chunkathu nondi

chunkathu nondi

( No disrespect intended to differently abled friends.. Just narrating an old story.. to convey a very different things..)

Nondi is a lame person.. a person who cannot walk..

There is a story about a lame person guarding a customs check post.. or chugam..

The businessmen and traders passing though did not know that the person was lame..

The man would lie in a cabin with his body fully covered by blanket..

And whenever some person wanted to cross the checkpost, this man would shout..

"Do not do anything unlawful. Remit the tax here honestly and move on.. You do not know what all things I will do to punish you if I am prompted to come towards you"..

The statement would be in very authoritarian tones.. and the people walking along were under the impression that a very strong person what resting under the blanket and if they cause disturbance to his authority, he would charge at them and finish them off..

But the reality was that if the blanket is removed, they would find only a person without any capacity to walk..

People who make tall claims but could do practically nothing are called Chukattu Nondis..

Their bluff could be called within seconds..

For the lame customs man it was just as thick as a blanket