It’s family time in Kerala during Christmas
5 years ago

It’s family time in Kerala during Christmas

The Hindu  

Family photographs during Christmas are often a squeeze with more than 40 to 50 people in one frame with grandma in the middle. Mediaperson Joe Scaria recalls a time when almost all of his nine sisters and their families used to gather at his parents’ house at Kanjirappally for Christmas. Once every one is up and about after midnight mass, breakfast is always lace appam and mutton stew,” says Joe’s wife, Lekha Scaria. “Two days later, it is my maternal grandmother Rani Jeyasekharan’s birthday and the feasting continues till Christmas. On any year, there would be 30 to 40 of the extended family for Christmas breakfast and lunch at my grandmother’s place, ” he says.

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