CHALESWARAM-FORWARD Thoughts of a 79 year old retired Indian scientist , who isan astrologer, a translator of prayers and poems and a story teller tochildren.
Friday, January 11, 2019 Reading glasses (vellezhuthu kannadi/kitta parvai kannadi)hawker in USA By P.R.Ramachander Long long back , myfather who used to read a lot , told methat he is not able to read because he has Vellezhuthu. Few days later there was a temple festival in our village. Myfather took me to the festival and unusually went to the place hawkers used to sit.One of them was selling Mooku Kannadi( spectacles).My father tried a few , chose one ,haggled with a hawker paid him tworupees and brought a mooku kannadi, From then on , I have always seen him wear it. , never went to opthomologist and used tobuy spectacles from hawkers for either two or three rupees. Times rolled by. Icrossed 40 years of age, and suddenly Iwas not able to read. I went toopthomologist and he prescribed me glasses , charged me 40 rupees and sent meto a spectacle shop , who chargedme around 200 rs. My friend told me that I have Chaleswaram. When Iblinked he told me that when you are “Chalis oopar” you get this disease. When I forget the spectacles or it gets broken orlost I used to spend several hundred rupees(later at least thousand rupees ) to get a new spectacle.Slowly I started wearing plastic lensbut about 5 years back my opthomologist recommended me to buy a reading glass for just 200 rupees. Ofcourse I did not. Recently I forgot my spectacles in a temple. My son told me that my eye exam would cost around 200$ and aspectacle itself would cost around another 200$.My son and metravelled 60 km and got back the spectacles and left out of a sigh of relief. Today I happened to goto “Dollar central store” and to my surprise “reading spectacles” of any powerwas available there for just one Dollar.I recollected the hawker who used to sell spectacles to my father andpurchased a suitable one , for emergency and came back. Now as long as Iam in USA, I need not worry about loss or breakage of reading glasses. Ican solve my problem by spending one dollar -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to thatha_patty+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1608174381.251068.1630242871955%40mail.yahoo.com.
