You write so well on very advanced technology etc and with the same felicity very simple day today things,your eye and the capacity to give importance to small details is so impressive.And you remember the small details,the perfectionist. YM
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:54 PM 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 < [email protected]> wrote: > NECESSITY > > Dear friends, > > There is a saying that *“It is the necessity which is the mother of > invention*”. If necessity is not there people would be very much > lethargic and will not have eagerness. > > When coal shortage experienced, new engines with diesel and later > electric traction appeared. > > I have wondered the train stops 90%, the coach numbers, as marked in the > platform. To avoid rushing of passengers to front and back for unreserved > coaches, arrangements are on the way to have all the unreserved coaches in > the back for upward trains. For down word trains it will be in the front. > > *Probably temporary stopping of no trains till June 14, the arrangement > might be quicker.* > > An incident occurred four years back. I was going to a nearby place > taking a seat in a share auto. The driver a young man, native to Chennai, > asked a question to the person sitting close to him, pointing a banner > while one of the travellers was getting change to give him. He just smiled > and kept quiet. After some time he asked- Are you not following Tamil? Now > he answered, he is a Keralite and not able to understand Tamil. > > The auto driver calmly asked now to him, how many years he is in Chennai > in using 3/4th Malayalam and 1/4th Tamil as his language. The gentle man > answered four years in Malayalam. > > > > Now the auto driver put a question- Did you not think to learn Tamil to > certain extent to talk to persons like us? The next line he told made me to > think more about him- We learn with difficulty the nearby states > languages and English, to understand what the passengers talk, and carry > them to the place they wanted to go. Rather than as source of income*, it > is for you we learn other languages*. > > We can get other passengers who talk Tamil and have our journeys rather > than waiting and understanding. > > From the way the young auto driver talked in English, I felt he might be > studied up to graduate level. > > It was the place for me to get down. *The auto driver’s words made me to > think a little about the necessity he mentioned.* > > Travelling in a share auto I stopped for practical difficulties as age > advanced. For short trips I have 3 auto men phone numbers, one of them > might come for short trips. > > Now being corona worst period, I do not move anywhere except to nearby ATM > to have some cash drawn. > > Sincerely > > Gopala Krishnan 27-5-2021 > > 1. Purchasing four line books. > > I recollect an occasion, on a day I forgot to bring the four line book to > school while studying in 6th standard. There was time to write. I > thought- I can purchase a book from the shop near to school, from where my > father purchased things on credit. In time I produced, with a half lie to > father- my four line book got finished and hence purchased. It had about 7 > more pages. It saved my skin much- or else the teacher would tell my > father- *samiyutae makan fourline book conduvaran marannu (Your son > forgot to bring four line book)* > > 2. Writing in the examination. > > I recollect changing nib and spider, checking neck of the pen, and filling > full GOOD QUALITY SULEKHA OR BRILL INK, and test write and take two pens to > examination hall to write in answer paper. > > Every day this checking was done during examination period. On normal > class days nothing is checked, wrote with any pen, pencils or ink is > exhausted, with friend’s pen etc. This speciality was due to the > importance of examination and necessity of keeping things. > > Do not the parents ask now too when children start for examination- have > you taken good pens? Have you taken hall ticket? The practice is followed > by most students. Only thing – Now ball pens. *I am not touching online > examination and answering here.* > > > > 3. Reservation coach and journey. > > For 99% of us, now a day train journey is with reservation and more than > 70% of it in AC Coaches. > > We make sure tickets are taken, triple checked, or lap top or mobile to > show the electronic ticket and ensure it is well charged to show the TTR? > > Are we not taking identity IN ORIGINAL as munjagrithai muthanna to a > munsunti TTR? So when necessity is there we act accordingly. Soft copy > of aadhar is not accepted so far. > > *Now we can get plastic aadharcard issued by* authority on application. > The stationary shop man told me about it recently. He prepared the > application for my wife. I just tried for me and it was success. After ten > days I received the aadhar card in plastic just like the PAN card for both > of us by speed post. Payment by on line is only Rs 50-00. > > 4. Rendu roopae change kodahea (Give two rupees change) > > After travelling a few times in Bangalore city buses, I make out something > from the Kannada the conductors talk. Going to the vegetable shop I > understand holli, kodi, illae etc. They understand more my Tamil and ask > neenga Tamilla. > > While going to other places, some EFFORTS to understand a little of local > language may help a lot of times. > > 5. Reading Tamil > > When I came to Chennai in 1966 I did not know to read Tamil. First a > purchased a Malayalam- Tamil translator and started reading boards of > buses, gradually to Tunukku news in magazines and later books like > kalkandu, and then magazines. On those days other than circulating library > books, cinema, drama and radio were all the time passing things. Now also I > can write only like print Tamil. > > 6. XXX Potti. > > XXX Potti close to me joined along with me in the training centre at > Trivandrum, he was not trained in advance technologies. He was managing > with old technologies. One fine day he smiled and told me- I have decided > to go for advanced technology trainings. I asked why such a Bhoothothayam > (Sudden thinking). > > He replied coolly- If I do not undergo now, I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE > CLASSES any more. Priority is for modern technologies. He finished two or > three trainings and till his promotion, he was able to manage with that. So > necessity is self-felt. > > 7. Ariyatha pilla choriyumbol ariyum (A child who do not understand what > is itching, would understand itching when he feel for scratching) > > This is a famous saying. When necessity arises we have to meet the > situation. We would find out the means and ways for it. At least for the > time being. > > *There is a teleserial Manampolae Mangalyam in ZEE Malayalam channel*. > The family head, an ex-military man cannot remain a few seconds without > scratching road. He comes to dining table with scratcher. > > 8. My files and my computer. > > Once I was keeping papers here and there, when papers became more, I > started filing since I could not locate and further more apprehension, > whether they would get lost. When number of papers became more in different > angles, I started to keep separate files for telephone bills, building > related, purchase related, current charge related, insurance and mediclaim > related. Very good- you are doing exemplary jobs, I thought for a while > about myself. > > After computer has come important papers are stored in computer and > external memory in addition. > > 9. Pinnayaum chankaran thengelu (Chankaran has again climbed the coconut > tree) > > This saying means going back to old things or patterns on lethargy. > > When feeling tired, individual filing is lost. Papers are filed here and > there. When more papers have come, leaving other things, I decide to file > them. One fine day, not able to get a paper from the file, I select the > next day for proper filing. If I would have done properly in the beginning > much suffering and tension would have avoided. BUT IT IS PRACTICALLY NOT > POSSIBLE. *Because lethargy and laziness are basic nature of humans.* > > When I comment on kitchen neatness, I have to expect my keeping papers > here and there in sofa also. It is not even 60% possible to keep things in > order. > > *10 Eaatele pasu pullu thinnilla. (Cow in the book will not eat grass)* > > We can try a little bit rather than advocating and advising. Some thing > can be done. Not all. Though necessity is felt along with laziness and > lethargic. > > While lying in the bed, with AC chillness, rather than taking woollen > things forgot to take from almirah before lying on the bed, *PEOPLE WILL > TRY TO ADJUST WITH BED SHEET FOLDING IT MORE SINCE SLEEP OVER TAKE THE > CHILLNESS CREATING LETHARGY* to open and take the woolen things. > > A person forgot to take towel while going to river, and walked a good > distance, try to dry body and hair *USING DHOTHI*. Sometimes even in the > home!!! > > *The best example of our caution is while signing* cheques and documents. > We make sure ink is there and scribble somewhere to ensure correct flow. *If > we sign and half way ink stopped in cheque- Signature in two inks is not > accepted.* > > *Writer- R. Gopala Krishnan, 77, retired Asst. 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