Sketching Pushcarts

A pani puri vendor‘s small business depend on a decorative four wheeler handcart and, it is a different form of bicycle .Let us see what are the different form of bicycle? For instance , an old post man carry various letters gifts and money order on his brown cycle ,A fish seller run his small business on a rusted and smelling blue bicycle .A pretty girl go to collage on her pink fairy tale bicycle. The vegetable vendor sell different vegetable on his green Hercules cycle .Likewise, a panipuri vendor also runs his small business on a decorative handcart. This peculiar cycle is an amalgam of various media such as wood iron and so on.Simple design of this four wheeler is a combination of various geometrical shape and forms .However, The crude colours carnival of basic shape and forms create a theatrical experience to the viewer .
A pani puri vender’s usually sell two different kind of snack like Panipuri and Chat .Chat is a kind of snack which made out of various ingredients and different vegetables . He prepare and serve the chat in the Left corner of vehicle and Pani puri is in the right side .Why did he do so ?Every design having a logic I would rather call it the principle of design . likewise the form of panipuri bicycle also emerge a sense of logic .Let us see the hidden logic behind the simple panipuri push cart . There are two different sect of people, either they comfortable with left hand zone or right hand zone however, majority of the people habituated with the right hand side .Since, the preparation of snack like chat is prolonging unlike ,panipuri business is quick and speedy in order to balance his business smooth he keep panipuri is in the most comfortable right zone and chat is in the left region of the cart. he meticulously arrange the food items like Samoosa, Carrot, little Poori .He also harmoniously slice vivid vegetables like bright orange coloured carrot, brown potato into various basic shapes like demon, squire, round ,rectangle and display these vivid vegetable slice in his little bicycle . the panipoori vendor meticulously group the vegetable and arrange it in layer by layer in a big flat vassal .He make a wall out of these vegetable pieces and fill the vacuum space with the mixture of boiled yellow groundnut. Magnificent display of these vegetable fragments create a multi-colored illustrative outlook
Along with the display of vivid and yummy food he also display various things like the photograph of god, goddesses, film stars and different posters
Inside his bicycle either he hangs a bunch of lemon or a small decorated ash gourd with the demon face .However ,He also keep an yellow lemon in a glass of water .he juxtapose this lemon glass with the box where he collect money. It seems these lemons attract the greedy evil eye and protect his simple business.

Bangle seller

An old lady bangle seller who uses to come neighbor to my house unfortunately her face almost vanished from my memory .She always carry a glass case on her head .she made a common meeting place and time to run the business. Once she reached there so the bangle seller keep the glass case on the aramathil or elam thinna .She carry different bangles, Necklace, earring in the glass case. She scold while the little kids touch her glass case .

Sacred corner

Most of the Christian houses have a sacred corner where people install photographs of different saint , rosary, statue, Flowers, Little illumination, lambs, stickers ,and different candles .it is also a secret corner because ,this is a place where mothers camouflage the innocent eye of their little children and keep pen, pretty toys , Medicine bottle and matchbox safe.

Black dog

There was a pretty black dog in my home.It was a merciful pet.When my brother was a baby he comfortably sit on the merciful pet.The petty dog use to carry my brother and walk in and out of our house.While my mother was narrating about this dog I wish I would also have one pet like that .

Shoba

Shoba chichi’s face is almost fade away from my memory .She was a illegitimate wife of one of our neighbors .His name was Mr.Babu .He was a auto driver always wear a khaki. He was solemn in nature .Though he is vigorous he crack jocks at me and my brother.
I used to go Shobachechi’s house .While I was going there my mother use to gave me a set of instructions . Neither my mother nor grand mother did not like the solemn appearance of Mr.Babu so that they discouraged me to go there .One day I inquired the reason behind the set of instructions then she told me such a way that Mr. Babu drunk a lot and abuse the Pretty women he also smash on her soft cheek .She use to come to our house and share various bitter experience to my mother.
Mr.Babu had a son his name is Vinu Initially I thought Shoba chichi was the mother of Vinu .I asked this question to my mother she told such a way that his mother passed away .Again asked her that then who was Ms.Shoba? She did not like to disclose it with me .



Though she is a illegal to that home she courteously managed their little house she use to sweep the little veranda and organize with various floras ,calendar and pictures.



There was beautiful fence or shelter around the house and it was a fusion of vibrant floras and foliage .Plenty of tweeting little birds use to come and suck the sweaty substance with the little needle like sharp beak .Red colour Hebscious and Chetty flower.


Those tiny little birds use to make beautiful nest with the combination of various things alike cotton, fiber,dray grass and dry leafs .They use to make palaces in the unnoticed area of the vibrant greenery. Both me and Shobachi use to pluck the chethi flower(Lxora.) and suck the sweet substance.We use to pluck a kind of little red fruit from chethi flower(Lxora.)It was sweet and delicious to eat

Namboodri Doctor

Past one year back Dr.Namboodri passed away. It seems One day my mother had seen his photographs in a daily news paper. Nambodri Doctor’s house is next to his clinic. He have an old Padmini car .One of the greatest task is to identify the color of that car .The shade of the car neither white nor pure green In other word the color of the car is a dully light green .Brighter shoe flower and clustered floras are the obstacles to perceive the calm and dull sleep of this blessed vehicle .In fact neither the car nor his house are bright .The color scheme of his house is a fusion of dully brown and ocher yellow. Rather than travel, the car is one of the formulas with which he showcases his designations and status. People prefer his consultation for ordinary fever. He is having a supporter who manage the dispensary of his clinic.




Namboodri is tall and slim person having a black thick framed glass on his face and bushy eyelash .The eyelash however seems to be the extensions of spectacles .His Malayalam pronunciation is different .It suggests the stylish aristocratic voice tone of Malayalam movie heroines.
Sophisticated voice modulation and clean shaved face enrich feminine feature on him in general particularly, the shape of his lip and jaw can very well be compared with the feminine character (Miniku Vesham) in Kadakali.
One of the specialties of Namboodri’s clinic is the dark pink colored cough syrup. Both the aroma and color are to hard too drink . However, he prescribe this peculiar pink color cough syrup for all patients .This special syrup carry in a tiny white plastic container. Initially the bottle was a plane but in the later phase he included the clinic name Rohini .Apart from this syrup he also prescribe few different colored tablet . Meticulously he break and keep it in various white plastic container. In fact ,braking tablets exactly into half and quarter is a difficult task .Moreover, to convince the measured quantity of medicine he patiently draw the shape of each tablet .