‘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
‘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
‘Ammalu, I will be confined to my library till your friends leave with the Golu Prasad. You are welcome to call me if any help is needed’ ‘At least twenty times, you will be crisscrossing the hall when my friends are here. You can as well join us, provided you resist your temptation to feel … Read more
‘Ammalu, is the old lady in a fat body, still alive or has reached her abode above the clouds?’ ‘Your friend Ammini?’ ‘Your mom ?’ ‘Why, Ammini is not old or fat or a lady?’ ‘Don’t talk inauspicious things in an auspicious day’ ‘Why, Ammini is an inauspicious woman?’ ‘Ammalu, don’t talk about Ammini, I … Read more
‘Ammalu, good bye! Leaving for a non-inhabitant land for meditation’ ‘Give me two minutes please. I too will join you. If you go alone, you are capable of converting the land’s status’ ———— ‘Every time you enter my room, you bring along with you fragrance of mullapoo, jasmine. I rise my head but see no … Read more
‘Ammalu, condemn my forgetfulness of late. I don’t even remember, at times, how you’re related to me’ ‘Thank God, I’m lucky. I remember, even in my deep sleep, who my husband is. Otherwise, the turf on the heads of all your friends would have been in my hands!’