Meeting young budding scholars!

Meeting young budding scholars!

The annual sessions of IHC, SIHC, APHC, TNHC etc, have been the occassions, where we can meet many inyeresting personalities, in spite of several inadequecies, shortcomings and other deficiencies. I used to meet eminent historians, historians, history teachers, history writers, history lovers and others interested in history.

In this way, this year (happened to be the 150^th birth year celebrations) I met two youngsters at different occasions  S/Sri Ezhil Raman and D Mahendranth, the former has been doing Ph.D in Puducherry University and the latter has just become a member of SIHC. Not only both have been youngsters, but also written a book each.

Ezhil Raman has alaways been enthusiastic researcher on Siddhas presenting papers on the related subject matter. He showed me a book “Special Schools in Puducherry” published by some German publishers.

He was so happy in showing the book!

D. Mahendranath has been a young history writer, as he has written book on the history of Thiruvanathapuram. It was released on December.14^th, 2008 by HH The Maharaja Sri Uthradom Tirunal Marthandavarma at his Palace in Trivandrum. That means, he wrote the book, when he was studying 8^th standard!

In the photo, the following could be seen:

1. His grandfather K.S.Nair (Rtd. AG’s office,Trivandrum).
2. His father D. Sudhindranath
3. His maternal uncle K. N. Sreekumaran Nair
4. HH the Maharaja.
5. The secretary padmanabha swamy temple trust, Janardhana Iyer
6. The PS to Maharaja Somasekharan Nair.
7. Former VC Kerala university Dr. Balamohan Thampi.
8. D Mahendranath, the author.

Now, he is doing +12 in Kendriya Vidhyalaya and he shows immense interest in history.

In another occasion, he met the former President, Sri. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam also.