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It was not a worn irregular edge of silk saree, but a sleeping horizontal hill, stitching the embroidery to the clear sky as twelve-year-old boy Jo watched it daily from his apartment balcony. After three months of heavy rain, the hill was visible from apartment. The hill with historical significance for Roman Catholic church, a sacred place associated with St. Thomas, the pilgrim centre, known as Malayatoor hill. The moment Jo thought about travelling there, Jo felt the astonishment too. It took three long years after living in the same apartment to take a decision to visit a place that was at a stone’s throw away from us. Finally, it happened on that Sunday afternoon at 3:30 PM. He felt parents were looking for excuses for not visiting a place which they have seen umpteen times during their childhood. Every time they speak about it, his dad says “I am not quite sure if St. Thomas landed really in Kerala. Even Pope is not sure; historical evidences have certain mismatches.” In the s...

  [ Wikipedia : Angamaly is a municipality and the northernmost suburb of the city of Kochi in Kerala, India. Situated about 30 km (19 mi) north of the city centre, the area is the northern gateway to the commercial capital of Kerala and is an integral part of the Kochi metropolitan area. The town lies at the intersection of Main Central Road (MC Road) and National Highway 544. MC Road, which starts from Thiruvananthapuram ends at Angamaly at its intersection with NH 544.]   Paradox of Pork Though the word ‘Pork’ stands for the meat of the pig, colloquially and often knowingly or unknowingly people in Kerala interchange the use of the word pork and pig in the same context. However, be it pigs or pork, both were as distasteful to retired senior bank manager Varghese K.P. This would been unremarkable, had it not been for the fact that the gentleman had been nicknamed Pork Varghese, from his blameless childhood days. To add to the mockery, all his friends who had rechristen...