Advice
“Place a brinjal under each armpit and pull out three strands of hair from your head. After some months, you’ll have a baby.”
Many years later she would remember her cousin's sagely answer to her question on procreation. How she wished things were as simple now.
Ammani, you are inspiring lot of ppl with your quick tales now.. best part is, some of them are going round in e-mails... i got one today. :)
ReplyDelete:-) Brinjals? Oh, I thought it was onions! But whatever works, eh? Thanks for the much-needed funny!!!
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ReplyDeletehaha... surely that cant be true? Brinjals?? But on reflection I guess they're better than onions. Oniony armpits cant possibly be conducive to procreative activities, hahahaha! :) Love this one, Ammani :)
ReplyDeleteGreat one Ammani!. Onions they say under the armpit brings fever.
ReplyDeleteHow about drumsticks ??? Bhayaraj style?
Very funny and yet brings out our superstitious believes in such matters.
AF
நீர் இல்லையேல், இந்த இரட்டைக் கிளவிகள் முடிவு பெற்றிருக்காது....Check it out at
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Yep, many a times we have this urge that things were as simple as the stories we heard when we were small.
ReplyDeleteyou sound like sivashankari now!
ReplyDeleteNaan oru padam edukkalaamnu paarkaren:
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:-)
Ha ha!!
ReplyDeleteAmmani, me too got inspired by you!!! Its utter crap, but still, wud like to have ur view...
Check out my quick tale
here
Ammani
ReplyDeleteCame through Inthya's blog...wow!! how did I miss this place?? Will blogroll u for sure Waiting for more tales from you/
Aha the old family tales. Its kinda funny trying to figure out the rationale behind all this stuff. The concept of aphrodisiacs is still unknown territory for science and is yet unproved. But the old ladies have their recommendations nevertheless.
ReplyDeleteAmmani,
ReplyDeleteI introduced some of your short tales in my office and now there is a huge fan following your tales.
Especially an old post of yours about staying single is very popular among my colleagues
Ammani,
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am a fan for ur chai pani more :) so phullleasseee for my sake add lots of recipes to it!thanks
Bala of passing cloud refered your site.They are wity,gritty.awesome quicker quickies.Proud to be here
ReplyDeleteAs usual, excellent one...i am reminded of keeping 'mayil iragu' in the book as it was 'believed' that it would grow!!!
ReplyDeletewhat can I say Ammani....nother good one.....
ReplyDeleteknow what...I took some print outs of ur QTs for my mom...after reading that....yesterday when I went home.....she was in front of my comp reading ur blog !!....now shez hooked too !!!
அன்புள்ள அம்மனி அவர்களுக்கு,
ReplyDelete'நல்ல கதை!' உங்களதில்ல...
உங்க கஸின் வுட்டது!!
என்றும் அன்புடன்,
ரங்கநாதன்
Most of your protagonists are mostly females in distress...this is no exception. But i don't know why this reminds of a very recurrent theme in the Indian society...infertility!
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