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Our Marvelous Seniors!

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Our marvelous seniors! Of late, we come across a lot of articles and write ups about the plight of senior citizens.   There are number of forums and associations to ease their physical and emotional difficulties faced in their day to day lives.   Lot of awareness is created through media about their needs.   But I am attracted by a section of senior citizens who are not aware of the new terms like ‘empty nest syndrome’, etc.   They don’t have to bother about tax payment, collecting their pension arrears, payment of various bills on time, going for monthly medical checkup, waiting for Sundays to chat with their children and grand children living overseas, etc.   Who are they? To name a few, sixty plus, lean and short Kamalamma, who is a watch(wo)man(?!) -   guards the gate in a residential apartment, makes sure that the water tank is full always, sweeps the surrounding area untiringly and she is readily available to the residents, whenever their maid servants fail to

solla maranthathu

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Angels

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Friendship

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