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another glory to chidambaram
freinds,
there has never been any dearth of savants,saints,scholars hailing from chidambaram. the last person is venkataramn ramakrishnan. he was living in thewestern part of the town known as the ananddheesar koil agraharam. he was doing PUC from annamalai 1968(he left then to gujarat) his class mate dr.radhika is a prof in biochemistry in annamalai now. his teacher mr.govindarajis still living in vilangiamman koil stret.
annamalai has produced a nobel laureate atlast(after 90 years). in chidambaram we can only wonder the sociology. nobel laureates and vagrants walk tall side by side. hhere extremes of humanism can be seen just like that. justwhen i was thinking about the dissapearence of a malgudi like character ofthe town came this news. iam once again back to the RKNARAYAN'S vision of the malgudi in our peculiar town called chidambaram.
tomarrow i may see a banian-dhoti clad person walking in the car street bare foot,who on questioning would say he is a nobel laureate.
nobody will be disturbed by a VIP like him because chidambaram has seen several such greats in its 1800 existance and never cared to bother them either. that is chidambaram!
gandhiram
Hi
thillai na summavaa?
that soil has an energy unparalleled in the world. surely he must have danced there.
just one small trivia another nobel laureate this year is 86 years old. he has fought in the world war 2-Willard Sterling Boyle
they have rewarded him for an invention made in 1969.
venketesh
--- In ponniyinselvan@yahoogroups.com, "gandhi" freinds, annamalai has produced a nobel laureate atlast(after 90 years). in chidambaram we can only wonder the sociology. nobel laureates and vagrants walk tall side by side. hhere extremes of humanism can be seen just like that. just when i was thinking about the dissapearence of a malgudi like character of the town came this news. iam once again back to the RKNARAYAN'S vision of the malgudi in our peculiar town called chidambaram. tomarrow i may see a banian-dhoti clad person walking in the car street bare foot,who on questioning would say he is a nobel laureate. gandhiram
there has never been any dearth of savants,saints,scholars hailing from chidambaram. the last person is venkataramn ramakrishnan. he was living in the western part of the town known as the ananddheesar koil agraharam. he was doing PUC from annamalai 1968(he left then to gujarat) his class mate dr.radhika is a prof in biochemistry in annamalai now. his teacher mr.govindaraj is still living in vilangiamman koil stret.
nobody will be disturbed by a VIP like him because chidambaram has seen several such greats in its 1800 existance and never cared to bother them either. that is chidambaram!
Actually i'd very much like to know if this Venkataraman whom we are so proud of actually acknowledges his roots and maintains some contact with teacher or old school/collegues. It would be most heart warming to know if he did.
Sad to say but most people who make it big are ashamed of their roots. It is a feeling i have wondered and puzzled about many times...we are talking of the great RKN..RKN loved to be referred to as a mysorean/kannadiga far less than a chennai based tamil. His brother RKL was much much worse. My father always used to tease him that sir it is just that quality of yours that i cannot understand...:))
Malathi
--- In ponniyinselvan@yahoogroups.com, "abhivencat"