Tomorrow is the social and the group photo
Don’t forget to turn up
I have paid the money
We have to stand close to each other
Says one girl
The readers may think
It happened in college years back
Fine ,you can think so
Had a life estranged
From every one in every way
So I just went underground
To my limited shelters
What do you think?
Some complex
How does a poor,low caste fellow,
Dark to boot,live in kerala
Have you an idea?
Yes this is the experience of different people, in different places
Including that of woman
Don’t always read it as mine
That’s why I said
It does’nt have to be college
If it is,
We can strike work together,
Study together
But mind you I will disappear once in a while?
Haven’t you seen those who disappear once in a while?
She shows me the photo
One who stalked her is standing
Just behind her
Of her own caste
It’ because of this decease
He chose to stand there itself
You can remove him
And have my picture there instead
Time has changed
I am not doing that
There is a cursed life some Malayalees live all along
Translated by K.sachidanandan
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