ESSAYES

It was a farewell party and I was asked to write a life story of one of our Partner, Viswanathan, hailing from Nemmara, Palakkad who was retiring and leaving for settling in Palakkad. This story was to be read in the party and this is what I have written about him after gathering information through an informal chat.. Once up on a time,….. Partners, let me start my story here like this… and the title of this story is “Lord of the Gods and the Goblet!!! 1950… a December cool and calm morning… If my memory is correct, it was 17th day of December and it was a Sunday!!! A legend in the making is born.. And his parents called him ‘SWAMINATHAN’ Lord of all Gods… Friends, He was born in Kerala. His friends later started calling Kerala, by another name , God’s Own Country, after his birth. Nemmara, a small village in Palakkad District, became widely popular because of mainly 3 reasons… One, because of the well known local festival called Nemmara Vallangi Vela which is only next t