This is not a blog. A small child of 9th has written about her great grandfather. It brings out the life of Chennai which is not seen now.
Who is this Anna N Subramanian ?
Naganarasimhan Subramanian born on 20.9.1895 in Tiruchengodu, Salem District.
Eldest of six sons and three daughters born to Sri Naganarasimhan, Elementary School Teacher later became village Karnam and mother Smt Arundathi Naganarasimhan, the only daughter of Krishna Sastry (classmate of Sri Narasimha Bharati Swamigal at Sringeri Guru Kulam.
Elementary education in Tiruchengodu and Bhavani
High School education by boarding at National High School in Trichnopoly. At school alongwith regular curriculum, he had religious training and vedic study.
Gold medalist and school first in SSLC.
He passed the Indian Matriculation Examination (which was required after highschool and for going to college)
The financial problems could be guessed in the above situation - but for the scholarship.
When hopes of going to college diminished, a well wisher suggested Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in Mylapore and provided money for the journey from Salem.
He immediately got admission and was lucky to come under the care of the founder secretary Sri C Ramaswamy Iyengar and Maharishi S. Vasudevachari, the warden treasurer. maharishi was also the Vice Principal and Professor of Physics at the Wesley College, a well known college in India.(1914)
Through Ramakrishna Mission, ANNA joined the Wesley College with free boarding and lodging and took an intermediate course. secured first rank in first class. So he was accepted by the Prestigious Presidency College, Chennai and he got a degree in Mathematics.
Then he became the Assistant and Demanstrator in Physics at the Wesley college.
