As the blog is aptly entitled''far away from the madding crowd''...I exsist faaaaaaaaaaar very far from the madding crowd..When once in a while I do feel the need to visit my home town ie surprisingly God's own country I pack my bags and am ready to leave on a jet plane.......I love the journey from Nungambakkam to Meenambakkam...check in at the Kamaraj ....have a lovely sandwich or a cookie....and wait in the lounge mebbe for a hour or two...Fly to Kochi...land there and then reach the ''Leela''...my husband's abode ...The first day is fun...next day too is great...mebbe the third day too....but later my ''inner self'' starts rejecting the ''wonderful'' environment...But I dont realiseor understand how I lived in ''God's own country from 1983 to 1999...I reward myself the noble prize for adjustment..if ever there is...!!!!From 1998 actually I was always travelling throughout India for my doctoral and post doctoral assignments...so it was a fine life then...And I suppose as my wonderful friend Anand says and I disagree its ''if there is a will there is a way''....I had a will then to hold on becoz my family was young and Ihad to stay on!!!!This is just a passing thought...not an insinuation against ''Kerala..or Kochi...or Chengannur''Talking about the town of Chengannur I loved the town when I was young...mebbe becoz of the lovely bakeries and the simplcity of the folks then...but now its just a hub of NRIs vying with each other for power,prestige and popularity..Anything will be done for money..sex and power...You name it...they do it...in the garb of politics ..pushpa melas...temple festivals etc...The ruling party whether the marxist or the Congress misuse power...the nameof the leaders and now social--networking sites...!!!!!!!!!It's really disheartening to watch all this from about 600-750kms far...that I belong to that state which makes montains out of mole hills...The mulla--periyar...sharad pawar...atheists...etc etc are not issues which shud dominate the Malayali's mind but...be a nice..humble...sincere....genuine..simple...sibling loving people....rather than ARROGANT...HYOCRITICAL...VENOMOUS....GOSSIP--PRONE....FULL OF SIBLING RIVALRY....limit your carnal desire to minimium ...otherwise yu will have to build many juvenile homes rather than expensive bungalows....!!!!
