shivam A single flower Placed on your feet Blooms my entire garden, My life, my Soul! A drop of water Poured at your feet Comes back as monsoon rains To quench the thirst of Parched lands My, Lord! Unable to imagine The quantum of reward When my life is placed At your lotus feet! I can … Read more
‘Ammalu, comes to memory the good olden days when you used to fan me with a pretty palm leaf fan, standing close to me, almost touching me. Can’t you repeat that kind act, when my friends visit us, this afternoon?’ ‘There were no ceiling fans then. We have a fan now in every room. More … Read more
‘Ammalu, your mother is most welcome to stay here and have the pleasure of my company. After all she is your mother, a rich and respectable lady’. ‘She says that the present arrangement works well. In the evenings you call on her, enjoy her snacks and coffee and return with some cash collected from her … Read more
‘Ammalu, I’m a busy man with many appointments and I can’t tell you, where all I go. You expect me to take your written permission before I leave the house and report to you in writing where I went and whom all I met? Sorry, impossible’ ‘Not written, oral will do. Your hand writing is … Read more
‘Ammalu, a food this? You call this a food?’ ‘What happened, you don’t like it?’ ‘Not at all. Ammalu, this is not a food for big people, like me. Fit for cattle’ ‘I too won’t like it then. I don’t want to eat cattle food. I’m going to Appaiyer hotel’ ‘Are you mad, to waste … Read more
All the animals in the forest are hiding within us, only to urface under different situations. We hold a forest within us ! —————— Every strike on the surface of a percussion instrument, gives out a sound. Every sin one commits too delivers a punishment. The sound vanishes. The sin doesn’t. it will follow … Read more
‘Ammalu, why don’t you buy a new sari for you, this month?’ ‘SP, I know your next question is going to be, ‘what did Ammini tell you about me?’. She said that you’re the most charming person she has ever met. Ok. Go to sleep peacefully’ ‘So, you don’t need a sari?’ ‘Why not? For … Read more
‘Ammalu, did you close the letter I asked you to write to that idiot Nair, on my behalf, with ‘love and regards’? ‘Yes, i did. What is wrong in it ? That is the way you close your letters’ ‘He replies that he loves you and want you to convey his regards to me … Read more
‘One good thing with me , Ammalu, Is, I speak truth’ ‘Truth and truth alone!’ ‘Unwanted emphasis on my simple statement’ ‘Sorry. I will make it simpler. SP says he speaks truth. Ok ?’ ‘Not OK. Why don’t you simply say, ‘SP speaks only truth?’ ‘How can I ? I too speak only truth!’ … Read more
‘There seems to be only sleep left in me, not music,’ I told my daughter who wanted me to start singing. ‘You have been over straining your body for the past one year and the accumulated tiredness is having its toll now. Nothing to worry. Let the body exhausts it sleep demand’, said she. Will … Read more