Appa With His Brothers & Sisters
Tomorrow is our father's date of birth 4th March, he was a self made man and had come up the hard way, he was the eldest in the family of four brothers and three sisters, today we have Kunju attai is the eldest person in the family. Our father was person of variety of intrest, he was a good photographer and had the hobby of developing and printing the photographs himself,he was keen sports enthusiast and used to conduct sports events for INCAB industries,he had directed number of stage plays including one or two in english language also. In 1957 he had written a prose-poetry form Sankara Vijayam in tamil and the same was published first by Sri Anantharama Sastrigal at Kumbakonam later on the english and sanskrit translation was published by Sri R.Sethuraman of Shanmugha engineering college and the book was released by Sri T.N.Seshan retd.election commissioner of India, which was attended by Mani from our family. The book was published at the instance of Seenu, the scanned first page of the book is shown in the photo. The english translation of the Invoction is put as photo at the begining of the blog.
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Thank you, Chitappa that was a nice piece complete with some scanned pages from the book of verse on Sri Adi Sankaracharya.
I remember the original book had a light green cover with red letterings (the colour of kaavi) and I remember vividly the name of the printing press -Vedika Vardhini. I thought Vedika was nice name for a baby girl. May be our two moms-in waiting can think about it :)
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