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I was born on 8th August, 1928 in a middle-class family. My parents had 4 sons and 2 daughters to raise and educate on my father’s low monthly salary. We all studied in Board High School, Nidadavol, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. This village had no running water or electricity. I studied with a kerosene lamp. Our batch was the first to write the high school examination in our school, in 1944. There was a function held in our school in late 1944 with the Education Minister of undivided Madras state as the Chief Guest to award a medal to me for topping the pioneer batch in our school. Since all our siblings studied in that school, when I liquidated two plots of land we had in that village, I donated that money to build a set of classrooms, since the class rooms collapsed in a recent cyclone and the students were studying under trees. The classroom building was dedicated to the memory of my late parents, Eleswarapu Sriramamurthy and Eleswarapu Neelaveni. |
