The Smart Kiddo..

Kids of the next generation are really smart, I must say. Always ready with a question, which mostly starts with a WHY… and would not be satisfied without a proper and detailed answer and sometimes adding few more “WHYs” for the answer they get…

Just before a couple of days my friend’s son (Shivank) had not been to school for almost ten days as they had been for a family trip. On eleventh day she was a little worried about the complaints she’ll be getting from school for not sending him to school for so many days. Well the kid is about 3 and half year old, and is in pre kg.

Yes the mother could have easily said some reason for an excuse but knowing her son she preferred waiting for the call form school. (He was capable of telling his teachers about how well he enjoyed his trip and all the places he had been to). But she dint get a call until her son was back from school.

When Shivank was back from school,

Mom: Shivank, what and all did you today in school?

Shiv: Mama, we na.. blah blah blah……

Mom: good.. And what did your teachers say?

Shiv: Mammaa Radha Mam never spoke to me today.. (in a sad tone)

Mom: oh.. she must have been busy shivank, what did Sudha mam say?

Shiv: Sudha mam na asked why dint you come to school for so many days? And I told her…. (he did not say a word after that)

Mom: Ya shivank what did you tell her, why dint you go to school…

Shiv: ………………………………………………… (again silence)

Mom: (really worried about what he would have answered)
Shivank tell na what did you tell….
(Finally when she din get any answer she bribed him with a toy and said she wouldn't give it to him until he told her what he answered to Sudha mam)
Shivank: Maine sudha mam se kaha “ABHI TOH MAIN AAYA HOON NA”
(I said “I have come now, haven't I?”)
(We both burst out laughing and she gave him the toy and was cuddling him for a while)




When she got the call she just said he wasn’t feeling well and agreed to send a medical certificate. Can’t believe there are so many rules for pre kg also…

Someone I can never forget…

Someone I can never forget…

I had met this man in June 2007, first thing that I had noticed about him was how shrimpy he was. His spectacles and the wrinkles on his face said that he was in his mid sixties. He is rude that was the first impression I had about him.

He never got along people that easily or let people know how kind he really was but I was very lucky that he had easily opened up to me and cared for me a lot in a very short span of time. J

Mr.Balakrishnan, a respected, retired accountant of one of the best mills in the city was now working as a peon cum accountant for a very small BPO consultancy which wouldn’t have paid him more than one fourth of the salary his age and experienced deserved. But he never complained about his JOB PROFILE or the Salary he got.

This pious Brahmin had the courage to adopt a 6 days old baby without thinking about how his young son and wife would react. And he stuck to his decision even after facing all the tantrums that his family threw at him. One needs real courage to do that isn’t it?

I was nobody to him but….

He never called me with my name, at first he had addressed me as“MADAM”, I just could not let such an elderly person call me Madam. And so he started calling me “Kuttima” (something like Child, in Tamil). After knowing him for a period of around 20-25 days I had to depart to move on further in my life. But he took efforts to call me frequently and be in touch. Just 3 weeks after I had last met him, I got a call asking for Mr. Balakrishnan, thinking it be a mere coincidence that a wrong number asked for Mr. Balakrishnan, putting aside his thought I carried on with my work and after a couple of hours I got a call from a friend (Jayanthi) saying “he is no more, he has had a heart attack sometime back”. When I told Jayanthi about the coincidence and she made it clear to me that it wasn’t a coincidence and I got that call as he had my number in his pocket and people around him contacted me first thinking am his family. I was totally touched after knowing that and before I realized tears rolled down…

Balakrishnan sir, you are always and always will be remembered by me and Jayanthi…