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It was during morning  walk I met Mr Krishnan a regular walking mate
 and wished him happy new year.It required clarification as for Tamilians   new year day was  today and for Palghat People Vishu falls tomorrow.In order to cover both festivals  on a single day,we had our vishukkani  today itself  and decided celebrating both today.

While he mentioned his relatives n Palghat like Payyannur,Ayyakkad,Perinkulam,Koduvayur,Nemmara,etc we came to commonness of  Kavuu that is Manappallikkavu. I told him that I belong to Thondikulam but hardly stayed in Palghat as I lived in Trichur for 13 years and later in Bangalore,etc.I was recollecting my colleagues in Bangalore /Madras who originally hailed from Thondikulam like Anantharaman,Dhandayuthapani and Seshadri.Incidentally none of us meet each other after retirement.Two of them were related to my wife and thus not much acquainted with me and the third person belonged to Delhi and was a colleague in Inspection and Audit Dept. During my Bank service of six years in Coimbatore wife used to go for Nurani/Thondikulam sasthapreethi  every year and I couldn’t go .She used to say many people inquired about me through my mother who was from Nurani.She used to explain about the various Paayasams tasted ,etc.

It is found we have many near relatives in Nurani,Thondikulam,Tharakkad,Thathamangalam,Chittoor,Vadakkancherry, Kalpathi,etc and many other places in Palghat.

I mention my native place as Palghat but feel unhappy being away from my native place.

Being  a senior citizen I don’t say an old man many items are restricted to be eaten .In the morning during course of walk we worship or do sevai at Perumal koil,pray God Pillayar,another Ganesha and Nagathammal and others. Since she takes bath early morning she goes inside all the said temples and I worship from outside and I return home and take bath later, Today in one of the Ganesha temples she got Kesari and Sweet Bhoondi In dhonnai as prasadam .I had to consume one of them as she doesn’t take those . Later at home I could get heavier breakfast after performing Ammavasai  tharpanam.While taking lunch took a little rice,Sakkara Pongal and a little aviyal and a vadai .She has made aviyal,mango koottan,Rasam,Some paanagam,vadai, Paayasam, etc I couldn’t take all these as usual . That is the situation .

Nowadays festivals need to be celebrated without much eating things since there are not many persons at home. Of course a portion she distributed to neighbors and they too reciprocate . In order to reduce intake in quantity of carbohydrate and fructose and sodium chloride , saturated fat,etc we combined both festivals to a single day .

• It was during last year while  we were I n USA I had tooth pain ...managed it with medicines I had carried and got one tooth extracted the day I returned to India.It was impossible to approach any Dental surgeon in USA by visiting parents like us who have no definite insurance policy to cover exorbitant medical expenses there. It is almost one year over and on account of age or other reasons pain started again. I just managed using some acetaminophen tablets,or amoxicillin /analgesic with  diclofenac/brufen and regular  GARGLING  with salt water or anti gingivitis /anti plaque mouthwash  or using clove oil at the point of cavity, and brushing teeth with sensodyne toothpaste  etc  .Finally I went to a Dentist nearby home . I found out Diclofenac/Brufen was non steroidal and anti inflammatory drug  known by various band names .She gave some tablets and asked me get an x Ray of teeth and surroundings after checking tooth by names incisors,Molar,canines etc .Finally she found out wisdom tooth  on the top ,may be deactivated,which she advised may be removed later. It was now that I realized some material connected with wisdom is still found in such an old man with no wisdom.New terms like filling,refilling,bridge,implanting,etc heard from Dentist  .My English vocabulary gets increased by visiting Physicians or Dentists or Diagnostic Labs,