My dad died of Parkinson’s disease. It is a cruel disease where all your mental faculties are alive but you can’t move a single muscle. Hands, legs, hips, tongue, eyes..! There were spasms of time, when medicines would unfreeze his...
At home in Madurai, I saw Viji, our household help and an integral part of the family, in more ways than one, at work. It was a fine morning and she was cleaning up and the porch and drawing a 'kolam'....