NURUNGU KATHA

 Let me quote a nurungu katha or a story bit I read a long long while back . It was in a prominent Malayalam magazine.

Sujith was an LD Clerk in the Govt. Secretariat. He detested the file culture in the office where nothing ever moved or nothing ever happened.

He created a file himself, and scribbled, 'the Secretary is an idiot'. He initialed it and submitted it for orders. The file went up through several rungs higher and higher. 

Each official concurred and passed it on after initaliing it for final orders. Finally it reached the top official, the Secretary himself. 

He approved the submission and wrote, 

" Issue orders and file"

The file came back the way it went up.

Sujith was sad. 

He told himself, "No one reads anything  and no one applies their mind anywhere" and put the file away to rust in a black hole never to see light again