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26/04 - the Remembrance Day of one of the brightest minds India gave the world - #SrinivasaRamanujan. Today, however I ended up remembering another man - who was born 4 years after Ramanujan died, but whose life was inextricably entwined with Ramanujan’s. (1/n) 
This man was born on 04.11.1924 (Avittam) as the eldest son of a humble clerk in Madras’s police dept. Quickly mastering the languages of Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit & English at a very young age - he shifted his focus to Mathematics. For a young lad, he was supremely disciplined 2/n
He graduated in Math & with his brilliant mind + language proficiency, his father dreamt he would take up the civil services and would become a bureaucrat of repute, more importantly bring prosperity to the family. But little did his father know that he had different plans! 3/n
