Chellamma Paati – Part 3

Chellamma’s father set out to Guntur immediately and a pujari from a famous  kali temple was brought home to conduct a special pooja. This pujari had studied under a namboodri from kerala and had a reputation of successfully driving the spirits away from the possessed person without harming the person. A special pooja was held [...]

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Marketing Mayajal – Timing is everything

In ad world, they say that the success of an ad campaign depends on the right message sent out at the right time. This applies for marketing too. I would like to share with you an incident that happened recently. I received a mailer from my cellphone service provider. It was a lovely package in [...]

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Chellamma Paati – Part 2

My grandmother’s family was a large one. They were thirteen children, 1 boy and 12 girls. Chellamma paati was the 12th child and my grand mother was the last. Chellamma paati and my grandmother were born after their eldest brother was married and had had two children. Since my great grandfather had stopped working by [...]

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Chellamma Paati – Part 1

I love weddings. As a little girl, I used to eagerly look forward to attend the weddings in the family. To me it was an occasion to wear my favourite pattu pavadai, meet and play endlessly with my cousins. I also liked to simply stare at the beautiful bride, her jadai pinnal, rakodi, kunjalam and [...]

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Kuruva Kuruvi

We live in an apartment building at the busiest part of the city. We have a few pigeons and crows visiting our balcony occassionally, but have never seen a sparrow in the last four years. But a few months ago, one morning I heard a sparrow chirping in my balcony. I ran out of my [...]

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Our visit to Central Prison

Our visit to Chennai Central Prison on February 15, 2009

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