This rhetoric question forms the first line of a beautiful chapter in Ponniyin selvan. This is the episode in which Sundara Chozhan, father of Raja Raja, reveals the cause of all his present affliction to his daughter Kundhavai. He talks about his love on a lonely island off the Srilankan coastline and the girl whom he believes subsequently died.
This morning for some strange reason, I was thinking about this song which one of my friends from India had sent me, " Uyirai Tholaithen athu unnil thano". Beautiful, touching and melancholic. At the end of the reminiscence, the thoughts in my head was maandavr meelvathundo? I really dont know why sitting at my desk at 10:00AM in the morning, my chain of thoughts went to the dead. Who do I want resurrected?
