Second home by C Binu Kumar

Mohini

A letter from Dr. Cherian Varghese Dr. K. Cherian Varghese

Former Chairman, BIFR (Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction)/Union Bank of India Kaduthanam Kayalmana, 43 A - Mukkottil Temple Road, Petta, Poonithura, Kochi - 682 038, Kerala, India Tel: 0484 2302489 / +91 9633113220 | e-mail: kcherian.varghese@gmail.com

without even a response. Shri. Vittal maintained a dignified silence and his regret was obvious. There were no hard feelings as revealed by subsequent events. Two days later, there was a meeting of industrialists with Shri.Vittal at Kochi; I was the sole banker invited at his instance to that business gathering. Later, when his deputy, another IAS Officer in the Ministry, visited Kochi on promotion of electronic business he called on me at the Zonal Office and all assistance was extended to him by Indian Bank. Years later, Shri. Vittal as the Central Vigilance Commissioner visited Corporation Bank at my invitation as the Chairman & Managing Director of the Bank and delivered a lecture. Incidentally, I was not CMD of Oriental Bank of Commerce as mentioned in the article but was at the helm of affairs at South Indian Bank(on deputation from Indian Bank),Corporation Bank,Union Bank of India and BIFR. 3. Also I met Smt. Gowri Amma at her official residence and not in a crowd. After introducing myself I asked her whether I may address her as Amma (Njan Dr. K. Cherian Varghese Ammayennu Vilichhotte?). A sudden change in her facial expression from hostility to graciousness and kindness gave the affirmative answer and the rest of the incidents of helping the GovDear Cherian Sir, ernment followed. And she became a well Thank you very much for your valuable response. I feel flattered and little embarrassed. Our little inwisher of Indian Bank and accepted our invihouse magazine has crossed the boundaries of the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s area of interaction and reached elite persons tations to a number of functions. like you. It is an honour for all of us. 4. More than public relations, genuine I tender my apologies to you for 3 reasons. and helpful attitudes may receive apprecia1. For not mailing a copy of that issue of the Second Home to you when it was released. tion ultimately, even when one stands up for 2. The error committed by me in quoting the exact words of your speech referred in my article. It is one's convictions without swallowing everymore than 25 years now and from my memory I stated the punch of the lines in a blunt way, whereas you thing, presuming that it will please others. had conveyed the message in a euphemistic style, keeping your dignity and refinement. Also the mistake Thank you again for recounting stories of of quoting the name of the bank wrongly. our fond association even after more than 3. For wrongly stating the place of your meeting with Smt. Gowriamma. I am really sorry sir. 25 years. Thank you for the pious and affectionate words and the fine sentiments expressed. With kind regards With warm regards, Dr. K. Cherian Varghese Dear Shri. Aiyappan, A well wisher sent to me a copy of the June,2016 issue of "The Second Home", the in-house journal of Trivandrum Club. Thank you for your fond recollections about our association in your well written article. I was privileged to have committed colleagues like you working with me in Indian Bank. 2. May I point out some factual, unintentional errors in your article, regarding the incidents which happened more than 25 years ago? There was no "dog" reference at all in what I said to Shri. Vittal who was Secretary, Electronics in Government of India at that time. I was dismayed by his finding fault with the bankers as a whole,in spite of the good development work done by my team in Indian Bank in association with Keltron in promoting electronics business. Therefore, I expressed my anguish in the following words: "Nowadays, banks have become painted walls. Many people use them to write slogans, badly disfiguring them; some even do not hesitate to do 'number one' on them". There was complete silence as my response was unexpected in a gathering of senior bankers where all fault finding was accepted

M.P. Aiyappan

Editorchure 04

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Presidential Address 04

GANESHAM 26

Secretary’s Secretaire 07

When Dream Comes True 31

Fw.-]n. A¿-¸³

Er. Renny Koipuram Viji Tampy

Fk‑v. _‑me-N-{‑µ-t‑a-t‑\‑m³

Soorya Krishnamoorthy Shoba George

Contents

Madanappalli Days 33 Annie Mathew Kayyalackakom

Race to ‘Which’ Mountain? 35 Meera Nair

A Bee's Lament 36 Suresh Mathew

Summer 37 Fall Guys, All. 08 Malayatoor

Pioneering A New Age 09 S. Peer Mohamed

C.G.G. Panicker 10

From the Secretary's Secretaire

K. Gopinathan 10

tKm-]n-Irj‑vW iym-a-fmebw

Remembering Mathen

M. Muralidharan 12

tdm«-dn C³-kv-än-äyq-«v t^mÀ NnÂ-{U³ C³ \o-Uv Hm-^v kv-s]jyÂ sIbÀ

Early bird or earlier worm, 38 The choice is yours Dr. R. Sreekumar

A Nostalgic Moment 41

Hard Talk from the President

C¶‑v Rm³ \m-sf \o

Shaik Ahamed

tam¯n sI. l_o_v

R.C. Nair

Compartmentalization 42 Janani Swaminathan

BZ‑y N‑p‑w_-\‑w

s‑I‑mÃ³ c‑ma³

ä‑n. N{‑µ³

F‑w. c‑m[‑m-I‑r-j‑vW³

esply for my dad... apa this is for you... 46 Indu Rebecca Mukund

Hc‑p a‑n¶Â's‑¡‑mS‑nb‑ps‑S lc‑nXt‑i‑m` a‑oc‑m \‑mbÀ

Sri. M.R.B. Menon 16 Sri. B. Ramdas 17 Sri. Chellappa M.S. 18

A\-´-]‑p-c‑n-b‑ns‑e BZ‑y-c‑m-{‑X‑n-IÄ

tUm. Un. _m-_p-t]mÄ

Confession of a Civil Servant 21

Laurels 19 29

Family 52

Inauguration of Senior’s Forum

Marriages 49 Know your Affiliated Clubs 54 DASVINO Town & Country Club

YOGA @ the Second Home 56 C. Suresh

Health benefits of common items and practices, which can form part of your Diet and Routine

BtKmf Xm]\w, Ko³ lukv C^-Iväv, taL-hn-kvt^m-S-\w, C\n?

S.N. Nayar

P.G. Muralidharan

Fk‑v. At‑i‑m-I³

Musings by a Broken Window 23

Live life fully 62

Lida Jacob

Charity Distribution under the Re.1/Day Permanent Project

S. Feroz Ismail

Sri. K.S. Eappen 15

Office Bearers

Different people, and their totally 48 different eating styles - Observations M. Neethu Krishna

Sri. N. Velayudhan 14

AlbumPages

Regina Brett

Club Election 2016

Annual General Meeting 2016

Inauguration of Squash Court

Obituary 63 The Club takes no responsibility for the statements and opinions expressed by the contributors.

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F‑w.-]n‑ . A¿-¸³ FU‑nä- À

Presidential address Dear Brothers & Sisters of our Second Home, The salutation cited above itself is an indication of this committee’s attitude towards the fellow members of our Second Home. On behalf of all members of the Executive Committee for the year 2016-17, let me thank each one of you for reposing your faith in us. We know, for sure, that you are expecting a lot from us, in terms of restoring harmony, peace and camaraderie amongst the members of our Club. Let me assure you that we will leave no stone unturned to achieve this end. “You see things; and you say, why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘why not?’ “. These words of George Bernard Shaw, I feel, should be our aim as responsible members of our Second Home. Let me reiterate that I stand by the promises I made to you during my election campaign. “I will strive my best to ensure that this year’s committee

functions as a single entity by leading it from the front with the primary aim of making our Club, a cordial & contended Second Home in all respects and to make this year a memorable one for all our dear Brothers & Sisters.” It is high time that the era of unruly and undemocratic General Body Meetings should come to an end. All decisions taken at General Body Meetings will be those, that are taken by the majority of the members present and through voting in those meetings. If required, appropriate technology will be utilised to assist decision making in a transparent and democratic manner. We have already initiated discussions with the different groups in our Club to try and bring to an end as many court cases as possible. This, we believe, is possible with the support of our members, especially the seniors, who can guide and advice us as to how best we can go about achieving it. So I urge all our distinguished members to come forward and support this endeavour. Each one of us should realize that we are one among the privileged 3304 persons (as on 01-

08-2016) who are members of the elite Trivandrum Club out of the total population of Trivandrum District numbering nearly 1.7 crores. Financial transparency is another commitment that we will honour. As President, it will be my role to make sure that the administration of our Club is done adhering to all the provisions of the Bye-laws and regulations of our Club. Let me sign off with this quote from Albert Einstein “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”. Let’s all keep moving in the right direction at the same time maintaining proper balance. With warm regards, Er. Renny Koipuram

TRUSTEE

PRESIDENT

SECRETARY

C Subramoniam

Renny Koipuram

Viji Tampy

TREASURER

JOINT SECRETARY

A Gopakumar

S Krishnakumar

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

D S Kiran

K P Krishnakumar

L Sureshkumar

Ramakrishnan Mohan

S Udayakumar

M R Manoj

Secretaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Secretaire

Esteemed Brothers and Sisters

one of the top ranking in the Country and we

of our Second Home.

have to further improve the standards to take it

Wishing you all a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Happy Onamâ&#x20AC;? well in ad-

to still better heights of excellence.

vance. Let me once again express my sincere

In any family there will be different views,

thanks to all the distinguished members, who

outlooks and the resultant differences of opin-

have bestowed their confidence in me by

ion. We are one of the largest family groups of

your over whelming support in the elections.

the Country and there will be different opinions

As you are aware this Executive Committee

expressed followed by arguments and count-

took charge on the 27th of June 2016. It is

er arguments, agreements and disagreements

our earnest hope and belief that with the

which are all inevitable in a society. In a way

continued patronage of our elders, the

healthy discussions are required and reviewing

spirited action of the younger generation

the actions taken and it is essential for avoiding

and of course the active support of the

mistakes, pitfalls and for the guidance needed

majority members of my age group and

for future activities. These differences should

the unstinted co-operation and service

be discussed threadbare and settled then and

from our efficient staff members, this

there. As the leaders of the society, as a matured

committee is confident of fulfilling its

and refined group of citizens, we have to be a

great task ahead.

role model for others. This was the finest prac-

As you all know that our Club is

tice followed by the Club from the beginning and

continued by the elders. Therefore let us follow their footsteps to maintain the finest level of friendship, camaraderie and refinement in our Second Home. On behalf of the Executive Committee I request all our elite members, their families and our staff members to put up extra efforts to maintain and improve our performance and raise the reputation and standards of our Second Home to the highest lofty pedestals of glory and friendship. With regards,

Viji Tampy

Flash Back

Source - Archives of Second Home

Published on: Oct-Nov 1995

As long as Malayalam Language exists, as long as the novel ‘Verukal’ (thcp-IÄ) is read and re-read by thousands along with his other literary master pieces, the name ‘Malayattoor’ will remain in the hearts of the Malayalees as one of the souls of Kerala. He was the inspiration behind the launching of the Second Home in 1993. Our Humble homage to the great Malayattoor. M.P.A.

Flash Back

Source - Archives of Second Home

Published on: Jan-Feb 2000 Peer Mohamed Sar was a student of the 1st batch of the College of Engineering, Trivandrum. When he was The Chairman, KSIE, I could guage that, his thinking was in the lofty planes. He was a constructive critic of the ‘Second Home’. He even once suggested the name to be changed to ‘First Home’ because he was not agreeable for anything second! With high regards to Peer Mohamed Sar.... M.P.A.

Published on: Aug-Sept 1994 hfs‑c A]‑qÀh-am‑ b C‑u Hc‑p c‑wKa‑mW‑v A¶s‑¯ s‑k¡â‑v t‑lm‑ a‑ns‑â IhÀ t‑]P‑nt- e ‑ ¡‑v e`‑n¨ - X - v.‑ B\-sb ‑ t‑¸m‑ s‑e he‑n¸ - a- p‑ Å h‑yà‑nX - z‑ h‑pw‑ kv t\-lh - pw Im-gN v- ¸ - mSpÅ a‑m¯\‑pw‑ ,‑ k‑v t‑\l¯‑ns - â ‑ b‑pw‑ k‑ul‑rZ- ¯ - n‑ s‑âb‑pw‑ AS‑n-a-b‑m-b‑n-c‑p¶ he‑nb a\Ê‑pÅ A\‑ne‑pw‑ H¶‑pt- N ‑ À¶‑v \‑nÂ¡‑p¶ C‑u c‑wK‑w A¶‑v ¢º‑nÂ \‑ne-hn‑ Â \‑n¶‑nc‑p¶ X‑nIª k‑mt‑lm‑ Z- c - y‑ _ - Ô - § - f‑ps‑S k‑m£‑y] - {- X ‑ a- m‑ W - v.‑ a‑m¯-s\ ‑ b‑pw‑ A\‑ne‑ns - \ ‑ b‑pw‑ k‑vt\ ‑ l-]q‑ Àh‑w H‑mÀ ½‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . M.P.A

Flash Back

Source - Archives of Second Home

Published on: Sept-Oct 1999

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This hard talkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the president is the living proof for the excellent, sincere but tough and decent approach Panicker Chettan took in resurrecting and rebuilding the club from its pathetic unfathomable depths of disarray and destruction. Gopi Chettan, along with the president, under took the stupendous task of bringing back the lost glory of our Second Home. Pranamam to both of you. M.P.A.

Flash Back

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Published on: Sept 2001

s‑k¡â‑v t‑lm‑ a‑ns‑â k‑mw‑ k‑vIm‑ c- n‑ IaÞ-e¯ - n‑ Â]‑p©‑nc- n‑ ¨‑p\‑n¶‑nc- p‑ ¶ Hc‑p X‑mc-am‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶p t‑Km‑ ]‑nI - r‑ j - vW ‑ . s‑I‑m¨‑p-s‑I‑m-¨‑p-s‑X-ä‑p-I-s‑f-¡‑p-d‑n¨‑v Xs‑â k‑zX-kn‑ ² - a- m‑ b \À½-]Z- § - f - n‑ e‑qs‑S \s‑½ t‑_m‑ [-hÂ¡-cn‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b - m‑ b‑nc- p‑ ¶‑p B A\‑p{- K ‑ l - o‑ X - \ - m‑ b Fg‑p¯‑pI - m‑ c- ³. C‑u a‑mk‑nI - b - p‑ s‑S a‑pJ-ap‑ {- Z‑ I-f‑n-s‑e‑m-¶‑m-b‑n-c‑¶‑ t‑K‑m]‑n-b‑ps‑S AI‑me - \ - n‑ c- y‑ m‑ W‑w he‑nb Hc‑p \j‑vSa- m‑ b‑n¯ - s‑¶ A\‑p`- h - s - ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . B {‑]n‑ bs‑¸« A\‑pP - \‑v s‑k¡â‑vtl ‑ m‑ a‑ns‑â BZ-cm‑ R - vP ‑ e - n‑ I - Ä. M.P.A

Remembering Mathen If we name one member of our club who loved the club, his mother and the Institute for children of special care with the same intensity, passion, care and attachment, there is one and only one name, Mathen (Augustine Mathew Kayyalakkakom). He was the ‘Jeevathma’ of our club during his days. I can cite umpteen number instances where Mathen with true grit and determination carried out most of the projects in the club with out giving any room for financial misappropriations on the other hand he was spending his money, utilizing his own workers, materials and his time for that. The new generation members may not be knowing about Mathen’s sincere and yeoman service for the club. Most of the luxuries and comforts we enjoy in the club today has Mathen’s imprint on them. I requested Mathen’s right-hand man and our former Secretary Sri. M. Muralidharan

Augustine Mathew Kayyalakkakom Date of Birth: 8Th October 1947 Date of Demise: 25Th September 2004 Bachelor

FAMILY: Father: The Late K.m. Augustine Mother: The Late Lucy Augustine Brothers: The Late Augustine Thomas Kayyalackakom, Sri. Augustine Kayalakakom Sisters: Smt. Claramma Paul, Smt. Beena Augustine

BUSINESS: He has started his own conductor manufacturing industry at Industrial Estate, Pappanamcode in 1978 and become a planter in 1999 by purchasing a cardamom estate with a bungalow situated inside the Periyar Wildlife Sanctu-

M. Muralidharan

to make a small pensketch of Mathen and his activities. Also a gist of an one man effort made by Mathen in helping hundreds of specially abled children is also attached. Let us all join hands to pay homage to our dear Mathen. M.P.A

ary at Pachakanam, Idukki District. Many of our members have visited and enjoyed his hospitality there. TRIVANDRUM CLUB ACTIVITIES: 1. Family lawn and main lawn were his ideas and implemented as a committee member spending full time in the club with the then president Sri. Joseph Mathew and secretary Dr. M.R.R. Menon during 1993. Play ground cum Car Parking area was also levelled along with the lawn work. 2. Health club complex - originally the complex was planned in the play ground and foundation stone was laid. But he planned to construct the health club complex in the unutilised area of the club with the help of the committee and architect Mr. Ramaswamy

Iyer. Health club complex was inaugurated on 21-10-1995. Open air stage, banquet hall and compound wall of trivandrum club were constructed during his tenure. 3. Renovation of kitchen - 70% of the renovation works were carried out with his factory staff without any liability to the club. CHARITY: While he was the hon. Secretary of Rotary Institute in need of special care from 1989- 90 to 2001-02, lot of development works were undertaken. Each year he spent a lot of money for the maintenance and child care and travelled so many times to Delhi to get the grant allotted. Each year on his birthday, he used to take the children along with their parents for outing by meeting the entire expenses including lunch and transportation which is still continued by us. M. Muralidharan

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Hon. Secretary

Bb‑nc - p‑ ¶ - ‑ am-¯³kmÀ C³Ì‑n ä‑yq‑ «‑ns‑\ Hc‑p k‑s v ] ‑ j‑yÂ k‑I v q‑ f‑ns‑â FÃ‑mh - n‑ [ - ¯ - n‑ e‑pÅ {‑Ia‑oI - c - W - § - t- f ‑ m‑ S‑pw‑ AS‑p¡‑pw‑ N‑n«-bp‑ a‑mb‑n A¡‑mZ- a - n‑ I s‑ehen\pw Personal Development\‑pw‑ DX-Ip‑ ¶ c‑oX‑nb - n‑ e - p‑ Å Activities DÄs‑¸S- p‑ ¯‑n \Ã k‑I v q‑ Ä F¶ Xe-¯n‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑v a‑mä‑ns- bSp¯p. Bkab‑¯v {‑]n‑ ³k‑n¸ - Â Bb‑nc - p‑ ¶ {‑io‑ aX‑n PeP Fk‑.v ]‑nÅs‑b \‑mj - WÂ C³Ì‑nä- y‑ q‑ «‑v t‑^m‑ À s‑aâe‑n N‑me³P‑U v ‑v s‑sl ‑ {‑Zm‑ _ - m‑ Z- n‑ Â Ab¨‑v ä‑o¨À s‑{S‑ b‑n\ - n‑ w‑ K‑v t‑Im‑ g‑k v v‑ ]‑mÊ‑m¡ - n‑ b - t- i ‑ j‑w AX‑n\ - \ - p‑ k-cn‑ ¨‑v {‑]o‑ þ-ss ‑ {‑ ] ‑ a- d- n‑ ,‑ s‑s{‑ ] ‑ a-dn‑ ,‑ s‑s{‑ ] ‑ ad‑n k‑s v ] ‑ j‑yÂ‑, s‑k¡â-dn‑ ,‑ {‑]o‑ s‑hm‑ t‑¡j - W - Â‑, {‑]o‑ s‑hm‑ t‑¡j - WÂ k‑s v ] ‑ j‑yÂ & s‑hm‑ t‑¡j - W - Â F¶‑n§s\ ¢‑mÊ‑pI - f - n‑ e - m‑ b‑n I‑p«‑nI - s‑f Ahc‑ps‑S Chronological & Mental Age IW-¡n‑ e - m‑ ¡‑n {‑Kq‑ ¸‑pI - f - m‑ b‑n X‑nc‑n¨‑v H‑mt‑cm‑ ¢‑mk‑n\‑pw‑ H‑mt‑cm‑ S‑ot‑¨g- k v‑ n‑ \‑pw‑ N‑mÀÖ‑v s‑Im‑ S‑p¯‑v s‑F.-C.-]n‑ . ^bÂ‑, t‑Ik‑v l‑nÌd‑n ^bÂ c£‑nX - m‑ ¡ - Ä¡‑v I‑u¬k-en‑ w‑ K‑v F¶‑nh GÀs‑¸S‑p¯ - n‑ . k‑I v q‑ f‑nt- \ ‑ m‑ S‑p t‑NÀ¶‑v Hc‑p {‑]o‑ k‑I v q‑ Ä s‑{S‑ b‑n\‑nw‑ K‑v s‑kâÀ‑, s‑U^‑v I‑p«‑nI - Ä¡‑mb‑n Bc‑w`- n‑ ¨ - p‑ . s‑U^‑v k‑I v q‑ f‑ns‑\ as‑äm‑ c‑p Øe-t¯ ‑ ¡‑v a‑mä‑pI - b‑pw‑ t‑dm‑ «d‑n C³Ì‑nä- y‑ q‑ «‑v F‑w.-BÀ. I‑p«‑nI - Ä¡‑v a‑m{‑Xa- m‑ b‑n \‑ne-\n‑ d - p‑ ¯ - n‑ . I‑p«‑nI - f - p‑ s‑S kÀÆ-tX ‑ m‑ · - p‑ J - a - m‑ b h‑nI-k\-¯n‑ \ - m‑ b‑n Special Olympics, (District, State National levels) Cultural meet state level X‑pS§‑n k‑I v q‑ f‑n\‑v ]‑pd¯‑v I‑p«‑nI - s‑f h‑nh‑n[ aÕc-§f - n‑ Â ]s‑¦S- p‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \‑pw‑ X‑pS-¡a - n‑ «- X‑v a‑m¯³k‑md- m‑ W - .v‑ s‑sl ‑ {‑Zm‑ _ - m‑ Z‑v \S¶ k‑s v ] ‑ j‑yÂ Hf‑n¼ - n‑ I - k v‑ n‑ Â BZ‑ya - m‑ b‑n k‑I v q‑ f‑nÂ \‑n¶‑pw‑ 4 I‑p«‑nI - Ä k½‑m\‑w t‑\S‑n. k‑tv ] ‑ m‑ ÀS‑k v v‑ I‑u¬k‑ne - p‑ a- m‑ b‑n _Ô-s¸ ‑ «‑v Z‑nh-kh‑pw‑ I‑p«‑nIÄ¡‑v s‑{S‑ b‑n\ - n‑ w‑ K‑v s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \ - p‑ Å GÀ¸m-Sp-Ifm-¡n‑ .

k‑nä‑nb - p‑ s‑S DbÀ¶ Øe¯‑v Ø‑nX‑n s‑N¿‑p¶ C‑u Ø‑m]\‑w t‑\c‑n«- n‑ c - p‑ ¶ {‑][‑m\ {‑]i‑\ v w‑ I‑pS‑ns‑hÅ Z‑uÀe-`y‑ a- m‑ W - .v‑ 5000 e‑nä-dn‑ s‑â Hc‑p k‑n³s‑SI‑k v v‑ S‑m¦‑v Ø‑m]‑n¡ - p‑ I - b‑pw‑ P‑nÃ‑m If-ISv‑ s‑d Iï‑v k‑uP\‑ya - m‑ b‑n t‑Im‑ À¸-td ‑ j - \ - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ Z‑nh-tk ‑ \ I‑pS‑ns‑hÅ‑w F¯‑n¡‑pI - b‑pw‑ s‑Nb‑X v p‑ . I‑p«‑nI - Ä¡‑pw‑ A²‑ym‑ ] - I - À¡‑pw‑ A\-²y‑ m‑ ] - IÀ¡‑pw‑ ]‑nI‑\ v n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - Ä k‑wL-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . I‑p«‑nIsf ]‑nI‑\ v n‑ ¡ - n‑ \‑v s‑Im‑ ï‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ I - p‑ ¶X‑v k‑md‑ns‑â ]‑qÀ®D-¯c - h - m‑ Z- n‑ X - z‑ ¯ - n‑ Â Xs‑¶b - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Ah-cp‑ s‑S Cj‑Sv `-- £ - W - h‑pw‑ \e‑I v n‑ b - m‑ W‑v ]‑nI‑\ v n‑ I‑v k‑wL-Sn‑ ¸‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - .v‑ Ì‑m^‑n\ - p‑ Ah-[n‑ ¡ - m‑ e - ¯‑v ]‑nI‑\ v n‑ I‑v k‑wL-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ d - p‑ ï - .v‑ CX‑ns - â ‑ - a‑pg‑ph - ³ N‑neh‑pw‑ k‑md‑mW‑v hl‑n¨ - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - X - .v‑ A²‑ym‑ ] - I - s - c ‑ t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑ s‑eb‑pw‑ a{‑Zm‑ k - n‑ s - e ‑ b‑pw‑ s‑{S‑ b‑n\ - n‑ w‑ K‑v s‑kâ-dp‑ I - f - n‑ e - b - ¨‑v U‑nt‑¹m‑ a C³ k‑s v ] ‑ j‑yÂ FU‑yq‑ t- ¡ ‑ j - ³ s‑{S‑ b‑n\ - n‑ w‑ K‑v ]‑qÀ¯‑nb - m‑ ¡ - n‑ . k‑I v q‑ f‑n\ - p‑ ] - p‑ d - ¯‑v aÕ-c§ - Ä¡‑mb - m‑ e‑pw‑ ]‑nI‑\ v n‑ ¡‑n\ - m‑ b - m‑ e‑pw‑ k‑ms‑dm‑ ¸ - a - p‑ ï - m‑ I - p‑ w‑ . I‑p«‑nI - Ä¡‑v b‑qW‑nt‑^m‑ w‑ GÀs‑¸S- p‑ ¯ - n‑ . I‑p«‑nI - Ä¡‑v Regular Medical Checkup, Dental Checkup F¶‑nh \S-¯n‑ b‑nc - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑ \‑p ]‑pd-¯p‑ \ - n‑ ¶ - p‑ Å h‑yà‑nI - s‑fh - c - p‑ ¯‑n A²‑ym‑ ] - I - À¡‑v U‑m³k‑v s‑Xd‑m¸ - n‑ b - n‑ Â

Felicitating (the late) Nirmalan Thampi. The late K.R. Rajasekharan Nair, the then President - is also seen

]c‑ni - o‑ e - \‑w \e‑I v p‑ I - b‑pw‑ X‑pSÀ¶‑v I‑p«‑nI - Ä¡‑v dK‑pe-dm‑ b‑n U‑m³k‑v s‑Xd‑m¸‑n \ÂI‑pI - b‑pw‑ s‑Nb‑X v p‑ . k‑I v q‑ Ä B\‑ph - Â t‑U,‑ H‑mW‑w s‑ke‑nt- {‑ _ ‑ j - ³ F¶‑o ]c‑n] - m‑ S- n‑ I - Ä¡‑v {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ ¢º‑nÂ Øe‑w Hc‑p¡ - n‑ h‑n]‑pe - a - m‑ b H‑mW-kZ‑y \ÂI‑p¶ - X - n‑ \‑pw‑ X‑pS¡‑w I‑pd‑n¨ - p‑ . AX‑ph - g‑n ¢º‑ns‑â `‑mK-¯p‑ \ - n‑ ¶‑pw‑ Ø‑nc-am‑ b‑n Hc‑p ]‑n´‑pW k‑I v q‑ f‑n\‑v Dd-¸m‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑nÂ k‑mÀ a‑pJ‑y] - ¦‑p hl‑n¨ - n‑ «- p‑ ï - .v‑ 18 hb-Ên‑ \‑ptaÂ {‑]m‑ b-ap‑ Å I‑p«‑nI - Ä¡‑mb‑n s‑hm‑ t‑¡j - W - Â b‑qW‑nä- n‑ \‑v X‑pS¡‑w I‑pd‑n¨ - p‑ . t‑Ic-f¯‑ns‑e BZ‑ys‑¯ k‑s v ] ‑ j‑yÂ k‑I v q‑ Ä Bb t‑dm‑ «d‑n C³Ì‑nä - y‑ q‑ «- n‑ Â BW‑v t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑ s‑e k‑s v ] ‑ j‑yÂ k‑I v q‑ f‑pI - f - n‑ s‑e GI cP‑nt- Ì ‑ ÀU‑v ]‑n.-än‑ .-F. DÅX‑.v AX‑n\‑v a‑pJ‑y ]¦‑ph - l - n‑ ¨ - X‑v a‑m¯³k‑md - m‑ W - .v‑ t‑I{‑µkÀ¡‑mc- n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pÅ X‑pÑa‑mb k‑m¼-¯n‑ I-kl - m‑ b - a - m‑ W‑v k‑I v q‑ f‑n\‑p e`‑n¨ - p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - X - .v‑ CX‑v hÀj-¯n‑ s‑â ]I‑pX - n‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ e‑pw‑ X‑nI-bp‑ a - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶‑nÃ - . H‑mt‑cm‑ hÀjh‑pw‑ k‑I v q‑ f‑n\‑p t‑]m‑ c‑ms‑X hc‑p¶ X‑pI-bn‑ Â `‑qc‑n`- m‑ K - h‑pw‑ a‑m¯³k‑mÀ Xs‑¶b - m‑ W‑v s‑Ne-hg- n‑ ¨ - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - X - .v‑ FÃ‑m¯ - n‑ \ - p‑ a - p‑ ] - c‑n k‑I v q‑ f‑ns‑â k‑pK-aa - m‑ b {‑] hÀ¯-\¯ - n‑ \‑v Bh-iy‑ a - m‑ b he‑nb k‑m¼-¯n‑ I kl‑mb‑w k‑pa-\Ê - p‑ I - f - n‑ Â e`‑ya- m‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \v a‑pJ‑y ]¦‑v hl‑n¨ - n‑ «- p‑ ï - .v‑ t‑dm‑ «d‑n C³Ì‑nä - y‑ q‑ «- n‑ s‑\ FÃ‑m AÀ°¯‑ne‑pw‑ t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑ s‑e a‑nI¨ k‑s v ] ‑ j‑yÂ k‑I v q‑ Ä F¶ ]Z-hn‑ b - n‑ s - e ‑ ¯ - n‑ ¨ - X - n‑ Â {‑] [‑m\ ]¦‑ph - l - n‑ ¨ h‑yà‑n a‑m¯³k‑md - m‑ W - .v‑ C‑u Ø‑m]-\¯ - n‑ s‑e I‑p«‑nI - Ä¡‑v k‑z´‑w AÑ-\m‑ b‑pw‑ c£-I\ - m‑ b‑pw‑ I‑q«‑pI - m‑ c - \ - m‑ b‑pw‑ a‑m¯³k‑mÀ F¶‑pw‑ I‑qs‑Sb - p‑ ï - m‑ b - n‑ c - n-¡p‑ w. tam¯n sI. l_o_v {]n³kn-¸Â

{io. F³. t‑he‑m-b‑p-[³ (]‑m-c-a‑u‑v t‑he‑m-b‑p-[³‑) R-0146 | Member Since 1972

Gähpw ko-\n-bÀ B-b sa-¼À-am-sc B-Zc - n¡p¶ C‑u ]‑wà‑n¡‑v t‑hï‑n ]gb t‑Py‑ j‑T v k - p‑ l - r‑ ¯ - m‑ b t‑he‑mb - p‑ [ - ³ t‑N«s‑\ t‑^m‑ ¬ s‑Nb‑X v t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä N‑pc‑p§ - n‑ b h‑m¡‑pI - f - n‑ Â Xs‑â P‑oh‑nX - I - Y Fg‑pX‑n Ab-¨p‑ X - c - m‑ s - a ‑ ¶‑v kkt‑´m‑ j‑w Ad‑nb - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . aI³ k‑pt‑cj‑v (\-½p‑ s‑S s‑a¼À‑) hg‑n C‑u I‑pd‑n¸‑v I‑n«‑n,‑ h‑mb‑n¨ - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä I‑pd¨‑p hc‑nIÄ¡‑pÅ - n‑ Â h‑nh‑n[ - h‑pw‑ h‑yX‑yk - X v‑ h - p‑ a - m‑ b Hc‑p he‑nb IÀ½-]Y‑w Fs‑â a‑p³]‑nÂ s‑Xf‑nª p‑ h - ¶ - p‑ . P‑oh‑nX - ¯ - n‑ Â t‑\«-§Ä s‑sI ‑ h-cn‑ ¨ ]ec‑pw‑ h¶ hg‑nI - Ä ad-¡m‑ \‑mW‑v t‑_m‑ [-]q‑ Àh‑w {‑ia‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - .v‑ F¶‑mÂ Ct‑±l - ¯ - n‑ s‑â h‑m¡‑pI - f - n‑ s‑e Bß‑mÀY-Xb - p‑ w‑ ,‑ Ff‑na - b - p‑ w‑ ,‑ kX‑yk - Ô - X - b - p‑ w‑ ,‑ \‑nÝ-bZ- m‑ ÀV‑yh - p‑ w‑ ,‑ kl-Po‑ h - n‑ k - tv‑ \ ‑ l - h‑pw‑ FÃ‑m¯ - n‑ \‑pw‑ D]-cn‑ b - m‑ b‑n Cs‑Xm‑ ¶‑pw‑ F§‑pw‑ ] - d - b - m‑ s‑X k‑zØ-am‑ b‑n X\‑n¡‑v ic‑ns - b ‑ ¶‑p t‑Xm‑ ¶‑p¶ hg‑nt‑b HX‑p§‑n k©c‑n¡ - p‑ Ib‑pw‑ s‑N¿‑p¶ Hc‑p A]‑qÀh-hy‑ à - n‑ X - z‑ a‑mW‑v t‑he‑mb - p‑ [ - ³ t‑N«-tâ ‑ X - .v‑ ]ï‑v 50If‑nÂ X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c‑w FbÀt‑]m‑ À«‑nÂ \‑n¶‑v a{‑Zm‑ k - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑v a‑m{‑Xa - p‑ Å Ht‑c Hc‑p ^‑s v s ‑ f ‑ ä‑mb‑n Hc‑p Ut‑¡m‑ « h‑na‑m\‑w ]d-¶n‑ c - p‑ ¶ I‑me¯‑v B ^‑s v s ‑ f ‑ ä‑nÂ h‑nc-en‑ Â F®‑mh‑p¶ Ø‑nc‑w b‑m{‑X¡ - m‑ c - n‑ Â F³. t‑he‑mb - p‑ [ - ³ F¶ b‑ph‑mh - p‑ a - p‑ ï - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶‑p F¶‑v Z‑oÀL-Im‑ ew C´‑y³ FbÀs‑se ‑ ³k‑nÂ {‑]hÀ¯‑n¨ kl-tZ‑ h - ³ t‑N«³ ]dª I‑mc‑yw‑ R‑m³ Ct‑¸m‑ Ä H‑mÀ½‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . ]t‑£ C‑u I‑mc‑yw‑ t‑he‑mb - p‑ [ - ³ t‑N«³ Bt‑cm‑ s - S‑ ¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ ]d-bp‑ s - a ‑ ¶‑v F\‑n¡‑v t‑Xm‑ ¶‑p¶ - n‑ Ã - . At±-l¯ - n\pw IpSpw-_¯ - n\pw Bb‑pc - m‑ t- c ‑ m‑ K - y‑ k - u ‑ J‑yw‑ t‑\À¶‑ps - I ‑ m‑ ï‑.v .. M.P.A.

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¸‑qW - n‑ ¯ - p‑ d- b - n‑ Â {‑io‑ aX‑n s‑]®-½b - p‑ s - S‑ b‑pw‑ a©‑mS- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - n‑ Â {‑io‑ . \‑mW‑ph - n‑ s - â ‑ b‑pw‑ aI-\m‑ b‑n 9þ12þ1930 Â P\‑n¨ - p‑ . {‑]m‑ Y-an‑ I k‑vIq‑ Ä h‑nZ‑ym‑ `- y‑ m‑ k - ¯‑n\‑p t‑ij‑w t‑Py‑ j‑vTt- \ ‑ m‑ s - S‑ m‑ ¸‑w a{‑Zm‑ k - n‑ Â t‑]m‑ b‑n t‑^m‑ t‑«m‑ {- K ‑ m‑ ^‑n ]T‑n¨ - p‑ . 1950 Â X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- ¯‑v ]‑mc-au ‑ ï‑v Ì‑pU‑nt- b ‑ m‑ b - n‑ Â Hc‑p P‑oh-\¡ - m‑ c- \ - m‑ b‑n h¶‑v X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- ¯‑v Ø‑nc- X‑mak‑w X‑pS-§n‑ . 1952 Â hÀ¡-eb - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ h‑na-em‑ t- Z‑ h - n‑ s‑b h‑nh‑ml‑w Ig‑n¨ - p‑ . AX‑n\ - p‑ t- i ‑ j‑w Hc‑p s‑Nd‑nb c‑oX‑nb - n‑ Â k‑z´-am‑ b‑n ]‑mf-b¯‑v t‑hÂ Ì‑pU‑nt‑bm‑ F¶ Ø‑m]\‑w X‑pS§‑n. I‑me-{I ‑ t- a‑ W 1960 Â ]‑mc-au ‑ ï‑v t‑^m‑ t‑«m‑ {- K ‑ m‑ t‑^g‑vkv‑ F¶ Ø‑m]-\¯ - n‑ s‑â DS-aØ - \ - m‑ b - n‑ . 1987

hs‑c t‑^m‑ t‑«m‑ {- K ‑ ^‑n t‑aJ-eb - n‑ Â kP‑oh - k - m‑ ¶ - n‑ [‑yw‑ Bb‑nc- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . AX‑nt- \ ‑ m‑ s - S‑ m‑ ¸‑w t‑lm‑ «Â h‑yh-km‑ b - ¯‑ne‑pw‑ X‑mÂ]c‑yw‑ Dï‑mb - n‑ . A§‑ns - \ ‑ b - m‑ W‑v ]‑mc‑a‑uï‑v S‑qd‑nÌ‑v t‑lm‑ w‑ F¶ Ø‑m]\‑w X‑pS-§n‑ b - X - v.‑ ]‑n¶‑oS‑v h‑nZ‑ym‑ `- y‑ m‑ k t‑aJ-eb - n‑ t- e ‑ m‑ «‑v. A§s‑\ s‑Nt‑¦m‑ «‑pt- I ‑ m‑ W‑w {‑io‑ \‑mc- m‑ b - W ]»‑nI‑v k‑vIq‑ f‑ns‑â \‑nÀa‑mW {‑]{‑In‑ b - b - n‑ Â kP‑oh - ] - ¦ - m‑ f - n‑ b - m‑ b - n‑ . GI-tZ‑ i‑w 10 hÀjt‑¯m‑ f‑w k‑vIq‑ f‑ns‑â h‑nh‑n[ - t- a‑ J - e - I - f‑nÂ `‑mc-hm‑ l - n‑ b‑mb‑n X‑pSÀ¶‑p. AX‑n\ - p‑ t- i ‑ j‑w 2002 Â a‑wK-e] - p‑ c- ¯‑v k‑z´‑w I‑pS‑pw‑ _ - m‑ w‑ K - § - Ä¡‑pt- h ‑ ï‑n Hc‑p {‑SÌ‑v Dï‑m¡‑n. h‑nZ‑ym‑ a- u ‑ ï‑v ]»‑nI‑v k‑vIq‑ Ä F¶ t‑]c‑nÂ Hc‑p k‑vIq‑ f‑pw‑ X‑pS-§n‑ . 2015þÂ FÃ‑m _‑nk‑n\ - Ê‑pw‑ a¡s‑f GÂ]‑n¨‑v d‑n«-bÀs‑aâ‑v P‑oh‑nX‑w \b‑n¡ - p‑ I - b - m‑ W - v.‑ a¡Ä 1. Dr. Syam 62 yrs (M-2878) 31 hÀj-am‑ b‑n b‑p.-sI ‑ .-bn‑ Â GP Bb‑n t‑Pm‑ e‑n t‑\m‑ ¡‑p¶ - p‑ . a¡Ä: Aaromal Syam - Engineer U.S.A, Nathu Velayudhan (UK), Michela Velayudhan (UK) 2. V. Suresh 60 yrs (L-387) Ct‑¸m‑ Ä Paramount Photographerss‑â k‑mc-Yn‑ . a¡Ä: Anand Suresh (M-2578), Arun Suresh (M2798), cï‑pt - ] ‑ c‑pw‑ Family BusinessÂ ]¦‑mf - n‑ I - Ä 3. Ashok Wilson 58 yrs Business a¡Ä: Ajith Wilson - Business, Anoop Wilson Business, Aiswarya Wilson USA b‑nÂ D]-cn‑ ] - T- \‑w

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Sri. K.S. EAPPEN NR-0150 | Member Since 1973

Sri. K.S. Eappen joined the club in on 29-06-1973 while working as Area Manager FACT, Thiruvananthapuram. A widely travelled person with a wide circle of friends in all walks of life and blessed with a happy family, all children well placed in life Sri. K.C. Eappanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is a classroom example in social sciences for a contented life, a life fulfilled. The mood of the family members in this rare photograph (not a single moody member) with all the young and old members in a thrilled jocund atmosphere is the greatest blessing a senior person can get in life. May God bless you and family. M.P.A.

K.S. EAPPEN

Kurisummoottil, Parijatham Road, S. Kalamassery, Ch Nagar, Kochi - 682033, Ph: 0484-2541784, 9895233010 email: eapens2@vsnlnet. Date of Birth: 25-06-1936

Father: K.J. Devasia Mother: Aliamma Devassia Educational Qualification: M.A. in Economics, Training in Economic Administration in Delhi School of Economics. Official Position & Training: Joined FACT as an Executive, in 1963. 1964-67: Asst. Sales Manager, FACT, Udyogamandal 1967-70: Sales Manager for Chemicals & Exports, FACT, Udyogamandal 1970-73: Asst. Marketing Manager, FACT in-charge of Industrial chemicals, Exports & Marketing Development. Developed the export market of FACTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s products. Obtained training in Marketing & Management under the U.S. AID in various institutions like. T.V.A., MICHIGAN University, Maryland University, North Carolina University etc., in U.S.A. for six months in 1967. Received training in Export Marketing in Indian Institute of Foreign Trade & obtained Diploma during 1968. Countries visited: U.S.A., Canada, U.K., France, West Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Visited Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia & U.A.R., Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, West Germany,

France, Switzerland and Italy for Technical Studies. Retired as General Manager FACT LTD in 1991 Wife: Santha Eapen Sons: Dr. Saju S Eapen M.D, Managing Partner Asthma & Allergy Speciality Centre, Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.A Sunil S Eapen Ms M.B.A (Kellog), Senior Manager, GE Healthcare Technologies, General Electrical Co., Milwaukee, U.S.A Daughter: Mrs. Priya Andrews Choorapuzha B Arch, W/o Advocate C.M. Andres, Kochi Brother-in-Law: Sri. Geroge J Mathew (Our Member, L-0091), Kottayam 15

{io. M.R.B. t‑at‑\‑m³ R-157 | Member Since 1973

{‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ ¢º‑ns‑â Nc‑n{- X ‑ ¯ - n‑ Â M.R. F¶ C\‑oj - y‑ e - n‑ \‑v he‑nb {‑]m‑ [‑m\ - y‑ a- p‑ ï - v.‑ Hc‑p h‑o«‑ns‑e {‑]KÂ`-cm‑ b kt‑lm‑ Z- c - · - m‑ À FÃ‑mt- ] ‑ c‑pw‑ ¢º‑ns‑e Gäh‑pw‑ {‑]a‑pJ - c‑mb A‑wK-§f - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Gähpw aq¯-kt- lm-Zc - \ - m-b F-sâ Prof. M.R.K. ta-t\m³ -- C.E.T.bn-se lr-Zb - m-ephm-b A-²ym]I³, R§-fp-sS sUâÂ tUm-IvSd - mbncp¶ kvt\l-k¼ - ¶ - \ - mb tUm. M.R.P. tat\m³, {]K-Û\m-b lrZ-bi - k - v{X{In-bm hn-ZK - v²³ Dr. M.R.S. ta-t\m³ F¶n-hÀ ¢_n-se A-¶s - ¯ {]ap-J Aw- n‑ ,‑ {‑]k‑nU - â‑,v‑ {‑SÌ‑n X‑pS§‑nb ]Z-hn‑ I - Ä Ae-¦c - n‑ ¨ ssk-Iym{-Sn-Ìv Dr. M.R.R. t‑a\ ‑ m‑ ³. ChÀ¡‑nS- b - n‑ Â K-§f - m-bn-cp¶p. C‑ub-Sp‑ ¯ I‑me‑w hs‑c ¢º‑nÂ s‑k{‑I«- d k‑ua‑y\ - m‑ b‑n Xs‑â h‑yà‑nX‑zw‑ s‑Im‑ ï‑v ¢º‑v A‑wK-§Ä¡‑nS- b - n‑ Â k½-X\‑pw‑ BZ-cW - o‑ b - \ - p‑ a - m‑ b‑n X‑oÀ¶ Hc‑p {‑]X‑n`- m‑ [ - \ - \ - m‑ W‑v {‑io‑ . M.R.B t‑at‑\m‑ ³. Ct‑¸m‑ Ä h‑mÀ²-Iy‑ k - l - P - a - m‑ b _‑p²‑na - p‑ «- p‑ I - Ä DÅ-Xp‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v h‑n{‑ia - P - o‑ h - n‑ X‑w \b‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ At‑±l - ¯ - n‑ s‑â k‑m¶‑n[‑yw‑ ¢º‑n\‑v A\‑p`- h - t- h ‑ Z- y‑ a - m‑ I - p‑ ¶ - n‑ Ã - . F¶‑mÂ - At‑±l - ¯‑ns‑â I‑pS‑pw‑ _ - m‑ w‑ K - § - f - n‑ s‑e ]e {‑]a‑pJ - c‑pw‑ ¢º‑nÂ Ct‑¸m‑ g‑pw‑ kP‑oh - a - m‑ b - p‑ ï - v.‑ Gäh‑pw‑ HS‑ph - n‑ e - m‑ b‑n At‑±l - ¯ - n‑ s‑â `‑mc‑ym‑ k - t- l ‑ m‑ Z- c - ³ {‑io‑ . s‑I. ii‑nI - p‑ a - m‑ À Ig‑nª-hÀj‑w ¢º‑ns‑â s‑k{‑I«- d - n‑ b - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . t‑at‑\m‑ ³ k‑md‑n\‑pw‑ I‑pS‑pw‑ _ - ¯ - n‑ \‑pw‑ kÀÆ a‑wK-fh‑pw‑ t‑\À¶‑ps - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v... M.P.A.

M.R.B. t‑at‑\m‑ ³ aä-¡m‑ «‑v c‑ma-Ir‑ j‑vW ]W‑n¡ - c- p‑ s‑Sb‑pw‑ P‑m\I‑n- A-½b - p‑ s- S‑ b‑pw‑ ]‑p{‑X³. 1931 HI‑vtS‑ m‑ _À a‑mk¯‑nÂ P\-\w‑ . Bangalore Govt. Engineering CollegeÂ \‑n¶‑pw‑ B.E. Civil Engineering ]‑mÊ‑mb - n‑ . Kerala PWDb‑nÂ t‑NÀ¶‑p. Trivandrum Engineering CollegeÂ \‑n¶‑v MSc Engineering ]‑mÊ‑mb - n‑ . DepartmentÂ Superintending Engineer Bb‑n s‑U]‑yq‑ t - «‑ j - \ - n‑ Â l‑uk‑nM‑v t‑_m‑ ÀU‑v - p‑ . {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ ¢º‑,v‑ N‑o^‑v F©‑n\ - o‑ b - À Bb‑n 1987Â h‑nc-an‑ ¨ t‑dm‑ «d‑n ¢º‑,v‑ a‑mt‑km‑ W‑nI‑v t‑em‑ U‑vPv‑ Ch-bn‑ s - e ‑ m‑ s‑¡ BI‑vSo‑ h‑v Bb‑n ]s‑¦S- p‑ ¯ - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . ]t‑cX - c- m‑ b s‑{] ‑ m‑ ^. F‑w.-BÀ.-sI ‑ . t‑at‑\m‑ ³ (X‑nc‑ph\-´] - p‑ c‑w F©‑n\ - o‑ b - d- n‑ w‑ K‑v t‑Im‑ t‑fP - )v‑ , t‑Um‑ . F‑w.B -- À.-]n‑ . t‑at‑\m‑ ³ (X‑nc- p‑ h - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c‑w UâÂ t‑Im‑ t‑fP - )v‑ , t‑Um‑ . F‑w.-BÀ.-Fk - v.‑ t‑at‑\m‑ ³ (s‑aU - n‑ ¡ - Â t‑Im‑ t‑fP‑v X‑nc‑ph - \-´] - p‑ c‑w)‑ , t‑Um‑ . F‑w.-BÀ.-BÀ. t‑at‑\m‑ ³ (s‑sk ‑ ¡ - y‑ m‑ {- S‑ n‑ Ì - )v‑

Ct‑¸m‑ Ä b‑p.s‑I.-bn‑ Â DÅ t‑Um‑ . F‑w.-BÀ.P‑n. t‑at‑\m‑ ³ ChÀ kt‑lm‑ Z- c- · - m‑ c‑pw‑ t‑Icf ]‑n.-U» - y‑p.U‑n d‑n«. N‑o^‑v F©‑n\ - o‑ b - À t‑Km‑ ]‑me - I - r‑ j - vW ‑ ³ \‑mb-cp‑ s‑S ]X‑v\n‑ h‑nP-be-£va‑ n‑ ,‑ _‑mw‑ ¥‑qc- n‑ Â \‑nc‑ym‑ X - b - m‑ b kc-kz‑ X‑n F¶nhÀ kt‑lm‑ Z- c- n‑ a- m‑ c‑pw‑ BW‑v. s‑\¿‑qÀ Ce¦‑w h‑o«‑nÂ ]t‑cX - b - m‑ b \‑mc‑mb - W - n‑ A-½b - p‑ s - S‑ b‑pw‑ X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c‑w s‑aU‑n¡ - Ât‑Im‑ t- f ‑ s{]m^. F‑w.-BÀ.-sI. t‑at‑\‑m³ P‑ns‑e s‑{] ‑ m‑ ^-kd‑pw‑ s‑aâÂ t‑lm‑ k‑v]n‑ ä- Â k‑q{‑] ï‑pw‑ Bb‑nc- p‑ ¶ ]t‑cX - \‑mb t‑Um‑ I‑vSÀ I‑pa‑mc- ] - n‑ Å-bp‑ s - S‑ b‑pw‑ ]‑p{‑Xn‑ i‑ym‑ a-fb - m‑ W‑v `‑mc‑y. a‑q¶‑p ]‑p{‑Xn‑ a‑mÀ. At‑ac- n‑ ¡ - b - n‑ Â s‑{] ‑ m‑ ^-ÊÀ Bb‑nc- p‑ ¶‑v Ct‑¸m‑ Ä Aa‑rX b‑qW‑nt- h ‑ g- vk ‑ n‑ ä- n‑ b - n‑ Â k‑vIq‑ Ä H‑m^‑v _‑nk‑n\ - Ê‑v U‑o³ t‑Um‑ . t‑km‑ a-\m‑ Y - s‑â `‑mc‑y _‑o\‑, _‑mw‑ ¥‑qc- n‑ Â s‑k³{‑SÂ FI‑vss ‑ k ‑ k‑v N‑o^‑v I½‑oj - W - À h‑nt‑\m‑ Z‑v I‑pa‑mÀ (s‑FB - À-Fk - )v‑ s‑â ]X‑v\n‑ Da‑, Fd-Wm‑ I - p‑ f‑w tUm. F‑w.-BÀ.-]‑n. t‑at‑\‑m³ Fk‑vXÀ s‑aU‑nk - n‑ ä- n‑ b - n‑ s‑e e‑oU‑n§‑v I¬kÄ«â‑v I‑mÀU‑nt- b ‑ m‑ f - P - n‑ Ì‑v t‑Um‑ . A\‑nÂI‑pa- m‑ d- n‑ s‑â ]X‑v\n‑ c‑m[‑nI - . _‑o\-bp‑ s‑S ]‑p{‑Xn‑ K‑mb{‑Xn‑ (Engineer, Senior Products Manager, Citrix Systems) `À¯‑mh‑v i‑ym‑ w‑ tUm. F‑w.-BÀ.-Fk‑v. t‑at‑\‑m³ (Engineer, Market Development Manager Xycem Inc), {‑]n‑ b¦ PhD Student in Biochemiostry cell Molicular Biology) FÃ‑mt -] ‑ c‑pw‑ I‑me‑nt- ^ ‑ m‑ ÀW‑nb - b - n‑ Â‑) D-ab - p‑ s‑S aI³ \h-\o‑ X‑v Engineer, Programme Manager Teach for India, aIÄ i‑nh‑m\‑n (_‑mw‑ ¥‑qc - n‑ Â A{‑Kn‑ ¡ - Ä¨dÂ F©‑n\ - o‑ d- n‑ w‑ K‑v h‑nZ‑ym‑ ÀY‑n\ - n‑ )‑ c‑m[‑nI - b - p‑ s‑S aIÄ i‑nh-{] ‑ n‑ b _‑mw‑ ¥‑qc- n‑ Â s‑s{‑ I ‑ Ì‑v t‑Im‑ t‑fP - n‑ s‑e \‑nb-ah‑nZ- y‑ m‑ À°‑n\ - n‑ . tUm. F‑w.-BÀ.BÀ. t‑at‑\‑m³

Sri. B. RAMDAS R-0162 | Member Since 1974

We notice that many distinguished senior members of our club who were sincerely and actively participating in the activities of the club have now developed cold feet and their frequencies of visit to the club has come down drastically. Some of them painfully disclosed that the lack of camaraderie and friendship sincerity and simplicity are the reasons behind it. I think Sri. S. Ramadas a senior dignified member can be included in this elite group. In appearance, approach, attitude and action Sri. Ramadas is on the Assets side of the social Balance sheet of the club. (There is a change in appearance now because of the stoppage of hair dying). A matured, widely travelled person with lot of experience in different spheres of activity Sri. Ramdas is my long standing friend with a pleasant smiling face always, which is a rare gift of God. In this write up he has sincerely stated his beginnings and the strong support he received for attaining the present level of achievement with gratitude. In the closing paragraph he indirectly points out about the disharmony and erosion of values which is a very valuable advice from a senior dignified member. Wishing Ramadasji and his esteemed family all the peace and prosperity in the years ahead. M.P.A.

was born on the 22nd July 1940 in an ordinary family. Father Bhoothalingam Pillai was Government servant at the Hajoor Karchari, Trivandrum and mother N. Alamelu, Housewife. At the age of 13 my father passed away. After his death I lived with my eldest sister Smt. A. Sarada and Brother-in-law Shri. Anantan Pillai who was in Govt. Service as PS to Chief Minister Pattom Thanu Pillai Sar, Corporation Commissioner, Lotteries Director.

He was my God father. My all success in life is from his advice, guidance and help only. I married Smt. Jayashree daugher of Sri. K. Subhramoniam (Chitra Theatre) and Leela, in 1967 and were blessed with two sons, Anand and Rajesh. Eldest son Anand passed away at the age of 11. Rajesh is married to Priyadarsini, daughter of the Late Sivathanu Pillai and Smt. Leela. Rajesh has two sons, Anand Subramoniam and Ajay Shiva Das. Anand is studying 3rd year Bio Medical Engineering in Coimbatore and Ajay is in the 8th Standard. I studied in the Model School and Central High School, Trivandrum, Pre degree at Arts College, Trivandrum. Then I passed Diploma in Civil Engineering from the Central Polytechnic, Vattiyoorkavu, Trivandrum in 1963. I joined as Super-

visor in the Civil Engineering Division of the Rocket launching Station at Thumba, Trivandrum. In 1965 I resigned the job and started my own business (Contract Works). Some main projects completed by me are: ◗◗ Buildings for CRPF Pallipuram ◗◗ Reserve Bank Staff Quarters at Pattom ◗◗ Class room building for Kendriya Vidyalaya at Pattom ◗◗ Methumala Officers quarters for Central Govt. Officers ◗◗ Studio Complex building for Dooradarsan, Trivandrum ◗◗ The Legislature Complex Administrative Block ◗◗ Electronic Test Research Laboratory, Akkulam, Trivandrum etc. In 2010 I stopped the Central Govt. contract works and continued my own civil construction works in the name of Sree Devi Builders. Now son Rajesh is looking after our business. I am at present a Hon. member of Trivandrum Club and also a Hon. member of

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Sri. CHELLAPPA M.S. R-0172 | Member Since 1974

Sri. M.S. Chellappa one of our very senior members was a more frequent visitor to the club in the earlier days. Now we see him occasionally with his family members. When I started my career as shift engineer in the Kerala ceramics, Kundara, He was holding additional charge as its Managing Director, while working as General Manager KSIE, Trivandrum. A pious and soft spoken gentle person he does not like any show off of any sort. In fact, I had to persuade him to part with his personal details for publication in our magazine. I wish Chellappa Sar and his family good health, peace of mind and prosperity with regards. M.P.A.

Son: C. Dhanukodi, CTO and Founder Director, www.istream.in Bangalore Daughter: Mrs. Saraswathy Krishnan, Project Manager, OOCL, San Jose CA. USA Born on 23-02-1931 at Kollam, Kerala Residence: TC 17/1265, Vivekananda Nagar, Pangode, Trivandrum 695 006. Ph: 0471-2352831, Mobile: 9446375831 E-mail: chellappams@yahoo.com Family Pride: Father: Subramania Pillai Mother: Saraswathy Ammal Wife: Smt. Vasantha Chellappa Son: Group Captain C. Subramaniam (Retd), Captain Airbus ACJ, Reliance Industries, Mumbai Sri. B. Ramads (Contd.P17)

Sri Mulam Club. I am a member of Trivandrum Golf Club from 1989. I am playing Golf every day. I was Hon. Secretary of Trivandrum Golf Club for three years and Hon. Secretary of Sri Mulam Club for one year. I am a member of the Builders Association (Kerala Centre). I was Hon. Secretary for BAI for three years and was

Daughter: Mrs. lndhu Radhakrishnan, Founder and Managing Director, India Syndicate Ltd. Bangalore. Academic profile: B.E.(Mech) College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras Univ., 1952 Production Management training inâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Paris under Indo-French Fellowship in 1963 General Management program in Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad 1967

also Chairman of the BAI (Kerala Centre) for two years. I joined the Trivandrum Club during 1974 (R162). When I joined the Club the facilities now we are getting were not there at that thime. During 1974 the Club had only front lobby, four rooms in first floor a store and a kitchen. The only good snack available was fried fish with

Professional Trajectory: w 1953 1960: Engineer, Harrisons & Crosfield Ltd. Kollam w Joined Group of Kerala Govt. Undertakings w Served in various Development and Management positions in the group companies with diverse manufacturing activities. w Retired as General Manager of Kerala State Industrial Enterprises Ltd., a holding Company of Govt, of Kerala in February 1989. w 1989 1995: Consultancy in Management and Software Development. Professional Societies: Member, Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering. Other Members of our Club: C. Dhanukoti, R-1481 (Son) V.R. Radhakrishnan, R-2168 (Son-in-law), Media Business vegetable salad and fresh lime. With the good and sincere administration of the past Secretaries and Presidents, the Club has developed to this level. To my knowledge this is one of the best Clubs in India. I request all the members of the club to unite together for the developments and smooth functioning of the Club.

R. MURUGAN

AARDRA CHANDRA MOULI

honoured by Lions Club

(D/o. Sri. Ravi Chandra Mouli .G (R-1079)), (R-3103) Co-Founder, Managing Director, Aeka Biochemicals Pvt. Ltd., Trivandrum Invited to speak at the India Today Conclave 2016, Delhi

Recipient of: New Indian Express Group’s Devi Award for Dynamism and Innovation, 2016.

Dr. SANOOP K ZACHARIAH Awarded Honorary F.R.C.S.

Dr. Sanoop Koshy Zachariah (L-1879) Professor of Surgery, at the MOSC Medical College, was awarded a rare accolade The Honorary FRCS by the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow, UK, which is the College’s highest honour and award.

R. Murugan (R-1009) Engineer, Chairman of PRS Group, S/o. the late PRS (R. Ratnaswamy)

International

Director

(former

District Governor) of the Lions Club was honoured with ‘Ambassador of Goodwill’ (The highest award bestowed on a Lion) by the International President at the International Convention held in Japan in June 2016

services during the 3 decades as a Lion.

Kairali Innotech Awards for Best Non-IT Start-Up, 2016.

British Council Jubilee Scholarship – one of the 60 scholars selected from India.

considering his humanitarian

SHAARIKA SARASIJA, D/o. Sri. N. Krishna Kumar (Kireedam Unni (R-0838)) got The Dean’s Certificate and The Frank C. Ferguson, Jr. Award for Excellence in The Quality of Science from Albary Medical College for Graduate Studies Program.

UMA BALAKRISHNAN (R-3729) Masters from the Berkeley, University of California, chosen as the student representative from 600 students of Master’s Doctoral of various nationalities. Uma is the daughter of Sri. B.R. Balakrishnan I.R.S. (R-0986) and the grand daughter of Sri. S.N. Nair (R-0233).

A\-´-]‑p-c‑n-b‑ns‑e BZ‑y-c‑m-{‑X‑n-IÄ tUm. Un. _m-_p-t]mÄ d‑n«-bÀ s‑Nb‑X v k‑o\‑nb - À s‑F.-F.-Fk - .v‑ H‑m^‑ok - À‑, h‑m¡‑pI - f - n‑ e‑pw‑ hc‑nI - f - n‑ e‑pw‑ h‑naÀi-\m‑ ß - I - a- m‑ b h‑nj-b§ - Ä \Àa‑w t‑NÀ¯‑,v \s‑½ N‑nc‑nb - n‑ e‑qs‑S h‑yX‑yk - X v‑ a- m‑ b‑n N‑n´‑n¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - A]‑qÀh {‑]X‑n`- , \½‑ps‑S k‑o\‑nb - À s‑a¼À. t‑Um‑ . U‑n. _‑m_‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ Ä \‑me‑ma- s‑¯ hb-Ên‑ e - m‑ W‑v BZ‑ya‑mb‑n X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- ¯‑v hc‑p¶ - X - .v‑ 1958þ62Â X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´-]p‑ c‑w F³ P‑n\ - o‑ b - d- n‑ M‑v t‑Im‑ t‑fP - n‑ Â ]T-\w‑ . AX‑pI - g- n‑ ª‑v s‑]m‑ X‑pa- c- m‑ a- ¯ - p‑ h - I - p‑ ¸ - n‑ Â F³P‑n\ - o‑ b - À‑, F³P‑n\ - o‑ b - d- n‑ M‑v t‑Im‑ t‑fP‑v A[‑ym‑ ] - I - ³‑, s‑F.-F.-Fk - .v‑ ,‑ a{‑´n‑ S‑n.-sI ‑ . Z‑nh‑mI - cs‑â s‑k{‑I«- d- n‑ ,‑ CS‑p¡‑n P‑nÃ-bp‑ s‑S Ø‑m]I If-ISv‑ À‑, Cc‑p]-¯n‑ b©‑p hÀj-¯n‑ t- e ‑ s‑d A[‑nI - m‑ c- ¯ - n‑ s‑â AX‑yp‑ ¶ - X - ]Z-hn‑ I - f - n‑ Â {‑i²‑n¡ - s - ¸ ‑ «- n‑ c- p‑ ¶ Dt‑Zy‑ m‑ K - Ø {‑]a‑pJ - ³. Xt‑±i - k‑zb‑w`c-WØ - m‑ ] - \ - § - Ä¡‑pÅ H‑mw‑ _‑pU - k v‑ av‑ m‑ ³ Bb‑n 2001Â h‑nc-an‑ ¨ - p‑ . AX‑nh - n‑ i - n‑ j - T v‑ a- m‑ b Hc‑p h‑yà‑nX - z‑ ¯ - n‑ s‑â DS-ab - m‑ b At‑±l‑w C¶‑pw‑ X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- ¯ - n‑ s‑â a‑pJ-{i ‑ o‑ I - f - n‑ s - e ‑ m‑ ¶ - m‑ bn- t‑Ic-f¯ - n‑ s‑â k‑mw‑ k‑I v m‑ c‑nI aÞ-ea‑ms‑I \‑ndª‑p \‑nÂ¡‑p¶ - p‑ . F{‑X {‑]m‑ b-am‑ b - m‑ e‑pw‑ \½Ä H‑mt‑cm‑ c- p‑ ¯ - c- p‑ t- S‑ b‑pw‑ a\-Ên‑ \ - p‑ Å - n‑ Â a¬a-dª a‑mX‑m] - n‑ X - m‑ ¡ - f - p‑ s‑S k‑tv \ ‑ lh‑mÂk-ey‑ § - Ä Ab-hn‑ d- ¡ - p‑ ¶ Hc‑p I‑p«‑nb - p‑ ï - .v‑ _‑m_‑pt‑]m‑ Ä k‑md‑ns‑â t‑eJ-\¯ - n‑ s‑â ka‑m] - \ - ¯ - n‑ Â A½-sb ‑ ¡ - p‑ d‑ns - ¨ ‑ g- p‑ X - n‑ b a\-Êe - n‑ b - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ hc‑nI - Ä h‑mb‑n¨ - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä F¶‑ns‑e B I‑p«‑n a\-Ên‑ t- e ‑ b - tv‑ ¡ ‑ m‑ S‑n h¶‑p. s‑Xm‑ ®‑qä‑ncï‑mas‑¯ hb-Ên‑ Â ac‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \‑v a‑q¶‑pZ- n‑ h - k‑w a‑p¼‑ph - s‑c h‑oS‑ns‑â t‑Im‑ f‑nw‑ K‑v s‑_Â AS‑nb - ¡ v‑ p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä s‑sI ‑ b‑nÂ Hc‑p hS‑nb‑pw‑ X‑q¡‑n¸ - n‑ S- n‑ ¨‑v ]Ã‑nÃ - m‑ ¯ t‑am‑ W-IÄ I‑m«‑n¨ - n‑ c- n‑ ¨‑p s‑Im‑ ï‑v IXI‑p X‑pd-¡p‑ ¶ AÑ-s\ ‑ b - m‑ W‑v s‑]s‑«¶‑v H‑mÀ½‑n¨-X.v‑ C\‑n Hc‑p {‑]m‑ h-iy‑ s - a‑ ¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ B s‑_Â AaÀ¯‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä N‑nc‑n¨ - p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v AÑ³ h¶‑p IX-Ip‑ - X‑pd- s - ¶ ‑ ¦ - n‑ Â F¶‑v s‑hd‑ps‑X R‑m\‑pw‑ t‑am‑ l‑n¨‑p t‑]m‑ I‑p¶ - p‑ . t‑am‑ l-at‑Ã FÃ‑mw‑ . M.P.A

S-¡³ X‑nc‑ph - n‑ X - m‑ w‑ I - q‑ d- n‑ e - m‑ W‑v R‑m³ P\‑n¨ - X - v.‑ cï‑mw‑ t‑em‑ I-al - m‑ b - p‑ ²‑w s‑IS‑pX‑n h‑nX¨ I‑me‑w. k‑m[‑mc- W - K - X - n‑ b - n‑ Â Ah‑ns‑S \‑n¶‑v Hc‑mÄ A¡‑me - ¯‑v X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- ¯‑v ht‑cï - X - n‑ Ã - . F¶‑mÂ hS-¡³ X‑nc‑ph - n‑ X - m‑ w‑ I - q‑ d- n‑ s‑â \t‑hm‑ ° - m‑ \ - \ - m‑ b - I - c- n‑ Â Hc‑mf - m‑ b‑n h‑mg‑v¯s- ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¶ ]‑n.-F. ]‑ut‑em‑ k‑v t‑Im‑ s‑d¸ - n‑ k - vt‑ I ‑ m‑ ¸‑m F¶ s‑sl ‑ k‑vIq‑ Ä s‑lU‑vam‑ Ì - À I‑qs‑S I‑qs‑S hc‑pa- m‑ b‑nc- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . I‑p¶-¯p‑ \ - m‑ S- ,v‑ a‑qh‑mä- p‑ ] - p‑ g X‑me‑q¡ - p‑ I - f - n‑ s‑e ]Å‑n¡ - q‑ S- § - f - p‑ s - S‑ s - b ‑ m‑ s‑¡ X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c‑w _Ô‑w C‑u s‑lU‑vam‑ Ì - À hg‑n Bb‑nc- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . A¶s‑¯ Ub-dI‑vSÀ _‑mc‑nÌ - À F.-F³. X - ¼‑n AhÀI-fp‑ s‑S h‑mÂke‑yi - n‑ j - y‑ \ - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p At‑±l‑w F¶-Xm‑ W‑v I‑mc-Ww‑ . I‑pd‑p¸ - w‑ ] - S- n‑ b - n‑ Â al‑mI - h‑n P‑n. i¦-c¡ - p‑ d- p‑ ¸‑v BZ‑y£c‑w I‑pd‑n¨ kÀ¡‑mÀ k‑vIq‑ f‑nÂ t‑ac‑n t‑]m‑ Ä F¶‑v t‑]c‑mb‑n Hc‑p A[‑ym‑ ] - n‑ I Dï‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . 1920 If‑nÂ X‑nc‑ph - n‑ X - m‑ w‑ I - q‑ d- n‑ Â H¶‑mw‑ d‑m¦‑v t‑\S‑n a{‑Zm‑ k‑v s‑a{‑Sn‑ ¡‑pt- e ‑ j - ³ Pb‑n¡ - p‑ I - b‑pw‑ k‑ml-Nc- y‑ § - f - p‑ s‑S {‑]m‑ X‑nI‑qe‑yw‑ s‑Im‑ ï‑v D¶-Xh - n‑ Z- y‑ m‑ `- y‑ m‑ k‑w A{‑]m‑ ] - y‑ a- m‑ b‑n `h‑n¨ - X - n‑ \ - m‑ Â ]X‑nt- \ ‑ g‑mw‑ hb-Ên‑ Â A[‑ym‑ ] - n‑ I - b - m‑ b‑n t‑Pm‑ e‑nb - n‑ Â {‑]t‑hi - n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b‑pw‑ s‑Nb‑vXb - m‑ Ä - . 1945 Â X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c‑w s‑{S‑ b‑n\ - n‑ M‑v t‑Im‑ t‑fP - n‑ Â A[‑ym‑ ] - I ]c‑ni - o‑ e - \ - ¯ - n‑ \‑v \‑nt‑bm‑ K - n‑ ¡ - s - ¸ ‑ «- p‑ ,‑ C‑u t‑ac‑nt- ] ‑ m‑ Ä. ]‑ut‑em‑ k‑vtI ‑ m‑ s‑d¸ - n‑ k - vt‑ I ‑ m‑ ¸ - b - p‑ s - S‑ b‑pw‑ t‑ac‑nt- ] ‑ m‑ -

f‑ns - â ‑ b‑pw‑ aI-\m‑ W‑v R‑m³. AÑ³ Fs‑¶ H¸‑w I‑q«‑nb Hc‑p kµÀ`-¯n‑ e - m‑ W‑v R‑m³ BZ‑yw‑ C‑u ]«-W¯ - n‑ Â h¶-Xv.‑ \‑me‑v hbÊ‑v {‑]m‑ b‑w. X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- ¯‑v X‑ma-kn‑ ¨ - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - X‑v s‑sh ‑ .-U» - y‑ p‑ .k‑n.-F. t‑lm‑ Ì-en‑ Â Bb‑nc- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . R§Ä hc‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä A½ ]‑pd-¯n‑ d- § - p‑ w‑ . B\-¡t‑¨c- n‑ ¡‑pw‑ ]‑pf‑na- q‑ S- n‑ \‑pw‑ CSb‑v¡v‑ t‑kt‑hy‑ g‑vkv‑ F¶‑v Hc‑p ""¢_‑'v‑ ' Dï‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . t‑dm‑ U‑n\‑v I‑ng-¡p‑ h - i‑w t‑lm‑ «Â.

]S‑nª - m‑ d‑v t‑em‑ U‑vPv.‑ R§-fp‑ s‑S k´‑pj‑vS I‑pS‑pw‑ _‑w Ah‑ns - S‑ b - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p X‑ma-kw‑ . AÑ³ aS-§p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ s‑â Xt‑e¶‑v A½s‑b t‑lm‑ Ì-en‑ Â F¯‑n¡ - p‑ I - b - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑nc- n‑ ¡ - W‑w ]X‑nh - v.‑ As‑¶m‑ c‑p\‑mÄ R‑m³ A½s‑b ]‑nc‑nb - m‑ ³ h‑nk-½X - n‑ ¨ - n‑ «- p‑ ï - m‑ h - W - w‑ . B c‑m{‑Xn‑ A½b‑vs¡ ‑ m‑ ¸‑w h\‑nX‑m t‑lm‑ Ì-en‑ Â Dd-§m‑ ³ B aZ‑m½ Fs‑¶ A\‑ph - Z- n‑ ¨ - n‑ «- p‑ ï - m‑ h - W - w‑ . d‑n¡ä‑nS‑n¡äv F¶‑v s‑Im‑ «‑n t‑Lm‑ j‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ Hc‑p s‑sS‑ ¸‑vss ‑ d‑ ä- d- n‑ \‑v a‑p¶‑nÂ \‑n¶‑v k‑pµ-ca- m‑ b aµ-kva‑ n‑ X - t‑¯m‑ s‑S Fg‑pt- ¶ ‑ ä- p‑ h - ¶‑v Ft‑¶m‑ «‑v N§‑m¯‑w I‑qS‑nb Hc‑p aZ‑m½ - s‑b \¶‑mb‑n H‑mÀa‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ ï - v.‑ B aZ‑m½ - b‑ps‑S t‑]c‑v Ad‑nª p‑ I - q‑ S- m‑ . s‑sh ‑ .-U» - y‑ p‑ .-kn‑ .-Fb - n‑ Â Hc‑p ]‑nc‑nb - ³ t‑Km‑ hW‑n Dï‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . t‑\s‑c h‑m t‑\s‑c t‑]m‑ F¶-Ãm‑ s‑X Hc‑p t‑Im‑ W‑n BZ‑yw‑ I‑mW‑pI - b - m‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶ - p‑ . ]e {‑]m‑ hi‑yw‑ AX‑v Ib-dn‑ b - n‑ d- §‑nb \‑me‑v hbÊ‑pI - m‑ c- s‑â I‑uX‑pI‑w Ct‑¸m‑ g‑pw‑ Hc‑p s‑\m‑ Ì‑mÄP‑nb Bb‑n a\-Ên‑ Â _‑m¡‑nb - p‑ ï - v.‑ X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- t- ¯ ‑ ¡ - p‑ Å BZ‑yb - m‑ {‑X H‑mÀa-bn‑ Â CÃ. s‑]c‑p¼ - m‑ h - q‑ c- n‑ Â I‑pd‑p¸ - w‑ ] - S- n‑ b - n‑ s‑e h‑o«‑nÂ \‑n¶‑v cï‑v s‑sa‑ Â \S¶‑v Hc‑p Ic‑nK - y‑ m‑ k‑v hï‑nb - n‑ Â Ib-dn‑ b - n‑ «‑pï - m‑ h - W - w‑ . a‑qh‑mä- p‑ ] - p‑ g- b‑v¡p‑ w‑ I‑q¯‑m«- p‑ I - p‑ f - ¯ - n‑ \‑pw‑

Dr. D. Babu Paul IAS (Retd.) (R-0290) is Retd. Addl. Chief Secretary and Ombudsman, Kerala.

YWCA Building (old), Trivandrum

Confession of a Civil Servant P.G. Muralidharan

1977-78, when I worked as Agricultural Production Commissioner with Hon Agriculture Minister, Shri K. Sankaranarayanan, the Government decided that he should visit some countries which had made significant progress in areas of agricultural production relevant to Kerala. One such country was Ghana, situated in north west Africa, which had taken enormous strides in the production of cocoa and red oil palm, two crops introduced in Kerala not much earlier. I accompanied the Minister on this trip.

It is like a cool breeze wafting through your heart when we talk to certain people with lots of positive vibes. And P.G. Muralidharan sar is one among that rare group. My experience during the last 24 years of association with our magazine, I have received lot of appreciation, guidance, support more from the seniors than the younger group. I just phoned Sri. P.G.M with a request for an article, preferably connected with his rich and rare experience in the civil service and I received his e-mail with the article within a few days. What I have noticed in his articles is that not even bordering into the area of self-pride or even an iota haughtiness, he has cherry picked the anecdote’s in which he had to face a little bit of embarrassment, like the previous article during his tenure in the office of the late Charan Singh, then prime minister where he got handsdown experience about the dos and don’ts which are to be meticulously followed in the delicate situations in high places. In this small write up he narrates an incident in Ghana in the company of Sri. K. Sankara Narayanan, the former Minister of Kerala (who became the Governor of Maharashtra later) and the embarrassment he had to face for no fault of his. Now over to Sri. P.G.M.’s words……. M.P.A.

Sri. P.G. Muralidharan (R-0084) IAS (Rtd.) is the Retd. Secretary in the Central Government.

CS-bv¡ ‑ p‑ Å Bä‑qÀae I‑nX-¨p‑ I - n‑ X - ¨‑v Ib-dn‑ b B X‑pd-Êm‑ b hï‑nb - n‑ Â Cc‑p¶‑v H‑m¡‑m\ - n‑ ¨ - n‑ «- p‑ ï - m‑ h - W - w‑ . s‑sI ‑ b‑nÂ Ic‑pX - n‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ Ii‑pa- m‑ h - n‑ e I‑q«‑n¯ - n‑ c- p‑ ½‑n aW-¸n‑ ¨‑v A½ B ha-t\ ‑ Ñ ad‑nI - S- ¡ - m‑ ³ kl‑mb - n‑ ¨‑n«- p‑ ï - m‑ h - W - w‑ . t‑Im‑ «-b¯‑v h¶‑v hï‑na- m‑ d‑n Ib-dn‑ b - n‑ «‑pï - m‑ h - W - w‑ . AX‑v AS-¨p‑ s - I ‑ «- p‑ Å hï‑n,‑ At‑¶m‑ f‑w Iï‑n«- n‑ Ã - m‑ ¯ Xc‑w _k‑v Bb‑nc- p‑ ¶ - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - W - w‑ . AÑs‑â t‑Xm‑ f‑nÂ Xe N‑mb‑vNv‑ Dd-§n‑ b - n‑ «- p‑ ï - m‑ h - W‑w. s‑Im‑ «‑mc- ¡ - cb‑ns‑e t‑]m‑ ä‑nb - p‑ s‑S ]‑oS‑nI - b - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑v Fs‑´¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ Ig‑n¨ - n‑ «- p‑ ï - m‑ h - W - w‑ . k‑qt‑cy‑ m‑ Z- b - ¯ - n‑ \‑v a‑p¼‑p X‑pS-§n‑ b ]‑pd-¸m‑ S‑v k‑qc‑ym‑ k - vX ‑ a- b‑w Ig‑nª‑v h‑mK‑vZ¯ - t- Z‑ i - a- m‑ b A\-´] - p‑ c- n‑ b - n‑ Â F¯‑nb - n‑ «- p‑ ï - m‑ h-Ww‑ . H¶‑pw‑ H‑mÀa-bn‑ Â CÃ. F¶‑mÂ H‑mÀa-bn‑ Â N‑neX‑v Dï‑pX - m‑ \ - p‑ w‑ . H¶‑,v‑ c‑mh‑ns‑e A¶-Zm‑ X - m‑ h - m‑ b s‑]m‑ ¶‑pX - ¼ - p‑ c- m‑ ³ X‑pd¶ I‑md‑nÂ s‑Xm‑ g‑m³ t‑]m‑ I‑p¶-X,v‑ c‑mh‑ns‑e AÑ³ h‑nf‑n¨ - p‑ W - À¯‑n,‑ s‑Xm‑ g‑m³ ]T‑n¸ - n‑ ¨‑v t‑dm‑ U-cp‑ I - n‑ Â \‑nÀ¯‑n (F¶‑v Ic‑pX - p‑ ¶ - p‑ )‑ AÑ³‑, A½‑, R‑m³‑, ]‑ns‑¶b‑pw‑ Bs‑cm‑ s - ¡ ‑ t- b ‑ m‑ ,‑ \‑nc-\n‑ c- b - m‑ b‑n AW‑n\ - n‑ c- ¶ - § - s - \ ‑ . t‑dm‑ U‑nÂ hï‑n-

s‑bm‑ ¶‑pw‑ Gs‑db - p‑ Å Hc‑p I‑me-aÃ - . I‑ps‑d Ig‑nª t‑¸m‑ Ä Hc‑p h‑nk‑nÂ. s‑Xm‑ «‑p] - n‑ d- s‑I Hc‑p hï‑n. AX‑v s‑s] ‑ eä‑v BW‑v F¶‑v \‑me‑mw‑ hb-Ên‑ Â Ad‑nª n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑nÃ - . h‑nk‑nÂ t‑I«-tX ‑ m‑ s‑S a\‑pj - y‑ ¨ - § - e hS-t¡ ‑ m‑ «‑v t‑\m‑ ¡‑n \‑nÂ¸‑mb - n‑ . s‑s] ‑ e-än‑ \‑v ]‑nds‑I X‑pd¶ I‑md‑nÂ I‑q¸‑ps - s ‑ I ‑ b - p‑ a- m‑ b‑n X¼‑pc- m‑ ³. h©‑n`- q‑ a- o‑ ] - t‑X N‑nc‑wk-©n‑ X - m‑ `- w‑ . 1945þ46 I‑mes‑¯ Xe-Øm‑ \ - b - m‑ {- X ‑ I - f - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑v a\-Ên‑ Â _‑m¡‑nb - p‑ Å N‑n{‑X§ - f - n‑ Â Gäh‑pw‑ s‑Xf‑na- b‑mÀ¶X‑v Gt‑Xm‑ Hc‑p kµÀi-\¯ - n‑ Â AÑ-t\ ‑ m‑ s- S‑ m‑ ¸‑w s‑sh ‑ .-U» - y‑ p‑ .-kn‑ .-Fb - p‑ s‑S ]‑mÀe-dn‑ Â Cc‑n¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä Fs‑â A½ \‑ndª N‑nc‑nt- b ‑ m‑ s- S‑ ,‑ \‑o«‑n¸ - n‑ S- n‑ ¨ s‑sI ‑ It‑fm‑ s - S‑ ,‑ "s‑â I‑p«‑m' F¶‑v h‑nf‑n¨ - p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v H‑mS‑nh - ¶‑v Fs‑¶ h‑mc‑ns - b ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - X - m‑ W - v.‑ A½ ac‑n¨ - n‑ «‑v a‑q¶‑v ] X‑nä- m‑ ï‑v Ig‑nª - p‑ . C¶‑pw‑ H‑mt‑cm‑ {‑]`‑mX - ¯ - n‑ e‑pw‑ A½b‑ps‑S N‑n{‑X¯ - n‑ \‑v a‑p¶‑nÂ \‑nÂ¡‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä R‑m³ B h‑nf‑n t‑IÄ¡‑p¶ - p‑ "s‑â I‑p«‑m'‑ . A½ N‑n{‑X¯ - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑v Cd-§n‑ h - ¶‑v Fs‑¶ h‑mc‑ns‑bS- p‑ ¡ - p‑ s - a‑ ¶‑v R‑m³ s‑hd‑ps‑X t‑am‑ l‑n¨ - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ h - p‑ ¶ - p‑ .

s‑hd‑ps‑X t‑am‑ l‑n¡ - p‑ h - m‑ ³ t‑am‑ l‑w Bh‑mw‑ F¶‑mW - t‑Ãm‑ Ih‑nh - m‑ I - y‑ w‑ .

"" "s‑â I‑p«‑m‑' F¶ hnfn-¨p-sIm-ïv A½ hmcn-sb-Sp¯p.''

In Ghana, we were treated as State Guests and accommodated in a large hotel called the International in Accra, the capital of Ghana. On the morning after our arrival, a note was dropped in my room by the management that I had to vacate the room immediately. When I mentioned this to the Minister, he said that he had received a similar note. Since this was not the manner in which which India treated its State Guests, I informed the Indian High Commission office in Accra and they promptly sent two or three members of their staff to the hotel. They were in closed door

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discussions with the management for some time. When they came out, they told me that the management had agreed to our staying in the hotel as long as we wanted. I was curious to know how they had solved the ‘diplomatic’ problem so quickly. They sheepishly admitted that they had given the managers of the hotel three bottles of Scotch whiskey (which they were well-advised to bring with them). During the next couple of days, the Minister and I visited quite a few places in the rural areas of Ghana where cocoa and red oil palm were extensively cultivated and processed for export. We noted many practices of value to Kerala. As arranged by the High Commission, the Minister then called on important functionaries of the Govt of Ghana, including some Ministers. We found that after a military coup in that country, almost all the Ministers were ex-Generals and Admirals!

All our courtesy visits had been fixed by the High Commission, so we knew the dates and timings as well as about the VIP we were going to visit. And of course, I was prepared to hand over to the Minister, at the appropriate time, the gift we had taken from Kerala, invariably a Kerala handicraft item from SMSM Institute or the Kerala Emporium in Delhi. One day, the High Commissioner, who used to accompany us on our visits to the dignitaries, suddenly informed the Minister that an unscheduled visit had been arranged to the Ghanaian Minister for Cocoa Affairs (I was amazed at the extent of specialisation in such a small country and more so to learn that the Minister was earlier an Admiral in the Navy). The Minister went to see the Minister for Cocoa Affairs at very short notice, in order to avoid embarrassment to the High Commissioner. After his usual short speech, thanking the Ghanaian Minister, and praising the country and the progress it had made, the Minister requested his counterpart to accept a “small gift” from Kerala and turning to me, said “Mr Murali, nammal konduvanna aa sadhanam idhehathinu kodukkam”. I had to tell him “ Sir, idhehathe innu kanunna karyam namukku

nerathe arinhiruillallo; athukondu sadhanam konduvannittillallo”. The Minister did not lose his cool. He apologised to his host and said that the gift would reach him soon. But my discomfiture did not end there. The High Commissioner, Miss Muthamma, a lady from Coorg, who had distinguished herself as the first woman to be selected to the Indian Foreign Service, roundly criticised me for creating the embarrassing situation (though I had not created it). The Minister and I left Ghana on the earliest day a flight was available (at that time, they had only one plane and only on days it was not on duty with the President of Ghana was it available for international travel) Postscript: 1. The Ghanaian Minister for Cocoa Affairs was executed in a coup that took place not long after our visit 2. I called on Shri Sankaranarayanan in 2012 when he was Governor of Maharashtra. We recalled our Ghana visit of 34 years earlier and had a good laugh over the incidents I have narrated.

Capital City of Ghana - Accra

lone strip on the wall, A tight fit in the frame, Oozing sweet but still forbidding, They watch tight-lipped, in dismay. Waste the land and dry the font, Too long they wait and yearn Past tombs and vaults, Past dying embers, on hopes Buried in crevices numb and hard. Burnished the rock and molten lava Spewing forth both spite and fear. Loud screams and piteous cries Shredding the night to tatter the stars. Fumes and whiplash where hurt Can only stare benumbed. Lida Jacob

When I first met Smt Lida Jacob, wife of Sri. Jacob Punnen, my Plant Supdt in 1976 at Kerala Ceramics Kundara, she was a house wife writing good English poetry. Today after retirement from the civil service, where she was a humane, compassionate, efficient, impartial and cheerful face of the bureaucracy, she is the same family self now without any change in her simple style of living and writing excellent poetry. She told that these lines (here), were penned during the height of electioneering in April-May this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The tall promises of politicians in the midst of violence and inequities all around made a dark pictureâ&#x20AC;?. The appalling images are the musings of an aching soul bogged down by violence and empathy. Amidst the cries and screams the poet foresees a shimmering ray of hope. M.P.A.

Hectoring leaders, these puny spirits, Vowing to raise and shape us all, Our doom? No glittering morn? We believe,we hope, poor masses we, Pompous their boasts, smug, all-knowing. Whither the smile today, that caring stance? When clouds burst in random fits, Mothers hug young bodies tight, Warding off the preying slights. My poor child, in this land of yore, Will sun rays speak And dulcet notes redeem my lute?

23 Smt. Lida Jacob IAS (Retd.), w/o Sri. Jacob Punnen, was the Advisor to Government of Kerala - Gender and Child Protection

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BW-tÃ ‑ m‑ . ]g-b_ - Ô‑w ]‑pX‑p¡ - m‑ a- t‑Ãm‑ Ft‑¶m‑ À¯‑v R‑m³ s‑N¶-t¸ ‑ m‑ Ä B hï‑nb - p‑ s‑S ]‑n¶‑nÂ... k‑q£‑w Fs‑â D{‑Xm‑ S- c- m‑ {- X ‑ n‑ b - n‑ Â Dï‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ At‑X A¿À Ah‑ns‑S \c-¨p‑ - s‑Im‑ c- ¨‑p Cc‑n¸ - p‑ ï - v.‑ At‑¸m‑ t- g‑ ¡‑pw‑ D{‑Xm‑ S- c- m‑ {‑Xn‑ s‑Nb‑vX _‑me-N{- µ ‑ t- a‑ t- \ ‑ m‑ \ - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ R‑m³ l‑nä‑v k‑n\‑na- I - Ä k‑wh‑n[ - m‑ \‑w s‑Nb‑vX _‑meN-{µ ‑ t- a‑ t- \ ‑ m‑ ³ F¶ t‑]c‑v t‑\S‑n¡ - g- n‑ ª n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . a\Ê‑nÂ C‑u [‑mc-Wb‑pw‑ h¨‑ps- I ‑ m‑ ï‑v A`‑na- m‑ \ - t- ¯ ‑ m‑ s‑S A¿-tc‑ m‑ S‑v t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - p‑ . ""A¿-tc‑ ... Fs‑¶ s‑Xc‑nb - p‑ a‑m...?‑'' ""CÃ‑ns - b ‑ ...‑'' F¶‑v A¿À ]d-ªp‑ . ""ad-¶n‑ «- m‑ b‑m Fs‑¶..? F³ a‑q©‑n \Ã‑m ]‑mc‑v... R‑m]I‑w hc‑pX - m‑ ...?‑'' A¿À Fs‑¶ H‑mÀ¡‑m³ {‑ia‑n¨ - p‑ . ""D³ t‑]À F¶ k‑mÀ...?‑'' At‑¸m‑ Ä B \¼À GÂ¡‑nÃ Fs‑¶\ - n‑ ¡‑p a\Ê‑ne - m‑ b - n‑ . R‑m³ ]d-ªp‑ . ""\‑m³ _‑me-N{- µ ‑ t- a‑ t- \ ‑ m‑ ³.. F³ a‑pXÂ ]S-¯n‑ Â \‑o¦ hÀ¡‑v ]®‑nb - n‑ c- p‑ ¡ - v.‑ ..‑'' ""A¸-Sn‑ b - m‑ ... F´ hÀj‑w kÀ..? F¦ j‑q«‑v ]® ]S‑w...?‑'' R‑m³ ]d-ªp‑ . ""AX‑v h´‑v t‑Ic-fm‑ h - n‑ s‑e s‑Im‑ Ã‑w P‑nÃ-bn‑ Â Nh-d Fâd CS‑w. 1977 Â. Ct‑¸m‑ R‑m]I‑w Cc‑p¡ - m‑ ...?‑'' At‑¸m‑ t- g‑ ¡‑pw‑ A¿-cp‑ s‑S a‑pJ‑w s‑Xf‑nª p‑ . ""l‑m... M‑m...‑'' R‑m³ h‑oï‑pw‑ ]d-ªp‑ . ""Hc‑p \‑mÄ h´‑v \½ \S‑ns‑sI ‑ I\-IZ- p‑ À¤ faint B\-Xp‑ w‑ ...‑'' A¿À At‑¸m‑ t- g‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ ... ""Ba kÀ... D{‑Xm‑ S- c- m‑ {‑Xn‑ X‑mt‑\... R‑m]I‑w Cc‑ps‑¡ kÀ... A´-]S‑w F¸S‑n ad-¡- a‑pS- n‑ b‑pw‑ ?‑'' At‑¸m‑ t- g‑ ¡‑pw‑ R‑m³ Ic‑pX‑n Ct‑¸m‑ Ä Xs‑¶ Ft‑¶m‑ S‑v A¿À ]d-bp‑ w‑ . \‑n§s‑f R‑m³ ad-¡p‑ t‑am‑ . \‑n§Ä AX‑n\ - p‑ t- i ‑ j‑w F{‑X l‑nä‑v k‑n\‑na- I - Ä s‑Nb‑vXp‑ . F{‑X he‑nb Ub-dI - vS‑ À Bb‑n. \‑n§-fp‑ s‑S k‑n\‑na- I - Ä R‑m³ I‑mW‑md- p‑ ï‑v Fs‑¶m‑ s- ¡ ‑ ... ]t‑£ ]d-ªX‑p as‑äm‑ ¶ - m‑ W - v.‑ ""At‑¶¡‑p i‑m¸‑n« Ah‑nb - Â F¶ k‑q¸À Ah‑nbÂ k‑mÀ?‑'' A¿-cp‑ s‑S a‑pJ¯‑v At‑¸m‑ g‑pw‑ B ]gb Ah‑nbÂ Ig‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ `‑mh‑w. CX‑mW‑v \Ã Bl‑mc‑w s‑Im‑ S‑p¯‑mÂ \a‑p¡‑v I‑n«‑p¶ kÂt‑¸c- v.‑ {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ ¢º‑n\‑p Ds‑ï¶‑p R‑m³ h‑ni‑zk - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑pw‑ CX‑pX - s- ¶ ‑ . AX‑v R‑m³ Fh‑ns - S‑ b‑pw‑ ]d-bp‑ w‑ . C¶‑v X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- ¯‑v I‑n«‑mh - p‑ ¶ Gäh‑pw‑ \Ã s‑hP‑nt- ä‑ d- n‑ b - ³ ^‑pU‑v F¶‑v ] d-bm‑ h - p‑ ¶ - X‑v {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ ¢_‑ns‑e ^‑pU‑mW - v.‑ CSb‑v¡v‑ Ch‑nS- s‑¯ AS‑p¡ - f t‑am‑ i-am‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä Hs‑¡ R‑m³ AX‑v N‑qï‑n¡ - m‑ W - n‑ ¨ - n‑ «- p‑ ï - v.‑ F¶‑v Ch‑nS- p‑ s‑¯ Ah‑nbÂ t‑am‑ i-am‑ h - p‑ t- ¶ ‑ m‑ ... A¶‑v Hc‑p At‑km‑ k - n‑ t- b ‑ j - \‑pw‑ ¢_‑ns‑\ s‑]m‑ ¡‑ns - ¡ ‑ m‑ ï‑v hc‑m\ - m‑ h - n‑ Ã - .. AX‑n\ - m‑ Â

C¶-s¯ ‑ t- ¸ ‑ m‑ e - s‑¯ \Ã Ah‑nb - Â F¶‑pw‑ Dï‑m¡‑pI - . \Ã `£W‑w Xc‑p¶ - h - s‑c F\‑ns- ¡ ‑ ¶‑pw‑ Cj‑vSa‑mW - v.‑ Ah-tc‑ m‑ S‑p {‑]t‑Xy‑ I BZ-ch - p‑ ï - v.‑ A¶-Zm‑ \‑w al‑mZ- m‑ \‑w F¶‑mW - t‑Ãm‑ s‑h¸‑v. A§s‑\ t‑\m‑ ¡‑nb - m‑ Â {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ ¢_‑ns‑e C‑u {‑]hÀ¯-IÀ A¶-Zm‑ \ - {- ] ‑ `‑p¡ - f - m‑ W - v.‑ X‑nc‑ph - \ - ´ - ] - p‑ c- ¯ - p‑ Å - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä Fs‑â Hc‑p Z‑nh-k¯ - n‑ s‑â `£-Wc- o‑ X‑n \‑nÝ-bn‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑v Ch-cm‑ s‑W¶‑v ]d-bp‑ h - m‑ ³ F\‑n¡‑v b‑ms‑Xm‑ c‑p aS‑nb - p‑ a- n‑ Ã - . F\‑n¡‑v {‑Sn‑ h‑m³{‑Uw‑ ¢_‑ns‑e FÃ‑mh - s- c‑ b‑pw‑ Ad‑nb‑mt‑am‑ F¶‑v t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - m‑ Â F\‑n¡‑v ]e-sc‑ b‑pw‑ i_‑vZ¯‑nÂ I‑qs‑Sb - m‑ W‑v ]c‑nN - b - w‑ . AÔ-·m‑ c- p‑ s‑S t‑]m‑ s‑eb‑mW‑v Fs‑â I‑mc‑yw‑ . AhÀ s‑Nh‑nb - n‑ e‑pw‑ I¿‑ne‑pw‑ ]‑nS‑n¨‑p Bf‑pI - s‑f Ad‑nb - p‑ ¶ - t- ] ‑ m‑ s- e ‑ . R‑m³ t‑^m‑ s‑WS‑p¯‑p lt‑em‑ h‑nf‑n t‑IÄ¡‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä M‑m... c‑ma-N{- µ ‑ m‑ ... t‑Km‑ ]‑me - I - r‑ j - vW ‑ m‑ ,‑ t‑am‑ l-\m‑ ,‑ k‑nP‑q kt‑´m‑ j - w‑ ... ] t‑£ t‑\c‑n«‑v Iï‑mÂ Ch-cn‑ Â ]e-sc‑ b‑pw‑ F\‑n¡ - d- n‑ bW‑w F¶‑nÃ - . ]t‑£ i_‑vZw‑ ]c‑nN - n‑ X - a- m‑ W - v.‑ R‑m³ a‑pt‑Ij - n‑ \‑v (F‑w.-FÂ.-F. a‑pt‑Ij‑v F¶‑pw‑ ]d-bp‑ w‑ )‑ Fs‑â "A½-bm‑ s‑W kX‑yw‑ '‑ F¶ k‑n\‑na- b‑nÂ s‑Im‑ S‑p¯ - X‑v Hc‑p s‑hb‑väd- p‑ s‑S t‑hj-am‑ W - v.‑ F\‑n¡-{X ‑ b‑pw‑ Cj‑vSa- p‑ Å t‑hj-am‑ W - X - v.‑ I‑mc-Ww‑ ,‑ Hc‑p IÌ-as‑d k‑pJ‑n¸ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ C{‑Xb‑pw‑ \s‑Ãm‑ c‑p t‑hj‑w t‑hs‑db - n‑ Ã F¶ A`‑n{- ] ‑ m‑ b - ¡ - m‑ c- \ - m‑ W‑v R‑m³. Hc‑p Ø‑m]-\¯ - n‑ s - â ‑ ,‑ ¢_‑ns‑â Hs‑¡ h‑nPb‑w F¶‑p ] d-bp‑ ¶ - X‑v Ah‑nS- p‑ s‑¯ {‑]hÀ¯-Ic- m‑ W - v.‑ ]e-bn‑ S- ¯‑pw‑ Dït‑Ãm‑ S‑n¸‑v s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ - p‑ I F¶‑pÅ BN‑mc- w‑ . F¶‑mÂ C‑u ]d-bp‑ ¶ S‑n¸‑v F¶‑v h‑m¡‑ns‑â AÀ°‑w Ad‑nª - n‑ «‑mt‑Wm‑ ]ec‑pw‑ CX‑v s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ - p‑ I - b‑pw‑ h‑m§‑pI - b‑pw‑ s‑N¿‑p¶ - s - X ‑ ¶‑v F\‑n¡ - d- n‑ b - n‑ Ã - . TIP F¶ h‑m¡‑ns‑â fully developed meaning F¶‑p ]d-bp‑ ¶ - X‑v To insure promptness F¶‑mW‑v. AX‑mb - X‑v Hc‑ph - ³ I‑rX‑ya‑mb‑n s‑N¿‑p¶ t‑kh-\§ - Ä¡‑pÅ As‑Ã¦ - n‑ Â \Ã `£-W¯ - n‑ \ - p‑ Å Fs‑â kt‑´m‑ j - a- m‑ W‑v TIP. AX‑v I‑rX‑yX - b - n‑ Ã - m‑ s‑X hc‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ g- m‑ W‑v ]ec‑pw‑ TIP s‑Im‑ S‑p¡‑ms‑X t‑]m‑ I‑p¶ - X - v.‑ ]‑ns‑¶ C‑u k¹-bÀ ]e-sc‑ b‑pw‑ Hc‑p] - m‑ S‑v k‑zm‑ [‑o\‑n¡ - p‑ w‑ . N‑ne Øe¯‑v `£W‑w Ig‑n¡ - m‑ ³ t‑]m‑ I‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä ChÀ `h‑yX - t- b ‑ m‑ s‑S hc‑pw‑ . Fs‑´m‑ s- ¡ ‑ b - p‑ ï‑v Ig‑n¡ - m‑ ³ F¶‑v \½Ä t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä ChÀ ]d-bp‑ w‑ . ""a«¬‑, N‑n¡³. AX‑v CX‑v.. A§s‑\ FÃ‑mw‑

Dï‑v kÀ...‑'' \½Ä a«¬ H‑mÀUÀ s‑N¿‑pw‑ . _‑p²-na‑m\ - m‑ b ks‑¹b - À N‑pä‑pw‑ ]cX‑n t‑\m‑ ¡‑nb - n‑ «‑v \½‑ps‑S s‑Nh‑nb‑nÂ ]d-bp‑ w‑ . ""C¶‑v a«¬ t‑hï k‑mÀ...‑'' F´‑p ]ä‑ns - b ‑ ¶‑p \½Ä t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä... h‑oï‑pw‑ k‑zc‑w X‑mg‑v¯n‑ ]d-bp‑ w‑ . ""AX‑nt- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä k‑md‑nt- \ ‑ m‑ S- m‑ h - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä kX‑yw‑ ] d-bm‑ a- t- Ã ‑ m‑ ...‑'' N‑n¡³ s‑s{‑ ^ ‑ \¶‑mb - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ s - a‑ ¶ Ah³ k‑qN‑n¸‑n¡ - p‑ w‑ . \½Ä k‑wX‑r] - vX ‑ n‑ t- b ‑ m‑ s‑S Ahs‑\ A\‑pk - c‑n¡ - p‑ w‑ . \½‑ps‑S I‑mg‑vN¸ - m‑ S- n‑ Â \½‑ps‑S ic‑oc- ¯ - n‑ s‑â Bt‑cm‑ K‑yw‑ I‑m¯‑p k‑q£‑n¨ - h - \ - m‑ W‑v Ah³. AX‑ps‑Im‑ ï‑p Xs‑¶ S‑n¸‑ns‑â k‑wJ‑yb‑pw‑ I‑qS‑pw‑ . ^e-¯n‑ Â k‑w`-hn‑ ¨ - t‑Xm‑ Ah-cp‑ s‑S Xs‑¶ A\‑mØ s‑Im‑ ï‑v a«¬ ka-b¯‑v s‑dU‑nb - m‑ b - n‑ «- n‑ Ã - . IÌ-at- d‑ m‑ S‑v CÃ‑m¶‑p ]d-bm‑ \‑pw‑ ]ä‑nÃ - .. c£-s¸ ‑ S- m‑ ³ Hc‑p a‑mÀ¤‑w. CÃ‑m¯ a«s‑W N‑o¯-bm‑ ¡‑n DÅ N‑n¡s‑\ \½‑ps‑S h‑mb‑v¡I-¯m‑ ¡‑n a‑m\-hn‑ I - X - b - p‑ Å k¹-bd- m‑ b - n‑ . Hc‑p s‑hS‑n¡‑v cï‑p ]£‑n. ]‑n¶‑oS‑v ]e XhW a«¬ N‑o¯-bm‑ b‑n F¶‑p ]d-ªt- ¸ ‑ m‑ g- m‑ W‑v Ahs‑â k‑maÀ°‑yw‑ F\‑n¡‑v a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ b - X - v.‑ Hc‑p t‑lm‑ «-en‑ s‑â DS-aØ - ³ F{‑X t‑Ia-\m‑ b - m‑ e‑pw‑ B t‑lm‑ «-en‑ s‑â h‑nP-bh‑pw‑ \‑ne-\n‑ Â¸‑pw‑ Ah‑nS- p‑ s‑¯ k¹-bÀa‑mc- p‑ s‑S s‑sI ‑ I-fn‑ e - m‑ W - v.‑ N‑ne-bn‑ S- ¯‑v N‑ne-cp‑ s‑S s‑]c‑pa- m‑ ä‑w I‑mW‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä Xs‑¶ \a‑p¡‑v _‑p²‑na- p‑ «‑v t‑Xm‑ ¶‑pw‑ . F´‑pï‑v Ig‑n¡ - m‑ ³ F¶‑p t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - m‑ Â t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - h - s‑\ a\-]q‑ Àh‑w {‑i²‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - n‑ Ã‑m F¶ a«‑nÂ \‑n¶‑v k‑z´‑w Xe 360 U‑n{‑Kn‑ X‑nc‑n¨‑v I®-S¨‑v `£-W] - Z‑mÀ°-§f - p‑ s‑S t‑]c‑v Dc‑ph - n‑ «- p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ t- ï ‑ b - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . "ak‑mÂt‑Zm‑ i - ... K‑o t‑Zm‑ i... dh t‑Zm‑ i... N¸‑m¯ - n‑ ... ]‑qc‑n... D‑u¯-¸w‑ .... h‑mg-bv¡ ‑ m‑ ¸ - w‑ ...‑' _‑n]‑nb - p‑ s‑S Ak‑pJ‑w DÅ-h\ - m‑ s- W ‑ ¦ - n‑ Â Fg‑pt- ¶ ‑ ä‑v \‑n¶‑v Ic-W¡ - p‑ ä- n‑ ¡‑v H¶‑v s‑]m‑ «‑n¨ - m‑ e‑pw‑ I‑pg-¸a- n‑ Ã - . \½Ä Ah‑ns‑S `£W‑w Ig‑n¡ - m‑ ³ s‑N¶‑nc- p‑ ¶‑p Ig‑n¨‑v Fg‑pt- ¶ ‑ ä‑p t‑]m‑ I‑p¶ - X - p‑ h - s‑c \½s‑f {‑i²‑n-

S O O R YA K R I S H N A M O O R T H Y ’ S

GANESHAM

Soorya Nataka Kalari

Kadha Chitra Chumaru

There is a generalization that normally there will be at least 7 persons of identical nature living at a time on the earth. But Soorya Krishnamoorthy is different. There is only one person of his kind that is he himself and no substitute for him. Moorthy, my old schoolmate of Model School, Trivandrum is a trail blazer of the highest calibre. Soorya and Soorya Krishna Moorthy are today two inseparable global brand icons in the world of culture and entertainment with Soorya Chapters spread over the globe. We, the people of Thiruvananthapuram are fortunate to enjoy a non-stop cultural bonanza of Soorya every year with an exponential growth annually. Now Krishnamoorthy has thrown open the yard of his own house into an open air theatre under the strong protection and patronage of his favourite deity Lord Ganesan, to amateur drama artists free of cost, who otherwise find it next to impossible to get a venue or audience to stage their artistic creations. M.P.A.

Soorya Krishnamoorthy

GANESHAM Kadha Chitra Chumaru is a piece of study for the students of finearts... it portrays the story of Maha Ganapathy through several segments of cement mural paintings... a printed card narrating the story, distributed to the visitors, would help follow the story from birth to the Ganesha Leela... one must visit the Chumaru to experience the positive energy it creates...

Sri. Soorya Krishnamoorthy (L-1643) Engineer is the former Chairman, Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy.

¡‑p¶‑p F¶ t‑Xm‑ ¶-ep‑ ï - m‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - n‑ S- ¯ - m‑ W‑v Hc‑p k¹b-dp‑ s‑S a‑nI-hv.‑ N‑mb I‑pS‑n¡ - m‑ ³ hc‑p¶ - h - \ - m‑ I - s- «‑ ,‑ Hc‑p N‑mb H‑mÀUÀ s‑Nb‑vXp‑ Ig‑nª‑v Ø‑m\‑w ]‑nS‑n¨‑p Ig‑nª m‑ Â ]‑ns‑¶ I‑pS‑n¨‑p X‑oc‑p¶ - X‑p hs‑c c‑mP‑mh‑ms - W ‑ ¶ - m‑ W‑v Ahs‑â C‑ut‑Km‑ . C‑u Hc‑p _Ô‑w Ch‑ns‑S a‑m{‑Xa- Ã - ... `‑mc‑ym‑ `- ÀX‑r_-Ô¯ - n‑ Â t‑]m‑ e‑pa- p‑ ï‑v C‑u Hc‑p {‑i²-bp‑ s‑S I‑mc‑yw‑ . `‑mc‑y k‑pµ-cn‑ b - m‑ b - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ ... k‑pi‑oe - b - m‑ b - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ ... I‑me¯‑v I‑pf‑n¨‑p A¼-e¯ - n‑ Â t‑]m‑ I‑pw‑ . Hs‑¡ s‑N¿‑pw‑ . ]t‑£ I‑me¯‑v `À¯‑mh - n‑ \‑v Hc‑p I¸‑v I‑m¸‑n s‑Im‑ S‑p¡ - p‑ t‑¼m‑ Ä AhÄ a‑nï-¯n‑ Ã - . ]Ic‑w AhÄ hb‑v¡p‑ ¶ B I¸‑v k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . At‑Xm‑ s‑S N‑ne-t¸ ‑ m‑ Ä AS‑n h‑og‑pw‑ . ]‑ns‑¶ `‑mc‑y t‑am‑ §‑nt- ¡ ‑ m‑ ï‑v R‑m³ H¶‑pw‑ s‑Nb‑vXn‑ Ã t‑N¨‑o... c‑mh‑ns‑e I‑pf‑n¨‑p N‑mb s‑Im‑ ï‑v s‑Im‑ S‑p¯ - t- X ‑ b - p‑ Å - q‑ . At‑¸m‑ t- g‑ ¡‑pw‑ Ab‑mÄ Fs‑¶ ]S‑m F¶‑v XÃ‑n. CX‑mb - n‑ c- n‑ ¡‑pw‑ `‑mc‑yb - p‑ s‑S ]c‑mX - n‑ . ] t‑£ C‑u ]S‑m F¶‑v AS‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \ - n‑ S- b - n‑ Â \S¶ B s‑Im‑ ¨‑p {‑][‑m\ - s- ¸ ‑ « I‑mc‑yw‑ AhÄ ]d-bn‑ Ã - . B I¸‑v s‑Im‑ ï‑ph - ¨ c‑oX‑n... AX‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ s- e ‑ b - m‑ W‑v \Ã `£W‑w s‑Im‑ ï‑v Xc‑p¶ - X - n‑ s‑â B k‑pJ‑w. Hc‑p t‑Um‑ I‑vSÀ t‑cm‑ K‑ns‑b c£‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑p t‑]m‑ s‑eb - p‑ Å kÂIÀ½a‑mW‑v \‑n§Ä \Ã `£W‑w s‑Im‑ ï‑p hb‑v¡p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ e‑qs‑S s‑N¿‑p¶ - X - v.‑ At‑¸m‑ Ä \‑n§-fp‑ s‑S a‑pJ-s¯ ‑ m‑ c‑p

\Ã N‑nc‑nb‑pw‑ a\-Ên‑ Â \Ã N‑n´b‑pw‑ Ft‑¸m‑ g‑pw‑ I‑qs‑S Dï‑mh - W‑w F¶‑mW‑v F\‑n¡‑v ]d-bm‑ \ - p‑ Å - X - v.‑ H‑mt‑cm‑ kt‑½f - \ - ¯ - n‑ e‑pw‑ ]s‑¦S- p‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä H‑mt‑cm‑ I‑mc‑y§ - Ä R‑m³ ]T‑n¡‑md‑pï‑v. C‑u kt‑½f - \ - h‑pw‑ Fs‑¶ N‑ne I‑mc‑y§ - Ä ]T‑n¸ - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . F\‑n¡‑v I‑n«‑nb C‑u BZ-ch‑v P‑oh‑nX - ¯‑nÂ I‑n«‑p¶ A]‑qÀh BZ-ch - m‑ W - v.‑ Hc‑p] - m‑ S‑v Øe¯‑v t‑]m‑ I‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ g‑pw‑ NS-§p‑ Ig‑nb‑pt‑¼m‑ Ä \a‑ps- ¡ ‑ m‑ c‑p D]-lm‑ c‑w Xc‑pw‑ . F\‑n¡‑v ]ß{‑io‑

Hc‑p k‑wL‑mS- I - ³ k‑qN‑n¸ - n‑ ¨ - X - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s‑e hfs‑c _‑p²‑na- p‑ «‑nb - m‑ W‑v CX‑v k‑wL-Sn‑ ¸ - n‑ ¨ - X - v.‑ {‑io‑ ]-ß\ - m‑ `- k - z‑ m‑ a- n‑ b - p‑ s‑S A\‑p{- K ‑ l‑w a‑pg‑ph - \‑pw‑ AS-§n‑ b h‑nÃ‑v F\‑n¡‑v I‑qS‑pXÂ D‑uÀP‑w ]I-cs‑« F¶‑v R‑m³ B{‑Kl - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . At‑Xm‑ s- S‑ m‑ ¸‑w ]e-t¸ ‑ m‑ g‑pw‑ t‑^m‑ W‑ns‑e i_‑vZ¯ - n‑ e - q‑ s‑S Ah-Xc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ t‑Km‑ ]‑me - I - r‑ j - vW ‑ s- \ ‑ b‑pw‑ c‑ma-N{- µ ‑ s- \ ‑ b‑pw‑ a‑pc-fn‑ b - p‑ s - a‑ m‑ s‑¡ Hc‑pa‑n¨‑p I‑mW‑m\ - m‑ h‑pw‑ Aht‑cm‑ s - S‑ m‑ ¸‑w I‑pd¨‑p \‑pd‑p§ - p‑ h - À¯-am‑ \‑w ]d-bm‑ \‑pw‑

I‑n«‑nb - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ g‑pw‑ t‑Zi‑ob Ah‑mÀU‑v I‑n«‑nb - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ g‑pw‑ \‑mS‑p\ - o‑ s‑f A\‑pt- a‑ m‑ Z- \ - N-S§ - n‑ Â ]s‑¦S- p‑ ¯ - h - \ - m‑ W‑v R‑m³. ]t‑£ FÃ‑mb - n‑ S- ¯‑pw‑ F\‑n¡‑v I‑n«‑nb D]-lm‑ c‑w h©‑n\ - m‑ S‑v k‑wk‑vIm‑ c- s‑¯ H‑mÀa‑n¸ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ \ - m‑ h‑mw‑ ]e Xc-¯n‑ e - p‑ Å hÅ-§f - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . A§s‑\ h¶‑p h¶‑p R‑m³ Ahk‑m\‑w t‑hZ‑nb - n‑ Â {‑]k‑wK - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . Zb-hm‑ b‑n hÅ‑w a‑m{‑Xw‑ Xc-cp‑ t- X ‑ ...- hÅ‑w X‑pg-bm‑ ³ h‑o«‑nÂ s‑hÅ-an‑ Ã - . AX‑p h¨‑p t‑\m‑ ¡‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä Hc‑p I‑mc‑y¯ - n‑ Â R‑m³ kt‑´m‑ j - h - m‑ \ - m‑ W - v.‑ F\‑n¡ - n‑ h - n‑ s‑S \‑n§Ä D]-lm‑ c- a‑mb‑n X¶‑nc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑v {‑io‑ ]-ß\ - m‑ `- s‑â H‑mW-hn‑ Ã - m‑ W - v.‑

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It is executed by shri.K.U. Krishna Kumar, principal of Chumar Chitra Padana Kendram of Guruvayur Devaswam... GANESHAM Nataka Kalari of Soorya is an open air theatre meant for the encouragement of amateur dramas... its a house of realistic dramas only... ie the dramas which easily communicate with the audience.. This open air auditorium, lights, sound, generator, diesel charges, 250 chairs, rehearsal space, and dormitory for a nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stay... are given FREE OF ALL CHARGES to the drama troups.. To develop the culture of buying tickets to see dramas, Rs. 20/- tickets re introduced.. the entire collection from tickets is given to the drama troups for their travel and food expenses.. Initially the dramas will be presented once in a month, the first day of every month.. which will get increased, in course of time... 4 months in a year, Sooryaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chaayakkada Ganesham Soorya Nataka Kalari and Kadha Chithra Chumaru were inaugurated by Sri. Pinarayi Vijayan, The Hon. Chief Minister of Kerala on the 7th July 2016.

Kadhakal will be presented... remaining 8 months, dramas of other groups. Chaayakkada Kadhakal is the first realistic cartoon drama series in Malayalam and in the Indian theatre..

Same characters, same characteristics, same venue, same stage settings, same back drop, same narrative style (realistic), different stories, different writers, one director...

In my life I never had the feeling of jealousy towards anybody for their elevation to high positions, acquiring enormous wealth, getting a celebrity status and things of that sort. But in the heart of hearts I have a little jealousy towards certain persons because they have been hand-picked my the God, designated them to reduce or eliminate the agony of others, sacrificing many of their personal and family pleasures. Smt. Shobha is one among ‘my jealous list’ like the unsung hero’s and the unknown angels of Sree Chithra Tirunal Hospital, where I had under gone an open heart surgery last year. We are all created with the same body tissues, mind and conditions of living. But we spend or waste our money and time on luxuries and personal pleasures where as the helpless, hapless majority is in great misery. In this touching, simple narration (as we all know she is a gifted poet) Smt. Sbhoba enlightens, encourages and enthrals us with her devoted, determined and dedicated efforts in this direction. She proved that from a dream to a real dream house for a less fortunate family could be built in a short span of one year starting with no funds, but with strong determination and abundant support from the people with noble hearts. Along with Shoba let us pray to God for gifting us also with similar dreams Shoba had and change our mind sets. May God bless you Shobha. M.P.A.

When Dream Comes True

Shoba George

n 22nd August 2015 I had a dream of a brand new concrete house in the middle of a lush forest. The dream was antecedent to the reality that has come to pass in a tribal settlement colony at Njaranelli, 66 km from the Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum. The excited owner of that house is Ratheesh, 29, the breadwinner of a young family, who is a poor palliative cancer patient of RCC. Ratheesh, was a driver with the forest department Palode. During his long hauls, taking logs of wood to destinations he used “shaambu’ (paan). Little did he know that he will be a victim of oral cancer. Without much delay he reached RCC where he was diagnosed of CA tongue. He had to undergo surgery where a part of his tongue was removed, followed be chemotheraphy and radiation. With a major part of his tongue removed, he could not speak properly nor eat as his mouth was ulcerated.

It was a very traumatic time fort he young family and the wife was then expecting the second child. He had severe pain and at this stage he was handed over to Palliative department. Doctors assessed the patient and found that more than the pain it was the emotional and social trauma that he was facing. Last July, Ratheesh was entrusted to Care-Plus an NGO supporting home care service for the poor palliative cancer patients entrusted to them. On the first visit by CarePlus medical team to Ratheesh at his home at the tribal colony at the foothills of Ponmudi, they found hims in a pathetic painful condition in a make-shift hut with his wife and two children. The team distributed pain management medicines recommended by RCC, disinfectant lotions and taught him oral hygiene. With nothing to eat, CarePlus gave the food kit supply it gives to such homes. The team counselled the family. A tone of despite was the underlying note of his wife, just 24 and a mother of 2 kids.

Volunteers of Care Plus along with the beneficiaries (Those holding kids) at the formal handing over function held on 30-07-2016. Others in the group photo in front of the new house include Dr. George Varughese (Former Registrar of RCC, representative of Kerala Finance Corporation (who contributed Rs. 2 lakhs under CSR), members and medical team of Care Plus.

Mrs Shoba George (W/o. Sri George Pulimood), Member of CarePlus NGO

The hut is the one in which the family used to live till Care Plus constructed the new house.

Medical team wanted one of the members of CarePlus visit the home of Ratheesh and do something to better the condition of this family and I was asked to go. I was a little diffident, knowing the route was bad in the rainy weather. That very night I had a dream of a concrete house in the middle of lush forest. The very nex day 23rd August I made it to the tribal colony at Njaranelli. During my interaction with the family, I understood that tehy belonged to the Kani tribe. Ratheesh married Sreekala against the wish of their families. They had to setup their own home. Together with the help of their friends they made a hut with mud sticks and a thatch of bamboo leaves. Here they raised their family. It was when she was expecting their second child Ratheesh’s problem started. It was a very hard time for them. The immediate need was to get them a pucca house with the necessary amenities. CarePlus has never attempted to provide a house as a part of the rehabilitation. It was always a toilet ot reroofing etc. But here there was no possibility of repairing because CarePlus came to understand that this family will get a house as per the priority of the applicants which may take a few years. But as far as this family was concerned moving to a house was the immediate need. But question was where and how. Since CarePlus does not have any funds for building houses beneficiaries. A new project ‘Palode house’ took shape with fund raising as it’s agenda. With the self confidence that a house

will be built for Ratheesh, CarePlus approached its wellwishers. Donations started trickling in. CarePlus made it very clear that the progress of the work will be according to the flow of funds. CarePlus feels honored by the trust the wellwishers had in this major project and in the transparency of CarePlus. Our major donors were Derby designs. Credence Hospitals. Vidhiyal Trust, Kerala Finance Corporation (CSR) and all the individual donors who contributed to make this CarePlus project a success. They had to get a little deed from the tribal settlement office in Palode. With a special request and with the RCC treatment papers, without much difficulty 70 cents of land was allotted in Ratheesh’s name which can be used only for habitation and cultivation. Sreekala who is a graduate from Iqbal College, Peringammala, was taught how to operate an ATM card. CarePlus started an account at SBT Palode Branch. Suku, a mason, who constructs the houses in the settlement colony was called up to discuss the matter. He agreed to take the responsibility to construct a small house. The allotted plot had a lot of trees. Forest department cleared the plot with a JCB. Before long the trenching for the foundation was done. Slowly the structure of the house cameup. Within 10 months the house was ready. Sreekala, who completed her degree course, kept the accounts so perfectly which helped CarePlus to account the money properly. She narrated the events in a verbatim form. She was multitasking, taking care of her family and super-

vising the construction. From the ramshackle hut, devoid of ventilation and even doors, Ratheesh, Sreekala and kids moved into their new house Nandha Bhavan on 10th July 2016. CarePlus feels thankful that a concrete house with 3 spacious rooms attached bathroom verandah and a kitchen. A good plumbing system with a newly dug up well, motor and over head tank and rain water harvesting CarePlus furnished it. Sreekala always used to ask why the special care was given to them has it was God’s Love that made the question mark(?) what next, last year into a mighty exclamation mark (!) this year. This is a miracle performs, in front of many doubting Thomas’s to make everyone believe that together every thing is possible. CarePlus is very grateful to the Regional Cancer Centre Trivandrum for making it possible to help the poor palliative cancer patients. Palliative department RCC identifies the poor patients who need medical, emotionional social support and are registered with CarePlus. Our patron, Dr. M. Krishnan Nair, the Founder Director initiated CarePlus in RCC in 2003. Dr. B. Rajan the second director was the mentor, which made CarePlus to expand; The present director Dr. Paul Sebastian is watching CarePlus flow as a solace to the poor palliative cancer patients of Regional Cancer Centre. The new house

was asked to give an article for the Second Home, but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remember anything to write about. Then I thought of sharing with you, the unique and interesting life I led, as a little child, among village kids. When I was five years old, my father, who was a doctor, was appointed in the U.M.T., Sanatorium at Madanappalli, in Andhra Pradesh. It was a well known place at that time, for the treatment of Tuberculosis. T.B. was considered to be a contagious and incurable disease, and anyone who suffered from it, or his close family, was shunned by society. The good work done at Madanappalli Sanatorium proved that, with proper treatment and care, the disease could be cured. Patients from all over South Asia came there for treatment and being

Annie Mathew Kayyalackakom

a secluded place, it had privacy from the outside world. It was into this atmosphere that I landed, as a happy five year old child. As there were no proper schools, anywhere in the locality, the children of the doctors and other staff members were sent to boarding schools. My sister, who was eleven years old was also sent to the boarding in Bangalore. Myself being just a little girl, my parents did not have the heart to send me away, and I studied in the school run by the Sanatorium, for the children of the surrounding villages. The school consisted of several sheds, which resembled army barracks of that period, with curved corrugated iron sheets resting on stone parapets We sat on the ground, which was

It was mentioned earlier in this issue of the magazine that there is a child hiding inside the minds of all of us irrespective of age. But in the case of our Annie Teacher (Mrs. Annie Mathew) the child in her is not hiding. It is ever present in her; the voice, the tone, the affection, her approach all has a child element visibly present. A gifted writer she is, she chooses subjects connected with children or her child hood which is her favourite haunt. In this Madanappally days she has meticulously mentioned the minute details of her early school life in a remote village in Andhra Pradesh. Along with this the sketches she has drawn herself, we get the real mood or we can easily empathize with that situation. Now please read on with your child hood brought back into your sensory perceptions. M.P.A.

Madanappalli Days 32

covered with mud and clay. Only the teacher had a chair. As it was the end of the IInd World War, the material used for building the school, must have come from the discarded army structures. All the subjects were taught in Telugu, The children of some of the staff, who were Tamilian and myself, were taught Tamil, in a special class taken by Vasantha teacher. All the other classes were common, with the other kids. I learned Mathematical tables in Telugu, and even now, when I am in a hurry, I multiply in Telugu. Oka rendu, rendu (1x2=2) rendu rendu, naalugu (2x2=4) Moodu, rendu aaru (3x2=6) and so on ..... The kids of the villages, who were my classmates, were the poorest of the poor. Their parents were labourers, in the sugar cane, ground nut or ragi fields. Their clothes were old and shabby, most of them were hand-me-downs, from their landlordsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; children. I felt embarrassed to go to school, wearing good clothes, and was adamant that I would wear only my old clothes. Even these dresses were better than the best clothes of my classmates. I refused to wear chappals as my friends came to school bare-footed.

Smt. Annie Mathew Kayyalackakom, W/o. Sri. Joseph Mathew Kayyalakkakom is the retd. Professor of N.S.S. College for Women, Trivandrum.

On my way to and from school, which was at the other end of the sanatorium, I used to meet patients or staff members of the hospital, and being the only child in the sanatorium, and that too, the daughter of their doctor, they used to talk to me, and I used to be friendly with all of them. Amma used to be ashamed of the ordinary clothes I wore to school, as all these people would be seeing me, and blame her for dressing me so shabbily.

My friends at school were Lali, Jaya and Thampi, who were the children of the staff, and some village kids, the leader of all of us being Thimmayya, a tall, dark, lanky boy, who was older than the rest of us. He had a clean shaven head, with a patch of hair on top, tied in a knot, which we called ‘pilli juttu’ or ‘cat’s tail’. He was the leader and hero of the class.

Every day, we used to go home for lunch, and the children of the labourers, after having their food, would take lunch to their parents in the fields. It usually consisted of ragi flour, cooked in salt water. The cooked mass was rolled into a ball, with a depression on top, to hold pickles, This used to be wrapped in big leaves and taken to the fields. It was called ‘sangatti’ . I also would have loved to take food for my father, but what to do? He was a doctor! not a farm labourer and came home on his cycle every noon for lunch. The common form of transport in that place was the cycle. The chakkara mittai made from sugar cane juice was very tasty. It was the size of a lime, very hard and brown in colour. Road side vendors used to sell them in the Highway which passed on the outskirts of the sanatorium. Though I would have loved to buy them, I could not, because, first of all I had no pocket money to buy it, and secondly, I was not allowed to eat the stuff kept exposed on the road. As my father argued, they would be full of germs! Luckily the villagers were not aware of germs and their like, so Thimmayya, with the little money be got from his father, would buy one or two mittais and bring them to school. On the way back home, he would wrap the mittai in a leaf or paper, and keeping the packet on a stone, would hit it hard with another stone. The small pieces were distributed among all of us. If the sweets were small ones, we would wrap it in a fold of our dress and bite it, to get two bits, which we shared with another person. Luckily, my father did not get to know of these goings on, which would have resulted in a scolding, or a screwing of my ears. The children also used to bring ground nuts in their shells along with molasses. After the ground nuts were harvested, some of them would be left behind unnoticed, under the mud. After the produce was taken away, the children used to go to the fields and search in the mud, and pull out the remaining nuts.

These were brought to school, without even removing the mud sticking to them. They also used to bring molasses, which they got free from the sugar factories, where their parents worked. We would knock off the mud, break the shell and eat the raw nuts with the molasses, which was a yummy treat, and the taste of it still remains fresh in my memory. My happy life in Madanappalli continued until I was nine years old, when my parents decided that it was high time, that I saw the world around me. So they sent me to the boarding in Bangalore, along with my sister. Thus ended the most wonderful period of my life, which gave me the opportunity to like, understand and appreciate the lowest strata of people in society. If I were to continue writing about all the fun I had, it would fill the whole of the ‘Second Home’. So let me stop when the ‘going is good’.

The Little ‘Annie’ of Madanappali

Meera Nair

Race to ‘Which’ Mountain?

Last Month our APJ Abdul Kalam Technology University published its 2nd Semester B Tech results. Out of the 152 ‘Engineering’ colleges in the state the pass rate in 59 self-financing colleges was from 30 to 10%! In one college, only 5 out of the 250 students passed. In the 1960’s when I was studying in the College of Engineering Trivandrum (there were only 5+1 (REC) engineering colleges in Kerala then), a maximum of 5 stackers out of the 250 managed to fail in our college exam. Of course there are some private colleges with pass percentage 60 to 80. Thus there is a mad rush or rat race for admission in the reputed engineering colleges. The majority of the self financing colleges were admitting students with digital or even zero in science subjects. How can we expect the poor students with poorer faculty members and the poorest infrastructure to pass the tough papers in engineering. Luckily this year the Government especially a pro-

fessor as its education minister handled the admission muddle with an iron fist saving the helpless students, their ignorant parents and the future of technical education as a whole. Mrs Meera Nair’s observations on the slaughter or massacre of education in the 10, +2 area is a mirror focussed on the stark, naked truth about the coaching class mania and the mafia like strangle hold these ‘coaches’ have on the adolescent world and on the parents. There are umpteen number of opportunities in various other subjects in which these ‘forced’ engineering or some medical students are otherwise genuinely interested, but disallowed by the parents and the society. Let us leave our intelligent, educated and knowledgeable children to pick and choose careers of their liking where they can excel and be happy. M.P.A.

was only the other day that all the national and regional newspapers splashed the news of toppers for the CBSE, the State Boards and the ISC. Almost all the toppers wanted to enter coveted engineering colleges. Proud parents and their wards were the cynosure of all eyes and looked upon as role models by ambitious parents and their competitive children, who were quite willing to put in anything between 12-14 hours of study. So, what happens to the not so willing child who may not want to put in so many hours of study?

What goes on behind the scenes is a story by itself. As a mother of a 17 year old who has taken science as a choice of subjects for his junior college (essentially the 11th and 12th grade in a school) life has become one roller coaster ride. Ask me why and I can grimace to the point

that my face could be permanently damaged. A typical day in the hottest month of the year in Mumbai – May 2016, starts at 5am and ends at 8pm, be it Sunday or Monday, anniversary, birthday or any festival. The tuitions are always on. No holiday, no respite for mothers and their children. Multiple tiffin boxes to be packed and had between classes and constant reminders to drink enough water, are the high points of the day, besides reminders to carry the correct books for different subjects. Travelling from one centre to another is ensured by car pooling, with parents taking turns to drive their child with his or her friends or for the lucky few who have dedicated drivers and cars at their child’s disposal. So, what happens to those who can’t afford either? God save them from the health hazards of travelling by public transport in Mumbai during their gruelling schedule. At this juncture mothers tend to seek solace from each other – “after all it’s only for another 10 months.” In today’s times education has turned into a rat race for those with money and for the rest, who fall in the lesser endowed bracket, a race for the so called scholarships. It is no longer only about brains and intelligence or for that matter hard work. Except for the very bright, the future seems pretty bleak for the lesser and average mortals. Unlike exams like the SAT in the United States which ensures a level playing field for both the rich and those from the lower economic backgrounds, preparing for an exam like the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) means attending several coaching classes which require lakhs to be invested in each subject. The more the money the more number of

Engineering College in Mumbai

Mrs. Meera Nair, W/o Dr. Balagopal Nair (R-2551) is a former senior editor and journalist who loves travelling, painting and caring for the environment.

tuitions – individual tuitions, group tuitions, class tuitions you name it – you can have this and more, if of course you have the ‘moolah’ to spare. A famous builder here, has an IIT alumnus who teaches at a private coaching centre, at his beck and call to teach his son a thing or two on how to crack the JEE and enter the IIT hall of fame. The result being, when he is serving Mr Richie Rich - the students of his coaching centre have their classes cancelled. Not to be out done, here again the students and their parents have resolved the problem by attending multiple coaching centres for the same subject! Such is the competition among both students and their parents. In a city like Mumbai there are coaching centres, galore - each promising the so called coveted seat in a prestigious engineering college. When my son was in the 10th standard I was chided by my friends on not deciding which coaching centre he should attend in the 11th standard. I haphazardly told them that let him clear his 10th first before thinking of such far reaching prospects. To which I was admonished for not being bothered about my son’s future and that he should have been writing the scholarship exams by now which various coaching centres were offering. The coaching centres on the other hand, making full use of the emotional blackmail that they hand out to parents year after year, are laughing all the way to the bank. As mothers do in order to ensure the best for their brood, they rush in where angels fear to tread. Many paid for an integrated coaching class which blends both the junior college portion as well as coaching the students for the JEE – only to realise that their child just didn’t fit in with a class of over 80 students. Some managed to quickly withdraw their fees, while others decided to continue, leaving the rest to destiny. It was noticed that only the very bright could survive and coaching centres would pick and choose key students who make it to their pinnacle or elite batch...(thereby ensuring

their advertisement material for the next year!) leaving the rest to doubt their basic intelligence and whether they really lacked the qualities of even an average student. Hence, relegated to the ‘’nadir” batch as I have coined it. The result for some students who are thus ‘qualified’ is a sheer loss of morale and a desperation which leads them to counselling centres at the young age of 17. How will he or she handle the pressures of adulthood, I wondered? The next choice was schools which also had an integrated class for entrance exams along with a Board syllabus. The first year of 11th turned out to be a fiasco of sorts for most because neither were the children imbibing the Board syllabus nor were they conceptually clear when it came to the entrance coaching class. There seemed to be a clash of demands from both. Here too parents had to make a choice to either continue with the integrated coaching or get back to the regular syllabus of the Board. Some chose to continue while others withdrew their children and made them do the regular syllabus of the Board. I doubt if there is any other country in the world apart from China where children are put through this stress and strain. The ‘Time Magazine’ in the past had an article about Tiger Moms and I was clear that I did not want to become one but the system, the society and the peer pressure leaves one with very few options, as I was quick to realise in the coming months. I was one of the few mothers who believed in conceptual learning rather than train only for giving one single exam with the help of a coaching centre. “What about the entrance coaching”, asked my friends a tad worried.

Oops! here it was again and I could not shake off that dreadful feeling of guilt - was I being the unkindest mother of all who thought that learning concepts in subjects was more important than attending a thousand JEE coaching classes? Was I the only one on this planet who refused to put my child through this unfairness? After a couple of enquiries and discussions with mothers whose children had faced the problem the previous year there rose a solution of sorts. To send the children to a JEE coaching class thrice a week post school hours where he or she would not be too stressed and would willingly spend quality time with their lecturers and be at ease while preparing for individual exams. Of course, like many mothers I still have to juggle with time tables and tuition timings thanks to Whatsapp but I definitely consider myself as being out of the rat race, while the race for time and keeping up with all the tuitions and the idiosyncrasies of tuition teachers continues. However, what goes without saying is that qualifying for the JEE is only a small part of one’s life. Sound concepts on the other hand, remain with you forever. College of Engineering Trivandrum.

Suresh Mathew

When I met Mr. Suresh Mathew for the first time decades back my first

am a bee, a free-flying bee

impression about him was- ‘a typical,

Whirling around like a frisbee

stereo type, educated business man

O what a pleasure.. imbibing flowery nectar

from a village’. But as we became

Flowers are my friends; flower-pluckers my foes.

good friends the perception about him totally changed. He was a successful business man. But over and above that he is blessed with an aesthetic mind, a loving heart

Friends are my pleasure; foes my fear Not long ago..... I was happy as a kite in the sky But now???? Oh what a plight, forced to flee

with fine sentiments about men and matters. This high tech poetry focusses on the perils of the different radiations we and the whole animal kingdom are facing every moment. Along with the bees the tiny cute chirping sparrows (-Ipcp-hn-IÄ) have

Fearful frequencies surround from all sides Celestial waves from sky high towers Some call them idea and others voda Airtel troubles me in the air Air cell is really my hell

also disappeared from our midst. This

maiden

attempt

really

enjoyable and it carries a message. Well begun Mr. Suresh. M.P.A.

Gone are the days of airy flight Of delectable nectar and carefree delight The good old days of mellifluous melody Yielding to nightmares of malignant malady

Friends, we bid adieu Jostled and hussled, Vanquished and banished Weaned away from our jovial life Snakes have pits, men have homes But we bees have no place to spread our weak wings Pray have pity.. wisely use technology Is this the end of the world for us?

36 Sri. Suresh Mathew (L-1832) an Exporter (Nilamel Exports - Thiruvananthapuram), is Rotary Governor for next year, uncontested - a rare honour.

The word, summer brings to my mind holidays spent in the hill stations, the flower shows, the boat rides, fruit stalls stocked with fresh fruits, a dip in the river or the pool and things of that sort. Summer was a welcome guest when we were students because of the reprieve it brought from the dry text books and sleepless nights. And of course the much awaited holidays. A poet of a very high calibre and magnanimity of mind can romance even with the hot summer and the scorching sun. This is proved by Sri. Sheik Ahmed, who literally enjoys the sweat and heat of the hot desert taking the readers to different realms of imagination. And as we finish reading his ‘hot’ lines we have a feel or touch in our mind the principle of physics- ‘Evaporation causes cooling’. ie the happiness of having experienced and enjoyed prose of a different genre! M.P.A.

Summer ! how long did we Wait for thy onset for your bold yellow rays to embrace the world. Your smell of fire sends our mind frolicking orgasmic we become inhaling your fragrance Phobeus chariots from One end to other With the halo of the omnipotent and the glowing ember of yours bring rays of hope to us. Unlike the dreary winter which usher eerie thoughts of death you instill zest to our parched mind and showers light to otherwise sable life.

Shaik Ahamed

Riding over hot deserts of Arabia or the scorching Thar of India Summer makes this world realize the supremacy of nature. Like the newlywed damsel wait for her love to come Date palms of desert Crave for your regal union. O summer! Let the world be warm with your blistering hug Adieu! Adieu! fiery spirit may you set again with renewed might.

37 Sri Shaik Ahamed (L-2046) was the Principal of MSM College, Kayamkulam, Kerala

Father: "Son, get up, the early bird catches the worm'' cancer. When the doctor told him about it he got worried and came to me. Son: "What about the worm that gets out earlier dad?'' I asked him to do the test in a laboratory known to me at Kochi. The result I think this joke is sometimes true in many of the medical came as absolutely normal and he was saved from a cumbersome surgery conditions. Some 45 yrs back while I was studying in Trivandrum and subsequent side effects. Medical College my mother complained of discharge from While we were children there were not many doctors around. Almost her breast. I took her to the senior most professor emeritus all simple ailments like cold cough abdominal discomfort etc were treated of surgery Dr. C.K.P. Menon since I was working in his unit. at the home with simple remedies "Icn¸«nIm¸n', "C©n-\ocv' and maximum He asked for Pathology report of the discharge. It came as a bun from the local bakery! May be we were six children at home and our suspected malignancy on equivocal result. Any surgeon father could not afford to take us to a doctor in the city. today would have asked for a radical mastectomy (complete Now a days even for silly complaints the parents take their child only to removal of the breast with surrounding tissues) or at least a specialists, one reason is that there are only one or two children and they simple mastectomy. Being a very experienced person he just are very precious and the parent can afford also. Many a time children are prescribed some vitamins and advised yearly check -up. My brought to me with me or two small patches in the skin which even I find mother lived for another 20 years and died of some heart it difficult to see. Even though I know that it doesn’t require any treatment problem. and will go away in due course I prescribe some harmless medicine, lest My brother in law was a stickler for perfect health. For any they will go to somebody else who may give unnecessary any medicines. Our body has got a great army , navy and air force to protect us from simple ailment he will consult only the top must specialist. most of the illness. Instead of dropping a hydrogen bomb at the smallest Once he had a little urinary infection. Even though I was invasion of the bacteria, virus or fungus we should allow our defence staying in the same compound, without consulting me he mechanism to fight the enemy and clear it. Giving strong antibiotics and approached the urology professor at the Medical other medicines at the first sign of illness is like bombing for a minor College. Since he was above 50 years the doctor asked for PSA test ( a test for disease of the Prostate). It came as a high value which is usually seen in prostate What I appreciate in Dr. Sreekumar is his sincerity of purpose, transparency, humility, sense of humour and his penchant for exposing the mask of the camouflaged society. This article proved to be an eye opener for me. Dr. R. Sreekumar

I had undergone an open heart surgery at the SCT last year. Since the doctors and staff members were good friends of mine, I used to go to the hospital before and after the surgery more frequently than the normal check-ups. Those unsung heroes and unknown angels had the patience to accommodate a pestering patient like me with a smile. Now Dr. Sreekumar’s words brought in a new light in my thoughts. For minor complaints I was hijacking the precious time of the expert doctors who have to attend to the patients with chronic ailments waiting patiently outside. I have decided that here after I will not be a stumbling block between the doctors and the poor patients. Thank you Sreekumar for the observations and the torch shown into our minds. M.P.A.

EARLY BIRD OR EARLIER WORM, 38

THE CHOICE IS YOURS Dr. R. Sreekumar, a skin specialist is a retd. Civil Surgeon.

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border violation. If you are bold enough you can wait for some time taking simple cures and let the body clear the disease. It the illness is not subsiding in a few days or if it is getting worse you should definitely approach the proper doctor. It is said that many unnecessary and harmful investigations are done because of the insistence of the patients. There is another interesting development with the introduction of health insurance, and central Government Health Scheme. Recently one of my relatives asked me whether he should undergo angiogram, angioplasty or stenting. When I asked him what his heart problem is he simply said that before retirement if he can do these things it will be reimbursed by the department. If no illness accrue during the insurance period people think it is a waste and they are fooled. Once a famous neurologist was telling me that if a CT Scan is asked for and the result is normal patients blame the doctor saying that he did it for

It is told that 80% of the people coming to the Govt hospitals come with silly complaints. Since they take most of the time of the doctors, sometimes genuine cases do not get sufficient attention. commission from the scan centre; if the scan is not done and something goes wrong, again the doctor is blamed for not doing a scan. It is told that 80% of the people coming to the Govt hospitals come with silly complaints. Since they take most of the time of the doctors, sometimes genuine cases do not get sufficient attention. In America and Europe one cannot go to a doctor especially a specialist directly. The nurse will enquire

about the complaints and decide whether the doctor should see the patient. One has to wait at least a year for a cataract surgery. Here you can consult a doctor today and tomorrow the operation can be done and come back home by the coaxing, if you have money. All this doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that one should not go to a doctor when one is sick. If you have a chest pain which is not disappearing with simple medicines, if you have lump in the breast of which you are very much concerned, if there is sudden weakness of one side of the body and difficulty in speech you should immediately go to a good hospital and get it treated. The dictum of early diagnosis and prompt treatment is definitely needed in such cases. When I complain of back pain my wife asks me why I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consult an orthopaedic surgeon. If I consult him he will give me an anti-inflammatory drug which will upset my stomach. For which I have to take an antacid which will reduce my appetite for which I have to come to our Second Home for appetiser. When I said this she said that you better suffer the back pain!

A NOSTALGIC MOMENT R.C. Nair

I have seen Sri. R.C. Nair as the Chairman of the Institution of Valuers, addressing senior professionals including he talking in the All India Seminar of Valuers, confidently. And I had been requesting R.C. Chettan to write something for the Second Home and he has been politely declining it. Finally I got him bowled over for a piece on his nostalgic memories of Model School, Trivandrum which is my Alma Mater too. I still believe Model School if restored back to its original glory in every respect there will be no school in this state to rival the centuries old grand regal institution. Its location, design, administration and academic set up in the old golden days are incomparable. A difficult model for any school to emulate. Now after too much deterioration of everything, there is a welcome move started with the initiative of Sri. Kris Gopalakrishnan and illustrious Alumni like him to restore Model School into a modern temple of knowledge for the common man. Wishing the programme all success. Now read R.C. Chettan’s Nostalgia in his sincere and simple lines..... M.P.A.

his is about my memories of Model School days. On 23rd May 2015, during the annual general body meeting of the Model School Alumini Senior Citizens’Forum, the new office bearers of the Managing Committee for the year 2015 -17 were elected unanimously and I was designated as Vice – President of the Forum. A few days there after I got a message from our Secretary, the ever dynamic Mr.N.Sethu Madhavan, that the First executive committee meeting will be held on 9th June 2015 at 4pm at the Model School itself. I was very excited and eager to attend the meeting as the very thought of going to my old school and see the entire premises of the school once again.

On the appointed day I reached the School in time and when entered the corridor I could see all the other Committee members including the President Mr. K.Ramakrishna Pillai were standing there looking for a suitable class room to conduct the meeting. Suddenly I saw my old class room VIth C ( in those days that was the school final class – now marked as VIIIth C ) and we all got into this class room. It was a great moment for me and I could feel the place where I used to site 63 years ago with my old friends –Subramani, Mathew Kuzhiveli, Sadasivan, Ravi Panicker, Mani (PR), Parameswaran, Velayudhan, Sreekuttan, Gangu, Ganesan, Babu and many others. In those days the class can hold only 28 students as the seating arrangement was such that there were only 14 units of bench & desk, and each unit can accommodate only two students. This unit of bench & desk was a special type – where the desk was a locker type - you can keep your books & other materials inside the desk and can be locked. The present bench & desk is of ordinary type and is better not to mention about its condition. While sitting there, many old memories came to my mind including the mannerisms of my class teacher Mr. Subramanya Sharma, fondly known as Sharmasir. I think he was basically responsible for my development of aptitude for mathematics which paved the

way to my carrier as an Engineer. Whenever he passes through the corridor in front of my class, he invariably see me talking to my friends or doing some mischief, he calls me and punishes by asking me to write 20 or 25 problems, 5 or 10 times each, from a chapter in the Algebra Text book. By the way I wrote almost all the chapters many times till the end of the year. This was the fate of few other friends also and we carried out his orders meticulously, only then we could get into the class next day. The net result was that by the end of the year I could by heart the subject and score full marks in the final exam. We had some more very distinguished and respected teachers namely sarvasree Viswanathan Nair, Viswambaran, George, Padmanabha Iyer, and so on at that time. All of them had distinctive pet names or rather nicknames which we used to mention secretly. It was a great moment in my life, sitting in the same old class room and thinking about the good old days. I presume all the other members of the committee also must have thought about similar experiences through which they have passed their old school days. I could very well read this from their face. After some chit-chatting and having tea & snacks we got- down to our business. The meeting ended with vote of thanks proposed by me in the capacity as vice-president.

Sri. R.C. Nair (R-0269) is a Chartered Engineer and Approved Valuer.

Compartmentalization Janani Swaminathan Ms Janani is a classic example of a real all rounder She is proficient in sports (Foot-Ball, Hockey, Volley Ball, Tennis & Swimming), Moot court competitions, Debating and was conferred with the ‘Honour Member State Representative (BestDelegate-representing France) at Pune in 2015. In this poem this gifted poet firmly rejects and repudiates any compartmentalization of her existence- Eschewing all social mandates and dictates; She likes herself to the layered and frescoed sky where the clefts have carved a beautiful niche for themselves. All the best to you dear all rounder M.P.A.

was not born to suffocate my depths into boxes

Labelled with anguish, desire, distress, danger Flapped with mandates and dictates, A crystal-gaze for someone else’s clarity I revel in complexity; the knots that bind my locks The thorns that bed my fall, The hundred tongues in which speaks my accordion heart The duality manifested in every streak of thought; to be or not to be Hamlet’s soliloquy Tamed and tempered through tempests of time, still survived Your God’s immortal remind, the Shroud of Turin, a cape Metaphors soaked in irony, a blood smocked sun on a rainy day draped over an empty grave Wither away with your gender, your coffin, constrained since inception A womb, a tomb, a box of you A constitutional hypocrisy, your existence is a tactile hallucination Because you, me, we are fractured into designations on some Michelangelo’s frescoed sky, us clefts in the face of time.

41 Janani Swaminathan D/o. V. Swaminathan (R-2608) and granddaughter of the late S.V.Das, erstwhile Trustee, is a student of Law in ILS College, Pune.

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42 T. Chandran (L-0180) is the retd. Chief Architect, Government of Kerala.

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A¶‑v D¨-¡p‑ t- i ‑ j‑w U‑ns‑sk ‑ ³ ¢‑mÊ‑v FS‑p¡‑m³ t‑hï‑n Ae-Ivk ‑ m‑ ï - À k‑mÀ F¯‑n. h¶]‑ms‑S At‑±l - ¯ - n‑ s‑â a‑pJ¯‑v Hc‑p c‑u{‑Z`- m‑ h‑w R§Ä Iï‑p. ]‑yq‑ ¬ Z‑mt‑am‑ Z- c - ³ \‑mbs‑c ] d-ªb - ¨‑v Fs‑¶ h‑nf‑n¸ - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . Bc‑mW‑v a‑mX‑rI kaÀ¸‑n¡ - p‑ h - m‑ ³ ]d-ªs - X ‑ ¶‑v t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - p‑ . Fs‑´¦‑ne - p‑ w‑ I‑mc-Wh - i - m‑ Â AX‑v XIÀ¶‑v h‑oW‑mÂ Bc‑v D¯-ch - m‑ Z- n‑ X‑zw‑ Gs‑äS- p‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . Ad‑nh - n‑ Ã - m‑ ¯ t‑Pm‑ e‑n Gs‑äS- p‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ g- p‑ ï - m‑ I - p‑ ¶ `h‑nj - ¯ - p‑ I - s‑f¸ - ä‑n ]dª‑v R§s‑f `b-s¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - n‑ . At‑±l - ¯‑n\‑v C{‑]I - m‑ c‑w Dï‑mb \‑ock‑w ]‑ns‑¶ ]e I‑mc‑y§ - f‑ne‑pw‑ {‑]X‑n^ - e - n‑ ¨ - p‑ . At‑¸m‑ g- m‑ W‑v c‑ma-kz‑ m‑ a‑n k‑mÀ ]d-ªX‑ns‑â s‑]m‑ c‑pÄ a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ b - X - v.‑ P‑oh‑n¯ - n‑ s‑e BZ‑ys‑¯ s‑Xm‑ g‑nÂ k¼‑mZ- y‑ w‑ . FI‑vkn‑ _ - n‑ j - ³ X‑oc‑p¶ Z‑nhk‑w A¶s‑¯ s‑]m‑ c‑pa-cm‑ a- ¯‑v a{‑´n‑ b - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ {‑io‑ . ä‑n.-sI ‑ . Z‑nh‑mI - c - \ - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ ]‑mc‑nt- X ‑ m‑ j - n‑ I‑w Gä‑ph - m‑ § - n‑ . Aª‑qd‑p c‑q]b‑ps‑S s‑N¡‑pw‑ ,‑ s‑hÅ‑nb - n‑ Â X‑oÀ¯‑ ^e-Ih‑pw‑ . BZ‑ya- m‑ b‑n AX‑ns‑\ N‑pw‑ _‑n¨‑v a‑mt‑dm‑ S- W - ¨ - p‑ . C¶‑pw‑ H‑mÀ¡‑p¶ - B BZ‑y N‑pw‑ _\‑w. ]e t‑\«-§f‑pw‑ Ah‑mÀU‑pI - f‑pw‑ ]‑n¶‑oS‑v kÀ¡‑mÀ kÀÆ‑ok - n‑ Â N‑o^‑v BÀ¡‑ns - S‑ I - vä ‑ m- b‑nc‑p¶t‑¸m‑ Ä e-`n‑ ¨‑n«‑pï - v.‑ al‑mc - m‑ j - v{‑ S‑ b - n‑ s‑e e‑m¯‑qc‑nÂ `‑qI-¼¯ - n‑ \‑v Cc-bm‑ b - h - À¡‑v t‑Icf kÀ¡‑mc‑n\‑v t‑hï‑n t‑Icf h‑nt‑ÃP‑v U‑ns‑sk ‑ ³ s‑Nb‑vXv‑

Fg‑p¶ - q‑ t- d‑ m‑ f‑w s‑I«‑nS- § - Ä \‑nÀ½‑n¨‑v \ÂI‑nb - X - n‑ \‑v _l‑pa - m‑ \ - s - ¸ ‑ « a‑p³ {‑][ - m‑ \ - a - {‑´n‑ {‑io‑ \c-kn‑ w‑ l - d‑mh - p‑ h - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑v UÂl‑nb - n‑ Â s‑h¨‑v Ah‑mÀU‑v h‑m§‑nbX‑ns‑\¡ - m‑ Ä C¶‑pw‑ H‑mÀ½-bn‑ Â \‑ndª‑v \‑nÂ¡‑p¶ - X‑pw‑ ,‑ A`‑na- m‑ \ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ e‑pw‑ a‑p³\‑nc- b - n‑ Â \‑nÂ¡‑p¶ - X‑v C‑u Ah‑mÀU‑v N‑pw‑ _-\a - m‑ W - v.‑ A¶‑v Fs‑â P‑q\‑nb - d- m‑ b - n‑ F-©n‑ \ - o‑ b - d- n‑ w‑ K - v‑ t‑Im‑ t‑fP‑nÂ ]T‑n¨ - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ Bf‑mW‑v C¶s‑¯ \½‑ps‑S a‑mK-ko‑ ³ FU‑nä - À‑, {‑io‑ F‑w.-]n‑ . A¿-¸³. R‑m³ t‑Im‑ t‑fP - n‑ Â k‑nK‑v\Âk‑v F³k‑nk - n‑ b - p‑ s‑S k‑o\‑nbÀ AïÀ H‑m^‑ok - d- m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . A¿-¸³ t‑IUä‑v. C‑u t‑Im‑ ¼ - ä - o‑ j - \ - n‑ Â s‑Xc-sª ‑ S- p‑ ¯ U‑ns‑sk ‑ ³‑, t‑Im‑ t‑fP‑v a‑mK-ko‑ \ - n‑ Â ]»‑nj‑v s‑Nb‑vXp‑ . A¶‑v B a‑mK-ko‑ \ - n‑ s‑â FU‑nä - d - m‑ b - n‑ c - p‑ ¶ - {‑io‑ F‑w.-]n‑ . A¿-¸³ Ct‑¸m‑ g‑pw‑ At‑X t‑Pm‑ e‑n X‑pSÀ¶‑ps - I ‑ m‑ t‑ïb - n‑ c - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . A-¶s‑¯ {‑io‑ F‑w.-]n‑ . A¿-¸s‑â t‑^m‑ t‑«m‑ b‑pw‑ 1967þ68 a‑mK - k - o‑ \‑nÂ \‑n¶‑v ]IÀ¸‑v FS‑p¯‑v Ct‑Xm‑ s - S‑ m‑ ¸‑w Ab¡‑p¶ - p‑ . AX‑pw‑ CX‑nt‑\m‑ s - S‑ m‑ ¸‑w {‑]n‑ â‑v s‑N¿-Ww‑ . ({‑]n‑ b - s - ¸ ‑ «- {‑io‑ . N-{µ ‑ ³‑, \-·\ - n‑ d - ª C‑u \‑nÀ - t‑±i - ¯ - n‑ \ - p‑ \-µn‑ . C‑u t‑eJ - \-¯n‑ Â X‑m¦ - f - p‑ s - S‑ t‑^m‑ t- «‑ m‑ b - ¡ v-‑ m‑ W - v‑ {‑]k - à‑n. A-Xp‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - v‑ X‑m¦ - f - p‑ s - S‑ \‑nÀ-t±‑ i - w‑ k‑tv- \ ‑ l - ] - q‑ À-Æw‑ \‑nc- k - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \ - v‑ A-\p‑ h - Z- n‑ b - ¡ v-‑ W‑w. £-am‑ ] - W - § - t‑fm‑ s - S‑ A¿¸³). A§s‑\ BZ‑yN - p‑ w‑ _ - \ - ¯ - n‑ s‑â A²‑ym‑ b‑w Ch‑ns‑S Ah-km‑ \ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ .

s‑I‑mÃ³ c‑ma³ F‑w. c‑m[‑mI - r‑ j - vW ‑ ³ s‑k¡â‑v t‑lm‑ w‑ Bc‑w`- n‑ ¨ - ,v‑ Ig‑nª 23 hÀj-§Ä¡‑pÅ - n‑ Â C‑u a‑mK-ko‑ \ - p‑ a- m‑ b _Ô-s¸ ‑ « k‑pJI-ch‑pw‑ Z‑px‑ J-Ic - h - p‑ a- m‑ b ]e BÝ-cy‑ § - f‑pw‑ BI-kva‑ n‑ I - X - z‑ § - f‑pw‑ A\‑p`- h - n‑ ¡ - m‑ \ - n‑ S- h - ¶ - n‑ «- p‑ ï - v.‑ A§s‑\b - p‑ Å Hc‑p pleasant surprise BW‑v H‑mÀ¡‑m¸ - p‑ d- ¯‑v Fs‑â s‑sI ‑ b‑nÂ h¶‑pt- N ‑ À¶ C‑u s‑Nd‑pI - Y - . CETb‑ns‑e Fs‑â k‑o\‑nb - À kl-]m‑ T - n‑ b‑pw‑ ]‑n¶‑oS‑v I‑pS‑pw‑ _ - k - p‑ l - r‑ ¯ - p‑ a- m‑ b {‑io‑ c‑m[‑mI - r‑ j - vW ‑ \‑v C§-s\ ‑ s‑bm‑ c‑p kc-kz‑ X - o‑ I - S- m‑ £‑w Ds‑ï¶‑v F\n-b¡ v- v A-dn-bnÃm-bn-cp¶p. C‑u Bß-IY - b - n‑ Â k‑vt\ ‑ l-ap‑ ï - ,v‑ _‑me‑yI - m‑ e k‑vac-WI - f - p‑ ï - ,v‑ A\‑pI - ¼ - b - p‑ ï - ,v‑ \À½-ap‑ ï‑v, CX‑ns - \ ‑ m‑ s - ¡ ‑ t- a‑ s - ¼ ‑ m‑ S- n‑ b - m‑ b‑n AX‑o{- µ ‑ a- m‑ b A\‑p`- h - § - f - p‑ a- p‑ ï - v.‑ c‑m[‑mI - r‑ j - vW ‑ s‑â `‑mj-bn‑ e‑pw‑ `‑mh-§f - n‑ e‑pw‑ At‑±l - ¯ - n‑ s‑â k‑zX-kn‑ ² - a- m‑ b - n‑ «- p‑ Å k‑ua‑y-Xb‑p‑w h‑n\-bh‑p‑w \‑nd-ª‑p-\‑nÂ¡‑p-¶‑p. C\‑n IY h‑mb‑n-¨‑n«‑v Ah-c-h-c‑ps‑S A]-{‑K-Y-\¯‑n\‑p h‑nS‑p¶ - p‑ . M.P.A

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c-¡p‑ a‑qe‑w ]X‑nh - n‑ e‑pw‑ s‑sh ‑ I‑nb - m‑ W‑v H‑m^‑ok - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ Cd-§n‑ b - X - v.‑ ]I-eh - ³ Hc‑p Z‑nh-ks‑¯ A[‑zm‑ \ - t- i ‑ j‑w ]S‑nª m‑ s‑d a‑m\-¯p‑ \ - n‑ ¶‑pw‑ h‑n{‑ia- ¯ - n‑ \ - m‑ b‑n t‑]m‑ b‑v¡g- n‑ ª n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Hc‑p N{‑µ¡ - e a‑m{‑Xw‑ I‑m¯‑p\ - n‑ ¶ - p‑ . X‑ma-kn‑ ¨ - X - p‑ I - m‑ c- W‑w h‑o«‑ns - e ‑ ¯ - m‑ \ - p‑ Å [‑rX‑nb - n‑ e - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p R‑m³. H‑m^‑ok - n‑ \ - S- p‑ ¯‑pÅ ac-¨n‑ Ã - I - f - n‑ Â t‑Nt‑¡d- p‑ ¶ I‑nf‑nI - f - p‑ s‑S i_‑vZt- I ‑ m‑ e - m‑ l - e - § - Ä {‑i²‑n¡ - m‑ ³ \‑nÂ¡‑ms‑X R‑m³ I‑md‑nÂ Ib-dn‑ . \K-c¯ - n‑ Â h¶-Xn‑ \ - p‑ t- i ‑ j‑w h‑m§‑nb ]‑pX‑nb a‑mc‑pX - n‑ ¡ - m‑ À. I‑mÀ H‑mS‑n¯ - p‑ S- § - n‑ . R‑m³ Hä-bv¡ ‑ m‑ W - v.‑ AÃ s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma\‑pw‑ I‑qs‑Sb‑pï‑v. Häb‑v¡v‑ b‑m{‑X s‑N¿‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä c‑ma³ Fs‑â I‑qs‑S¡ - m‑ W - p‑ w‑ . Ah³ Ft‑¶m‑ S‑p hÀ¯-am‑ \‑w ] d-ªp‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . R‑m³ I‑mÀ H‑mS‑n¨‑ps‑Im‑ ï‑pw‑ . s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma³ Fs‑â _‑me‑yI - m‑ e k‑pl‑r¯ - v.‑ s‑hf‑p¯‑v A[‑nI‑w s‑]m‑ ¡-an‑ Ã - m‑ ¯-h³. Fs‑¶¡ - m‑ Ä cï‑ph - b - Ê - n‑ s- e ‑ ¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ a‑q¯-bm‑ Ä. F\‑n¡‑v Hc-\n‑ b - \ - p‑ ï - v.‑ A-h\‑pw‑ s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑mas‑â Bc‑m[ - I - \ - m‑ W - v.‑ R§-fp‑ s‑S {‑Km‑ a-¯n‑ s‑e {‑][‑m\ s‑Im‑ Ã-\m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p "PÀ½³‑'. F´‑p ]W‑nX - m‑ e‑pw‑ "PÀ½³‑' ]W‑nb - m‑ s - W ‑ ¶‑p {‑]J‑ym‑ ] - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \ - m‑ Â Ab‑ms‑f PÀ½³ F¶‑mW‑v Bf‑pIÄ h‑nf‑n¨ - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ PÀ½s‑â A\-´c- h - \ - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p c‑ma³. Ahs‑â AÑs‑\ R‑m³ Iï‑n«- n‑ Ã - . Ahs‑â A½ "s‑Im‑ Ã‑n¸-Wn‑ ¡ - ¯‑n'‑ R§-fp‑ s‑S A½-¨n‑ b - ½ - b - p‑ s‑S B{‑in‑ X - b - m‑ W‑v. Ft‑¸m‑ g‑pw‑ R§-fp‑ s‑S Xd-hm‑ «- n‑ Â Xs‑¶ I‑mW‑pw‑ . A§-s\ ‑ b - m‑ W - ,v‑ Ah-cp‑ s‑S GI aI-\m‑ b s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma³ Fs‑âb‑pw‑ A\‑nb - s- â ‑ b‑pw‑ I‑q«‑pI - m‑ c- \ - m‑ b - X - v.‑ c‑ma³ H¶‑mw‑ t‑^m‑ d-¯n‑ Â ]T‑n¸ - p‑ \ - n‑ À¯‑nb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . I‑mcW‑w Z‑mc‑n{‑Zy‑ w‑ Bs‑W¶‑v As‑¶\ - n‑ ¡ - v‑ A-dn‑ b - p‑ a‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - n‑ Ã - . Ahs‑â k‑vIq‑ f‑ns‑e t‑]c‑v c‑ma-N{- µ ‑ ³ F¶‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . R§-fp‑ s‑S Ah[‑n Z‑nh-k§ - f - n‑ Â c‑ma³ \‑nd-ªp‑ \‑n¶ - p‑ . R§-fp‑ s‑S Gäh‑pw‑ he‑nb If‑n,‑ a®‑nÂ I‑md‑pï‑m¡ - e - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . R‑m³ A©‑mw‑ ¢‑mk‑ne‑pw‑ A\‑nb - ³ a‑q¶‑mw‑ ¢‑mk‑ne‑pw‑ ]T‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ I‑me‑w. Ah[‑n Z‑nh-k§ - -

f‑nÂ R‑m\‑pw‑ A\‑nb - \‑pw‑ Ah-\p‑ t- h ‑ ï‑n I‑m¯‑nc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma³ F¯‑nb - m‑ e - p‑ S- ³ Hc‑p {‑]t‑Xy‑ I i_‑vZw‑ N‑pï‑ph - ¨‑v Dï‑m¡ - p‑ w‑ . A§-s\ ‑ b - m‑ W‑v R§Ä Ahs‑â hch‑v Ad‑nb - p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ R§Ä c‑ma-s\ ‑ m‑ ¸‑w s‑Xm‑ S‑nb - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑p I‑pX‑n¡ - p‑ w‑ . Ah³ a®‑ne - p‑ ï - m‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ I‑md‑v H¶‑p I‑mt‑Wï - X - m‑ W - v.‑ Hc‑p s‑a¡‑m\ - n‑ ¡ - n‑ s‑â s‑sh ‑ `-ht- ¯ ‑ m‑ s‑S Ah³ a®‑nÂ I‑pg‑n¨‑v I‑md‑ns‑â AIh‑pw‑ k‑oä‑pw‑ ic‑nb - m‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ . ]‑n¶‑oS‑v I‑pg‑ns- ¨ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ B a®‑ps- I ‑ m‑ ï‑v I‑md‑ns‑â ]‑pdh‑pw‑ t‑_m‑ Wä‑pw‑ aä‑pw‑ ic‑nb - m‑ ¡‑pw‑ . R‑m\‑pw‑ A\‑nb - \‑pw‑ C‑u bÚ-¯n‑ Â c‑mas‑â kl‑mb - n‑ I - Ä a‑m{‑Xw‑ . I‑md‑ns‑â s‑se ‑ ä‑pI - Ä Dï‑m¡ - m‑ \‑pÅ ]‑nª‑mW - n‑ a- p‑ d- n‑ I - Ä t‑XS‑n\ - S- ¶‑p Iï‑p] - n‑ S- n‑ ¡ - p‑ I-bm‑ W‑v R§-fp‑ s‑S {‑][‑m\ - t- P ‑ m‑ e - n‑ . A¶‑p R§-fp‑ s‑S Xd-hm‑ «- n‑ Â AÑ\‑v Hc‑p "l‑nÂa‑m³‑' I‑mÀ Dï‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . AX‑ps - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v "l‑nÂa‑m³‑' Bb‑nc- p‑ ¶‑p R§-fp‑ ï - m‑ ¡‑p¶ {‑][‑m\ I‑mÀ. s‑jhÀs‑e,‑ U‑nt‑Êm‑ «- ,‑ k‑vtI ‑ m‑ U‑, t‑am‑ d‑nk - ,v‑ ^‑obä‑v a‑pXÂ _‑yq‑ ¡‑v hs‑c- A¶s‑¯ R§f‑ps‑S e‑nÌ‑nÂs‑]« I‑md‑pI - f - m‑ W - v.‑ H‑mt‑cm‑ Bg‑vNb - n‑ e‑pw‑ c‑ma³ R§Ä¡‑pt- h ‑ ï‑n H‑mt‑cm‑ X - c‑w I‑md‑pI - f - p‑ ï - m‑ ¡‑n. AX‑pI - g- n‑ ª m‑ W‑v C‑u I‑md‑pI - f - p‑ s‑S AI¯‑p Ib-dn‑ b - p‑ Å b‑m{‑X. c‑ma³ C‑uÀ¡‑nÂ hf¨‑p N‑pä‑nb‑pï - m‑ ¡ - n‑ b Ì‑ob-dn‑ w‑ K‑v X‑nc‑n¨ - ,v‑ hfs‑c t‑hK-¯n‑ Â R§Ä B I‑md‑nÂ b‑m{‑X s‑Nb‑vXp‑ . AX‑ns‑â ]¯‑ns- e ‑ m‑ ¶‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ e‑pw‑ ck‑w ]‑n¶‑oS‑v

Sri. M. Radhakrishnan (R-1857) is the retd. Chief Engineer, Kerala Water Authority.

bY‑mÀY I‑mÀb‑m{- X ‑ I - f - n‑ Â Dï‑mb - n‑ «- n‑ Ã - . hÀj-§Ä s‑Im‑ g‑nª - p‑ s- ] ‑ m‑ b - vs‑ ¡ ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . R‑m³ t‑XÀU‑v t‑^m‑ d-¯n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ Pb‑n¨ Ah-[n‑ ¡ - m‑ e - w‑ . C\‑n s‑sl ‑ k‑vIq‑ f - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡ - v.‑ Hc‑p Z‑nhk‑w s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma³ If‑n¡ - m‑ s - \ ‑ ¯ - n‑ . A¶‑v A\‑nb - ³ h‑o«‑nÂ CÃ‑mb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p. F\‑n¡ - m‑ s - W ‑ ¦ - n‑ Â‑, ]g-bX - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ s‑e c‑ma-s\ ‑ m‑ ¸‑w If‑n¡ - m‑ ³ aS‑n. s‑sl ‑ k‑vIq‑ Ä h‑nZ‑ym‑ ÀY‑nb - m‑ I - m‑ ³ t‑]m‑ I‑p¶-Xn‑ s‑â Ka-bn‑ e - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p R‑m³. c‑ma³ hfs‑c \‑nÀ_-Ôn‑ ¨ t‑ij-am‑ W‑v A¶‑v R‑m³ Ahs‑â H¸‑w If‑n¡ - m‑ ³ I‑qS‑nb - X - v.‑ A¶‑p I‑md‑pï - m‑ ¡ - n‑ ¡ - g- n‑ ª ,v‑ R§Ä AX‑nÂ Ibd‑n H‑mS‑n¨ - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ I - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä‑, c‑ma³ ]d-ªp‑ : ""I‑pt‑ª,‑ Cs‑¶s‑â Ah-km‑ \ - s‑¯ If‑nb - m‑ W - v.‑ C\‑n F\‑n¡‑v \‑n§-fp‑ s‑S I‑qs‑S If‑n¡ - m‑ ³ ]ä‑ps- a‑ ¶‑p t‑Xm‑ ¶‑p¶ - n‑ Ã - .‑''‑ R‑m³ {‑i²‑n¨ - p‑ . c‑mas‑â s‑Xm‑ ï CS-dn‑ . Ahs‑â a‑pJ‑w Z‑px‑ J‑w s‑Im‑ ï‑p N‑ph-¶p‑ X - p‑ S- p‑ ¯ - p‑ . Ah³ X‑pSÀ¶‑p. ""R‑m³ AS‑p¯ - m‑ g‑vN a{‑Zm‑ k - n‑ Â t‑]m‑ I‑pI - b - m‑ W - v.‑ Fs‑â I‑pª-½m‑ h - \‑v Ah‑ns‑S Hc‑p hÀ¡‑vtj ‑ m‑ ¸‑v Dï‑v. Fs‑¶ Ah‑ns‑S ]W‑n ]T‑n¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \ - p‑ t- h ‑ ï‑n Ab-bv¡ ‑ p‑ I - b - m‑ W‑v. C\‑n \½Ä F¶‑p I‑mW‑pt‑am‑ Ft‑´m‑ !‑ '‑ '‑ t‑I«t‑¸m‑ Ä F\‑n¡‑p h‑nja‑w t‑Xm‑ ¶‑ns - b ‑ ¦ - n‑ e‑pw‑ R‑m³ AX‑p ]‑pd-¯p‑ I - m‑ W - n‑ ¨ - n‑ Ã - . hÀj-§Ä \‑me‑p Ig‑nª - p‑ . s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑mas‑\¸ä‑n Hc‑p h‑nh-ch‑pw‑ CÃ. R‑m³ s‑sl ‑ k‑vIq‑ f - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ Pb‑n¨‑v \K-c¯ - n‑ s‑e t‑Im‑ t‑fP - n‑ Â {‑]o‑ b‑qW - n‑ t- h ‑ g‑vkn‑ ä‑n ¢‑mk‑nÂ t‑NÀ¶‑nc- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . h‑oï‑pw‑ Hc-h[ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ e - w‑ . A§-s\ ‑ b - n‑ c‑ns‑¡ Hc‑p\ - m‑ Ä c‑ma³ \‑m«‑ns- e ‑ ¯ - n‑ s- b ‑ ¶ - d‑nª - p‑ . Ah³ t‑dm‑ U‑nÂ¡‑qS‑n Bt‑cm‑ t‑Sm‑ k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¨ - p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v \S-¶p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ I - p‑ ¶ - X‑v R‑m³ h‑o«‑nÂ \‑nÂ¡‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä Iï‑p.Ah³ Bf‑ms‑I a‑md‑nb - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . BÄ hfÀ¶‑p. ]ïs‑¯ \‑n¡-dn‑ \ - p‑ ] - I - c‑w ]‑mâ‑p[ - m‑ c‑nb - m‑ b - n‑ «- m‑ W‑v c‑ma³ h¶‑nc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - v.‑ s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma³ Ct‑¸m‑ Ä "F‑w.-Pn‑ . c‑ma-N{- µ ‑ \ -- m‑ W‑'v‑ . Ahs‑â Gäh‑pw‑ he‑nb Bc‑m[ - \ - m‑ ] - m‑ {- X ‑ a- m‑ b F‑w.-Pn‑ . Bd‑ns‑â t‑] c‑ne - p‑ Å "F‑w.-Pn‑ '‑ F¶ C\‑nj - y‑ Â Xs‑â t‑]c‑mb c‑ma-N{- µ ‑ s- \ ‑ m‑ ¸ - w‑ ,‑ a{‑Zm‑ k - n‑ Â F¯‑nb - t- i ‑ j‑w t‑NÀ¯‑p. Bb‑nc- ¯ - n‑ s- X ‑ m‑ Å - m‑ b - n‑ c- ¯‑n Ad‑p] - X - p‑ I - f - p‑ s‑S X‑pS-¡w‑ . F‑w.-Pn‑ .BÀ. Xa‑ng- v\ ‑ m‑ «- n‑ s‑e k‑n\‑na- m‑ t- e ‑ m‑ I - ¯‑v Gäh‑pw‑ X‑nf§‑n \‑nÂ¡‑p¶ I‑me‑w. I‑qS‑ms‑X F‑w.-Pn‑ .-BÀ. s‑sÌ ‑ e‑nÂ Hc‑p Id‑p¯ I‑qf‑nw‑ K‑v¥m‑ k‑pw‑ Fe‑nh - m‑ e‑p t‑]m‑ e‑pÅ a‑oib‑pw‑ c‑mas‑\ Bs‑I a‑mä‑nb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . ]‑nt‑äZ- n‑ h - k‑w c‑ma³ R§-fp‑ s‑S Xd-hm‑ «- n‑ Â h¶‑p. k‑m£‑mÂ F‑w.-Pn‑ .Bd‑pw‑ t‑Xm‑ ä‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ I - p‑ ¶ s‑sÌ ‑ e‑ne‑pÅ Xa‑ng- n‑ e - m‑ W‑v k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¨ - p‑ X - p‑ S- § - n‑ b - X - v.‑ Ft‑¶m‑ S‑v I‑pt‑dt- \ ‑ c‑w Ah³ Xa‑ng- n‑ Â k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¨ - p‑ . F\‑n¡‑v Hc-

£c‑w t‑]m‑ e‑pw‑ a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ b - n‑ Ã - . ]‑n¶‑oS‑v s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma³ F¶ F‑w.-Pn‑ .-BÀ AÂ]‑w ae-bm‑ f‑w k‑wk‑mc- n‑ ¨ - p‑ X - p‑ S- § - n‑ . A½-¨n‑ b - ½ Ah-t\ ‑ m‑ S‑v a{‑Zm‑ k - n‑ s‑e h‑nt‑ij - § - Ä t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - p‑ . ]e I‑mc‑y§ - f‑pw‑ t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ I‑q«-¯n‑ Â ""FS‑m,‑ Ah‑ns‑S IÅ·‑ms- c‑ m‑ t‑ïm‑ '‑ '‑ F¶‑p t‑Nm‑ Z‑n¨ - p‑ . s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma³ ""a{‑Zm‑ Ê - n‑ Â IÅ-·m‑ t‑c CÃ-t½ ‑ . ]‑ns‑¶...‑''‑ I‑pd¨‑v Bt‑em‑ N - n‑ ¨ - t- i ‑ j‑w Ah ³ X‑pSÀ¶‑p. ""Ah‑ns‑S X‑nc‑pS- ·‑mc‑p a‑m{‑Xt- a‑ b - p‑ Å - t‑½'‑ '‑ R§s‑fÃ - m‑ h - c‑pw‑ s‑]m‑ «‑n¨ - n‑ c- n‑ ¨ - p‑ . I‑mc‑ya- d- n‑ b - m‑ s‑X Ah\‑pw‑ N‑nc‑nb - n‑ Â ]¦‑pt- N ‑ À¶‑p. A¶‑v R§-fp‑ s‑S \‑m«‑n³]‑pd- s- ¯ ‑ m‑ ¶‑pw‑ "]‑mâ‑vk'v‑ {‑]X‑y£ - s - ¸ ‑ «‑p X‑pS-§n‑ b - n‑ «- n‑ Ã - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . R§-fm‑ c‑pw‑ ]‑mâ‑vkv‑ [c‑n¨‑p X‑pS-§n‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - n‑ Ã - . a‑pï‑pw‑ jÀ«‑pa- m‑ b - n‑ c‑p¶‑p t‑Im‑ t‑fP - n‑ Ât‑¸m‑ e‑pw‑ A¶‑p R§-fp‑ s‑S t‑hj‑w. BZ‑ya- m‑ b‑n ]‑mâ‑vkv‑ C«‑p,‑ Id‑p¯ I®-Sb‑pw‑ h¨‑p\-S¶ c‑ma³ R§-fp‑ s‑S I‑p{‑Km‑ a- ¯ - n‑ Â Hc‑p I‑mg‑vNh - k‑vXp‑ h - m‑ b‑n a‑md‑nb - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ ,‑ X‑nc‑ns‑I t‑]m‑ I‑p¶ - X - p‑ h - s - c‑ . c‑ma³ Ft‑¶m‑ S‑v ]g-bX‑pt- ] ‑ m‑ s‑e AS‑p¡ - m‑ ³ {‑ia‑ns- ¨ ‑ ¦ - n‑ e - p‑ w‑ ,‑ t‑Im‑ t‑fP - vI ‑ p‑ a- m‑ c- ³ F¶... `‑mh-¯n‑ Â R‑m³ Ah-t\ ‑ m‑ S‑p I‑qS‑pXÂ AS‑p¸ - ¯ - n‑ s - \ ‑ m‑ ¶‑pw‑ t‑]m‑ b‑nÃ - . Ft‑´m‑ ,‑ F‑w.-Pn‑ . c‑ma-N{- µ ‑ \ - m‑ b‑n h¶ s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑mas‑\ DÄs‑¡m‑ Å - m‑ ³ F\‑n¡‑p Ig‑nª n‑ Ã - . F¦‑ne - p‑ w‑ ,‑ ] gb I‑q«‑pI - m‑ c- \ - m‑ b c‑ma³ Fs‑â a\-Ên‑ Â \‑nd-ªp‑ X - s‑¶ \‑n¶‑nc- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Hc‑p t‑h\Â¡‑me‑w I‑qS‑n Ig‑nª p‑ . R‑m³ F³P‑n\ - o‑ b - d- n‑ w‑ K‑v t‑Im‑ t‑fP - n‑ Â t‑NÀ¶‑nc‑p¶ - p‑ . A©‑ph - Àjs‑¯ ]T‑n¸ - n‑ \ - n‑ S- b - n‑ Â A½-¨n‑ b - ½ ac‑n¨ - p‑ . AX‑n\ - p‑ t- i ‑ j‑w s‑Im‑ Ã‑n¸ - W - n‑ ¡ - ¯‑n R§-fp‑ s‑S Xd-hm‑ «- n‑ Â hÃ-t¸ ‑ m‑ g‑pw‑ a‑m{‑Xw‑ h¶‑nc- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . F©‑n\ - o‑ b - d- n‑ w‑ K‑v t‑Im‑ t‑fP - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ Ah-km‑ \ - hÀj‑w Ig‑nª ,v‑ _Ê‑nÂ A¶‑pc- m‑ {- X ‑ n‑ b - n‑ Â¯s‑¶ R‑m³ Xd-hm‑ «- n‑ Â F¯‑n. A½b‑pw‑ AÑ\‑pw‑ Fs‑¶ {‑]X‑o£ - n‑ ¨‑p I‑m¯‑nc- n‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . R‑m³ h¶‑p Ib-dn‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä A½ Z‑px‑ J-t¯ ‑ m‑ s‑S ]dª‑p: ""\½s‑S s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma³ ac‑n¨ - p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ b - n‑ .‑''‑ R‑m³ k‑vXw‑ `‑n¨ - p‑ \ - n‑ ¶ - p‑ . A½ X‑pSÀ¶‑p ""Ah³ Hc‑p Xa‑ng- ¯ - n‑ s‑b Ie‑ym‑ W‑w Ig‑n¨ - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Ah-fp‑ s‑S h‑o«‑pI - m‑ À s‑Im‑ S‑p¯ ]W‑w s‑Im‑ ï‑v Ah³ Hc‑p hÀ¡‑vtj ‑ m‑ ¸‑v Ah‑ns‑S k‑z´a‑mb‑n X‑pS-§n‑ ,‑- AX‑p \Ã-\n‑ e - b - n‑ Â \S-¡p‑ I - b - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ -

¶‑p. Ig‑nª a‑mkt‑am‑ at‑äm‑ Ah\‑v t‑Im‑ fd ]‑nS‑n¨ - p‑ . \Ã N‑nI‑nÕ I‑n«‑mª - m‑ b - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ ,‑ Ahs‑â Ak‑pJ‑w I‑qS‑n. Ig‑nª Bg‑vN ac‑n¨ - p‑ .‑''‑ I‑pd-¨p‑ k - a- b - s‑¯ a‑u\¯‑n\ - p‑ t- i ‑ j‑w A½ Bß-KX‑w t‑]m‑ s‑e X‑pSÀ¶‑p ""]‑mh‑w s‑Im‑ Ã-¸W - n‑ ¡ - ¯ - n‑ . Ch‑ns‑S h¶‑v Hc‑p] - m‑ S‑p Ic-ªp‑ . `À¯‑mh - m‑ t- W ‑ Â‑, c‑mas‑â I‑pª‑ns‑e ac‑n¨ - X‑mW - v.‑ ]‑ns‑¶ Bs‑Ib - p‑ Å - X‑v C‑u Hc‑pt- a‑ m‑ \ - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Ct‑¸m‑ Ä Ah\‑pw‑ t‑]m‑ b‑n.‑''‑ A¶‑pc- m‑ {‑Xn‑ F\‑n¡‑v Dd¡‑w h¶‑nÃ - . c‑ma-\p‑ a- m‑ b‑n If‑n¨‑p \S¶ B _‑me‑yI - m‑ e - k - va‑ c- W - I - Ä Fs‑¶ t‑h«-bm‑ S- n‑ . X‑pSÀ¶ Z‑nh-k§ - f - n‑ Â ]gb H‑mÀ½-IÄ Fs‑¶ Ae-«n‑ s - ¡ ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Hc‑p Z‑nh-kw‑ ,‑ R‑m³ s‑Im‑ Ã-¸W - n‑ ¡ - ¯ - n‑ s‑b h‑o«‑nÂt‑¸m‑ b‑n Iï‑p. Fs‑¶ Iï‑v AhÀ s‑]m‑ «‑n¡ - c- ª p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v s‑I«‑n¸ - n‑ S- n‑ ¨ - p‑ . Ahs‑c F§s‑\ Bi‑zk - n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - W - s - a‑ ¶ - d- n‑ b - m‑ s‑X R‑m³ h‑nj-an‑ ¨ - p‑ . Hc‑ph - n‑ [ - ¯ - n‑ Â Ah‑ns- S‑ \ - n‑ ¶‑pw‑ R‑m³ b‑m{‑X] - d- ª n‑ d- § - n‑ . AX‑n\ - p‑ t- i ‑ j‑w R‑m³ s‑Im‑ Ã-¸W‑n¡ - ¯ - n‑ s‑b Iï‑n«- n‑ Ã - . EX‑p¡ - Ä a‑md‑na- m‑ d‑n hÀj-§Ä IS-¶p‑ t- ] ‑ m‑ b - n‑ . AÑ\‑pw‑ A½b‑pw‑ s‑Im‑ Ã-¸W - n‑ ¡ - ¯ - n‑ b‑pw‑ I‑me-bh - \‑nI - b - v¡ ‑ p‑ Å - n‑ Â ad-ªp‑ I - g- n‑ ª - p‑ . F¶‑mÂ s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑mas‑â k‑m¶‑n[‑yw‑ CX‑n\ - n‑ S- b - n‑ Â F\‑n¡‑v A\‑p`- h - s‑¸«‑p X‑pS-§n‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . Ft‑¶m‑ s- S‑ m‑ ¸‑w Ah³ I‑md‑nÂ b‑m{‑X s‑N¿‑p¶ - p‑ . R‑m³ Ft‑¸m‑ Ä Häb‑v¡p‑ b‑m{‑X s‑Nb‑vXm‑ e - p‑ w‑ ,‑ I‑md‑nÂ Ah³ Ft‑¶m‑ s- S‑ m‑ ¸‑w I‑mW‑pw‑ . I‑mt‑dm‑ S- n‑ ¡ - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä Ah³ Fs‑â Ac‑nI - n‑ e - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ w‑ ,‑ hÀ¯-am‑ \‑w ]d-ªp‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï - v.‑ R‑m³ ]ïs‑¯ B I‑p«‑n. I‑md‑,v‑ a®‑ne - p‑ ï - m‑ ¡ - n‑ b B ]gb I‑md‑v Xs‑¶. CX‑n\ - n‑ S- b - n‑ Â I‑md‑v s‑ab‑n³ t‑dm‑ U‑nÂ \‑n¶‑pw‑ Fs‑â h‑o«‑nt- e ‑ ¡ - p‑ Å hg‑nb - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑v X‑nc‑nª n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . R‑m³ hc‑m³ X‑ma-kn‑ ¨ - X - p‑ I - m‑ c- W‑w h‑oS‑n\‑p a‑p¼‑nÂ `‑mc‑y I‑m¯‑p\ - n‑ Â¡‑p¶ - p‑ . R‑m³ I‑md‑v s‑jÍ‑nt- e ‑ ¡‑p Ib-än‑ b‑n«‑v R§Ä h‑oS‑n\ - I - t- ¯ ‑ ¡‑p \S-¶p‑ . At‑¸m‑ t- g‑ ¡‑pw‑ s‑Im‑ Ã³ c‑ma³ Ft‑§m‑ t‑]m‑ b‑n¡ - g- n‑ ª n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ !‑

esply for my dad... apa this is for you..

By Indu Rebecca Mukund

Dear Aiyappan, I am sending the photo as required, of my daughter Indhu Rebecca Mukund. She is the wife of the late Major Mukund Varadarajan who sacrificed his life for the Nation during the Shopian Encounter in April 2014 and who was posthumously awarded the Asoka Chakra, on the Republic day 2015. Dr. P. George Varghese

takes me to the days i heard the front door closing, countless times in the wee hours of dawn, and i saw your silhouette passing by the glass windows of my room, rushing to the hospital to attend an emergency call. The times you have made us wait in the car endlessly, made us miss most of the movie we were supposed to go for or left amma and me waiting for you at some corner of the city, cos you were held up at the hospital. The times I would come back from school and wish you were home but would accept that you will be in that room on your chair that twirls..that was the piece of furniture i loved the most in your room and i also remember you telling me when i was small that i could get a chair like that if I become a doctor in the future..lol..you always were bad with bribing.. I dint fall for it, sadly. The times i was allowed to sit in a corner of your room at the hospital while you checked on each patient patiently and dealt with the kids ever so kindly..I often wished you would be that kind when i got hurt,,he he... but you would yell first and then take care of me..i understand that now..cos i do the same to arshi sometimes..."why weren't you careful" are the first words that come to me

day in and out and some of them become martyers, so that we can lead a comfortable life here in our homes. In this letter from an ‘Insider’ daughter to her dad she paints a

Yours sincerely,

Smt. Indu with her daugher and (the late) husband Major Mukund

We all must realize that our brothers and sisters in the armed forces, are fighting the hostilities of nature and the enemies

true and intimate picture of her dads predicaments on being a dedicated doctor to his patients. She fully realizes the nobility of his ‘Noblest-Profession’ and loves to adjust her life with that. A rare and nice piece of writing. M.P.A.

when i see that she has gotten hurt, it reminds me of you:-)... The times you told me that what was wonderful about your profession is the opportunity you got to give back to the society and the respect you received in payment and how you kept asking me to work towards a job that would do the same.... cos otherwise life was Dr. R. George Varghese (Extreme left) with other senior not meaningful... and doctors, felicitated on the Doctor’s Day, 1st July 2016. you are so right apa.. as always. For all those who are lucky to have doctors in their family...you will understand..for those who don’t.... there is so much more that they give to us than we care to accept...respect them... even if doctors day was on July 1st -here is my delayed but overdue best wishes and respect for all doctors out there..

Smt. Indu Rebecca Mukund, D/o Dr. George Varghese (L-1840), is teaching in the Army Public School, Bengaluru.

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Smt. Meera Nair, W/o. Sri. Jalaram (R-1655) is an organic farming enthusiast.

Different people, and their totally different eating styles - Observations

M. Neethu Krishna

The greatest Architect through his ingenious and inimitable designs have given us tools and attachments to the two legged, four legged, and other animals and also to the winged creatures, primarily for procuring, preparing and eating food. We have hands with deft fingers and hard nails; animals have strong claws in their legs and canine teeth; the birds have beaks and also claws in their legs; and the elephant alone has an extra tool, the trunk which is an elongated nose. When we eat our raw or cooked food with our own hands, apart from the feel, the taste and convenience there is an emotional element attached to it. Just imagine ‘relishing’ the sweet uncut fruits with our hands or otherwise using the fruit fork to pick the peeled, discoloured cut pieces and push them into our mouth and just ‘eating’ it. Mrs. Neethu, daughter of my old friend Sri. Krishnakumar has presented, an interesting day to day subject in stylish English which is a really nourishing food for thought. A good idea. M.P.A.

he same kind of food; the same kind of mouth; the same kind of hands - but gosh! there are a hundred and one different ways of making the food reach the mouth! This is one of the observations that I have made during my initial few months in Singapore. Over the centuries, mankind has invented many gadgets to aid them in this 'laborious

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task' of making the food reach its destination. With varying latitudes and longitudes across the globe, the permutation & combinations of different tools used varies - fork & spoon, knife & fork, fork,knife & spoon, chop - sticks & spoon and so on. However, from what I have observed, whatever be the kind of food one is dealing with, people generally prefer to eat it the way they have been taught at home by their moms, during their 'table manners' course. So that means, be it rice, noodles, yong tau foo, the Chinese can tackle anything that comes across their way with the help of two puny sticks. Likewise, the Europeans equip themselves with

fork & knife. Singaporeans - fork and spoon and occasionally a pair of chopsticks too. And we Indians...well we don't usually require any eating aids. Why bother when God has given us awesome hands!! (But still most of the people, all over the world are taught that eating with bare hands is ill - mannered!! [sigh!]) * * * * * * * * * Rice and curry, I can eat with a pair of spoon and fork; noodles and the like, I can manage with a pair of chopsticks (my latest achievement! :D ) but when it comes to chicken and other such dead animals which have bones, I need my hands desperately. I realized this truth when I was lunching with some of my European and Singaporean friends. It was the Dutch guy's birthday, and the birthday co - ordinator selected this fancy Indonesian restaurant to celebrate his birthday. Browsing through the menu card made me 'gulp'. The starting price for the main - course was 10$. I ordered roasted chicken rice for myself since it was the only comprehensible item in the menu that suited my budget. (My brain was busily calculating: 10$ = Rs 400. I recollected those days in my UG college when

M. Neethu Krishna (R-3013), D/o K.P. Krishna Kumar (L-815), is Design Engineer, Mott McDonald, Singapore.

Karthik Viswanathan (R-2585) with G.S. Sowmya

S/o. G. Viswanathan (L-0971)

one month's canteen fee was around Rs. 1200 = 30$. I gulped again.) Our food arrived in no time, and all of us geared ourselves with fork and spoon to attack the food. 'Uh Oh'... The chicken had bones, unlike the usual chicken rice. I so totally didn't know how to tear the flesh out from the bones using fork and spoon. The Dutch guy was complaining too - he wanted a knife instead of the spoon. I sat there wondering what in the world to do with the two metal pieces in my hand. My hands longed to reach out to the morsel. Nevertheless, I dug in. With all my might and skill, I managed to finish off the first piece fairly decently. Hmmm.. Yumm...the chicken was tasty. I was into my second piece trying to do the flesh - bone - separating act, when, the spoon slipped and the chicken and the fork went flying away in opposite directions. I sat there stupefied, while the others burst into laughter. Needless to say, I was embarrassed to the core. And I was sad, and guilty too - sad

S/o. KP Krishnakumar (L-0815)

for the chicken who sacrificed its life for nothing, and guilty for wasting money...that chicken piece would have cost atleast 2$. [sigh!] My so polite friends bent down to take the spoon for me, and I deftly used the time to grab the next chicken piece and stuffed it into my mouth. * * * * * * Weeks later, I was lunching again with my international friends. This time, I played it safe by sticking to vegetarian food. Our random conversations reached the Indian boundaries, and the Singaporean friend suddenly remarked: "The way Indians eat their food is so cool. They have special skills to eat

Er. Vineeth K Kumar (R-2970) with Dr. Nikhitha

their food. They not only eat rice with hands but can even tear dosa and paratas with one hand easily. The way they maneuver their fingers dexterously to take food and push it inside the mouth is amazing." Well what can I say? I beamed at my 'awesome dexterous skillful hands' and ever since I have a special regard for my hand whenever they 'maneuver their way to get food into my mouth'.

Family S. Feroz Ismail I feel Mr. Feroz Ismail’s ‘Family’ picture is worth a T.A.-Transactional Analysis. The subject and his observations are that of an ‘Adult’. But when he pens it down, the words are more that of a ‘Child’. His statement about the father and his gradual change from a strict disciplination to a compassionate, aged person is a deliberate move by the dad himself to guide his children properly. In the picturisation of the mother the author becomes an affectionate child-in a little ‘Tamil style’. But-he paints the true picture of the mother. Imagine the care and protection we enjoyed in our mother’s company. Coming to the brothers and sisters it is totally true to facts, with all the affection, infight, jealously and rivalry, his conclusion is that “Blood is thicker than water’. That is the ultimate truth. M.P.A.

amily I believe that Family builds each individual. If you

Brother/sister they are our first friends, competitors,

make a movie of one day from your life.... you can see your

enemies etc. They teach you that world never belong to one.

father, mother, siblings hidden inside you. Father is the one person whom you can never agree with in your childhood to teen... you may think he was the outdated person you ever seen.... but once you get aged mid- twenties you will understand the struggle of your father. He became outdated for your

They teach you to love share to adjust. They teach you also jealousy/fight. But when you turn back in your life they gave you some happy moments. Every family will have problems but don’t abandon your family... they are the best part of your life.

school fees... he became outdated for your future.. he become outdated for your well-being. Mother is the most essential part of everyone’s life....a Tamil song explains this relation beautifully “Amma endru alaikatha uyir illayae Amamvae vanagath uyarv illayae..” When you become teenaged you may have thought that mother is irritating... but you don’t know she has given all her life to protect you...like earth revolving around the sun.. her life revolving around the family, she has given everything for family, she was taught you everything in your life...thus your success or failure become her success or failure. 52 S. Feroz Ismail, Student, Mind Screen Film Institute, Mylapore, Chennai, is the G.S/o. Sri. M. Syed Ismail (N-0238), B/o. Dr. Syed Mohamed Khalid (R-1479)

Inauguration of

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The 43 all-suites Full Serviced Apartment Hotel which is the Club Hotel.

The Waterfront Shaw Hotel Restaurants:

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The All American Diner: Affiliated members 15% discount - Continental American Cuisine.

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Affiliated Member enjoy 15% discount on this rates.

Chor Bizarre: Affiliated members 15% discount North Indian and Kashmiri Cuisine.

Studio - Promenade facing - 6250 + tax = 7746/-

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Yoga is one of the 6 doctrines of Vedic Philosophy. Maharshi Pathanjali regarded as the ‘father of Yoga’, improvised and modified the different factors of Yoga in his work ‘Yoga sutras’ for the total development of the human personality. Through a step by step method of exercises controlling the sense organs, the body and the mind as whole and through systematic breathing procedures the blood circulation is improved resulting in more absorbtion of Oxygen in the body. This ultimately enhances total health and there by absolute peace of mind. Also there is a myth about Pathanjali that he is half human in the upper body and the lower half is that of a serpent. Yoga is a discipline for “training the consciouness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and union with the universal spirit.” It is a system of excercises practiced as part of this discipline to promote the control of the body and the mind. The word Yoga means ‘union’ in Sanskrit - ‘Yoka’ or ‘yoking’. Meditation is “engagement in deep, contemplative thought or concentration of one thing or nothing, having emptied the mind as an exercise or ultimately a means of achieving spiritual enlightment.” After on open heart surgery I was advised by the hospital authorities to do Yoga along with physiotherapy to tone up the body back to its normal conditions of health, getting rid of pains, anxities, aches of the bones muscles and nerves. I joined our Yoga classes here less than a year back and it has brought in a commendable change in me both physically and spiritually. In this write up an attempt is made by Sri. Suresh to peep into the great-world of Yoga and to share with us some of the benefits we derive by practising it regularly and systematically. Suresh is the long standing member of our Yoga group and a Brown Belt in Shorin-ryu Saibukan Karate. M.P.A.

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is 5 pm on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Banquet Hall of our club; as we push the door open, a short- figure in T- Shirts with a smiling face will be seated on the yoga mat or rather the head mat greeting us like a Head Master. He is our Yoga Guru Sri. K. Krishnan. And as we look forward further, small groups of ‘Yogis’ and ‘Yoginis’ would have seated on their colourful mats as if they are sitting on magic carpets. It is true that Yoga is real magic or a tonic for total health and control of the body and mind. Yoga classes in our club was started 2 years back and the duration of the session is 5 to 7 pm. Members and their families are eligible to participate in the classes irrespective of age, gender, condition of health, size of the physique or mental state. We have ladies and gentlemen along with children as participants and also some migratory birds who makes their appearance during the vacations. Many senior persons joined the class with lot of apprehensions because of their choronic ailments and the consequent discomforts physically and mentally. But after a few months we notice, even many of the senior or junior grant parents cheerfully performing Pavanamukthasanam enjoying it like a sea-saw in the childrens park! We start with a silent prayer of our own choice. Then the opening session is Pranayama Anuloma, Viloma and Kapala pathi ie Deep inhalation, hold of breath and slow exhalation which is Nadi Sudhi Pranayamam for toning up the autonomic nervous system.

56 Mr. S. Suresh (L-1223) is the Managing Director, Metro Paints, Thiruvananthapuram

A tip from our Yoga Guru

While travelling, if you are not driving, try to sit in Padmasana posture. This will give a lot of relaxation and relief for the knees, legs, nerves and feet. Please try and enjoy your trip. - K. Krishnan

This is followed by a stretching and strengthening of the whole body. The next exercise is Yogic Physiotheraphy for different organs Legs, Hands, Neck, Eyes, Spine etc. Then we change over to laying positions (A) Upwards (aeÀ¶p InS-¶p-sImïv) Leg raising, Pavana Mukthasana, (B) Downwards (Iangv¶v InS-¶p-sImïv) Shoulder positionsSethu Bandhanam, Side positions - Cobra,

Bhujangasanam, Salabhasanam, Dhanurasanam and Side Positions- Anathasayanam. The winding up is with the Soorya Namaskaram or salutation of the sun. This is a combination of 12 Asanas, envigourating Nerves and Glands, Nerves and Muscles, Psychosomatic systems, Balancing of Oxygen in the blood and thus strengthening the whole body. Finally Savasana or Total Relaxation.

Pathanjali

Benefits of Practicing Yogasanas * 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

It Increases Longevity It Promotes Memory It makes the mind Satwic It gives Vitality It Promotes Health It makes the body Beautiful It cures many diseases It is Antidote to Laziness and Lethargy. It gives Peace of Mind It Invigorates all the organs of the body. It maintains the Youth appearance of the Body It Invigorates Heart and Circularly System It Prevents Obesity

14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

It Strengthens the Body It Increases Brainpower and Facial Outlook It Regulates Blood Circulation It makes one Active It Promotes balanced outlook and reduces Anger It helps one to forget Worries It Promotes Thinking Power It Promotes Intelligence to succeed in Life. It increases enduring capacity to work hard. It increases one’s Immunity. It Invigorates the Nervous System It is an Allover Excercise. (Full)

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kÀÆ‑mw‑ K - m‑ k - \ - w‑ þ \s‑«Ã - n‑ \‑v hg¡‑w \ÂI‑pI - b - p‑ w‑ ,‑ i‑zk\ h‑yhØ-bp‑ s- S‑ b‑pw‑ Ig‑p¯ - n‑ s‑e Ak‑pJ - § - Ä XS-bp‑ I - b - p‑ w‑ s‑N¿‑p¶ - p‑ . N{‑Im‑ k - \‑w þ FÃ‑m {‑KÙ‑nI - f - p‑ s - S‑ b‑pw‑ {‑kh-§Ä s‑]m‑ c‑p¯ - s - ¸ ‑ S- p‑ I - b‑pw‑ Aa‑nX - h - ®‑w I‑pd-bv¡ ‑ p‑ I - b‑pw‑ s‑N¿‑p¶ - p‑ . t‑{_ ‑ m‑ ¦‑nb - Â Bk‑vß,‑ {‑]t‑al‑w F¶‑nh t‑`Z-am‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ D]-tb ‑ m‑ K - {- I ‑ a- w‑ .

k‑nw‑ l‑mk - \‑w þ Ig‑p¯‑,v‑ I®‑pI - Ä‑, a‑q¡‑,v‑ s‑Nh‑n F¶‑nh - b - p‑ a- m‑ b‑n _Ô-s¸ ‑ « XI-cm‑ d- p‑ I - Ä XS-bp‑ ¶ - p‑ . ih‑mk - \‑w þ i‑mc‑oc- n‑ I - ,‑ a‑m\-kn‑ I‑, s‑sh ‑ I‑mc- n‑ I Bi‑zm‑ k‑w ]I-cp‑ ¶ - p‑ . k]‑vX] - h - \ - a - p‑ à - m‑ k - \‑w þ DZ-ck - w‑ _ - Ô - a- m‑ b I‑pg-¸§Ä‑, h‑mb‑pt- I ‑ m‑ ] - w‑ ,‑ \S‑pt- h ‑ Z- \ F¶‑nh t‑`Z-am‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ D]-tb ‑ m‑ K - {- ] ‑ Z- w‑ . DÀ[‑zþ kÀÆ‑mw‑ K - m‑ k - \‑w þ I®‑pI - Ä‑, a‑pJ‑w,‑ ak‑vXn‑ j‑vIw‑ ,‑ a‑pS‑n F¶‑nh - b - p‑ s‑S Bt‑cm‑ K - y‑ ¯ - n‑ \‑v hfs‑c {‑] t‑bm‑ P - \ - I - c- w‑ . Our ‘Yogis’ and ‘Yoginis’ @ the Second Home

]‑mÝ‑nt- a‑ m‑ ² - m‑ \ - m‑ k - \ - w‑ þ i‑mc‑oc- n‑ I - ,‑ a‑m\-kn‑ I - ,‑ Bß‑ob h‑nI‑mk - ¯ - n‑ \‑v D]-tb ‑ m‑ K - {- ] ‑ Z- w‑ . IS‑nN - {- I ‑ m‑ k - \‑w þ ]‑nS-en‑ `- m‑ K - w‑ ,‑ \s‑«Ã - ,v‑ s‑\©‑v F¶‑nh-bp‑ a- m‑ b‑n _Ô-s¸ ‑ « XI-cm‑ d- p‑ I - Ä t‑`Z-am‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b‑pw‑ XS-bp‑ I - b‑pw‑ s‑N¿‑p¶ - p‑ . DÀ[‑z lk‑vtX ‑ m‑ ¯ - \ - m‑ k - \‑w þ ]‑nS-en‑ t- h ‑ Z- \ - ,‑ t‑{_ ‑ m‑ ¦‑nbÂ Bk‑vß,‑ Zl-\k - w‑ _ - Ô - a- m‑ b XI-cm‑ d- p‑ I - Ä F¶‑nh t‑`Z-am‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ D]-tb ‑ m‑ K - {- ] ‑ Z- w‑ ,‑ Aa‑nX - h - ®‑w I‑pd-bv¡ ‑ p‑ ¶ - p‑ ,‑ Dbc‑w hÀ[‑n¸ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ kl‑mb - I - a- m‑ I - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . t‑Im‑ W‑mk - \‑w þ Dbc‑w hÀ[‑n¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \‑v D]-tb ‑ m‑ K - {‑]Z- w‑ ,‑ Zl-\,‑ i‑zk\ {‑]{‑In‑ b - I - s- f ‑ b‑pw‑ l‑rZ-bs- ¯ ‑ b‑pw‑ Dt‑¯P - n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ . * Source: National Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy.

Thanks to SN Chettan for this information 1) HONEY Sweetener: Sugar can be substituted with honey in many food and drinks. Honey contains about 69% glucose and fructose enabling it to be used as a sweetener. Energy Source: Honey is also used by many as a source of energy as it provides about 64 calories per tablespoon. One tablespoon of sugar will give you about 50 calories. Further the sugars in honey can be easily converted into glucose by even sensitive stomachs. Hence it is very easy to digest honey. Weight Loss: Though honey has more calories than sugar, honey when consumed with warm water helps in digesting the stored energy in your body. Similarly honey and lemon juice, and honey and cinnamon help in reducing weight. Improving Athletic Performance: Recent Research has shown that honey is an excellent ergogenic ad and helps in boosting the performance of athletes. Honey facilitates in maintaining blood sugar levels, muscle recuperation and glycogen restoration after a workout. Source of Vitamins and Minerals: Honey contains a variety of vitamins and minerals. The vitamin and mineral content of honey depends on the of flowers used for apiculture Antibacterial and Antifungal Properties: Honey has antibacterial and antifungal properties and hence it can be used as natural antiseptic.

Antioxidants: Honey contains nutraceuticals, which are effective in removing free radicals from our body, As a result your immunity is improved. Skin Care with Milk and Honey: Milk and Honey are often served together as both thee these ingredients help in getting soothing skin. Hence consuming milk and honey daily in the morning is a common practice in many countries. 2) RED ONIONS The humble red onion could be answer in reducing heart attack. It is usually overlooked in preference for the larger. But humble red onion could prevent heart disese. It is discovered that the vegetable commonly used remove bad cholesterol from the body. Researchers found that after eight weeks levels of hamsters had dropped by an average of 20%. At the same time red onions retain the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good cholesterol, which help against heart disease. In China, where people eat more onions and garlic than any where else in the world, the risk of stomach cancer is much lower than the average. 3) ROSE MARY This humble herb could be the secret of living to 100, according to researchers. In the research, when rosemary was commonly used in cooking by a group of pensioners, they had a remarkable record of not just living longer but being free of heart diseases. 4) SPINACH Eating spinach everyday can make your brain 11 years

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younger. Pensioners who tucked into it along with other leaf greens, stayed sharper for longer, say researchers. Hence add spinach even to salads and sandwiches as well. 5) MINT Mint is a natural stimulant, which freshens your breath and increases alertness. Try to include a few mint leaves in your morning diet by preparing a mint drink. Crush a few mint leaves along with lemon juice. Add water and the drink is ready. One can even try a green smoothie with mint, yogurt and honey. It is a great stimulant. 6) LEMON WATER Squeeze half a lemon in a glass of warm water and have it first thing in the morning to remain fresh and alert through the day. Lemon helps keep hydrated, aids metabolism, cleasenses the liver and provides relief from sore throat as well. This water also flushes toxins out of the body and helps you maintain glowing skin. Remember, do not add sugar. The first thing that you drink in the morning can have a day-long impact on your body, say experts. Try out these natural drinks to keep you healthy and refreshed. The following items also help you to live a long healthy life and should form part of your daily routine! a) Toast your bread lightly: Chemical changes occur when toasting, baking and frying foods like chips, crips and toasts, which result in the formation of acrylamide, which has been linked to cancer. b) make short journeys by foot, preferably over grass: In a study of over 3 lakhs people, it was found that lack of exercise killed twice as many people as obesity Adding 30 minutes walking into your daily routine, five days a week is the equivalent of 14 marathons in one year. This extra exercise can add three and a half years to your life span. c) See Your Dentist Regularly: Good dental care not only prevents tooth decay but gun disease too. Gum disease is linked to a whole host of health conditions, including heart disease, diabetes and strokes, and low birth-weight babies. This is because gum disease increases bacteria in the mouth, which is then transported to the rest of the body.

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Courtesy: Medical Journals

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60 Sri. S. Asokan (L-1693) is in the business of Stocks and Shares.

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A\‑pa- m‑ \ - w‑ . CX‑ps - I ‑ m‑ ï - p‑ Å t‑Zm‑ j-§Ä H«-t\ ‑ I - a- p‑ ï‑v. AX‑nÂ {‑][‑m\ - a- m‑ b - X‑v I‑me‑mh - Ø - b - n‑ e - p‑ ï - m‑ I - p‑ ¶ a‑mä-am‑ W - v.‑ C‑ub‑ns‑S UN Â CX‑ns - \ ‑ ¡ - p‑ d- n‑ ¨‑p h‑nh-cn‑ ¨ i‑mk‑v{X ‑ Ú À Hä-hm‑ ¡ - n‑ s- e ‑ m‑ X - p‑ ¡‑n "Catastrophic' AX‑mbX‑v `b‑m\ - I - w‑ . agb‑pw‑ s‑hÅ-s¸ ‑ m‑ ¡ - h‑pw‑ hcÄ¨-bp‑ s‑am‑ s‑¡ {‑]h-N\ - m‑ X - o‑ X - a- m‑ I - p‑ s- a‑ ¶‑pw‑ s‑Im‑ S‑p¦ - m‑ ä‑pw‑ N‑pge‑n¡ - m‑ ä‑pw‑ aä‑pa- p‑ ï - m‑ I - p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ s‑â CS-th ‑ f I‑pdª‑pw‑ cloud burst AYh‑m t‑aL-hn‑ k - vt‑ ^ ‑ m‑ S- \‑w t‑]m‑ e‑pÅ {‑]X‑n`- m‑ k - § - Ä AS‑p¸ - n‑ ¨ - p‑ ï - m‑ h - p‑ I - b‑pw‑ s‑N¿‑ps - a‑ ¶‑v AhÀ a‑p¶-dn‑ b - n‑ ¸‑v \ÂI‑nb - n‑ «- p‑ ï - v.‑ N‑pg-en‑ ¡ - m‑ ä‑v ]ï‑v hÀj-¯n‑ s- e ‑ m‑ t‑¶m‑ ct‑ïm‑ Hs‑¡ Dï‑mI - p‑ a- m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . F¶‑me - n‑ t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä H¶‑p X‑pS-§n‑ b - h - k - m‑ \ - n‑ ¡‑pw‑ a‑pt‑¼ as‑äm‑ ¶‑p X‑pS-§p‑ I - b - m‑ b - n‑ . AX‑n\ - m‑ e - m‑ W‑v s‑Im‑ S‑p¦ - m‑ ä- p‑ IÄ¡‑v t‑]c‑nS- m‑ ³ X‑pS-§n‑ b - X - v.‑ I{‑Xo‑ \ - ,‑ d‑o¯ Fs‑¶m‑ s‑¡b - p‑ Å k‑pµ-ca- m‑ b s‑NÃ-t¸ ‑ c- p‑ I - Ä H‑mÀa-bn‑ e - p‑ t‑ïm‑ ? `‑qa‑nb - p‑ s‑S cï‑p {‑[p‑ h-§f- n‑ e‑pw‑ \‑qä‑mï - p‑ I - Ä s‑Im‑ ï‑pï‑mb aª‑pa- e - I - Ä Dc‑pI - m‑ ³ X‑pS-§n‑ s- b ‑ ¶‑pw‑ Z£‑nW-{[ ‑ p‑ h - a- p‑ Å Aâ‑mÀ«‑n¡ - b - n‑ Â h¼³ aª‑pa- e Dc‑pI‑nb - X - n‑ s‑â ^e-am‑ b‑n he‑ns - b ‑ m‑ c‑p IjW‑w IS-en‑ Â‑, \‑o´‑n\ - S- ¡ - p‑ ¶ - X‑p I‑mW‑m³ Bk‑tv {‑ X ‑ e - n‑ b - b - n‑ s‑e S‑qd‑nk‑w h‑yh-km‑ b - n‑ I - Ä I¸-en‑ Â C‑u "Hg‑pI‑pw‑ aª‑pa-eb‑¡ v p‑ ' N‑pä‑pw‑ Id-§n‑ h - c- m‑ ³ Bs‑f Ibä‑n I‑mi‑pï‑m¡ - n‑ s‑b¶‑pa- p‑ Å h‑mÀ¯ ]{‑X¯ - n‑ Â h¶‑nc- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . C§s‑\ {‑[p‑ h-§f - n‑ s‑e aª‑pc- p‑ I - n‑ b - m‑ Â `‑qa‑nb - n‑ s‑e a‑q¶‑nÂ cï‑p`- m‑ K - a- p‑ Å ka‑p{- Z‑ ¯ - n‑ s‑â \‑nc-¸p‑ b - c- p‑ s- a‑ ¶‑pw‑ Dbc‑w I‑pdª ]e Z‑zo‑ ]‑pI - f‑pw‑ a‑p§‑nt- ¸ ‑ m‑ I - p‑ s- a‑ ¶ - p‑ a- p‑ Å Bi¦ X‑pS-§n‑ ¡ - g- n‑ ª - p‑ . CX‑n\‑p s‑Xf‑nh - m‑ b‑n C‑ub‑ns‑S U‑nk‑I v h - d‑n N‑m\-en‑ Â t‑Zi‑mS- \ - ] - £ - n‑ I - s- f ‑ ¡ - p‑ d- n‑ ¨ - p‑ Å Hc‑p ]c‑n] - m‑ S- n‑ b - n‑ Â h‑nh-cn‑ ¡ - p‑ I - b - p‑ ï - m‑ b‑n; hS-¡³ b‑qt‑dm‑ ¸‑ne‑pw‑ s‑sk ‑ _‑oc- n‑ b t‑]m‑ e‑pÅ Øe-§f - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ aª‑pI - m‑ e‑w X‑pS§‑pw‑ a‑pt‑¼ `‑qa-[y‑ t- c‑ J - b - ¡ v‑ S- p‑ ¯ - p‑ Å N‑ne c‑mP‑y§ - f - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑v Bb‑nc- ¡ - W - ¡ - n‑ \‑v I‑nt‑em‑ a- o‑ ä- À \‑nd‑p¯‑ms‑X ]d-¶p‑ h - c- p‑ ¶ C‑u ]£‑nI - Ä Z‑ni a\Ê‑ne - m‑ ¡ - m‑ \ - p‑ ] - t- b ‑ m‑ K - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ a‑mÀ¤-§s- f ‑ ¡ - p‑ d- n‑ ¨ - p‑ Å ]

T-\a- m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶‑p Ah-cp‑ s‑S e£‑yw‑ . C‑u Ig‑nª - h - Àj‑w C‑u ]£‑nI - s‑f ]‑n´‑pS- À¶ S‑oa‑n\‑v Hc‑p {‑]t‑Xy‑ I - X {‑i²b‑nÂs‑¸«- p‑ . AX‑mb - X‑v ]£‑nI - Ä ]d-¶p‑ h - c- p‑ ¶ - X - n‑ \ - n‑ S- b‑nÂ i‑m´-ka- p‑ {- Z‑ ¯ - n‑ Â Hc‑p Øe-s¯ ‑ ¯ - n‑ b - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä cï‑pa- q‑ ¶‑p XhW‑w h«‑wI - d- §‑n ]d-¶p‑ . C‑u {‑]X‑n`- m‑ k‑w a‑p³I‑me - § - f - n‑ Â I‑mW‑m¯ - X - p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ ï‑v a‑p³hÀj-§f‑nÂ s‑dt‑¡m‑ ÀU‑v s‑Nb‑X v p‑ h - ¨ - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ t‑Ss‑¸S- p‑ ¯‑p ] c‑nt- i ‑ m‑ [ - n‑ ¨ - t- ¸ ‑ m‑ Ä I‑mc‑yw‑ ]‑nS‑nI - n‑ «- n‑ b - X‑v Fs‑´¶ - m‑ Â‑, C‑u ]£‑nI - Ä h«‑wh - ¨‑p ]d¶ `‑mK¯‑v X‑ms‑g Hc‑p Z‑zo‑ ]‑pï - m‑ b - n‑ c- p‑ ¶ - p‑ . B Z‑zo‑ ]‑v Ig‑nª - s - I ‑ m‑ Ã‑w I‑mW‑mX‑mb - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ - p‑ s - b ‑ ¶ kX‑yw‑ . ]t‑£ \½‑ps‑S ]£‑nIÄ AX‑p I‑q«‑m¡ - m‑ s‑X ]d-¡Â X‑pSÀ¶‑p. AX‑mb - X‑v Chb‑¡ v v‑ H¶‑nÂ¡‑qS- p‑ X - Â s‑N¡‑tv ] ‑ m‑ b - n‑ â‑pI - f - p‑ s- ï ‑ ¶‑v ]T-\¡ - m‑ À¡‑v h‑yà-am‑ b - n‑ . F¶‑n«‑pw‑ Ch-cp‑ s‑S \‑mh‑nt‑Kj - ³ k‑nÌ‑w F§-s\ ‑ s - b ‑ ¶ - X - n‑ s - \ ‑ ¡ - p‑ d- n‑ ¨‑p he‑nb ]‑nS‑ns- b ‑ m‑ ¶‑pw‑ Ct‑Xh - s‑c I‑n«‑nb - n‑ s- Ã ‑ ¶ - X‑v t‑hs‑d. Ch‑ns‑S k‑w`-hn‑ ¨ - s - X ‑ s - ´ ‑ ¶ - m‑ Â X‑m]‑w I‑qS‑n {‑[p‑ h-§f - n‑ s‑e aª‑pa- e - I - Ä Dc‑pI‑n ISÂ\‑nc- ¸‑v DbÀ¶-Xn‑ s‑â s‑Xf‑nh‑mW‑v Z‑zo‑ ]‑ns‑â X‑nt‑cm‑ [ - m‑ \ - w‑ . A§s‑\ {‑]h-Nn‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ ]ä‑m¯ I‑me‑mh - Ø - b - p‑ ï - m‑ I - p‑ t- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä‑, h‑nX-b¡ v‑ p‑ t‑¼m‑ Ä s‑]t‑¿ï ag‑, s‑Im‑ ¿‑pt- ¼ ‑ m‑ Ä s‑]b‑X v m‑ e - p‑ ï - m‑ I - m‑ h - p‑ ¶ I‑rj‑n\ - m‑ i‑w X‑pS§‑n he‑nb I‑pS‑ns- h ‑ Å - £ - m‑ a‑w hc‑pw‑ I - m‑ e-§f - n‑ Â {‑]X‑o£ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ w‑ ,‑ `£‑y£ - m‑ a‑w ]‑pds‑I hc‑pw‑ . C{‑Xs- b ‑ m‑ s- ¡ ‑ Iï‑p] - n‑ S- n‑ ¨‑pw‑ a\-Ên‑ e - m‑ ¡ - n‑ b‑pw‑ CX‑ns‑\m‑ c‑p {‑]X‑nh - n‑ [ - n‑ s- b ‑ s- ´ ‑ ¶‑v t‑em‑ I-cm‑ j - {v‑ S‑ § - Ä G-20 D‑w UN \‑ps‑am‑ s‑¡ ]e ]c‑n] - m‑ S- n‑ I - f‑pw‑ ¹‑m³ s‑N¿‑p¶ - p‑ s- ï ‑ ¦‑ne‑pw‑ he‑nb a‑mä-sa‑ m‑ ¶‑pw‑ I‑mW‑p¶ - n‑ Ã - s - b ‑ ¶ - X - m‑ W‑v kX‑yw‑ . I‑mcW‑w C‑ub-Sp‑ ¯ I‑me¯‑v ]‑mc‑ok - n‑ Â H¯‑pt- N ‑ À¶ c‑mj‑{v S‑ ¯ - e - h - · - m‑ À Db-cp‑ ¶ X‑m]‑w cï‑p U‑n{‑Kn‑ s‑kâ‑nt- {‑ K ‑ U - n‑ Â ]‑nS‑n¨‑p \‑nÀ¯‑m\ - p‑ Å t‑]m‑ w‑ h-

g‑nI - s- f ‑ ¡ - p‑ d- n‑ ¨ - p‑ Å X‑oc‑pa- m‑ \ - § - Ä FS‑p¯ - p‑ . H¶‑pI - q‑ S‑n s‑Xf‑n¨‑p ]d-ªm‑ Â Ct‑¸m‑ Ä H¶-cU - n‑ {‑Kn‑ hÀ[-\t‑b Bb‑n«- p‑ Å - q‑ . CX‑p DbÀ¶‑ps- I ‑ m‑ ï - n‑ c- n‑ ¡ - b - m‑ W - t- Ã ‑ m‑ . C‑u DbÀ¨ Ch‑nS‑w s‑Im‑ ï‑p \‑nd‑p¯‑m³ ]ä‑nÃ - s- b ‑ ¶ - X - n‑ s‑â k‑qN-\b - m‑ W - ,‑v cï‑p U‑n{‑Kn‑ b - n‑ Â ]‑nS‑n¨‑p \‑nd‑p¯ - m‑ ³ X‑oc‑pa- m‑ \ - s - a‑ S- p‑ ¯ - X - n‑ s‑â s‑]m‑ c‑pÄ. CX‑n\ - p‑ Å {‑]X‑nh - n‑ [ - n‑ I - s - f ‑ s - ´ ‑ m‑ s - ¡ ‑ b - m‑ W - .v‑ h‑ml\-§f - n‑ s‑e I‑mÀ_¬s‑sU ‑ H‑mI‑s v s ‑ k ‑ U‑v ]‑pd‑wX - Å - p‑ ¶X‑v \‑nb-{´ ‑ n‑ ¡ - m‑ ³ Ct‑¸m‑ g- p‑ Å CÔ-\¯ - n‑ \ - p‑ - ]-Ic‑w s‑sh ‑ Z‑yp‑ X‑n D]-tb ‑ m‑ K - n‑ t- ¨ ‑ m‑ S- p‑ ¶ h‑ml-\§ - Ä \‑nÀ½‑n¡‑pI - ,‑ IÂ¡-cn‑ b‑pw‑ U‑oke‑pw‑ I¯‑n¨ - p‑ Å s‑sh ‑ Z‑yp‑ X‑n \‑nÀa‑mW - ¯ - n‑ \‑p ]Ic‑w I‑mä‑mS- n‑ b - p‑ ] - t- b ‑ m‑ K - n‑ ¨ - p‑ w‑ ,‑ t‑km‑ f‑mÀ ]‑m\-ep‑ ] - t- b ‑ m‑ K - n‑ ¨ - p‑ a- p‑ Å s‑sh ‑ Z‑yp‑ X - n‑ b - p‑ Â]‑mZ- \ - ¯ - n‑ \‑v D‑u¶Â \ÂI‑nb‑pw‑ A´-co‑ £ ae‑n\ - o‑ I - c- W‑w \S-¯p‑ ¶ t‑hy‑ m‑ a-bm‑ \ I¼-\n‑ I - f - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ ]‑ng-bo‑ S‑m¡‑pw‑ t‑]m‑ s‑e,‑ Carbon credit k‑wh‑n[ - m‑ \‑w I‑pt‑d¡ - q‑ S‑n h‑n]‑pe - o‑ I - c- n‑ ¨ - p‑ w‑ ,‑ s‑sh ‑ Z‑yp‑ X - n‑ s- N ‑ eh‑v I‑pd-b¡ v‑ m‑ \ - p‑ X - I - p‑ ¶ CFL/LED _Ä_‑pI - Ä¡‑v t‑{] ‑ m‑ Âk‑ml - \‑w \ÂI‑nb - p‑ w‑ ,‑ CÔ\‑w I‑pd-b¡ v‑ m‑ \ - p‑ X - I - p‑ ¶ Pressure Cooker t‑]m‑ e‑pÅ-hb - ¡ v‑ p‑ w‑ ,‑ a‑ot‑Y³ DÂ]‑mZ- n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - p‑ ¶ a‑me‑n\ - y‑ § - f - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ D‑uÀP‑w DÂ]‑mZ- n‑ ¸ - n‑ ¡ - m‑ h - p‑ ¶ _t‑bm‑ K - y‑ m‑ k‑v ¹‑mâ‑pI - Ä a‑pX-eb - m‑ h - b‑¡ v v‑ k_‑k v n‑ U‑n hÀ[‑n¸ - n‑ ¨‑pw‑ Carbon credit k‑wh‑n[ - m‑ \‑w I‑qS‑pX - Â t‑aJ-eI - f - n‑ t- e ‑ ¡‑v D]-tb ‑ m‑ K - s- ¸ ‑ S- p‑ ¯ - n‑ b - p‑ w‑ ,‑ \½‑ps‑S C‑u `‑qa‑ns‑b AS‑p¯ Xe-ap‑ d- I - Ä¡‑v P‑oh‑nX - t- b ‑ m‑ K - y‑ a- m‑ b - h - n‑ [‑w GÂ]‑nt- ¡ ‑ ï D¯-ch - m‑ Z- n‑ X - z‑ t- a‑ s- ä‑ S- p‑ ¯ - ,‑v \‑mt‑am‑ t- c‑ m‑ c‑p¯ - c‑pw‑ \½-fm‑ Â Ig‑nb‑pw‑ h‑n[‑w ]eX‑pw‑ s‑Nb‑tv X ‑ aX‑nb - m‑ I - q‑ . FÃ‑mw‑ kÀ¡‑mt‑cm‑ UN H‑m s‑Nb‑X v p‑ s - I ‑ m‑ Å - p‑ s - a‑ ¶‑p h‑nN‑mc- n‑ ¨‑v D¯-ch - m‑ Z- n‑ X - z‑ ¯ - n‑ Â \‑n¶‑pw‑ Hg‑nª‑p a‑md‑ms‑X \a‑p¡‑v F´‑ps - N ‑ ¿ - m‑ ³ ]ä‑ps - a‑ ¶‑v N‑n´‑n¨‑p {‑]hÀ¯‑n¡ - p‑ I - .

Barabati Fort, Cuttack

Regina Brett

Live life fully

◗◗ Life isn't fair, but it's still good. ◗◗ When in doubt, just take the next small step. ◗◗ Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. ◗◗ Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch. ◗◗ Pay off your credit cards every month. ◗◗ You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. ◗◗ Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone. ◗◗ It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it. ◗◗ Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck. ◗◗ When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile. ◗◗ Make peace with your past so it won't screw Text Courtesy: ‘Club Times’ of the Cuttack Club Ltd.

up the present. ◗◗ It's OK to let your children see you cry. ◗◗ Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. ◗◗ If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it. ◗◗ Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks. ◗◗ Take a deep breath. It calms the mind. ◗◗ Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful. ◗◗ Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger. ◗◗ It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else. ◗◗ When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer. ◗◗ Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special. ◗◗ Over prepare, and then go with the flow. ◗◗ Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple. ◗◗ The most important sex organ is the brain. ◗◗ No one is in charge of your happiness but you. ◗◗ Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?' ◗◗ Always choose life.

Regina Brett is a New York Times best selling author, newspaper coloumnist and and inspirational speaker. Her book 'God Never blinks, 50 lessons of life’s little detours’ has been published in 24 languages, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008, 2009. Born on May 31, 1956 she has a master’s degree from John Carroll University and a bachelors from Kent State University. When she wrote 50 lessons life taught me when she was 50, someone changed her age to 90 attaching a picture of a 90 year old fashion designer, Iris Apfel! M.P.A.

◗◗ Forgive everyone everything. ◗◗ What other people think of you is none of your business. ◗◗ Time heals almost everything. Give time time. ◗◗ However good or bad a situation is, it will change. ◗◗ Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does. ◗◗ Believe in miracles. ◗◗ God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do. ◗◗ Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now. ◗◗ Growing old beats the alternative - dying young. ◗◗ Your children get only one childhood. ◗◗ All that truly matters in the end is that you loved. ◗◗ Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere. ◗◗ If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back. ◗◗ Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need. ◗◗ The best is yet to come... ◗◗ No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up. ◗◗ Yield. ◗◗ Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

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