We, Around Us!

Ennakku Inioru Peru Irukku , 'I have Another Name!!!' is dedicated to all the people who have a kilometer of letters as their real name but are confortable to be known with their nick names as their real names are been kept in the memory of their grandfather and grand mothers because their father and mother's name were dedicated to their great grandfather and great grandmother.  Yes, Like many other Tambrahms, I was initially known as Ramakrishnan, just because my father named my brother with his grandfather name and so my mother wanted to name me so with her father, my Thatha's name. Now you would be wondering what would be wrong with the name. Being born and brought up in Maharashtra, everyone would be aware of how important does a person's surname stands for.  Now I was named Ramakrishnan, my father's name is Krishnamoorthy and my Thatha's name again Rama Iyer, there is a repetition of Ramas a...

Godhadi - Traditional Quilts is normally made of waste clothes stuffed together inside old sarees. This tradition is mainly practiced in the states of Goa & Maharashtra. I’m writing this as I read in Gulfnews last week, that many of the organizations are conducting workshops in Mumbai to teach women how to patchwork a Godhadi . It came to me as a surprise and sounded funny to me as it’s a  common practice in Maharashtra and everyone can make it easily. But when I googled it I got to know many women are practicing it for lively hood as partime jobs. Women Empowerment J Even though my parents are from south, being settled in Maharashtra, my Mum is too aware of the patchworks because of our good neighbors. When I was child even I had helped my mum in making it. It was not a rocket science to make it. An advantage of making it at our home was my mum used to use even my father’s old Dhotis and Lungies. Even the owners of the Cotton factories in Tiruppur would never had imagin...