Thirukurungudi Srinivasa Rajagopalan was born as the last son of our madhurai thatha and paatti On 10th of september 1925.
Four years younger to your thatha he was a very dear brother. the love and respect that chithappa had for appa was very very visible. As was the vaathsalyam Appa had for his youngest brother.All of them were so close to each other.when both of them meet after a break of one or two months , it will be a continuous session of vethilai,pakku and arattai.
We will be sitting with them after dinner in the night.Thatha will be listening and chithappa will exchange notes with everyone around, whether it was cheenimma,or lakshmi athai or for that matter our Paatti. the women of the house will sit some distance away and the brothers will conduct the dharbar.
all the family matters that need to be settled will be discussed ,advices from all the members present will be considered and finally, chithappaa will address "narayana, enna seyyalaam?".
appa will get up to spit out his pugayilai out and come back and tell " seri, ithu thaan serinnu thonarathu rajagopala."
our paatti's face will just shine with pride when chiththappa's name was mentioned.
Thats how they planned a trip down south to Kanyakumari,thirunelveli,thiruchendur,sucheendram,guruvayoor and coimbatore where our other chithappa sundararajan was living.
Thatha ,paatti wanted to go to Srivaikuntam,&Azhvaar thirunagariso during our holidays in 1957 or 56.About 10 of us took a big car , all food and water for the trip packed neatly and put in the trunk along with us three,two mamas and me.
It was a big stationwagon , a very comfortable car with a very sensible,affable driver.His name was Mayandi.The first trip was to Thirunelveli and after visiting all the temples we went to Thirukkurungudi and stayed in Thatha's house.The village, the very inquisitive people, the temple and the river were totally engrossing.The second day we proceeded to Kanyakumari and Thiruchendur. the bath in Kanyakumari sea along with appa,amma,thatha and paatti was wonderful.
Again, the trip was made memorable with madhurai Paatti' telling us about her children's pranks and words, anecdotes,stories and Thatha's discipline.
Chithappa has always fascinated us, especially Ranga mama .Mama was a favourite with chithappa as murali mama was with Thatha. will continue with thoughts about him in the next post.
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Green lush and mushy memories.
delphine, you are such a good person. it is not because you visit here and comment. it is because you have the patience to read another person's memory lanes.thank you so much.
hey,
there is one more 'good person'!
yesterdays were always sweeter. so they say. your are able to bring out your vivid memories of childhood so well, it appears to be peeping into a friedndly neighbour's home.
yes Dharumi,one more goodperson. myworld is very small. and finding good oersons is easy,. because they do not exist any more. it is always easy to find faults when people are alive.you reach a stage in real life when petty things stop to irritate you so much. it is not as though they did not(my blog characters) have any drawbacks.they might have. enakku andha side theriyavillai.
you know Valli, I am a real old timer and the memories of my grand parents, uncles and aunties, appa, amma, the ancestral house that I grew up with... all these are at my back. so when you bring them alive I feel as though I am also a part of these relationship....///!!!.
finding good oersons is easy,. because they do not exist any more.//
i could not get what you meant by the above! :)
anyway i am the Dharumi who sent the earlier comment; and that's my pseudonym for my tamil blog.
thank you Dharumi.
what I meant was the goodperson that existed. He is no more , as with the rest of the persons about whom I am writing in this blog.
Spelling mistake.persons became oersons!!
Sam?ok.innikku ungga sitekkum vanthuvidukiren. goodday.
Dear Delphine join the family.
all our goodmemories can generate some more good for our children.
yes Valli only if our younger generation has the patience to read all about relationships how nice it will be!
Delphine,
The youngesters don't have time even to think about what's happening in their own lives!
Then how can they afford to listen to ours!
It's really nice to look back on our own lives and live those wonderful moments.. especially in our personsal lives..
Valli,
Your style of mixing tamil in your narration makes the write up more real and pleasant to read..
Good.. keep writing..
thank you TBR.JOseph. SIR.
WE Cannot blame the children.yes you are right. because I think we had more settled kind of pattern to flollow and todays' youths have to fight out to win (anything including social norms.)
hope to maintain the contents of the honest andnot very boring.Its really nice of you to visit
valli, joseph, & delphine,
it is about looking back.
we start looking back only after we cross so many things in life. youngsters will have their own time to think of their yesteryears.
yes Sam,
we shd be lucky to have free time even to reminise.
I know I was not able to, when our children were growing up.It was one thing after another,I can remember the hardtimes as well as the goodtimes and always it was one after another happening.I do remember everything with gratitude.
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