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Blogs That I Follow.

  • http://navallanga.blogspot.com
  • News Item That touched Me ....There was one article in this month's Reader's Digest about Kamalbhai Parmar who is running a fabricating unit and who runsa school,rather a tution school for the poor students in Ahmedabad.It takes a large heart to start something like this.I do wish I can do something like that too.Atleast be able to teach in such effort .
  • Books That I am reading now.....I am reading "Under Orders" by Dick Francis.Just started.Seems to be about issues in racing sport.
  • News Items That Touched Me Today----The bicyc;e scores over train and car in a survey conducted for two wheeler travel ina congested metro like New York as the fastest transport..
  • Movies That I Liked.....I watched a Malayalam Movie called'Vastu Hara' in Kairali T.V.yesterday.The story touches about losers who migrate abandoning their personal properties during divison of countries and realtes to the creation of East Pakistan called East Bengal dividing Bengalis .Also running underneath the main issue is the personal loss of property which gets rejected by the Mother in the story who is offered the same back by her Husband's relatives.
  • Books That Are My Favorites----Somerset Maughm's short stories,Arthur Conan Doyle's 'sherlock Holm mysteries',All of Shakespearian dramas,The Bronte sister's writings,Poems by Mathew Arnold and Tagore's 'gitanjali'.This list is not exahaustive.

Thursday, December 31, 2020

My Day Today.

My Day Today. 
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My Dear Rajesh, 

Today is 31st. December  2020. Time  now is 7.33 p.m. I  will  after writing this blog for you go yo kitchen to do some  tiffin. Noodles  actually.  
The year of the  Pandemic ,the Covid 19 is coming to an end  The antidote vaccine will start arriving by coming year. 
Meanwhile the economics of the  countries have changed, happiness as a factor in life has undergone many changes. 
Personally I  rate this year as one in which ' anxiety has caused misery.  
It has redefined our social interactions  and communications are superficial and like an office document. Not exactly true. 
Truth is veiled. 
India won the second test against Australia. 
Not watching cricket. Have actually moved away from cell. 
A little. 
I  will  write again by night again. 
Missing you my son. 
I made ' Ulundu vada ' exactly as you like them. 
Managed to send to Ranju too. 
A Very Happy New Year 2021 To You Too ,wherever  you  are. 
Affectionately,
Amma. 
 

Sunday, December 20, 2020

My Day Today.


 My Day Today.

..........................

My Dear Rajesh,

An important event I have not yet written about us that my office friend Alice John Vallikkad expired on 15th.of Tuesday this month. Funeral at Belawadi church in Mysuru was related live . 

I write the details as known to me. 

It is one of my upsets. 

In detail.

Affect,

Amma. 


Wednesday, December 09, 2020

My Day Today.


My Day  Today. 
..............................

My Dear Rajesh, 

Today is 09-12-2020.
By the end of this month the year is going to be 2021. 
India won the T20 in Australia 2-1. One day ,I.e.50 overs Australia won 2-1..😀So the Trast series can be 1-1 and 1 tied.😜. 
I have a dental problem running since one week. The bottom row remaining 1 molar teeth is paining. With great trepidity Ranju decided to take ne to a dentist.  Ww got the x ray done and he wants the puss to be removed. 
It is raining here since the storm Nivaar started in Chennai. Second storm Bhuri or Bhuvi ,I don't  remember  the exact name also brought rain all from Karthigai tine. Now the depression formed is bringing another storm abd rain. Effect is felt here. 
So here it is very chill. Imagine me wearing a sweater to bed and under the quilt.  I am wearing your half sleeve sweater. Remember, I  got one for you and Appa ,Oswal brand. Still intact. 
My own sweater back when I was working here about 37 years back is also very fine. So also Ranjini ' a school creme coloured sweater. 
So I have to start now. 
Will write in a day or two.
Affectionately,
Amma. 

 

Wednesday, December 02, 2020

My Day Today.

My Day Today.

.......................

My Dear Rajesh,


I have a very important news for you today. 

Today is 2 nd.December 2020. 

My office friend you remember ,Alice?

Her son Mathew was only sone months younger to you. Her second,  was a daughter by name Bernadine  and  they call her Beta. 

Alice was progressively deteriorating in health from last January onwards. 

Her daughter married a German and Alice had sent me photos of their wedding in Germany and later in India. 

So Alice was not having much contact with me in December,January  etc. I thought may be she is busy in getting visa for Beta to go  to Germany  to.join her husband. When I called her somewhere in February ,Alice said she had some lung infection and her voice is affected. Later though I was sending messages and sometimes speaking she deteriorated progressively leading to hospitalisation at JSS,Mysore somewhere in July,August or so. She came home but again ,could not talk and again hospitalisation and after coming back one day, to my repeated enquiries sent me a  picture of her sitting with John ,her husband and a tube to her nose for oxygen  canister. 

But again this November 1 st Alice suffered a stroke  and I don't  know  how far is her stroke debilitating her and she has been admitted to Columbia Asia . Though she was taken home somewhere later on 12 th or so she suffered a seizure . So  they brought her back to Colombia Asia. 

Alice uis  in  coma now and her daughter when I asked in Alice number messaged from her own number which I also am having ,abd informed me that Alice is in oxygen and not in ventilator as that will deprive her off completely from her family if shr goes to ICU. 

So there you are. I was so upset last  Saturday as I just kept some lamps being  Karthikai  Deepam  Day.

Somehow I keep only oil lamps and not candles.  But that day I thought of keeping Alice' s candles, which were her return gift as me and Ranju as we  attended Mathew s wedding at Mysore. 

Her daughter says doctor is saying only sone days but nothing so far. I am anxious. My friend here  is advising me not to ask, as they can.be under stress.

Yes, but today I had queasiness  at  8.15 and thought of checking on Ranju and also this Beta. 

Ranju said she is ok. 

Beta says same condition. 

I have finished my worry. 

Next is the cricket news. Australia beat Indiav3- 2 in ODI. India in Australia.  

I had a very painful ear since Sunday.  

As it is risky to go to.ENT surgeons etc being pandemic period  I took some earlier prescription. But today Ranju took me to her Diabetologist doctor who can have s look. Here it is very cold as the storm that battered Tamil Nadu last week called Nihar caused rains here too and Bengaluru  is very cold and it is not ear infection,  but the neural pain at the joints  of ear and jaw.  

I am.ok today. So don't  worry. 

I never celebrate anything properly after you have gone. Was lighting lamps only near God unlike earlier times of decorating the outlines of the house with deepams.  

 So with lots of affection,

Amma.