shivam ‘Things are not easy’ It won’t be easy, if you think so. ‘Everything is easy’ Not at all! ‘Life is tough’ Yes, it is, but you’re in it! ‘Life is easy’ Oh, man, I go crazy! ‘Money is precious’ Indeed, but you can’t eat it. ‘Money is waste’ Soon, you will be on the street!
‘Ammalu, the day is not far, when as Lord Budha did, I’ll leave you and go away, far, far away, while you’re in sound sleep’. ‘Give a tip before I go to sleep’ ‘For what ? To fall at my feet and cry and cry to stop me ?’ ‘No. To pack your thermos with … Read more
‘Your attempt to argue with me on science, art, literature, history and geography is inversely proportional to your intellect, knowledge and wisdom. Ammalu’ ‘God made us like that. With directly proportional geography and other things, I would not have gifted you with our children. Have some common sense, SP!’ —————————- ‘Ammalu, after all for whom … Read more
‘Ammalu, I’m an old man, poet in heart. I see beauty in Nature, women, trees, hills, everywhere. You can’t ask me to close my eyes and walk on the street’. ‘I never asked you to close your eyes and walk on the street. I said, ‘shut your mouth when you see women’’ ——————- Ammalu, did … Read more
‘Ammalu, you admit and you’re happy that I look much younger than you. What do your friends say?’ ‘My friends too admit but they are not happy’ ‘Why Ammalu?’ ‘They thought that you’re a baby and they can buy inchi mittai, ginger toffee for you’
Ammalu, my eyesight has become so poor that I lighted the agarbathi at the wrong end’ ‘That is ok. But be careful when you talk to my friends. Their eyesight is not as bad as yours’ —————— ‘Allow me to go wherever I want to, allow me to do whatever I want to. Who’re you … Read more
My son managed to find a chair in a big shopping center seeing me tired after making a few rounds. I wanted to click pictures of women of different dimensions and skin colors and hair styles and tattoos but had strict instructions from my children not to do that and land in the hands of … Read more
‘Ammalu, don’t waste your time on me. I’m what I’m and I won’t change to suit your whims and fancies ‘ ‘SP Sir, I don’t want you to change and my attempts are only to keep you as what you’re so that I don’t miss the charm of life. Which other woman in the world … Read more
Grand ma, feel sad, you’ll go away soon’ ‘Why worry about the winter tomorrow instead of enjoying the Sunshine now, my child ?’ ‘Worried that they will pluck and dry you in the sun’ ‘Do I stand here holding an umbrella?’ ‘And you’ll vanish for ever, as part of a food item’ ‘My child, you’re … Read more
With Dr. Vidhya, my Ambikuttan Athan’s grand daughter, who was with us in Baltimore for a short holiday. When she called me for eating, once, twice, thrice, my thoughts flew back beyond oceans, beyond several decades to our Olavakkode house, when as a kid, I was fed by her grand pa, pleading, begging, ‘muthanna, chappiduda—-‘, … Read more