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Hello all,

Excellent piece of work from Chitra lakshmi.

I sincerely request you all to visit the agraharams or
the native place each one of us belong. These
Aghraharam were beaming with all the pride (in the
positive way) and the sounds of bajan every day
sending positive vibrations.

I wish and hope there is some one out there like
Chitralakshmi who would just go out and find their
roots and know how much of damage we have caused in
the name of Jobs, foreign travel and relocation and
getting lost from the rich tradition and culture
passed on to us.

I happened to be from a little village Called
Thaneerpalli in Trichy ( Tamilnadu). 

Our ancestral house which had a huge back yard and
with all its natural splendour and settings was sold
by my grand father who came from Mumbai declaring that
the house is not fit for living. It was a huge house
with 20 or 30 cocunut trees, a mango tree and a jack
fruit and the house back yard was the cauvery canal.

"What more man can ask for".

This was sold for a paltry sum of 3000 Rs and with the
amount shared among two brothers and sisters the share
which came to my grandmother was used for buying a
hearing aid for her and a pair of reading glasses
which always was the center of contention between my
Grand father and Grand Mother as to who should use it
at what time. This was obviously the only pair of
reading glasses common to both of them.

Can we now look back and take stock as to how foolish
we had been. Hope bettere sense will prevail with at
least those of us who are lucky and retaining our
ancestral property like the one I had. Now when I went
out there for buying it back and trying to search and
reestablish my roots I was demanded a hefty sum of
Rs.10 lakhs for this property.

We should not only re establish our lost tradition but
make it a going tradition with a long term view and do
not repeat the mistakes we had comitted in the past
which has driven us out of this place. We can also
renovate the building and keep it as a summer holiday
resort and our children will remember us for ever for
what we have done to them.

Any comments on this are welcome...and suggestions
too. 

Let us do our little part and do not let the richness
of the culture passed on to us by our dedicated
br>estors die an untimely and early death.




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