Anonymous mobile phone talk developed into love between a child’s mother and an unemployed youth. Her Gulf employed husband Saidumohammed mail talaqed (divorced) her sitting in Gulf. Now on leave in the village he finalized his re-marriage with a divorced girl. Proposal and negotiation with girl’s side were under secret cover as he and his parents afraid of thwarting it by few of their close relatives as they had forced them to revoke the talaq. They forced for it as they have some ulterior motive in talaq revocation. Seeing no positive response, they resorted to a heinous method. One of them telephoned to Saidumohammed in the name of a close relative of the girl saying the proposed girl is of dubious character and her first marriage was talaqed within few days of marriage because of her adulteration. He believed it and withdrew from the proposal without making any enquiry about the allegation. The telephone-caller and his company might be laughing.

Betrothal eve entertainment party in Gopi’s house went through peacefully contrary to the anticipated revolt of a fire brand aunt staying close-by. She was invited to the party by his father though they are in utterly bad terms due to her ugly behaviour and stained character. She along with her two sisters, barring one sister, did not attend the function on the ground the boy did not invite them personally. Everybody in the village and in the boy’s family was expecting outpouring of filths loudly when the guests gather as she is famed to such acts. She tossed her tongue into sheath as she afraid of picking up by police. Somebody, pretending a well wisher, had informed her that police in mufti is present in the scene following complaint by boy’s father. That worked.

Veevathu’s wings have been clipped by his son following the death of her husband. She used to manage the home fund when her husband was alive. Soon after his death her son who is in Gulf entrusted the home management fund to his wife. She silently protested. Her protest was in vain as he was waiting for a reason to divest the cash handling from mother mainly to satisfy his wife and to control the expenses. He was nursing a feeling that mother spends lavishly as she does not know the value of sweat.

Widow Pathumma, around 60, wants freedom from house chores. She cannot straight claim freedom. Even if claimed her daughter-in-law will not allow as there is no one else in the family to do house chores apart from these two. To escape from house chores she invented a way out. Her ailing mother is bed-ridden about 300 metres away from her house. She goes there at least 20 times a day. Her t rips begin from 6.30 am and ends around 7.00 pm. Each time she spends minimum 30 minutes there. Daughter-in-law has noticed the trick but keeps mum. When her husband comes on leave once in every two years from Gulf she used to uncover the things. Pathumma used to be at the receiving end then. Her bee-lining to the parental house is a gossip subject in the village.  

Many of the people remember of the gods when they land in misery like sickness, legal entanglement, for gaining job etc. At such juncture of time they not only pray in the shrines but try to appease the gods or goddesses by way of offering. Villagers are most clever in such art. The number of faithful is increasing day by day and correspondingly there is increase in shrines. Many of the devotees will not turn up to the shrines once their motive is achieved.

Homes close around temples except Chathan and Muthappan temples adopt vegetarianism for afraid of curse of deities. As a common self-imposed practice residents around non-vegetarian hating deities are Hindu upper cast people who are generally vegetarians. Keralites’ life is interwoven with faiths and misfaiths, especially in villages.