kurian's New Age Blog

The    characters 1   Navya  (17)      Higher  Secondary  student  2  Divya   ( 17 )    Navya's  friend 3  Mithun    ( 21 )   Navya's   Facebook  friend 4 Old  man   ( 80)   (partially   blind) 5  Mithun's  grandparents                                SCENE 1 The  garden of a Higher  Secondary  School. The students are relaxing during  break. Navya  and  Divya  are sitting on a bench under a tree. Navya  is holding a mobile phone.                          Navya Divya, what should I do ? That young man has sent me another friend  request. I'm  going to delete it.                 ...

   The   characters 1.  Kunjan  ( 40)  :  a  casual  labourer  2. Ammini  (35)  : his  wife 30th   June  2015 ( A small house in the Aruvikkara  Constituency. 11 a.m. Ammini is  feeding goats in the yard. She is very upset about something. Enter  Kunjan, in a happy mood. He is carrying  a duck.}             Kunjan Hey,dear, why are you very gloomy today?              Ammini Oh,nothing. It's only a minor headache. Why did you buy an extra duck? The duck that you bought two weeks ago is already cut and ready for cooking. Why do you waste money in these difficult times,buying ducks almost every week?                        Kunjan I shall explain it shortly. I know you are very upset about  the LDF's rout. Forget it. The...

A  small  house in the Aruvikkara Constituency. Ammini (35) sweeping the yard. Enter  Kunjan (40),her husband. He is carrying a duck)                               Ammini Chetta, why do you bring that duck?                                                   Kunjan You know,there will be an acute shortage of ducks on the  vote-counting day.So I am pre-empting the impending  shortage.                                       Ammini What  do you  mean by that?                   Kunjan  I mean, out of the 16 candidates, 13 will be ducks. I want to celebrate  UDF victory, with this duck roa...

Nowadays  a small  camera can wreak  havoc in the world, destroying global business empires. Sometimes  people say, referring to God, '' Don't do evil, there's somebody watching from above.'' This is enough to force God-fearing people to think twice before doing evil. But nowadays, the fear of the camera is the most effective deterrent ,because cameras are aimed at you from above, below, on the sides, and only God knows from what unknown  and unimaginable angles that we come under the  spotlight. CCTV cameras  are a boon to the traffic police, shopkeepers, private homes, jewellers etc etc in catching the culprits who intrude or steal ,and commit traffic offences. Almost every day, some theft is committed in the jewelleries in Kerala. The thieves, mostly women, enter the jewelleries, pretending to be 'customers', and get away with some stuff. Later, some of them are traced and arrested with the visuals from the CCTV cameras. Nowadays, ...

                                                        SCENE 1 ( An examination  hall in Kerala. About  30 people of different ages  are seated. Paper 1 of the M.F.( Master of Fraud) Examination  is about to start. Among the candidates is a young  Sikh. Enter  the invigilator.)                                     Invigilator Good  morning  candidates. Are  you all ready ? We are about to start. Please remember, don't  try to do anything  funny.I mean, copying. I have zero-tolerance in this matter. Do you hear?                                  candidates                ...

At  last,the UDF  has entered the final  lap of its 5-year,gruelling race,like a neck and neck 5000 metres race, where the leader, Oommen Chandy,  has survived many challenges. It's as if he was running the race barefooted, on very hostile terrain,on tracks strewn with thorns. It seems most likely that the UDF Govt. will complete its full term.The  LDF  has, halfheartedly  tried all weapons in its arsenal  to oust the UDF from power, with no avail,and in its abortive attempts, it has eroded its credibility. I am not excited about the prospect of  the UDF returning to power, or it being unseated in next year's election. The people are resigned to the fact that no matter who is in power, things will continue unchanged, as in the skyrocketing  price of petrol ,falling prices of cash crops, rampant corruption, fraud,seizure of Govt.land, destruction of the environment etc etc.Even if the LDF  came to power,they wouldn't be ab...

There is no shortage of scandals and controversies in Kerala.The latest scandal is about a top cop who could not cope with the pressure of writing an examination at an advanced age, and resorted to the short cut of the universally accepted practice of copying. The poor cop was not good in studies;nor was he good at copying. It's a pity that the invigilator could not recognize the top cop in civilian clothes sitting in front of him.If the cop had been in uniform,the invigilator would not have dared to go near him.The invigilator should have known better. Generally,a cop can be identified by signs of obesity. Qualifications and Drivers licences from Third World countries are not accepted in First World countries ,because of the culture of cheating,fraud,forgery,copying etc, widespread in the Third World.Immigrants have to prove their qualifications by writing exams in their new country.Ironically,Indians excel academically abroad.In India,one may get away with...