பாட்டியும் பாடமும் ...

Here is one more post with title in Tamil and post in English.What to do?Tamil titles express more sometimes.Coming to the post part,after having mentioned about my paati (grandma) in my previous Tamil post,my neurons took a detour to the good old days with paati.Growing up with paatis helps u exploring many psychological factors.Paatis have enormous amount of love towards their grand children and children.Sometimes,the insecure feelings they possess,which is a quiet normal thing to own at old age,may lead to certain lil arguments,misinterpretations,frets,fumes etc.Whatever it is,when we look back the days spent with them, u see the colorful part shining bright and the silly part fading away.

Once I was asked to prepare a write up on whom I inspire in life. This write up was part of MBA admission at Great Lakes Institute of Management,where i could not get the admit;that's a diff story but the point is that,I wrote about my mom but now I feel I should have written about my paati who was all the reason behind me writing about my mom. After all coming up in life is fine but being a reason behind it is great!My thaatha(grand pa)passed away when my mom was two years old and my periyama was four years old. All she had was a little agricultural land then and probably a lot more confidence which made her daughters attain a considerable altitude in their lives. Not to mention we are enjoying the fruit of her sweat now.

With that tiny intro of my patti, I am writing one of my experience I had with her which made me go agape. I was a school kid then and I needed a dictionary so I was in search of the same. Here is the conversation me and my paati had.

Paati:enna thedutha?
Me:oru pusthagam theduren.
Patti: enna pusthagatha thedutha.epdi irukkum?
Me:oru periya palaya pusthagam .
Paati:etha pathinathu?
Me : (thinking in mind therinju enna panna pora?)athula English vaarthaikku Tamil la artham potrukkum.(I din tell her explicitly that I am searching for dictionary thinking she may not understand it)
Paati:Ditchunarynu solla vendiyathaane ,iru eduthuttu vaaren.
Me:?????!!!!!

The embarrassment I felt at that moment cannot be explained. But the lesson learnt is helping me out in not looking down on others till now. Later I came to know that, somebody in my village exchanged that dictionary for “kaara sevu” in my paati’s grocery shop and it was paati who gave it to my mom thinking that it might be a valuable one.”Paati ur life has taught me many such lessons ; u r always there in my neurons and arteries ;Love u”.