Candle light

Through a dark and deserted street in kalamassery wafts in familiar Jesudas, Baburaj and Devarajan melodies, sung out of tune but coated with glee. Trace it to reach Abbukka’s house. It is the 45 min load shedding and Abbukka’s family is sitting around the candle light on the veranda, playing antakshari. This is a common scene these days in most houses in Kerala.

How much ever you crib and complain about the daily power cut and the perspiration trickling down your spine, you can’t help but wonder doesn't it bring your family closer?

With no serials and football matches to glue you to the television and no Internet and Facebook to browse on your laptop, this daily blackout helps you connect and bond better. A much needed and routine family time.

It is indeed surprising to find what all half an hour plus of darkness can do!

Hostelites claim to have the most fun. They follow the tradition of howling the minute the lights go out and then huddle in the front yard beneath the starry sky, gossiping and pulling each other’s legs.

It is time to leaf pages soaked in the yellow radiance of a candle, to sing to your heart’s content in the dark and to place those extra cushions in your balcony chairs, to indulge in the 45 min of serenity after the hectic schedules of the day.

We urge the minister not to hamper with the 45 min candle light bonding that we are enjoying and to reintroduce the load shedding at the earliest.

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Propaganda Cartoon

We as an audience tend to take everything for granted. We forget that everything presented to us, has been constructed by the media in a specific way, to convey the message that; what is presented is the truth. But is it so?

New generation today support batman and superman over the almighty. Little do they know that all these super heroes are cartoonized version of Jesus or other biblical characters, filled with racial stereotypes.

We had always this problem with comic books; We believe it is full of propaganda.We haven’t found in our whole life a Children’s comic book. The comics that we have are manuals of parenting or religious teachings. You would never find a gay/lesbian couple in any children’s book, thanks to the religious code. With regard to comic books being parenting manuals; We need not explain, for any Indian who had gone through the torturous Amar Chitra Katha would know it better.

Philosophers argue that only way to teach creativity is by teaching children perspective and creativity is very essential for empathy. If we love to have a future with empathizing population, We suggest we ban all the children’s book, because the perspective that we are giving them is highly biased.

We don’t dream of a childhood without bias. We are all biased, but we would love to bias the child with multiple perspectives.