This little family was talking in Typical Tambrahm Tamil in the litlle cafeteria within the supermarket. I just walked up to them and started talking to them in Tamil too. So began our acquaitance. Both accountants but she stays at home looking after her two year old daughter Sharada.
There are many Indians in Port Moresby and many from South India; they are in all sectors :health, accountants,engineers, marketing managers ; some have lived here for 23-24 years. Their children either studied in Australia / India post school and are doing very well. Many have not seen the country beyond PoM; they are not comfortable with highcrime rate to take a chance.
So, I was invited to dinner in their house after a small session of VS recital in somebody else's house. Most of them live in a very beautiful colony called the islander village which has the best security in town. Children can play outside; couples can go for a walk after 8PM; men and women walk alone at any time for their constitutional walk.
I reached a tad late for the recital of Vishnu Sahasranamam but joined in in all the other songs/slokas and stotrams. It seems that this has been the usual every Saturday for the past 20 years for all South Indians; there is a sai group on Thursday and a Gita clss on Sundays.
When they asked me to go to PNG, I asked where in the world is it. Little did I know that I will be singing Äyigiri Nandini"eating Kadalai paruppu sundal and talking to people in Tamil! The small world that this is , two of them are from Kancheepuram if you please.
The dinner then was idli , sambar, vendaikkai poriyal, rasam and vathal!!!!!!!
Could anyone ask for more.
PS I discovered three Karipatha bushes in our garden with fantastic smell. The smell of the sambar I made "äsathiduthu"
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