Originally posted by: sashashyam
Thank you so much, my dear Kuki. What a cheerful, luminous e-greeting!I miss you all too, more than I can say, par kya karein?Shyamala Aunty
Originally posted by: sashashyam
My dearest Akka,This days, I am like a rickety car that proceeds only by fits and starts at its own pleasure, so I am sure you will not take this delay in my responding to your wonderful message amiss.Your post is one of the best compliments that any writer could hope to receive, for all that it is far too kind to me and my writing.These are two of my favourite Jodha Akbar pieces as well, and would always be near the top of my list ot Ten Best JA Episode Analyses. And you have highlighted the choice parts here beautifully. Some of my other favourites would be The prayer of hope and the prayer of despair, Heartbreak Road, Heartbreak ++, and Episode 31, Sandhya's all time favourite, The Emperor Strikes Back. Oh, and how could I forget Sunlight on a Butterfly's Wings? And at a lesser level, the Camelot series of 2 or 3 posts.Those were pieces that practically wrote themselves, for I loved the episodes so much. I need that jump start to get me going, and I cannot really analyse poor material well, unless I want to be sharply sarcastic. That is why I at times used to drop out of Jodha Akbar for a week or more at a time, before I finally abandoned it around Episode 300. That is also one of my weaknesses, that I cannot write to order, so to speak, unless the material speaks to me. With Chandra Nandini, I lasted only till No. 121, and had a blessed early release!Poor Rajat. I feel desperately sorry for him. So much talent wasted on such junk as Chandra Nandini, and now God alone knows what is going to be his next show. I am hoping against hope that he gets something that he can explore in depth and that the show will do really well in TRP terms. Let us see.Affectionately,Shyamala
Originally posted by: Tilottamaa
Dearest Aunty,
It's such a pleasure to see you around! Super belated wishes of your birthday day and the new year. Hope this year turns out to be a better one in terms of "the greatest wealth" to you, and your witty glimpses, to us. And sincere apologies for wishing you this late! 😳Reading your replies, I was reminded of the good old days, and most importantly, what I miss the most in the Forum these days - your subtle sense of humor and keen observation, not to mention the slippers and belans! 😆Love,Adwitiya.
Originally posted by: karkuzhali
My dearest Shyamala,@Bold: How true are your words! Unless the material is good, how can the dress made out of it will have the elegance which gives satisfaction to the seamstress? I understand how you you would have felt when you were doing the analyses of these wonderful chapters..@ Underlined: I also feel the same about Rajat. Poor Boy..Don't say you are a rickety car Shyamala.. You must have seen the old movie "Chitty Chitty Bang! Bang!" where a damaged sports car gets a 'facelift' in the hands of a loving mechanic father of 2 little kids like Baby and Babloo, which sails in the waters and flies in the sky. Like wise, you will get back your energy when you come across episodes of any show that will speak to you and make you write..Please take care of your health..Affectionately yoursSaraswathi Akka.
Originally posted by: jayaks02
Akka Akka Akka,
I am coming late to the party but believe me I remembered you on 11th Dec. Good to see lashy has created a thread.How I miss your Posts Akka ? Your incomparable writing, analysis, depth and the humour not to speak of the lofty language.It kills me so much that you are having this unbearble pain for almost so many months. I am not the praying kind ( not even for me) but how I wish you can be cured of this at least 90% !Please do take care Akka. Recently i went to your CN writing of their romantic good episodes and just R..E..L...I..S..H..E..D it.Sweetness of your writing is much more than the elai sapadu Lashy has spread 😃. May you be healthy, cheerful, happy always and write this stunning, whenever you write .Tumhari Sulu was a movie which I thought if you had written a review would have been wonderful. Watch it for the incredible Vidya Balan !Take Care and May God always bless you . Hope your mom is doing fine.Terribly missing your writing ..Srividhya
Originally posted by: sashashyam
It is my sense of humour, child, that keeps me going these days. At one point, when I was at my lowest ebb, I fainted at my doorstep. Now this was the sort of thing young ladies from the 18th and 19th centuries used to do, deliberately, when there was some Prince Charming around to hold them as they collapsed artistically. With me, unfortunately, I was not 17 but 70, and there was no Prince Charming around, but only a bewildered gardener who had come to enquire after my health and had no clue what to do as I sank to the floor!😆😉😆
Originally posted by: sashashyam
Sandhya my pet,What a gorgeous, delicate confection in pink and white! 👏I am sure the giant rose in the centre is edible, but I would never have the heart to actually eat it!You have taken the strain to reply individually to each one of us!😲As for your quatrain below the cake, as your literary overseer, I would give you very high marks for it, for it was not an easy composition to undertake, and it is near perfect in both metre and rhyme. Yes, and the content too, of course!Wow! Thank you very much aunty. I miss your critical analysis of my little quatrains on the HBAS threads these days. Lana and Vathsy too spin out verses and i can't help wondering every time when something is put up in verse form by me or anyone else, what your evaluation of them would me. Sometimes i even make corrections imagining your disapproval in metre and pattern. But the punctuations - i have hardly improved.Here is how we go about it - as an anthaadhi - beginning from the last line of the previous verse. Do take a look if interested and if your health, especially eyes permit. And DO NOT strain yourself further by replying.So you deserve three BIG hugs, which are duly affixed below. If only one materialises, that is because of a curious IF gremlin that seems to disapprove of too much affection being lavished on any member by another😉😉 ! See my reponses to Baby and Babloo, and to Shagun above.🤗🤗🤗Take care of yourself, my poppet, and may the whole to 2018 be good to you and yours.Thank you ever so much aunty.🤗Affectionately,Shyamala Aunty
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