My Life My Origins MY LIFE

ONE : My Autobiography : Let me begin at the very beginning and from there I will proceed step by step from one moment to another event . Here it goes - I was born on a Saturday , late autumn day , early November in 1934 on Tenth day at 8.30 PM Indian Standard Time , 3 PM UT , 10 AM US Eastern Time . The house I was born in is a large home , ancestral home of my maternal grandparents Srimathi Seshamma K.... and Sri Anjaneyulu Ramaraju(s), who in future are going to be my adopted parents . So it has come to pass that I am blessed with two mothers and two fathers . My Birth mother is Srimathi Rajyalakshmi Kanukollu ( nee Ramaraju ) and my natural father is Doctor Venkata SubbaRao Kanukollu , son of Village Administrator ( Gururaju KaraNam gaaru ) of Aviripudi/Nimmakuru in Krishna District of Andhra Region of South Central East Coastal Bhaarath Desh . My Birth mother is the elder of two daughters of my maternal grandparents Seshamma / Anjaneyulu Ramaraju . My Pinni ( aunt-younger sister of my birth mother is Seetharaamamma . These are my immediate family members at the time of my birth , maternal grandparents , mother , father and aunt . I bow to all of them who at present are no more and proceed further . My natal house , my maternal grandparent's home is located in a village by name ' KORITEPAADU ' ; It is a small village , a suburb of a small Town ' GUNTUR ' . In 1934 Koritepaadu was an independent village with a Police outpost and it's own village administrators , A Karanam and A Munsab . Karanam's duties are to maintain a record of properties , birth records and Munsab is a kind of law officer . Now Koritepadu has been incorporated into Guntur corporation and lost it's individuality , but back in 1934 my village is it's own master , a part of overall British Colonial India , times usher changes , a law of nature . Now let me take you back to my natal home ; it is a big home length wise from East to West and narrow from South to North ; It is one level home with tiled roof and a tiny upstairs open sit out up front with steps coming down towards west ; the house is facing East on to village main road ; on the north is a barn of a farmer with cattle , hens running around , and a small silo ; on the west is a small hut belongs to a goldsmith ; south-west is a small lane which runs from west to east , connecting to our main road towards south ; between that lane and my natal home is a house with a joint wall separating us and occupied by a relative unfriendly family with whose members my grand parents had very little social interaction due to some ancestral house ownership dispute , let us not bother about them at this point . We come out of my natal home East on to the village main road and proceed to the left towards North and after six houses we come to our village temple situated on the same side of street as our home . The temple is the Abode of our family deity Lord Raama accompanied by Seethamma , and Hanuma my ishtta daivam . Beside the Temple the northern boundary of our village is The Temple Tank with a mango grove in front and still beyond to North is the village crematorium cum burial ground . There is a small village library towards South West boundary of village with few books to read and one or two Thelugu news papers . Guntur Town is encircled by a ring road with my village on it's northern rim . Koritepaadu village is populated by farming community and overall it is a peaceful lovable small village of friendly working class blue collar families ; I feel so sorry that I have left that nice village in 1952 severing all my connections with it but not yet with Guntur Town , that is yet to come - that brings to an end of my description of my native village and let us go back to my natal home and find out more about my birth - patience my well wishers ----