X ‑ ¶‑p ]‑n¶‑oS‑p N‑n´‑n¡ - p‑ I - . At‑¸m‑ įs‑¶ agb‑pw‑ ac-hp‑ a- m‑ b‑n ]‑pe-_Ô‑w t‑]m‑ e‑pa- n‑ s- à ‑ ¶‑pw‑ Pe-£m‑ a- ¯ - n‑ s‑â I‑mc-Ws- a‑ s- ´ ‑ ¶‑pw‑ k‑ma‑m\ - y‑ _‑p² - n‑ b - p‑ Å Gs‑Xm‑ c- p‑ h - \‑pw‑ t‑_m‑ [‑ya- m‑ h - p‑ w‑ . AW-s¡ ‑ «- p‑ I - t‑fm‑ I‑pf-§t- f ‑ m‑ ,‑ XS‑mI - § - t‑fm‑ Dï‑m¡‑n Pe‑w k‑w`-cn‑ ¨‑p h¨‑m {‑]X‑nkÔ‑n ]c‑nl - m‑ c- y‑ w‑ . CX‑pt‑ïm‑ ]c‑nØ - n‑ X‑n ]dª‑p I‑mat‑cm‑ Z- \‑w \S-¯p‑ ¶hÀ k½-Xn‑ ¡‑q !‑ ag {‑]h-N\‑w \‑qX\ k‑mt‑¦X - n‑ I h‑nZ‑yI - f - p‑ ] - t- b ‑ m‑ K - n‑ ¨‑v I‑rX‑ya‑mb‑n ag-bp‑ Å - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä s‑hb‑ne‑pw‑ ad‑n¨‑v s‑hb‑ne - p‑ Å - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä agb‑pw‑ {‑]h-N\‑w \S-¯p‑ ¶ I‑me‑mh - Ø‑m i‑mk‑v{X ‑ Ú s‑c a‑mä‑n\ - n‑ À¯‑n t‑Py‑ m‑ X‑nj k‑w_-Ôn‑ b - m‑ b‑n \S-¯n‑ b‑m ""Computer Precision'' þ  \ S¯‑mw‑ F¶‑v i‑mk‑v{X ‑ o‑ b - a- m‑ b‑n s‑Xf‑nb‑n¡ - m‑ h - p‑ ¶ - X - m‑ W - v.‑ \‑nk‑zm‑ À°-tk ‑ h-Is - \ ‑ ¶ Hc‑p s‑]m‑ b‑vap‑ J¯‑n X‑me‑v]c- y‑ a- n‑ à - m‑ ¯ - X - n‑ \ - m‑  I‑qS‑pX -  {‑]X‑nI - c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ h - m‑ ³ aS‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . agb‑v¡p‑ w‑ ac-¯n‑ \‑pw‑ ]c-kv] ‑ c‑w h‑nS s‑Nm‑ Ã‑mw‑ .... w
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ilo-Zv `-KX - v knw-Kn-\v {]m-ba- mbn Xm-Snbpw ap-Snbpw X-e¸ - m-hp-anÃm-sX H-cp t^m-t«m F-Sp¯m Cu Kuc-ha- pÅ a‑pJ - w‑ - t‑]m‑ s - e ‑ b - n‑ c - n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b - n‑ t‑Ã? F-¶m‑  {io. c‑mP - ³ tP¡_vv‑ k‑ua- y‑ \‑mb - , ck‑nI\‑mb H-cp‑ h‑yà - n‑ b - m‑ W‑v,‑ H-cp‑ \à k‑pl - r‑ ¯ - m‑ W‑v. ]-e a‑mk - n‑ I - I - f - n‑ e - p‑ w‑ IY-IÄ {‑]k - n‑ ² - o‑ I - c - n‑ ¨ - n‑ «- p‑ Å - bmfmWv. c‑mP - ³ ]-sï ‑ m‑ c- n‑ ¡ -  s‑k¡ - â‑vt- l ‑ m‑ a- n‑  H-cp‑ \À½t‑eJ-\w‑ Fgp-Xn-bn«pï‑v. C-¯h - W - b - p‑ w‑ R‑m³ {‑]X - o‑ £ - n‑ ¨-Xv‑ A-§s‑\b - m‑ W - v‑. F-¶m‑  t‑eJ - \ - w‑ F-gp‑ X - n‑ b - n‑ «- v‑ t‑\c - n‑ «- v‑ h‑mb - n‑ ¨ - p‑ t- I ‑ ĸ‑n¡ - W - s - a‑ ¶ - B-{K ‑ l - w‑ {‑]I - S- n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¨‑ c‑mP - ³ H-cp‑ Z‑nh-kw‑ ¢º‑n h¨‑v t‑eJ - \ - w‑ Fs¶ hm-bn-¨p-tIÄ-¸n¨p. k‑ua- y‑ h - [ - ¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ `‑mK - s - ¯ ‑ ¯ - n‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä s‑Xm‑ ï - b - n‑ S-dn‑ X‑pS- À-¶p‑ - h‑mb - n‑ ¡‑m³ {‑]b - m‑ k - s - ¸ ‑ S‑p¶ - H-cp‑ t‑em‑ e - l - r‑ Z- b - s - \ ‑ b - m‑ W - v‑ Rm³ I-ïX - v‑. C-Xm‑ W - v‑ c‑mP-sâ ‑ Real Self. c‑mP - ³ ]-dª - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s - e ‑ {‑]X - n‑ I - c- W - t- i ‑ j - n‑ \-ãs‑¸«- \-]p‑ w‑ k - I - § - f - m‑ b - m‑ W - v‑ \‑ma- n‑ ¶ - v‑ P‑oh - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑v. G-Xp‑ t‑Km‑ h - n‑ µ - ¨ - m‑ a- n‑ h‑nN - m‑ c - n‑ ¨ - m‑ e‑pw‑ B-tc ‑ b‑pw‑ F´‑pw‑ s‑N¿ - m‑ s‑a¶ - A-hØ - . Bc‑pw‑ {‑]X - n‑ I - c - n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b - n‑ Ã. ]-t£ ‑ {‑]X - n‑ I - c- n‑ ¨‑m ]-e ‘N-«¼ - n‑ ’If‑pw‑ _-eq‑ W - n‑ s- e ‑ I‑mä- p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s- e ‑ \‑nj - v‑{- ] ‑ `- c- m‑ I - p‑ w‑ . G-jy‑ m‑ s- \ ‑ ä- n‑ s- â ‑ {io. i-in-Ip-am-dn-t\msSm¸w X‑pS- ¡ - ¡ - m‑ c- \‑mb - h‑n`‑mI - À F-¶ F-sâ ‑ _-en‑ j - v‑TI - m‑ b - \‑mb - k‑pl - r‑ ¯ - v‑ H-cp‑ Dare Devil BW‑v. R-§f - p‑ s - S‑ a-sä‑ m‑ c - p‑ k‑pl - r‑ ¯ - v‑ {‑]Z- o‑ ] - p‑ s - a‑ m‑ ¯ - v‑ k-Ôy‑ b - v‑¡ - v‑ s‑Ns - s ‑ ¶ ‑ b - n‑ s - e ‑ H-cp‑ s‑sk ‑ U - v‑ t‑dm‑ U - n‑ e - q‑ s - S‑ I‑mt- d‑ m‑ S- n‑ ¨ - p‑ h - c - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä {‑Sm‑ ^ - n‑ I - v‑ t‑»m‑ ¡ - v‑. H-cp‑ t‑em‑ ¡ -  K‑pï - m‑ b - p‑ s - S‑ t‑aÂ-t\ ‑ m‑ «- ¯‑n B-sc ‑ s - b ‑ m‑ s - ¡ ‑ t- b ‑ m‑ A-bm‑ f - p‑ s - S‑ I‑n¦ - c - ·‑mÀ XÃ‑n¨ - X - b - v‑¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . P\w ]-I¨ - p-\nÂ-¡p-t¼mÄ s‑]s - «‑ ¶ - p‑ h‑n`- m‑ I - À I‑md- n‑ Â-\n‑ ¶ - n‑ d-§n‑ \-Sp‑ t- d‑ m‑ U‑n I-tk ‑ c - b - n‑ «‑nc - p‑ ¶‑v Ì-ïv‑ U-bdÎ‑ps‑N¿‑p¶ - t‑\X - m‑ h - n‑ s‑â ]‑pd- I - n‑ Â-\n‑ ¶‑v HmÀ-¡m-¸pd¯v X-eb - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡ - v‑ B-sª ‑ m‑ c - p‑ s‑Xm‑ g‑n. I-tk ‑ c - b‑pw‑ K‑pï - b‑pw‑ H-cp‑ a- n‑ ¨ - v‑ ]-e Ic-Ww‑ a-dn‑ ª p‑ t‑dm‑ U‑n \‑n] - X - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . K‑pï - Xes]m¡n t‑\m‑ ¡ - n‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä \-S¶ - S- p‑ ¡‑p¶ - h‑n`- m‑ I - d- n‑ s - â ‑ h‑ni - z‑ c - q‑ ]‑w! B ‘]‑mh‑w N«¼n’ I‑n«‑nb - P‑oh - \ - p‑ w‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - v‑ H‑mS- n‑ a-dª p‑ . I‑n¦ - c - · - m‑ c - p‑ s - S‑ s‑]m‑ S- n‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ e - p‑ a- n‑ Ã. ‘R‑ms - \ ‑ m‑ ¶ - p‑ a- d- n‑ ª n‑ t- à ‑ c‑ma- \ - m‑ c - m‑ b-W’ F-¶ a«‑n B-tc ‑ m‑ S‑pw‑ H¶‑pw‑ a‑nï - m‑ s‑X h‑n`- m‑ I - À I‑md- v‑ h‑n«- p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ b‑n. CXnÂ]-cw k-at- bm-Nn-Xam-b H-cp {]-Xn-Ic - W - a- ptïm?
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X‑nk - Ô - n‑ I - f‑pw‑ Z‑px‑ J-§f‑pw‑ H¶‑pa- n‑ à - m‑ s‑X kt‑´m‑ j - a- m‑ b Hc‑p P‑oh‑nX - a- m‑ W‑v \‑mw‑ FÃ‑mh - c‑pw‑ B{‑Kl - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ F¶‑m \a‑p¡‑p ]eÀ¡‑pw‑ C‑ui‑zc- ³ Xc‑p¶ - X‑v F´‑mW‑v? P‑oh‑nX‑w FÃ‑mt- ¸ ‑ m‑ g‑pw‑ k‑pJ-Zp‑ x‑ J k½‑n{- i ‑ a- m‑ b - n‑ c- n‑ ¡‑pw‑ F¶-Xm‑ W‑v Hc‑p \á kX‑yw‑ . Hc‑p {‑]i‑v\h - p‑ a- n‑ à - m‑ ¯ P‑oh‑nX - a- m‑ W‑v \½Ä B{‑Kl‑nb - v¡ ‑ p‑ ¶ - s - X ‑ ¦ - n‑  B B{‑Kl - h‑pw‑ \½‑ps‑S s‑Xä‑mb P‑oh‑nX N‑n´‑mK - X - n‑ b - n‑  \‑n¶‑pw‑ Df-hm‑ I - p‑ ¶ Bi-ba- m‑ W - v.‑ Z‑px‑ J-¯n‑ s‑âb‑pw‑ t‑hZ-\b - p‑ s - S‑ b‑pw‑ \\-hp‑ ï - m‑ b - m‑  a‑m{‑Xs‑a Hc‑p \à P‑oh‑nX‑w I‑n«‑pI - b - p‑ Å - q‑ . Ij‑vSX - b - p‑ s- S‑ b‑pw‑ IZ-\¯ - n‑ s- â ‑ b‑pw‑ A\‑p`- h - § - f - n‑  \‑n¶‑pw‑ Bc‑pw‑ h‑na‑pà - c- à - . N‑n´‑n¨‑p t‑\m‑ ¡‑q. \½Ä `à‑nt- b ‑ m‑ s‑Sb‑pw‑ BZ-ct- h ‑ m‑ s - S‑ b‑pw‑ I‑mW‑p¶ s‑sZ‑ h‑w Xs‑¶ a\‑pj - y‑ \‑mb‑n `‑qa‑nb‑n h¶‑v F{‑Xt‑bm‑ t‑hZ-\m‑ P - \ - I - a- m‑ t‑b A\‑p`- h§f‑ne - q‑ s - S‑ b‑mW‑v IS-¶p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ b - X - v.‑ al-½Z‑v \_‑n,‑ t‑bi‑p{- I ‑ n‑ k - vX ‑ p‑ ,‑ {‑io‑ c‑ma³ ChÀ FÃ‑mh - c‑pw‑ s‑sZ‑ h-¯n‑ s‑â Ah-Xm‑ c- a- m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p F¶‑v \½Ä h‑ni‑zk - n‑ ¨ - m‑ c‑m[‑n¡‑p¶ - p‑ . B s‑sZ‑ h-¯n‑ s‑â Ah-Xm‑ c- § - Ä F{‑X a‑pÅ‑pI - f - p‑ s‑S a‑pI-fn‑ e - q‑ s- S‑ b - m‑ W‑v ]\‑n\ - o‑ À]‑q¡ - Ä h‑nc‑nb - n‑ ¨‑p IS¶‑p t‑]m‑ b-Xv.‑ AX‑mW‑v \½Ä Iï‑pw‑ t‑I«‑pw‑ ]T‑nt- ¡ ‑ ï BZ‑y] - m‑ T- w‑ . AX‑p Xs‑¶b - m‑ W‑v {‑]X‑nk - Ô - n‑ I - s‑f k‑m²‑yX - I - f‑m¡ - m‑ \ - p‑ Å \à a‑mX‑rI - b - p‑ w‑ . {‑]X‑nI - q‑ e A\‑p`- h - § - Ä ]e-tc‑ b‑pw‑ ià-cm‑ ¡ - n‑ b - X - n‑ s‑â IYb‑mW‑v t‑em‑ I Nc‑n{- X ‑ ¯‑ne‑ms‑I Hc‑p IÃ‑n \‑n¶‑pw‑ \Ã
Hc‑p i‑n¸‑w c‑q]-s¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä F{‑Xa- m‑ {‑Xw‑ a‑pd‑nh - p‑ I - ÄB IÃ‑v Gä‑p h‑m§‑p¶ - p‑ ï - v.‑ A§s‑\ a‑m{‑Xs‑a Hc‑p at‑\m‑ l - c- a- m‑ b i‑n¸‑w c‑q]-s¸ ‑ S- p‑ I - b - p‑ Å - q‑ . Ij‑vSX - b - p‑ s - S‑ b - p‑ w‑ ,‑ t‑hZ-\b - p‑ s - S‑ b‑pw‑ a‑pÅ‑qI - Ä¡‑nS- b - n‑ e‑pw‑ C‑ui‑zc- s‑â k‑vt\ ‑ l-¯n‑ s‑â {‑]I‑mi - t- a‑ ¡‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä {‑]X‑o£ - b‑ps‑S ]\‑n\ - o‑ À]‑q¡ - Ä h‑nc‑nb - n‑ b - v¡ ‑ p‑ h - m‑ ³ Ig‑nb - p‑ w‑ . ""£a‑nb - v¡ ‑ p‑ I - . £a s‑sI ‑ s‑¡m‑ Å - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑  aä‑pÅ - h - t‑c Pb‑n¡ - p‑ I - '‑ '. h‑ni‑p² J‑pÀ B\‑ns‑e Hc‑p h‑mI‑ya- m‑ W - n‑ X - v.‑ P‑oh‑nX b‑m{‑Xb - n‑  ]e-cp‑ a- m‑ b‑n \a‑p¡‑v CS-s] ‑ S- m‑ ³ k‑ml-Nc‑yw‑ Dï‑mI - p‑ w‑ . Ahc-- n‑  \‑n¶‑pw‑ ,‑ \½-fn‑  \‑n¶‑pw‑ \ÃX‑pw‑ N‑o¯-bp‑ a- m‑ b ]e A\‑p`- h - § - f‑pw‑ cï‑p I‑q«À¡‑pw‑ Dï‑mb - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - m‑ w‑ . s‑Xä‑pI - p‑ ä- § - Ä FÃ‑mh - À¡‑pw‑ Dï‑mI - m‑ w‑ . £a‑n¡ - m‑ \‑pw‑ kl‑n¡ - m‑ \ - p‑ a- p‑ Å Hc‑p \à a\-Ê,v‑ \a‑p¡ - p‑ s - ï ‑ ¦ - n‑  C‑ui‑zc- ³ \s‑½ s‑sI ‑ h‑nS- n‑ à - . P‑oh‑nX - ¯ - n‑ s‑â ASª h‑mX‑ne - n‑ \‑p a‑p³]‑n \½Ä ]e t- ¸ ‑ m‑ g‑pw‑ F¯‑ns - ¸ ‑ S- m‑ d- p‑ ï - v.‑ ]eX‑pw‑ \j‑vSs - ¸ ‑ « Hc‑p Hä-s¸ ‑ S- Â. AX‑pw‑ Hc‑p kX‑ya- m‑ W - v.‑ ]t‑£ AX‑n\‑pw‑ A¸‑pd- ¯ - ,v‑ s‑hf‑n¨ - h - p‑ w‑ ,‑ k‑wK‑oX - h - p‑ w‑ ,‑ k‑pJhp-ap‑ Å Hc‑p P‑oh‑nX‑w \a‑p¡‑v Ds‑ï¶ - p‑ Å kX‑yw‑ Hc‑n¡ - e‑pw‑ ad-¡c- p‑ X - v.‑ \½‑ps‑S \‑m«‑n Ct‑¸m‑ Ä F´‑mW‑v \S-¡p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ Hc‑p {‑] X‑o£ - b - p‑ a- n‑ à - m‑ s‑X Hc‑p ]ä‑w Bf‑pI - Ä. a‑q¶‑p hÀj-¯n‑ \‑p a‑p³]‑p \S¶ B {‑Iq‑ c-am‑ b s‑Im‑ e-]m‑ X - I - w‑ . ""k‑ua‑ys- b ‑ ¶ Hc‑p k‑m[‑ps - ] ‑ ¬I‑p«- n‑ b - p‑ s‑S ac-Ww‑ . Hc‑p \‑na‑nj‑w H¶‑p N‑n´‑nb - v¡ ‑ q‑ . Contd. on page: 64
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C‑u s‑Im‑ ¨ - p‑ - I-Ym‑ c- N - \ - b - v‑¡ - v‑ C-cp‑ ] - ¯ - n‑ \ - m‑ e‑phÀ-js- ¯ ‑ I‑me - b - f - h - p‑ ï‑v. I-Yb - p‑ s- S‑ B-Zy‑ `- m‑ K - w‑ h‑mb - n‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä F-«p‑ h - b - Ê - p‑ I - m‑ c - n‑ b‑mb - I‑p«- n‑ b - p‑ s - S‑ `‑mj - b - m‑ W‑v. I-Yb - h - k - m‑ \ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶-Xv‑ c-ïp‑ a- ¡ - f - p‑ s - S‑ A-½b‑mb - a‑p¸ - ¯ - n‑ c - ï - p‑ I‑mc - n‑ b - p‑ s - S‑ A-ev‑]w‑ Philosophic B-b h-cn‑ I - f - n‑ e - p‑ w‑ . F-sâ ‑ k‑pl - r‑ ¯ - v‑ {‑io‑ . ]‑m¸ - ¨s‑â (t‑Pm‑ k-^v‑ a‑mX - y‑ p‑ I-¿m‑ e - b - v‑¡ - I‑w,‑ ¢ºn-se ap³-{]-kn-Uâv) a-I³ a‑m¯-sâ ‑ t‑{] ‑ b-kn‑ {ioaXn a-dn‑ b - ¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ F-gp‑ ¯ - n‑ t- e ‑ b - v‑¡ - p‑ Å B-Zy‑ N - p‑ h - S- p‑ h - b - v‑] - m‑ W - n‑ X‑v,‑ F-sâ ‑ \‑nc - ´ - c - a‑mb - {]tNmZ\¯‑ns - â ‑ ^-ea- m‑ b‑n. C-Xn‑  he‑nb - k‑ml - n‑ X - y‑ t- a‑ m‑ B-e¦‑mc - n‑ I - X - t‑bm‑ H-¶p‑ a- n‑ Ã. t‑\c - n‑ «- v‑ I-ïv‑ A-\p‑ `- h - n‑ ¨ - v‑ a-\Ê‑n ]-Xn‑ ª k‑w`- h§Ä H-cp‑ \‑mS- ³ s‑si ‑ e - n‑ b‑n kX‑yw‑ k-Xy‑ a- m‑ b - n‑ I‑pd- n‑ ¨ - n‑ c - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . k‑m[ - m‑ c - W - b - m‑ b - n‑ a-¡Ä-¡m‑ W - v‑ A-Ñ\ - ½ - a- m‑ c - p‑ s - S‑ I-em‑ h - m‑ k - \-IÄ ]-IÀ-¶p‑ I - n‑ «- p‑ ¶ - X - v‑. F-¶m‑  C-hn‑ s - S‑ k‑vt- \ ‑ l - a- b ‑ n‑ b‑mb - H-cp‑ A-½m‑ b - n‑ b - ½ - X‑mX - v‑] - c - y‑ ] - q‑ À-Æw‑ \-S¯ - n‑ b - {‑ia- ¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ ]-cn‑ W - m‑ a- K - p‑ ] - v‑X - n‑ b - m‑ W - v‑ a-dn‑ b - ¡ - p‑ «- n‑ b‑ps - S‑ C‑u I‑p«- n‑ ¡Y. "H-cp‑ A-½m‑ ½ - ]-dª IYIÄ' F-¶ _‑me - k - m‑ l - n‑ X - y‑ I - r‑ X - n‑ c-Nn‑ ¨ - B-\n‑ S- o‑ ¨ - À(s‑{] ‑ m‑ ^ - . B-\n‑ a- m‑ X - y‑ p‑ )‑ X-sâ ‑ s‑Im‑ ¨ - p‑ a- c - p‑ a- I - Ä-¡v‑ I-Ys - b ‑ g- p‑ X - m‑ \ - p‑ Å - X‑mX - v‑] - c‑yw‑ s‑Im‑ ¨ - n‑ t- e ‑ D-ïm‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - p‑ s - h ‑ ¶ - v‑ A-dn‑ ª t‑¸m‑ Ä a‑pX -  \-ev‑In‑ b - {‑]t- N ‑ m‑ Z- \ - a- m‑ W - v‑ C‑u I-Ys - b ‑ g- p‑ X - n‑ ¯ - c‑m³ I-Ym‑ I - m‑ c - n‑ ¡ - v‑ B-ßh - n‑ i - z‑ m‑ k - w‑ \-ev‑I - n‑ b - X‑v.
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s‑Nd‑pIY Hc‑p bY‑mÀ° P‑oh‑nXIYb‑mW‑.v C‑u IY b‑ps‑S Ahk‑m\‑w F§s‑\b‑mh‑pw‑ F¶‑v R‑m³ 24 hÀjw ap³]v Bt‑em‑ N‑n«‑pï‑.v IYb‑ps‑S A´‑yw‑ Ig‑nª a‑mÀ¨‑ne‑mW‑v k‑w`h‑n¨X‑.v (CX‑ns‑e IY‑m]‑m{‑X§f‑ps‑S t‑]c‑v bY‑mÀ°aÃ‑). FdW‑mI‑pfs‑¯ Fs‑â Gäh‑pw‑ \à AbÂh‑mk‑nIf‑mW‑v s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑pw‑ ,‑ A¦‑nf‑ns‑â A½ A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑nb‑pw‑ . A¦‑nf‑ns‑â `‑mc‑y k‑qk‑na‑m½, H¶‑mw‑ ¢‑mÊ‑v a‑pX F‑w.F.hs‑c Fsâ I‑qs‑S ]T‑n¨ k‑mdb‑ps‑S Cfb½b‑pa‑mW‑.v A¦‑nÄ N‑ne \à h‑n`h§Ä AS‑p¡fb‑n ]c‑o£‑n¡‑pw‑ . A¶‑v R§Ä ¡‑pw‑ t‑Im‑ f‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. B kab¯‑v A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑nb‑pw‑ k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑pw‑ R§f‑ps‑S h‑o«‑n h¶‑v s‑Nd‑nb F‑wt‑{_ ‑ m‑ b‑U v d‑n t‑Pm‑ e‑nIs‑fm‑ s‑¡ s‑Nb‑X v ,‑v s‑Im‑ ¨‑phÀ¯a‑m\§f‑pw‑ ]dª‑nc‑n¡‑pw‑ . At‑¸m‑ Ä s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nÄ Hc‑p aW‑nbS‑n¡‑pw‑ ,‑ AÀ°‑w Ig‑n¡‑m³ ht‑¶m‑ f‑q F¶‑mW‑.v R‑m\‑pw‑ A½b‑pw‑ R§f‑ps‑S Bl‑mck‑m[\§f‑pa‑mb‑n A¸‑pd¯‑v t‑]m‑ b‑n Hc‑p I‑pS‑pw‑ _‑w t‑]m‑ s‑e `£W‑w Ig‑n¨‑v X‑nc‑n¨‑v aS§‑pw‑ . Hc‑p Z‑nhk‑w k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑pw‑ k‑mdb‑ps‑S A½ t‑am‑ f‑na‑m½b‑pw‑ eÍ‑phpamb‑n hc‑p¶‑p. k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑¡ v v‑ h‑mhb‑pï‑mI‑m³ t‑]m‑ I‑p¶‑p. s‑]®‑ph‑mhb‑mb aX‑nb‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p, If‑n¡‑m³ I‑q«‑matÃm F¶‑mb‑n.‑ R§Ä {‑]m‑ À°‑n¨‑p. AX‑v Hc‑p s‑]¬h‑mhb‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. t‑]c‑v‑ t‑dm‑ k‑n,‑ Hc‑p k‑pµc‑n¡‑p«‑n. t‑dm‑ k‑n ]‑n¨s‑hb‑¡ v m‑ ³ X‑pS§‑n. AhÄ R§f‑ps‑S If‑n¡‑q«¯‑n Hc‑p A‑wKa‑mb‑n X‑pS§‑n. A§s‑\ Z‑nhk§Ä IS¶‑pt‑]m‑ b‑n. t‑dm‑ k‑n¡‑p«‑n¡‑v a‑q¶‑v hbÊ‑v Bb‑n¡‑mW‑pw‑ . A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑n hoïpw eÍ‑ph‑pa‑mb‑n h¶‑p. I‑q«¯‑n k‑qka‑m½b‑nÃ‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. t‑dm‑ k‑nI‑p«‑n ]dªp: ""A½b‑¡ v v‑ h‑mhb‑pï‑mI³ t‑]m‑ hI‑pb‑mW‑;v C\‑n t‑N¨‑nb‑ps‑S I‑qs‑S If‑n¡‑m³ R‑m³ hc‑nIb‑nÃ; t‑N¨‑n Xs‑¶ If‑nt‑¨m‑ .‑'' F\‑n¡‑v k¦S‑w h¶‑p. Fs‑â s‑Nd‑nb {‑]m‑ b¯‑n AX‑v hfs‑c he‑nb I‑mc‑ya‑mb‑n t‑Xm‑ ¶‑n. R‑m³ Fs‑â A½t‑bm‑ S‑v ]‑nW§‑n \S¶‑p. Ft‑´ F\‑n¡‑v Hc‑p h‑mhs‑b Xc‑m¯X‑v F¶‑v ]dª‑.v
I‑pª‑nes‑¯ ]‑nW¡§ftà AX‑v cï‑v Z‑nhk‑w Ig‑nªt‑¸m‑ Ä a‑md‑n. ]n¶oSv kt‑´m‑ jIca‑mb I‑me§f‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nÄ Z‑nhkh‑pw‑ Fs‑â A¸b‑ps‑S I‑qs‑S j«‑n If‑n¡‑m³ hc‑pa‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. AX‑v R§Ä¡‑v Hc‑p DÕha‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. a¯‑mb‑n¨³ A¦‑nf‑pw‑ ,‑ t‑Km‑ ]‑n A¦‑nf‑pw‑ FÃ‑mhc‑pw‑ Dï‑.v j«‑n If‑ns‑bÃ‑mw‑ Ig‑nb‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä A½b‑ps‑S hIb‑mb‑n ]‑me‑m s‑sÌ ‑ e‑n \à I¸b‑pw‑ a‑o³Id‑nb‑pw‑ s‑dU‑n B¡‑pw‑ . H‑mt‑cm‑ Z‑nhkh‑pw‑ H‑mt‑cm‑ h‑n`h‑w t‑hW‑w, Hm-tcm-cp-¯c- p-sS h-Ib - mbn. s]s«¶v s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nÄ ]gbX‑pt‑]m‑ s‑e `£W‑w Ig‑n¡‑ms‑Xb‑mb‑n. t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨‑m ]db‑pw‑ ""H‑m... t‑hï...‑!'‑ ' s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nÄ N‑ne Z‑nhk§f‑n iÀ±‑n¡‑m³ X‑pS§‑n. Hc‑p Z‑nhk‑w
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s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nÄ ]dª‑p. A¦‑nf‑n\‑v hbä‑n Ft‑´m‑ {‑]i‑\ v w‑ Ds‑ï¶‑.v t‑hZ\bpw h‑n«‑pa‑md‑ms‑X ]\‑nb‑pa‑pï‑.v C‑u kab¯‑v k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑pw‑ ,‑ t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ f‑pw‑ k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑ps‑S h‑o«‑ne‑mW‑.v t‑Um‑ Îd‑mb a¯‑mb‑n¨³ A¦‑nÄ s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑ns‑\¡‑q«‑n Bi‑p]{‑Xn‑ b‑n t‑]m‑ b‑n. FÃ‑mhc‑ps‑Sb‑pw‑ DÅ‑ns‑â DÅ‑n Hc‑p CS‑n¸‑mbncp¶p. s‑sh ‑ I‑pt‑¶c‑w Bbt‑¸m‑ Ä t‑Km‑ ]‑n Bâ‑nb‑pw‑ ,‑ t‑Km‑ ]‑n A¦‑nf‑pw‑ ,‑ a¯‑mb‑n¨³ A¦‑nf‑pw‑ Bâ‑nb‑pw‑ h¶‑p. s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nfnsâ h‑o«‑n a‑p³hi¯‑v s‑se ‑ ä‑v t‑]m‑ e‑pa‑nÃ. ]s‑£,‑ AI¯‑v s‑Nd‑nb s‑h«‑w I‑mW‑mw‑ . s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑n\‑v I‑ym‑ ³kd‑ms‑W¶dnªp. A§s‑\ s‑sh ‑ I‑pt‑¶c§f‑ns‑e j«‑n If‑n F¶t‑¶b‑¡ v p‑ a‑mb‑n \‑ne¨‑p. A¦‑nÄ aZ‑y]‑n¡‑pIt‑bm‑ ,‑ k‑nKcä‑v he‑n¡‑pIt‑bm‑ s‑Nb‑X v n‑ c‑p¶‑nÃ. B I‑q«¯‑ns‑e Gäh‑pw‑ a‑m\‑y\‑pw‑ ,‑ `à\‑pa‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p At‑±l‑w. A¦‑nf‑n\‑v I‑ot‑am‑ N‑nI‑nÕ X‑pS§‑n. k‑pµc\‑mb A¦‑nf‑ns‑â a‑pS‑ns‑bÃ‑mw‑ s‑]m‑ g‑nª‑,‑v s‑ae‑nª‑v £‑oW‑n¨‑p. BZ‑ys‑¯ k¦Ss‑aÃ‑mw‑ ]X‑ns‑b a‑md‑n a‑md‑n. `bh‑pw‑ a‑md‑nh¶‑p. k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑¡ v v‑ U‑yq‑ t‑Uä‑v Bb‑n. k‑qk‑na‑m½ Hc‑p B¬I‑p«‑ns‑b {‑]kh‑n¨‑p. Hc‑p B¬I‑pª‑v Dï‑mb‑n«‑pw‑ B h‑o«‑n AX‑ns‑â Hc‑p kt‑´m‑ jh‑pw‑ Iï‑nÃ. B h‑oS‑ns‑â a‑p³hi¯‑v I‑me³ Ibd‑pa‑mb‑n \S¡‑p¶‑p F¶‑v t‑Xm‑ ¶‑pw‑ h‑n[¯‑n Hc‑p a‑qIX. a‑q¶‑v a‑mk‑w Ig‑nªt‑¸m‑ Ä k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑pw‑ ,‑ t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ f‑pw‑ h‑mh¡‑p«‑nb‑pw‑ I‑pS‑pw‑ _¡‑mc‑pw‑ A¦‑nf‑ns‑â h‑o«‑n F¯‑n. ]X‑nbs‑\ Ah‑ns‑S N‑nc‑nb‑pw‑ ,‑ Ic¨‑ne‑pw‑ ,‑ If‑nb‑pw‑ FÃ‑ma‑mb‑n. F¦‑ne‑pw‑ B ]gb DWÀh‑v BÀ¡‑pa‑nÃ. R§Ä h‑mhs‑b U‑m\‑ns‑b¶‑v h‑nf‑n¨‑p. t‑]c‑v U‑m\‑ns‑bÂ. Hc‑p hÀj‑w Ig‑nª‑p. U‑m\‑nb‑ps‑S ^Ì‑v _À¯‑þv t‑U Bt‑Lm‑ j‑n¨‑p. k‑qk‑na‑m½ Ah‑ns‑S Hc‑p s‑s{‑ ] ‑ hä‑v _‑m¦‑n t‑Pm‑ e‑n¡‑v t‑]m‑ b‑n¯‑pS§‑n. H‑mt‑cm‑ ¶‑pw‑ ]gb c‑oX‑nb‑nt‑eb‑¡ v v‑ \‑o§‑nhc‑p¶‑p. t‑Um‑ ÎÀ, A¦‑nf‑nt‑\m‑ S‑v ]dª‑p: ""C\‑n t‑]S‑n¡‑m³ CÃ. AS‑p¯ A©‑v hÀj‑w Ig‑nª‑m b‑q BÀ t‑k^‑.v '‑ ' R§Äs‑¡Ã‑mw‑ kt‑´m‑ ja‑mb‑n. A§s‑\ I‑mc‑y§Ä Hc‑ph‑n[‑w \¶‑mb‑n \‑o§‑p¶ Ahkc¯‑n as‑äm‑ c‑p {‑Iq‑ ch‑n[‑n I‑qS‑n. A¦‑nf‑n\‑v aª¸‑n¯‑w ]‑nS‑n¨‑v Bi‑p] {‑Xn‑ b‑ne‑mb‑n. A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑nb‑pw‑ ,‑ k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑pw‑ a‑md‑na‑md‑n Bi‑p]{‑Xn‑ b‑n \‑n¡‑pw‑ . t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ Ä k‑I v q‑ Ä Ig‑nb‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä Fs‑â h‑o«‑n hc‑pw‑ . N‑net‑¸m‑ Ä Ah‑ns‑SXs‑¶ I‑nS¡‑pw‑ . ""N‑m¨s‑\ I‑mWW‑w,‑ U‑m\‑ns‑b I‑mWW‑w'' F¶‑v ]dª‑v N‑ne c‑m{‑Xn‑ Icb‑pw‑ . h‑oï‑pw‑ B h‑oS‑v hÃ‑ms‑¯m‑ c‑p AhØb‑ne‑mb‑n. AhÀ¡‑v I‑ps‑d e‑uþt‑_ÀU‑k v p‑ w‑ I‑ps‑d s‑NS‑nIf‑pw‑ Dï‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. CX‑v FÃ‑mw‑ t‑\m‑ ¡‑nb‑nc‑p¶X‑v k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑pw‑ s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑pa‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. Hc‑p Z‑nhk‑w k‑qk‑na‑m½ Bi‑p]{‑Xn‑ b‑n \‑n¶‑pw‑ h‑o«‑nt‑eb‑¡ v v‑ Hc‑p t‑jm‑ À«‑I v «‑v FS‑p¯‑v H‑mt‑«m‑ b‑n h¶‑nd§‑n. [‑rX‑nb‑n hg‑nb‑nÂ\‑n¶ ]«‑ns‑b Iï‑nÃ. AX‑v Ahs‑c IS‑n¨‑p. AhÀ As‑Xm‑ ¶‑pw‑ I‑q«‑m¡‑nb‑nÃ. Hc‑p Z‑nhk‑w Bi‑p ]{‑Xn‑ b‑n \‑n¶‑v t‑Km‑ ]‑n Bâ‑n h‑nf‑n¨‑p. ""F{‑Xb‑pw‑ t‑hK‑w hcW‑w.‑'' s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑n\‑v Fs‑´¦‑ne‑pw‑ {‑]i‑\ v a‑pt‑ïm‑ ? Ah‑ns‑S s‑N¶t‑¸m‑ Ä t‑Km‑ ]‑n Bâ‑n Ic¨‑nÂ. k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑ps‑S h‑o«‑n \‑n¶‑v FÃ‑mhc‑pa‑pï‑.v k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑ps‑S A¸¨³ t‑Um‑ Ît‑dm‑ S‑v t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¡‑p¶‑p,‑ ""Fs‑â aIs‑f H¶‑v s‑Im‑ ¶‑v Xc‑mt‑am‑ '‑ ' F¶‑.v s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑ns‑â I‑mc‑y§Ä FÃ‑mw‑ At‑\z‑ j‑n¨‑v Z‑nhk§Ä t‑]m‑ bX‑v Ad‑nª‑nÃ. ]«‑n IS‑n¨X‑pw‑ H‑mÀ¯‑nÃ. k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑¡ v v‑ t‑] CfI‑n. k‑qk‑na‑m½sb At‑X t‑lm‑ k‑] v n‑ äe‑n s‑sI ‑ b‑pw‑ I‑me‑pw‑ s‑I«‑nb‑n«‑p‑ , hÃ‑m¯ i_‑Zv w‑ Hs‑¡ Dï‑m¡‑n... I‑me³ h¶X‑v s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑ns‑\ s‑Im‑ ï‑p t‑]m‑ I‑m\Ã‑, k‑qk‑na‑m½‑ms‑b s‑Im‑ ï‑pt‑]m‑ I‑m\‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. A§s‑\ Ahc‑ps‑S a‑pä¯‑v Hc‑p ]´Â hfs‑c s‑]s‑«¶‑v s‑]m‑ §‑n. ihi-cocw A[‑nIt‑\c‑w The Second Home
Ah‑ns‑S I‑nS¯‑nb‑nÃ. A½b‑ps‑S I‑qs‑S I‑nS¡Ws‑as‑¶m‑ s‑¡ h‑mi‑n¸‑nS‑n¨ U‑m\‑ns‑b Bt‑cm‑ s‑]«‑nb‑ps‑S AS‑p¯‑v s‑Im‑ ï‑ph¶‑p. s‑]«‑nb‑n I‑nS¡‑p¶ Ahs‑â s‑]m‑ ¶‑v A½s‑b Ah³ H‑ma\¯‑w \‑ndª I®‑pIt‑fm‑ s‑S t‑\m‑ ¡‑n\‑n¶‑p. ""Ct‑¸m‑ Ä hc‑pw‑ ,‑ A½ Dd§‑pIb‑mW‑'‑v ' F¶‑v Aht‑\m‑ S‑v AhÀ ]dª‑ps‑Im‑ S‑p¯‑p. s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑n\‑v Xs‑â {‑]n‑ b `‑mc‑yb‑ps‑S ihk‑wk‑I v m‑ c¯‑n\‑v hc‑m³ t‑]m‑ e‑pw‑ Ig‑nª‑nÃ. k‑qk‑na‑m½ ac‑n¨ I‑mc‑yw‑ hfs‑c s‑sh ‑ I‑nb‑mW‑v A¦‑nf‑nt‑\m‑ S‑v ]dªX‑.v k‑qk‑na‑m½s‑b ]«‑n IS‑n¨t‑Xm‑ s‑S C‑u IYb‑n {‑]X‑o£‑n¡‑m¯ Hc‑p hg‑n¯‑nc‑nh‑p h¶‑p. ]‑n¶‑oS‑v s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nÄ h‑o«‑n h¶‑p. At‑±l‑w a‑m\ k‑nIa‑mb‑n XIÀ¶‑nc‑p¶‑p. U‑m\‑ns‑b k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑ps‑S kt‑lm‑ Zc‑n t‑am‑ f‑na‑m½b‑pw‑ kt‑lm‑ Z·‑mc‑pw‑ a‑md‑n a‑md‑n t‑\m‑ ¡‑n. t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ s‑f t‑_m‑ ÀU‑nw‑ K‑v k‑I v q‑ f‑n t‑NÀ¯‑p. A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑n A¦‑nf‑ns‑\ t‑\m‑ ¡‑nb‑pw‑ t‑lm‑ k‑] v n‑ äe‑n s‑N¡¸‑pIf‑pa‑mb‑n I‑ps‑d hÀj§Ä IS¶‑pt‑]m‑ b‑n. B kab¯‑n\‑pÅ‑n Fs‑â A¸b‑pw‑ t‑hs‑d h‑oS‑v h‑m§‑n¨‑v R§Ä Ah‑ns‑S \‑n¶‑v a‑md‑n. CSb‑s v ¡ ‑ m‑ s‑¡ R§Ä A¦‑nf‑ns‑\ kµÀi‑n¡‑m³ t‑]m‑ I‑pw‑ . A[‑nI‑w X‑mak‑nb‑ms‑X k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑ps‑S A½ Hc‑p l‑mÀ«‑v Aä‑m¡‑n ac‑n¨‑p. A¸¨\‑v h¿‑ms‑Xb‑mb‑n. U‑m\‑ns‑b t‑\m‑ ¡‑m\‑pw‑ FÃ‑mhÀ¡‑pw‑ aS‑nb‑mb‑n ¯‑pS§‑n. FÃ‑mhc‑ps‑Sb‑pw‑ h‑nN‑mc‑w,‑ U‑m\‑ns‑b k‑qk‑na‑m½ KÀ`‑w [c‑n¨t‑¸m‑ Ä a‑pX s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑n\‑v Ak‑pJ‑w,‑ Ah³ Dï‑mbX‑n\‑pt‑ij‑w Ahs‑â A¸\‑v h‑oï‑pw‑ H‑mt‑cm‑ {‑]i‑\ v §Ä. A½b‑ps‑S acW‑w,‑ ]‑n¶‑oS‑v U‑m\‑ns‑b k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑ps‑S h‑o«‑n s‑Im‑ ï‑ph¶‑v I‑pd¨‑v Ig‑nªt‑¸m‑ Ä k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑ps‑S A½b‑ps‑S acW‑w. AX‑n\‑nSb‑¡ v v‑ k‑qk‑na‑m½b‑pS kt‑lm‑ Zcs‑â I‑md‑v A]IS¯‑ne‑mb‑n. FÃ‑mw‑ U‑m\‑n I‑mcW‑w F¶‑mb‑n. U‑m\‑ns‑b X‑nc‑n¨‑v A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑nb‑ps‑S AS‑p¯‑v s‑Im‑ ï‑ph¶‑p. s‑Nd‑n b‑m³ A¦‑nf‑n\‑pw‑ U‑m\‑nt‑bm‑ S‑v A§s‑\s‑bm‑ c‑p k‑tv \ ‑ l‑w Dï‑m b‑n«‑nÃ. Ft‑¸m‑ g‑pw‑ Ahs‑â a\Ê‑v t‑hZ\‑n¸‑n¡‑p¶ h‑n[¯‑n e‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p A¦‑nÄ s‑]c‑pa‑md‑n b‑nc‑p¶X‑.v Aht‑\m‑ S‑v k‑tv \ ‑ l¯‑n s‑]c‑pa‑md‑nbX‑pw‑ Ah\‑v s‑Im‑ ¨‑v IYIÄ ]dªps‑Im‑ S‑p¯‑v s‑sI ‑ ]‑nS‑n¨‑v ]Å‑nb‑n s‑Im‑ ï‑pt‑]m‑ bX‑pw‑ ,‑ A½s‑b I‑mW W‑w F¶‑v h‑mi‑n]‑nS‑n¡‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä BI‑mi¯‑v N‑n½‑p¶ \£{‑X§s‑f I‑mW‑n¨‑v ""A½ AX‑m'‑ ' F¶‑v ]db‑pIb‑pw‑ s‑Nb‑X v n‑ c‑p¶X‑v Ahs‑\ k‑tv \ ‑ l‑n¨‑v s‑Im‑ X‑n X‑oc‑m¯‑, A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑nb‑mW‑.v A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑nb‑pw‑ {‑]m‑ ba‑mb‑n hc‑p¶‑p. FÃ‑mhc‑pw‑ I‑qS‑n s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑ns‑\ cï‑maX‑v h‑nh‑ml‑w Ig‑n¸‑n¨‑p. I\‑ym‑ k‑{v X ‑ o‑ aT¡‑mc‑ps‑S kl‑mbt‑¯m‑ s‑S ]T‑n¡‑pIb‑pw‑ I\‑ym‑ k‑{v X ‑ o‑ a‑mÀ¡‑v hfs‑c A`‑n{‑]m‑ bh‑pa‑pÅ {‑]m‑ b‑ws‑Im‑ ï‑v s‑Nd‑nb s‑]®‑ns‑\b‑mW‑v A¦‑nÄ h‑nh‑ml‑w Ig‑n¨X‑.v k‑m[‑p I‑pS‑pw‑ _¯‑n \‑n¶‑mh‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä U‑m\‑ns‑bb‑pw‑ t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ s‑fb‑pw‑ \¶‑mb‑n t‑\m‑ ¡‑pw‑ . Iã¸‑mS‑pIÄ Ad‑nª‑n«‑pÅhÄ At‑Ã!‑ F¶‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑n [c‑n¨‑nc‑p¶X‑.v ]s‑£,‑ Ch‑ns‑S A§s‑\ H¶‑paà k‑w`h‑n¨X‑.v \½Ä t‑I«‑n«‑pffX‑nt‑\¡‑mf‑pw‑ {‑Iq‑ ca‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p C‑u cï‑m\½. t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ s‑f t‑_m‑ ÀU‑nw‑ K‑n \‑n¶‑v X‑nc‑n¨‑ps- I ‑ m‑ ï‑ph¶‑nc‑p¶‑p. cï‑m\½b‑ps‑S {‑Iq‑ cX a‑pg‑ph\‑pw‑ FS‑p¯‑nc‑p¶X‑v U‑m\‑nt‑bm‑ S‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. 63
I‑pd¨‑v X‑mak‑nb‑ms‑X s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑n\‑v as‑äm‑ c‑p aI³ I‑qS‑nb - p‑ ï‑mb‑n. t‑Pm‑ k^‑v F¶‑mW‑v B I‑p«‑nb‑ps‑S t‑]c‑.v B I‑p«‑nb‑ps‑S P\\¯‑n\‑v t‑ij‑w s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nÄ I‑mäd‑nw‑ K‑v _‑nk‑n\Ê‑v Bc‑w`‑n¨‑p. F´‑mb‑me‑pw‑ \à I‑me§Ä X‑nc‑ns‑I h¶‑p. s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nÄ I‑m³kd‑ns‑â `‑ojW‑nb‑nÂ\‑n¶‑pw‑ c£s‑¸«‑p. t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ Ä h‑oï‑pw‑ t‑lm‑ Ìe‑nt‑eb‑¡ v v‑ a‑md‑n. A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑n {‑]m‑ b‑m[‑nI‑yt‑cm‑ K§Ä h¶‑v ac‑n¨‑p. ]‑n¶‑oS‑pÅ U‑m\‑nb‑ps‑S P‑oh‑nX‑w hfs‑c t‑¢iIca‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. Ahs‑\ k‑tv \ ‑ l‑n¡‑m³ Bc‑pa‑nÃ‑ms‑Xb‑mb‑n. Ah[‑n¡‑v hc‑p¶ Ahs‑â t‑N¨‑n a‑m{‑Xs‑ab‑pÅ‑q Ah\‑.v ]‑n¶‑oS‑v Fs‑â ] T\§f‑pw‑ aä‑p X‑nc¡‑pIf‑pw‑ I‑mcW‑w s‑Nd‑nb‑m³ A¦‑nf‑ns‑â h‑o«‑nt‑eb‑¡ v p‑ Å t‑]m‑ ¡‑pw‑ I‑pdh‑mb‑n. R‑m³ U‑m\‑ns‑b I‑mW‑p¶X‑v Fs‑â Ie‑ym‑ W¯‑n\‑v A¦‑nf‑pw‑ t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ f‑pa‑mb‑n h¶t‑¸m‑ f‑mW‑.v I‑qs‑S \‑n¶‑v t‑^m‑ t‑«m‑ FS‑p¯‑p. t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ Ä 12þ\‑v ]T‑n¡‑p¶‑p. ]‑n¶‑nS‑v R‑m³ Fs‑â ]‑pX‑nb P‑oh‑nXh‑pa‑mb‑n t‑Pm‑ À±‑m\‑nt‑eb‑¡ v v‑ ]d¶‑p. ]‑n¶‑oS‑v X‑nc‑ph\´]‑pct‑¯¡‑pw‑ Ct‑¸m‑ Ä t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ Ä F©‑n\‑obÀ Bb‑n _‑mw‑ ¥‑qc‑n hÀ¡‑v s‑N¿‑p¶‑p. U‑m\‑n t‑Im‑ t‑fP‑n t‑NÀ¶‑p. _‑n.t‑Im‑ w‑ þt‑\m‑ at‑äm‑ !‑ t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ Ä¡‑v Ie‑ym‑ Wa‑mb‑n. h‑nh‑ml \‑nÝb¯‑n\‑v F\‑n¡‑v t‑]m‑ I‑m³ k‑m[‑n¨‑nÃ. Ie‑ym‑ W¯‑n\‑v GX‑mï‑v 8þa‑mk‑w K‑ym‑ ¸‑v Dï‑.v U‑m\‑n s‑Im‑ ¨‑v D‑ui‑m³ X‑mS‑ns‑bÃ‑mw‑ h¨‑v {‑i² ]‑nS‑n¨‑p]ä‑m\‑pÅ {‑]m‑ b¯‑ns‑â FÃ‑m t‑NãIf‑pw‑ I‑mW‑n¨‑,‑v FdW‑mI‑pfs‑¯ h³ {‑km‑ h‑pIf‑ps‑S a¡f‑pa‑mb‑n I‑q«‑ps‑I«‑pw‑ ,‑ FÃ‑mw‑ s‑Im‑ ï‑pw‑ Hc‑p AS‑ns‑]m‑ f‑n P‑oh‑nX‑w. A½‑mb‑n A½¨‑n ]dª‑ps‑Im‑ S‑p¯ \à IYIÄ FÃ‑mw‑ ad¶‑,‑v k‑tv \ ‑ l¯‑n\‑pt‑hï‑n Ah³ s‑Xä‑mb hg‑nIf‑n I‑qs‑Ss‑bm‑ s‑¡t‑]m‑ b‑n. U‑m\‑nb‑ps‑S t‑Im‑ t‑fP‑n\‑v ÌU‑n e‑oh‑v Bb‑n. Ah\‑pw‑ Ahs‑â s‑{^ ‑ ï‑k v p‑ w‑ Hc‑p t‑{_ ‑ ¡‑v FS‑p¡‑m\‑mb‑n B A©‑wKk‑wL‑w Hc‑p b‑m{‑X X‑oc‑pa‑m\‑n¨‑p. BZ‑yw‑ _‑mw‑ ¥‑qÀ‑, ]‑n¶‑oS‑v s‑Ns‑s¶ ‑ ,‑ I‑q«‑pI‑mcs‑â a‑mc‑pX‑n k‑zn‑ ^‑äv n‑ Â. U‑m\‑n¡‑v h‑o«‑n A¸t‑\m‑ S‑v t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¡‑p¶ c‑oX‑ns‑bm‑ ¶‑pa‑nÃ. Ahc‑ps‑S I‑md‑ns‑â U‑n¡‑nb‑n h‑nt‑\m‑ Z¯‑n\‑v Bhi‑ya‑mb‑pÅ FÃ‑m ]‑m\‑ob§f‑pa‑mb‑n AhÀ _‑mw‑ ¥‑qc‑nt‑eb‑¡ v v‑ b‑m{‑Xb‑mb‑n. _‑mw‑ ¥‑qc‑n t‑dm‑ k‑nb‑ps‑S AS‑p¯‑ps‑N¶‑v A©‑v a‑n\‑n«‑v Cc‑p¶‑p. ]‑n¶‑oS‑v s‑Ns‑s¶ ‑ b‑nt‑eb‑¡ v v‑ t‑]m‑ I‑p¶ hg‑n c‑m{‑Xn‑ b‑ps‑S b‑ma§f‑nt‑eb‑¡ v v‑ hg‑pX‑nh‑og‑p¶ kab‑w h‑o«‑ns‑e ]gb Hc‑p ]c‑nNb¡‑mc³ Ibd‑pa‑mb‑n Ah‑ns‑S B hg‑nb‑n I‑m¯‑p \‑nÂ]‑pï‑mb‑nc‑p¶‑p. I‑pS‑n¨‑v t‑_m‑ [‑ws‑I«‑v D¨¯‑n ]‑m«‑pw‑ s‑h¨‑v H¨b‑pw‑ _lfh‑pa‑mb‑n B I‑mÀ a‑oU‑nb\‑n CS‑n¨‑v IcWwad‑nª‑v XIÀ¶‑p. C‑u {‑]m‑ hi‑yw‑ I‑me\v A©‑v t‑]c‑n \‑me‑v t‑]s‑cb‑pw‑ s‑Im‑ ï‑pt‑]m‑ Im³ In«n. U‑m\‑nb‑ps‑S ic‑oc‑w \‑m«‑n s‑Im‑ ï‑ph¶‑p. a‑pJ¯‑ns‑â `‑mK‑w a‑pø‑qh‑v s‑Im‑ ï‑v ad¨‑nc‑p¶‑p. A§s‑\ B P·h‑pw‑ CÃ‑mX‑mb‑n. t‑dm‑ k‑nt‑am‑ f‑ps‑S h‑nh‑ml‑w Ig‑nª‑p. Ie‑ym‑ W¯‑ns‑â BÂ_‑w ad‑n¨‑v I‑mW‑n¨t‑¸m‑ Ä AhÄ h‑nX‑p¼‑n. h‑nh‑ml\‑nÝb¯‑ns‑â t‑^m‑ t‑«m‑ b‑n U‑m\‑nb‑pw‑ I‑q«‑pI‑mc‑pw‑ FÃ‑mw‑ \‑nc¶‑v \‑n¡‑p¶‑p. Ie‑ym‑ W¯‑n\‑v Bc‑pa‑nÃ. C‑u IYb‑ps‑S Ahk‑m\‑w C§s‑\b‑mb‑nt‑¸m‑ bt‑Ãm‑ F¶‑v H‑mÀ¯‑v R‑m³ h‑nja‑n¨‑p. R‑m\‑pw‑ X‑nc¡‑nÂs‑]«‑v ]‑pX‑nb I‑q«‑ps‑I«‑pIf‑pw‑ Ahc‑ps‑S IYIf‑pw‑ ,‑ Xa‑miIf‑pa‑mb‑n \‑o§‑p¶‑p. (k‑tv \ ‑ l‑w Ad‑nb‑ms‑X,‑ P·t‑Zm‑ j¯‑ns‑â t‑]c‑n C¶‑pw‑ C§s‑\ A¸s‑âb‑pw‑ aä‑pÅhc‑ps‑Sb‑pw‑ k‑tv \ ‑ l‑w I‑n«‑ms‑X P‑oh‑n¡‑p¶ U‑m\‑na‑mÀ Dï‑mI‑mw‑ . k‑tv \ ‑ l‑w I‑n«‑nb‑n«‑pw‑ hg‑ns‑Xä‑n P‑oh‑n¡‑p¶hc‑pw‑ Dï‑.v Fh‑ns‑Sb‑mW‑v ]‑mf‑n¨]ä‑nbX‑v F¶‑v N‑n´‑n¨‑v t‑\m‑ ¡‑nb‑m H¶‑pw‑ a\Ê‑ne‑mh‑pIb‑nÃ. F´‑v Xs‑¶b‑mb‑me‑pw‑ U‑m\‑n¡‑v h¶X‑pt‑]m‑ s‑e BÀ¡‑pw‑ hc‑mX‑nc‑n¡s‑«.‑) w 64
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{]Xn-kÔ - n-Isf F§s\ \½Ä XcWw sN¿pw. \½psS {]Xn-Ic - W - t- ijn \ap¡p \jvSs - ¸t«m? B I‑p«‑nb - p‑ s‑S A½-bp‑ s‑S I®‑p\ - o‑ À Bc‑p X‑pS-bv¡ ‑ p‑ w‑ .‑! R‑m³ Fs‑â N‑n´-bn‑  \‑n¶‑pw‑ Ae‑v]w‑ a‑md‑pI - b - m‑ W - v.‑ CX‑pw‑ \½Ä ka‑ql‑w Ad‑nª - n‑ c- n‑ b - v¡ ‑ W - a- t- à ‑ m‑ . {‑]X‑nI - c- n‑ b - v¡ ‑ p‑ I - b‑pw‑ t‑hW-at- à ‑ m‑ ... GX‑m\‑pw‑ hÀj‑w a‑p¼‑ph - s‑c \½‑ps‑S I‑qs‑S Dï‑mb‑nc- p‑ ¶ B s‑]¬I‑p«- n‑ ,‑ F{‑X {‑Iq‑ c-am‑ b - m‑ W‑v s‑Im‑ e s‑N¿-s¸ ‑ «- X - v.‑ k‑ua‑y F{‑Xs - b ‑ {‑X t‑am‑ l\ k‑z]‑v\§ - f - p‑ a- m‑ b - m‑ W‑v A¶‑v s‑{S‑ b‑n\ - n‑  Ib-dn‑ b - X - v.‑ t‑eU‑ok‑v I‑w]‑mÀ«‑ps - a‑ â‑ne - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑v AhÄ Fs‑´Ã‑mw‑ k‑z]‑v\§ - Ä s‑\b‑vXp‑ I‑q«‑n. kÔ‑yb - m‑ b - n‑ ,‑ h‑o«‑ns - e ‑ ¯‑ph - m‑ ³ GX‑m\‑pw‑ aW‑n¡ - q‑ d- p‑ I - Ä a‑m{‑Xw‑ . \‑ms‑f Ahs‑f s‑]®‑p I‑mW‑m³ hc‑p¶ b‑ph‑mh - ,v‑ k´‑pj - vS‑ a- m‑ b I‑pS‑pw‑ _ - w‑ ,‑ I‑pª‑p§Ä... FÃ‑mw‑ `‑mh-\b - n‑  Iï‑v \‑nÀh‑rX - n‑ b - n‑  Cc‑p¶ k‑ua‑y s‑]s‑«¶‑v B{‑Ia- n‑ ¡ - s- ¸ ‑ «- p‑ . AhÄ F{‑X `b-s¸ ‑ «‑p I‑mW‑pw‑ . F´‑p \‑ne-hn‑ f - n‑ ¨‑p I‑mW‑pw‑ . B ]‑m]‑w I‑p«‑nb - p‑ s‑S At‑½ ...-F¶ - p‑ Å \‑ne-hn‑ f‑n Bc‑pw‑ t‑I«‑nt- à ‑ ..? Ch‑ns‑S C¯c‑w {‑]X‑nk - Ô‑nI - t- f ‑ m‑ S‑v {‑]X‑nI - c- n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ t‑Icf P\-X,‑ \½Ä ad¶‑v t‑]m‑ I‑pI - b - m‑ t‑Wm‑ ? A¶‑v Bs‑c¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ Hc‑mÄ B k‑m[‑p s‑]¬I‑p«- n‑ b - p‑ s‑S \‑ne-hn‑ f‑nt‑bm‑ S‑v {‑]X‑nI - c- n‑ ¨ - n‑ c- p‑ s‑¶¦ - n‑  B s‑]¬I‑p«- n‑ b - p‑ s‑S P‑oh‑nX‑w B I‑ma-{`‑ m‑ ´‑p ]‑nS‑n¨ I‑nc‑mX - s‑â s‑sI ‑ I-fn‑  I¯‑n Aa-cp‑ a- m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ t‑¶m‑ ? k‑v{X ‑ o‑ ]‑oU-It‑c s‑sI ‑ ¿‑ma‑w h¨‑v IT‑n\ - a- m‑ b‑n i‑n£‑nb - v¡ ‑ p‑ s‑a¶‑v h‑o¼‑nf - ¡ - n‑ b \½‑ps‑S `c-Wm‑ [ - n‑ I - m‑ c- n‑ I - f - p‑ s‑S a‑q¡‑n\‑p X‑ms‑g \S-¡p‑ ¶ C¯c‑w k‑w`-h§ - Ä Ah-cp‑ s‑S Dd¡‑w s‑IS‑p¯ - p‑ ¶‑ns‑Ã? {‑Iq‑ c-Ir‑ X - y‑ § - t- f ‑ m‑ S‑v Aek at‑\m‑ `- m‑ h‑w A[‑nI - m‑ c- n‑ I - Ä X‑pS-cp‑ ¶ - p‑ . C¯c‑w A[‑nI - m‑ c- n‑ I - Ä DÅ-t¸ ‑ m‑ Ä k‑m[‑p¡ - f - m‑ b \½Ä F§s‑\ {‑]X‑nk - Ô - n‑ I - s‑f XcW‑w s‑N¿‑pw‑ ,‑ {‑]X‑nI - c- n‑ b‑v¡p‑ w‑ . \½‑ps‑S {‑]X‑nI - c- W - t- i ‑ j - n‑ s‑b CÃ‑mX - m‑ ¡ - p‑ h - m‑ ³ CX‑m Ct‑¸m‑ s‑g Hc‑p ]‑pX‑nb \‑nba‑w I‑qS‑n h¶‑nc- n‑ b - v¡ ‑ p‑ ¶ - p‑ . k‑ua‑yb - p‑ s- S‑ X - p‑ t- ¸ ‑ m‑ s‑e ]e P‑oh‑nX - § - s- f ‑ b‑pw‑ CÃ‑mX - m‑ ¡ - n‑ b s‑Im‑ S‑pw‑ {- I ‑ q‑ c- · - m‑ À Pb‑n F¶‑p ]d-bp‑ ¶ k‑pJ-hm‑ k - t- I ‑ {- µ ‑ § - f‑n \½‑ps‑S \‑nI‑pX‑n ]W¯‑n X‑n¶‑p s‑Im‑ g‑p¯‑p Ig‑nb - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . t‑Im‑ SX‑n AhÀ¡‑v h[-in‑ £ h‑n[‑n¨ - p‑ . ]t‑£ AX‑p \S-¸m‑ ¡‑m³ kab‑w X‑ma-kn‑ ¨‑p t‑]m‑ b‑mÂ‑, C‑u a‑rK-§Ä¡‑v h‑oï‑pw‑ \‑m«‑n X‑nc‑ns - ¨ ‑ ¯‑n k‑pJ-am‑ b‑n ]c‑n] - m‑ S- n‑ I - Ä BhÀ¯‑n¡ - m‑ w‑ . Ch‑ns - S‑ b - m‑ W‑v \½Ä {‑]X‑nI - c- n‑ t- ¡ ‑ ï - X - v.‑ Ch‑ns‑S F´‑pw‑ \S-¡p‑ a- t- à ‑ m‑ . BW‑pw‑ s‑]®‑pw‑ h‑yX‑ym‑ k - a- n‑ Ã‑m¯ - X - ,v‑ \½‑ps‑S A[‑nI - m‑ c- n‑ I - Ä t‑\m‑ ¡‑nb - n‑ s - à ‑ ¦ - n‑ e - p‑ w‑ ,‑ C‑ui‑zc³ c£‑n¨ - n‑ s- à ‑ ¦ - n‑ e - p‑ w‑ ,‑ \½‑ps‑S P‑oh‑nX {‑]X‑nk - Ô - n‑ I - s‑f k‑zb‑w XcW‑w s‑N¿‑m³ {‑ia‑n¡ - p‑ I - . ]T‑n¡ - p‑ I - . FÃ‑mw‑ C‑ui‑zc- \ - n‑  a‑m{‑Xw‑ h‑ni‑zk ‑ n‑ ¨‑v s‑sI ‑ s‑I«‑n Cc‑nb - v¡ ‑ c- p‑ X - v.‑ Ct‑¸m‑ Ä C‑ui‑zc- \‑pw‑ \½s‑f s‑sI ‑ h‑n« e£-Wa- m‑ W - v.‑ C‑ui‑zc- \‑pw‑ t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑ t- e ‑ b‑v¡p‑ hc‑m³ `b-am‑ s - W ‑ ¶‑p t‑Xm‑ ¶‑p¶ - p‑ . B ]‑mh-¯n‑ s‑\ hÃ-hc‑pw‑ ]‑nS‑n¨‑v ]‑oU‑n¸ - n‑ b - v¡ ‑ p‑ t- a‑ m‑ ¶‑v DÅ `b-w. Fs‑¶¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ C‑ui‑zc- ³ hc‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä \½s‑f c£‑n¡ - m‑ ³ At‑±l - ¯ - n‑ \‑v Ig‑nh‑pw‑ a\Ê‑pw‑ Dï‑mI - s - «‑ s - b ‑ ¶‑v {‑]m‑ À°‑n¡ - m‑ w‑ . AX-Ãm‑ s‑X {‑]X‑nI - c- W - t- i ‑ j‑n \j‑vSs - ¸ ‑ « \½-tf ‑ m‑ S‑v F´‑p ]d-bm‑ ³ ]ä‑pw‑ . þ ""s‑]m‑ X‑p P\‑w F¶‑pw‑ Ig‑pX - I - Ä Xs‑¶'‑ ' !‑ w The Second Home
CTS No. 766, F.P. No. 244, Bhandarkar Road, Pune - 411 004, Maharashtra, India. Ph: +91-20-25663006/7, Fax: +91-20-25667382 Email: info@pycgymkhana.com, membership@pycgymkhana.com Website: www.pycgymkhana.com Location: Deccan Gymkhana Amenities / Facilities: Cricket, Tennis, Basket Ball, Badminton, Card Room, Billiards, Swimming Pool, Gymnasium, Table Tennis, Chess, Carom, Dart, Yoga Meditation, Conference/Banquet Hall, Community Hall, Guest Rooms, Restaurant, Bar, Cafetaria, Wi-Fi Lounge Rooms: 28 Executive Rooms & 4 Suites Features: AC Rooms, Electronic Safe, Mini Bar, Tea Coffee Maker, Internet, Laundry Service Check Out / In: 12 Noon Tariff: As on Date Room Type
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For Reservation Contact: PYC Hindu Gymkhana E-mail: roomservation@pycgymkhana.com Tel: +91-20-25664747, +91-20-25664949 For Room Reservations: Rooms are reserved against 100% payment advance. No Outstation cheques are accepted. For outstation & affiliated members only Demand draft or RTGS is accepted. For Cancellation of Room Reservation: 100% refund if cancelled 7 days before check in date. 50% refund if cancelled between 6 and 3 days prior to check in date. No refund if cancelled 2 days before check in date or no show. Tax components are not refunded since deposited with Government. Reciprocal Member Entry Fee: YES, if overnight accommodation is not taken. Local Guest: NOT ALLOWED Affiliated Club Members: Member, Spouse and their Children allowed in PYC Hindu Gymkhana Payment Facilities: Cash or Credit cards Dress Regulation: Shorts are allowed in cafeteria area. However, it is not allowed in Restaurant & Bar. No Chappals / Sandals / Slippers are allowed in club complex.
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An extraordinary
Underwater Hotel in Fiji My friend Mr. Varghese Mathew e-mailed a write up with photographs of a unique resort by name Poseidon Resort built totally under water coming up in Fiji Islands. Some among our members might have come across this in the net. But I am reproducing a gist of the write up and some photographs here which makes an interesting reading. "In essence, you get to feel like being kept in the most luxurious glass tanks, while the fish outside swim free! How about that for a reversal of positions?"
Imagine yourselves spending a night at a beautiful
hotel, overlooking the vast ocean beneath you. Now you could penetrate the waves with your eyes, see the amazing underwater world, the colorful fish and algae, the otherwordly glow of the sun through the water. On the private islands of Fiji, at the Poseidon Resort, this dream is becoming a reality. Introducing the first underwater 6-star hotel. This is the first hotel that is completely underwater, at a depth of 12-40 feet under the waves, in a crystal clear lagoon that offers guests a breath-taking view of coral reefs and the fish that live around them. In essence, you get to feel like being kept in the most luxurious glass tanks, while the fish outside swim free! How about that for a reversal of positions? 70% of the rooms will be made of plexiglass, allowing total immersion in the underwater environment. Each suite is carefully being designed to be totally modular, and in case of a malfunction or maintenance, it can be raised to the surface individually. The hotel is going to include 25 guest suites and everything else a hotel offers. Eating in incredible style. We wonder if it's all sea food? For those guests who have had enough of this spectacular
view, they will be able to darken the glass or use 'virtual drapes' to cover them. A more beautiful room cannot exist. What else is here? A restaurant, bar, gym and even an underwater wedding chapel for those who'd like to say their vows in a very unique setting. Laying on the bed, looking up at the sea - this is a unique experience. underwater hotel, a stylish lounge to enjoy a drink. A library offers a great place to read while also enjoying the fish swimming by. But it doesn't end there, as guests will have access to four personal submarines that will take them around the lagoon. For those worried about safety, the resort claims on its website that its buildings are based on the design of passenger submarines, which it describes as 'statistically the world's safest form of transportation'. The hotel will be accessed through a special elevator that will take them down from the beach. Getting out of the water, visitors will find tennis courts, a spa and a 9 hole golf resort waiting for them. However, this amazing resort is for those who are willing to spend for a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Cost of a room for a week is $15,000 per person. So if you are planning a romantic week under the sea, you'll have to shell $30,000 for the experience. w
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Know our Elders....
Dr. S.S. Pillai (1902-1983) Dr. Sivasankara Pillai became a member of our club in 1959. He rose to become the 2nd Indian Secretary of the club (took over from Col. A.K. Tampi), in 1962 and continued in the post till 1967. He was a strict disciplinarian and ran the club on strict code of conduct. Dr. Pillai took his MBBS Degree from Madras, DTM&H from London and DPH from Harward, USA. He held the positions of Director, P H Laboratory, Director of Public Health (Travancore Cochin) and Deputy Director of Health Services, Kerala. He was the Secretary of Trivandrum Tennis Club, Golf Club, Trivandrum and he was the Master of Masonic Lodge, Trivandrum. He was a Golf, Tennis, Billiards and Snooker enthusiast. Dr. Pillai took a leading role in the Travancore-Cochin Medical Council and Rotary International. Dr. Pillai was born in Trivandrum. His father the late Sankara Pillai was a Judge. He is married to Subhadra Nair, who is no more now. His son Mr. S.A. Nair is in Bangalore and daughter Ms. S. Radha Nair is married to Dr. N. Vijayakrishnan Nair, who is our Trustee. Thanks to Dr. N. Vijayakrishnan Nair for this input w
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