September 2001, I met her in Kathgodam on my trip to India. Chitti lives in Kathgodam with her husband and their Son. Uncle is a retired army officer, and they are running a school there. Amma wanted to spend the holidays in our hometown. She’d been asking me to take her to India for holiday, so I took her to Rameshwaram and Kanchipuram, and after spending two weeks in Anna Nagar, Chennai. Chitti invited us to attend her school"s cultural festival. Madhavi Chitti is one of our closest family members and apparently the one who stood by our side in our hard times especially when we lost Appa. I was sixteen years old when Appa left us, and all of our family members abandoned us because of the debts Appa left us with. Chitti not only supported us financially, but also took the entire respon

