Feb, 2011,
Mamallapuram.
A fine morning sunrise in Mamallapuram; that was the time i was roaming from nowhere to nowhere in
in search of something that i never knew. In one of those searches i was in Mamallapuram with one of my co-searcher Anand.
We just landed there when the Sun came to wish us a fine morning.
After we broke our fast, we headed to the Govardhana-Krishna carved sculpture. In fact i didn’t know, that it was Govardhana hills that Krish is holding.
I was figuring out each and every character in that sculpture. When am done with that, i could sense somebody is approaching me. Just turned to figure who it was.
It was a kid of age around 5 who was an alms collector out there.
I just asked him, “What’s your name?”
“Hum… Kuttii”
“Didn’t go school?’
“Nooo..”, he replied as if he didn’t know what a school was.
“Had break fast?”
“Yes”.
“What do you want?”
“…”, he raised his hands at me for his alms.
I just randomly put my hands in my pocket and grabbed something.
It happened to be a gold colour 5rupee coin. (By then the government had introduced gold colour 5 rupee coins).
I just placed it in his hands, and here he came up with that kid’s spirit and ran with a dancing gait shouting,
“Ai…!! Thanga Kaasu, Thanga Kaasu..!! ( he shouted Gold Coin, Gold coin)”.
I stood still watching his gait.
Kutti, a lasting impression.
Mr.Lunatic.
Photo Courtesy : Anand Nagarajan.