HE - Episode 10

Hello Aruna,

In fact after writing the episode I felt that it was rather sad. I wanted to lighten the mood. So introduced the dinner scene. Lifted some items from Chitvish,some from the Net and some from my own memory to complete it. That way, you know, fb and their responses, will not be that sad.

I am happy that you were able to relate to the lines you have quoted. I loved writing these lines. Learning the truth in them makes us a better person.
Thanks for the fb, Aruna.
Let me warn you SHE is much more controversial than HE. Some of the episodes I had it pre-censored by our Super Mods. Some of them generated so hot a discussion that upset a few members here in IL.
Now I think, I have prepared your mind for SHE. Looking forward to your comments.
regards,

 

Dear Varloo,
Anything that is sad brings with it some element of relief. Like in our story that incident forced Sharada out of Balki's house and life. About the latter we are not clear.

You will have to wait for 13 days, just 312 hours to know about Nalini's fate.

Yes, some items are available only at CV's home. I am telling you what I told CV.If you happen to go to Le Meridien let me know in advance. I will ask Nalini to tell her Chefs to serve those items for you.

Priya and Madhavan are now in the wings. They are going to enter the scene in just 6 days.

regards,

 

Shanthi,

No episode is a smooth sailing episode for me. They say that the pain sustained in a normal delivery of a child is equivalent to that of having two compound fractures. And writing an episode that jells with the past episodes and does not close much of my options for the future ones, is no less painful.

In fact when the story took a sad turn, I myself have avoided posting in the morning. I do now on Friday night. Since I also do not want to spoil my cup of coffee in the morning.

You are right, Shanthi. This action does not fit Sharada's character as brought out in the future episodes. But the problem is that she had caught her husband in flagrante delicto. They say that the fury that is there in a woman at that time will be hot enough to burn her marriage and at times even her morals.

But honestly I do not think she did any thing out of the way. She recognised that there was no hope for her marriage with Balki. A person cheating on her right in the drawing room is not even fit to be a companion, let alone a husband. So she walked out. Now that she is free she has proposed her love to Sethu. I don't see anything wrong in that. Of course the marriage, if at all it takes place, will be after her divorce and other formalities.

When we were in Class 3 our Tamil teacher spent a whole period teaching us an old Tamil seyul.
தம்மின் மெலியாரைப் பார்த்து தாம் பெற்ற செல்வம்
அம்மா பெரிதென்று அகமகிழ்க - தம்மின்
கற்றாரைப் பார்த்து கருத்தழிக கற்றதெல்லாம்
எற்றே இவர்க்கு நாம் என்று

Look at people poorer than you and be happy that you have quite a lot for you. And look at people who are more learned than you and realise that your knowledge is nothing before theirs.

I think the wheel has gone a full circle and people are doing the other way round.

Well, may be due to that. But there was some chemistry between them even when Sharada took leave of her on the day of her performance.

As I explained in another reply he suffers from Kumbakarna syndrome. Please indulge him.

That's a good catch. Let's wait and see.
Thanks for the fb.
regards,

 

Dear Kripa,

I am sorry that I made you heavy especially on a Monday. I know how Mondays are, especially for a practising chartered accountant. Today was typical for me as well. A DIN3 Filing, Annual Accounts delayed filing, crucial outsourced work, the net connection went off. Hand to limp on the back-up 256 Kbps connection till the engineer came and rescued me.

I too feel the pain for Priya and Madhavan. I am making a deviation now, which you will know from one of my subsequent replies.

Sharada proposing to Sethu is not unnatural. As you rightly pointed out her marriage with Balki is off for a long time. She has seen her husband cheating her. She has walked out of her marital home. And she doesn't want to miss out on Sethu.

That is one of the most beautiful similies I have ever read about a dead marriage.

You need not dread HE 11. Stay tuned for an announcement.
bye, Kripa.
love,

 

Dear Janani,
You and I have the luxury of our armchairs to sit and cooly calculate what decision Sharada should take. But her situation is different. She has walked out on her husband. She never liked the idea of marriage. But somehow she has fallen for Sethu. (Many ILites have remarked, that anybody will fall for such a perfect male) And she is not proposing an immediate marriage. She at least wants to know his mind.
Like you I too have many questions. You have the luxury of just waiting for the answers on Saturdays. And I have the necessity of creating the answers before Saturday.
I am deviating a little this time. Let's see how it works.

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There is another song in Avan Than Manithan, "Anbu Nadamadum Kalaikoodame.." I love the song for its music. It's so melodious, and somehow, to me it looks inexplicably sad. I heard it first in 1974 and it has been haunting me ever since.

regards,

 

Re: Part 8!

Hello Malathi,
Now about the recipes first. I really did some hard work on that. One thing I have found out in life is that when you are stressed up, just indulge in rich, delicious food. You will feel refreshed. I had the opportunity to test this hypothesis some 15, 20 years ago.
My parents had gone for shopping. And while travelling in bus, my Dad's pocket was picked. He lost Rs.1200 which in those days was a huge sum. Dad was totally upset. There was a gloomy mood in the house. I had that rich-food-as-an-antidote-for-stress-and-grief hypothesis even at that time. So I went out to our neighbourhood ice-cream parlour and brought home the most delicious ice cream available there. My father told me several days later this ice cream has really cooled a burning stomach. So I applied the hypothesis to Sharada as well.
You want the recipe for Kamala Orange Rasam. Ask the namesake Kamla. That was what she served when our big Boss Malathy (Induslady)visited her cozy home in New Jersey, US. Chitvish would say about walnut halwa because when we all met there (you were also there) that was served.

I have also been thinking on the same lines. So I will accept half of what you have said. You want to know which half? See the announcement below.
regards,





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