JANAKI TEACHER: PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY OF DATES OF BIRTH
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| Janaki, Puthalath House, Maloor Panchayat, Kannur |
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For retired schoolteacher Janaki, Puthalath House, Maloor Panchayat, Kannur, remembering dates of birth of all and sundry is as simple as a snap.
As
soon as a birth takes place in Maloor area, it is registered in the hard
disk of Janaki teacher. The
people have more faith in the unfailing memory of teacher than the ledgers
of the Panchayat. And once
registered, the information can be retrieved even after decades.
Says
Janaki teacher, who has been a veritable store of dates for 5 decades:
“I don’t know how, but I am able to do it.”
She
had some interesting experiences while teaching at the New U.P.School,
Panampatta, Maloor. The
headmaster would sometimes request her to identify an ex-student.
She would immediately respond: Of course this is Sahadevan’s son
who completed class 7 in 1975. It
used to be said in the school that if Janaki teacher is present, there is
no need to look up the school register.
She
could easily spot the discrepancy between official and actual dates of
birth of some of her colleagues. It was then that she realized that silence is sometimes as
important as any siddhi.
Similarly,
when her ability resulted in the abandonment of marriage proposals, she
tempered her utterances with caution.
Now she doesn’t give out information without verifying the
purpose for which it will be used.
Once
at Mookambika Temple, Kolloor, she surprised Yesudas by correctly stating
his son’s birthday. Astrology
and Puranas are her 2 other interests.
Janaki teacher with Yesudas
Courtesy: V.R.Jyothish, Vanitha, July 15-31, 2002
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