It would be 30 more minutes of the Sunday morning ritual of denial and perseverance. My mother-in-law picked up the pencil and scrawled in the Telugu alphabet book. In their younger and enthusiastic days, the children had insisted their mother learn the Telugu alphabet. In my initial days with the new family, I had struggled to gauge her lack of interest in education. He had hinted many a time that he would like me to learn Telugu, but I had resisted.

Source: The Hindu April 14, 2018 18:41 UTC