I'm glad I picked up the reading habit early. Mom and Dad were a constant source of inspiration. They would never say no to any book I read. They've practically seen me through all my phases of reading, right from the the Hardy Boys - Agatha Christie days thru the Cosmopolitan - Vogue days. They would say read read read....from those 100 pages, you have 20 pages of vocabulary improvement, another 20 of grammar, another 20 of imaginative thought, another 20 of mirth or sorrow and the remaining 20 pages of "pure joy of reading" and so I read....almost anything and everything I could lay my eyes on....there's one tiny ounce of regret though and thats not reading regional language novels.
Yesterday when we had a brief chat on what ma was upto lately, she told me that she was feeling sad. Her two favourite novelists Usha Navratnaram and Sai Suthe are no more. She has only one other author to look forward to: H.G Radhadevi. She also told me that she was the most animated author she had ever read. Now, animated mind you my friend for Mummy means ultra hilarious for us. So, mom in her serious intonation proceeded to tell me about this novel she was currently reading, which has a poor Indian girl as the protagonist, married to a poor Indian boy (quite normal). This poor Indian girl decides to open a "chutney pudi" shop and lo and behold..she's now a multi millionaire driving a Maruti Zen. How? By "chutney pudi kuttodu" and selling it on a wholesale basis ....By the end of this story, I was rolling on the floor with laughter.
I asked her why she read such books? Pat came the reply - I love kannada novels, the bhava they portray. I wish I had inculcated that habit in you as well....
Maybe true amma...I miss picking on the Usha Navratnaram novels, or sleeping on your lap and listening to those mirth filled stories about bangle sellers and chutney pudi kutters...I hope I can do the same thing for my children some day, because now I know what you mean by bhava...
Mood - Missing home (as usual).
Song - Nooru janmaku (Kannada, Movie - America America)
Yesterday when we had a brief chat on what ma was upto lately, she told me that she was feeling sad. Her two favourite novelists Usha Navratnaram and Sai Suthe are no more. She has only one other author to look forward to: H.G Radhadevi. She also told me that she was the most animated author she had ever read. Now, animated mind you my friend for Mummy means ultra hilarious for us. So, mom in her serious intonation proceeded to tell me about this novel she was currently reading, which has a poor Indian girl as the protagonist, married to a poor Indian boy (quite normal). This poor Indian girl decides to open a "chutney pudi" shop and lo and behold..she's now a multi millionaire driving a Maruti Zen. How? By "chutney pudi kuttodu" and selling it on a wholesale basis ....By the end of this story, I was rolling on the floor with laughter.
I asked her why she read such books? Pat came the reply - I love kannada novels, the bhava they portray. I wish I had inculcated that habit in you as well....
Maybe true amma...I miss picking on the Usha Navratnaram novels, or sleeping on your lap and listening to those mirth filled stories about bangle sellers and chutney pudi kutters...I hope I can do the same thing for my children some day, because now I know what you mean by bhava...
Mood - Missing home (as usual).
Song - Nooru janmaku (Kannada, Movie - America America)
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