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IN THUNDER LIGHTNING AND RAIN

 

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FORT KOCHI CARNIVAL

KERELA

 

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FEATURING CELINE B

 

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AMMINI AMMA

 

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SINA CV

 

 

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When I say I am a footballer, they shockingly say “woman footballer”. “ Can women play football?” After facing so much struggle, played 27 times for Kerala, played for India, still I face questions like these everyday

 

 

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When I tell people I coach boys, they doubt my capacity to do that

 

 

Is it because of my size

 

 

or because I am a woman?

 

 

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Very good Suji

Move forward

Cover them

Cross them and run

 

 

 

Go Go Go

 

 

 

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I have also built a women’s team.

Hey Amija

Ten of my girls have got selected to Kerala state team.

But it’s not easy to coach girls in India.

 

When kids are born, why do we give football to boys and dolls to girls?

This makes girls soft and timid.

 

There are many to coach boys but a few take serious efforts to coach girls.

 

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When I talk about my struggles, people say it happens to everybody

But my hardships are important to me

 

I was in grade six when my mother died.

In those circumstances, I had to work as domestic help.

I would eat stale food and walk long distances to be able to study.

Football didn't happen to me by learning it from a coach or by watching it on TV. Truly, I started playing to get rid of hunger.

 

One day, I was sitting home and there was nothing for me to eat as usual. Some boys were playing outside. I was amazed to see the game of football. I thought to myself what if I could play? But they were all men. Even for watching, I was the only woman there. One day their goalkeeper was absent. I didn't know what a goalkeeper does. I just went in to volunteer. I got badly hit on my chest and I fell. I thought it’s better not to play because here one has to suffer hunger as well as hits. I stayed at home for two days. But then I felt Ill try again. When I understood football is a game of legs, I started playing all the time to forget about hunger.

 

Nothing can replace the happiness I feel when I play

 

 

You go to the other side and repeat what he does

 

Understood?

 

 

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When I hear my students are playing for India or Kerala.

I feel

content

 

 

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First, I got selected to Kerala state team.

The happiest moment was when i got selected to the Indian team.

One of the halves was me Sina CV.

I just cried with joy.

 

 

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I got a blazer and a pair of new trousers.

New white shirt and a red tie.

After seeing myself in the mirror at the New Delhi airport

I wondered, am I this beautiful?

This was the first time I was wearing such good clothes

 

 

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I used to live in a small house with roof made of coconut leaves. I had to place dishes on the floor when it would rain. I would run out of dishes but roof would still leak

 

 

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I saw everyone exchanging currency at the new Delhi airport. I also joined them.

The officer at the counter asked me if I need more money that what I had asked for?

I answered, “No sir. I need this much only”.

I asked other girls how much they exchanged. They said “around USD 500, 400.” I had exchanged USD 2

 

 

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That was my situation when I played in Germany but there I was awarded with money and a pair of shoes. The first thing I did with that prize money was fixed that roof. The feeling of sleeping in my house that day is beyond explainable words.

 

Thinking of what I have achieved today from almost nothing

it gives me

pangs of fear, wondering was it really me who suffered all that.

 

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On the outside, I come across as a confident Sina but, Inside, I am scared.

I fear getting close to or talk to men

Like everyone else even I had a desire to get married and have a family

but the memories of my father wouldn't let me because he was cruel to my mother and enjoyed it

 

 

 

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He used to lock up me and my sister in bedroom and used to tie up our mother and assault her cruelly. I’ve seen him breaking alcohol bottles and rubbing broken glass on mom’s body.

On various parts of her body, letting her bleed

 

Can any human be this cruel?

One evening he came home holding hands of another woman. I was lying on my mom’s hand. Her tears trickled down my cheek. When I grew up, then I realised why that woman cried so much. It was blood oozing out of her broken heart.

 

 

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If you get a proposal now, will you get married?

 

No sir.

I don’t have any life left to experiment with.

My only desire is to die while I am playing on the field.

Now that I know how society works, I am happy alone.

 

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If I’ll have a girl child, I’ll be in constant fear and tension.

 

The society should change its perspective. They are more concerned about what we should not do than what we should do. Let us live the way we want.

 

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KALLARA MUNDAAR

KERALA

 

 

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Using her fish trap, she has stirred the ponds

to make them muddy and has caught fishes

 

This fish that fish, there are many

Snakehead, climbing perch

and yellow salmon to name a few!

 

 

 

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In 2010, my husband died

Even if I brought home USD 140

my husband would always treat me lesser than him

 

He would taunt, “Oh are you the one earning in the house”

That was his power-play

 

 

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Even a man of no worth wants a woman to be his slave

 

The society has given them a power over us and that’s why they dominate us

 

 

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Woman can’t be above man

No man would permit that

would you?

No way!

 

 

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How ever poor I might be

when I am fishing

I don’t feel poor

 

 

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By fishing, I have achieved a lot I life

 

 

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I make USD55 or USD 40 day or at least I make USD 10

 

 

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By selling this fish, I’ll earn USD 3

Give me for lesser price

No way!

But now we know each other

Knowing is one thing and price of fish is another

 

 

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When I had the desire to have a house of my own

Poverty never stood a chance to stop me

 

 

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Because of my parents’ early demise, I could not study

I had three siblings to be taken care of

They became my priority over my education

 

 

But today, If I had this opportunity

I’ll throw everything away

and would go to study

 

 

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My grandmother, till her death

didn't wear a blouse

She would only place

a stole over her naked upper body

 

Wherever she went, she wore that

 

I asked her, why do others wear a blouse and proper clothing

why don’t you?

 

She replied

“That’s how it has always been.

We were banned from covering our upper bodies”

 

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Once, my father couldn't finds labourers to help him

 

 

He asked my sister-in-law and me to work as cattles

 

 

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He said, “My kids, I’ll have to place this plowshare to your necks”

and father did so

 

 

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I asked him, “father why are you doing this to us?”

He said, “My dear kid. You will have to suffer like we did”

 

 

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It was 5 to 6 acres of land and we kept plowing like cattles

Following my dad who was walking ahead

 

 

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If we didn’t sow seeds, the landlord would get angry

we faced a lot of problems

rice was given to us as wage

This slavery happened because my ancestors knew no other way of living

 

 

 

 

 

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There is no man without caste or religion

it is through that everything works here

When I am asked about my caste, what do I say?

I can’t say I don’t know

Truly speaking, I belong to Dravidian ancestry

but now

There is caste system everywhere

and I am considered a lower caste

 

 

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How much ever sad we are or face tragedies, experience poverty

whatever it is

The desire is to live. Always.

Nobody wants to die

I never felt like I should die

 

After my husband’s death, I didn't want to end up as a mourning widow. I like to enjoy my life to the fullest

 

 

 

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Where humans roam with feral animals

the land of Kallara Mundaar, I call it home

 

Chorus

 

 

 

 

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I’ve been doing this for twelve years

 

 

I was scared for the first time

 

 

but t got over in two and a half hours

 

 

 

Usually this is not done by women

 

 

 

But, I do it all by myself

 

 

I have no qualms working at nights

 

 

Till date, I’ve cremated more than 3000 dead bodies

 

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I get only a little money by doing this job

I don't do this only for money

 

 

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Our ancestors considered it as a good deed

 

 

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I am really attached to this crematorium

 

 

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I believe these souls are with me

When I feel sad, I come here and all them the reasons of my worries

 

Then

I feel relieved after doing so

 

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Want to see the face for the last time? I am going to cover it

 

The one going to set fire should stay, others please go out

 

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I have no memory of my mother as she died when I was two

 

My father never loved me

 

 

When I see children breaking down due to the loss of their parents, I feel sad

Though, I never faced this in my life

 

 

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From 2nd to 7th standard, I was kept in an orphanage

I had suffered a lot there

Though I had brothers, none came to visit me

Seeing relatives coming to visit other kids, I always felt lonely

 

 

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Usually, a healthy body will take two and half hours

This a is sick person’s body, Hence, will take five hours

 

 

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Legs are done

They burn first, usually

Hands

 

 

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Due to high temperature, they rise up

 

 

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Sometimes some parts swell up and squirt a fluid

So I have to be careful because it can burn my body

 

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If the body arrives at night, I work till dawn

I keep adding wood after every half hour

The body needs to be turned. Just the wood won’t help

 

 

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If it’s an old person’s body, it curls up like a chair

If I try to settle it down, it bounces back

If I put wood on upper side, legs rise up

Some will sit up as if they are looking at me

 

 

 

These souls take time to detach from this world

 

 

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Have you ever had a fierce experience here?

What fear?

I fear those walking on two legs, nothing else.

 

 

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I suffered a lot with my husband

 

He never beat up the kids

He would only beat me up, scaring them

 

 

He broke my hand with a broom. My elbow was broken.

He didn’t take me to a hospital

A traditional healer placed a stick of wood with my hand and wrapped it with medicines

I had to fetch water from well with one hand

 

He picked me up, threw me on the floor and broke my back. damaged my ear drums

I don’t have teeth here as he broke them too

 

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When I found a job, he stopped going to work

I had to give him money for alcohol

 

 

If I was late from work, he would speak ill of my character

He would suspect that I had gone out with another man

 

 

I didn't want him anymore as I ran out of patience

 

I took a stand and told him to leave forever

Both my daughters are educated

I made sure they completed their degrees even after they got married. Now I am not scared to come back home

 

Earlier it was frightening to come home

 

 

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This is the skull

 

it hasn't broken yet

Oh its broken

 

 

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Chest and stomach are still left

This part of the body must be infected, that’s why it’s taking longer

 

 

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I have told everyone including the priest of my church

and to my kids

cremate me here after my death

After cremating so many bodies, I don't want to end up in a ditch

 

 

 

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It’s better to turn to ashes than worms eating you up

 

 

 

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As you are a Christian, does the church allow you to do this job?

It is to the church that feeds me. so, who are they to question me?

 

 

 

 

I have seen poverty-ridden life

Those days me and my kids used to struggle for a single meal

We had no clothes and food

Now I can buy food. Now I earn

 

 

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The church never helped me when I and my kids needed the most

 

 

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They should care about if I visit the church or not

I am doing my work

 

 

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EVERY NEW YEAR AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGJT, THE EFFIGY OF PAPPANJI IS BURNED.

PAPPANJI MEANS “GRANDFATHER” IN PORTUGUESE. IT’S A LEFTOVER FROM COLONIAL ERA.

THE BURNING SYMBOLISES GETTING RID OF ALL EVILS AND LOOKING FORWARD TO NEW BEGINNINGS.

 

 

 

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Three

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One…

 

 

 

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Happy New Year

 

 

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My only desire is to die while I am on the football field

 

After my husband’s death, I don't want to end up as a mourning widow

 

 

 

 

What fear? I fear those walking on two legs. Nothing else

 

 

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“WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN

IN THUNDER,  LIGHTNING AND RAIN?

WHEN THE HURLYBURLY’S DONE,

WHEN THE BATTLES LOST AND WON”

 

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