I don’t wake up at 530am every weekend for our 2 hours of tennis for all the obvious reasons – health, exercise, physical activity. Tennis for me is much more than that. I think Shobha knows it too – that this is the only time I have Freedom from Time. Yes, tennis does that for …
My great grandmother died as a child. She was 96. She was never married. She was handpicked by the local Brahmin ( Namboodiri) to have a “sambandham” ( relationship). He was 64. She was 19. She didn’t have a choice. It didn’t last. Not much beyond a year. He slipped out literally leaving her holding …
1938 – 2019 Rest in Peace.
I was ten years old. While on school holidays at our ancestral home in the tiny hamlet of Aliparamba in Kerala, Ammamma, my mothers’ mother, asked me – “do you want to come to the temple with me tomorrow morning”
