Reading glasses(vellezhuthu kannadi/kitta parvai kannadi)
hawker in USA
By
P.R.Ramachander
Long long back ,
my father who used to read a lot , told
me that he is not able
to read because he has
Vellezhuthu. Few days later there was a temple festival
in our village. My father took me
to the festival and unusually went to the place
hawkers used to sit.One of them was
selling Mooku Kannadi( spectacles).My father tried a few , chose one ,
haggled with a hawker paid him two
rupees and brought a
mooku kannadi, From then on , I have
always seen him wear it. , never
went to opthomologist and used to
buy spectacles from hawkers for either two or three
rupees.
Times rolled by.I crossed 40 years of age, and suddenly I was not able to read. I went to opthomologist and
he prescribed me glasses , charged me 40 rupees and sent me to a spectacle shop , who charged me around 200 rs.My friend told me
that I have Chaleswaram. When I
blinked he told me that
when you are “Chalis oopar” you get this disease. When I forget the
spectacles or it gets
broken or lost I used
to spend several hundred rupees(later at least thousand rupees
) to get a new spectacle. Slowly I started
wearing plastic lens but about 5 years back my opthomologist recommended
me to buy a reading glass for just 200
rupees.Ofcourse I did not.
Recently I
forgot my spectacles in a temple. My son
told me that my eye exam would cost
around 200$ and a spectacle itself would cost around another 200$.My son and me travelled 60 km
and got back the spectacles and left out of a sigh of relief.
Today I
happened to go to “Dollar
central store” and to my surprise “reading spectacles” of any power was
available there for just one Dollar.I
recollected the hawker who used to
sell spectacles to my father and
purchased a suitable one , for emergency and came back.Now as long as I am in USA, I need not worry
about loss or breakage of reading glasses. I can solve my problem by
spending one dollar
3 comments:
I have carried it from US to India and am still using the same. A 1 Dollar Kannadi.......!!
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