shivam ‘Ammalu, I’m less angry with your idiotic illiteracy, irritating orthodoxy and irredeemable ignorance than with your illegitimate proud’ ‘SP, talk in English, please!’ ‘Dear? You call me dear? Am I your boy friend? What do you think about yourself, Ammalu?’ ‘I never said ‘dear’. I said, ‘wear’ your shirt. Then, I asked, ‘ can you … Read more
‘Ammalu, I’m not ashamed to reveal a few top secrets of my young days’ ‘I thought that you have already revealed every secret to me of your young as well as old days. If still some are left, keep those for tomorrow. Go to sleep now’ ‘You are afraid that your sleep will be spoiled?’ … Read more
My pooja room is an integral part of the springs and winters of my life. I have seen its golden as well as its dark days. My Moorthis dwelling in that tiny room reflected my waxing and waning! For my Appa of usually advanced thinking, there were a few conservative ideas such as … Read more
Anja is a baby and she has a baby! ‘Can she make kAppy?’ I asked her mammi ‘My pearl plays with puppy’ She said, all were happy!. My tongue never in locker And I’m always talker. ‘Teach her to make sambar Idli, Dosai, chutney Love comes from food Atchu loves all good’ Anja rushed … Read more
Almost all oldies, except me and including my brother Vicha, feel that they have all the problems under the sky but unrecognized or underestimated by others. Early morning today, he neighed from his bed, ‘Anna, odivaa, come rushing!’ ‘Enna aatchu Vicha! Are you still on the plain or flying up?,’ I enquired and went … Read more
Thunderbolt and lightning Shook me to my root, I screamed in fear. What a fool I’m, to forget You’re my root, You the thunder, And lightening ! While trucking thorny, stony woods Unable to bear the wound, ‘Where you are?,’ I screamed, What a fool I’m to forget The wound was on your feet! … Read more
In one way, it was good that I married you, Ammalu’ ‘That was the only way, for you, SP’ Why are you laughing all alone ? Why don’t you share with me your happiness?’ ‘A small thought, Ammalu. I was imagining how you would appear in a sleeveless blouse!’ ‘Thank god, it is only sleeveless … Read more
‘I have a great ancestry and you should realize that, Ammalu! ‘I do. But I’m more concerned about your existery’ ‘Error. There is no such a word in English’ ‘You go to eatery for food when I’m unwell?’ ‘Yes, I do. That’s is for my existence’ ‘If laundry is for washing clothes, eatery is to … Read more
The cost of living has skyrocketed in these four years of my absence from the country. The plantain cart wallah came near the gate. ‘Babu, dozen entha? How much a dozen?’ ‘Dabbhai. Seventy rupees, Sir’ ‘Seventy rupees for a dozen banana!’ I couldn’t believe. I tried to calculate the cost of each plantain. 70/12–? 5 … Read more
Sharath, who took me to the USCIS office for the interview enquired the officer whether he could be with me inside, as I might have problem to follow her pronunciation. ‘Don’t worry,’ assured the charming lady smiling, ‘your dad will be fine’. Here, all officials smile and speak sweetly. Even a doctor conveying to the … Read more