Purachikalanazhar in Boston

I’m little bit scared to open a conversation with Ganapathi (Guppy), I know it’s not my fault for his bad mood and frustration, how do I confirm that he knows that as well? Its a million dollar question isn’t it? On this lovely weekend, Karthick, Guppy and I decided to go to “Lakshmi Temple” in Framingham located in the outskirts of Boston. As thisi s my first visit to USA, I take enough time to explore things around me and take photos both on camera and my eyes.

We three are in south station to board to Framingham, few more mintues for the train to departure, suddenly Karthick ran towards ATM, to withdraw cash, and said something to us which I failed to catch, I believe Guppy too, he followed him and he decided to withdraw some cash too, I don’t know what to do I bluntly followed Guppy, towards ATM, and I stopped at a distance to ATM, it is not to give privacy to Guppy, but to watch, rather explore a bull made of wood, by some school children in Boston and presented to south station on some occasion, I just had a Glimpse to confirm is Guppy still there at ATM, and started reading the importance of the BULL, after reading the history of the bull I decided to take a picture of the same and was about to open my camera pouch, in the very moment I felt the hand on my shoulder, its none other than Guppy, asking me where is karthick? I replied to him how do I know? I was following you and not him, it was a total miscommunication as Guppy was in a conclusion that I will be with karthick since he is withdrawing cash, I was fully loaded with the bull and just keeping half eye on Guppy for my security, and Karthick was seen no were, we searched for him for some time, and gave up, assuming that he would have boarded the train to Framingham, Karthick was in Boston for almost an year, so he knows better than us.

Guppy some how handled the situation and said to me that we will find when is the next train to Framingham and will go to the temple as planned, and that sounded good to me, we bought the tickets for the next train and pizza for breakfast, and we are sitting in the waiting area, Guppy was sipping coffee after the breakfast all of sudden I could see a brightness in his eyes, as if he saw something really surprising and he said “Hey, look there, its Vijaykanth”. I asked him where, Guppy pointed his finger behind me, I could see no VijayKanth there, I asked him again where, he said “there, in that man’s vests, printed VijayKanth photo” pointing to the gentleman to my left. I said “come on Guppy no way, its Boston”, Guppy with little command in voice “I swear, he has Vijaykanth’s photo printed in his Vest, if you don’t trust me you go and have a look” I could feel a confidence in his voice. Not that I don’t trust Guppy, but I really want to see that person who is advertising for Vijaykanth, I got up from my seat and started walking towards the Gentleman who is waking towards the Enquiry counter, to my surprise he is wearing a vest with Vijaykanth photo and his new political party name printed.



I introduced myself to him and he said his name his Dave (I’m sorry I didn’t catch his last name) and asked him did he know who is that person in the photo?, to my astonishment he said his name is “Vijaya kaanth” pronounced almost correctly, and I interviewed him for few mins:

ME: How do you know him?

Dave: I was in Pondicherry for few months, where I learned about him.

ME: May I know what you learned about him?

Dave: I learned that he has started a new party and I happened to hear his political party’s manifesto, and was really surprised to see down to earth and practical vows for the welfare of the people, I wish he wins and keeps up his promise. I also watched couple of movies which are really good, is he an Indian James bond?

ME: (Tittering) a kind of? He is more like action hero.

Dave: Oh I see, he should win.

ME: what makes you to say so? I mean may I ask you why?

Dave: Well, I been to few places in south India, and I was really unhappy to see the pathetic living conditions of the people, I could also see the carelessness of the Government on this, all that India requires at this time is a leader like him, who has an urge to server people, I wish we have one Vijaykanth in America as well.

ME: Good to hear that Dave, Nice talking to you, Can I have your photograph?

Dave: Sure, why not?

He poses and I photographed him, and went back to my seat where Guppy is waiting for me, Guppy asked me what was all about the conversation? I narrated him what went on with us, and I thought probably we missed the train to interview him, Guppy remained that we got few more minutes to catch the train.

We boarded the train to Framingham and Dave words are still lingering in my mind.

Peace talks Vs Inability

India with a population of 100 crores, standing second in the world, forecasted to be the first in next couple of years, I’m not here to discuss, is India becoming first in the population is good or not, I’m here to discuss will India become first in population or at least retains its current position.

Human life are taken for a toss here, uncontrollable inflation, corrupted government officials, irresponsible leaders, ritual riots, religious riots and adding fuel to the fire are insensible and unhealthy citizens, are available slow poison to India, and to add to the list is the terrorism an unanswerable question across the world, who funds them what is there goal? Why are they doing this? What is there aim? All these are unanswerable.

There were serious of bomb blasts over the past few years in India, 1993’s Bomb blast in Bombay, is still a partially closed case and verdicts are not strong enough to hold Terrorism in India, worlds biggest Democratic parliament was attacked by terrorists and we were holding peace talks with them, while they talk to us using AK 47 and gelatin sticks. I know that India has singed for the Non Aligned Movement (NAM), and I appreciate that they still stick to this on the glue of Indian citizens.

The recent Jaipur blast, Bangalore blasts, Ahmadabad and the Delhi blasts has taken dozens of Indians lives, and India is on peace talks, if strict and strong actions were been taken on Bombay blasts, the story wouldn’t have continued, I don’t know how many more lives they require to take serious actions on terrorism, It is not only the inability of the Government it is the inability of the citizens as well, the tendency to compromise on almost everything. It’s a shame on our intelligence department and on us for not governing them well.

The world has reacted on terrorism very badly Twin towers blast in USA has left the debris in Afghanistan, Militants in Israel, given Israeli military a noisy entry to Palestine and so on, back in India, rather invading we surrender our lands to them, known is Pakistan occupied Land, unknown is China occupied India, which is a silent killer to India.

I wonder how People have healthy sex, to bring their offspring’s in this unhealthy situation, proving manhood but living a eunuch’s life. The citizens of India are not vasudev, to produce as much as possible searching for Lord krishna, to kill Kamsa. We are living a slave’s life, let come out of our slavery for the freedom of our offspring’s.

I’m not giving solution, for this situation, as we are used to spoon feeding, we failed to use our Right to Vote, sensibly so as the sixth sense. There are only two groups who use sixth sense effectively, Politicians on how to goof people and Terrorist’s on how to destroy people?