About my Appa

From an old narration Tributes to my father whose anniversary was today About Appa many of the great grandchildren may not be aware of his ancestral history . He was born as last child to the parents Parvathi and Ananthanarayanan. The native of parentage being Thondikulam Palghat . His parents were migrants at Ernakulam Kerala . He had siblings sisters Alamelu and Lakshmi and brothers Venkiteeswaran Chama periyappa , Sundaram,Easwaran and Krishnaswami . Grew up in a below poverty line family and the father being a priest of lower grade doing Siva Pooja etc at Ernakulam . He had his school education in Ernakulam . During his school days he got a scholarship in the form of gold of 5 sovereign and he adorned his mother with a chain from the proceeds . After intermediate education at Ernakulam he had his graduation at Madras leading to Bachelor of Arts with English and Economics as subjects . He used to say out of 300 or so students in the class at Pachaiayappa"s College hardly 10 of them finished graduation including him . In college days and later he wasn’t having crop cut etc but kudumi . After graduating he was a school teacher in Trichur for some time later joined in the Dept of Hindu Religious Endowments and charitable Trusts . He retired as the Devaswom Commissioner Cochin with Office at Vadakkunnathan temple Trichur . His children were 7 sons and 5 daughters . These families have extended and expanded and still growing .,A few of his children and grandchildren etc are Medical Doctors ,, Chartered Accountants, Engineers , Law graduates and others and majority of them are abroad,. After retirement he was the Secretary of Pensioners Association Kerala and later was the founder member and active member of Asthika Samaj Bangalore for a long periodßqw . He was honest,upright , religious and orthodox but not very strict . He had a pious and obedient wife our mother Annapoorni. He left behind a legacy of good action , helping humanity and being simple . It is for the successors and grandchildren to follow his example and remember him for reaching heights in all attempts . Some of us yet feel that a few of us only imitate his qualities or follow his completed life . Despite welfare of children and others he too encountered several problems faced by some of his daughters and others yet fought and reached the pinnacle of life . Let us follow such a great man