Kerala! -god's own country...

I wanted to post something about my state Kerala, otherwise fondly called as- God’s own country.situated on the lush and tropical Malabar Coast of india,kerala enjoys unique geographical features that have made it one of the most sought-after tourist destinations in Asia.

Since I’m Falling short of words to describe my beautiful place,why don’t you take a look at some beautiful pictures……

1.The word “kerala” means, land of coconuts.

KATHAKALI

2.Kathakali is a highly stylized classical dance of kerala noted for the attractive make-up of characters, elaborate costumes, detailed gestures and well-defined body movements presented in tune with the anchor playback music and complementary percussion.

THEYYAM

3.Theyyam or thira is a popular ritual form of worship of North Malabar in Kerala state.

ALAPPUZHA BACKWATERS

4.Alleppey or Alappuzha is also known as the "Venice of the East" its was here that traders from across the seven seas came in search of black gold and souvenirs

ATHIRAPPALLY WATERFALLS

5.The Athirappilly Falls is situated on the Chalakudy river,originates in the upper reaches of the Western Ghats.Its breathtakingly beautiful.

THIRUVATHIRA

6.Thiruvathira is a Hindu festival celebrated in Kerala on the full moon day of the month of Dhanu (December or January).

BAKAL FORT

7.The beautiful Bakal Beach with Bakal Fort in the background, is of great historical and archaeological interest. Once held by Tipu Sultan the fort, was later incorporated into the domain of the English East India Company.Its one of the four famous forts of kerala. 

MUNNAAR

8.Munnar is a haven of peace and tranquility. 

The favored summer resort of the erstwhile British rulers in the colonial days. Unending expanse of tea plantations, pristine valleys and mountains,exotic species of flora and fauna in its wild sanctuaries and forests,aroma of spice, scented cool air.This is munnar

THRSSUR POORAM

9.Thrissur Pooram is one of the most beautiful  and colorful festivals.

EDAKKAL CAVES

10.Edakkal Caves are two natural caves located 1,200 metres above sea level in the Wayanad Distric of Kerala. Inside the caves are pictorial writings believed to be dating to at least 5000 BC, from the neolithic man indicating the presence of prehistoric civilization or settlement in this region.

ELEPHANT!

11.Naughty tusker J

VISHU KANI

12.The most important event in Vishu is the Vishukkani, which literally means " the first thing seen on the day of Vishu after waking up.

ONAM

13.Onam is the largest festival in the Indian state of Kerala.it falls  during the first month of the Malayalam calendar which is Chingam (August–September) and marks the homecoming of the legendary King Maveli.

YUMMY SADHYA

14.The high point of these festivals (onam and vishu)  is the Ona Sadhya, which is a lavish 5-course meal served on a fresh, green banana leaf. The number of items served during this meal are typically between 35 to 50. 

CHAMPAKULAM BOAT RACE

15.This boat race is the oldest and most popular Vallam kali (snake boat race) in  Kerala state

PLAYING CHILDREN!
15.Lakes with bloomed lotuses are a common sight.

GREEN FIELDS

16.Kerala would not have been green had it not been for its lush paddy fields and the two seasons of monsoons which support cultivation of rice.These fields give a cooling effect to anyone’s eyes… 

These  16 pictures show, just some pieces of kerala,the green state….

To know more, you have to really visit this paradise and enjoy yourselves….:)

night sky

Watching night sky is one of my hobbies. Bet you all love it too.

I don’t know what feeling fills my heart when I watch the night sky but I think it’s a mixture of romantic, melancholic and blissful feeling.

I like walking alone on the terrace of my home, watching the sky during the twilight.

At that time, I always try to find out the brightest of all the stars because I know that it’s my granny.

Then I will smile at her and believe me she will smile back…she was so sweet, my unique granny….

You know, When I was young I used to think that, everyday a star falls down from the sky. And hence I used to stay alert to catch one ;D

Sometimes I would simply wait for a shooting star or watch the moon among the floating clouds. Isnt she pretty and majestic like a queen.?

But what do we learn in the school? That moon is the only natural satellite of the earth, we belong to milky way galaxy, stars don’t twinkle but its just atmospheric refraction bla bla bla.

Now who cares about all that when the beauty of the night sky leaves us speechless……

No science can tell you about the stars better than our “twinkle twinkle little star” rhyme that we learnt in our kindergarten.

But It’s true that as we grow up we become rational, And hence there won’t be or there can’t be any place for those silly, kiddish thoughts that we once strongly believed in!

They just become something we can simply laugh at heartily, a part of childhood memories.

Well, let me conclude this post with a short poem. (poem? Don’t think so) J

“I hear the twinkling stars

Whispering to me,

‘Come to us. Come to this zenith.’

Oh stars, I will reach there one day.

If not in my life, at least after that”

"oh ants,you are just amazing!"

Dear ant,

Today when I saw you and your friends moving on the wall of my room,

I reached for the broom to sweep you off the wall.

But then something in you left me unable to do the job I was supposed to. You made me wonder, and think.

I have seen you moving so many times but today I observed you.

What a perfection your crew has!

The queue you maintained from the source to destination left me startled.

The other day when I went to a shop, what I saw was not a line but a crowd.

 I wish the people here had your discipline.

And my gosh! Your head is so tiny and yet you don’t forget the way to your house wherever you go!

I still remember the day when I was new to this city and lost my way to homeJ

You and your friends easily lift the big bread crumbs on the floors, that are double your size!

Hats off to your hard work,and your team spirit is the eighth wonder!

Its something that most of us lack…

How beautifully do you prove that- united we stand and divide we fall.

 And science has proved that you are good in calculations too! Oh god how I struggle to do some of my maths sumsJ

All together you are just INCREDIBLE!.yet people use ant pesticides to  get rid of you. Sometimes I feel sad imagining how painfully you die. suffocating Or otherwise you silently get crushed under our feet.:(

Man thinks that he is the master of this world. I am just wondering in what way is he superior When he does not even know that even a small insect like you is the creation of god and can teach him some great lessons of life…

Dear ant, yet you don’t even have the faintest sign of ego…you are just cool and continue your work.nothing bothers you…. I admire you! lol!

Oh dear ant you are just AMAZING!

The voyage still continues...

Questing for an island doth I move

On this solitary ship

But my eyes have only this raging waves to see.

This sea is eternal my comrade…

Like your endless dreams.

But still the voyage continues…

The sun, the spring

And now is the tempest.

My ship is capsizing in the dark

swaying, in this gale….

Like a restless soul pacing to and forth.

And now I am shrieking

Because I am forgetting me...

But the wind, like a hungry beast

Did swallow my scream..

And my tears are now

Lost in this sea…

Where am I now?

Am I  stuck?

But my freezing mind

does not have an answer.

This ship has faded now

A mere skeleton…

But in my dreams does the island glitter

Like a diamond amongst the coal

And are they driving this ship now,

Gently forward.

Are they like a candle light

in these cold nights

So the ship moves on and

The voyage still continues…

BAN ENDOSULFAN!

DO WE NEED THIS POISON?????

“crippled childhood,ruined lives and shattered hopes

This is all what endosulfan has gifted India”

SAY NO TO THIS BRUTAL KILLER!”

Endosulfan is basically an insecticide used to destroy pests and is primarily used by farmers to destroy pests which are harmful to their crops. The issue is that India is the main producer & exporter of this insecticide, but also is a member of the Stockholm Convention, which was established to protect the health of humans & the environment. So, as per this Convention, member countries should not use, produce, export, etc anything which is harmful to human health and the environment. Now the Stockholm Convention has tagged endosulfan as harmful and included it in their list of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Research studies allegedly state that endosulfan causes birth defects,cancer and is harmful to the male,female reproductive system .

The  recent study done in a village in Kasargod, Kerala revealed some shocking harmful effects of the endosulfan.

Other than India, apparently only China and Argentina are opposing  the ban whereas most member countries of the Stockholm Convention are supporting the ban.

WHEN WILL THE AUTHORITIES OPEN THEIR EYES?

Please follow the under- given link to sign the petition against endosulfan.you have got 3 more days.

http://www.petitiononline.com/endoban/petition.html

The question with no answer

I think, “Who am I?” Is a tough question.

The question with no answer or more clearly a question with so many answers but no definite answer!

And this is again because no one completely knows oneself.(well,atleast me)

Have a doubt? Ask the question to yourselves ;-)

Sometimes I really feel that there is a total stranger living inside me.

I have felt a kinda “duo” feeling so many times. like, sometimes i would be able to clearly differentiate between the normal me and the stranger me!

OH YA! I know what you are thinking right now

“C to the R to the A to the Z  to the Y!”  Isnt it???

Well leave all that.

Hey I really wanted to tell this to you. Recently I got some great followers!!!

Thank you so much!

And I have some awesome people with really awesome blogs! Some of them are SNEHA,AREEJ, D’ZARO,BARB.,HARSHA,KZELLA. ..etc.And their comments brighten up my day.

Thankyou all so much!:)

Well, that’s all from me.signing off now! see ya J

The muddle of my obsessing thoughts (a) A blurry self portrait

(If at all this post leaves you puzzled,honestly that’s what I want)

Anonymity
Blue roses

Books

Carefree attitude with a limit.

Challenges worse than the darkest death.

Cool breeze

Craze

Dark woods

Death

Disguise

Dreams

Excellence

Fashion- A part of confidence.

Fears

Friendship with no best friends

God

Hopes

Independence

Liberty

Loneliness

Love

Memories of gran

Music

My sis.

My Invisible friend

My perfect brother.

My diary,

My room

  My blog

  My pen

My Independent sensible thoughts

Night sky.

Nostalgia

Own identity.

Passion

Poems

Prayers

Possessiveness

Pain of parents’ love

Rain drops

Regrets

Success

Supernaturalism

Silence

Shadows

Silent tears

Should- Speak my mind,Protest for fair matters,Teach my aunt devil the meaning of selflessness and the world that there is only one god…

AND

At last, leave this world after making my mark and as a good human being….

dear brother,

My dear brother,

Until that day, when I was a lonely wayfarer in the never ending desert, crying in my heart, looking at the scorching sun, I never saw you..

Then you became a haven better than heaven, a reason to smile.

Then you made the blue roses of hopes bloom, with your brotherly love.

Let me shout this dear brother that you are the bestest in this wayward world,and this bond will never die.

I wish I were a song, so that I can go around the world to tell them how much I love you..

If there is only one life, I am contented.

But if there are many, I want only you as my brother….<3

The talking shoes!:)

First of all, I wish I knew what actually ran through your mind when you first read the title of this postJ

Okay, so the other day I was arranging my books and I was totally surprised to see this small book called “The talking shoes” by enid blyton!

It was then I recalled that it was the prize I won when I was in kindergartenJ

I think it was for a singing competition…

I had actually forgotten about this book and was excited to see it after a long time. And you know what? I read the book immediately.

A small story about a pair of talking shoes transforming a naughty little girl.

Of course very kiddish but yet It was beautiful!

It made me remember all the  pranks I did when I was young, how naughty I had been , how all we cousins enjoyed our summer hols together,the silly fights we got into!

Now everything has changed so much… a busy world, where one forgets himself…

True, that sometimes the flying time fail to take the sheen off the memories we cherish….its really a mystery how some olden golden memories stay so fresh as if it had happened only yesterday!

Well, see how a small book became a reason to think about all this and a topic to blogJ

Thank you Enid Blyton!

So Before I conclude, guess what this “The talking shoes” leave behind when it went back to the shelf, all the more pretty???

Nothing but a true beatific smile on my face…. :)

know not why...

“In front of your eyes,

have I grown

from a tot to a teen…

Know not why

now your love is shielded,

with your hollow fear and agony…

Love me if you trust me

 trust me if you love me”

LOVE YOU MEN IN BLUE!

TEAM SPIRIT=INDIA

AND  finally after the long wait of 28 years, WE HAVE LIFTED THE WORLD CUP, WE HAVE BECOME THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD…!!!!!

After the Kapil’s devils, Dhoni’s boys have done it again.

No better sent-off to the legendary master blaster from the world cup.

India did not sleep yesterday. omg! How could we?

India really deserved it!such was the batting,bowling,and fielding performances of India throughout the tournament. Tough luck for lanka.
No wrong in saying that sreesanth is a lucky charm for india and what a bowling by zaheer khan!highly commentable although in the last over he was a bit expensive.

When crowd was shocked when sehwag was trapped LBW by Malinga off the very second ball of the innings,and thought that they were dreaming when sachin was gone for just 18 runs ,nobody had the faintest idea that a few hours later, they would be rejoicing and April 2 was gonna be the unforgettable day for any Indian.

After the two big losses, young blood Gambhir and kohili, rebuilt the innings as well as rekindled the hopes of the one billion beating hearts of India.

When kohili was gone for 35, came dhoni, the captain cool.

 He had struggled through the tournament and was evidently not in form, and hence automatically nobody expected him to do wonders and doubted dhoni’s move of promoting himself up the batting order to number 4.

But I really knew that he was gonna rock because he had always been my favourite cricketer ever since he entered our Indian team and he has this ability of peaking up at the right time.
From which other captain can you expect this?Clearly he is the captain cool.

When Gambhir was gone for 97,India still had wickets in hand.

And then came Yuvi,with determination and confidence in his eyes.

During the last few overs, when the number of balls and the required runs were the same, occasional fours and sixes by dhoni and yuvi eased the pressure off them, setting it back on the Lankan bowlers.

Finally in the 48.2^nd  over, came the winning shot with dhoni hitting a SIX!

And along with the six, came all sorts of screams, cheers, applause, smiles-the moments of ecstasy, the moments of celebration!what a pride it was to watch the Indian flags fly high!!!!!

And it was indeed a great sight to see the Indian players lifting the one and only sachin tendulkar-the god of cricket, on their shoulders, and leading him around the ground.(sachin, you are born to play this game, you are just incredible! mwaaaah!)

Nobody could resist the tears of joy and it was great to watch the respect everyone had for our master blaster. No wonder India lifted the world cup for sachin!

This cup is the answer to all the criticisms that team India has faced right from the beginning of the tournament and to all who doubted India’s ability and performance.

not to forget India’s coach Gary Kirsten.He did an incredible job and Was somebody more than a coach to team India.with this world cup he too is bidding farewell.

Of course, this world cup after the long 28 years is like the rain after a long drought and we are the delighted dwellersJ

INDIA ROCKS!!!! JAI HO INDIA!

Dear time...

 Dear  time,

RUN fast!As fast as you can...

True, that we curse you for flying and turning everything to mere memories and the same we, praise you by calling you “a magic healer”. My dear friend, I apologize you for that . We have always been crazy people, selfish people and we always behave like a cat on the wall,

People complain that you kill their beautiful childhood days.

Now I feel, what is the point in staying forever in one’s childhood? Isn’t it non-sense to always remain dependent and ignorant?

So, my dear friend, please do run fast! It’s my request

Because independence is all I need now.

I have grown impatient because it is exasperating to stay on an island for so long that too captivated. I feel its simply ridiculous to just sit and stare. . I am restless. Won’t you consider this prayer of a confused teenager?

Before the anger defeats you...

“AARGH! WHO ENTERED MY ROOM and touched my personal stuffs???????”-you scream

“And my beatles’s  CD is missing!omg!!!!!”, but no one seems to answer.

“And my ipod!!!!!!!!!!! Jeeez!”

This time you run out of your room and enter the room of your prime suspect. Yes your sis!

You scream! But your sis shows an “I don’t live in this world itself”” expression on her face.

Now you can’t bear it anymore .without another word you take a leap towards your sis. Of course, your sis won’t keep quiet, And NOW, Ladies and gentleman the quarrel begins: D

Well friends, this is an example of a  common fight.

We all become angry for reasons that are silly to serious. And unfortunately unlike expressing other emotions, we can’t express anger because is harmful to others and even to us.

Well I am here to give you certain ways by which you can control your anger(as if I am so patient! but believe me this will really help you to at least reduce the impacts of anger on you as well as on the person you are angry with)

First, let us rewind the above situation. You enter your room and understand that somebody has sneaked in, and the missing Beatles CD and the broken Ipod are the proofs.

And you have reasons to believe that all that are the works of your sis

NOW,

.1-before you feel like hitting your sis reach for a paper and pen

Now convert your anger into words. Scribble out whatever comes to your mind. (Well, this seems stupid because you will go blind when you are angry. Now that you have read this, always be prepared with a paper and penJ)

Now if your anger is gone,keep it up! Well if not, try this.

2-IMAGINE yourself kicking or hitting or pinching your sis .If you cant imagine just grab a pillow and start hitting it (well sorry,I am not responsible for the later scoldings from your mom)

Now is the anger gone? yes? Wonderful! No? Don’t worry

3-Count from 1 to 10 slowly (an old method) plus think like this”I am different from others and I wont allow the enemy -anger to defeat me”

Now your anger will definitely vanish and still if you are angry I am sorry ,uh-oh your poor sis!:(

So that’s it.

[Now coming to your missing beatles C.D and Ipod matter. well once your anger is gone, wait for a chance to sneak into your sister’s room and search for your things and if you are unable to find them, take some of your sister’s fave belongings and get out. once your sis finds out that ,she will come to you.

NOW offer the two way dealJ]

 So friends try the above methods and defeat the dangerous enemy-anger before it defeats you.Go on take up this challenge.Good luck!

lost...

ever felt like you are lost in the woods?just you and your fear and the deep dark woods?
cursing yourself for going into this intimidating place when it beckoned you??regretting for what you have done???,struggling hard to get out?? wishing for at least a star to show the way??but never succeeding? 

My prayers for japan...

heart breaking..........

So miserable that another earthquake and tsunami have hit the coast of japan today.

Nature is showing her rage once again ,another warning for the  man to put an end to his greed.

Feeling really sorry for the people’s fate.

wishing with all my heart, for the re-establishment of normalcy in japan soon and my prayers for the country.

i wish....

I wish I could fly….

Fly until the zenith of the night sky and then look down at the sleeping world and scream at the top of my voice “you don’t know me!”

And float like that ,smiling as the maze down there entangles my mind, but never trying to find out where I really belonged to…

And then, like how roses of  glass shatters when dropped from the heaven, I wish I could vanish suddenly to everywhere, erasing every memory of mine from the mind of every one I know,from the mind of everyone who knows me, to make it all like I never existed at all…

Loss is loss...

Loss is loss…be it small or big,a thing or a person …anything

Well something that I realized recently

And everyone knows that time heals this wound.

But do you believe this healing is eternal??NO

what I observed about time was that, it has a mechanism to do this whole healing process.. …

I believe it’s the plan of the time that we,at somepoint of our life, feel  that we have found a substitute for our loss…(and we may even get what we lost itself as in the case of a relationship, but with a lot of weak patchworks…)

And at that time your hearts swears to you that it is the same old one that you lost once. And it will all feel fresh, a new beginning… that’s how the pain vanishes

Then life moves on….

Is that the end??? No its not over folks…

one day you will seriously ponder why is it that the vacuum is still there even when it is filled?? Why is it that nothing is like how it was before??? why am I acting ????

Then you will realize that the substitute was deceptive, was imperfect and your smile fades.

And here a severe ache rushes out and then you will know time was a cheat because the grief of loss is still there, it was there all these days, at some corner of your heat like an unrotten corpse in the cold.

And even time wont come to your rescue at that time, for it’s role is over.

Then you will stop acting, you wont value your substitute anymore, you will stop showing your fake smile,you will accept the truth.

And if you ask me if there is any way to kill the pain, I would say-No, Because loss is loss.

But friends you know what? tomorrow when you become a loss to somebody else, you can pass on a copy of the same pain you underwent, to him or her….

Hold on! Listen to what a plastic bag has to say...

Hello everyone!yes!!! this is a plastic bag here! a member of the family- PLASTICS.

 I am glad that I got this space to spit out whatever is there on my mind.

Okay,You know me very well. I am a part and parcel of your life.technically speaking I am a long chain of carbons molecules called polymers.

whatever, MAN is my god for he is our creator

I am around you, and the cars you drive, the computers you use, the utensils you cook with, the recreational equipment you play with, and the houses and buildings you live and work in all include plastics. You buy food and water wrapped in plastics and you throw wastes wrapped preciously in plastics tooJ

There are many others stronger than us  in our family.. We don’t rust, we are cheap….

But there is some problem which is upsetting us and I know,even all the members of my family……..PLEASE LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY

We understood that we cause pollution…hey listen friends this is not at all intended..

Each day I see people going on a rally saying “goodbye plastics” and all that. we really get insulted or more than that,painL

When I was born,all I saw around me was millions of bags like me and other stronger members of our family.i thought that was the world.but when I got out of that factory I saw the REAL BEAUTIFUL world……

Omg!what a cute wonderful world you have  man! amazing! green all around. your god is a great artist…

Only he can create this world which is perfect to the core…

But my creator I mean “the man” make haste, never think of the consequences of whatever he does…

I feel making us, plastics, is a mistake in many ways…But I think even your god make mistakes otherwise he wouldn’t have created you….oops sorry…just my rage out of pain.

ATLEAST you rot when you are dead

alas! we aren’t even capable of thatL (and as far as I am concerned that’s the only difference between us)

 Well no worries we are ready to quit or we would love to emancipate the world from us

But why don’t you realize that only our creator can destroy us? That means only you can do it

So why don’t you simply gradually avoid us rather than simply bark.

So just don’t blame us okay???? What can we do????

See, after seeing your mother nature , i myself and my family felt real bad. We never wanted to be one of the reasons why your earth suffers….

And if an outsider like me is feeling so ,I wonder why you people are least bothered about the place you live in!!! shame on your part…

So its not too late.hey man ,wake up time! we beg you.”reduce,reuse,recycle” us and finally KILL.why is the delay???we don’t care if our race face extinction….

Hoping for something positive,

YOUR’S LOVINGLY,

 A PLASTIC BAG.

“The nature of your future depends upon the future of the nature”

                                                 -ANON-

To my stranger

It’s a cold night and I stay awake

Thinking of you my stranger

We never met and we never shall

And still you  follow me…

Among every crowd I walk through,

Behind every blue roses I see,

Within the protective aura I feel

I know you  are there invisible ,staring at me ,smiling at me,trying to perfect me.

 You hide inside the soul of everyone I meet,

The reason why everyone has a common trait…

And every time I thought I found you, I never did

It was only your shadow in the dark.

 Its stupid of me I know

Because I try to believe lies when I know the truth

That we never met and we never shall…

But I feel you know the real me better than anybody else

 my silence didn’t hurt you ,my anger didn’t hurt you

because you and you alone figured out that,

 they were only born from my pain, my sorrow….

but my stranger I aint gonna find you

this fire of fear is swallowing me

and its time to turn out into mere ashes…

and do hear my heart screaming ”we never met we never shall…

that’s the way it is.”

Its a crazy world!

One day somebody smiles at you and the very next day gone is the smile.


You show your sincerity to the core in the work you do, but all you earn is accuses!

You help a person with a true heart and they finally turn out as your enemies.

You love your friends more than your life only to realize one fine day that they were fake!

Oh my god!what a kind of a world is this? Where, everything is so very unpredictable?

Crazy!

we are all inside a tunnel I understand.

how many of you are enjoying the darkness? And how many of you really are dying to see the light?? And worst of all how many of you are pretending as though you are living in light?

Well well,”honesty is the best policy” goes the saying.may be it’s the best but believe me there is nothing to do with the so called “honesty” in this era.

Ya I know exactly what you are thinking now. “cheating, crookedness may all give you a temporary gain but is not gonna help you in the long run”

Well let me ask you,what do you mean by the “long run”?

Any way nobody is gonna stay here forever or is gonna get out alive!

See experience Is the best teacher and what if experiences teaching you that in today’s world all you need is money and money rules the world? will you learn that lesson or?

Its confusing isn’t it?

BUT I wanna tell you this, eventhough its like that its you who is gonna decide about you and your life.so even if the whole world is against you, do anything which you think is just because good always win in the battle vs evil

To make it more clear listen to this,

Life is a running race and you are one among the participants

Some fools take the shortcut because they wanna reach the destination fast but they fail to understand that on doing so the game they play doesn’t become fair

It becomes a foul play.spectators and co participants and all may fail to notice that but

Somebody is watching you from the heaven friends, and nothing can cheat those eyes.:)