Greetings. My parents - respectfully known in Tripunithura (chakkamkulangara) as Chuppa Mama and Thangam Ammal - were instrumental for my birth in 1930 and they gave me the one and only name in this whole wide world which is TS Balasundaranathan. My research from school days until this morning has not revealed another human being with my name. Used to be embarassed, but now feel very safe, as nobody will dare steal my ID! After school (1948), was in Matunga, Bombay from 1949 to 1969 (steno - morarji desai, blue star engineering, finally hindustan lever where I became
managerial staff in 1958). God, in his form as karumari amman in chennai, sent me to USA in 1972 with just seven dollars in my pockets. I had no special skills to boast of, like a medical doctor
or engineer, but with Goddess Saraswathy's grace, from a typist to a businessman, I could establish my own large scale import business of fabrics from Kashmir. Pure bhakthi, together with the opportunity of coming across learned pundits/spiritual scholars visiting from India, made me full and humble with all one could wish for as a human being. I am in the process of winding up lock, stock and barrel and yearn to settle back in India within another six months. And I certainly look forward to being of some help and assistance to fellow human beings and other creations of God, and in this I request your good wishes and prayers to God.
TS Balasundaranathan
