This is my paternal great grand father. This photograph was taken in 1959, Considering he looks like he’s atleast 70 here he should’ve been born sometime in the 1880s. Our tharavadu where he was the patriarch was right next to the vadakunnathan temple in thrissur circle, that’s where he was born and raised and where this photograph was taken. He had two wives. I have no idea what his name was or what he did, I never met my paternal grandad cause he passed away when i was 2. I wasn’t close to my dad and we never spoke about his childhood. He himself passed away 3 years ago at age 70. We were clearing up his office room when we found this album. No one in this family is in good terms with each other, some live in poverty, some are CFO’s of major companies. One of them was involved in organised crime in bombay in the 90s, one of them was personal assistant of Russi mody wined and dined with the tatas, Some have multiple failed marriages and have kids who they’ve never met, some were alcoholics and fell in a ditch drunk and died young in some alley in matunga. Some are in psych wards, some have paraplegic children and have devoted their lives to taking care of them, there’s also one who pledged their life savings and joined a cult. Then there is me who is in kochi and still “figuring it out”. Weird family but all branches lead to this man.
by adit1231