Cricket matches come and go, and you can afford to miss them but this, is something greater and bigger. The elections. As a first time voter I am new to all this. The rallies, the meetings held every other evening occupying most of the space available of the already congested roads.
Last day one of the leaders of a local party was coming over for some inauguration funtion. Everything was well untill one lean and mean fellow climbs up the coconut tree next to my east facing window and decided to tie up a speaker there. The tree being just 30 mts away from my window. All done and connections given he went his way.
After a tiring day of work and data collection I come to my room, and fixing up my worldspace radio decided to finally turn it on. before I could switch the ON button Iam shocked and literally jolted of my half sleepy senses, I stuck my head outside the window to know what the heck it was. Thats when I see the speakers mounted on to the coconut tree facing me. It was marked "DEVI SOUNDS" bah Devil sounds. I cursed the fellow who had done this.
The function was to start at 6 but started well past 8. his speech went some thing like " Priyamulla naatukare Njan evide nilkunna elavareyum bhaavi voter maar aayi kaaruthnu."
20 mins into it we have an power failure and I heave sigh of relief, when the power comes back the connection to the speaker seems to be lost. I thank god and say well that is an end to it.
But more was to come, after the inauguration was the cultural fest. I cursed the technician yet again, as the speakers had been repaired and were working just fine. So it started blaring out Brayan Adam's songs then changing tracks to Tamil, {manmada rasa, anniyan and dont know or remember the rest). I had dinner with background music playing (Manmada rasa). So after 3 in the night I was awake trying to sleep and also listening to some song from ghajini or was it something else. (Poor knowledge of Films pls excuse) Grrrrrr....
It was a maniac Wednesday.
Listen Mr. Politician, even if I had a slight leaning towards your side; forget it, u just made me sit up and think otherwise.
Me ??
- Attribution
- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
4 comments:
hey thank u for the wish....BTW belated wishes to u too...
Hmm, Election time is not only about the disturbing loud speakers as you have written but also about endless traffic blocks due to rallies , groups coming 'therapara' to houses and lot of disturbances . Ironic that to get the votes they disturbing us as much as possible ;).
hehehe i can understand how much you have suffered... but the good thing abt kerala is that you can react. you can go upto them and "complain" which i ve done quite number of times when i was there. but in bombay u dont enjoy that privilege. mumbai is detached from all such democratic liberties during festivals and i dint sleep yesterday, culprit "Holi", . and i couldn complain either because i was warned of a possible riot breaking out, incase i complain. and worse they were playing "bhajans" ....
@ Leya - thank u for the wish. Welcome to my blog.
@ Li - On 22 March as I receive my Voters Id card. I will start thinking. As much as the politicians pester me, my opinions will change
@ Lash - Well thank you for visiting my blog and Welcome.
So the next time I sense something about the rallies I will walk up to them and complain. Hope ur holi went of without a problem. (Hare rama!)
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