Anuradha Sridharan

Birthday, first anniversary, a trip to Queen of Hill Stations.....Can a week be better than this? Last week was full of surprises and loads of fun. It all started off with a surprise that I had planned to give Karthi. I wanted to present him our first anniversary gift. But I didn't want to just hand over the gift. I wanted to try something different. Thanks to my first "Dream A Dream" (NGO that we have recently joined) activity, my mind struck a wonderful idea. Treasure hunt in our little home. Ideas started pouring in from all corners of my brain. Most of the clues were focussed on my favourites. You can also call this hunt as a means to identify whether Karthi is aware all my likes/dislikes or not. I had pasted the first clue at the back of our main door. That clue would lead to the fridge, from the fridge, the next clue would lead to something else etc. I had planned as a sequence of 10 clues and the last one would lead to the treasure. The treasure was a mustard c...

Enge sendrai nee engal manidha vazhkaiin oru pagudhi anavane... Annumin nilaiyathil pirandhu mile-gal pala kadandhu viraindhu vandai makkal veetukku un arumai ariyadhavan min visiri pottu sendran adutha veetukku nee illamal kannini iyangadhu kannini illamal iyanga marukkiran engal indraiya manidhan nee illamal thuni thuvaikka marukkiral engal indraiya penn un mel yen ivalavu mogam pala per uyirai mazhai kalathil bali vangi selgirai nee arasangathin alatchiyathirku ennai en sadugirai ena marukelvi ketkirai nee manidhanin pozhudupokkai Or araikul adaithu vittai yarum rasikkamal azhugiradhu thottathu ottrai poo dhoorathu neer veezhchiyai rasikka neramilladhu thollaikatchiyil parthu magizhum pamaran than kaipada ezhuda porumai illadu minnanjalil kaditham anuppum manudan manidha vazhkai nadaimuraiyai oru suttru thiruppi vittavane thirumbi vandhu vidadhe en veetukku......

Eyes brimmed with tears, Uma said "I'm very proud of you, my child.Your hardwork has paid off". Sundaramma with a smirk said "If you had spent the time in learning cooking and household activities instead of studying for these exams , that would have been more useful for your future".Entered Ravi from sugar mill back home for lunch. "Daddy, I have secured third rank in the state",informed Kavitha in a cheerful tone. "Very good Kavi. Uma, prepare some sweets this evening to celebrate Kavi's success as well as for the guests. From Chinnanur, Shanmugam and his family are coming home to finalize Kavi's marriage with their son. My uncle is also coming along with them. The bridegroom's name is Shivakumar.They call him Shiva. He has a provisions shop. Here is his photo. Look how majestic he is!!",exclaimed Ravi. Taken aback by her father's words, Kavitha looked at Shiva's photograph. A plump man with a big moustache,aged around 3...

The D-day dawned. Kavitha couldn't sleep well throughout the night. Moments of anxiety and excitement disturbed her slumber. It was the day when she is expecting her 10th std results to come out. "Will I be getting a state rank, or a district rank or atleast a school rank? It can't go worse than that. What will happen if I fail in Maths? Definitely, granny will fix up my wedding tomorrow". "Oh! Stop it, don't think of such non-sense. You had just made a mistake in a 2-mark question in Maths. Why the heck would you fail?", thoughts were fighting among themselves in her mind. Hearing the kitchen door being opened by her mother downstairs, she felt relieved from those miserable thoughts and got up from her bed. Now she can go ahead and ramble about all her tensions to her mom. An unusual scene was happening in the kitchen. Uma was praying to God. Kavitha couldn't understand this behaviour of her mother. She had always admired her mother doing her prayer...

pachai paselana padarndhirukkum vayal meduvaga thavazhndhu varum kullir kattru sigappu kambalamaga virindirukkum andi vaanam kattrodu kalandu varum dhoorathu koil mani than kootuku thirumbum sittu kuruvi uzhaithu kalaithu varum uzhavan indha naal velai mudithu maraiyum adhavan meduvaga ezhumbum velli nilavu anandamai vilayadum siru kuzhandai manamagizhndhu sirikkum annai thenisai pozhiyum pullanguzhal isai mella nadai pottu sellum paingili kidukidu vena odum anil sezhusezhu vena valarum pasumpul komadha tharum vellai paal grama makkalin thooya manadhu

Gandhi, if you happen to read this article, I thank you for the wonderful treat at Hotel Harsha. Forgot to thank him on Saturday :-) ......Anyways, yet another person from our great group is leaving Bangalore and going for his higher studies in US. Gandhi gave us his farewell treat in the very same place where we all started our dream journey of so-called-adulthood. Hotel Harsha. The place where we stayed during our first week in Bangalore, the place where we got acquainted with each other, the place where I met Karthi for the first time, the place where little sparks of something (unable to put those feelings in words!!!) evoked in me now and then. No, I'm not going to get into any more details on that. We stepped into Hotel Harsha on Saturday exactly after 3 years and 30 days. The restaurant reminded me of those cute moments when I used to sit and have breakfast with Swati, when we used to wait for the cab to take us to our dream company, when we used to go to the nearby Sanman r...