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| Sunday, 2 November 2003 |
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Within split seconds, she tells you all about your life in relation to job, health, marriage, parents, trials and tribulations. This, she does, impromptu, or with the help of a small blue disc, which has a black interior, which she claims, has a mixture of medicinal herbs.
What is redeeming about the entire exercise is that she tells you where one has to exercise his/her precautions. She looks at the disc like an X Ray, which she believes is an intuition which she inherited from an ancestor six generations ago, who was once a hermit. This ancestor on my father's side was an intellectual who did research into medicinal herbs and snakes and he was also an expert on snake bites, she says. It all happened when she was an eight year old child and while she was with the family in Trincomalee. One of her aunts, whom she and her family were visiting suffered from a robbery in her house there and the family visited the typical light reader of the area who was to give the family a description of the robbers. The family had faith in this type of ritual. On being told that the light reader had left the house on a small family errand, little Parameswary, took the light of the light reader and gave a graphic description of the robbers who had taken away the precious items of the house while also describing in detail the path that they took. The robbers were captured by the police later!!! She was born to a pious Hindu family. Her father was C. Singanayagam, a VSO attached to the Whittling Department of the Royal Ceylon Navy. Her mother was Kamalambihai Seevaratnam, a teacher by profession. Despite the staunch Hindu leanings, her devotion to St. Jude and St. Anthony is phenomenal. She also believes in Vellankerni and also visits the Iyappan temple in India on her annual pilgrimage. She prays to them with all fervour to grant special favours for all those who are in need of spiritual assistance for their dilemmas. Her prayers on behalf of the clients are answered miraculously. What's more, she is a vegetarian and an animal rights activist. She also serves as the Vice President of the Gel Gava Mithuro, a non governmental animal rights organisation. She, once saw on television the brutalities that were meted out to the donkeys in India and promptly wrote to Menaka Gandhi, daughter-in-law of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, seeking her intervention to free these suffering animals. She is planning a major campaign for Animals' Day which is scheduled for October 4. A former member of the tutorial staff Wesley College and St. Lawrence's College, Wellawatte, she has inculcated a sense of values to all students. She is also an excellent portrait painter and is a student of George and Terry De Neise. To cap it all, she also is an expert violinist. -RL |
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For retired teacher Parameswari Thiyagarajah of Jampettah Street,
Kotahena, light reading, numerology and astrology have been a god given
gift. She looks at the disc, which invariably looks like a cover of a tin
and goes on rattling about the life of the visitor as if looking at a
film. One can be astonished as to how she does it.
