About my parents
Kasi nadar was born a remote village called ATTRANGARAI situated 4 kms off Karisalkulam another small town located on the road leading from Aruppukkottai to vilathikulam via pudur.
Had his primary studies in his native place for 3 years-upto 3rd std.
Good in arithmatic,tables of 1/16,1/32 of a rupee.Left at the age of 15 from his native place and settled in virudhunagar.
A self learner ,he is, has learnt the art of making 'sevu',a rustic savoury delicacy made from riceflour,chillie,cinnamon,salt and made as a past3e with water handmixed and pressed through a metallic laddle with perforations,The pressed material is allowed to fall straight onto the hot oil fueled with huskis of peanut and other local firewoods burning at the bottom of the metallic container of about 30" diameter!.
The same laddle is used to turn the boiling 'sevu'from the oil to evenout the boiling and the process is continued till a stuff attains goldedn brown colour.
The mass is collected from the same laddle,oil gets drained through the holes on the laddle and after drying it is ekptied on a thin basket made of thin bamboo sticks.
MARRIAGE
At his age of 24,(1936) He married Balammal, daughter of Madasamy nadar/thenammal of Perilovanpatti a village about 3 Kms at the other side of the riverVAIPPAR which flows at the outskirt of Attrangarai.
BALAMMAL family
Balammal is one among the three girls and five boys born to Madasamy nadar.(this will be expanded as and when needed)
Kasi had his primary studies in the same village where he was born...Attrangarai.. and left to a village about 50 miles distance by name 'viruthupatti'(it turned to be called as'virudhunagar later)to earn a livelihood in an eatery shop run by his own brother-in-law-his sister's husband Thangia nadar hailing from EEral.
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two sisters,Sornammal and sermavadivu and the lone brother Gurusami who died an early death at the age of 26 leaving his wife and a son and a daughter.
Kasi was so smart in learning the skill of making snacks (chevu,murukku,mixture,sweets of sorts etc, that he became an expert and handling the shopfloor operations and sales as well.
within a coouple of years he starteed his own business- the same what he learnt from his BIL and his progress was phenomenal.
Visited my cousin brother who also is named after my name a couple of days and I was delighted to see my 'aunty'.my father's brother late gurusamy's wife 'Gandhimathi'-we call her as 'CHITHTHI'and I took a photograph with her -the only living eldest branch of the KASI TREE.
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Had been to Tiruchi last month end to join my eldest daughter who is mourning Mappillai's Raja's demise (exaxtly an year ago).
ReplyDeleteBefore we took off from Tiruchi I along with the children drove to a place about 7.5 kms from MRF-Sathanur-where fossilised tree (millions of years old)are preserved by ASI. A dynasaur's egg too...A memorable one..I was reminded of my visit to 'Meteor crater' in Arizona in 2007.
By this 22nd of Oct 2012, my second daughter Subha completes her 40 years of age and celebrates at Akshaya in Bangalore..It looks like yesterday that she was born at Dr.Gnanasoundari's nursing home as a cute little rosy doll..now grew up to a mother of two boys and at times her a characteristic posture reminds me of my mother .Balammal .
ReplyDeleteShanthini&Naveen who came down to chennai on 22nd have a nice day with us.They made me nostalgic when all of us rolled backand travelled back in time -remembering my 'teen' days. this chat lasted for an hour and a half after 10p.m...
A very good chat after a very long time with the members of the family.