User:Aanil63

This is a simple biography of mine. It all happened forty eight years back.

I was born in Singapore in the year 1963. It was a year many Singaporeans would wish to forget. It was the year that US President, J F Kennedy was assassinated. It was a year when the world changed, at least to my parents.

It was twenty minutes past five in the morning when I arrived into this world. My father, an Indian citizen then and still is now must have been proud. A son! What more could a father ask for.

I would like to say a few lines about my father.

His name is Mukkulam Damodaran Asokan. Actually his name is Asokan. Damodaran is his father's name and Mukkulam is the name of a family house in India. He was eldest of six boys and a sister.

He left India in search of work

My father, Mr Mukkulam Damodaran Asokan was born in India on the fifteenth day in the sixth month in the year of 1931.

I never knew his father but heard he was disciplined. He died in 1955 at the age of 55 while working at Quilon Railway Station. His mother, Bharathy Amma, died at the age of 93 to old age.

My mother, Mrs Sunanda Asokan nee Sunanda Chellappan was born in Singapore on the first day on the second month in the year of 1938.

Her father, P Chellappan was born in India in 1907. He died in December of 1995 at a ripe old age of 88. No one actually knows when her mother Mrs Pankajam Chellappan was born but it would be about 1914, two years after the Titanic sank. She died in March of 1990.

My father's parents married at a very young age. In those days, the groom does not get to meet or sometimes see his bride till just before the wedding and that was pretty much how it was for his parents. They were all raised in a small village town of Mayyanad in the district of Quilon, now known as Kollam. My father was fortunate to have five younger brothers and a younger sister.

After his father died, the responsibility of bringing up the family rested on my father. It was important to him that his brothers and sister had a better education when compared to him. I keep hearing how he could have been so and so but that was not the case.

His second brother, Mukkulam Damodaran Vijayan did not want to study further and dropped out of school. He started a small business and married much earlier than my father.