Grandma does not know her exact age but is estimated to be at least 70 years old. She has a remarkable memory for her age and is healthier than Grandma's son (the author's father). Grandma no longer has any teeth but still has good eyesight. She enjoys watching television and telling stories, including many from scriptures and legends as well as her own supposed adventures. Recently, Grandma has slowed down and now spends more time resting, worrying her family.
Grandma does not know her exact age but is estimated to be at least 70 years old. She has a remarkable memory for her age and is healthier than Grandma's son (the author's father). Grandma no longer has any teeth but still has good eyesight. She enjoys watching television and telling stories, including many from scriptures and legends as well as her own supposed adventures. Recently, Grandma has slowed down and now spends more time resting, worrying her family.
Grandma does not know her exact age but is estimated to be at least 70 years old. She has a remarkable memory for her age and is healthier than Grandma's son (the author's father). Grandma no longer has any teeth but still has good eyesight. She enjoys watching television and telling stories, including many from scriptures and legends as well as her own supposed adventures. Recently, Grandma has slowed down and now spends more time resting, worrying her family.
Grandma does not know her exact age but is estimated to be at least 70 years old. She has a remarkable memory for her age and is healthier than Grandma's son (the author's father). Grandma no longer has any teeth but still has good eyesight. She enjoys watching television and telling stories, including many from scriptures and legends as well as her own supposed adventures. Recently, Grandma has slowed down and now spends more time resting, worrying her family.
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MY GRANDMOTHER
Grandma does not know what year she was born but remembers having married when the British were still in India. We know our father's age to be 50 years so we estimate that she must be at least 70. She does not even know that the number 70 means so we have given up trying to discuss age with her. She has a remarkable memory for a person her age and is healthier than our father. In fact she has been never been warded in hospital; and criticizes my father strongly for being sickly and going to hospital frequently, as if were his 'mother-in-law's' house.
She has not teeth left and refuse to get fitted with false teeth. Strangely enough she has good eyesight, even at night. She enjoys watching television, which is her main past time. The other past time is telling us stories. For an illiterate woman, we are astounded at the number of stories she knows. She has told us a lot of stories from the scriptures and legends and, the best of all, ghost stories. She has also told many stories which she claims are her own adventures, but which we find incredible. She even has a story in which she claims to have been kidnapped by a demon and returned to her parents three days later.
Once we tried to get her to talk about her husband, our
grandfather, but when we did she flew into a rage, which seemed to be half anger and half sorrow. She burst into tears and started cursing the man. Her scolding was because he left her. She seems to think that he died voluntarily. But in between her crying we saw the deep love that she feels for him after all these years. She particularly remembers how, she had to work as a rubber tapper in Malaysia to bring up her three children; my father being one of them.
Our relationship with her is a simple one: love. She does not insist on obedience nor comments on our dressing nor our lifestyles. In fact occasionally when we start dancing to music, we drag her in and she joins in good naturedly. Of course, we do this when our father and mother are not in. They frown on western dancing.
Lately we have begun to notice that Grandma has slowed down a
little. She is not as active as she used to be and spends a lot of time lying down. I was surprised when she even gave the weekly Tamil movie a miss. I suspect that she yelled at my father for pestering her to tell him what's wrong. the poor man came out of her room with worried look. Grandma does not like to be fussed about, but we are worried just the same.
