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Sunday 19 August 2012

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Profile of A.N.Sapthagireesan

I was born on 28th of April, 1938 at my Maternal Grandfather (late)T.N.Krishnaswami Iyer's bungalow, then named Sri Rama Krishna Niwas situated at No 2 Hensman Road (now renamed as Kavingyar Kannadasan Road) at T'Nagar Chennai- 600017.
The initial
A stands for our native village Aduthurai Perumal Koil ( also called Thirukkudalur ) located near Ganapathi Agraharam Village in Papanasam Taluka Of Thanjavur District.
The second initial N stands for my revered father's name Narayanaswami Ayyar.
There is a story behind my name Sapthagireesan !
The day I was born happened to be my maternal Grandfather (late) T N Krishnaswami's Shraddha Day and just as the Purohits had their meals and were taking leave, my birth had taken place. It is a custom to name the child after its grandfather, and both my maternal as well as my paternal grandfathers were no more. However two of my elder brothers were named after them viz Krishnamurthy and Vaidyanathan. Now there was pressure from both the spear and the distaff sides. My four elder brothers were named Ramachandran, Rajagopalan, Krishnamurthy (named after my maternal Grandfather) and Vaidyanathan (named after my paternal Grandfather). My father wanted to be fair to the demands of both sides. We belong to Smartha sect and for us LORD SHIVA and LORD VISHNU are both equally important. Lord Venkateswara of Tiruppati is also called "Lord of the Seven Mountains" in Tamil ( Ezhu Malaiyan). So he named me as SAPTHAGIREESAN. The name taken as a whole was denoting Lord Venkateswara of Tiruppati (Which was representing my maternal Grandfather Krishnaswami) while the latter part of the name GIREESAN indicated Lord Shiva (Gireeso, Giriso, Mrudhah-Amaravakya- Representing my paternal Grandfather Vaidyanathan).This is the background.
In later life, on many occasions there had been pressure from many quarters like my employers, bosses, friends and others, to shorten my name; however I have all along been able to stand my ground and convince them that lot of thought process had gone into framing my name by elders and it was not for me to change. In fact I am probably the only person in this world having this name !
As regards my profile, I thought it fit to paste a copy of a citation presented to me by my last Employers, which could serve as a brief resume of me and my professional life.