My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

Last month I got a promotion in life ..... and it was indeed a momentous occasion for all of us.  I have now become a proud grandmother of a baby girl Shayna, (the beautiful) who has turned one month old today.  What it meant...    It was last year, during the end of one of my trips that I learnt the good news about the upcoming arrival of the baby.  It felt very very wonderful and that meant that my priorities were about to change.   I started preparing a long stay with my daughter to help her during this wonderful time.  So began a long stay options in US.  While the first trip of this year - it was business and family and it became one week of business trip and one week of stay with my daughter.  it was pretty tough doing all these together, but it was worth it from both the ends.  Then I had to go back to Chennai to take care of year end work and other things.  So again, the next trip back here so that i can be with my daughter in the final trimester.  Now I am on my grandmatern

While my earlier post was about the farmers plight in India, here is another, this time taken from the letters to the editor from The Hindu.  This is about different kind of problems faced by the farmers in Tamil Nadu. http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/letters/article2236334.ece I am totally in agreement with this write up and I have seen how in our village the NGERA work is being misutilized with just the sole objective of providing work for the people and no gain from the work for the village.  One day I saw few people cleaning up the road - clearing off the grass and other weeds from the side.  Of course, this would help, but these people were doing in when it was about the rain the next day and also when the farming season was in full swing - where more agricultural hands are needed.  Thats why what is good for one region cannot be applied to other region.  In fact, in Trichy and Tanjore district, there is work on the farm lands year around what with the sugarcane, banana being cu

It was a poignant statement about a mother from a daughter, when asked the question - what is the enduring  memory of your mother  and the daughter replies" More than anything, I would like to remember her when she was not working at all.  When I slept, she was working and when I woke up she was working"    What a statement about a farmer who has committed suicide ( yes I havent written as a woman farmer - because I dont believe the gender has anything to differentiate between the work you do as a human being).  Of course, Sudha mani, the daughter didnt get any state compensation, because the Indian society doesn't recognize woman as a farmer, but only as a farmer's wife.  dont get me wrong, this article is not about the gender inequality.  This article is about the sorry plight of Indian farmers across India, who commit suicides day in and day out.   I was most touched by this documentary in NDTV and wanted to share it within my circle, as nowadays we talk about