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An Old Story, Retold While Deepavali was just two or three days away for us, for amma it started much much earlier, like banging on the common cape with the hammer. Then there was the charade of colourful boxes of matches and the oozing ash from the snake-pill-tablet. She was slim and light of foot and would run often making dancing lanterns in the sky. I preferred the rain and a book of poems. She would never leave them alone, visit the courtyard in the morning to prise open the spent crackers and spill the phosphorus into a fold to make a bonfire. Deepavali made her an adolescent and me an elderly aunt. One day after one such glow we saw her stumble into the rose- bush; an ambulance rushed her with a smoking arm to the nearest first –aid. Amma merely said, What a waste of gunpowder! Sivakami Velliangiri
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:57:21 +0000

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