This is the real life incidence of my friend, presented by me based on our chat during lunch. I have taken due permission from him & with his consent I am posting this on my blog.
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Today we (myself & my cousin brother) are in soup.
We have to prove our innocence to our teacher that we are actually communicating with each other & not flirting with the girl. We are studying in IX standard & the year was 1992.
Actually, we have developed gesture ( hand – eye coordination ) language wherein one of us will convert the message into gesture & other one is to decode it. It is like I will decode his (my brother’s) gesture message, who will be standing few feet distance away from me.
It was started when we witnessed our age-old tradition at our house in village.
This tradition involves two persons; one will come to our house & will chat with our family member. He will ask the name of our great grand father -mother, grand father – mother, their siblings, their children etc. actually will ask our family tree.
In the meantime the other person who is standing with dhol far from our house will sing a povada (praise song) & keep on incorporating our fore fathers name wherever applicable based on the gestures of earlier man. The first man will through hand / body gesture communicate the required name & second man alongwith playing the dhol, sing a povada i.e. praising our family using the names of our ancestors.
This skill / peoples are known as Kuli ( not Cooli, but it refers to Kul – Caste, & Kuli means who brought fame to caste / person who earns honor for his caste).
My brother & me were very amused by their skills & decided to develop our own code language though we do not belong to their caste.
We started with alphabet & assigned one gesture to each. We found it easy & started practicing. We go on improving by making single gesture for a commonly used word like mother, father, moon etc.. We almost did it with perfection & now either he or me can code & decode our language easily. We demonstrate to our friends, where he based on information provided by one of our friend will communicate with me in gesture & I, who is standing at distance, keep on decoding it simultaneously.
Every one found it amazing & that keep us practicing more & more.
However our over enthusiasm cost dearly one day. My brother communicating me through his gesture standing in front of a house turned the wind. The girl inside the house assumed that he (my brother) is gesturing at her & either flirting or making fun of her. She came out & shouted at my brother. We all ran away.
As our luck ran out, she was our classmate & was not aware of our skill. She reported to our teacher that my brother is making gestures or flirting with her. When teacher asked about the same to my brother, he told the truth. We all rounded up by teacher & asked to prove our innocence by demonstrating the skill in entire class.
Now we are in soup, as we have not expected this. My teacher will provide the matter for communication. The matter was full page & handed over to my brother & I was to decode his gestures my standing in front.
Firstly I was very nervous, as single mistake will be term our entire skill as bluff & will be subject to severe punishment.
So, we have no option but to face the challenge. Once we started communicating, our confidence grew & successfully completed our task. Our teacher was very happy for our skill & convinced that my brother is not flirting with the girl. We feel relieved.
Our teacher asks us to be prepared for showcase our skill on Annual Day, which of course, we have to oblige. In any case, due to shortage of time we were not required to do it on annual day but we are happy that we can prove our innocence & skill.
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Hope you enjoyed it.
With love,
Khushal Gohil
22/04/2009
