Swati Muthyam (స్వాతిముత్యం)

“Why don’t you see Rama, Sri Raghurama…”

I asked to get all the papers and he just got the English one

One, two, three, four…

Nookalu - Yes

Nookalu

This milk and - Bought paper even today

You bought six bottles of milk too

They are coming

I’m listening to the same from three days

Saying here comes my sons and my daughter in laws

Still, can’t you buy what do they need after their arrival?

They’d be troubled if we don’t get then

Huh, like no trouble if all these are ready

Huh!

You are being stubborn, why trouble them all?

They’ll hardly have ten holidays. Will they look into their works or travel for this old man?

Is this any nearby?

Oh no, what’s that? - Tumbler

You keep it in the way?

That elder one has to come from Jabalpur, very far away

That second boy from - Guwahati, Assam

Yes, the same - Mahatma Gandhi road

Ok! - Ok

Even in a big job, to travel so far it costs a lot and great tension

Look, why can’t you be with them? Say, all would be so comfortable

I won’t go - Why?

I won’t go and I won’t. That’s all

Here Nookalu, come and hold this. Otherwise, I’ll fall down

Why now? - I should bring down the vessels

Aren’t these not enough now?

What if there are holes in them?

Why do you scream? I’ll fall, right?

Don’t shake

Grandpa - Grandpa

You said to see grandpa and why’s this crying now?

Indira, father in law - Hello father in law

Hello - Are you fine?

Get down grandpa - Quiet baby

We’ve come to grandpa, quiet now - Balasubramanyam

He’s coming dad - Ok

Hey, go out and play

You didn’t come the day before - Yes, that was

Our Deepthi got first prize in College story competition

Hey Deepthi - Yes uncle

That function got late and we missed the train

What story did you write?

Nothing grandpa, Daddy says like that

Spectacles in a very small age

What Nookalu, is the father in law staying healthy?

What health madam, however, he is regularly, he stays happy like a kid when you all are here

Go, go to grandpa

When we ask to take him with us, he says not to come leaving this house

I too tried telling him, he’s very stubborn

You should adjust forgetting about your bungalows for a few days, at least for this old man

My dad and this is grandpa

This is my grandpa and this is coconut instrument

Grandpa, you played this as a kid?

Grandpa, I brought this for you. See, it’s so good

I’ll feed the baby and get her back

Come on dear - Grandpa, play once please

Play it grandpa - Please play, grandpa

What grandpa - One minute

What do you need, father in law?

That…

“Sleep dear, sleep”

“Lullaby of coins for the Lord sleeping on the leaf”

“Diamonds lullaby for the Lotus eyed Lord”

“Lullaby of coins for the Lord sleeping on the leaf”

“Diamonds lullaby for the Lotus eyed Lord”

“For the cute Krishna”

“Pearls lullaby for the cute Krishna”

“Precious lullaby for the Lord ruling the Universe”

“Lullaby of coins for the Lord sleeping on the leaf”

“Diamonds lullaby for the Lotus eyed Lord”

“Sleep dear, sleep”

“Kousalya’s lullaby for charming Rama”

“Yashoda’s lullaby for the charm of Yadu dynasty”

“For the lord with elephant face”

“Goddess Parvati’s lullaby for the elephant faced Lord”

“The great Lord’s lullaby for the boy with his charm”

“Lullaby of coins for the Lord sleeping on the leaf”

“Diamonds lullaby for the Lotus eyed Lord”

“Sleep dear, sleep”

“Annamaiah’s lullaby for Lord Venkateswara”

“Gopaiah’s lullaby for Kodanda Rama”

“Syamaiah’s lullaby for the blue tinted Lord”

“Tyagaiah’s lullaby for the greatest of the Lords”

“Lullaby of coins for the Lord sleeping on the leaf”

“Diamonds lullaby for the Lotus eyed Lord”

“Pearls lullaby for the cute Krishna”

“Precious lullaby for the Lord ruling the Universe”

“Lullaby of coins for the Lord sleeping on the leaf”

“Diamonds lullaby for the Lotus eyed Lord”

“Sleep dear, sleep”

Swathi Mutyam

In the name of the father - In the name of the father

And of the son - And of the son

And of the Holy Spirit - And of the Holy Spirit

Amen - Amen

And the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ - And the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ

And the love of God - And the love of God

And the fellowship of the Holy Spirit - And the fellowship of the Holy Spirit

Be with you all - Be with you all

Amen

What, a story again?

Yes, daddy Swathi mutyam, the title is good, right?

Good, it’s very good

Still into your stories even when you came here, instead to spend some good time with grandpa?

I started the story with grandpa in mind, see

Oh, you started well. After that?

After that… - Hah

You don’t need your imagination to write.

Grandpa’s life story will exactly suit for your title

Grandpa, for me

Hey, monkey… - I’ll bath the baby and bring her back father in law

She wet my shirt - Grandpa- Yes

You’d love me get a better name in the next story competition, right? - Yes

You’d feel happier if I get the first prize again, right?

I’ll be happy

Then tell me your story and I’ll write that

I don’t have any story separately. Your grandma’s story is my story

Ok, say the same Grandpa. I’ll write it

That’s a story of 70 to 80 years back

Grandpa, I need 100 years back story. Please say, grandpa

What to say?

Your Grandma took great troubles. That God took her husband in a small age

Your dad… Hey Balu, come here

This fellow… What’s this?

Ok, you go

When he was so small, along with him…

Sir… Sir

Hello Sir. Hello Madam

Please come Sir, come madam

Uncle, is this my Grandpa’s house?

Madam, daughter in law is here

Dear Lalitha! Lalitha!

I’m your grandma, dear

It all happened unexpectedly. I too am unable to believe

He married the girl he liked.

I always prayed to God for keeping him happy but never felt sad that he went away from us.

I always thought he’d change his mind and my son with daughter in law will be back home

I never expected such a day to come

Where and to whom?

Daughter in law and the boy have come - Whose daughter in law?

Huh!

Hubby, they did right or wrong but bad has happened.

At least see her face and this kid’s face and show mercy

Rajeswari, I sent away my own son for saying no to me and marrying this girl

When he’s no more, who are these to come in?

Rao Sir, if you say so where do they go and how do they live?

How you thought them to live and got your sister married, ask them to live the same way

Please don’t say so. As I’m not so capable to support them, I’m pleading you like this

If you say no now…

There are foster homes and orphanages

No hubby, we lost our only son being rigid like this and now this only blood relation

Rajeswari! Don’t argue with me and cut even our relation

Rao Sir, please think about this kid with a kind heart

Brother! Son!

Oh no! - What happened?

Oh no! - He’s always like this

I’ve been trying to feel bad sitting right there thinking about what happened, but I’m unable to

You’re the only brother and she’s the only sister and yours is an ordinary family

No need to feel much worse about this, because the Crores of people are like us in the country

When a Billionaire’s son married our Lalitha opposing parents, even that wasn’t any special

Because of Lakhs of marriages as such are taking place

But the girl losing her husband within five years is an incident to feel bad and I felt bad right then

But that Rao with no mercy rejected daughter in law and grandson

That isn’t any story to feel bad and leave that matter

I was thinking of the same sitting there and felt bad

What is the time Sir? - You stay quiet, I’m angry

Then I didn’t feel good. Ok, leave all those things

There is just one way for that Rao to realize and we get justice

We should pull him to the Court and make him pay compensation

Why come on to the roads more? It’s better to adjust thinking God’s fate for her is so

Even God feels bad thinking his responsibility is gone down if we adjust like this

Listen to me, good for both

Let’s appoint a great lawyer, squeeze out that Rao and extract compensation

For this process, give two hundreds for now

Hundred now and then again based on the work proceedings

Understood right? You can give then

Guravaiah Sir, don’t show mirages. Chalapathi Sir is an innocent man

Don’t make him too a fool like all

Hey Venkatasami! You wash any cloth on the same stone and teach me about treating the people?

You should be told, you send impure oil even for God’s worship

Even God isn’t caring about this and why do you care?

You shut up

Grandma! Grandma! - Say, I’m listening

Birth ceremony of Ananthalaxmi’s baby is taking place

It’s good that we present something

Your dad has no habit to give than to just receive

Still, why do you ask me for everything putting your dad and stepmother aside?

Ok, I won’t ask anything from you - Will you ask your brother in law?

I won’t ask at all

You’d say so now, but after marriage, you’ll pull with interest

Marriage and with brother in law? Say that crazy man to come

What for him, he’s a King

That’s why he’s crowned and made to sit on the bull to wait till I come

Don’t play a fool at me, you…

Go!

I send the can only when money is sent