Kalakkadu Thothathri Vadhyar

                                                                33)  THE LEGACY  OF  KTV                                               Legacy ,by definition, is  a gift of   personal property ,at will a bequeth, handed down from the past from an ancestor or predecessor  to the benefit and  the enjoyment of  future generations.A legacy may be that  of any  part of nature. May be an individual, a river, a certain part of a country or a full country itself which decides the fate,future, culture and traditions , influencing the society at large by one's own concommitent individuality behaviour  culture  course of action    and moral force of ...

                                                     KALAKADU  THOTHATHRI  VADHYAR     (32  )                      Sivarathri and Siva poojai.:  There is a particular poojai  known as " Parthiva Sivapoojai " which normally are not performed in all houses.One has to get it from a suitable guru as upadhesam.KTV was performing that until his last years.In the end of November 1986, in his prevailing condition, perhaps he that he could not continue. So he called me and advised me to continue the same and did the necessary upadhesam  as a guru.I am performing that even today.You should not drink coffee or anything else before doing that after your bath.When he was of normal health years back, he would give a reminder to KP to keep a cup of coffee ready for compl...

                                                                     KALAKADU. THOTHATHRI  VADHYAR  (  31  )                                          KTVused to forget his body pain  which he had developed on these days, at the time of reading  Bahagavadgita or Narayaneeyam by Usha in the evenings.One day KTV asked her whether he is like what Gita expects a man to be.She politely answered that he is almost like what is mentioned in Gita except for one thing. In Gita ,anger is never advocated.But he replied that  anger is some times justified   when you are absolutely convinced  that the opposite party is commiting a serious unforgivable mistake. While  they ...

                                                         KAAKADU  THOTHATHRI  VADHYAR  (30  )                                                                      The young ones joining the elder forces had the same enthusiasm and did their might playfully just like that giving us greater energy    and took out our  tiresomeness totally.Everyone  thought that it his or her duty and things went on  for months  without any snag. KTV also was very happy in the company of his grand children. Some times he used to cut jokes also in their gathering,Though bedridden for roughly about twenty  months  ha saw that he never ...

                                KALAKADU  THOTHATHRI VADHYAR  (  29)                                                                       All of us became very busy in his service while taking care of  our own works. Srimathi had finished her Higher Secondary course and was trying  for joining Engineering course.Bhava, Cheenu, Sriram and Meera   were attending their school classes. While KTV was mentally strong with a great will power,he was physically damn weak . Upto the  last, he was having a sharp eye, and ear, Tasting and  smelling faculties were good.He could talk with out difficulty.Difficulty was regarding getting up by himself ,without others' assistance swallowing and moving his ha...

                                                          KALAKADU  THOTHATHRI  VADHYAR  (  28  )                                   When he was found a little bit fit to travel , we took him to Thirunelveli to reside with us , so that more attention can be given without affecting my personal work also. It was as if for having him conveniently under our care , we had finished construction of our own house at Maharajanagar, Thirunelveli.Krishna pillai's statement also became true incidentally.I could give more personal care of him. Unlike Kalakad, Thirunelveli had a number of specialists whom I could request to visit and treat.For his various disabilities, different Doctors were engaged as visiting Doctors. Physiothrepists, Nephrologist,D...

                                                                          KALAKADU THOTHATHRI VADHYAR  (  27  )                                            In   February 1984, Cheenu's Upanayanam was conducted in a large scale at Kalakad as planned by KTV, attended to by all our relatives and friends witha good number of brahmin community people of Kalakad , Sundaram Shyamala Ambujam and  Usha's Mother.  At  this stage itself, KTV was running down health.There was a visible sign of weakness in his body ,reduction of weight and readable fatigue in his face,  He was being shown to the loacal doctors then and there.            ...

                                                              KALAKADU  THOTJATHRI  VADHYAR  (  26  )                                                   KTVand KP had  to make another trip to to Bombay to attend the marriage of one Gopalaiyer who was staying in the same flat as a neighbour to TV in Triplicane.The girl's case was a very difficult one horoscopically to start with.Under the direction and advice of KTV ,Gopalaiyer went to Ramaeswaram with all nis relatives and  performed the stipulated pariharams as the horoscope demanded .Within a few months the marriage got fixed .Gopalaiyer stipulated that the marriage would be conducted only in KTV's presence in order to honour ...

                                                        KALAKADU THOTHATHRI  VADHYAR (  25  )                                       A cycle rikshaw  took us through a narrow street with some bendings and turnings to our house , which was not far away. i met Krishnan  and Shubhashree and was speaking with them .Shubhashree went to bed early since her school would start early next morning.Jayashree was brought next morning from Aytha's  hous.   .We were talking for one or two hours when K  gave a personal narration of the events one by one.He spoke about Shaikya,  Dr.Shermon and other people in great detail. By the time I  went to see him there was more improvement and he had started practising walk...

                                   KALAKADU  THOTHATHRI  VADHYAR  (  24   )                                                       As told in the earlier page,  KTV and KP travelled  by train upto Calcutta from where they were flown to Tinsukiya by Periyanna and Sankari in March 1983,1 with required conveniences. You know the mode of booking in railway stations in those days.. For booking ticket for travel of one person or more , one had to wait  in the queue for long number of hours.There would be only single  counter and one booking clerk who quite often disappears when we are near the counter   and after testing our patience, he appears and makes a number of entries  and ultimately issues three ticke...

                                  KALAKADU THOTHATHRI VADHYAR  (  23  )                                           The accident::  Tinsukiya one of the important cities in the Dibrugarh district,situated in the  eastern part of Assam State very near  to Arunachalpradesh is famous for threeTs ( Tea ,Timber and Transport), No place is wasted.You see a large expance of fields for crops and   teak treesFacing Krishnan's office  closeby runs a well laid road ,and parallelly a railway track in the level of the road itself flanked by fields.There are oil refineries for producing  gas and other petrolium products.  On the day of the accident   before leaving the office he refuses leave  for the next day to one of his employees by name Saiki...

                                         KALAKADU THOTHATHRI  VADHYAR  (  22  )                                                            When we were in Kailasapuram. Srimathi . was a child, and Kannan was with us studying BSc Physics in MDT Hindu college , where I  was working initially  and we had the happy opportunity of having Ganesh also with us for about 10 days . little Ganesh used to mock at the way  Usha used to dry  appalam using kariyaduppu, which was blackish. shrunk and out of shape  unlike KP who made the same product in a nicer way ,white and broad   and circular as a full moon.He used to push her aside  and he himself will try the process. We used to enjoy the...

                                                 KALAKAD  THOTHATHRI VADHYAR  (  21  )                                                                In      the year 1970  KTV's Shashtiabhdha poorthy  was celabrated in a grand manner  arranged by us sons and daughter Sankari,  well attended to by a large number of invitees from far and near and assisted and supported by local brahmins at large.! Three days prior to that Maharudram was performed with 133 vaithikas  ,chanting Rudrajapam daily,preceded by Mahanyasam.and allied homams. The main hall of the house could not  accommoate  all.  The occasion was made grander by combining our...

                                 KALAKADU THOTHATHRI   VADHYAR  (  20  )                                              At the outset ,  I wish to inform you that the  events in the life of KTV     his encounters with people and the consequent episodes  described in these pages are not in the chronological order. Let us look upon them as individual pieces of occurences.                 Koodaloor Krishna Iyer::  There was  one M.R Iyer at Kalakad  who was a  textile technologist working in some private textile mill at Coimbatore in a high position.. His sister had been given in marriage at Melamangalam, near  Kambam , Koodaloor area in Theni district. M.RI yer had invited KTV...