Here is a poem in Malayalam sent by Mrs Jayalakshmy Ramanathan,Australia.
vellaikkaran kudiyiruntha chinnan chiru nadu.
nan piranthu valanthu vantha vellai manal nadu.
madyanam bell adithal mama veedu poven.
asaiyaga chadam pisainthu kayyile koduppal.
ippothu ninaikkumpodhu varuthe enakku sangadam.
val irukkum oru padam, val illamal oru padam.
neelamana mudiyum pinni iruvarum varuvaargal.
aval veettil aval thalayai mottapottu vittargal.
avalai pathu nanum namittu chiri chirithen.
nanum en bagudan mama veedu chenren.
chitha neram kazhithu vanthal teacherum oru kambudan.
pochu po chandaikkari charuvin thiruvilayadal ithu.
yaridavum chollathe enrum ennidam aval chonnal.
val irukkum kullanari mudiyirukkum parvathiyam.
charu than pollathaval enru teacher nambinal.
veliyileye nil enral charuvidam teacherum.
charuvo pavam aval, vikki vikki azhuthal.
apamanam thangamal mugam pothy ninral.
chaitha thavarai ninaithu nan kooni kuruki ninren.
ஆசையாக சாதம் பிசைந்து கையிலே குடுப்பாள்.
இப்போது நினைக்கும்போதும் வருதே எனக்கு சங்கடம்.
வால் இருக்கும் ஒரு படம்,வாலில்லாமல் ஒரு படம்.
நீளமான முடியும் பின்னி இருவரும் வருவார்கள்.
அவள் வீட்டில் அவள் தலையை மொட்டை போட்டு விட்டார்கள்.
அவளை பாத்து நானும் நமிட்டு சிரி சிரித்தேன்.
திடீர் என்று வந்தது எனக்கு குள்ளநரியின் ஞாபகம்.
வாலு போன குள்ளநரியும் கல்யாணியும் ஒன்று.
நானும் என் பாகுடன் மாமாவீடு சென்றேன்.
சித்தநேரம் கழித்து வந்தாள் டீச்சரும் ஒரு கம்புடன்.
போச்சு போ சண்டைக்காரி சாருவின் திருவிளயாடளிது.
யாரிடவும் சொல்லாதே என்றும் என்னிடம் அவள் சொன்னாள்.
சாருதான் பொல்லாதவள் என்று டீச்சர் நம்பினாள்.
வெளியிலேயே ,நில் என்றாள் சாருவிடம் டீச்சரும் .
நூத்தெட்டு ஹக்கி போடவேண்டும் என்றும் சொன்னாள்.
நூத்தெட்டு ஹக்கி போட்டு காலும் கையும் வலித்தது.
அபமானம் தாங்காமல் முகம் பொத்தி நின்றாள்.
செஞ்ச தவறை நினைத்து நான் கூனி குறுகி நின்றேன்.
It was a true incident when i was studying in 5th std at Ernakulam Govt.Girl's high School.
I was about nine years old then.I was a very quiet girl.I was not very social and I had no close friends.
One day my class teacher (english period) was absent .So we were asked to go and sit with the section A class students.
When the teacher was teaching us the lesson of a fox whose tail was cut in a trap when it entered a place to steal some thing.In the Book there were two pictures .One was the fox with full bushy tail and the other was of the fox without the tail.One girl named Charu was sitting beside me.
There were two girls (twins) named Kalyani and Parvathy in the section A.both girls had long dark beautiful hair.Suddenly Kalyani got typhoid and her parents had to shave her head after the recovery from fever.
I saw Kalyani without her beautiful hair and Parvathy with full long hair.So i suddenly was surprised to see the pictures of the fox with tail and without tail.I showed it to Charu commenting that one is Kalyani and the other is Parvathy.
Actually the girl Charu is a friend of these girls.I did not know this because i had come to this section only for one day.
When the bell rang for the Lunch time I went to my uncles house for taking my lunch.When going I saw Charu was gossipping something with these girls.
I had a fear that i would be punished by the teacher that day.
I came back after the lunch time and sat quietly on my bench.The teacher came and was shouting loudly who is this jayalakshmy and asked me to come near her.Fortunately the girl Charu had not returned to the class when the teacher came.The teacher asked me did i tell about K and P to Charu?
Suddenly i lied her that Charu only told me so and she had also requested me not to tell anyone about her comment.
Poor teacher trusted my version.When the girl Charu came to the class after her lunch,the teacher did not allow her to enter the class and asked her to do hundred ukki.s(kneeling down) in front of everybody,which she had to do with tears in her eyes.
Although i had saved myself with a presence of mind lie,for the timebeing,i had repented for it several times when i grew up telling myself that for no fault of her Charu got the punishment from the teacher.
It is the meaning of my poem in tamil Paschathapam.