Saturday, March 26, 2011

My Childhood

We have a tradition that when a child is born we have to feed it with what we call "seeni thani" by all the elders. I dont know everybody might have fed me. But what i know from my dad is that the doctor "Mrs.Raji Guna singh" did feed me with seeni thani, and she wished me that i will turn up as engineer/doctor when i grow up. Funny thing is i am a software engineer now. Thats life. I was brought to the home (in aruppukottai) after 7 days. Every child is beautiful. I am not an exception. Moreover i was very chapy and i had and still has a smiling face. Yes its true. All the people in the streets used to carry me around for a walk. I was not the type of kid who will only stick around with mother. I used to go around with anyone if they smile at me. Since i am the first male child in my family after a long time every body poured their love. Especially my grand grand mother was very affectionate with me. Her name is Dhanushkodi. I can still remember she used to always feed me food in her lap. She never allowed any body to abuse or hit me. She even scold others if they condemn me for anything. Above all my young mother, still too young to get married, but had a child to look after. She took care of me as if i am a precious doll that she ever had in her life. She never made me starve. Infact, she fed me with her blood for 7 years. Would you believe it my mother fed for 7 long years thanks to my grand grand mother. I was very very bad, still she keep on telling now also on how i pushed her to awkward situation. I am feeling very bad now. Sorry mom. But this 7 long year mother feed is my strength now.
In the meanwhile my paternal grandpa came to visit me after 6 month. I dont know exactly whether he was allowed to see me or not. Because of the fight between my dad and him. But he was dead soon after that incident.
Quarel, agony, fight still continues in our family. I forgot to mention other members in the family, my maternal grandpa Ramu, my maternal grand mother yasodhai, my chiti ( sorry i dont know the name of relationship in english) my mom's sister Vijayalakshmi (aka) angel (she is called angel now).