You can see this only in India ::: Read...... a touching reality. Ananthanarayanan Vaidyanathan: Wrote........ a memory which is more than fifty six years comes back.. I was just a child of three years.. born at Kottakkl in a predominantly Muslim and non brahmin area..and having not much of exposure to Iyers and their ways till then..My constant companion in my infancy was a mohammed mama..We migrated to nearby places like Tirur and Parappanangadi.. I never found anything queer in having a mohammed mama with us at that time, and even now I cannot find anything amiss.. He is now dead and gone. He was sort of assistant to my father and he used to occupy the front of our house when there was not other work.. Once I remember, I was venturing out of the house... a small boy of one-and half years, and fell down and hit my lower jaw on a sharp stone and there was a free flow of blood.. No doctor nearby and the gash needed stitches. Mohammed mama saw me fall and get wounded, and he would not even wait to warn my mother about it.. my father had gone to some work.. he simply ran to the dispensary four of miles away, and got the wound mended.. Doctors fee was not an issue because the latter was known to my father.. But Mohammed mama had ruined the only white shirt, that is his sole possession to give a semblance of modern man.. the entire shirt was soaked in blood.. Of course, my father gave him a blue shirt in place of that white shirt and I have seen him wearing that every day afterwards.. That deep wound scar is seen in my lower jaw to this day.. At our house whenever food was cooked those days, one member who was included was Moahammed Mama. This is in spite of the fact that our parents were orthodox to the core.. Poojas, Japams... Ganapathi homam and what not.. But Mohammed mama was always there.. Subsequently, we migrated to Palakkad and Mohammed mama could not come with us because of his personal commitments.. When the news that he had passed away a few years later, I know I have cried as if a close friend, an uncle, and a benefactor has left the scene.. RIP Mohammed mama...
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:28:46 +0000
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