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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

Problem of itching

June 6, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

‘Ammalu, may I seek your support for a long desire itching deep inside my mind?’ ‘Sorry SP. I am helpless if the itching is inside. And you say, it is deep inside. If it is outside, show me the actual location. I shall try to do something ‘ ‘Ammalu, you haven’t understood what I meant … Read more

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Butterfly

June 5, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

‘Ammalu, don’t stand in my way. Let me fly like a butterfly and enjoy the beauty of the sky’. ‘I won’t. Go up. Enjoy the sky but don’t sit on flowers. Flowers contain honey. Honey contains sugar’ ‘As well I can sit at home looking at your shrunken face!’ ‘Ideal for your age. My face … Read more

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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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On a stroll in a winter evening

May 16, 2018 by Sivasubramanian Perinkulam

  On a stroll, with kids in a winter evening The sky got crowded with dark clouds Drizzling started, the wind whistled loud, Shreya enjoyed its sound and speed. Seeing her hairs and frock frills rocking ‘How, this?,  she asked. ‘The wind God’s hands,’ I replied. ‘God’s hands, where?,’ she asked I smiled and she … 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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