Obupriya

So I thought and thought what I could write for O. Obupriya is the unique name that I bumped upon in the group members list. Confession – I don’t know her at all. Addition – Would love to know. So what am I doing here? Well, I thought I could actually write a memory I had of a person with a similar name.

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Her name was Priya. She was my neighbourhood friend during my pre-primary days. We’d play kitchen games, chopping wax and in melted wax and watch our all-time favourite Popoye, The Sailor Man together because back then, we did not have cable connection during its inception. When I was born, we had a black and white TV with just two channels until years later the magical colour TV with umpteen channels arrived. My mom was best at giving nick names to my acquaintances. She even named one of my teachers Miss Kutts after she gave me a blow on my head. Kutt in Tamizh meant the percussion blow with knuckles. The teacher's original name was angela but she always beat up children like Devila and I loved how my mom named her for good. And another teacher always screwed children's ears. Her real name was Shravana and my mom named her Ravanan. She really was one I swear!

Coming back to our Priya, mom named her Opriya due to some famous song in her time that started with the line “Oh Priya Priya” and I blindly believed that her name was Opriya for many years. Thank you Obupriya for bringing up this colourful memory from inside me with just the sight of your profile name J Happy to have you on MSW!