Both maman and I were at Ambalapuzha when the news had come that the government had passed an order to rename the Government Boys' LP School as 'PN Panicker LP School' taking into account his services as a teacher in that school years back - in 1931 to be precise, soon after his marriage with Chempakakutty Amma and on shifting his base of operations to her turf. It was also in appreciation of his contributions towards the growth - in stature - of that town!
We'd made an early morning visit to the famous Sri Krishna temple, with my maman regaling me with his childhood stories. He was specifically recalling his visits to the temple every morning with his mom and mine, his eldest sister. And as we went about the temple's premises. I'd the feeling that our elders were there, somewhere, watching us very intently.
We, then, had the pleasant task of calling on 'Maachamma chechi'(The late RSP leader, R Sreekantan Nair's wife and whose actual name is Maheswari Amma). All of 87 years, she now, moves about slowly because of the crippling stroke that had debilitated her a couple of years back and so thrilled was she that she gave us an autographed copy of her memoirs. Her daughter, the affable Naja, was constantly monitoring her requirements as well as her movements and incidentally, she's currently the guiding force of the 'PK Memorial Library' - that had set off the 'Kerala Library Movement' - at the western entrance of the temple.
Our itinerary for the rest of the day was to explain the nuances of the e-literacy campaign to the people of the Purakkad, Mararikulam(West) and Aroor panchayats. The crowds had the same qualities that I'd listed in my thoughts yesterday. By the time I'd boarded the private bus to Guruvayur, it was well past sunset and was at home before 9. Maman had, by then, reached Thiruvananthapuram.
Tailpiece.
(a) The driver of the bus drove like a madcap squeezing his vehicle through impossible widths and rush hour traffic. But all the same, he'd got us in within a matter of an hour and a half.
(b) Rema and Padmakumar had reached earlier this evening to join us for the trip to my dad's house tomorrow where we'll also be joined by Mini and family. So, it's gonna be a family reunion of sorts when my nephew too joins up!
We'd made an early morning visit to the famous Sri Krishna temple, with my maman regaling me with his childhood stories. He was specifically recalling his visits to the temple every morning with his mom and mine, his eldest sister. And as we went about the temple's premises. I'd the feeling that our elders were there, somewhere, watching us very intently.
We, then, had the pleasant task of calling on 'Maachamma chechi'(The late RSP leader, R Sreekantan Nair's wife and whose actual name is Maheswari Amma). All of 87 years, she now, moves about slowly because of the crippling stroke that had debilitated her a couple of years back and so thrilled was she that she gave us an autographed copy of her memoirs. Her daughter, the affable Naja, was constantly monitoring her requirements as well as her movements and incidentally, she's currently the guiding force of the 'PK Memorial Library' - that had set off the 'Kerala Library Movement' - at the western entrance of the temple.
Our itinerary for the rest of the day was to explain the nuances of the e-literacy campaign to the people of the Purakkad, Mararikulam(West) and Aroor panchayats. The crowds had the same qualities that I'd listed in my thoughts yesterday. By the time I'd boarded the private bus to Guruvayur, it was well past sunset and was at home before 9. Maman had, by then, reached Thiruvananthapuram.
Tailpiece.
(a) The driver of the bus drove like a madcap squeezing his vehicle through impossible widths and rush hour traffic. But all the same, he'd got us in within a matter of an hour and a half.
(b) Rema and Padmakumar had reached earlier this evening to join us for the trip to my dad's house tomorrow where we'll also be joined by Mini and family. So, it's gonna be a family reunion of sorts when my nephew too joins up!
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