ITTAHA VATTAM (SMALL AREA) Dear friends,
Ittaha vattam denotes a smallarea. When it is a small area, anything within that has limitation. Thoughoriginally told as vattam, in later talks it denotes a small area. Someinteresting look in to ittah vattam. Sincerely. Gopala Krishnan 2-11-2013. Reposted on 28-1-2021 after editing and updating. R. Gopala Krishnan 1. A shop In my home one Christian wasrunning a stationary shop in a rented building. In the bazaar area about onecent area came for sale. He brought it paying more money since competitionswere there. He constructed a three floor shop. Though with in the shop staircase was built, still because of additional floors he could have a lot ofthings kept neatly. He made the top floor for bulk keeping. After this everybodyin the native used to identify the shop as ITTAH VATTAM SHOP. Recently I found in asupermarket, even after having 4 FLOORS AND VAST SPACE, bulk keeping of thingsin the ramp. So much of stockings. Customers could take their items from theramp also. Update. It has become practice now in most supermarkets tokeep things in the ramp/stair case to first floor. What I am not able tounderstand is giving much space to keep biscuits, candies, wafer etc. 2. Ittah vattam on the postal cover. On those days postal covers hadto be affixed with additional stamps for registration after weighing. Machineprinting was only in large post offices. One gentle man brought a cover,writing address from and TO occupying 90% of the cover. Having higherdenomination stamps not there, 4 or 5 stamps were given. But no space to affixthem. The person asked the postmasterhow to affix; Postmaster looked at the area occupied by address. Finally hesaid- Eae ettah vattam sthalatthu oru stamp polum ottukkan pattilla. He advisedthe client to write address in small letters in ANOTHER COVER. (Those were the days; stamp hadto be affixed together, only on top right corner, affixed with head up only) 3. Ittah vattam room. One of my distant cousins desiredto have a table while studying in his room. Without much thinking his fatherordered a big table. Only when it was brought, it could not go through theentrance of his room. The table was bigger. Finally carpenters were brought.Believe, pattika (frames) to support the roofing tiles on the top were cut to alimited area and somehow, the table was lowered. Once the table was put, therewas no space even to keep the chair and shelf. His father was telling- if I say, I will putthe table and chair in a good room, he is not agreeable. He wants to study inthe ittah vattam chavatiextension. Father was a simple man who would not compel. 4. Ittahvattam. Many of the sanctums in ourtemples have very less space. Even two priests cannot sit. There could be somereason of providing such small sanctums in very big temples. So the priestsused to comment – only ittah vattam sthalam only is inside. 5. Rooms in the houses and furniture. Without furniture the rooms wouldappear spacious. As furniture are added, apparently room size would appearsmaller. A big hall in a house will appear medium after putting one completesofa set and teapoy and TV stand. Ittah vattam is used in manyinstances. In many offices there is no space for persons to even stand afterkeeping all their tables, cup boards and side racks. Many offices have steel almirahkeeping old and must records in the corridor area, since rooms have no space. In our telecom on those days manytelephone exchanges could not be expanded since no space for added equipment in the room. Alternate location to have another exchange and connectivityprovided. I recollect on those days when manual Number please exchanges weremore common, in Tutucorin there were two exchanges at Beach and town. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1952205441.936385.1611836164143%40mail.yahoo.com.
