My Paati - the genius

As like every other grandma, my paati (grand mother) is well versed with natural treatments for most of the illness. What makes makes me call her genius is what follows...

9 yard saree (9 Gajam pudavai) once the obligatory dress worn by married South Indian brahmins is now a history, and more likely, our next generation would be googling this term. My beloved grand mother (addressed as 'amma' by all her grandchildren), is always seen clad with a 9 yard (madisar) saree. Born to Mr.Venkatarama Sastry (not to be read as sastrigal) was a magistrate by profession. She was the apple of everyone's eye as she is the only girl child among the siblings.

Brought up with a rich tradition, she has learnt violin, carnatic vocal (no wonder she is from Thiruvaiyaru) and more surprisingly she has done her SSLC (under the british regime) . It was the time when education for girls was considered a sin (adupu oodhum pengalukku padippu edharku?) She can converse in english more fluently than many today.

Her general knowledge surpasses even those who are abreast of the latest happenings. Recently, while I was discussing about finding a tenant for my apartment, she suggested me to look ONLINE ( to advertise on the Internet..I was stumbled when I heard this term ONLINE from her mouth).

She seldom comes out of kitchen as like any lady of the yesteryears and does not talk to any strangers (gents esp.) But, what surprises me is, her source of knowledge! Soft spoken by nature, I doubt whether she knows any of the synonyms of the word 'anger'. Patience is her sibling (koodave porandhadhu) as I would term.

She implements many of the data structures such as Stack and Queue. She spawns a thread to lookup the stack of her memory lane and would do a context switch, back to the topic with the result. (Just to prove, Me the MCA ;D )

I believe she has her own dictionary, as she picks the words from, to be used not to hurt anyone. Getting up at 5:00 am is her routine (not to mention that she goes to bed only at 12:00).