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Daughter hates Dad's way

The next day after we arrived at USA, v (son-in-law) and P (daughter) took us to Detroit. Shankar Krishnan (padmaja’s brother)and his family lived in Detroit. He is in a high position in HP. He lives in own house. The house is pretty big with 4 bed rooms, three or four bathrooms, one big hall, a beautiful basement room with a tt table and a theatre with big screen tv and sound system. The inside ambience one would love to live in (especially a middle class Indian). The outside community ambience resembles with the pictures we see in cinemas, picture posters and we would just fall for it. Here people would not loiter here and there and there are virtually no one on the roads and I loved to walk round and round in the community. The silence is great and you can practice yoga on the roadside.

The house is pretty big with 4 bed rooms, three or four bathrooms, one big hall, a beautiful basement room with a tt table and a theatre with big screen tv and sound system. The inside ambience one would love to live in (especially a middle class Indian). The outside community ambience resembles with the pictures we see in cinemas, picture posters and we would just fall for it.

The only sound is from the cars buzzing at 50 mph in the main roads and occasional cry from the flying birds (which I heard have migrated for summer and the rest of the year its all freeze and ice and wil look like white painted all over. They would clear the ice on the roads by spreading salt. But then the cars can go only on a minimal speed for fear of skidding. Mr Joshin of Infosys working for an orthopeadic company in Warsaw (Warsaw is the Orthopeadic Capital of the world) said that last winter his car slid and went into the fields. Detroit is a bigger city with international airport and with a considerable Indian presence.

The Arangetram of Kamya and Keerthana was appreciated by each who attended the function. Sankar says that even after a week he has been receiving calls from people who missed the function saying that those who were able to make it on that day were blessed. Sankar’s house looked as a kalyana veedu with relatives and artists in his house. Sankar says that he is in the GLAC and with Meena’s samayal, artists coming to Detroit usually stay with them. It was praises and praises “Keerthana for thodi , kamya for kalyani, ..One person came and told Sankar “Had you been my father I would have sung like this” and Meena was behind all the success..

The day next we were doing prostrations before the great mridanga vidwan and his wife to seek their blessings. P also did namaskaram. But everyone looked at us. This was an Indian crowd and she was wearing sleeveless and was in an American dress. I showed some facial expressions to mean that i disliked the dress (as i cannot openly tell that i don't appreciate sleeveless before indian crowd. P brushed it aside. Her face was one of contempt that for an illiterate father from a remote Indian village.