Writers should be allowed to write. Social workers should be allowed to do social work. Nubile girls from the neighbourhood should be summoned for purposes of lighting lamps. Call retired teachers, who have time on their hands, for making speeches. Or menopausal housewives who need to let off steam to prevent hysteria from developing.
Spinsters can talk of the exploitation of women by the media, etc.
Freedom fighters can be summoned to speak on India's ancient culture and Mahatma Gandhi. Organisers of public meetings should be asked to spare those who are busy. Our chief minister, Narayanan, is old and diabetic. He controls his blood sugar level by eating fenugreek soaked overnight in water. Now that another election is in the offing, all of Kerala's auditoriums and halls will reverberate with speeches.