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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ in the danger of keeping me out of other activities. During the last few days, I had a large set of visitors. Apart from my father's brothers, my aunt and uncle also visited. They were here for a day. Then two friends from IIIT came with news, books and a lot more. Two more are coming on Wednesday. My cousin visited -twice. Two friends from kuttippuram came. Everyone wants to see the sick and +twice. Two friends from Kuttippuram came. Everyone wants to see the sick and show their moral support, while I'm more interested in poaching for their blood and platelets :) @@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ have access to the so called geeky hacker community for having a niche of my wor language computing and being a avid fan and user of GNU/Linux. Though not much active for the past few years, I do have my presence in the Indian Free Software community, courtesy of friends I made in due course. I still involve so much in the activities of a free software group I revived back in -college in keeping it active. I would say I have a good friend in the journalist community who, whole -heartedly, provides me access, knowledge and space for my thoughts and perspectives. +college in keeping it active. I would say I have a good friend in the journalist community who, wholeheartedly, provides me access, knowledge and space for my thoughts and perspectives. All these gives me access to a varied set of friends and community of people who are all, I say, @@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ in an aided Malayalam medium school and there I have a lot friends who are eithe or managed to lift themselves up from the poverty they had, through hard work (only handful of my primary friends managed to get through SSLC. Although most of my classmates were Muslims, I don't remember any of them getting through). Most of my female primary classmates were married by the time -I finished my 12\textsuperscript{th}. Very few of them even thought about studying till 10th. Even on the male side, +I finished my 12\textsuperscript{th}. Very few of them even thought about studying till 10\textsuperscript{th}. Even on the male side, very few were interested in studies. So, for a class topping studious guy, I was more than a friend to them. More like I was someone to most of them to tell their children that we were in the same school :) Still I meet them occasionally (we don't cross paths much as I visit my village only once in a while @@ -143,7 +142,7 @@ unexpected situations and different kinds of people. On top, my philosophy of changing the numbers of life according to the numbers I get might have helped me. I expect ambiguity, abnormality and interestingly on top, a pattern in life. I do think and try to understand about society and life at large. My little access to different circles of people gives -me food for thought too. It also gives me experience in the so called etiquettes of different +me food for thought too. It also gives me experience in the so called etiquette of different groups of people. I get a chance to observe by being a part of the society, and be aware of what society is capable of. @@ -193,7 +192,7 @@ made sure that the details of money were correct and kept out equation wherever There is enough and even more family troubles and issues in each of the atomic families. However, usually any big issues are put forward to something like a family meeting and I should say everyone is made -to participate in that. Plus, they gather for onam, vishu, different poojas and other festivities +to participate in that. Plus, they gather for Onam, Vishu, different poojas and other festivities every year. On top of their participation, they make sure people who can participate from next generation is sure available and is on the scene. The sense of being a part of the family and all these people are our own (they are not cousins but brothers and sisters) is something they like us to @@ -208,7 +207,7 @@ them think alike. There used to be huge debates on any issue with people having thoroughly debated out. Head of the family takes the decision in the end. May be this level of involvement due to the diversity of opinions might be creating a chance of discussing out all possibilities of a problem. The kind of rationality obtained when things are debated well to -understand its different perspectives. This is not to say that they are modernists or reformings, but instead, most +understand its different perspectives. This is not to say that they are modernists or reforming, but instead, most of them are believers with different political mentalities and have kind of orthodox views in social relations. But, I should say, they understand change, they resist when I grow my hair or decide to make a choice to go into research and academics than the money spinning IT Galore. @@ -234,7 +233,7 @@ thing to do is understand the system, keep it out of you but be inside it. Here large systems of society (friends and family). I managed to be a part of the system, at the same time kind of out of its reach. I tried to learn the system, using it to increase my leverage when I needed to have an interaction or when I come to loggerheads. I am not interested in, or believe in direct -confrontations. Very rarely do I end up in one. I like to manoeuvre through the system without +confrontations. Very rarely do I end up in one. I like to maneuver through the system without alerting it. I think I did it right so far. :) If I publish this as it is, it might make a difficult and awkward situation, but then life is not always what you want. :) \end{english} |