Saturdays are like party nights for people at middle east. Office closes exactly at 5 PM and as usual i took a taxi and headed for home. In kerala if you want to be updated with all local news its better to spend some time in a Barbar shop/or the local petty kada/chaya kada. Similarly if you want to get in to the lives of people in middle east the best persons to lead you through would be these taxi drivers. Chayakkadakkarane rashtriya bodham pole taxi karante Middle eastine kurichulla kazhchapadum valare vishalamanu. Chilappol chilar sankadam parayum, Mattu chilar vyavasthakalkku ethirayulla virodhaam ariyikkum, chilarakatte badayi parayum. Ennalu ellarkkum common ayi chilathokke kanum like ida thadavillathe ulla FM programmes. Koodi varunna taxikalude ennam, Nadu vidunna pravasiyum thalarunna Real estatum. Chilappol sambalathekkal avar sambathikkunna trafic fines angane palathum ellarkkum common issues anu. Kishore kumarinte pazhaya hindi pattukal palappozhum ee vaytharikku akambadi ayi FM vazh padikkonde irikkum.
I have always found the local information shared by these taxi drivers useful in my day to day life. Most of the are from pak/ind/bangal/afgan and loves to speak hindi when ever they get a chance to do so
Today also it was the turn of middle aged pattan; to take me home. He was listening to live commentary of india / srilanka cricket match and its was prize distribution ceremony going on when i joined him. After listening to the entire commentary in English from a local FM Channel he asked me one question. "Pandu aro ramayanam muzhuvan kettittu - Appo Raman seethakkum eppidi ennu chodicha pole" . "Sab ji mactch kisne jeetha" then i understood his expertise in cricket and English. I was very much confused by his question when some one who dosent understand english and cricket why should he listen to live cricket commentary ?.
He continued "Sir Acha huva ki Tournament bandth hogaya ( it was the final match in that tournament) jab se ye turnament suru huva hai poora admi log bahar nahi nikahaltha hai" Now i understood his concern for cricket Once the tournament has started pple are spending more time indoors and its having a bearing on his business. He continued further "Ek zamane meim Yeh khel tho sirf agngrez log khelthe dhe, Un dinom tho vo log india/pak ka shasan kar raha tha unke pass kafi sara free time tha is liye vo log yeh khel kela kartha dha" He was write when the british were ruling in india they had plenty of free time and they used to playing cricket to pass time. The bad thing that they did was to teach this game to people of this subcontinent and Now a days pple in this sub continent (ind/pak/bengla/srilanka spends one full watching this either live or on TV. The foreigners have already shifted to other games which doesn't take much of time where as we their followers still waste a lot of time.
Polytechnichil pokathathu kondu namukku ee palchakrangalude khadanaye kurich onnum ariyillallo Ennaswasichu njan ente veedethiyappol irangi ponnu
