Moving and Fruits.

This is Ramakrishnan Speaking. We shifted house on 20th May at Kovaipudur and it took some time to settle down and get the BSNL Broadband too. Then on 16th June I got a virus fever which ws so virulent straightaway that I could not even sit up and did the rare thing of calling the doctor home. I have still not fully recovered and feel more tired than usual. So I have not visited the blog for quite some time. Today I am in Madras on a visit at Gayathi's house and will be going back in two days.

I have seen all the postings in the blog in this month and find that very interesting things are going on, about fruits, shifting etc. In Kovaipudur, Saradam is very very upset that Chandru and Mythili are going away to Brindavan as they have been very good company to us and gave us a feeling that we have help so near.

I have been close to KN right since his marriage was fixed with Rukku and at that time every Sunday I would go to their house in Egmore in the morning and then we woould both go to the Udipi hotel for breakfast. Later it was he who put the idea into my head of buying a plot in Karpagam Gardens and building a house and if today I am benefitting by that decision enormoously (in fact it is what is sustaining me now), I should thank him for it. I know he was devoted to his work and good at it and able to absorb the culture of the organisation which is very important in a newspaper and I have seen him grow from strangth to strength. Soon after his marriage, he had a very serious spine surgery and had lie down flat face up for six months and I can never think of it without shuddering at how he withstood the ordeal. I wish him and Rukku good health and peace with the change in location.

Jayaram and I have been close right from childhood and we have fought to the extent of holding by the hair and knocking the head on the wall. And as you all know, we t ttused to sing together and it brought us closer I think. It must have been difficult for hom to take the plunge to move to Brindavan, leaving his grandchildren behind. I wish him and Vimala all peace, good health and contentment in Brindavan.Coming to the fruits, Jack fruit is one of my favourites as also chakkai varatti. I do not like Banana varatti so much. Sithaphal is a very tasty fruit though as a boy I thought it was not for us. In Hyderabad we also get a Raam Phal which is more reddish but tastesthe same. Thambi used to make very nice fruit salad, cutting all the fruits into very small pieces and soaking them in sugar syrup. That brings to my mind the PRASADAM we used to make during Avani Avittam, a mixture of many fruits and also . Vadai, Appam and coconut and curd and we, hungry afer the rituals, used to relish it. All of us, including Pattuappa used to participate in preparing it. But the ladies at home for whom we brought the PRASADAM did not like it.

I have spoken too long already. Bye.

-Ramakrishna