I was born into a middle class Tamil family in the island town of rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state.My father, jainulabdeen had neither much formal education not much wealth despite these disadvantage,he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit.He had an ideal helpmate in my mother, Ashiamma.I do not recall the exact number of people she fed every day,but I am aquite certain that far more outsiders ate with us than all the members of our own family put together.
I I was one of many children a short boy with ...