botanical minutes...

Onam celebrations.The campus is in a festive mood.Laughter and colours all around.Winning 'attapookkalam' competition is very important for Botany department(plants and flowers are our property.Others beware!)

Students are busy in making model pookkalam.The Botany professor is giving them instructions.He says,"Place 'Calotropus' at the margins and 'Ixora' inside the circle.The young botanists blinks.The teacher looks at the young botanists staring at him.His eyes pleads,"Oh God when will you save me"

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Practical hour.
Students are sitting inside the lab.Microscopes,needles,stains etc above each table.
Young Botanist:Look friends.Hanuman is arriving carrying Marutvamala.
Oh KK is also with him.
(The lab assistant enters the room with a handful of stems and roots.Teacher is also with him).Small pieces of stems and roots are ready for practicals.

Teacher looks through the microscope and asks,"Where is the epidermis"

Young botanist replies,"sir..it is at the centre"

The teacher's face turns red with anger.He shouts,"Coming for practicals without knowing the 'basic' facts!"

The youg botanist gives a victorious smile and answers,"It is at the 'base' sir"

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IMPERIALISM.

Its struggling to maintain the power around the globe...
ignoring the resistance of crores of people from different countries..
World is entering a new era..
in which imperialism ends for ever..
peace and harmony persists.
Say goodbye to wars!!!
Love our fellowbeings.
Make our earth a more beautiful one.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WEEPING SOUL!

I started my journey from infinity.It was a pleasant experience to travel through the clouds.White clouds resembled flocks of sheeps."I have a lot of things to do within this short period.Will I be able to do all my duties?",I asked myself.My travel to earth was to perform some bounden duties.

Pure air,lakes,rivers,flowers and greenery welcomed me."I am going to live here",I thought proudly.I needed a body.So I searched for the safest place in the universe.I reached the womb,but there I felt a self.

Cells divided...tissues...organs...At last I gained a body.I praised the almighty for his perfection in planning.Each second I dreamt about my life on earth.I waited patiently to take birth.

My mother didn't understand my feelings.She prefered temporary comforts to her child.She easily avoided the burden to preserve her false dignity."Please think about me.Don't kill me",I cried.Noone heard my cry.But that faint cry echoed in the universe.