micro stories
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Folk hero CK!!!- Part 1 Electrical Drawing Exam
CK was busy pleading to Ashwin for the manuscript ,carefully prepared to con the examiner. It had everything , DC lap winding , 3 phase armature winding and more...enough to score a ''pass mark'' in the exam. After a lot of cajoling , CK had the manuscript that he badly wanted, on his drawing table. Enthusiastically, he started drawing. Within a few moments , the invigilator was near him. ''What the hell is this?'' he asked CK. ''Sir ...Sir ....I was just copying....but it was Ashwin who gave me this ...'' replied CK, who was at his ''blabbery'' best. Soon, Ashwin was raiding each corner of the campus looking for CK, who surprisingly vanished from the scene...
100 Rs and a new shirt
On a Sunday morning, a man with half rotten fingers walked into our compound shouting ''Amma...dharmam podunga!!!''. My father , who was busy preparing his lecture notes, searched for 100 Rupees in his wallet ,walked across to the man with a shirt in his hand and gave him both. The man collected gleefully both and left. I was standing near the door as my dad walked back.''Why ?'After all what difference does it make to a man who is suffering ??'' ' - I asked .''Son, I cannot change his reality but at least i made him smile. ''- he replied.
(Inspired from a real incident from my life. Thanks Pa....for the inspiration.)
(Inspired from a real incident from my life. Thanks Pa....for the inspiration.)
Krishna ...Krishna !!!
''Krishna ..Krishna!!'' ...uttered Swami with a feeble voice as he stared at the picture. Far away in America , an investment banker woke up shocked at midnight as if something disturbed him. Yes!! it was his destitute grandfather, in a village near Palakkad ,who was at the mercy of a few distant relatives. ''How unfair??'' he thought as he walked towards his refrigerator ...pulled out a bottle of Red Label ....
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