Teacher’s whisper to my father, when he asked her to get inside and sleep, was ringing in my ears ” Take care of Charm. I can’t bear the sight of his drooping head and detached looks. His hair needs washing rather badly and some worries are pricking him from all around. I can read his … Read more
“Sleep like a child ” said my dad to Sharada teacher. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/A_Child_Sleeping.jpg/300px-A_Child_Sleeping.jpg ”Continue,” teacher said, without opening her eyes. I continued reciting a few more slokams, but mind got fully immersed with their poetic beauty and it was my turn to close the eyes. Many time it happens . Undergoing hundred problems, climbing the steep steps, … Read more
A human form was there under a chenkathali vazha, a type of plantain.! ” I could learn many things about you in two hours, Appu chetta ” Ammu boasted, unconcealed happiness flashing as a benign smile on her face, while entering the gate of our house. ” You didn’t say a word about your parents though you talked a … Read more
Too big a load to carry My thoughts went back. Soon after I left the college completing my studies, I got an assignment in a WHO project at Trichur and Dr.Vaidynatha iyer, my relative, asked his friend Sharodi, to accommodate me in his house, as a tenant. ‘Sharodies’ basically are ‘ambalavasies’ , serving the Kerala … Read more
The Vadkkumnatha Temple at Trichur The lavishly decorated Ambassador car in which I was made to sit, for ‘mappilai azappu’, the procession on the wedding eve, got packed within no time by enthusiastic children, encouraged by their parents, leaving hardly any space for me to move my limbs or even breath evenly. Sweating profusely, wrapped in a black … Read more
Is she a cow or a Kangaroo ? My father’s shrewd eyes made a quick survey of the interior of the house where the wedding was to take place and noticed that there were sufficient bath rooms and bedroom facilities for the womenfolk . For men, it matters little as they would go and sleep on the thinnai or frontage of any … Read more
Soared high suddenly the bird of happiness and familiarity. A most agonizing awaiting it was – to have a glance of the girl whom I had never met before though she would be mine the next morning. On such occasions, pleasure and pain, anxiety and helplessness play carom in your mind and each movement of … Read more
Family life is a flower garden;it need to be nourised When nothing else to prescribe, hope acts as a wonderful drug. But hope is not a substitute for fact A most agonizing awaiting it was – to have a glance of the girl whom I had never met before though … Read more
Sometime, old people act wisely. http://sreekanteswaramtemple.com/images/head.jpg This is the pic. of the famous Sreekanteswarm Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, adjacent to my wife’s house “Oi, Omma pon ennapennaral -what is your daughter doing,?” Parasu asked his cousin. Krishnaiyer gave some standard reply, which was not of concern for Parasu. He got the information he … Read more
The curse of the sapthrishies alone was enough to keep Amman disturbed and deprive of sleep for the whole night and added to that was the kavadies, seashells shooting out of the cloth bag , breaking the knot and turning into fearsome karadies ( bears ) surrounding their master to save him from the blood-thirsty ‘yakshi’, the devilish woman … Read more