Yes that was with my Ammamma, that is from my mother side,
From my father side my Thaathayya used to come from our village once in an year , and used to stay for a month or so. In fact my ammamma and Thaathayya were own brother and sister, so my mom and dad were close cousins and related to each other, On the other hand my parents marriage was Child marriage, At the time of their marriage My mom was only 9 years old and my dad was 13 years old it seems.
So my thaathayya , when he comes to our home he used to bring a big Jack fruit from our fields, and Munjulu , and big slab of jaggery, and pot full of jaggery paakam, along witing me other delicacies which we do not get in the cities.
Thaathayya,, s anme was Bhimayya, and Ammamma name was Somalamma, later when she come to Christ , her name was changed as Sugunamma, So my thaathayya got a very big house right in our native village, with many trees, and cattle, and fields,
My uncle , that is the brother of mydad used to tell me, that he was unfortunate for not getting studies as my dad did in the local school and thereby he became a farmer and wherease my dad became Police officer. This was an endless story depicted by my chinnanna, whenver i got ot that village, My parents used to take all things in ab ig trunk whever we visited them, and the whole village used to come to see and used to take the things which were distributed to them by my parents. My Menatha( dad's sister) used to cook Ganti bhojanama and with chicken curry and used to serve us with utmost love and affection. even my Chinnamma used to take care of me so lovingly , serving me special quota of food , separately.
My aunty , that is the youngest sister of my dad Subbalkshmi used to teach me all new songs and dances and pamper me so much by allowing me to look into her text books which were kept in her Iron Trunk under the Big cot which was known as Pandhiri mancham,which used to be only in the rich people house in those days.
My dad used to take me to the Rachabanda , a place to be seated by the elders of the village and he used to ask me to recite the poems and mathematical tables in front of every one. and thus telling them that he got most intelligent girl as his daughter. Never did i humiliate him by not obeying him.
Those were the old good days, with lots of pampering and fun for me.
Though they were no where in comparison of our style of life now, They were enjoying thier lives in full, eating to hearts content and living a life of full contentment. Nothing was lacking in comparison of the life we have now. The clothes were not many, the luxuries are not much, but simple steady life, with a daily routine was wonderful to be cherished all the time.
