That was the custom of Brahmin widows those days. She would wear a nine-yard saree and cover herself fully, from her shaved head onward. Maami gave birth to a son and was forced to follow the customs of widowhood. She was married as a child and at the age of 15, when she became pregnant with her first child, her husband died. We had a neighbour, Ambujam maami, a Brahmin widow. I realised it.”Įmail: I was nine years old, our family lived in Tamil Nadu.
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She shared many things with me and at last she said, “When they go to work I will be alone and the television is my sole companion.” She continued, “The invention of TV is a special blessing of God. Maami invited me happily and gently she switched off the TV. The grandson had become an engineer and the granddaughter, married. My brother told me that Ambujam maami’s daughter-in-law studied and became a teacher. After 23 years, I visited our native place. Years passed by and my life also changed. Her laments continued and both would quarrel with each other. The daughter-in-law used that kind of, so Yama got annoyed and took away her son.
Maami, with her knowledge, explained why her son died: Yama Rajan (the God who takes away life) used to see the world through a petti to decide on the lives of human beings. His wife returned to India as a widow with two children. The friend then told maami that her daughter-in-law was always watching a petti (box) through which she could see what was happening in the ulagam (whole world). Once, a friend of theirs visited her son in Singapore. He did not visit India as frequently as before and maami put the blame on her niece for this change. Her son took his wife to Singapore and they became the parents of two children within five years.
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