Let's say you cracked the JEE, you ooze confidence and walk six-inches above the ground. Avoid the encounter with the Centum Maami at the Shashtiyaptapoorti. She will wrestle you to the ground - slam dunk, coz, she is the Centum Maami. She is the one who's children have scored centum right through school or have cracked a first rank at JEE or have passed through MIT (with straight As). Studying at REC are you? That's no good - it's IIT Madras or nothing. Studying at XLRI are you, its IIM - Ahmedabad or nothing - you get the drift? Encounters over lunch with this kind will instantly curdle your paal-payasam, force you to rush through straight from the first course of sambar rice and escape without eating curd rice.
The Aadi-Sale Maami. normally found feverishly shopping wherever the word discount' is seen, is single handedly responsible for the economic fortunes of T-Nagar - from Pothys to Chennai Silks to Nallis. She drops into Seemanthams usually on her way for shopping. If you are her unfortunate prey, you will have to drive her to Renganathan Street, become a coolie and carry her shopping bags. Caution, avoid accompanying her and make excuses about needing to check on the Caterers or whip out your phone, yell Hello. Hello' and walk away muttering about the poor quality of the mobile signal inside the Hall.
And finally there is the mmm...Mmmaami - the TamBrahm edition of the yummy-mummy is an extremely rare kind. Think of her as Simran and Shobhana kneaded into one. Seen with a fat balding potbellied Maama - who is usually taken to be her father but turns out to be her husband. Encounters with this kind of Maami are extremely pleasant, laced with the fragrance of malli poo and end with you imagining how she may have looked during her college days or salivate imagining what did they wear to college in those days - paavaadai-daavini? This is the only kind of TamBrahm Maami you really look forward bumping into. But the odds of this encounter are as bright as the odds of seeing butter-chicken on the Kalyanam lunch menu.
Grave doubts are being cast on the ability of the TamBrahm Maami to survive the current age. After all, when Tamil boys are marrying Harpreets or Janets how will the next generation find TamBrahm Maamis? But hope and the taste of vaddu maanga are eternal. The TamBrahm Maamis are a hardy lot; they will persist and continue to evolve. After all the hand that mashes the thaiyir saadam rules the world.
<font size="3">Let's say you cracked the JEE, you ooze confidence and walk six-inches above the ground. Avoid the encounter with the Centum Maami at theShashtiyaptapoorti. She will wrestle you to the ground - slam dunk, coz, she is the Centum Maami. She is the one who's children have scored centum right through school or have cracked a first rank at JEE or have passed through MIT (with straight As). Studying at REC are you? That's no good - it's IIT Madras or nothing. Studying at XLRI are you, its IIM - Ahmedabad or nothing - you get the drift? Encounters over lunch with this kind will instantly curdle yourpaal-payasam, force you to rush through straight from the first course ofsambarrice and escape without eating curd rice.</font>
<font size="3">The Aadi-Sale Maami. normally found feverishly shopping wherever the word discount' is seen, is single handedly responsible for the economic fortunes of T-Nagar - from Pothys to Chennai Silks to Nallis. She drops intoSeemanthamsusually on her way for shopping. If you are her unfortunate prey, you will have to drive her to Renganathan Street, become a coolie and carry her shopping bags. Caution, avoid accompanying her and make excuses about needing to check on the Caterers or whip out your phone, yell Hello. Hello' and walk away muttering about the poor quality of the mobile signal inside the Hall.
And finally there is the mmm...Mmmaami - the TamBrahm edition of the yummy-mummy is an extremely rare kind. Think of her as Simran and Shobhana kneaded into one. Seen with a fat balding potbellied Maama - who is usually taken to be her father but turns out to be her husband. Encounters with this kind of Maami are extremely pleasant, laced with the fragrance ofmalli pooand end with you imagining how she may have looked during her college days or salivate imagining what did they wear to college in those days -paavaadai-daavini? This is the only kind of TamBrahm Maami you really look forward bumping into. But the odds of this encounter are as bright as the odds of seeing butter-chicken on theKalyanamlunch menu.
Grave doubts are being cast on the ability of the TamBrahm Maami to survive the current age. After all, when Tamil boys are marrying Harpreets or Janets how will the next generation find TamBrahm Maamis? But hope and the taste ofvaddu maangaare eternal. The TamBrahm Maamis are a hardy lot; they will persist and continue to evolve. After all the hand that mashes thethaiyir saadamrules the world.</font>