Note – Ammani took a fabulous spin at the gnawing romantic inclinations felt by the suitor who rejected Tripurasundari.
Dear Vaidyanathan,
I always thought you were Subramaniam. Everytime your mother called she would refer to you as Subbu. Somehow I took a fancy to the name. My father then did a thorough search through all the Tamil matrimonial websites and found a few Subramaniams for me. A few of them were invited. But they were all software engineers dotted over the Western coast of the United States. But finally one Subramaniam living in Prague came in. The sight of him excited our small dog. The dog’s little butt shivered in delight seeing him. The choice had been made.
So I live in Prague now. The immigration officials are used to names with too many syllables. I had no trouble walking through. It is nice to live in a city full of names that are hard to pronounce. They are genetically wired not to take offense.
Might I then suggest that you attempt wooing my sister, Balatripurasundari? Or even the youngest one in the family – Nishprapanchaya. The first one is likely to reproduce well and give birth to boys who will represent the Indian cricket team as their finest spinners. For the second one, please consult her horoscope. Both of them are easy to share rasam saadam with. But they tend to eat other people’s keerai vadai. Next time though, make sure you don’t sit next to the window seat in your car.
Kindest Regards
Mrs. Tripurasundari Subramaniam
Posted on February 14th, 2007 by Neha Viswanathan
Filed under: Poetry and Fiction
LOL Way to go, Tipsy.
Brillianto!
ayyo. Nishprapanchaya?! What next? A story about a linguist suitor who’d reject her saying that the name is not a noun and hence grammatically/ technically impossible to marry her?? And What happens when Bala becomes a patti – quite oxymoronic would’nt it be?
The Kindest Regards is the death knell on that one. Hehehe.
dear neha,
exquisite. oddly, this is the second time in as many days that i have come across tripurasundari as a name.
there is a more serious motive for rushing over here to comment. am trying to be the albatross to saket’s foul-mouthed mariner. a couple of days, he removed his appalling response to lakshmi anantnarayan’s comment on his mail about ‘madrasis’. for those coming in late, in his response to lakshmi’s thoughtful comment ( http://www.vulturo.com/2007/02/bunkdcom-disappoints/#comment-11808),
saket announced that lakshmi wins a[deleted] he has deleted that response now. damage control underway, i guess.the thought that he can get away with such statements, by simply clicking on the delete key, fills me with anger. left a comment to this effect on his site. and unsurprisingly, it has not been approved. and so, to ensure that the memory of that [deleted] (no other way to put it) lingers around for a while, am posting this update here.
trust that is ok.
shekhar
Note – While Shekhar’s note is all valid – I had to edit/ delete some parts of it. The last thing I need is Googlers landing here looking for stuff that this blog isn’t about.
Awesome …… could we be profiling Tipsy here in another couple of posts… ???
shekar, why don’t you write to The Hindu?
hey nilu,
was sort of hoping you would volunteer for that. game?
cheers
Such high hopes only. But then, it has brought to this far, so why not.
Excellent prose. I wonder how you punch so much into a paragraph. Scary though, as my name is it as well!