KALEIDOSCOPE OF PEOPLE AND EMOTIONS

 Lest the Cholakathu family forget.  

It is an avalanche of dear ones who are around and who are not, that crops up in my mind.

And I felt we cannot be male chauvinists. Women have their place in the world, empowered or not. It is said a society that neglects its women is signing its own doom.

Apart from the frivolities let me zero in.

I see Kuttyamma Kochamma who sacrificed her own career to ensure the survival of Cholakathu at Kunthirikkal.

There were our Mummy, and Johnychayan's Kochamma who stood like rocks behind their husbands.

I see Daisy's husband who fulfilled her desire to attend the recent family conclave.

I see our Pappa who ventured into the unknown at a tender age - Singapore - and tomorrow, 5th April 2023, marks the 15th year he called it quits from the world. He had toiled hard sending home everything he earned. His remittances had set off the rebuilding process of the family home, we call Tharavad. Beauty is he had nothing left when he returned. And his parents prevented his return to Singapore. I have often wondered where the whole family would have been - he was a family man and he cared for his siblings - if he had disobeyed his parents.

Then there are Jose, Gigi, PVJohn Achen, Kochukunjachayan, Keevareechayan.

Can we ever forget the inimitable Elsy. Then we have Anitha, Mercy, Shabna,Reena and if I leave out Lila - it could provoke an internal strife  -and  it makes me  add her - and Minnie whose achievements I believe no one is aware, not to forget Betsy who had a PhD in medicine and who had been instrumental in the formulation a life saving drug - well the names would roll on and on. Please do not feel bad if all the names  do not form a part here.

What I meant is the family as a whole has pulled through because of the respect, love and affection the constituents had for each other. 

I pray it stays like that forever