Posted in maamis, tagged besant nagar beach, chennai, madras, summer, tirunelveli on June 5, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Maami is passé. It’s Maydam these days.
Maydam is on summer vacation. She snorts as the white glare of a ruthless Chennai sun douses her homecoming in perspiration and skull-bursting heat.A summer storm torpedoes dust, grime and mineral to cake her face. She licks the salt on her dry lips as if to recall a [...]
Posted in maamis, tagged gaming, IPL, pwn, soccer widows, SRK on April 19, 2008 | 19 Comments »
The proceedings of the Ladies Club have come to a halt for a coffee break. The ladies are gathered in the hall, togged in their polysilk saris and tussar salwar kameezes, battling the slow whir of fans and the sluggish function of the A/Cs, awaiting their speaker.
“Kaapi romba mosam, tch“, says Mrs. Kunchitapatham to Mrs.Swaminathan, both of whom, henceforth, [...]
Posted in maamis, tagged pati, poppadam, tamarabarani river, tirunelveli on April 4, 2008 | 47 Comments »
“It was my Yechumi Pati who invented the poppadam”, Amma pronounced, as she popped a perfect round wafer into a hot pan filled with oil. In a nanosecond the poppadam bloomed, pimply and yellow.
Yechumi Pati’s name was Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of prosperity, though Pati’s life was one of deprivation and bereavement. Fondness makes Amma call her [...]
Posted in maamis, tagged 2008, march 8, salma, women's day on March 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Rokkiah aka Salma, 38, is a mother, wife and panchayat leader in a small village near Tiruchi. But she ’s bad news for the neighbourhood. Especially when she wrote poems and articles and novellas. ”Mother tells me that all erring in bed is my fault…it’s my responsibility to rear the child, play the mother, buy my sanitary napkins [...]
