Vishwaas

  Sri. S. Ramasamy Iyengar (Founder of Kalaivani Press, Coimbatore) My father has always been proud of his lineage. He was son of Kalaivani Press Ramasamy Iyengar . The prefix 'Kalavani Press' had become his identity. All through my life, I had known only that; plus probably another fact that my grandpa was a President of India Awardee for excellence in Printing . A specific incident happened recently, when I had to introduce my lineage, (one can probably relate it to the practice of saying ‘Abhivadaye’ where a Brahmin Hindu man introduces himself to others especially the elders stating details of his lineage).   I realized that all that I could say was ‘I am Kalaivani Press Ramasamy Iyengar’s Granddaughter’, but no one ever knew about ‘Ramasamy Iyengar’. That incident lead me to discover more about a man that I have always known only as ‘thatha’ without a prefix (also because my maternal grandpa was always ‘Cheeni thatha’). Even thatha's face is not all that familiar