My Father Baliah Quotes

“The mullah was surprised by Ramaswamy's promptness and the interest he showed in learning. He made the boy sit beside him. Ramaswamy, conditioned as he was, moved away slowly, fearing the pollution of his [own} touch! The mullah wrote the first few Telugu letters on a slate and asked the boy to learn by writing over them. Thus it came about that, against all social and religious odds, after many centuries of being denied learning by caste Hindus, a Muslim teacher sowed the seeds of learning in the Yelukati family — something for which the coming generations would be forever indebted to this first teacher of the family.”
― Y.B. Satyanarayana, My Father Baliah