Arindam: - Where is the suicide point? I came down from our bus just now. I can see that the road has ended here. At the right side of this road, there are four small shops and on the left side of the road, there is a staircase.
John: - I think, we have to take this staircase to reach the topmost point of this hill. We have to climb around 432 meters with the help of this staircase.
Debraj: - Ha ha ha…to commit suicide, a person has to climb this hill after walking for half an hour on this staircase. To commit suicide why a person needs to do so much hard work?
Vartika: - Yeah, Debraj, you made a valid point. Tamil people are basically fools. They do hard work before committing suicide also, he he he…
Debarjun: - Hey, you people are wasting too much time in gossiping about the topic of suicide. Come on; let us start climbing this hill.
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Himangshu: - Just a while ago, some drizzles took place here. That’s why, the staircase is wet. The stairs are made of stones only and due to trees on both sides of this staircase, the stairs have become slippery.
Deepak: - Uff, Sir, we are walking on these steep stairs for 20 minutes. How far is the suicide point?
Himansghu: - We have almost reached the point. It is just another 15-16 steps away.
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Arindam: - Wow, this suicide point just looks fabulous. I can spot three villages and some paddy lands on my left side. On my right side, there is a dense jungle and rocky cliffs. Yeah, this is the place from where people start jumping. See here. There is a stone idol which has been marked with vermilions. In the trunks of adjacent trees, people have tied papers with the help of strings. Let me see, what is written in these papers, though the papers are already wet due to rainfall. This must be a suicide note. This suicide note is a fresh one which means that someone has committed suicide either today or yesterday in this place. Oho! All the letters are in Tamil in this suicide note.
Kedia: - How a person can commit suicide after coming to this point, I really wonder! This is such a fabulous place! When you stand here, you feel like standing on heaven. Then why do you need to jump down from this point to go to hell?
Arindam: - Not only suicide. Even if anyone murders a person and throw that dead body from this suicide point, then Tamil policemen will consider that as a suicide only, unless a detailed forensic investigation takes place. Hey, Sunny, don’t go near that barricade. The rods of that barricade are very loose. Don’t touch that barricade. It can lead to a severe accident, as that barricade can fall down at anytime.
Sunny: - We have spent lots of time here. Come on, let us go down. This place is not at all safe. Already I have seen three local people roaming at this point with vermilions in their heads. Who knows, after we leave the place, they will commit suicide by jumping from this point. It is not always true that the local Tamil people commit suicide due to depressions or poverty. Sometimes, people commit suicide as a sacrifice to their Hindu God. In Tamil rituals, it is still believed that in a particular festival after every 10 years; at least, one member of a family has to sacrifice their life in the name of God.
Arindam: - Hmm…arrey, look at that valley on the extreme right side from here. Can you see it? The valley is looking like a nose. It seems as if a demon is sleeping there and we can see his big green colored nose, he he he…
Chawla: - Dear Mr. Sain, that is not a sleeping demon’s nose, that is a valley only, but due to its bulging geographical topography, that particular point of the valley is known as ‘Dolphin’s Nose’. We will go there now.
Arindam: - Dolphin has a nose? Is Dolphin not a fish?
Kedia: - Uff…now, don’t start discussing about dolphins, please. Now, come on; let us start going down from this place.
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Arnab: - Sain da…come here. Out of these 4 shops, I have found a shop, where Ooty Tea packets are getting sold.
Arindam: - Oh! That’s cool. We are yet to buy any tea packet from Ooty. Come on, then, let us buy some tea packets.
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Arindam: - Tell us, which flavored tea will be of good taste?
Tea Shop Owner: - Sir, Chocolate Tea is more tasty. But, Ginger Tea is good for health. Chocolate tea is 140 bucks per Kg and Ginger tea is 160 per Kg.
Arnab: - What about the plain tea?
Tea Shop Owner: - Plain Ooty tea is 120 bucks per Kg.
Arindam: - Hmm…ok, do one thing. Give me 1 Kg of plain Ooty Tea, 500 gms of Chocolate tea and 250 gms of Ginger tea. Accha, while packing it in different polythene container, please paste a small level on it, so that I can understand which polythene container contains which flavored tea. Accha, how much I have to pay?
Tea Shop Owner: - Only 230 bucks, Sir.
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Debraj: - The girls of our IBS Kolkata are yet to come down from that Suicide point. They are still there. Come on; let us play some game in the meanwhile.
Arnab: - I have a tennis ball in my bag. Wait, let me take it out. We can play ‘catch-catch’ game here.
Angshuman: - Ei, wait, I will also play. Sumanta, Rathi, Sain, Chawla and Kedia. Come here. Just form a circle. We will play catch practice. Whoever misses the catch will be out of this circle, which means, he is disqualified.
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Rathi: - Come on, Sain. Just beat Angshuman daa… Only you two are left in the last round of this game. Angshuman daa has won this game for 3 times. Hardly, Angshuman daa is missing any catch. Don’t miss the catch….Ei, jaah, Sain, you have missed the catch!
Arindam: - Ei, this is foul. Angshuman daa, you are throwing the ball beyond my reach. How can I catch it? No, no, the game is still on. You have not won. Wait, I will throw the ball in such a manner that you cannot even see the ball to catch it. But, where is the ball? Arrey, very funny! I saw the ball coming in this direction only.
Debolina: - Ha ha ha…Arindam, forget the tennis ball now. The black monkey has taken the catch. It is sitting on that small cliff and seeing the tennis ball as if it has never seen a tennis ball before.
Arindam: - Ei, ball taa deh…nahole lyaj kete haathey dhoriye dabo…
Vartika: - Sir, Sir, see, what Arindam is doing there? The black monkey is holding the tennis ball in its hand and our Arindam is demanding the ball from the black monkey. There is our Arindam. He is holding a long bamboo in his hand and shouting at the black monkey and the black monkey is just laughing at him while holding the ball in its hand.
Debojyoti: - Ei, Sain…arrey, it is not your Bengali monkey. It is a Tamil monkey and that too of this suicide point. It has never seen a green colored tennis ball. The black monkey is even trying to bite that green colored tennis ball by assuming it as a guava, he he he…Leave the monkey alone. If the monkey attacks you, then there is no hospital nearby to do your treatment.
Arindam: - Don’t worry, Sir. I am expert in handling these monkeys. In our Kolkata house, almost in every weekend, a group of monkeys come to our terrace because there is a Badam (nut) tree just adjacent to our terrace. I just start chasing them with a bamboo stick on the terrace. The monkeys don’t attack me because they fear that I might hit them on their head to kill them at one shot. But, I only pretend to hit them. I don’t hit them at all.
Debojyoti: - Ha ha ha…I think that this black monkey has understood your words. It has released the tennis ball from its hand and is just staring at you. Ei, give that black monkey something to eat. Wait; let me buy a dozen of bananas for the monkey. The monkey is just staring at us. Oh! It is so happy to get those 6 bananas. It is laughing now, he he he…It is a good black monkey, though it lives in a jungle.
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