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Have you ever watched the weekly program called samvadam on the doordarsan tvm ? i find it rather interesting once in a while.

in that program some time back, the leader of the opposition in the kerala assembly said that in a police lock up in kerala a person(i suppose he is a human being) in custody was made to eat human faeces.

are you finding it difficult to swallow ?
nauseating ?

even i find it difficult to believe. but the statement was made by a responsible person and i dont think he would have made a false statement on the tv!

there are various other sorts of third degree methods in force but one handicap is that all this is possible only once you land up in their lockup. suppose it is some one who could not be so easily taken into custody inspite of all efforts and for whom they nurse a severe grudge?
well, that is where the polayadichi pakshi steps in!

i have heard of a bird which in some areas of kerala is called "thevitichi pakshi". polayatichi pakshi means the same thing though the language is a bit more crude. but the bird i am referring to is not that one.

here is a picture of a specimen of one variety of the birdy. click on the bird adn it will screech even though it is just a picture! the pbirds are that smart.

any trivandrumite will tell you that this sort of birds are not native to their city - it is not a jungle over here. initially when these foreign pbirds are let loose in an area the local crows take them on and you can see a flight of crows chasing the pbird trying to shoo it away from thier territory. but with passage of time both parties come to terms with the situation and cool down.

of course it is nice hearing the music of birds and all. but when i happens in the mid of the night it is an altogether different story. and that is what used to happen in the house at kattela where i was staying till recently.

as soon as i used to switch off the lights and hit the bed (that is usually around 0200 hrs in those days) the polyadichi pakshi will start shrieking from the mango tree in the neighbour's compound. it is just a couple of meters from my bed. and this goes on intermittently till morning. the recording you hear on clicking on the link above was made from my bed room in the early morning hours.

the idea is very simple; you are not allowed to sleep in your own bed room in your own house !

what do you do in such a situation ? you can't make a complaint about the polayadichi pakshees for that will look ridiculous.

what about the other residents ? well , that house was in a poor neighbourhood and the pigs were least bothered about them.

incidentally the new house where i stay now is located in an area where the people around are rich and believe me you, the indian pig service have not dared to try any of their night time tricks here - that much for the very democratic set up.

it is not that every thing is ticky ticky boo boo over here. the polayadichi pakshees visit the locality and make a racket in the morning hours and a fellow who goes to bed at 0300 hrs and even 0400 hrs this is a big nuisance. but there is nothing much i can do about it but put up with the noise. the nights are rather comfortable that way and i have been doing a bit of work like going through the civil procedure code, indian penal code and even the constitution and and such things.it is not that i am studying law. i am preparing a few writ petitions and i have to have a basic idea of what is what.

incidentally i had shot down one of the polayadichees over here in this house. the body was laid or rather hanged in "state" with all "P" honours in front of the house and later doused with petrol and burnt on a bone fire.

am i being particularly cruel to the pbirds? not at all; i am by nature a very cruel person and rest assured, if it it is a woman stooge of the pig service who lands up in my hands in my territory, she will end up with a third degree tear.

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