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Shenbaga vadivu

Shenbaga vadivu was our first woman helper in the house. she came to assist Paatti in household works. Such a devoted person,she will be up and about in very early morning, take care of her own kids and come to our house by 6Am. A small woman of 22 or 23 ,simple and honest caring. we were children of 7,5 and 3 when we landed in Thirumangalam. It was neither a town nor a village. But it was a shades towards city life with many business communities operating from there.
Shenbaga had a little hut near by .she was so clean and neat and she was devoted to Paatti and us. when Ranga mama was having some with his skin she went to the naattu vaidhyar and brought back marunthu from him which immediately took care of his pain.
the same way when M. mama had the same ailment she was ready to help us in anyway she could.
Here i shd record a very funny incident.There was a regular launderer who used to take our clothes to wash in the river there once in a month . when Paatti was checking up the clothes ,she found one shirt missing.It was M.mama's.
Mama was so upset when he found out that Mayan (the launderer's son was wearing the same shirt.
He got so angry that he went all the way to the laundry and demanded that his shirt should be returned to him immediately.I think I also followed him. Now it seems so comical.But Mama got his shirt back and everything was alright.
Shenbagam was instrumental in this too. She had a goodtime laughing about this describing the whole incident to Paatti.

In Thirumangalam ,the city had lots of
gardens of Jasmine and roses panneer roses with a very sweet smell. the roses were sent to Madhurai and then to everywhere in the world.


. Thirumangalam had one high school boys and one for girls. and there was one basic Elementary school for children.Life was easy. Andipatti
Madurai,Usilampatti,vaadipaatti,kallupatti,vathalagundu,
vatharayiruppu virudhunagar are some of the towns I remember. there was a TVS bus route and two or three more transports.
On the street where we lived there was the small kovil of Meenakshi amman.all the towns activities went around the temple.Navarathiri,uthsavams,Panguni uthiram,seasonal festivities like kolaatta javantharai.Vaikathu ashtami.Maargazhi was a special month.
Mornings were reserved for devotional songs and hot pongal viniyogam from Sri Meenakshi temple.

Porunai aththangaraiyile

Porunai aththangaraiyile

Porunai aththangaraiyile: January 2006

Porunai aththangaraiyile: January 2006

Porunai aththangaraiyile: Savithiri

Porunai aththangaraiyile: Savithiri

Porunai aththangaraiyile

Porunai aththangaraiyile
This black and white picture is VERY old logo of tamil movie producer. she is holding a kind of instrument called a YAAZH. a st..ring instrument like veenai,.
I heard professor sri.K.Gyanasambanthan talking in Jaya tv about Tamil period of 2000 years back.

porunai aththangaraiyile:

porunai aththangaraiyile: oridamthanile.

Kamalamma

porunai aththangaraiyile

everyone should be able to express their thoughts,memories share their happiness and not so happy events,some colourful happenings.sharing brings caring into your life.Happy sharing.
Would all of our sharing be of hope and its realisation.

kannil pattathum kaadhil KEttathum

blogging is fun,serious and can be shared with like minded folks.appreciation and criticisms shd be welcome with equal zest.

the deep blue sea

 

isai maargam

Music for the soul. music elevated you to higher realms is what you hear from learned musicians. Dikshithar, SRI Muthuswamy dikshithar, was one of the Holy Trinities. The others were sri.Thyagarajar and sri.Shyama saasthrikal.
This blog is to record what I heard from sri. Neyveli Santhanagopalan. In the context of what words from Mahans can do and the Power behind their words.the Thapas and vairagyam which made them special.
when sri.Dikshidhar was travelling towards Ettayapuram Zamin, he saw all the starved fields and people because of the drought prevailing there. His heart was drawn towards those sufferings. Immediately he began singng the Kruthi called Amirthavarshini Anandhaaamritha AAkarshini. and so powerful was his thoughts and words , the rain started pouring down immediately drenching the whole area.so awesome was the sight, that people living there were spell bound. and Dikshithar had to use another word Sthamba to stop the downpour.Will find more about sri ,.Deekshithar and write here.

Making up for lost time

we start thinking when we are born. to translate those thoughts our vocabulary has to come in to exercise. that happens when we start practising our speech. with the mother's help. then father's
brothers,family ,friends,and teachers.
putting down your honest thoughts require planned thinking and free flow of language. Hope I can achieve the same with the Sri Pillayaars help.