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Blind.


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Her name is that of the most beautiful precious stone and she was undoubtedly the most beautiful and able woman I have met or heard or read about in my life. Born in a typical aristocratic Knanaya christian family migrated to Malabar, she had to help the family and take care of her siblings.

Of all the people, it seems she liked her younger sister and her son. She used to bring her younger sister trunks full of dress items and toys for her son. Recently she told the boy that he is very special to her and he will soon get married to the most God fearing and charming girl.

She had promised the boy of her land from his early childhood and he always liked that land and he used to take rabbits to those green fields during summer time. It was angelic to see the white rabbits running around in the green-greenest fields. The air was cool and fresh and the sky used to be beautiful. The BanasuraSagar mountain range on the south gave a magical touch to the scene.

One of the biggest dreams of the boy was to buy the land from his aunty whom he used to call [hername]-mommy and start doing farming. He had made plans to take a tractor to the paddy field, plough it again and start cultivating rice again. All his savings was for this sole purpose.

Time has played its role or may be fate. The lady who used to take care of the family came back from Bombay a few years back. She was an atheist all the time and had tried her luck with Naxalism too. No wonder if an educated woman from Wayanad didn't get attracted to it. The boy learned about atheism and Naxalism from her and her brother. At the same time he attended Catechism at the nearby Syro Malankara (a catholic group also known as reeth) church. Then the lady slowly became spiritual and started following the long haired god man of Putaparthi. The boy was fascinated and ate the prasadam she used bring for him. Her love with the long haired man was put to end when she discovered Amma of God's own country. The boy started eating "Amma" prasadam and he was offered special blessings and prasadam from "Amma" from time to time. She showed the boy the photos of "Amma" hugging her and she said getting hugged by Amma is next to going to heaven.

Neither Amma nor the man with long hair or failed revolutionary organization following the now outdated writings of another long haired - bearded man couldn't give her peace of mind and she got attracted to the Holy Bible.

The crush with The Holy Bible was lasting and for more than a decade she is a devotee of the almighty God. As time passed her belief in the lord became unchallengeable and her health was getting worse. Her love for the boy was the only thing which time couldn't change. She even fought with her sister among others many times but her love for the boy was unchanged and it seems for her the boy was the sole reason for living.

The boy had grown started going places as she always wanted. He still liked her and he was determined to take care of her in old age.

Few years ago she lost one eye and later became completely blind.

Still her trust in God was unchallenged and so was her love for the boy. On a recent visit, she hugged the boy in tears and told him about the "charming princess.". Often people consider her words as a prophecy because of her still unchallenged will power and unmovable trust in God.

The boy was concerned about her and he was similarly considered about a good friend of his who was thinking and trying to follow the path of his aunty. The boy never offers prayers for himself and sometime in the recent past he found himself kneeling down in a church in the far west and praying for this special friend and then the eastergift. The friend is now happily married and living with her loving companion.

Today the boy received a call from his aunt and she wanted to write her land in his name. But then with time things change. The boy who had always dreamed of buying the land by paying the market rate had to say no even when she was offering that few acres of beautiful land for free.

May be for the helpless ailing blind woman, for my aunty, this was the most shocking news she ever received. This must have been much for fascinating than her entire life and experiments with revolution, God men and the Almighty.

And the boy is hurt too. Because he could feel the hot tears running down his cheers and that his vision is blurred because of the tear drops.

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Oh, yea the usual tada tada about the photograph.

It was taken on the funeral of my uncle, the blind woman's brother. I was in charge of shooting the funeral and she is climbing the steps to our old home with the help of a long stick. I choose not to focus her because I can't see the most powerful woman I have met in life using a stick to climb those bloody steps where she often used to carry me and feed me as kid.

The funeral day is very special for me due to various reasons. The journey was troublesome, I had someone in need of me waiting to hear my voice, I was moved, shocked and finally everything is like what it is now.

With this, I am beginning a series - mémoires of freebird - because I have much to say, much to do.

The 168 notes of July 2008


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"Crappiest summer ever" looks pretty good on paper, who knew?

Tight chase 3


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.. but still, in hot pursuit! (All over a few seconds later, apparently forgotten about =:)