Of Saints & Seers
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The author is a vivid raconteur. His life in different countries as an Indian career diplomat, have been captured in narrative form and will be published as a series of books. This essay is a short snippet extracted from the main memoirs and recounts the author's personal experience with two Indian Saints. As per Indian tradition, the short essay sets the auspicious mark, as a beginning to the main series to be published under the title "Four Decades - Through Thick and Thin".
N Sreenivasan
Mr. N. Sreenivasan was born in Kumbhakonam, Tamil Nadu, India as the eldest son of Sri S. Narayanaswamy Iyer and Smt. Rajammal. His father was an educationist and philanthropist in the town of Nagapattinam. In 1944, Mr. Sreenivasan joined the Persian Gulf cadre of the Government of then, British India. He continued as an Indian career diplomat after Indian Independence, serving in Iran, Germany, the USSR, the USA, Bulgaria, Egypt and Finland. Since retirement in 1986, Mr. Sreenivasan lives in Chennai, India. He is an avid raconteur with an elephantine memory, who brings back to life memories of a diplomatic career, with vividness and humour.In the early morning of 28th June 2017, 3 weeks before his 91st birthday, Mr. Sreenivasan departed for his heavenly abode.
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