KANNU NEER THULLIYAE STHREEYODUPAMIKKAN… (Comparing tears to women)
Dear friends, Seeing deaths in the Covid situation, many forsudden attack of covid, difficulty in providing oxygen, or after vaccinationsudden heart attacks, above all wandering to hospitals for a bed for thepatient and difficulty in funerals, there would be no person without sheddingtears and shedding tears on the worries of the wards away. I was rather wondering about the various situationsin which tears appear in our eye other than sorrow. I have seen Crocodile tears only in films and TVserials; I have seen tears in cows, oxen, dogs, ass and elephants. They shedtears not only on sorrow, but for many other reasons. Other than during crying, in many other occasionstears appear in our eyes also. Identically tears appear in both eyes, other than some dust falling orsmall harms while working etc. Sometimes I have felt tear is uncontrollable. Manytimes I have felt tear in the nights and continue to come for NO REASONS andstop after a time of its own. A sticky yellowish substance told as Peelza inMalayalam too appear in the eyelids early morning, for aged it could be more.While eye diseases are there peelza (Eyelids Gum/rheum) is more, sometimes binding twoeyelids. Washing with good water softly it falls down. Manytimes if one do not get good sleep, the peelza could be seen in the eyes. A thinking to make a posting on tear was in my mindafter tear simply came in a night after repeated sniffing in many nightsrecently. Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 6-5-2021 1. Onnuoothikkae, onnuutae oothikkae… I really enjoy the advertisement for the fragrantsmell of its toothpaste from Colgate. A Lady police officer checks for drunkendriving, she asks one driving person to blow in to her instrument from mouth.Feeling the fragrant smell she in a beautiful style untie her hair and againask to blow in to her instrument with a smile and the above lines during the context. Even a large dust particle during blowing of wind issufficient for eye irritation and tears appear to wash it away to the sides andfall down from the eye. Butwe cannot control smearing with finger in spite of doctor’s warnings. Blowing normally through the mouth is sufficient by anotherperson, to fly it off. Just look- a man cannot blow off a dust particle withhis mouth from the eye. He has to depend on some body- either for a sanyasin, aking or a beggar!!! I recollect a scene from Vietnam colony where kanaka blow’s Mohanlal’seyes to remove dust fallen, and his calling Innocent, but innocent does notturn up.Further scenes are for laugh. 2. Variousinstances I have felt tears come uncontrollably from the eye. During coughing, sneezing and vomiting I have felttears coming from eye. Though the above actions are through mouth andnose. Allergy coughs bring more tears. 3. Dreams Though many could not even recollect a fraction of adream after seconds, others may wake up one, weeping in the dream and tears flowing. Whyhe/she was weeping? What was the dream? 98% could not say. 4. Tears onseeing scenes in films, TV serials, dramas and reading books. Many get one with character many people weep or cryduring the above occasions. First the face will change, and then weeping orcrying. I have seen tears coming during “Aavesam” during sastha preethi. Many touchingscenes in TV while a personexperience a similar situation also brings tears. 5. Crocodiletears Crocodiles do indeed shed tears. These tears containproteins and minerals. The tears help keep the eye clean and lubricate thenictitating membrane, the translucent extra eyelid found in many animals. ...But they also shed tears just from being on land for a while, whether or notthey are eating. 6. Tear gas. Tear gas works by irritating mucous membranes in theeyes, nose, mouth and lungs. It causes crying, sneezing, coughing, difficultybreathing, pain in the eyes, and temporary blindness. Tear gas when applied bypolice the crowds get dispersed on this account. 7. Crying andweeping actions On those days for such scenes glycerine was appliedon the eyes of actors. Some actors have their face about to cry. Some actorseven after glycerine applied, tears would not come. 8. Tears withcows, dogs, donkeys and elephants Many of these animals though understand ourfeelings, and join us on our sorrowful occasions with tears falling from eyes,not eating food for days, not moving for days, becomes less smart etc., stillhaving no reasons one can see a cow with tears flowing in the night. An elephantwith marks of flowing tears even during ezhunnellippu on them. They are not harmed ormade to cry. In dogs also I have seen this.I got the following reason on google search. All animals canshed tears. Tears are an important protection and lubricant for the eye. Theyflush outirritants and keep the eye wet to enhance vision. But scientists like topresume that only humans cry “emotional” tears while all the rest are caused byirritation of the eyes Today I could see a faithful dog going in front of the person dead(His master) and taken to funeral ground in yahooopening page news. A touching scene. 9. Children andcrying. Small kids may cry due to hunger, pain or fornothing. Adamant grownupsmale/female may cry for getting things done. Women somehow shed more tears forreasons or no reasons comparing to men. 10 Crying room. We have incidence of CRYING ROOMS in palaces.Kaikeyi, when King Dasaratha not agreeing immediately to her requirements assuredas vara, started crying andweeping in the crying room. Not seeing her long time out side,Dasaratha went to crying room to console her. When unable to control tears on sorrowful occasionsmostly women go to bedroom and lock the door/will not open on asking. A common scene now in TVserials. 11. Kuchela andtears on happiness. While meeting Krishna, his student mate, bothKuchela and Krishna shed tears of happiness. But now a day tears on happiness are less with people. It goes with expression in face. 12. Bible I recollect in the middle school our head mistressMariamma taught along with lessons the smallest sentence in Bible- Jesus wept. (Yeasu Kannuneer vaarthu) 13. Immortal Many cine films, novels, books, poems have becomeimmortal due to their weeping, crying, tears flowing scenes, subject matter,actions etc. Murappennu,Chemmeen, nalukettu, and some more recent Deasatanam,samantharangal etc.films are best examples. I think at least 99% of the viewers could not remainsilent with shedding tears on seeing DESATANAM in one occasion or other seeingthe actions of Veeraraghavanand Late Unnikrishnan Nampoothiri. 14. Pin dropsilence and weeping I recollect a poetry recital scene while I was inTraining centre Trivandrum during an annual function. One of the lady traineeselected poem recital. Whileshe recited with the introduction of topic itself, the hall became silent. When she continued to recite with proper pitch andtone, by wiping tears from her face sometimes hall became pin drop silent and many started to wipe tears gettingabsorbed to the incident. The poem was MAMPAZHAM by Vailoppalli Sreedhara menon. For newreaders I will add the starting lines coming to memory “Angana thaimavil ninnu Aadyatthae pazham veezkae Ammathan nethrathil ninnu Uhirnnu CHUTU KANNER… “From our eyes also. Writer- My title is from Movie: Panitheeratha Veedu(1973) Lyrics: Vayalar Music: M.S.Viswanathan Singer: M.S.Viswanathan Kannuneerthulliye sthreeyodupamicha. Kavya bhavanee .. This posting is are written one with updating of an earlier posting posted on 16-9-2013 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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