The duty assigned to me is to be here, facing you and I have been doing my job sincerely. I hardly see any devotees turning up theses days, may be because your shrine is battered by weather and bears the scars of aging. But, the deterioration is only for the house and not for the … Read more
” Sarvadapaani charanae, sarvodokshi siro mukhae, Sarvadasravana khraanae, Narayani, namosthuthae” The A wonderful image of the Paraskathi for meditation. Recall the’ Sahasraseersha purusha: sahsrakksha saharapaad’ image of the Supreme Purusha: and “Anekha bahoodara vaktra nethram –‘ of the Viswaroopam in the Bagavath Gita. Such a Universal Supreme Force, we are trying to confine into small … Read more
”Enough of this wife-battered life”, my friend Pattabhi lamented when I met him an year ago and vowed in utter desperation,” if you want to meet me next time, you should climb the steep Himalaya mountains or plunge into the deep Ganges”. ” Where is that good lady, your wife? I am not seeing her … Read more
September 28, 2013. 40 years ago on this day was born my seemanthaputran, eldest son Ananth S perinkulam, giving fresh life for me and his mother whose period of gestation was under much stress and anxiety due to an alarm bell rung by a gynecology expert. Unable to contain my joy, seeing the 3.2 kg … Read more
Maples and mulberries are losing their sheen Oaks and pines are watching the scene How the all- powerful Sun is getting weak? How the noisy, busy wind is turning meek? How fortune changes like a celluloid show! Where those sharp arrows from the golden bow? Where the vagabond winds’s trumpet blow? Where the birds, bees and … Read more
” ‘You are too modern, Ammalu is too conservative’, say my friends” ”No problem, SP. I will change in a jiffy” ” SP ? Jiffy? What language is this Ammalu?” ”The first lesson in modernism . Shall we go to the next?” ” Let us remain illiterates but live in peace and dignity” ”Your friends?” … Read more
“I was casually going thorough an old ledger and found that a sum of Rs. 500.00, promised by your father, towards dowry is still outstanding. I am mentioning this just casually, Ammalu. ” ” You have seen only one side of the register. In the next page there is a debit entry of Rs. 4500.00 … Read more
“You are blooming. What is the matter? Did Ammini say that you are the most eligible bachelor in the world ?” “She was about to say that but had a choke in the throat. She simply said that I am the best husband” “That idiot should say that to her husband and NOT to MY … Read more
” Aren’t you talking a bit too much , since we came here ?” ”Ammlu, unlike you, I have with me a treasure trove of wisdom to be passed on to people” ” I know you have; but this is a wrong place. This is a clinic where people, like you, have come to … Read more
Wah, he did it. My friend Vaithy could find at last, an eligible girl for his 35+ son, a feat which the IIT Delhi boy could not achieve despite living in America for over a decade. Both the father and the son performed fairly well in the written test held in the girl’s house and … Read more