THE RIDDING ROAD

                                 

         

          She smiled so wide that her cheeks started  to hurt. Raindrops rolled over her raincoat.Bike was fast , she felt cold and shivered.Her mouth started to mutter but her father put one of his finger between her teeth ,while one on the bike so that she doesnt bite her tongue.She said to him" papaa there comes over riding road..go deep and get that hole".They rode into the holes  on the road splashing the water as a wonderla ride.This was the only reason fors he would get up early in the cold rain for the school.Her father was her hero.She loved him very much.She always insisted to go with him.she loved  her riding road with holes. She used to make funny noises" peeeewwww" Others used to adore her cute little voices.
                  Sitting in the varanda and waited for her hero to come.They had decided to go on a ride.Cutting throgh the breezing wind,seeing the green fields along her way and talking endlessly about her day,she was all driven in her world.It was late ,the birds got on their nest chirping, sky was red and the sun was hiding behind the trees and  she stared at the still gate.  Suddenly a bell rings  her mother  attends it and starts to cry  loud ,people coming to their home and looking at her pathetically.She scrummbled her face in annoyment.Suddenly she saw some people carrying somthing covered in white cloth.She got all exited"carry me pls"she yelled.Her mother hold her aside and wept with sorrowful tears.When the cloth was taken she was shook.Her father was layed . His eyes were closed,face was pale.She went by and asked "papaa get up i dont like this, why didn't you came on time i wont talk to, you get up" her mom held her back and cried loud"no dear dont say that he loves you...but he left us".She was shook."your father went to the ride alone he shouldn't have...".His head had a huge stich and his bike was no where to be seen.
                  She knew now.Her hero was no more.She sat all alone in the corner of the house closed her eyes.She heard a voice"hey champ! How's my girl.My champ never cries she is strong. Remember what papa used to say life is always an irony child.You never have you want,but you should never stop searching for it.I am always in you, so dont worry about that.You are my princes.You will always find your way .I am in you!"
                                              ◆Meenakshi Manoj

അതിജീവനം -പ്രളയം 2018

99ലെ  വെള്ളപൊക്കം എന്ന്  കേട്ടിട്ടുണ്ടോ? നദിയിലൂടെ  ആനയുടെ  ജഡം  ഒഴുകിവന്നതും  നാട്  കൊടുംദുരിതത്തിലും പട്ടിണിയിലായതും അമ്മാമ പറഞ്ഞുകേട്ടിട്ടുണ്ട്. അത്  ഏതോ  കാലത്തെ  കഥാമാത്രമെന്നെ കരുതിയിരുന്നൊള്ളു. 2018ലെ  മഴക്കാലം വെള്ളപൊക്കം മഹാപ്രളയമാക്കുന്നതെന്നു  കാണിച്ചുതന്നു. 
                           ഈ മഴക്കാലത്തു കേരളം മുഴുവൻ  പ്രളയം അനുഭവിച്ചു. ഒരു പക്ഷെ കാസര്ഗോഡൊഴിച്ചു എല്ലാ ജില്ലകളിലും നദികൾ കരകവിഞ്ഞ്  ഒഴുകി. തലയ്ക്ക്  മീതെ, വീടിനു  മേലെ, നാടാകെ മുക്കിക്കൊണ്ട് വൻ മഴവെളള 
പാച്ചിലിനാണ് സമതലങ്ങൾ സാക്ഷ്യം വഹിച്ചത്. 
ബാക്കിയാകുന്നത്  ജീവൻ നഷ്ടപ്പെട്ടവരുടെ കണ്ണീരോർമ്മകൾ,ദുരന്തംത്തിന്  മുന്നിൽ പകച്ചു 
നിൽക്കുന്നവരുടെ നിസഹായത, തകർന്നടിഞ്ഞ 
നാടിന്റെ ദൈന്യo. 
                  വെള്ളം പൊങ്ങുകയും അതിവേഗത്തിൽ ഇറങ്ങുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നതാണ് പതിവ് രീതി. കൂടി പ്പോയാൽ ഒരുദിവസം വെള്ളമിറങ്ങാതെ നിൽക്കും. ഇതാണ്  കേരളം പരിചയിച്ച വെള്ളപൊക്കം. ഇത്തവണ്ണ ഇതെല്ലാം തെറ്റി ചാണ്
മഴയും പുഴയും ഒത്തുകളിച്ചത്. ഓഗസ്റ്റ്‌ മാസത്തിൽ  ആദ്യ 18 ദിവസം ഏതോ വാശി യോടെ എന്നപോലെ മഴ പെയ്തുകൊണ്ടേയിരുന്നു. ഇടമുറിയാതെ ഇടവപാതി എന്തെന്നു പുതിയ തലമുറ കാണുകയായിരുന്നു. 
                         മഴ അതിശക്തമാവുകയും, വെള്ളം കരകവിഞ്ഞൊഴുകുകയും അതു ഒഴുകി പോകുന്ന വഴിയെല്ലാം തടസങ്ങൾ ഉയരുകയും ചെയ്തപ്പോൾ പുഴകൾ വഴിമാറി ഒഴുകാൻ തീരുമാനിച്ചു. പെരുമഴയും പ്രകൃതിയെ മറന്നുള്ള വികസനവും കൈകോർത്തു. കേരളം പ്രളയജലത്തിൽ മുങ്ങി. 
                ഇത്തരം അനുഭവങ്ങൾ, കാഴ്ചകൾ, എന്തിനു പേടികൾ പോലും മലയാളിയുടെ മനസ്സിലുണ്ടായിരുന്നില്ല എന്നതാണ് സത്യം. കാലാവസ്ഥയിലെ മാറ്റം തീവ്ര കാലാവസ്ഥ അനുഭവങ്ങൾ തുടർക്കഥയാവുകയാണ്. വരൾച്ച 
ജലക്ഷാമം, കടലാക്രമണം. ഓഖി, പിന്നീടിതാ പ്രളയവും. പ്രകൃതി മാറുകയാണ് കാലാവസ്ഥയും. ഇതു തിരിച്ചറിയാൻ എങ്കിലും തയാറായാലേ കേരത്തിനു ഇനി ഇത്തരം പ്രളയങ്ങളെ അതിജീവിക്കാനാകൂ. 

                      മനസിലും പ്രവർത്തിയിലും കൂടി ഓരോരുത്തരും അതിജീവനത്തിന്റെ പെട്ടകം സൃഷ്ടിക്കണമെന്നാണ് ഓരോ പ്രളയകാലവും നമ്മെ പഠിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്. മനുഷ്യനൊപ്പം പക്ഷിയെയും മീനിനെയും പാമ്പിനെയും നാല്കാലികളെയും കരുതലിന്റെ പെട്ടകത്തിൽ ഒപ്പം കൂട്ടണം. മണ്ണും വിണ്ണും വാസയോഗ്യമാണെകിൽ, സുരക്ഷിതവും സുഖകരവുമാണെകിൽ ജീവനുള്ളവയെല്ലാം തമ്മിലുള്ള പരസ്പര്യത്തിന്റെയും, സഹജീവനത്തിന്റെയും അക്ഷരമാല പഠിച്ചേ മതിയാകു. സാക്ഷരരായ  നമുക്കതിനു കഴിയുമോ എന്നാണ് ഓരോ പ്രളയകാലവും ചോദിക്കുന്നത്.  


                              - നമിത പ്രസാദ് 

FIRST ONE TO BE!

                   - Kezia Rachel Soj

The Malayalam letter 'അ'
My first written letter
The hands that strongly and enthusiastically hold
In the laps of an unconditional love.
Oh! She looks like her Grandma!
The phrase that creates an exchange of smile.
Bye Njonje! A sentence that I was not suppose to forget
Every morning when I set off from home.
If forgotten, her pale little skinny face
Becomes pure red.
The glittering excited lilliputian eyes
That peep through the cornered window
Each day when I get back from school.
My antique little angel, My superwoman
My bag of secrets, My storyteller
My money bank, My music composer
The master chef ,The synonym of care
And the First one to share my day
All these make me thirst for a time machine
So that I can go back to all those bliss moments.
'Amma knows a lot But Njonje knows everything'
           

The Great Fight between the Soul and Body

All should may be think that why should he choose this heading to emphasise 7 days of holy day. As you all know that the body have the tentency to sleep and seek pleasure. It's man's drowback. But soul seek only good things.

              Here I want to ask my self  am l utilize my holiday in a fruitfull manner? I would say that I am fighting each day but 4 days I didn't win. Basically I am font of watching moves with out control. In the four days I simply wast my time to watch moves. It made me sad. 

       On the fifth dayI changed my program. Firstly l taken notes for the seminar presentation. It made some happiness in me. Next day I gone through the topics of French revolution and revolution. Next day I started my history assignment and seminar report. After all I can say I did upsomething in my holidays.

                                   Austin babu

Unexpected holidays- for what?

                   ●Meenakshi Manoj

                 Take a cup of coffee and a favorite book for the readers,gather all the buddy's and go for a game for the chillers and sleep till the head goes heavy for the lazy ones.Holidays are somewhat the same for us.In a rainy day when I have to get out of the bed early for college  I always feel sick but ,that day was a holiday.I am usually a pluviophile.Friday morning as I woke up the rhythm of the rain struck me.Rain is a beautiful feeling.But,this one was a remainder of something worse and everyone knew that.I was worried than happy.It was a relief that I had time to do my works now but it was even worse when i thought about my brothers and sisters who suffer pain in this thunderous season.I had my licence test in the 1st day of holiday.The other days continued by other tasks like spending time with my family helping my mother and cleaning that room of mine which sees broom once in 5 months.we have a balcony in my house where we watch the rain and have coffee but we didnt do that all these 7 days because when it rained we knew that some part of our land was being washed out by the flood.These holidays were not the ones to be enjoyed,but was  to work.After the rain comes the sun,after the flood we became more united.As said by John Ruskin "no individual rain drop ever considered itself responsible for the flood" we all are responsible for overcoming it.These holidays were ones that made me think more about how small our world is and in this small world we all are one family!

              

My Unexpected Holidays (by Ann Lopez)

    The word 'holiday' is something which brings a smile to one's face and an unknown wave of relief irrespective of one's age. The happiness which it gives is almost the same be it a student or a working person.

Last week I got some unexpected holidays due to the Kerala floods, so on Thursday I came to my hostel and there already was a rumor that Friday might be a holiday so I decided if it so happens, I will go home since the holiday was yet to be declared I decided get started on the assignment which was to be submitted the next day and as expected Friday was declared as a holiday by around 6 p.m., so then me and my friends decided that since we have three whole days to get all our work done, we will sit and talk so we talked for some time, and then we got to know that due to the floods there was some issues in the train route towards Kozhikode. Then there were a few tense moments after that since one of our friends Anaina, was on her way to her home in Kozhikode. But she reached safe and sound and we were relieved.

The next day as decided, I went home and unexpectedly one of my friends, Shanthini was there in the bus which I boarded so we talked about different things throughout the journey. This was different from my usual routine, which will be just me and my playlist. I reached home and after having a tasty breakfast cooked by my mom, we sat together and talked about events from our day-to-day lives which practically lasted pretty much the entire day. The next day which was Saturday, I had some errands to run and sadly that gobbled up almost my entire day.

On Sunday, I watched the movie 'Kung fu killer' and then me and my mom sat and talked for a while after that she expressed her wish to see a movie so then we watched the movie 'Athiran'.

The next day, by noon, I reached my hostel and no sooner had I plopped my bag on the bed than my phone pinged with a message saying that Tuesday has been declared as a holiday. By then I was too lazy to travel back home so I decided that I will stay back and get all my work done. But then the procrastinator in me woke up and said. "you have an entire day to get all your work done, so for now let's just have some fun" so then sadly I obliged and finished a book 'Charmed' by Nora Roberts which I took from the library. The next day the procrastinator in me was still working and I kept on pushing my work aside hour-by-hour. Again by evening, Wednesday was declared as a holiday. So that day me and my friend who was back from home and could not go back even though it was a holiday, since the roads were blocked. We sat and watched a movie and talked a lot. On the next day I realized that if I keep procrastinating like this, I will have to pay a heavy price for it. So I got on my assignments done on Thursday. And that's pretty much what happened during the unexpected holidays which I got.

UNEXPECTED HOLIDAYS_GOPIKA SURESH (8214)

In this fast moving and tedious life, holidays come as a helping hand to us . It is a day to relax and refresh. People long for a holiday as it is the most beautiful day of one's life. Holidays makes us happy. But what about the unexpected ones? Well, we would feel more enthusiastic and excited..

It would bejust like a kid's enthusiasm and excitement when he gets his favourite toy. I like holidays and make full use of it.

      The unexpected which we got due to heavy rain was obviously relaxing one, but on the other hand was a heartbreaking one too. When the district collector declared holiday for us on Friday I felt greatful to him and planned for a very long sleep under the cozy red blanket of mine. But mother nature didn't want me to sit idel. The heavy rain led to flood and a relief camp was opened here. Thinking about the troubles faced by people outside  I couldn't sleep well. I decided to do service in the relief camp and surprisingly I volunteered at the relief camp for seven days. I learnt so much of lessons and experienced emotional trauma watching the people out there in the camp. I came to know about the value of food, about the value of love  sacrifice and unity. I became more social. I got more friends and mothers and fathers too.. These seven long holidays made me realize that humans are the actual Gods.

These unexpected holidays  gave me good values and great realisations.

 Holidays have always charmed and fascinated people and these holidays made the youth much stronger and united . These holidays were not for rest but for doing work, for reconstructing our society. This was obviously the  busiest holiday for me. Busiest one that I did all my Assingments and work only at the end of the day.