Every evening, her grandmother, whom she called Nayana , would spread out a new worksheet. “Write ‘అ’ (a) to ‘అః’ (aha) five times each,” Nayana would say. Anvitha would groan, dragging the pencil, making the curves look like tired snakes and the straight lines like wobbly sticks.
‘ఆ’ looked up. “The worksheet is incomplete,” it sobbed. “We are a family of 56 letters— Achulu (vowels) and Hallulu (consonants). But look… someone forgot to practice the and ‘ౠ’ (ruu) . They have vanished. And without them, we cannot form the word ‘ఋతువు’ (season) . The rains will never come.”
Anvitha looked at her practice sheet. The ‘ఋ’ and ‘ౠ’ were perfect. For the first time, she smiled. telugu alphabets practice worksheets
Anvitha looked at her worksheet from yesterday. Sure enough, she had skipped the two最难 (hardest) vowels. She had left them blank.
“What’s wrong?” Anvitha whispered. Every evening, her grandmother, whom she called Nayana
Nayana appeared at the door, holding two cups of hot chai . “Finished your worksheets?” she asked innocently.
She wrote : First a curve like a smiling mouth, then a little kick at the bottom. She wrote it slowly. Carefully. The glowing outline on the worksheet began to fill. ‘ఆ’ looked up
Outside, the first raindrop of the season fell on the windowsill. Drip.