Amminikutty & Kunjomachen
The story that must be told — the complete family book, all 94 pages, just as it was printed.
About this book
Thomas V. Chirayil — Kunjomachen — was born in Edathua on the eighth of September 1925, an answered prayer on the feast of Our Lady's nativity. Ammini Thomas — Amminikutty — was born in Mavelikara in 1933. They married on the fourteenth of September 1950, and the bride came to Edathua the Kuttanad way: by boat.
Together they raised twelve children, welcomed twenty-six grandchildren, and kept a table so long that no one ever left it hungry. This book gathers their story — the ancestral house by the riverlet, the LECO years, the faith, the feasts, and the family that grew from them — in words, photographs and memories collected by the family.
A companion picture book for the youngest readers, A Kuttanadan Saga, retells the same story from Appachan C. T. Varkey's own voice — you'll find it below in English, Malayalam, Hindi and French. The chronicle that began it all, written by his granddaughter, can be read in the Chronicles section.
Downloads
- Amminikutty & Kunjomachen — the complete family bookPDF, 23 MB
- A Kuttanadan Saga — children's picture book, EnglishPDF, 2 MB
- ഒരു കുട്ടനാടൻ ഇതിഹാസം — children's picture book, MalayalamPDF, 11 MB
- कुट्टनाड की एक गाथा — children's picture book, HindiPDF, 10 MB
- Une Saga du Kuttanad — children's picture book, FrenchPDF, 10 MB
These files are for family. Please check with the family before sharing them more widely.