Pookutty Paati’s Grand-Daughter !
Pookutty Paati’s Grand-Daughter is my mother Vedavalli. Remembering my great grandmother and Amma’s favourite activity of stringing flowers.
Amma
World Idli Day 2021 – Dedicated to Seenu Mama
World Idli Day 2021 is dedicated to Seenu Mama, who could eat idlis every single day without being bored. Hope his mother made the “vilayatu” idli for him.
Asafoetida, Hing, பெருங்காயம் – An everyday spice
Read all about Asafoetida, Hing, பெருங்காயம் which is an everyday spice in most South Indian homes. My mother is very loyal to L.G Hing 🙂
My Mother…
Dearest Amma, Today is your death anniversary. It’s now three years since you left this world on the day chosen by you. Though you have left, we are full of memories…of the extraordinary life and times that we were together. Amma, if we have to describe you in words, they would be…selfless, giving, disciplined, full … Read more
Daily Gratitude
What are you grateful for today ? Am deeply grateful to Amma for the “good sleep” genes that she passed onto me.
Growing Up Mom #7 – Vegetables Vs Vedavalli
The picture below is of my beautiful mother eating a salad :):). The effort involved is clearly seen. She is totally pissed off with me because I forcibly feed her vegetables. To all my school friends and other friends out there, who are all ardent supporters of my mother see this for yourself. Left to … Read more
Growing up Mom #5
My father gave Mom a name – “Ba-Tu-Ta”, naming her after the great Chinese traveller who came to India during the reign of Mohammed Bin Tughlaq. Amma’s name though is an acronym – “Ba” is written as “Pa” in Tamil script, the alphabet for Pa and Ba being the same and the context decides the … Read more
Growing up Mom #3
Even without doing a past life regression session with Amma, am quite convinced that my mother was in the distribution business in some previous life :). And I will give proof from this life to support my hypothesis. Only after Appa passed away in 2008 did Amma start living with us and I noticed several … Read more
Growing up Mom – #1
About a week back, I got Amma to write the following and sign it. Its written in Tamil and it means that my mother promises not to wash clothes by hand from Dec 21st till Jan 12th. 🙂 I got it posted in my maternal family’s whatsapp group and all my cousins have been calling … Read more
A letter from Dad ..
Dear Appa, Yesterday while cleaning one of the drawers at home, I found a postcard from you … This was a letter you wrote me in 1989. You were posted in Vizag and I was in Hyderabad completing my degree from Wesley college. Amma was planning to come to Hyderabad on the 14th of Aug … Read more