Continuing my previous column: I took Amma, Indu Shedde, 98 years, on a memory trip to our hometown Dharwad, Karnataka. Amazingly, she sold gold to extend her holidays in Mount Abu, she recalled

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As some readers may know from my previous column: I took Amma, Indu Shedde, 98 years, on a memory trip to our hometown Dharwad, Karnataka, in July. It’s where she grew up: After over 50 years, we visited her primary school, Kittur Chennamma Park, and Ice Factory/Ice Gate, her favourite ice cream parlour. Highlights included when I took her to Karnatak University Library, where she had worked as Assistant Librarian in the 1950s. I also arranged to have her interviewed on All India Radio (AIR), Dharwad.

Amma was interviewed twice on AIR, first in Kannada by the lovely Mala Sambrani, and again in Konkani, our mother tongue, by Chetan Naik. Amma’s sister Kamala Divgi, whom we called Kanna Pachchi, had worked in AIR. “For the inauguration of the AIR Dharwad service, they had invited Bismillah Khan, Bhimsen........

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