Preparatory work in connection with Ammu’s wedding is going
on in full swing. The attendant confusions, frayed tempers and forgetfulness
have been an ongoing saga. Just letting you on to a few........
Fifty year old Ammini has been helping us over the past few
days in clearing up things in the newly painted house. She’s a tireless worker,
does any work assigned to her and needs no supervision. This morning, I chose
to remain at home while the others went shopping. After finishing her work
indoors, she took up the job of clearing the surrounding areas without
instructions! I suppose this is what one’s dedication to one’s job is all
about.
She had a sad story to recount. Her 15 year old son had
attempted suicide, about a couple of months back because he was upset with his
dad’s taunts. The road to recovery has been long but the youngster has started
moving around. The only problem is that he has bouts of anger of enormous
proportions – to quote her – and that bothers her! She would be the mainstay of
the house for the next few days till the marriage function.
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Today, Ammu’s wedding trousseau was shown to me and the
bride’s father. Lekha and my sisters have done a commendable job and now I can
understand the hectic behind-the- scenes activity undertaken by Lekha after the
engagement ceremony. The technicalities, the choice of fashions, mating them
with the bride’s requirements and the nitty gritties have been gone through
with plenty of ground work and I applaud the ladies’ endeavours! They’ve done a
neat job.
* * *
Meanwhile, the rest of the family had gone for collecting the
clothes that were given for stitching, buying certain pieces of furniture in
replacement of the old ones and tying up a few things that had cropped up over
discussions last night.
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