Nomad, the Scribbler

  The Trailer. Note : Trailer or Accidents. It took me a while to pick a title for this post. I have met with many accidents, minor and semi major, but nothing  gave me nightmares like this one in particular. I never had a near death experience prior to this, nothing that I am aware of. Interestingly I started having nightmares after I picked Interpretation of Dreams to read. But that is as far as the connections go. Me and my roommate Rohan were heading back to our place from office. The night was young, the city and its inhabitants were slowly going to their sleep. Streets were almost deserted apart from  the few night vendors here and there. It was a perfect time for a night ride. When we reached the pipeline junction, the signal was red. Though the roads were empty and there weren't any vehicles crossing the junction that moment, we waited there before the signal. It was a needless act I must say. We started moving when we got green.We had hardly crossed the

Humiliation frustration and a few more things to go with it . Well that's it for the title. I was rich, was called a banker by a few ( hate those filthy people). They had pointed out that a banker of my reputation ought to have a laptop and not having one is unthinkable for a person of my stature. I was fool enough to fall for it. Please don't ask me why I had placed an order and left a considerable amount of money with a total stranger to buy a laptop. I don't have a sensible answer for that. People do make mistakes and discount was far too luring to ignore. Now it doesn't seem so good a reason though. I'm more than sure that the model's price has come down, just not sure if it is more than the discount that I was offered. That will be far too disheartening to hear. So I've closed all my senses to ads from Toshiba. And I've learned a new lesson. When your parents ask questions like these. "When are you coming home?? "

Today a long half hour at the pipeline signal and having a position somewhere at the end of a very long queue of impatient honking vehicles made my mind rush to the statement made by a sane stranger, though then he wasn't looking so sane to me. It happened long back, may be eons back and I am not even sure this is what really happened, but this is close to what I can remember. I was on the way to my office in a bus. I did see a man (usual careless glance) who was sitting to the left where I was standing. I didn't give him much attention. All of a sudden he asked me. Njan oru chodyam chodikkatte ??? Lot many things went across my mind. I might have accidentally hit his head when the bus braked. While I was contemplating the possibility of facing a  humiliation before all the passengers he asked me, Signal palikkatthe nammal poyal entha fine ennu ariyamo ?? What!!!  Enthuva?? May be the question came out all wrong, that wasn’t what he was intending to ask. I wa

Papa, where are you going?? My little girl asks me  To attend a marriage dear. I told her It is a Sunday and she expects I will take her to the park like I promised.  I waited for an array of questions from her, and she doesn’t disappoint me.  "Are we not going to the park today?" " No dear, I have to go. We will go later." “Why aren't you taking us? Who is getting married? ” Rishin uncle is getting married  "Chathan uncle” she corrected me with enough conviction which made me feel that it was me who made the mistake. She caught hold of that name recently and since then I didn’t hear her calling him anything other than that. But she never calls him Chathan in public; they have made a pact it seems.  She started circling around me doing her tiny little steps. She doesn’t look surprised by the news; I was practically taken aback when he told me. It was late last night, he called me and declared. "I am going to get marrie

If you feel a cool little breeze whispering in your ears. Don’t worry, it’s me. If you feel a sweet little kiss on your cheeks Don't worry, it’s me. And if you have something to tell me, say it to the breeze Because it’s me walking by your side…

ഇതൊരു ദുരന്ത കഥ അല്ല പ്രണയ കഥയും അല്ല വെറുതെ ഒരു കഥ, ഒരു  നായകന്‍റെയും നായികയുടെയും കഥ. നായകന്‍ +2 പഠിച്ചു കൊണ്ടിരിക്കുന്ന കാലഘട്ടമാണ് നമ്മുടെ കഥാസന്ദര്‍ഭം .ആദ്യ ദിവസം തന്നെ നന്നേ വൈകിയാണ് ക്ലാസ്സില്‍ ചെന്നത്. ബാക്ക് ബെഞ്ച്‌ അസോസിയേഷന്‍ ഒക്കെ അന്നേ തുടങ്ങിയതാവണം. പിറകിലത്തെ സീറ്റ്സ് ഒക്കെ കൈയേറി പോയി. ഒരിടത്തും  സൂചി കുത്താന്‍ പോലും സ്ഥലം ഇല്ല . ആകെ ബാക്കി ഉണ്ടായിരുന്ന ആദ്യ ബെഞ്ചുകളില്‍ ഒന്നില്‍ സ്ഥലം കണ്ടുപിടിച്ചു. ചുറ്റുവട്ടം ഒക്കെ ഒന്ന് കണ്ണോടിക്കുമ്പോഴാണ് അത് സംഭവിച്ചത്. നായകന്‍റെ തന്നെ ഭാഷയില്‍ പറഞ്ഞാല്‍ ഏതാണ്ട് ലവ് അറ്റ്‌ ഫസ്റ്റ് സൈറ്റ്‌. സംഭവം പൈങ്കിളി ആണെന്ന് തോന്നുമെങ്കിലും സംഭവിച്ചത് അതാണ്. തൊട്ടുപുറകില്‍ വലത്തീന് മൂന്നാമതായി അവള്‍ ഇരിന്നിരുന്നിരുന്നു . തന്‍റെ ചുറ്റുമുള്ള ലോകം മാറുന്നത് ആദ്യമായിട്ട് അവന്‍ തിരിച്ചറിഞ്ഞു. ദിവസങ്ങള്‍ കുറെ കടന്നു പോയി ഇതുവരെ ഒന്ന് സംസാരിക്കാന്‍ സാധിച്ചിട്ടില്ല . ചങ്കുറ്റമില്ല അത്ര തന്നെ. പെണ്‍കുട്ടികള്മായി സംസാരിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ കാലുകള്‍ നല്ല ഒന്നാന്തരമായി കൂടിയിടിക്കും . ആണ്‍കുട്ടികള് മാത്രമുള്ള സ്കൂളില്‍ പഠിക്കാന്‍ വിട്ട

Did you ever have such an experience?? You realize few hours missing and you have no idea what happened though you were fully in your senses, well not literally  I woke up late with a headache, probably hangover from the last day’s party. I was lying down on the floor, still in the party wear, but felt strangely happy being in a familiar place. I wanted to get up but my body wasn’t up to it, so laid there waiting for some source of sound near by. As I was slowly slipping back to sleep it came, but with a poke. Dude... wake up wake up. I slowly opened my eyes and saw them observing me in a peculiar way. Do you have any idea what you did last night??? I didn’t, rather couldn’t say anything, obviously didn’t have any idea, just gave them a blank look.  See the way he is looking, he isn’t normal yet.. Everything has a meaning it seems... anyhow my response was the same even this time.  Now wake up and get ready, we got to go home.  I closed my eyes and heard them walk