Journey

The long horn of the train wake her up from a small nap.Journeys are a part of life of most of us.Our life itself is a journey.A journey through an unknown path.Such journeys to kanyakumari is not unusual to Anurada.Such an ‘escapism’ as she loved to call it,was usual as the situation gets more worse.

Weekends are always rush days and that saturday was not different either.She get into S5 compartment and seated at window seat number twenty seven.As the train left the railway station she read the yellow board with black letters which spelled ‘THRISSUR’,the city which gifted her tears.Tears of a broken marriage life.It may be because of that she found it difficult to get adjusted to the four wall apartment at poonkunam.This urban life settled a lot of cobwebs around her.She was swept away by the invisible tide of time.She can’t bear it no more.She need a relief.A relief from the belief that surya baghavan is waiting for her to show its red cheeks before visiting the great depths of the sea. She was reading as the train passed through major cities and unknown villages with its head high and a long storm like horn.She was reading about ravi and appukili in the novel ‘Gasakinte Ethihasam’.Ravi stirred her heart.Both are unlucky in the case of being loved.Anurada’s was a love marriage.The marriage which later became a broken mirror.Nowadays her heart thrombs to see kanyakumari devi.May be because devi also have a history of broken love with lord shiva.She always felt that its better not to get married like
kanyakumari devi than bearing a marriage life which within four years had a development to push apart her and her husband first to two corners of a bed and now to two bedroom in an apartment.

The train arraived a few hours before the sunset at kanyakumari.After having a hot cup of tea and a fresh bath from a nearby hotel,she went to the kanyakumari beach.The beach known for the great thiruvallur statue.........the beach known for the virgin kanyakumari............the beach
famous for the Vivekananda rock and the beach which witness the triveni sangamam.The way to the beach is filled with small shops selling varieties of shells,chain,bangles,mirror decorated with shells and various other things.She saw herself in one of the mirror wearing red and white bandhini salwar kameez with her long hair free and a red round bindi on her forehead.Kajal made her eye twinkle like the polar star.

As anurada walked towards the sea her mind felt the indefinite ecstacy.She sat on the sandyland watching the sunset.The sky seemed to be bathed in red kashmiri sindooram.The sun with a promise to see this beach tomorrow went beyond the sea.Drowning the sea into darkness,the sun went to wake up another land.......another culture.......another dawn.Birds flied in flocks across the sea in search of their nests.Being not disturbed of the arrival and departure of the sun,waves came and left the sandyland.Each wave bore a pain in its heart while leaving the sandyland.

One and half an hour at KFC

LOCATION – KFC in forum mall
TIME - 5:30 PM

SCENE 1 - A girl in her sweet seventeen is laughing like anything.She has a young boy (most probably her boyfriend) beside her and a bowl of fig ice-cream on the table.May be,this may be the moment she awaited for. Although most lovers used to meet everyday, small gaps between daily meetings give them a feel that they are waiting for hours to see each other.They like to count time
not in terms of minutes. Instead they like the ‘second system’. 600 seconds is always larger than 10 minutes in terms of number,in terms of romance.

SCENE 2 - Girl moved her hair gently behind her ears as it happened to jump

to her forehead and disturbed her eyelids.The boy,tall, handsome with shaved
moustache and frameless spectacles was just smiling at her.Its always like
that.Most boys have control over laughing(at least in public)but girls don’t.Girls
laugh as they lost their nuts(not all but a few).The laughing beauty adorned
in red salwar kameez with her free hair and a long ear ring and a simple chain
around her neck is shining like an angel in the boy’s eye.

SCENE 3 - The boy with his one hand around her neck took a small spoon of

icecream with his other hand and gave it to her.Its better to say that he feeded
her.As it was around 6:30pm,there was a good rush in KFC.The behaviour of
these two seems to feel that they are the only people there.

SCENE 4 - The boy started speaking about many incidents in his life.He gave

himself a heroic figure in all these incidents.The girl heard all these with great
patience looking in to his eyes without a blink.Her eyes says how much she is
proud in this moment to get such a hero as her boyfriend.Most girls likes to
believe that their boyfriend is the best in this world(in most cases its only a
blind belief).

SCENE 5 - Both are looking eye to eye.No job for their tounge.Now heart

speak eyes transmit it in the form of ‘something’.This ‘something’ is not

yet discovered by scientists.For the time being call it some sort of waves.

SCENE 6 - One hour and twenty minutes passed away.For the next 10

minutes they started preparing to leave.Their preparation include fixing the
day for next dating.They left leaving behind the red plastic tray with the sticker
of KFC,a transparent glass bowl with a little bit of watery icecream and a used
tissue paper.

SCENE - A group of boys occupied the same table.Darkness blanketed the

banglore city.More people came and left KFC.As usual banglore continued its
busy hangouts.