CHHATTISGARHI MALLU

Let me come to the point, myself, P.Praveen Kaimal doing engineering in vellore.You would not have come across my surname in any of my official pages(take for example school ar college).Since south indians have a liberty not to include weird surnames,so my father gave various reasons to justify that initials would be perfect for me.Like the trauma my father had to go through when people misspelt,or misunderstood KAIMAL.....they called CAMEL,KAMAAl,or sometimes kamal.moreover kaimal sounds something like MICHEAL,so people comin and wishing merry christmas and asking fora cake is annoying at times.And just imagine one person callin you CAMEL durin a conversation and some third person asking later "why on the earth is tat 5ft6inch guy called a CAMEL!!!!!!!!!"

Im a native of kerala(GOD's Own land)I was born and brought up in Chhattisgarh.So in a way im a chhhattisgarhi mallu.Being a mallu brought up in some north indian state has its own effects........one of the first thing that comes to mind is the language spoken by GOD!!!!!!!!!I had no confusion whatsover ,that the HOLY LORD sitting there in the Ayyapa temple could undersatnd only malayalam.but the languages that Lord Hanuman and other gods in various other temples understood was a region of intriguity for a long time in my mind.But still ,since in my home we speak mostly in hindi, I had a lot of problem to let my prayers flow to the Lord Ayappa.i had to whack my brains first to think for all the wishes then whacking it again to translate them into malayalm so that my prayers wont be unanswered.

Another verry good aspect of being a mallu is that mallu gals are consistently found very beautiful.so if you cant get a gal for urself,then need not worry about it much.the future marriage prospects are never very bad!!!Let me make it clear to u that im not such a big desperate but being a mechanical engineering student,these are some of the qualities that are bound to find roots in the soul.Ofcourse they dont tell all these things in college prospectus,but these are some of the various qualities that a mechanical engineer imbibes and is expected to practise.

Coming back the best part of being a chhattisgarhi mallu is the memories of two day long train journey from bhilai to quilon.those were the best days.and the month long holidays,going to the beach evryday morning,those memories make me nostalgic.It was only during these jouneys i found how much i owe to the god for gifting me such a great life,full of fun and no hassels.the poor children and the handicapped people who had no resort other than beggin,who cleaned the dirty and filthy floors with their own shirts,just for the sake of survival made me wonder why god was kind to me and the more i thought about it,the more i felt humble and respectfull to him.

I was sort of inspired to write something by reading the book "God of small things".arundhati roy is very good in detailing small aspects of the daily life of a family,and the way she describes the scenes,various human personalities are really great.

Right now the new year is not going very good as many people had wished me.First of all,had sort of ideological war with my sis,and now some problems regarding the heart matters.

If I bored u people then Im extremely sorry,but plese do give ur comments as this one's my first one.Will tell u more about bhilai in the next blog.till then goodbye,namste and khuda haafis!!!!!!!!!!!