Born and bought up in mylapore(Chennai) for 23 continuous years.Brief stint in north India where he learns partial Hindi.
Parents works in a government bank.
Schooling in DAV or Padma seshadri with enviable academic record.
Grows up doing Poojas, visiting temple,grandmas house.
Recognizes other Tam Brahms and guesses their name correctly without any prior introduction.
Hears great things being said about him and the bright future awaiting him.
Never touches Non veg.Ate egg for the first time in 8th standard for health reasons arguing that it was veg.
Plays excellent and technically correct cricket strokes replicating Rahul Dravid and makes next street Ambujam’s mom wonder how our man can excel in both studies and sports.
Neighbour house Meena aunty wants her son parthasarathy to emulate our man but our man’s parents never feel satisfied.
Visits Pizza hut for the first time where he sees modern people. After this our man fights at home and enrols himself out of the Veda class and stops learning Carnatic Music as he feels it is outfashioned.
9th std comes and our man is told how important career is. Immediately discusses this issue with his bench mate Subramanian(Class topper) and enrolls for Brilliant Tutorials IIT-JEE course.
Clears IIT screening with ease but Misses mains by a small margin.
UG in SSN, CEG, NIT Trichy,SVCE or Bits pilani.
Topper in the first sem, an arrear in the 6th sem bringing shock to the entire family for the first time in 20 years.
Develops a crush on a girl in UG but unfortunately she eats non veg and hence is not able to take it forward.
Leaves doing Sandhyavadhanam, visits temple for prasad and girls and salutes god on the way back with a friendly “I know you ll take care of me” kind of a smile.
Adjusts the white thread and realises how uncomfortable it is to wear it.
All cousins in MIT, Perdue,IIMs, UPSC toppers etc.Gets calls from them asking when u r expected in U.S.
Prepares for CAT and GRE because of family pressures while wearing the ID card of a software company.
Gets calls from IIM I, K, SP,XL,Texas Austin,Pen state and gets into one of these . Misses IIM A,B, C causing some dissapointment to the family.
Has had enough,doesnt want to be fooled anymore, wants to end the rat race and hence gives a damn to marks and competition.Our man Starts social loafing.
People around him in M.B.A seem to be working hard but our man listens to Gita Shibir and says -”Happiness is inside and not outside”. He goes around quoting the gulab jamun example which swamiji had explained but no one listens to him.
Our man gets upset and feels- “What are these people upto. Why are people so desperate and materialistic in life”?.
Looks at only south indian girls but slowly starts developing a taste for north indian girls.Slowly comes out of his conservative nature and shakes hands with girls for the first time.
Cousin marries a Gujarati and our man is all charged up to do something similar in life.
Almsot at the End of Year 1 of M.B.A. Our man finds himself lost in life. No girl friends.Our Man meets another tam brahm and heaves a sigh of relief with an expression which says-”I know what u went thru in your life till now.” He reassures him saying “Lets wait for the junior girls to arrive!!!”
This is the partial story of Unsung heroes of our nation- Tam Brahms( Also called Curd Rice).
Looking forward to rest of the story :)
