Saturday, November 16, 2013

78.Kathai kambalam - Part I

                                                                                             Why am I dreaming?
There was a baby fish called Kubuk in the east side of the sea.  The principal of the sea school did not allow Kubuk to study as he was very tiny.  So, Kubuk go to the nearby crab’s house, borrow a story book, come home and read it on its own.  Kubuk’s elder sister and mother go to a place called Sippi Thattu to help people peel the skin of peanuts.  When they are returning home, they bring something to eat.  So, the full day, Kubuk remain all alone.
There are three schools under the sea.  One school’s name is food school.  There the people teach what to eat, what to not eat and about health. 
Baby fishes, turtles, seahorses, octopuses, why, one or two baby whales also come here to study.  An old tortoise is the teacher of this school.  He can see only half of the earth.  If he is sleepy, he’ll forget the class and sleep.  The class studies on the day he wakes up.  Till that, the students play freely.
The another school’s name is fighting school.  There they teach how to catch an animal, or if an animal is coming to catch us, how to escape, who is the enemy, what he is planning to do with us, etc.  There, baby fishes are not allowed to study here.  It is very difficult to get seat hear.
The sea living things certainly send their children to study hear.  Here, half of the time, the teacher teaches.  Half of the time only practice.  Every baby fishes love to join here.  A sea cow was the teacher of this school.  That was a very kind animal.  It is a vegetarian animal inside the sea that eats only plants.  It is called Aavuliyaa ( In Tamil ).  It looks like a tall, fat elephant.  It does not get angry or scold someone.  It’ll remain quiet all the time. 
The third school is about humans.  The teach lessons like why the humans come to seas, how to escape from fishermen, if caught in a fisher man’s net, how to act or how to attack humans and escape.  This school is the most difficult of the three under the sea.  How much ever the students study, the fail in the examination.  Only little children are studying in this school.
This school’s teacher is a shark.  That is a torenose shark because, it fought like this and the enemy tore its nose.  So, the shark always scold humans angrily.  The animals who studied in this school present their thoughts of humans.
Instead of these three schools, there is a big playground under the sea.  There baby fishes, crabs and oysters play their favorite game “Catch and catch”, running and jumping, day and night.  The baby fishes like the game that who is not shaking for longer time.  There are many races in that game.  The baby fishes play this game the whole day.       
  
         
  

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