THE MEDIUM

THE MEDIUM

(Rathram)

'Rathram' means KNOWLEDGE. It is woven on a lucid concept that people born at midnight of Indian Independence have got supernatural powers. Everybody in this world has sixth sense. For most of us it is dormant, and may not be vivid. But to a few it fits in them as a boon or a weapon.

Rathram depicts a cross section of India’s pre-independence era and analyses the happenings of the day when India became free, and from there it develops gradually scaling 62 years of Free India, the reminiscence, being the offspring of Great Partition, which took thousands on its death toll. Call it as The Year of the Lion or call it as The Year of the Rat for the convenience of our prejudiced minds.

The political, cultural and sociometric entities of Indian Society are exposed through a girl named Adila (Justice) who is born at midnight of August 14, 1947, out of a very ‘down-caste’ Hindu-Muslim wedlock, in a Mumbai suburban slum.   When the clock strikes 12, amidst the rampant violence, her poor and innocent parents are butchered by the vanishing government machinery, and she is ‘forced out of the dead mother’ at the very moment marking the cry of Free India. While the babe cries aloud into the ‘void’, struggling in the shivering outstretched hands that took her from ‘the dead but warm womb’ of her slain mother, Jawaharlal Nehru hoists the tri colour flag  at Red Fort declaring India’s Independence.

Adila grows up in Mumbai under the care of ill nourished, submissive and needy slum dwellers consisting of scavengers, coolies and other underdogs. When she attains the age of 13 she gets “contaminated” and struggles with the advancement of a supernatural power and becomes a medium to bring forth the apparitions of the "dead". Late rulers, politicians, tyrants, social reformers, administrators, godling and godmen appear before her in their real forms to reveal the other side of their eventful life….

While the rituals and performance continue blending Arabic, pagan and indigenous forms the people get the best from her due to its positivity. However, in the innermost she has a feeling that these will not last and that the good shall perish soon. For even Gods had enemies and may still have.

Adila is renowned now and people assemble around her with esteem piety. To their astonishment she pronounces the spell, and ‘the actors’ of the 14th August drama appear before her as apparitions. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Gandhiji, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Mountbatten, and the wife are all crowding to make known ‘their other side’ to the mass. Questions bring answers. True. The living may tell lies, but the dead does not!

What the dead tells now creates panic among the people who spread the news all over. They become confused and factions originate. Some go against her, while others support. The call for Jihad takes to a violent turn. She cannot sit idle. The enemies are strong and outrageous.

Adila resists. She doesn't yield to their threats. The antagonists start their vile indulgences and twist the situations to their favour. Their attacks not only thwart the calm flow of her service but also inflict the existing social set up.

And with the help of Shiva- a superman of Indian black magic- the rivals start to make her surrender before them. In spite of a strong police protection, Shiva's telepathic impulses penetrate every resistance and become very intense and reach her. Unable to withstand the onslaught and fury, Adila succumbs and at a critical moment, when the omen turns wrong and negative, her whole physical form blazes off in the engulfing fire, and her soul gets liberated. Before leaving the mutilated burnt body behind and dissolving to oblivion, her soul takes a vow that it will come back one day to avenge them.

A total elimination of Adila is what Shiva wanted. But things do not turn up as he wished….! So, knowing she would return he waits for that doomsday.

Eventful 4 decades go by. Years of unrest and calamities march forward. New boundaries are set up. New political equations come into being. The international scenario changes for favor of Uncle Sam. New allies and work front thrive. Terrorism and religious anarchy form the flagship of social life. The intra-socio-economic balance shatters. The oppressed still stands oppressed.

The much debated 2k comes in. The country is in the grip of stale brokers, gamblers and bootleggers. Political black sheep whistle the tunes. The Indian society is metamorphosing.

And in a modern township away from the city, Natan, a 25 year old handsome youth is in fits. The mental aberration and nightmares take the brain out of him. He has visions. Adila, the dead comes in his dreams and induces telepathic marvels in him. As if a clairvoyant Natan interacts with the ghostly form. He becomes possessed. Gradually he gains a psychic power that is more than equivalent to Adila. He begins assuming himself to be reincarnation of Adila, though it is in his masculine form.

Natan becomes renowned due to his supernatural power. His name and words traverse across the oceans. Disciples throng to be blessed with his presence. Political leaders and business tycoons fall in line for his blessings. His words acquire the magnetic beam which is potent to change even the rulers of the country.

The apparitions he brings forward uncover their other sides and it quakes the nation. Idols and images collapse. Controversies follow. Violence erupts. The prevailing religious harmony is lost.

And Liza, a young journalist in twenties thinks Natan is a swindler. She wants to affirm this and tries to dig out the secrets behind his sixth sense. But while doing it, she understands that Natan is blessed with real supernatural power and becomes his follower. Meantime, some of his disciples who are strong under his shadow want to overpower him in order to amass wealth and fame.

Atheist groups proclaim Natan to be a fraud. They set fierce propaganda against him and he is caught in its whirlwind. The disappearance of certain disciples put havoc in his life.

Police is after him, and the frequent raids put him in doldrums. There are attempts to kill him. Liza saves him. She develops a soft corner towards him and tells of her love. But Natan cannot accept it for he is not meant for worldly life, he says. To her bewilderment he declares, “I am not a man at all….!”

The secret thus revealed, Shiva, the super man of black magic, revives his memories. Though he is aged, the vengeance in him is still not settled. He rekindles it, joins his allies and plots against Natan.

Liza is now his staunch follower and right hand. The frequent nearness to her causes physical and mental changes in him. To his bewilderment when the first menstrual vibrations hit ‘him’, ‘he’ collapses under its weight. The very moment ‘his’ supernatural power fails ‘him’. And ‘he’ is lost…!

Turbulent days follow. Underworld dons and political mafia do not rest. They revamp their strategies one by one. Natan is cornered and is defamed. Shiva attacks ‘him’. ‘He’ escapes the attempt with the help of Liza. Police chases ‘him’ to satisfy the ulterior moves of political manipulators. ‘He’ has got nowhere to go. The people hitherto worshipped ‘him’ disown him now. ‘He’ is totally exhausted.

But ‘he’ is not frail, and Liza inspires ‘him’ to recapture the power lost. Practicing Egyptian black magic or Atharva is the only solution to the problems, she says. So, in the silence of the night, Natan, along with Liza and a few disciples, disappears into the dark, unnoticed.

They reach a remote and dense forest. The forest people provide shelter to them. With their patronage Natan and Liza start practicing severe occults. After a great ordeal they acquire the supernatural power they craved for. But this time the power they attained is something negative. Nevertheless, they with the prowess and fury of Mahakaali and Rudra, wait for the right moment to unleash their revenge….

The cycle is set to motion once again… The socio centric scenes shift. Apparitions still come; now willfully…. The oppressed shall not remain oppressed. The ‘fusion of woman and man in one’ becomes the fire to win… And to win means destroy…For, destruction is the only truth in Nature...! Destroying to create…...

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© Punalur Chandrasekharan

TC 10/33, Ambady, Killiyar Lane, Pipinmoodu, Sasthamangalam P.O., Trivandrum-695010, India

Email: punalurchandrasekharan@gmail.com Mobile: +91-9605690154

INFORMER (KABARI)

DOUBLE AGENT

(Informer/Kabari)

Double Agent is an action film conceived in the luxuriant and rich Mumbai identity. It is the story of the ‘survival of the fittest’, highlighted by defense, revenge, love and sacrifice. It explores the evils of human trafficking, drug mafia and rivalries accompanied by the frightening underworld violence and blood shed.

Surya is groomed in the twilight world of Mumbai nightclubs and boxing rings. He is tall, strong and handsome much against the known hereditary racial traits. He leads a very humble life within the ‘territory’ of a Sait, who finances for movies and soap operas. He serves him as an assistant and as a hit-man. But he quits his job after a heated dialogue with the Sait over his profane and greedy actions, and determines to try his luck in the boxing rings and racing fields. He meets Adina, a beautiful strip teaser in a nightclub who develops a soft corner towards him. But his career in the rings did not bring him the expected success due to the frequent encounters with the Sait who happens to be the patron of these joints. He abandons the rings and racing fields and thinks of searching out something better, though it may go against the wish of Adina.

And forsaking his peaceful past and finding no other choice he lands up in a job as an agent of an underworld don. Gradually he becomes very powerful and secretly takes the task of other two main rival gangs. The police are watchful and step in to track him to a trap. They allure him and compel him to become their informer to collect the details of the gangster moves. This they do by putting Adina in a tactfully framed case, and to rescue her means his acceptance of their troublesome proposal. In order to save his girl from ruin, he accepts their proposal and begins to act as their informer. In due course, he puts these rivals in a professional equilibrium, and keeps himself immune to any suspicion.

Initially it seemed very interesting and challenging to him because what he conveyed determined the destiny of the police, and the rival gangs. He handles these ‘evils’ and the dealings very skillfully for quite some time, thanks to his quick wit and muscle speed. But the situations change abruptly making it impossible for him to manage his doings amidst the alarming violence and blood shed that ensue after his conveying information to each end. The first don with whom he was working comes to know of his discreet double dealings and becomes enraged. The don takes to vow that he will destroy Surya at any cost. He is torn between these extremes and to his dismay learns that he will be annihilated soon, whether he obeys or resists them. To make matters worse Adina is kidnapped and his efforts to find her become fruitless. And whatever he does starts turning against him and he finds that to escape from these adversities is very remote. Nevertheless, he has to find a way out of this, and so he determines to fight with all his might for his dear life and his dear love….

© PUNALUR CHANDRASEKHARAN

punalurchandrasekharan@gmail.com

2050 AD or THE AFTERMATH

2050 CHAOS

(The Aftermath)

A great calamity is going to happen to the human race as well as the animals on this planet earth. Our means to survive are causing extinction of many of the poor creatures that cannot speak, which in turn will question our own existence.

The international breeding policies of cattle, cloning and the play with the genetics will lead us to an unprecedented devastation of the human race because of the origination of a new species of transgenic animals. It is a matter of concern that this genetic alteration can be manipulated to a point of immortality too. Super human mutants may take over this earth to oppress by making the human species into two.

The giants and the dwarfs! The cryonics may lead to reincarnation…!

The genotypes and phenotypes of chromosomes may work against each other! Think of its aftermath!

There exists a rule of the nature. It is cosmic law. No harm shall be done to that. If done, calamities in every form will ensue. Why can't we think that the Eternity, the Ultimate who created everything with care and love will not allow the man to alter his nature and equilibrium?

I tell the story of our society. ….

A young man and his girl friend are doing research on the evolution of the society in its myriad forms by interlinking the genetic transition and the religious doctrines on the basis of certain sociological pattern.

The research leads them to get access to some highly classified documents relating to the dark side of the genetic theories and breeding policies and also the unscrupulous attitudes of the policy makers in twisting the concept of Mendel’s theory of inheritance.

Their study results in finding out a long kept secret that an imminent danger will befall on the human race and the animals as well. The duo thinks of taking this cause to fight against the international policy makers and the governments. They secretly seek the help of some social activists and start interacting with the people to make them aware of the danger and prepare them for an agitation nationwide. But before they could act upon the inevitable happens. The animals go berserk. People die. Many go mad. Others crumble.

There is total chaos.

The administrators are at their wits end. The people lead by the duo revolt against the government. The political and business tycoons join their hands and try to oppress the revolt. All the while proprioception damages the brains of the children. Their nervous system totally immobilized.....

And what comes next is the real story….

The Chaos continues….

Mendel's theory of inheritance suggests the underlying principles of heredity relalted to plants and trees

are also applicable to human beings and other animals, because

the mechanisms of heredity are similar for all life forms.

The Blending theory says that the inherited traits will blend from generation to generation. But, to what extent? Nobody knows. Charles Darwin, by his Pangenesis theory held that hereditary particles in OUR BODIES ARE AFFECTED BY THE THINGS WE DO DURING OUR LIFETIME.

These modified particles will migrate via blood to the reproductive cells and subsequently could be inherited by the next generation. The haploid cells that cause sex will work no more.

Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics will go wrong shortly.

The subject goes against the present breeding policies and cloning that prohibit cattle from having their right to procreate by mating with the opposite sex. It is an encounter with the business tycoons who sit on a mammoth figure of above 30000 billion dollar business.

Most of the countries have breeding policies. The semen of the bulls and other male animals are collected through artificial means and then inseminated in the females. This insemination using the sperm of varied species to obtain a distinct offspring will not have any problems with the first few generations. After a particular period these female cattle will become barren and would not be able to deliver off springs and not even milk or meat. They may go altered: physically and mentally. They may even go mad. Just think of a flock of cattle becoming mad and attacking the human race! Our children becoming mad and violent and agony and falling dead…!!!

And please, do not forget of the love lost in between them. Think of the pain, the pangs of these God's poor animals who are not allowed to have that divine love. How could they survive long without sharing the feeling, God has created for them, which we forbid. What right we have to that? And one who goes against the will of God will be punished. Yes. The human race shall face the doom in no time.

Here, even the gods may go mad in vengeance.

Can we survive without having any sexual relationship with our wives? Think of the cattle who want to lead a 'husband -wife relationship' in their own way. Think to protest against the policy of prohibiting female cattle from the company of the males. And think of the horror we do to them by castrating their genital organs to ruin. Think of them now, if not, you will never, never.

This in a short span of time will endanger them. Sure. Even the scientists could not foretell what is in store. They are not bothered of it now because the business tycoons do care only to amass money out of these innocent creatures' helplessness. They are making billions of dollars torturing them physically and mentally. Who cares about the calamities that may happen to the next generations after his very death and that too when he does not even bother of his death itself?

Where are they who boast of safeguarding the interests of the animals? Where are these animal lovers? Where are the Societies for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals?

Why can't they see this mental agony of these animals?

Please think of a generation-our children going mad by drinking even the milk from these cattle. The people who eat their meat may become distorted. The bodies go erupted and ruptured. Men and women go paralyzed. People creep. Cries and curses reverberate all over. People running in frantic… Agriculture goes waste. What we eat becomes poison. And think of a community who loses their kith and kin due to the cruelty done to these animals by us.   We will become extinct. The world will end then.

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Written and Posted by Punalur Chandrasekharan, TC 10/33, KGRWA-134, Pipinmoodu,

Sasthamangalam P.O., Trivandrum- 10, Kerala, India. Phone: 91-471-2438855, 91-471-2438460

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