Oo Sthree Repu Raaa....!

[POOLA RANGADU]

[quote name='Pilla Zamindar' timestamp='1329206700' post='1301410960']
naku edo vastundi mind lo ki but adi ento ardaM AVATLEDU.. poola rangadu cheputadu emo ani indaktinunchi gatiga bigapatukoni mari kurchuna....
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appatlo....artha raatri pootaa...tella cheera kattukuni oka aada deyyaam...ooru anthaa..aagam cheseseedi anta....daani baadha tattukoleka..alaa godala meeda raaseevaaru pedda aksharaala tho....

[tom bhayya]

[quote name='ChittiNaidu' timestamp='1329207040' post='1301410972']
“Listen to me carefully. Paint a note on your door that says 'Hey Lady, Come Back Tomorrow!' and she won't bother you,” the Gurkha advised every household on our street and briskly walked away.
Before we get to the mentioned lady, I need to first introduce our town's Gurkha. The incident I'm about to narrate happened long before many in our southern town realized that 'Gurkha' was not a mere synonym for 'night watchman' or that he was in no way connected to Tenzing Norgay (this was before Doordarshan conjured up its national integration programs, you see). He was a stern-looking man with oriental features, always dressed in sharp khakis and loud army boots. A whistle hanging from the shoulder strap, a hollow holster on the belt, and a [i]lathi[/i] in the hand completed his caricature.
His job was to make nightly rounds through the town to ward off any would-be robbers. He also freely supplied his name for scheming mothers to silence their little howlers, a la Gabbar Singh. I doubt if his rounds achieved anything beyond waking up the stray dogs, but he was much like auto insurance -- you pay for it and hope that you'll never have to avail of it. The town had devised a simple scheme for paying its guard. Early in the month when the latest paychecks made the residents feel insecure, he would stop by each house for [i]'baksheesh'[/i]. It was a well-established routine -- he knocked on the door and the lady of the house returned with five rupees (ten when there are power cuts) and a cup of Assamese Chai, no words exchanged. I doubt whether he really enjoyed the latter, especially after a dozen cups. But, the women had concluded that northeasterners enjoy tea at all volumes.
Returning to the incident of our focus (circa '86), our town had been cruising through a long stretch of low crime. It was literally the best of times for us and worst of times for the Gurkha whose remuneration was at record lows. This sedate state of affairs was shattered when a shrill announcement broke through one typically warm winter's night.
“There is a crazy woman loose on the roads. She attacked some people on Small Bazaar Street and Gandhi Road. Do not venture out alone at nights,” a man was announcing through a loudspeaker from an auto.
What a difference this announcement -- with its stress on “crazy” and “attack” -- made to our quiet lives! The movie theaters canceled their second-night shows, but we had the next big thing to [i]Sholay[/i] to talk about. Reports poured in from several untraceable sources. The mobile vegetable vendor was as usual the chief conduit (and often the source) of communication amongst the wives.
“The Devil attacked a group of teenagers on Netaji Road and one of them simply disappeared!”
“A boy was returning from his tuition when the woman pounced on him and scratched his face. Witnesses say that her nails just kept growing!”
The episode thus kept growing into a fairly long yarn.
“The missing teen is still missing but she returned (perhaps after devouring him?) to beat up all the men in the priest's house on Temple Street. She wore loud anklets and wore her [i]saree[/i] in a foreign sort of way.”
“Latest! There are rumors that the village goddess of Chandragiri has left her temple. Is she attacking us? And, listen to this, ladies, if you care for the welfare of your husbands -- the [i]mangalasutram[/i] of the goddess snapped this morning! Is this the beginning of the end of Kaliyug?”
The reports reached a feverish pitch with paranormal hues and the whole town was paralyzed with fear. A minor socio-mercantile crisis developed when every wife in the district decided to renew her sacred thread and the merchants ran out of stock. An emergency import from Madras staved off that disaster. There were now rewards set for stopping the woman -- a motorcycle from the Lions Club and 116 free tickets from the theaters. The Gurkha was in renewed demand; people even bribed him to spend extra time in their locales. Young men armed with sticks roamed in groups making loud nervous noises. We kids got to stay up late to hear the next report. All in all, we were having a really grand time.
There were a couple of memorable events from the first week. First a couple of overly decked up ladies of the evening were roughed up near the railway station, which pretty much terminated the oldest profession there. Then there were the mischievous boys who carried cow bells in their pockets to scare young girls, all in well-meaning fun as I can attest.
The remedy came the second week. Its origins are still sketchy -- not unlike any real evidence of the lady -- but the Gurkha could be credited with spreading the word this time.
“This is all you have to do,” he was explaining in broken Hindi-Telugu to my mom. “Hang a note on your door that says 'Hey Lady, Come Back Tomorrow!' ('O stree, rEpu raa') and she won't bother you.”
The trick was as simple as it was absurd. No one questioned why a person who seemed hell bent on bashing people would bother to read the note and perpetually return in disappointment. But, we were all grasping at straws and would have taken anything that drifted our way.
At first, we were unsure about the [i]lingua franca[/i] of the lady. There were reports that she wore her [i]saree[/i] like a northerner, but then she also shouted abuses in (g)utter Telugu. The Gurkha rescued us again with a trilingual policy that would have made Mahatma proud.
“Write it in Telugu, English, and Hindi: that should just about cover most of this world plus the Sanskrit-speaking uberworld!”
Of course, only a few could write in Devanagari in those days before Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha took roots. Most families employed the Gurkha to pen it for a non-trivial fee. You should've seen our town the next couple of weeks. Nearly every house had the 'mantra' written on the doors in red paint with vermilion and turmeric borders. Our grandmother even insisted that we write it on our books. I wonder if I would've bothered to put it up to the lady had she accosted me, like Perseus showing the mirror to Medusa ('Clash of the Titans').
On the fifteenth night since the apparitions started, the crisis was resolved with equal suddenness. No one actually witnessed the unfolding of the events; nevertheless, the town was abuzz with details the next morning.
“Did you hear? Our brave Gurkha battled the lady on Canal Street last night for an hour and beat her up with his [i]lathi[/i]. She begged to be let off and promised not to return to this town again.”
And it was over. Our lives returned to small town normalcy -- homework filling our minds and Delhi politics regaining the headlines. The Gurkha, however, did quite well that winter. His [i]baksheesh[/i] returned to Bullish levels. He cut down on his nightly jaunts and was often found at second-night shows with his wife on his new motorcycle. I heard that she was a tall, handsome woman, with chiming anklets and a distinct style to her [i]saree[/i].
~*~
Fifteen years later, I still see the infamous words on some doors -- most have faded but a few have been repainted. I heard that the Gurkha has retired but makes rounds to collect his [i]baksheesh[/i] (with tea) in memory of a terrifying winter. As for the lady, there were rumors that she turned into an ape-man and gone up north.
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[150bryant]

[quote name='Pilla Zamindar' timestamp='1329207445' post='1301410981']
yup adi naku telusa baa.. ma orilo koda rsaru.. chinapudu edo story cheparu edo deyam ani idi chustey ivala radu malli repu vastadi.. malli repu chusi a roju koda radu taruvata roju vastadi.. daniki edo meaning naku adi strike avatledu... chitti edo vesadu adi chadavali..
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roju vasthundi...repu ra raasi untadi..
so she would never actually come..

[Spartan]

[quote name='POOLA RANGADU' timestamp='1329207245' post='1301410977']


aa essay entiiii? google lo translate chesi marii...chadivi..malli ikkada paste...poni appudayina kasta..GIST paste cheyyochu gaa...idi mariii..[img]http://www.desigifs.com/sites/default/files/don-o.gif?1290157542[/img]
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manaki teliyanavi copy aste ye ranganna.....nenu "o Stree refu ra.." anedi novel anukunna innalu...

[samantha.]

lol

[Spartan]

[quote name='Alexander' timestamp='1329207518' post='1301410984']
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[POOLA RANGADU]

[quote name='Pilla Zamindar' timestamp='1329207445' post='1301410981']
yup adi naku telusa baa.. ma orilo koda rsaru.. chinapudu edo story cheparu edo deyam ani idi chustey ivala radu malli repu vastadi.. malli repu chusi a roju koda radu taruvata roju vastadi.. daniki edo meaning naku adi strike avatledu...[b] chitti edo vesadu adi chadavali.[/b].
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chitti vesina google post..lo masala leedu...thrill ledu adi chaduvutuntee..edo kufli version..not scary i say..Sitti played ispoil sport i say..chitttiii..y dis kolaveri i say?[img]http://www.desigifs.com/sites/default/files/don-o.gif?1290157542[/img]

[Pilla Zamindar]

[quote name='POOLA RANGADU' timestamp='1329207499' post='1301410983']

appatlo....artha raatri pootaa...tella cheera kattukuni oka aada deyyaam...ooru anthaa..aagam cheseseedi anta....daani baadha tattukoleka..alaa godala meeda raaseevaaru pedda aksharaala tho....
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e matter naku telusu..... kani a deyam ki [color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][size=4]Oo Sthree Repu Raaa....![/size][/font][/color]aney word ki anta powerful endhi ane concept gurinchi alochistuna.. dani meaning naku chinapudu evaro cheparu like adi gurtukuravtledu...[color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][size=4] [/size][/font][/color]

[tom bhayya]

[quote name='ChittiNaidu' timestamp='1329207660' post='1301410992']
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chaala kasta padi chadivaa chitti... chaala rojullayyindhi anni lines chadivi...

[POOLA RANGADU]

[quote name='ChittiNaidu' timestamp='1329207626' post='1301410990']


manaki teliyanavi copy aste ye ranganna.....nenu "o Stree refu ra.." anedi novel anukunna innalu...
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ha ha...kidding...daanidemundi le..edoo oorike saradaaki alaa ..

[POOLA RANGADU]

[quote name='samantha.' timestamp='1329207653' post='1301410991']
lol
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repu rammantee..appude vachesaav gaa asala lol.

[150bryant]

[quote name='Pilla Zamindar' timestamp='1329207701' post='1301410994']
e matter naku telusu..... kani a deyam ki [color=#323232][font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif][size=4]Oo Sthree Repu Raaa....![/size][/font][/color]aney word ki anta powerful endhi ane concept gurinchi alochistuna.. dani meaning naku chinapudu evaro cheparu like adi gurtukuravtledu...
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una peecha antha juttu ni peekoku..ranganna vachi chepthadu...wait ya

[POOLA RANGADU]

[quote name='Alexander' timestamp='1329207719' post='1301410995']
chaala kasta padi chadivaa chitti... chaala rojullayyindhi anni lines chadivi...
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ante..bothiga ee madhya naa post lu chadavatledu annamaata

[Spartan]

[quote name='POOLA RANGADU' timestamp='1329207698' post='1301410993']


chitti vesina google post..lo masala leedu...thrill ledu adi chaduvutuntee..edo kufli version..not scary i say..Sitti played ispoil sport i say..chitttiii..y dis kolaveri i say?[img]http://www.desigifs.com/sites/default/files/don-o.gif?1290157542[/img]
[/quote][img]http://lh6.ggpht.com/-gkJi8tNc8xQ/TqoFyf9mK7I/AAAAAAAAE7o/1qstk7sXhLg/s150/Pk-3.gif[/img] edo teliyani maikam lo taffu jargipoindi ranganna...oggeyi e sariki..

[tom bhayya]

[quote name='POOLA RANGADU' timestamp='1329207786' post='1301411000']

ante..bothiga ee madhya naa post lu chadavatledu annamaata
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ledhu rangaa.. eemadhya lengthy post chadavatam ledhu.. monna politically maturing india kuda 2 pages kanna ekkuva chadavalekapoya.. endhuko mari...