Mother’s Day: Vishy & mum walk down memory lane
Viswanathan Anand has done what few sports-persons in India have achieved: he’s captured the hearts of millions of cricket-crazy Indians by playing an excellent game of chess.
Today, the world chess champion has only seconds (assistants), but his first and most important coach was his mother, Susheela. Thirty-five years ago, it was Susheela who taught him the moves.
“He was not restless, but he was certainly impatient,” recalls Susheela of her early mentoring years. “While playing chess, he would make a move, but was unable to wait for the opponent to play his move. He wanted to make the second move immediately. Occasionally, I would tell him to study the board carefully. But perhaps he could see more than I could, even as child,” says the proud mother.
Susheela has never played competitive chess, but there was a nice little tribute from a chess lover sometime back who said that she would have easily become a Grandmaster herself, if she had taken the game seriously. The ‘if’ is a big hypothetical uncertainty; Susheela is happy playing her role as mother, mentor and guide to perfection.
Her contribution to Anand’s success is legendary, and she found the perfect foil in her daughter-in-law Aruna to continue the same work that she had put in while defining the progress of her son.
Mother and son share an easy relationship. Anand still talks of his mother as though he is a child roaming in the family garden, waiting for her to pamper him. “She’s always been there for me,” he says. Those few words explain it all — the months spent on the road participating in tournaments, the “treats” they enjoyed after every win. “We travelled all over India and abroad during my junior years, and became good friends.
She would give me an Archie comic or a Tintin every time I won. I remember playing in Delhi and after every win we would run for an ice-cream or kulfi,” he says.
But underlining this nostalgic picture is a young mother and her son determined to be the best. “Even in Manila, she would create puzzles for me, so that I could solve them after school,” he says.
“The initial years were tough and we would have to stay with relatives and friends whenever we were abroad. We would save up money and then go out for a meal.” But Anand’s favourite home-cooked food is spinach sambar, lime rasam and potato curry.
The adjectives that define a young Anand — active and impatient — contradict the very nature of the game that he is master of. Sitting patiently over a board was not his forte. “His impatience is not limited to chess alone. It was the same with tennis” laughs Susheela, “but he was always easy to handle.”
Anand recalls instances when his mother would deprive him of his Walkman (this was the time before the iPod revolution) when “I became too difficult to handle”.
Born in Chennai on December 11, 1969 to Viswanathan (a retired general manager, Southern Railways), and Susheela, Anand grew up with his older brother and sister in a household that encouraged extra-curricular activities.
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