It is a little more than a century since our grandparents migrated from Mangalore to Chennai and then to Trichy. Madras Presidency was a more cosmopolitan Rajadhani with a broad smile and arms wide open for the neighboring states. Following Mr. Venkat Rao who was the HOD of Kannada at Madras Christian College and then the Reader of Kannada at Madras Presidency, his brother and our grandfather Dr. Shankar Rao landed here as an ophthalmologist from Madras Medical College and saw many good reasons to love the place more by the day and hence settled here ‘at home’. From here he initiated the Tamil Nadu Ophthalmic Association as the founder Secretary with Dr. Joseph as the founder President. It was the first OA in the country then that inspired other states to follow. A great journey at Trichy, never to look back after four generations now and I’m here in this picture for every word of it.
As just the lamb on the shoulders of our shepherd, may we always find the right heavens.
Here is one ‘past post’ in the context.
Now, If a Dravidian is one who belongs to the Peninsular part of India then we are the true Dravidian models. History says that Sri Raghavendraswamy was born in Buvanagiri and Karnatic trio St. Thyagaraja, Shyama Shastri, and Muthuswami Dikshithar were all born in Thiruvarur. History for sure had a better Dravidian model in a linguistically cohesive society where we never felt alienated. States split on linguistic borders is a ‘Nehruvian’ blunder.
Etymology: I want to replace the adjective ‘Nehruvian’ in the dictionary instead of the word ‘egregious’. This sounds to mean ‘superlatively bad’.
BTW – Never use the word ‘Himalayan’ for such blunders, because the ‘Himalayas’ is not a blunder, but a boon in between.