Horrorscope.

The scene unfolds in an old Aristocratic Tharavad in North Malabar. The still of the night, is broken with screams, and frenetic activity is observed. The miracle of God “N” Nature is being unfolded.
*Tharavad (Ancestral House)
Horror Scope
Dateline
18.02.1952 : Kappana House, Tellicherry North Malabar
2.01 A. M. : Slightly Bruised Upon Arrival : Format : Male
Tears : Measuring 1 cm. : Screams : Incessant
Surgical pathology : Negative 2.07 A.M. : Midwife swabs and wraps in warm clothing.
2.15 A.M. : Relations inform father in distant (And serendip) Ceylon refer long distance call from
Tellicherry Post Office (Bill still Unpaid).
2.30 A. M. : Mother is informed that it is a male she can’t hide her disappointment (First
psychological scar appears refer Freud)
2.35 A.M. : Dr. Shenoy thumps, rumpled bottom, screams begin again.
2.40 A.M. : Deadly silence (Mid-wide struts around like a doctor)
3.00 A.M. : Doctor leaves after administering Morphine injection. (Fees still Due) after all family
Physician.
4.50 A.M. : Premature symptoms of M.O.*
5.00 A.M. : First breast feed (Milk in its most attractive container) craving for mammaries will run
all throughout adulthood “n” later life.
6.00 A.M. : Flow of visitors, relatives, rubberers *, well wishers and not so well wishers begin.
6.15 A.M. : Sweets distributed (Major order for neighbourhood shop keeper since 6 Months) old
stocks depleted.
6.30 A.M. : Guessing game begins as to which parent the new Born resembles, lot of comment and
argument which was set right by a W.O.G.* who lifted the napkin examined the genitals, and exclaimed in a rough baritone “Just like his father’s.

Diagnosis & after thoughts;
Reprogramme for insouciance wait for 41 years and if condition unchanged mistake for dead.
The boy had a glorious childhood, chequered adolescence, periods of frustration, when last heard disaster had struck, in the form of marriage to an Air hostess, and he is still crawling on his keens, and trying to get up on his feet again.

(*) W.O.G : Worthy Oriental Gentle man.
(*) M.O. : Moral Outrage.
(*) Rubberers : People who simply come to stare at any event.