User:Shankar nandakumar

Born in Mayiladuthurai (a small town in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu)on the banks of river Cauvery in 1978 to a family of land lords. My father Nandakumar was a self employed business man, born in a house of land lords hailing from a small village Koothanoor (the place for the only temple of Goddess Saraswathi) and mother Mathura a housewife, born in a house of land lords hailing from Vanagiri a small village close to Poompuhar (the place where the historical Kannagi was born).

Early years after birth, I was living with my parents in Salvempet, a small village closer to Koothanoor, where my grand father Narayanaswamy Iyer (by blood he is my great grand father but my father got legally adopted to him) was owning agricultural lands. My father was helping him. My fathers mother Kamala was the last of the three daughters of my grand father.

When the time came for my pre-school education, I was admitted to Bambion school in Madras (now name changed to Chennai, one of the four metropolitan city in India and capital of Tamil Nadu state). I was living with the family of second daughter Ramani of my grand father. They were based in Raja Annamalipuram a lovely residential suburb south of Chennai.