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    Anitha Thampi

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    Amminja

    Meenakshi
    cupped her little palm over Amminja:

    This, my school
    my bag
    my colour pencil
    my friend Thithu
    my Class One textbook
    my eeny meeny miny mo
    my mother
    © Translation: 2010, Anita Thampi (with inputs from Arundhathi Subramaniam)
    Amminja is the Malayalam word to denote a nursing woman’s breast, commonly used when speaking to child

    AMMINJA

    © 2004, Anita Thampi
    From: Muttamatikkumbol
    Publisher: Current Books, Thrissur
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    (India, 1968)

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    AMMINJA

    From: Muttamatikkumbol

    Amminja

    Meenakshi
    cupped her little palm over Amminja:

    This, my school
    my bag
    my colour pencil
    my friend Thithu
    my Class One textbook
    my eeny meeny miny mo
    my mother
    © 2010, Anita Thampi (with inputs from Arundhathi Subramaniam)
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