shivam ‘Ammalu, a confidential news just received. I’m passing on to you for the only reason that you’re my wife’ ‘Is it about the conspiracy of my club mates to dethrone me by a secret vote?’ ‘Yes, yes. But, how did you come to know about it?’ ‘From my own confidential source. I have another confidential … Read more
I composed this stotram on the Gramadevatha of my ancestral village Perunkulam South village on March 2010 but the original post got deleted from my blog by mistake My friend Sri. Ananthanarayanan Vaidyanathan corrected the draft and provided the Devanagari version and also the meaning. NANDADMAJAM NITHYAKISORA ROOPAM, VRINDVANARAPOORITHA VENUGANAM, ANANTHA,MAANANDA MAHAASAMUDRAM, NAMAMI NITHYAM NAVANEETHA … Read more
Banana peels, orange peels Discard, after eating fruits Even books and clothes, if torn Even utensils and shoes if dented But, man, how can you discard Your sick wife or old parents! My reason is simple: They didn’t cut your tube When you wet their robe!
A friend commented, affectionately : “Ahhh Thedi thedi kidaicha friend Sir neenga. Please bless us” Meaning. “I searched and searched and got you as my friend. Sir, pl. bless us) I replied: Thedinaen, thedinaen, theruvellam Mamiyar kidaiikavillai. Azuthen. Pulampinaen. Mattini show mudinchu Marumakalae entrazhachu VandAlae maharaasi Vayatherichal kottikka! தேடினேன் தேடினேன் தெருவெல்லாம் மாமியார் கிடைக்கவில்லை அழுதேன் புலம்பினேன் … Read more
Megh, with a mini computer in her brain, mentioned when she was driving us back home from Stamford: “Appa, exactly 14 years before, on 11-08-2004, you landed in the USA, for the first time. Atchu was with you” She further added that I’m now on my tenth visit and so far, in total, spent more … Read more
Whiter than the snows of the Himalayas, Lighter than a peacock feather Was my heart once, soft and subtle. It became hard, rough, unsensitive Like the rocks bordering the Kalpathy river Where people from both banks Beat and beat their soiled clothes Before bathing and after bathing. Surface looks smooth now, really? Hasn’t the beatings … Read more
Too many messages I receive which I respond with a ‘thank you’ sticker to save time in writing a detailed note. However, only in one case, I responded, ‘enakkum onnai romba pidikkum, romba, romba’- ( means, ‘I too like you very much, very, very much’), in response to a 9 years-old girl, who messaged, … Read more
‘Ammalu, when a dog or a cat accidentally rub its body on our gate, I get scared, fearing that it is your mom’ ‘My Mother is now inside our kitchen. She came in when you went out. She will stay here for another week. So, stay scare-free’ ‘Ammalu, have the basic knowledge that dog is … Read more
‘Ammalu, my house has been turned into a monda ( vegetable) market by our friends who come and go, as they like. Tell our friends not to come, now on’ ‘You tell your friends; I will tell mine’ ‘Your friends are ok. Don’t stop them’ ‘Why? Are they cattle to feed on your discarded vegetables?’
Unmarried, married, or even as widower, man remain a simple ‘Mr’. But, woman? In an annual address at our college, as a student leader, I thanked a girl profusely for her support in the management of the Students Association. (Let me call her Paru, as I don’t want to disclose her name. Who knows … Read more