Translation for non-Tam-Brahms:
"kanna" = an endearment, like "Sweetie"
"Chitti" = aunt (mother's younger sister)
"Atthai" = aunt (father's sister)
The situation I have described is exaggerated--but not that far from the truth. As a child, I had to make do with "used textbooks" --I can hear you thinking "So what? Students do that all the time!" But it wasn't just textbooks; I had to spend a few days erasing older material in my notebooks from the previous year, so that I could use it again for my current classes! Yes, the money situation was that bad.
On the plus side, I got so sick of writing stuff down and then erasing it, that I began to memorize things. I built a great store of poems, quotations, facts, theories, ideas etc in my head this way-- even today, I have the memory of an elephant.
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