This blog makes everyone feel nostalgic about one’s days with grandmothers. While my maternal grandmother is very astute and symbol of care and punctuality, my paternal grandmother is a picture of dignity and grace.
From now on, I will be discussing about grandmother in general. Mother of seven to eight, the way she(grandmother) brought up kids is the live example of how well one manages a group of diverse soldiers.
Though she studied up to 2nd or 3rd standard, she is a multiple PhDs holder.
The best consultant when any occasion, festival, ritual is conducted as she knows all the processes to be followed. That day is very near, when we stop celebrating festivals and rituals in the same traditional manner we celebrated in the past.
She doesn’t need to hold any degree in catering technology to cook variety of spices and dishes. She is the source of all the delicious powders and pickles that we eat today along with rice and other food items.
Though she is not a story writer, she has an infinite collection of very good stories and epics. Though she is not interested in the current style serials and reality shows, she is interested in watching “Sri Krishna” , “Mahabharata” etc in Doordarshan channel that comes on every Sunday.
She is the only person bridging the gap between pre independence and post independence eras. She has a bunch full of experiences to talk about. She has experienced the days when our technologies are not well advanced, our country was under developed, when electricity was not invented, when the medicine was in its early ages.
Her stamina is indomitable because the same legs have walked miles to get pots of water, the same fingers have made many stitches to the clothes of all the family members, the same eyes have taken care of seven to eight kids and same tongue has taught profound management principles and disciplines. Of course her vision is perfect atleast till the age she was affected with cataract. She can even now able to read newspaper perfectly from page 1 to page n.
She is one of the major sources of pocket money to the grandsons and granddaughter, effectively managing her pension money apart from spending it to her own medicines. She is very affectionate.
I was astonished when I saw an old lady in seventies trying to catch a running city bus. At that age someone should be there to offer a helping hand to her, which is missing in day to day world. She can survive only in villages and small towns. The flyovers, traffic rules, subways, elevators in cities are really confusing for her to manage with. It is our job to not to ignore taking care of her at that age. There are many who join ashrams, old age homes because of lack of care from sons/daughters feeling her as an onus to them. Most of the grandmothers are prone to Alzheimer’s disease. This makes them forget the past and behave in a childish way t ill the end. What she needed is care.
She is the person who takes care of us when our parents are out of station. But, when she grew older the same sons/ daughters feel that it is a difficult task to keep her with them. That is why she keeps changing her stay in each son’s house for every 2 or 3 months. Even her pension amount is being dragged by her sons in few cases in one or the other manner. Now, emergence of nuclear families made her life even more miserable.
We need to respect her for leading life at that age and take very well care of her.
From now on, I will be discussing about grandmother in general. Mother of seven to eight, the way she(grandmother) brought up kids is the live example of how well one manages a group of diverse soldiers.
Though she studied up to 2nd or 3rd standard, she is a multiple PhDs holder.
The best consultant when any occasion, festival, ritual is conducted as she knows all the processes to be followed. That day is very near, when we stop celebrating festivals and rituals in the same traditional manner we celebrated in the past.
She doesn’t need to hold any degree in catering technology to cook variety of spices and dishes. She is the source of all the delicious powders and pickles that we eat today along with rice and other food items.
Though she is not a story writer, she has an infinite collection of very good stories and epics. Though she is not interested in the current style serials and reality shows, she is interested in watching “Sri Krishna” , “Mahabharata” etc in Doordarshan channel that comes on every Sunday.
She is the only person bridging the gap between pre independence and post independence eras. She has a bunch full of experiences to talk about. She has experienced the days when our technologies are not well advanced, our country was under developed, when electricity was not invented, when the medicine was in its early ages.
Her stamina is indomitable because the same legs have walked miles to get pots of water, the same fingers have made many stitches to the clothes of all the family members, the same eyes have taken care of seven to eight kids and same tongue has taught profound management principles and disciplines. Of course her vision is perfect atleast till the age she was affected with cataract. She can even now able to read newspaper perfectly from page 1 to page n.
She is one of the major sources of pocket money to the grandsons and granddaughter, effectively managing her pension money apart from spending it to her own medicines. She is very affectionate.
I was astonished when I saw an old lady in seventies trying to catch a running city bus. At that age someone should be there to offer a helping hand to her, which is missing in day to day world. She can survive only in villages and small towns. The flyovers, traffic rules, subways, elevators in cities are really confusing for her to manage with. It is our job to not to ignore taking care of her at that age. There are many who join ashrams, old age homes because of lack of care from sons/daughters feeling her as an onus to them. Most of the grandmothers are prone to Alzheimer’s disease. This makes them forget the past and behave in a childish way t ill the end. What she needed is care.
She is the person who takes care of us when our parents are out of station. But, when she grew older the same sons/ daughters feel that it is a difficult task to keep her with them. That is why she keeps changing her stay in each son’s house for every 2 or 3 months. Even her pension amount is being dragged by her sons in few cases in one or the other manner. Now, emergence of nuclear families made her life even more miserable.
We need to respect her for leading life at that age and take very well care of her.
