Before I was born

by Gowri in English Short Stories

My grandfather who was staying in my grandmother's ancestral home with family was a gandhian.In the Kayamkulam district of Kerala, there is a renowned Hindu temple known as chettikulangara devi temple.Whenever festival occurred in the temple gunpowder was used ...Read Morelightening.During those days a Christian man was engaged by the temple authorities for working with the gunpowder blast.He was the only person who knew this technique.As he told that if the Christians knew this they would create problem.So my grandfather changed his name to Chellappan Pillai, who was a Latin Catholic and remained a Christian his whole life.He was married Read Less