My Ammamma

  My Ammamma… My Inspiration…. The untold story of my Grandmother Kuppachi Jaya Lakshmi … Born in An Iyyer Family in the summer of 1932 at Thiruvayur on the banks of the river Cauvery (near Thanjavur), Tamilnadu, in the neighborhood of the famous singer Thyagararaju. Her mother Meenakshi (D/o Parameswaran and Parvati) belongs to this place and was a Tamil Brahmin. Her father Kuppachi Narayanayya belongs to Tummagunta , Nellore district. Her father and mother settled in Nellore district after their marriage. Unfortunately she lost her mother when she was a small child. The only memory she remembers of her mom was that she had beautiful eyes (just like her name) and had long, lustrous ankle length hair which she used to bathe in Penna river, with the river mud. Her father never remarried after her mother's demise. He raised the three young children, my grandmother being the eldest of them.  He sold away his agricultural lands and settled in Nellore town for the education ...