Music class - apologies for the highly culture-specific rambling:
I was teaching S a new krithi Ethavunara in Kalyani. The over zealous mother that I am, I tried to sneak in a little bit of Telugu language skills while she learnt the krithi, so I wrote the lyrics for her in Telugu and encouraged her to read the lyrics. She gave it her best shot and in about 10 minutes or so, we were able to start anupallavi. She read " seee thaaaa.... gow.....ri seetha gowri vaa geee swaaa... riiii.. wait..."
I was expecting her to give up out of frustration and then
she says "Does she talk a lot?"
Puzzled, I ask her "What do you mean? Who talks a lot?"
S: The lady being referred to in the krithi!
Me: How come?
S: Her name is Vaageeshwari, which should mean that she talks a lot.
Now a little context around it: In our family, we have a habit of calling people names based on their actions:
Someone who is habitually late is called Late Latif and someone who sacrifices for others is called Tyagaraju (Tyagam means sacrifice in Telugu).
S's has earned a name of Kukkeswari because she tends to start her meals at snail's pace and then stuffs it all at once in her mouth when she runs out of time. (Stuffing is called "kukkadam" in Telugu and hence she earned the name Kukkeswari).
My uber smarty pants daughter extended the same logic to Goddess Saraswathi and concluded that, because her name is Vaageeshwari, she should talk a lot (vaagadam means talking continuously like a chatterbox).
So she concluded that Saraswathi was a chatter box. Interesting point of view.
I was teaching S a new krithi Ethavunara in Kalyani. The over zealous mother that I am, I tried to sneak in a little bit of Telugu language skills while she learnt the krithi, so I wrote the lyrics for her in Telugu and encouraged her to read the lyrics. She gave it her best shot and in about 10 minutes or so, we were able to start anupallavi. She read " seee thaaaa.... gow.....ri seetha gowri vaa geee swaaa... riiii.. wait..."
I was expecting her to give up out of frustration and then
she says "Does she talk a lot?"
Puzzled, I ask her "What do you mean? Who talks a lot?"
S: The lady being referred to in the krithi!
Me: How come?
S: Her name is Vaageeshwari, which should mean that she talks a lot.
Now a little context around it: In our family, we have a habit of calling people names based on their actions:
Someone who is habitually late is called Late Latif and someone who sacrifices for others is called Tyagaraju (Tyagam means sacrifice in Telugu).
S's has earned a name of Kukkeswari because she tends to start her meals at snail's pace and then stuffs it all at once in her mouth when she runs out of time. (Stuffing is called "kukkadam" in Telugu and hence she earned the name Kukkeswari).
My uber smarty pants daughter extended the same logic to Goddess Saraswathi and concluded that, because her name is Vaageeshwari, she should talk a lot (vaagadam means talking continuously like a chatterbox).
So she concluded that Saraswathi was a chatter box. Interesting point of view.
