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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