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Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Avalanche of flowers
Amidst an avalanche of flowers
And dark green
An explosion of colours
In a dress
That suits her best
She tells me
It's ten years
Since a dear one
Had gifted it
Though it looks
Brand new
To
Me
Monday, July 14, 2025
ICONIC BRIDGE AT PUTRAJAYA MALAYSIA
ICONIC BRIDGE AT PUTRAJAYA MALAYSIA
FAVOURITE LOCATION FOR HINDI, TAMIL, TELUGU MOVIES
Write the story you want to read / Become a good writer/ / Writer Chandramathi
The Principal of KUT Seminary, Kannammoola, Trivandrum, knew Lila and the well known writer Chandramathi were good friends. They were classmates for MA English at the Women's College, Trivandrum. The writer was Kumari Chandrika at that time. She was absorbed by the All Saints College, Trivandrum after her post graduation. Later she became Ms.Chandrika Balan and Prof.Dr. Chandrika.
The Principal had a policy of inviting all time greats to address the sudents of the KUT Seminary.
He requested Lila to help out by extending his invitation to the famed writer on his behalf.
Lila wrote to her friends after sitting through the entire session:
"Today, 22.7.22, I had the great privilege and fortune to listen to our own Chandrika at the KUT Seminary, Kannammoola, Trivandrum. She was in her full elements. The capacity audience heard her in rapt attention. They clapped at the conclusion for several minutes.
"I was indeed happy for her. It was a mind boggling, explosive discourse that went on for more than an hour.
The range, the depth, the vocabulary and the references were purely out of the world. I had to Google when she mentioned 'Staccato.' No wonder she's a force to reckon with. She drew from her experiences, struggles, successes and the self induced breaks in her creative life."
"The icing was the closure."
"At the end, to a query how to become a good writer, she had responded,"
"Write the story you want to read."
Fools rush in
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
A quote that has stayed with me from age twenty one or twenty two.
A Mills and Boon type novel probably.
It was at the beginning or the end, I am unable to recollect.
Felt it made sense
SNAKEBITE AT U C COLLEGE ALWAYE
I am travelling back in my life.
I was at UCCollege, Alwaye that is now Aluva. It was 1967-68. Skinner Hostel. Prof.Dr.VKAlexander, the well known Psychiatrist, was the Hostel Warden.
It was a Saturday. Together with two, three friends I had gone to the town to watch a movie.
Alwaye was still a small place. Kochi City had not yet engulfed it.
As we were returning, it was around 6.30 pm, we were hurrying towards the mess taking the footpath adjacent to the Hostel for the dinner. Mess would close by 7 pm.
I felt something biting me. I shared it with the friends. They at once led me to the mess hall. Made me sit on a bench and put the feet up. There were two marks like pinpricks. Blood was oozing out from the wounds.
The campus had snakes in addition to the human population. Many of them were poisonous.
Though no one saw a snake - it was dark - the indications were it was, snakebite.
Someone made an incision with a blade and squeezed out the blood. Much before that a tourniquet had been tied above the ankle.
The Warden came. He took me to a Hospital at Alwaye.
They injected anti snake venom.
I spent the night at the Hospital. Some friends stayed with me. I was discharged the next day.
No harm done
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