My grandfather Dr. S. Srikanta Sastri was an extraordinary scholar in his own right. Yet, he was also a husband, father and a grandfather to us all. Behind this colossus was a sweet, petite, gentle soul who quite literally ran the Sastri household single-handedly, when her husband was engrossed with the rise and fall of civilisations. This lady belonged to a household in whose premises in Andhra, young Sathya Sai Baba suffered a scorpion sting and had his moment of realisation! She with her single-minded devotion dedicated herself to seeing Dr. Sastri's family through rationing, disease, world war and an untimely death of their young son. This is a small tribute to my dearest grandmother Smt. Nagarathnamma.
By Dr. Bhagirath S. Naganath
