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    • AMMULU STORIES AND OTHER FUN FOUNTAINS
  • SEQUELS
    • B01 — Pitchumani and His non vadama wife
    • B02 — Oh! Parama Sukham
    • B03 — My Maiden US visit
    • B04 — The smell of the soil
    • B05 — Winter Winds from the West
    • B06 — Undying yearning to imitate the Ultimate
  • POEMS
    • A03.01 Songs and stotrams in Samskritham
  • Everything under the Sun
    • from the valleys of the Western Ghats
    • A04 — THOUGHTS ON SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES
    • A05 — THOUGHTS ON RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL ISSUES
    • A06 — DISCUSSIONS
    • A07 — PRADAKSHINAM TEMPLE VISITS
    • A08 — TRAVELOGUE
    • A09 — CHARM OF OUR HYMNS
    • A11 — NATURE – SING HER GLORY
    • A 14 Thought waves
    • A15 thought waves
    • A15 thought waves, light, strong
  • Music – my own compositions
    • B1- Carnatic Malayalam
    • – B2- Carnatic Tamil
    • -B 3 Carnatic. Telugu
    • -B 4 Carnatic. Samskritham

A10 — AMMULU STORIES AND OTHER FUN FOUNTAINS

Lion share

May 25, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

Ammalu, two thousand ants can live in a hole, but two lions can’t live in a forest. Either you or me in this house. Decide fast’ ‘SP, awake. This is our home, not the forest. I’m lioness and not lion. That was decided the day I married you. That was how we could become parents. … Read more

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The basics

May 22, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

‘Ammalu, today is Mother’s day. Poor, my mother! How she struggled to teach you the basic things a girl should have known and which you didn’t know’ ‘SP,  you’re wrong. The basics a girl should know before she gets married, I was aware of. Otherwise, my mom wouldn’t have agreed for our weddings’ ——————— ‘Things … Read more

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When stars and planets go wrong

May 22, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

‘I don’t know how it happens, but it happens. It happens every time when my stars and planets go wrong for me’ ‘What happened SP? Front page of today’s newspaper is torn or missing?’ ‘No Ammalu.  Ammini says she could gather one more letter from her cupboard. And that was written by me on the … Read more

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Permission granted

May 21, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

  When I was a child, have heard elderly women in our villages asking young married women waiting for their maiden pregnancy , ‘ippavum kulikkaraya?’- in their colloquial, it means, ‘still continue to have ( daily ) bath?. That is the way of their  asking, ‘still waiting for your first baby?’. Such a question, when … Read more

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Fun in the front seat

May 21, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

  People with excess leisure hours like me, have a tendency to collect unwanted information, while those in active age,  look only for what they want for their profession or business or education. Even routine information on the  cost of petrol, vegetables or milk is useful for a housewife . I don’t have any such … Read more

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Total body enhancement

May 13, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

‘Ammalu, the Yoga instructor in the Gym, has a simple solution, for my TBE- Total Body Enhancement . He says: “Wearing a fresh mango leave to cover Brahmasthan, lie on a fresh grass mat and ask your wife to apply fresh KottanchukkAdi thailam on the upper part of your body and fresh Pinda thailam on … Read more

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No one-on-one

May 3, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

Ammalu, our PM Modiji and Chinese PM had a One-on-one talk yesterday. Time we too have a similar exercise to restore better relationship between us. What you say?’ ‘It is too late for a one-on-one between us, SP. We had it in our Spring and enjoyed. Now, you continue with your own exercises of writing, … Read more

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A kick she deserved

May 3, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

‘A man of my status should not stand before you with a begging bowl for food, Ammalu. You are not giving me charity, but performing the duty of a wife’ ‘Today, lunch is delayed by just five minutes; you make such a hulla-gulla! Had I not gone to Ammin’s house, I would have finished cooking … Read more

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Proof of education

May 3, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

‘Had I waited for a few more days, I would have certainly found an educated girl for marrying. What you say Ammalu?’ ‘I can’t say about your chances. For my educational qualification, certainly I would not have found a better qualified husband than you’. ‘Ammalu, what are you talking? Where is comparison between us? You … Read more

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Object, not subject

April 30, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

‘Ammalu, every man has a history and every woman a geography. You can’t change my genetics’ ‘I haven’t learned Art or Science. My subject is Economics. Interested only in your Accounts, Finance and outdoor activities’ ‘Outdoor activities too was a subject in your studies?’ ‘No, my object of joining you’ 

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