These days, the one thing that gives me a high is my daily conversations with mom though I must admit that I haven't been able to spend as much time as she wants me to spend with her. Nevertheless, it has been a continuous process of learning and I've been able to soak in a lot of minute and interesting information. Here I go:-
On her childhood.
She, being the eldest, had a very charmed childhood shuttling between her parents' house and her relatives' houses quite frequently. She distinctly remembers the long journeys by boat from Ambalappuzha, her mother's place to Neelamperoor, which is her father's place. She was her father's favourite and no journey by the young family was undertaken without her, though her younger siblings were left with their relatives on such forays!
On her education.
Her schooling till class VII was at the English medium school at Ambalapuzha and her maternal grandfather used to be very proud about the manner in which she handled the English language and would show off her prowess to his friends and relatives. When her father was transferred to Pala - he, too, was a school teacher - she'd done her class VI at Neelamperoor upon the insistence of her father's elder brother and stayed at the famed 'Puthuvayil Veedu', the ancestral house.
She'd joined class X at the Cotton Hill Girls' High School at Thiruvananthapuram, when her parents had shifted lock, stock and barrel to facilitate my grandfather's efforts at steering the 'Library Movement'. On passing school, she was admitted for the 'Intermediate Course' at the HRH College for Women at Vazhuthacaud. During her entrance interview, she'd sung the then popular song, 'Aathmavidyaalayame......', from the Malayalam film, 'Raja Harishchandran' which was appreciated by the then Principal and her teachers.
Two years into college, she decided to end her education unilaterally because she'd swooned in the Chemistry laboratory, while doing a 'titration exercise', breaking the pipette in the bargain and the reason? Your's truly, sleeping snug in her womb! She says that she was shy to meet her friends and teachers subsequent to that episode!
Her wedding had taken place, a couple of months before. More about it later. Among her friends, she was branded as the 'young mother' at 18 years!
Tailpiece.
The conversation is in flow and I promise you more of the important milestones of her life.
On her childhood.
She, being the eldest, had a very charmed childhood shuttling between her parents' house and her relatives' houses quite frequently. She distinctly remembers the long journeys by boat from Ambalappuzha, her mother's place to Neelamperoor, which is her father's place. She was her father's favourite and no journey by the young family was undertaken without her, though her younger siblings were left with their relatives on such forays!
On her education.
Her schooling till class VII was at the English medium school at Ambalapuzha and her maternal grandfather used to be very proud about the manner in which she handled the English language and would show off her prowess to his friends and relatives. When her father was transferred to Pala - he, too, was a school teacher - she'd done her class VI at Neelamperoor upon the insistence of her father's elder brother and stayed at the famed 'Puthuvayil Veedu', the ancestral house.
She'd joined class X at the Cotton Hill Girls' High School at Thiruvananthapuram, when her parents had shifted lock, stock and barrel to facilitate my grandfather's efforts at steering the 'Library Movement'. On passing school, she was admitted for the 'Intermediate Course' at the HRH College for Women at Vazhuthacaud. During her entrance interview, she'd sung the then popular song, 'Aathmavidyaalayame......', from the Malayalam film, 'Raja Harishchandran' which was appreciated by the then Principal and her teachers.
Two years into college, she decided to end her education unilaterally because she'd swooned in the Chemistry laboratory, while doing a 'titration exercise', breaking the pipette in the bargain and the reason? Your's truly, sleeping snug in her womb! She says that she was shy to meet her friends and teachers subsequent to that episode!
Her wedding had taken place, a couple of months before. More about it later. Among her friends, she was branded as the 'young mother' at 18 years!
Tailpiece.
The conversation is in flow and I promise you more of the important milestones of her life.
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