Breaking Radio Silence

Every time I go home for my holidays, I take the Ernakulam – Tiruchirapalli Tea Garden Express which after 14 hours of travelling, arrives at the busiest and the biggest railway station in Kerala, Ernakulam South at half past six in the morning. My house is another two hour travel from Ernakulam and my preferred mode of transport from Ernakulam is a connection train that departs within the next half hour. Mornings at Ernakulam South railway station are the busiest hours, as this station is a hub for commuters that travel to work from nearby districts to this commercial capital of Kerala. Having nothing to do for the next 30 minutes till my train arrives, it has become my routine to sit on one of the concrete benches adorned by campaign posters of local political parties and watch the busy commuters walk by in a hurry to either get to their offices or to catch the next local train to nearby stations. It is during these 30 minutes of waiting that I see her. For the past two years, the th...

I have always wondered what the final thoughts of a man are. What is he thinking when he knows he is going to die. Especially the thoughts of a man about to commit suicide. Have you wondered why the fear of dying is irrelevant to him? Is it because he is afraid to live more that he is afraid to die? Is it because the pain of living is more that the pain of dying? When a normal man finds this world secure enough, then the idea of giving up this security for something that will never ever be known to mankind – death, becomes really scary. Now I feel that, it’s the hope of finding happiness in that unknown world, that drives a person who has no more hopes remaining in this world, to try out his luck there. When is it that a man loses his hopes? When he realises that the world he lives in is fake? Meaningless? Silly? The question is will he make an effort to try to understand the world better and try to adjust himself to the needs and requirements of the world. In fact the reason for a man...