The Main Gate and The world beyond it.

Hello my Friend,

About 8 kms from the Thampanoor bus stand,on the Vembayam-Venjaramoodu route,there lies a mythical gate and a world beyond,which has been home to generations of youth.

The first thing that you notice as you enter through the main gate(the common name of this mythical gate),is a long walkway and a couple of old and weak dudes with big moustache roaring at you to not walk on the road(if you are a pedestrian)or to keep the correct lane(if you are in a vehicle).You would notice that the road has been widened and a footpath constructed recently and everything looks picture perfect.But,let me tell you,some years ago,it looked like something out of a village hamlet with a single tarred road marring the landscape.It was way more sexier,with a lot of trees.That's when those idiots brought in the JCBs.

As you proceed,you would see a lot of inspiring quotes written everywhere on the compound walls."Stick no bills" would have been better.You walk a bit more and to your right side,you would see a magnificent building,which is basically home to a group of chics and another group of devoted women,who have dedicated their lives to someone born approximately 2000 years ago.Of course,if you are like me,you wouldn't care about the latter.Yes,they purposefully put glass shards on the top of the wall.They know that the world is composed of men like us.

You walk for some more distance..[Loud sounds of bikes].Yes,This happens often.Any inmate of this institution,who has a vehicle,thinks that he is the king of the road.Yes,the management knew this would happen because at a certain period of time in their life called teenage,they were doing the same with bajaj scooters.But since then they have grown old and resent the fact that they have become so,they have constructed three or four ghastly bumps on the road.They are of the opinion that if you speed too much,fuck your balls.Literally.

As,I was saying,if you walk for some more distance,the road splits into two with one going to the left.As you go ahead along this road deviating to the left,you would see an institution and a lot of people trying to escape out of it.No,it's not a jail and yet I agree they are all wearing the same stuff which is such a sore in the eye.Yes,you would hear the dark curses falling out of their mouths but they seem to be such jolly chaps when they reach the walkway.

When you travel back to the main road,you would see a huge institution to the right.There are lots of legends associated with this archaic buildings.One is that great big clock tower.It is rumoured that until the clock stops,The World beyond the Main Gate shall remain impregnable to invaders from the outside trying to influence the natives.It is highly doubtful whether this is true though.There is this fountain of eternal water flow or a tap,if you are one of those lame non-poetic persons,inside this Gothic structure.Laugh all that you want.When all games are done in the nearby arena,it is this fountain that all those young gladiators run shamelessly to.Maybe you would realise it's importance when you spend a good part of your life in this world.The one beyond main gate.

Now,you slowly turn to the left...mark my words...slowly turn to the left.Yes,the slow motion is very important.You see an arena and a spectacular structure right next to it.Yes.I asked you to turn slowly because otherwise you would get dazzled by it's elegance.This my friend,is where my heart stops.All my life,it is to this place,that I keep coming back to.I have heard many an inmates of the World beyond Main Gate lamenting about their conditions.You see,my friend,I can't comprehend them.Don't they see?This is the place where friendships are forged.This is where they all slip and fall into love.(Yes,my friend you are allowed to puke.)This is where they all walk,all the way to the main gate together.(I know!I know!the vehicles.)This is where they jump compound walls to escape out of institutions and to sometimes jump into some of them,despite those glass shards.More often than not,they don't get out of this gate without a pot-load of memories in their bag.Or else,they were pretty dull to begin with.

So,friend,on one of those very ordinary days,you see a nomad wandering about this place with a dreamy look on his face and a glitter on his eyes and you think that he is a weirdo,you are very definitely right.He's just weary of all the hullabaloo outside of that Main Gate.