legalWrangles02

NAMOONA

when my writ petition WP ( c ) No.35016 of 2009 came for admission in the kerala high court, the judge started off with a “technical flaw” in the petition and declared that the address of the first respondent, the cabinet secretary of the government of india as given in my petition,

the cabinet secretary,

govt. of india,

rashtrapathi bhavan,

new delhi -110004

was wrong. I made desperate attempts to convince the judge that the address I had given was the correct one, but to no avail.

For a novice like me this sort of an attack from an unexpected angle could be disastrous - even I, (at least then,) did not expect a judge of the higher judiciary to raise an objection at a hearing about a matter he is clueless about ( now I know better ) and you start wondering whether you have made a mistake after all! Your equilibrium is disturbed – and could be that is what is intended. Incidentally during that hearing my mouth went completely dry and the lips and tongue were stuck; articulation became impossible. I never had this sort of an experience ever before in my life. Long back in tdmc I remember telling the youngsters in the lecture classes that one of the functions of saliva is to help in articulation but I did not expect its absence to affect articulation so drastically – don't you, "doctors", think it is another symptom of the tertiary stage !

the cabinet secretary as far as my information goes is the senior most officer of the indian administrative service, the coveted IAS, and there is only one cabinet secretary in the whole country. Even if the address is written as just the cabinet secretary, government of india, it will definitely be delivered to him in new delhi - the india post officers are not "that" stupid. But i decided to be on the safer side and take no risks.

And, by the time I filed the writ appeal I had made a request under RTI 2005 to the cpio of the cabinet secretariat using the same address and the reply no.F-12015/421/2009-RTI dated 04.01.2010 of CPIO with the correct address of the cabinet secretary of the government of india direct from the horse's mouth was included in the appeal as ANNEXURE P1.

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All the same, at the time of the hearing of the appeal WA No.367 of 2010 another learned judge started off in the same vein, harping on the same matter, “incorrectness” of the address of the cabinet secretary.

In the writ petition it was my word against that of a high court judge and I did not stand a chance. But during the appeal I had produced documentary evidence to prove the judge wrong.

“you cannot sue the president”

“We cannot send a notice to the president of india”

the harangue went on,

in spite of the documentary proof !

the implication, it looks, is that all communications going to the rashtrapathi bhavan is addressed to the president of india; how stupid !

The above instance is typical of the way the kerala high court judiciary dispenses “justice” in my case. People are beyond reason. They have a separate agenda of their own and there is no point trying to tell them anything that is to the contrary. They simply won't listen to you.

How do you tackle this sort of cantankerous characters ? !

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PROCTALGIA

pps. i have not finished

CLOUD NINE

legalWrangles01

JUDICIAL CHEATING

It was in 2002 that I, for the first time in my life, filed a petition in any court of law, OP No.30121 of 2002 in the Kerala High Court and that was after I crossed into my fiftees. In that first case I had hired the services of a lawyer. it was an open and shut case and of course the decision was in my favour. But the concerned culprits whose lawyers get paid from the exchequer had decided to drag on with the judicial proceedings with aim of tiring me out monetarily ( as well as otherwise ) and it was out of sheer desperation that I started pleading cases on my own.

Later on matters got more complicated and I had other reasons for pleading on my own – for one thing it has to be some one who has faith in the cause and in may case I am the only onewho qualifies that way. Also with the tremendous clout of the indian gestapo it is very much possible the lawyer will take money from me and plead the gestapo's case!

So the second writ petition WP no. 34353 of 2003 on the same matter I myself prepared and presented; and I got a decision in my favour – a proud moment in deed and I have a copy of the judgement on the net ( in the form of photographs) LINK. Again the authorities managed to drag on and I prepared a third petition and got it admitted. It was then that foul play started in earnest. From the very beginning every effort was made to stall the proceedings – it was on the day the case was coming up for admission that my brief case with the case files was pinched in the ernakulam railway station by the “pakkichi” police LINK

The crowing glory of it however was when the case was called on September 24, 2004 after duping me into believing that the hearing was on September 25, 2004. The hearing of the case was fixed for 25th of September 2004. The presiding judge himself told me so and that though 25th of September 2004 is a Saturday, the court was going to be in session on that day. But when i reached the Kerala High Court on September 25, 2004 on time, i was told that the case had already been taken up on the previous day, September 24, 2004. If at all there was an exigency the hearing could have been postponed. Not only that, decisions were taken on that day in my absence – it was an act of commission. A detailed account is available in the the WP ( c ) no.187 of 2009 of the supreme court of india available on the net at this LINK. Please see ara 14. d. v) as well as para D. and this was happening immediately after I who had no formal legal training whatsoever had at my age for the first time prepared and presented petitions successfully in the same high court LINK - i was being taken for granted !

If an ordinary mortal does this sort of a thing it will qualify as cheating; but when it is the members of the higher judiciary that does it you cannot call it cheating; one has to use courteous language. So how about christening it ”judicial activism” ?

The basic tenet of the judiciary is a fair trial and there cannot be a fair trial without hearing both the parties. How can a prejudiced system that takes one sided decisions qualify as the judiciary!

The instance mentioned above was not an isolated one. During the same period ( 2004 ) I had another case WP ( c ) no.19891 of 2004 in the kerala high court, this time alleging police harassment. The hearing, though in the open court, was a private affair between the presiding judge and the learned govt pleader and I didn't have to utter a single word.

The judgement specifically mentions that as the learned govt pleader assures the court that there is no harassment there is no need for any orders LINK. Of course I am not a learned lawyer but an illiterate imbecile and I cannot be expected to understand the logic of these words of wisdom from the legal luminaries. And in my utter foolishness a question comes to my mind – if there was harassment would the learned govt pleader have admitted in the court yes, her party is harassing the petitioner!

Or could it be that the illiterate me did not use the correct terminology? It was that I was not being harassed but was being tortured and I should have used the term torture and then the learned govt pleader would have told the court that they were torturing me?

The judgement also says that the learned government pleader produced all sorts of documents but I have no idea what these documents were ( “security” reasons ? It was the dgp who was the respondent in that case) and absolutely no clue as to what transpired between the presiding judge and the learned govt. pleader.

There is a hindu concept - yada yada hi dharmasye, glanirbhavathi bharathe . . . . - the gist of it is that whenever required the hindu god takes various avtars to save the world from demons ( that is people like me! ) . could be these are the latest versions of the avtars! - they know everything! by the way hitting below the belt was the acceptied norm amongst many of the avtars - there are "n" number of such "celebrated" instances described in the hindu mythology. dushta nigraham is the ultimate aim of the avtars and there is no harm doing the dirty on a jyothi in the bargain. obviously what the dushtan has to say on the matter is of no moment.

Whether it is that the members of the judiciary were too naive and swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker or that they were hand in glove with the criminals is a moot point. Whichever way it is, I was written off as a human being (that is Great ) and am at the mercy of the hired thugs of the spies! So, in effect the worst injury was inflicted, knowingly or unknowingly by the kerala high court judiciary and they have got themselves implicated in the affair. And that was the simple reason why I approached the apex court in 2009 and not because I had my father-in-law there in new delhi. ( but I had people prying on me from the newdelhi railway station restaurant onwards and they can expect a doze in the near future )

The apex court did a cunning pontius pilate on me and washed their hands off. I was directed to go back to the kerala high court and that, in spite of the fact that I had invoked article 14 of the constitution of india (“The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India.”) in the WP in the context of my past experiences in the kerala high court.

i have complied with the directions of the apex court in WP ( c ) no 187 of 2009, a writ petition WP ( c ) No.35016 of 2009 followed by an appeal WA No.367 of 2010 in the kerala high court and the result was as expected. I will keep the autopsy report for the next issue for this is getting a bit too long.

Now that the formality is over I am free to revert back to the supreme court. And this time I might be able to do it on-line for I have procured a credit card for this very purpose only. and i might get lucky this time - there could be another gopala reddy!

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THE BEGINNING OF THE END

and

THE END OF THE BEGINNING

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i have complied with the directions of the apex court in WP ( c ) no 187 of 2009; a writ petition and an appeal in the concerned high court - just going through the steps. the formality is finished and now i can revert back to the apex court.

Mark it - this is not an appeal from what had gone on in the kerala high court. This is an issue that must be decided by the apex court and the constitution guarantees the right to move the supreme court on such matters to every citizen of this country irrespective of what the other courts have said or done on the matter.

Way back in the sixtees one of the books I was given for “free” by my alma mater was a copy of the constitution of india with comments and criticism. ( How thought full! It was worth it, all that walking eight to ten kilometers per day and the lunch box that I was forced to carry along, the fall in the river “Seine” and everything else. ) I never read the book then for I wanted to be a strictly scientific person and consciously ignored other subjects. a copy of the constitution of india is available in pdf form free on the net. Down load one; you might require it - that is if you have got a thinking faculty and guts to stand by your guns - fire away from both barrels.

essentially i will be approaching the supreme court of india with an identical petition to what i have made in 2009 - of course i will have to brush it up a bit here and there.

below is the first page and in there, there is only one change - a third respondent has been added - i am closing in on the target. could be this time i might prove myself lucky - there could be another gopala reddy!

going to come up on this page is the new writ petition in instalments as and when it is getting ready. The momentum is going to pick up fast, now that i am on the job.

and Following is page one of the

draft writ petition sci2010

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

CIVIL WRIT PETITION

No. of 2010

IN THE MATTER OF

Dr. Cheriyath Jyothi

valayil house, kizhakkambalam P.O.

Aluva, PIN-683562 : petitioner

Versus

1. The Union of India

The Cabinet Secretary,

Government of India,

Rashtrapati Bhavan,

New Delhi 110004.

2. The State of Kerala

The chief secretary,

Government of Kerala

Govt secretariat,

Trivandrum – 695001 : respondents

and

3. the additional director general of police (ADGP),

special branch CID,
HQ special branch cid,

Thiruvananthapuram - 695004

PETITION UNDER ARTICLE 32 OF THE CONSTITUTIONOF INDIA

FOR ISSUANCE OF A WRIT IN THE NATURE OF MANDAMUS

UNDER ARTICLE 14, ARTICLE 19 and ARTICLE 21 OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Hon'ble The Chief Justice of India and His Lordship's Companion Justices of the Supreme Court of India. The Humble petition of the Petitioner above named

MOST RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH :

to be continued . . . .

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tell you what ?

THERE IS UTTER PANIC ALL AROUND.

and here ?

Aaag lagi hamari jhompadiya mem;
hum gavai malhar.

Having a nice time with the girls from youPorn

( strictly girl on girl )

eff you charlie.

viceman

20101028

CLOUD NINE

a bridge NOT that far !

From _latestAdditions

PUTTING
THINGS IN THE PROPER

PERSPECTIVE

( i made this piece as a part of the aluva chapter in an effort to put things there on that blog in the proper perspective. the problem was that when i tried to republish it google came with a message that the publishing cannot be done because there was some one else editing the same page at that very moment. so i thought i may as well try publishing it over here as well. thank you )

A PRACTICAL JOKE

I had been to trivandrum on 11 oct 2010. I was to meet a real estate agent to clinch a deal I believed was agreed on after running round a lot all over trivandrum. But once I decided that I was going to proceed further on the matter the fellow backed out and the deal was off. It was all a practical joke. The agent has been manipulated by the gestapi – aa payyane nangal paranju manassilakkiyittundu.

Not only that, the payyan's brief for the day was that I should be kept in trivandrum till the evening – most likely to facilitate a “security check” in side my house during that time. I have indeed catered to such an eventuality and arranged a present to the charans in the form of a few mls of fluid in a couple of rubber containers hanging from a hook on the bedroom door before I left for the railway station – the usual poster sticking was skipped this time by gaad, the “intelligentsia” were terribly offended when they came across the posters. The whole day I was being dragged around on the pretext of showing me one land or the other. I was in the remote interiors of trivandrum and had hitched a ride on the pillion of the agent's motor bike and there was no way I could have come back on my own.

I was not surprised for this was what was expected. The only purchase that the gestapi has on me is the fact that I am living in a rented house – that the gestapi can evict me from my rented house by putting pressure on the house owner. the moment I build a house of my own that advantage will be finished. So every effort will be on to torpedo my efforts in this direction.

I was aware of this fact from the very beginning and that was why when a person told me on his own that he will help me build a house I jumped at the chance for there was nothing like having some one who could stand up on your side as well. And this person is experienced in this sort of things; he had built at least three houses for himself and knew the ins and outs and that was the only thing I was interested in. and i decided to shift to the place he suggested – it was a calculated risk I had decided to take.

ANOTHER
OF THE STRATEGIES

I have been sitting at home and had no regular income since 2005. it is not that my working days are finished but because of the fact at the moment there is no way I can find alternative employment. So I have been reduced to 6500 rupees per month.

I am not interested in a lavish life style – I still use my clothes stitched in alleppey way back in 1992 – 93 ( that is thanks to the fact they have never been to the washerman's; also I am very fond of those clothes all stitched in alleppey and never wanted to shed them) but even then one cannot survive on 6500. Out of the 6500 I pay 4000 as rent; after I shifted over to aluva the telecom has one way or other ensured that my monthly bill comes to around thousand in tvm I never paid anything more than the Rs400/- and there is no way of checking over here for none of the facilities like the automatic meter reading and the call blocking etc never function and it is very much possible that many of the free services are being metered. Then there is electricity and there my use is a bit on the higher side what with all sorts of home appliances upon which I am heavily dependent and that comes to another five hundred per month.

I am still able to survive because I have some money stacked away and in spite of the embargo I am able to hang on and do not have to beg.

So every effort is on to deprive me of whatever little amount I have in my reserve funds by hook or crook. Come one, come all; help yourselves – no questions will be asked.

My property is being destroyed wantonly and all I can do is watch helplessly. vehicles and all are lying outside in the open and even otherwise when I am not there, there are going to be break-ins as part of the “security” duty and they can pinch anything that can be hidden on their person.

The ultimate aim is to reduce me into a homeless pauper and you would see that the happenings in aluva once I moved into this place is in congruence with this sort of a strategy.

A TWO PRONGED ATTACK

Newdelhi 2009 was not exactly a big set back – the gestapi just succeeded in delaying the inevitable. I can always go back and I am going to do that ; I will get at them if not today, tomorrow.

But it would have been far more comfortable if I could have launched the assault from the comforts of my own home and so I had put the legal assault on the back burner for quite some time now and was concentrating on the home building front.

Whatever experience I have already gained on the home front till now has been extremely helpful and I am confident of completing the construction according to my own plans. But it is going to take more time than I had expected initially ( in fact I do not want to rush it and would like to take my own time rather than rush into something which I cannot come back from – obviously there is no question of my building another house later on ! ). So I have decided to work on both fronts simultaneously.

all that is needed is just update the data in my old files and that is going to be a very easy job - I already have started dusting up the old files. It is going to be a very open affair and every thing is going to be there on the cloud -

CLOUD NINE

you be the judge !

thank ya.

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DIGGING IN

From amaarbaadi

i have not given up in spite of the tremendous odds.

last week end i modified the plan a bit to suit the circumstance and the above is the latest modified version, original x 1.25, with a bit of transpositions and detailed plans for the interior added.

i am going to take a break from all other things including the web for the time being and am concentrating body and soul on this one aspect

amaarBaadi.

that means frequent, tedious trivandrum trips - getting up at 0330hrs driving for an hour to the nearest railway station to catch a train leaving at 0550hrs, spending tedious hours looking up plots and such and returning by the night train and ending up in this dilapidated old building in the early morning to catch up with the two previous nights' sleep - and all

last week i thought i almost made it ( i even had a rented house for stay thrown in! ) but it flopped at the last moment for the builders rejected the site. the place in deed is bit too remote ( and was to my liking ) and i was blissfully ignorant of the practical difficulties.

well; better luck next time.

yes i in deed

am
DIGGING IN

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well; it is the early hours of the morning here and i have to catch the 0550 train.

see ya!

cloud nine

right to information act 2005 - again on!

letter returned undelivered

updated
20100919

From exhibits legal

the above are the pictures of the cover of a letter as it was returned to me undelivered after about a month of my sending it. the sender and the addressee were both within thiruvananthapuram

the veracity of the recepient's address can be verified by going to this site http://www.kerala.gov.in/dept_home/list.htm Such an address does exist at least on the web.

when a member of the public ( by the way MY NAME IS VERY FAMILIAR TO THESE JOKERS and it will definitely ring a bell ) addresses a letter to the information officer the content is obvious to any one who has heard of RTI act 2005. the procedure to deal with such a request is also clearly made out in the above act.

then how come it was returned to me undelivered ?

it is not that, over here in this country,
some people are above the law;
THEY ARE THE LAW.

and there is nothing an ordinary mortal like me can do about it;

it is all a sheer waste of time and energy.

but there is one thing that becomes very obvious:

these jokers have something to hide

don't you think so?

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the Indian Pakkichi Service

From pBird IPS

this hon'ble member of the indian pakkichi service has not

yet been introduced into my present location at least not on a very large scale - could be the terrain is unsuitable or may be presence of predators other than me.

the greens and the yellows are there. the locals may not be familiar with them and here are the close ups.

From pBird IPS

because of the thick foliage it is impossible to aim and shoot over here and my air gun has been rusting!

but here is a link to the old martyrs

the whole album

CLOUD NINE

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on the right to information act 2005 again

From tampering fax

the fax report above says that the message has been sent successfully. but my past experience is that it does not mean anything - it could be one way or the other.

so here is the original letter for wide publicity.
i have splashed it all over the web.

Cheriyath Jyothi B.Sc., M.B.,B.S.,

valayil, kizhakkambalam P. O. , aluva – 683562.

No. jy2010/rti/22m September 06, 2010.

The Kerala State Information Commission,

Thiruvananthapuram – 695039

CP No.364(5)/2010/SIC

SUBMISSION BY THE COMPLAINANT AT THE HEARING ON 06.09.2010

Sir,

the complainant is grateful to the commission for permitting him to be present at the hearing on CP No.364(5)/2010/SIC on 06.09.2010 vide their No. 3645/SIC-Genl/2010 and deeply regrets his inability to be present at the hearing in view of the “hadthal” starting from the midnight of 06/07 and the very high chances of his getting stranded which he can ill afford in view of his fragile health and precarious financial status.

he would beg to submit as follows in view of the ensuing hearing:

A. The complainant vide his No. jy2010/rti/22k dated 17.8.2010 has already expressed his view on the matter in the context of the SPIO's contention that the document requested for is not available.

B. However in case of a change in the stance of the police during the hearing the complainant would expect that he will be given a chance to respond to that before the SIC makes a decision on the matter of his complaint.

yours faithfully

sd.

(C. Jyothi )

dog with half a coconut

Cloud Nine

thank you very much.

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on right to information act 2005

my previous blog i am not allowed to edit. once i open the editor all i see is a blank page. so i am trying to copy and paste the original blog of last time over to here and experiment

what follows below is an exact replica of what is in the previous page. once i finish this blog when i try to edit that also does not allow me to do anything - editor comes up as blank. so i am trying to add stuff first at the beginning and end of this page and then paste whatever i have said on the previous blog.

here comes the previous blog repeated and i am going to add some links to this page at the end as well. let us see what happens !

few days back i had placed a letter of mine on google docs and had provided links to it on my blogs. today i just tried out the links and it is not working. google says there is a bug and they are trying to repair it.

am i surprised ?
not at all;
i was aware of this possibility and that is why i checked up the links tonight.

and as usual every eventuality has been catered for.
if plan a is not working there is plan b and c and so on.

and in case of one doc disappearing there is a back up on the net itself. i had published the document on the web and that link is working right at the moment. so i am providing below a provision for accessing the above html doc directly.

if you are you finding it rathercumbersome reading from the above contraption ( i dont know what is the technical terminology for that) ? well here is a direct link to the html page.

letter to sic dated 20100817

written, produced and directed solely by O. jyothi ( o for okkan);

From ami

please do read it.
see ya!

yes it works

LINKS

sitrep

online diary

correspondence

pictures

movies

photo albums

more movies online

see it is working; gotcha gestapi!

letter to kerala state information commission dt. 20100817

few days back i had placed a letter of mine on google docs and had provided links to it on my blogs. today i just tried out the links and it is not working. google says there is a bug and they are trying to repair it.

am i surprised ?
not at all;
i was aware of this possibility and that is why i checked up the links tonight.

and as usual every eventuality has been catered for.
if plan a is not working there is plan b and c and so on.

and in case of one doc disappearing there is a back up on the net itself. i had published the document on the web and that link is working right at the moment. so i am providing below a provision for accessing the above html doc directly.

if you are you finding it rathercumbersome reading from the above contraption ( i dont know what is the technical terminology for that) ? well here is a direct link to the html page.

letter to sic dated 20100817

written, produced and directed solely by O. jyothi ( o for okkan);

From ami

please do read it.
see ya!

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the aluva chapter

episode oo

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i will start from today ( later on in the aluva chapter we will go in to the earlier happenings in vivid detail. the basic reason is that i was not connected in the real sense of the term till very recently and there is a lot of backlog and rest assured it all will make very interesting reading. but that is going to take time and so) for a starter here is one of the very first movies i made over here in this place,

A TALKING MOVIE

the movie is not getting displayed on my internet explorer ( i was just trying out this page on internet explorer which i hardly ever use) if so just change over to firefox.

i got up at past noon today and i had a fried egg and a cup of tea. ( tea is finished and coffee is also not there and milk is ditto. the shop keepers are on strike and i will not be able to replenish my stocks till tomorrow and will have to manage with what i have). it is past 1530 hrs over here and i am getting hunger pangs. so i think i will have to leave things as it is now for the the time being; do look out for updates.

now click on the link below to find out

why older women lust !

see ya soon!

viceman
20100729

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From jyothi valayil

e ta amar noi

from the latest picasa album
jyothi valayil
created 20100714

sitrep_august_2010

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ente kuttan

AN ELEGY

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Kuttan died young, very young – when he was just six months. But within those six months he had left an indelible impression on my mind.

He was my own – ente kuttan; perhaps the only one who would want to be, who would love to be, claimed by me as my own.

He died in the very early two thousand noughtees, and that was long back; but I miss him even now. He was such a sweet fellow.

“My Ann”

I have got an adsl connection from the bsnl a local isp. But none of the chat machines work on my computer; whatever mail I get are those remaining after being filtered by the gestapi ( indian + gestapo = gestapi) and that way I am being kept incommunicado with the outside world.

However I am allowed certain liberties – I am allowed to download podcasts for example. The data transfer that I am allowed at no extra cost comes to 1500 mb per month and there is a limit to the number of podcasts one can listen to in a month. So another use I was putting it to was watch the movie clips bbc provides online – I could watch the astronauts on the iss, and such interesting things. ( but that was some time back. now a days even there I am finding a problem - the advertisement film of kirloskar is shown very well but when it comes to the real movie it says it is not working and try again later. and next time also the same thing repeats – how come the advertisement part is working then, I wonder – has the gestapi decided that I should not watch the movies as well?

well; once in a while i try naughty america and play the trial clips available for free and i even down loaded one - absolutely no problem! may be that could be the one and only interest that the gestapi and i have in common. i for myself am doing it to tease the gestapi for i have in the past accumulated enough porn movies to last a lifetime and i dont have to go to naughty america to watch those "thingies" at all.)

Coming back to the bbc movies - in spite of those rather interesting technological ones mentioned earlier

“the one movie”

that I remember most vividly is that showing ann's mother - you sure have not forgotten the tears streaming down the cheeks of that handsome young woman lamenting her cerebral palsied child “ other children are running football clubs and all and my ann . . . . “
- ten year old ann is sitting on her lap, fiddling with the marbles in a bowl, may be part of physiotherapy the child was supposed to be undergoing. The pathos of it was heart-rending.

“my ann” - those were the words that touched a chord deep within my heart; some how or other it brings out the depth of the affection that only a mother can provide.

(Ann's mother is one hundred per cent certain that she will take good care of her child; her worry is what will happen to her Ann once she is no more there. But Ann is very young and she has got a caring mother. I am sure there are people working on this sort of problems and with the tremendous strides science is making it is very much possible that in the not so remote future they will be able to put a real smile on Ann's mother's face - wishful thinking ? i sincerely hope NOT.)

ente kuttan

Coming back to my story - there is no one I can call my own and I am afraid if I say “my so and so” about some one that “so and so” is liable to take offence and would want to shake me off desperately – I have learnt it the hard way.

But kuttan will not do that – no gestapi can brain wash him. Kuttan is too smart for them !

"Kuttaaaa . . . . . . . " I would call out loudly once in a while in my lonely house.

" Nghe. . . " comes the curt reply from where he is sitting some where near by with a terribly bored face, not even bothering to open his eyes.

"ghoosad budda; thang kar raha hei - the bugger wont let me even take a nap" probably so goes his line of thinking.

But if I call him again immediately after he will dutifully answer again.

he knows I love him; and he loves me too!

He was my kitten and one of the finest things that happened to me during the naughties.

Now the story in detail

In the year 2000 I had shifted my residence to a place far away from the madding crowd in and around the tvpm medical college and started living in a house near to the place where I am staying at present. It was a newly constructed house and had a comparatively large compound with a perimeter wall. I had stayed there for three years before shifting to another house during the early noughtees.

It was during the first half of my stay there that one day I heard the pitiful mewings of kitten from near by but there was no one to be seen inside the compound of my house and I thought it must be from one of the neighbouring houses. The sound however persisted and next day I looked more carefully and found that the kitten were inside my compound, in a pit dug up to plant coconut trees - the local “intelligentsia” had put the young kittens in the pit from which they are not able to climb up so that they wont be able to get out of the compound of my house and stray into their domain.

I picked them up - there were two of them - and brought them into the house and adopted them. Kuttan, “the” kitten, was one of them.

They were so young that I had to force their face inside the milk in the saucer to coax them to drink. The initial days were difficult what with my inexperience and they being too young, but kittens being kittens the teething troubles were over soon and they grew up fast. Though they were litter-mates there was a drastic difference that marked out kuttan from the other.

Kuttan was very affectionate and demanded affection.

When I am working he will come and start playing with my toes underneath the table and tickle me.

if I have not got up even after it is late in the morning he will make a mess of my mosquito net playing pranks and in the bargain will wake me up.

From the courtyard of this particular house where I was staying then one could get a view of the sea and I used to watch the sunset standing near the perimeter wall. Kuttan will come there, climb up and start walking up and down the perimeter wall in between stopping to nibble my fingers and hands and lick my hands . the passers by used to be amused by the fellow's gimmicks - I thought it was only dogs who lick you to show their affections, but this fellow used to do it to me.

One night I heard some strange sounds and looked up to find that kuttan had forced his litter mate on to its back and holding it there with his front paws was suckling on the tits of his brother. The brother was looking at me aghast wondering what was happening and helpless being unable to push away his stronger sibling.

I pushed the brute away. but I had seen him doing it again at least a couple of times more and had to chase him away for I was afraid the other kitten might get hurt. They hardly ever got a chance to be suckled by their mother and all that they had was the cows milk I used to provide them. Kuttan obviously was making a mother substitute of his brother.

Kuttan was a very sensible chap and showed lot of maturity never to be expected at his young age. Once in a while before I go out I used to put the kitten on the terrace so that they dont stray out on to the road and be run over by the traffic. kuttans brother a sickly chap, lean and thin, will some how or other climb down and will in no time, be back downstairs. the fatso however will still be there on the terrace when I come back in the evening and I will have to go up and bring him down - the bugger was afraid.

I have heard that gymnasts for example will have to start training before a certain age for other wise the hesitation that comes up with maturity will hinder their training. kuttan could imagine himself slipping and falling and the consequences and was aware of the risks of coming down from the terrace on his own while the other fellow's outlook was still immature.

Kuttan was extremely sensitive. If I bully his sibling for some thing he will within no time come back to me - especially if there is a chance of getting some food. but if I had scolded kuttan he will keep away and sulk at least for half an hour before coming back to me and resuming his playful ways. The brothers, that way were a real study in contrast.

I have seen the big cats in the zoo showing the sign of submission to their peers by walking with the legs bent and the tummy almost touching the ground; and once in a while when I bully him kuttan will do it to me! After all they are family but I wonder how could such a complicated posture be hereditarily transmitted - kuttan never had seen his mother or any other feline doing it!

Kuttan was gradually growing up into a handsome young man and would have been the most eligible bachelor in the locality soon. But it never reached that stage.

Though I used to enjoy all the lickings and nibbling that kuttan was giving me I used to wash the area with soap and water afterwards and i never allowed him to lick my face, for the fellow, for all practical purposes was a stray ( I used to be working in those days and was out of the house for most of the day and the kitten were on their own and probably were roaming about in the locality). I wanted to show more and more affection to him and perhaps let him sleep in my bed as he many a time wanted to do and so, it was with all good intentions that I took him to the vet and got them vaccinated against rabies.

Well; within no time both of them fell sick – I wonder whether it was that there was something wrong with the vaccine ( could be from an old stock or something ) or it was an all together different problem.

I consulted the doctor again and she prescribed some antibiotics and after a long interval I again gave an injection to some one, this time to a cat ( “gundamycin” as we used to call it in the olden times had by then become very cheap. And by the way. the young pharmacist asked me for whom the medicine was and when I said it was for my kitten he exclaimed – lucky buggers.)

I persisted with my efforts till the end and used to feed them using a syringe at the later stages. But unfortunately nothing worked and both of them died one after the other.

I buried them with my own hands and planted a fruit tree on each grave. Kuttan's brother's grave had a guava (perakka) tree while kuttan's had a sappodilla ( chikoo) tree and both were growing well till I vacated that house and left (are they still there near the kitchen-side of the house at kattela?)

The last thing I remember about him was the sick kuttan giving me a vacant look ; what was in his mind ? I wont be surprised if the bastard was wondering whether it is me who has done the dirty on him and brought him to his present plight ! - the M/F is quite capable of doing that; he was half human.

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