BONE-ELUMBU- ELLAU I was recollecting the proverb inMalayalam- Ellu muriyaepanithal, Pallumuriyae thinnam. If you work hard there will be nodifficulty for living. Really it is a true proverb. Where hard physical work isrequired, there are lesser people, and for their work, there is high demand andthey are paid well.
I recollect an instance whileconstructing my native home. I got large size granite blocks broken from a smallhill nearby Lorry loads. But they had to be sized smaller. Person sizing was indemand. After about five days, my contractor brought a short man with a VERYBIG HAMMER. All were cautioned not to be close because while blasting with it,particles would fly off. What a special care given to him!!. He finished thework in one day. He was paid three times of a mason. Ordinary masons cannotblast like him. When all better workers left formiddle east for the very high remuneration it was very difficult to get even anassistant mason or carpenter at one time in Kerala during 1985’s. At that timefinding gold treasure workers from Tamilnadu started to come and work in Keralaand they demanded high wages since in due course good workers among them alsobecame rare. Update- Now people from North East, Rajasthan etc.are workers in Kerala and Tamilnadu. Tamilnadu people are settled, talkMalayalam fluently and they are supervisors in Kerala and Tamilnadu. Certainspecial works in marble, granite and even for tiles works Rajasthan workers areexperts. A person appearing even withslight tiredness due to two or three days journey itself is often told by hisparents- your body has become simply skin covered and bones are seen. Actuallyhe may be fleshy. On those days as age advance byabout 70, it was common to haveappearing slightly bones well seen covered by shrink skin in certain placeswith most people. Today even people of80 does not appear so-Thanks to medical advance and eating practices andfinancial status for affording etc. Update- Now for covid vaccine, there is more rushin private hospitals and people are maintained in waiting list in Tamilnadu.Most affordable prefer private hospital Bone of contention-phrase of bone I got thefollowing as correct meaning and example on google search. A subject or issue over whichthere is continuing disagreement." -the examination system has long been aserious bone of contention". Though I have studied in myprimary class - of a dog carrying a fleshy bone passing through a small woodenbridge found it’s shadow in water and barked as another dog was there, and bonefell down I have never seen any dog carrying now a day with a bone.Occasionally near meat shops we could see dogs waiting for hours and once awhile getting a small bit of meat. As age advance bone fracture isdifficult to set, comparing to younger age. In younger age jointing by putting plasteror bandage 99% set together. However once broken, it is a weak area. This bone fracture is due to bones becoming brittle with less bonemarrow. While starting to write aboutbone, I got from a google search-Now methods are available for purifying without using bone powder ascatalyst in manufacturing sugar. Another search made by me wasabout the bone of sage Dadichi which was asked by Indra for making weapons tofight against demons and defeating. Most Hindus collect the bones/bone ashes from the funeral of the dead and deposit in Ganga or ocean or mouthof ocean near which human inhabitation is not more. It was news to me when I was reading Lingayatsbury the dead- not give the body to fire. Update On later reading I could gather the Pisharaticommunity also bury the dead. It was also a practice at onetime while digging for building a home, if a bone of human was found; the placewas discarded from constructing home. Now such practice cannot be practicable. For certain animals like cows, wecan see born on the body covered by skin, though they are quite healthy. Withage flesh would be disappearing more in them. Though not much related to bone,skin of oxen of the dead is taken, treated and processed to make the skins fordrums. Writer- R. Gopala Krishnan dated 29-4-2017. Reposted on18-3-2021 after editing and updating. R.Gopala Krishnan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/547785340.1961779.1616077188184%40mail.yahoo.com.
