The 13 years

• A boy was  born in Tanjore in South India,
• It is famous for its Big temple, the Rolling doll,(uruttu Bommai)
• The balancing doll( teaching you the principle of equilibrium)
• If you fall down, you must rise up.
• Showing life is full of ups and downs,
• You have to have the attitude of coming back in your normal position and keep yourself steady.
• You can find this doll near Big temple in Tanjore.
• It is near the pudoo aaaroo new river.
• This is his story from the age of 6 to 18 inclusive.
• At the age of 6,he studied in Kalyana Sundaram High school.
• It is a vast and huge building with good infrastructure.
• There is a big hall and a stage,where dramas and other special events are conducted.
• He used to go to the school by walk. 
• He left the house with small notebook,pencil etc.,
• He used to take lunch to his school and shared it with a cow which used to accompany him in the school playground.
• There was a big banyan tree under which he used to take rest.
• He remembered  a story ,which his class teacher told.
• One summer day was very hot.
•  A traveller was walking and wanted to take rest.
•  He saw some water-melons lying on the creepers on the ground
•  He saw also a the big banyan tree with small tiny red fruits hanging
• . He was wondering why God made like that.
•  He fell asleep under the banyan tree.
•  while he was sleeping, a tiny fruit fell on his forehead.He got up suddenly.
• He remembered what he thought of the placements of fruits one on the ground ,the big one, and the other tiny one on the big banyan tree
• .He thanked God and asked forgiveness and he realised In God's creation there is some very good reason.
• If  it was not, he would not be alive or he would have been in the hospital undergoing treatment.
• As a boy of six years, he used to play in the evenings with the streetmates in front of the house.
• He used to play football,volleyball, ringtennis, marbles, tops, and kabaddi and bhendha and kittipillu.
• He used to go to the school on two different routes.
• One through the East Gate,crossing Vellai Pillyar koil, palace Arch, wholesale vegetable market,  kadai theru where there were many shops on both the sides of the road. then passing the Narasimha temple he reached the k.H.school.
• The other route was through the East gate, Dasthaamaal lane, and through short cut he would reach school.
• On the route , he had observed many things and noted in his memory.
• At the age of nine, his family moved to a village called Manojipatti on the vallam road.
• He was coming to the school, someday in a bullock cart and many days by walk.
• Returning from school, he used to pass by the Big Temple and reached the bridge ,walked all the way , sometimes getting a lift lift on the bullock carts going by the way.
• His family moved to Ganapathy Nagar, From there he went to school through Srinivasa Puram and through the West Main street.
• Then the family, because his maternal grandfather was not keeping well, they came and stayed in his house.
• This boy left K.H.School and joined St. Antony's High School.
• The head master Father .Fernandes was a king hearted gentleman and his assistant Father Stanislaus was also same except in punishing the late comers with a whip to maintain discipline.
• All the teachers were very nice.
• The boy used to cross the Vannaathee Purushan varuval seeval  shop.the by product of betel nut.
• He used to buy from the shop and had a taste. He liked it very much.
• Tanjore was famous for Kadhambum (mixed flowers garland and cashew-nuts.
• The boy along with his friends used to stand near the station to watch the running trains .
• How the engine was put on  a pit with rails to change its direction.
• Those days the engine were fed with coal and water.
• It would go with a big sound and leave the station with a big whistle.
• The passengers who got down all were having the black soot on their dresses and bodies.
• Everyone knew that they came by the train
• The boy used to play Baseball.only in that school with an excellent P.T.master,
• He trained all the students and the game was very interesting.
• Now the game is no more in India.
• Cricket drove away that game.
• That reminded the boy of the Britishers leaving India and India becoming an independent country.
• The boy lost his grandfather on 30th January.1947
• Assassinated: 30 January 1948, New Delhi
• The same day like our Bapuji,Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead.
• Then after that , the boy had to change his school again.
• He studied in Roman Catholic School. But then he Joined the Protestant school  called St. Peter's High School.
• They also had a big playground near the palace.
• All district sports events were held there.
• They had One Mr.Koil Pillai as the head master.
• He was a decent nice gentleman . He stood always like a stick when he stood in the dais.
• The school teachers were all dedicated and devoted.
• The boy still remembers Mr.Thomas who was a history teacher but he taught more English language  than History.
• He only introduced the use of Oxford English Dictionary.
• The boy then was helping his father who was running an electrical items selling from home.
• The boy after returning from school sold electrical items and delivered them to the buyers on his cycle and collected the dues.
• He learnt how to deposit and withdraw money from the bank.
• He sometimes left with a few electric bulbs  and went to villages and small shops and sold them the lamps.
• Sometimes when any plane was flying  near his house,he used to think when he would also fly.
• He lived with his parents in Bombay. for one or two years.
• When he finished his schooling , he left for Bombay in search for a job.
• One kind hearted, magnanimous family friend who was a doctor asked the boy's father to send the boy to him.
• The boy left Tanjore on 13th July 1951  and got the job in one of the esteemed companies in Flora Fountain.which was behind the L.I.C.
• He got his first job as an accounts assistant on 13th November 1951.