The Learned Kings of Kerala!

The Learned Kings of Kerala -& most of the Kings there were learned!- were lovers of Arts, Literature, Sanskrit – the language of a lot of secrets! – Martial Arts & a lot of other things which were positive from a human beings’ angle; they were very kind & morally of very high quality & standard. They always thought about their people & had been in constant touch with people that they understood the people better!

They always thought about the well being of their people that they considered their people their children! They amassed wealth to serve their people better, in sharp contrast to the present day politicians! Some of them even served the people as the servants of some Divine Lords as was the case with Marthanda Varma! They were selfless and sincere in their thought & actions. The love, selflessness, sincerity & respect were mutual! Even in the fight between Valluva Konathiri of Malabar & Samoothiri of Kozhikode one can see this selflessness as hundreds of Chavers sacrificed their lives for their country! The Kings kept the kingdoms of Kerala safe at any cost & ruled the present state of Kerala till the independence of India!

The 1 lakh crore + unearthed from the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple @ Thiruvanathapuram is the ultimate proof of the wisdom, farsightedness, love towards their people, vision etc of those great rulers of Kerala who ruled the great country of MALAYALAM/KERALAM! One can well assume that at the time of the East India Company they stooped to conquer! When they understood that to fight the East India Company was futile, after a number of experiences, they must have used the trick of the lizards to throw their tails away to distract the enemies & escape with whatever that is important & precious! They stored their wealth – the wealth of their people – in such a way that not even the wind could understand where they kept the treasure safe, safely away from the constantly searching & scrutinizing eyes of the white men who plundered like the present day politicians!

Someone seriously joked that the treasure should never have been taken out all these decades due to the senseless, imposing & arbitrary ‘NOKKUKOOLIE’ –the amount a worker in the present day Kerala forcefully extracts from the person who makes the work done by any other man other than the one who bullies the money out of one’s pocket to his pocket! – existing in Kerala to which in a rejoinder another man joked that those people in those days should have been as lazy as the present day Malayalee (Keralite) in Kerala!

What the present day rulers – we call them democratic government these days! – do is taking whatever they can lay their hands on & rob the common man & do whatever they like till they dislike what they do, without ever considering a rap about the people who made them form governments in the independent India to plunder! We even had governments in independent India which took the common man’s gold to pledge outside the country to somehow squeeze some more days to stay in power!

In present day India we have seen plenty of ministers & ‘who is who’ of the governments doing ONLY those things which benefit them – BENEFIT THEM ONLY! What they focus on is HOW TO MAKE THE COMMON MAN POORER & MAKE THEMSELVES RICHER! To that end they will do whatever’s possible, taking any means! It is shocking to see our present day Kings’ shameless acts when we understand what all things the Kings of Yore did for their people! At the least they never plundered the people in the name of development & lifted every paisa given by the taxpayer into the tax heavens, somehow! In those days the rulers were never plunderers & extremely self indulgent people who ONLY THINK OF THEMSELVES 24/7! When one thinks about all these things & more one seriously doubts the credentials of the much trumpeted democracy which we have selected over the rule of Kings! Let’s remember & repeat “THE KING IS DEAD; LONG LIVE THE KING!”!