K - PODU

Let me first explain the exact situation,

Locality: Areas where pakka Brahmins live (Eg: Mylapore, Triplicane, few parts of West Mambalam, etc)
Country: India
State: Tamil Nadu
City: Chennai

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Disclaimer: This blog is not written to pin-point any indifferences or whatsoever of any of the community. All the characters used in this blog and all the situations explained here are not fictitious. If at all, it happens to be u, what to do? It’s just a blog and it's my space, so buck off!!
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It was a summer vacation and I just passed out of 5th Std. It was around 10 o'clock at night when my brother and I were on the road playing odi-pidichu (running and catching). Suddenly, pakkathuvitu Raju mama came out, he had a ladle on his hand and there was a burning camphor on it. He put the burning camphor on the floor and fled inside without looking back. We were watching the burning camphor... 10 o'clock and a burning camphor? Hmm…Weird, I thought....

Suder (my brother): Raju mama enna pannrar?
Me: Theriyala da
Voice: Inga enna panrenga rendu peyrum.
Both of us were shocked and turned back. It was my mom with an angry face.
Me and Suder: Valayadindhom
Suder: anga paren, Raju mama edayo erichi konduvandu poturkar...
Mom: moonu vaati karithupitu, ullavanga modhalla...
Me: yaarmela ma thupanam
Mom: Kizhathupitu va...appodhan avanga drishti namakku varama irrukum, thirippi andha karpuratha paakama vaanga
Both of us were confused, did wat mom told and went inside

Suder: ennadhu ma adhu?
Mom: Karpooram
Me: edhuku karpooratha koluthi koduvandhu poturkar?
Mom: Drishti kazhiyardhuku
Suder: Kannu-podrathuna ennama?
Mom: adhellam onnaku edhuku? pesama irru

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“Kannupodardhu” - Oru sirappu paarvai (One Special sight)

A spl interview with K-Guru Aiya Kannu (Translation: Sir Eye)…

Sir, What is meant by Kannupodardhu?
Kannupodardhu (here-in-forth referred as K-podu)... (Translation (T/n): Eye dropping)

Meaning: "K-podu" is an act of getting jealous at people, esp at ur neighbours, for having/ doing something new. For eg. If they have bought a new ac, car, fridge, etc, u visit them and say, "Cha evlo superaa irruku", but inside u will have vayatherichal or u jus stay at home after staring at him/ the new thing for a while with vayatherichal (T/n: stomach burning).

What is meant by Drishti and Drishti Kazhikardu?
Drishti (T/n: Eye sight)

Meaning: Drishti is another word for K-podu... I think the word has its origin from Sanskrit, it can also be reffered as "Drishti podardhu" (D-podu) (T/n: Eye sight dropping) or Kan Drishti podardhu (KD-podu) (same meaning)...

Drishti Kazhikardu (T/n: Eye sight canceling) Also called Drishti Suthipoodardhu (T/n: Eye sight circling-dropping)

Meaning: It is an act or a process of canceling "Drishti". For eg: If a neighbour is seen looking at son/ daughter going to school, esp. exams, or if he has seen wondering at any of ur new things that u bought or assuming that he would have seen wondering at these, you "Drishti Kazhichify" or "Drishti Suthipotufy"

How do we Drishti Kazhichify?
Drishti Kazhikardhu is an art, which has acquired many forms over a period of time... there are specific days in which this process is carried out for it to achieve its real purpose and there are numerous tools used in this process.

Ideal days: Amavaasai (No moon day), Tuesdays and Saturdays

Popularly Used Tools: Karpuram (Camphor), Elumichai pazham (Lemon) with karpuram on top, Thengai (Coconut) with karpuram on top, Pooshanikkaai (Pumpkin), Uppu molagaai (Salt and Red chilly)

Process: There is a host, the host is mostly an elderly member of a family, she/he will use one of the above tools eg: Most simplified way of Drishti Suthipodardhu is to put Karpuram on a Spoon or Thengai/Elumichai with karpuram on top, The family members will sit together (as in group photos), then the host holds the tool on hand, hand is stretched out and lifted high and draws three clock-wise circles and one anti-clock wise circle on air (So as to cover the entire crowd from head to toe). Immediately after this is done, the group moves out of the place in the opposite direction without looking at the tool. Then the host, quickly, moves out of the house and drops the tool on the ground. Usually excepting for the first two tools and the last tool mentioned above, the other tools have to be dropped with full force so as to break it into pieces.

Spl usage: Few of the above mentioned tools have a particular time/day in which they are used. Elumichai pazham is generally used, if a person gets a new automobile. He has to put one lemon under each tyre and start the vehicle to squeeze them. Pooshanikaai is used mainly by shop-owners on amavaasais. Generally, a small triangular hole is made on top of the pooshani and a couple of low-value coins are put inside the hole. Then the hole is sealed with the piece of pooshani and a lot of kum-kum. Karpuram is usually lit on the top of this triangle

Easier tools: Cracking knuckles - rotating the hand thrice before the group and cracking the knukles by bending ur fingers on ur forehead, Uppu molagai (Salt and Red chilly) - hold them on fist, then, rotate it thrice before the group and put it on burning sticks

What is the impact of K-podu?
Well, that’s a good question. The impact of eyes dropping depends on the thing on which it is dropped. It also depends on the experience of the person dropping it. For eg: If it’s dropped on a person, he might end up meeting some accident on that day. However ppl don’t actually know that someone has dropped eyes on him, so end up with some unpleasant thing and then come to a conclusion that it’s all because of "Kannupodardhu". If there are series of ppl (esp neighbour’s neighbbour and his neighbour and so on) who actually puts eye on a poor fellow, he might end up with some serious problem.

Is there any way to avoid K-podu?
There are many ways to avoid this invisible trouble. There are instant tools available everywhere, like, tying Karrupu Kayaru (Black thread) on neck or hand, Mai or My (Soot, applied on eyes), Karrupu pottu or Mai pottu (Black bindhi or soot bindhi), Black dress, any forms of black apparels, even if a person is dark, he has to use one of these to avoid K-podu.

What if a neighbour peeks through window when one isn’t using/wearing any of these tools (at least while on bathroom)?
Put a black screen silly.

Can this be put only on a single person?

No, it can be put on anything

Then, wont it be very easy for countries to destroy its enemy without a war?

It cannot be generalised as a country as a whole. It can be possible only for a small circle, maybe a family.

Btw Sir... What is meant by O-podu?
O-podu??...... hmm, after K-podu, the person ends up with sth unpleasant and u say "O! wat a pity", that’s O-podu, ...

Do you believe in these things?
Many times you don’t and sometimes you do. Esp when u have a baby at home, u tend to believe all this.

Well I asked if YOU believe in all these?
And that’s what I jus tried explaining…

Escape!!

Taken for yoga class and its useses!!

This the most funniest newspaper insertion that i ever got!!

Useses:

1. Veecing?

2. Angry?

3. Peacefull?

4. Lunks scapacity?

5. Increasing?

Thanking you??

I guess this is some kind of marketing strategy, or a new type of - "Making-others-laugh-Yoga"??

The case of "the missing me"!! (Me - In all time V-Zone)

I'm lying on the bed trying to take a nap. It is noon, there is no one around and there's an absolute silence. When I realize this, I feel strange noises around me, I can even feel the footsteps of strange ppl walking around, sometimes talking to me. Is this any kind of imagination? Is this a devil's workshop? “Confused” as usual... God! Yes it is my own damn imagination...!! I have had these weird thoughts right from my childhood, particularly whenever I was home alone. I think I have this V-Phobia (Vetti phobia) which is actually known as Eremophobia – fear of loneliness.
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When it started?

V-Zone - Vetti Zone
This is something very new to me - being idle!! (Romba over!! officelayum vetti dhan.... hehehehehe). Though I was not doing something very gr8 at work, I never get bored. I had my own world; I was meeting new ppl everyday, disbursing too many loans, listening to peers gossip around, so on and so forth. It was cool, but I wasn’t all that satisfied doing it. I cannot work at citifinancial all my life! Oh! Enough!! I’m just not gonna start my citi story again, after all, "Citi never sleeps!"....... and "doesn’t let others sleep" hahaha...

Being in the V-Zone or making good use of V-Zone... (Adhan vetti zone adhuku dhan ipidi oru peyr koduthuten) was the next big task lying ahead of me. I have loads of options for whiling away time as discussed in "pros" on my previous blog, but I felt I have to give importance to my career as well and also the things as discussed can make me occupied rather giving any value addition to my future

Working round the clock vis-à-vis idle round the clock - It was thinking about this huge transition ever since I decided to get married and never managed to come to a conclusion for this question "How to kill idleness?"

It was one boring evening around 6 o' clock, I was hungry, so, I made myself a cup of hot n sour soup and some Act II pop corns. I was idle for almost the entire day and from the morning since my husband left to office, I was thinking about all the household tasks that I had lined up on my mind, the list was too long... I felt I might overlook few, so I made a to-do-list.

To-do-List for tomorrow
1. Broom and mop the floor.
2. Clean the toilets
3. Clean the balcony (it was totally dumped with the things that didn’t find a place to relax inside the house)
4. Wash all the clothes (there was a huge pile of clothes and the laundry bag was overflowing, it had nearly 50 clothes. The worst part was the washing machine wasn’t properly installed and I dint want to postpone things anymore, so I planned to wash it all myself)
5. Plan for dinner
6. Prepare a "shopping list" and do some shopping
7. Check on mom and dad, grand parents, mother and father-in-law
8. Clean the kitchen shelves... which was like Pandora’s Box
9. Prepare a to-do-list for day after tomorrow... hehehe

I was in a huge rush when I was preparing this list. I wanted to finish off everything at once, but I knew, 6 o'clock in the evening was meant for relaxing and not for rushing things up.

It took two hectic days to complete this task and the huge mess to my eyes was somewhat cleared, but not spic and span yet.

My in-laws arrived at home by May 15, and thereafter, I was fully engaged with some kind of work. Then I went out of town for sometime, it was full of fun.

The mystery started when I and Prasanna returned home. Usually, he leaves to office at 10 o'clock in the morning and returns home by 9 pm...

It was a Tuesday, Prasanna went off to work, I dint have any household tasks that day, so, I decided to work on the stitch kit that I had got the other day. I was working on it since morning, so, by noon my eyes became weak. I thought of taking a short nap and hit the bet around 4:30. I had strange thoughts, but I was too tired to think about anything weird.

I was in a deep sleep, I had too many dreams, I had strange characters dancing on my dream stage… I was like totally lost on my dream world… Then, suddenly, with a quick jolt I got up, confused, my heart was beating faster than usual. I looked out for Prasanna, who waked me up few minutes ago; I heard him saying, "Savitha... late aaiduchu" or something similar to that. It was very bright, and then I thought probably it’s too late in the morning and he might have got up in a hurry... I came out of the room and started searching for him, he wasn’t there, and the time was 5:30. How come it's so bright when the time is only 5:30 in the morning? I was very confused and was still searching for him.... I stepped into the balcony and looked at the sky... it was a clear blue sky with sun shinning on to my face... then I realized… "Oh man... it's 5:30 in the evening" and a million question follows... How come there was a quick jerk on the bed (exactly a sec before I got up)? How come I felt Prasanna sleeping beside me and also talking sth to me (exactly a sec before I got up)? Was there anything happened while I was asleep? Wat happened exactly a sec before I got up?

Or probably it was all jus a dream?
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It is as if I had reflections of all the haunting stories I have read/heard... everything around me is weird now... Is this the plight of ppl who live alone? Romba tension pannudhey.... I know this is happening to me because my whole world is suddenly shrunk to a triple bed-room apartment... I think I need some exposure... Exposure to new environment.... how about books? Hmm…that is a good idea... let me try one (after a looonnng-time) that way I can get my own self back


Appettu....