10/9/06 8:48 PM

1942 and onwards

Hubli to Perambur
I have come from Hubli bag and baggage.
I have taken part in many activities both domestic, official, private, social etc.,

Korattur lands:
Father and myself went full scale for land tilling. Father has put a small house in the first plot called Palmyrah plot because it is surrounded by palmyrah trees.
I cut the tree and put brick kiln and made a well out of the bricks made by me without paying for the bricks. Depending on lake water was a problem for crops and so decided to dig out a well and then put an oil engine. I had to go in search of old Peter engine and I could locate one in Kilpauk and transported it to Korattur. Hell with all these problems.

Oil engine/Motor
Then oil engine is a problem. I had to make hundreds of trips to Saidapet Taluq Office to bring electricity and buy motor for irrigation. This is again a hell of amount of job for day to day running to Saidapet.
I had good yield and had good money and good rice in the house.

Winding up ploughing
At some point of time, father and myself decided to give it on lease and we left the Korattur plouging.

3/2 tenements for rental
Father made the 3/2 lane house with small tenements and rented it for tenants.

Secretary
I was the Secretary of the Nehru Youth League and did social service of giving ration cards and other public services of giving rations, k.oil and other public distribution system of the government. I got a good name along with Mannar Pillay who was a senior and well mannered gentleman who has no English knowledge but a practical human natured man.

Perambur Carr Works and Loco Works
I fought and fought and got the local trains stopped in the Perambur Carriage works and Loco Works due to too much of work and persuasion. It is great feather in my cap. I saw to it that local tickets are also issued in front of the station just near the over bridge.

My office in M.S.D
My office inside the Perambur Loco Works, Mechanical Stores Depot worked to the time of 7 to 11.30 and 12.30 to 4.30. I used to come on cycle and leave the cycle to someone to deliver at home in Agaram and take the workmen train to go to Korattur and help father for the land tilling work and ploughing work and the agricultural work. This went on for some years and we got tired and started to wind up the Korattur work.

Sister and lay out
Sister made a blue print of her lands and did DTP planning and she had included our lands also for converting the lands to building sites. Hers was called ‘Subalaxmi Nagar’ and mine was no name. She sold all her lands converted to DTP documented grounds and we also sold. I think I sold it after father has died and not before and I don’t remember the exact date of my selling. Since the documents were signed by we brothers and sisters, it means that the sale was done after father’s death and also mother’s death. I am not very sure of the dates at this point of time.

My selling grounds thro Doraisamy
I used to come from Varanasi and sole the grounds with the help of broker
Doraisamy, a draftsman of the TNEB in those days and he died due to heart attack and it was a problem after him, to sell the 4 grounds left for us with the well intact as a toke of remembrances but the circumstances and the social problem were bad and the title may be a problem due to our absences from the scene and the local chaps would misuse play hell. The last remnants of the 4 grounds were also sold and there is no land at all at Korattur.

Names of lands
The lands were named for easy recognition and talking by me and it is me and my father only would recognize the names. It is just like naming the dogs and be close to the pets. Panamarathu thalai, then comes Akka Talai, then comes Kathavarayan Thalai, then comes 175 cents talai, then comes HT post thalai down the Rly line and so on.

Just from India Piston office from Sembium after meeting
Finance Officer for TDS,Shiva Prasad,Dr,Mohanraj,Ramesh Sr and Jr.

Venkat 9.20 pm Monday; 10th.