The tale of a tender coconut seller’s son who became a bank manager while facing poverty…
Everyone routinely drinks cold water to reduce body heat. Everyone is aware that the medicinal characteristics of tender coconut simply serve to chill our bodies. It’s difficult to imagine that every single sip of water may significantly enhance someone’s life, but this is one example of a narrative that does just that.
The tale of a tender coconut son who grows up to oversee a bank
The next nearest village is called Villupuram. There is an uncharted 15 km of agricultural land surrounding the settlement that is largely undiscovered by the public. However, despite the occasional building that has been constructed, the farmers are still confidently farming today.
One who resides in a core village is Ayyānār. He’ll be 68 years old now. Living on a roof, working in agriculture, etc. It is untrue to say that work will be done every day. But not everyone is capable of doing that work. Ayyanar works another employment selling tender coconut in addition to that. Throughout the summer, a lot of tender coconut is sold. Ayyanar used to ride his bicycle to a spot in Villupuram city and sell fresh water that he bought from a hamlet nearby. The price of a tender coconut is about eight or ten rupees. It is impossible to account for all of the earnings, so the money that is left over must be bought and sold again the next day. However, Ayyanar’s duty went beyond that; he must save money for his son Silambarasan’s education regardless of whether he purchases food for the household.
“Ayyanar has a big smile on her face when everyone drinks the tender coconut and leaves in peace. Ayyanar does not believe he was paid for his water. The fact that everyone is contributing to his kid Silambarasan’s schooling is the cause of his satisfaction.
By selling it as water, raking the roof, and performing agricultural labor for pay, Aiyanar forced his son Silambarasan to study agriculture in this way.
Silambarasan is currently Principal Manager at Indian Bank as a consequence. About it, Silambarasan says.
How can I become a manager of a bank?
Villupuram is fifteen kilometers away from our village. Then, no bus travels through the town. To get to the main road, one has walk four or five kilometers from the town. The bus arrives to Villupuram Old Bus Stand from that location.
To go to the school, you have to descend there and walk two kilometers. I commute to school in this manner each day. I always pack a plate for lunch, whether I bring a book or not. I don’t get food at home like I used to; I only eat food that is served at school.
Not only for me, but for a lot of people like me, it was the food. My father aspired to force me to pursue education and secure employment with the government. He forced my sister and me to study as well. After that, my sister’s class 10 score was 450. After graduating, our brother worked as a postal worker and earned a little money. My sister kept it and studied through college. In a manner, my father concentrated on helping me with my education even though my sister started working.
I received a class 10 score of 387 out of 500. In 2006, I received a class 12 score of 730 out of 1200. In our town, I was looked after by a man by the name of Manivasakam, who advised me to pursue a BSc in Agribusiness after finishing my 12th grade. He registered me at the Tuticorin district’s Gilli Kulam Agricultural College and Research Institute. Not even when I went to register for college did my father accompany me. because his knowledge of the outside world is limited.
He is only familiar with wage farming and little tender coconut seller. When I was at college, my father visited me once or twice, but my mother Jayalakshmi never did. After starting college, I found it difficult to socialize with other students because I studied in Tamil. I got to know a couple of my senior classmates from the Villupuram region, and gradually I started to feel like a fellow student. subsequently,
“I’ve prepared myself to the extent that I was chosen to serve as the college student council president, and it was during that time that I gained firsthand knowledge of everyday living and group travel. I have never shied away from being a government official, even though it has greatly enriched me.”
Twenty-five thousand rupees a year. My father forced me to study while obtaining an education loan for college from a local bank. I’m currently modifying myself in anticipation of the bank managers’ reaction when I provide college loans.
Words could not express Dad’s humiliation over the insults beyond the borrowing. Does twenty-five thousand rupees suffice? There are numerous more costs, ranging from a thousand to two thousand rupees a month, if that is insufficient.
He splits up 10 rupee notes and brings them to me every month when he pays a visit to his father. After selling the water in those bills of exchange, he will smell strongly of sweat. My father was unable to even add up ten rupee bills.
This was my college graduation. Government-related recruiting firms were present at the college at the time. I was chosen as a Farmer Field Survey Officer by Indian Bank.
Bank Manager Position
Employed in the Agricultural Science Research Station in Tindivanam. Following that, I had management positions at Indian Bank locations in the districts of Oothangarai, Tharangambadi in Nagai, Pulivalam in Tiruvarur, Madhukur close to Kumbakonam, and Senchi in Villupuram. We live under a roof. More often than not, we used pots for rainwater collection instead of cooking.
I got up early in the morning and set out to gather tender coconut from every town. I strapped the coconut to a bicycle and sold the coconut on the streets of Villupparam to make money. I came to the conclusion that my father need to stop working.
I sometimes can’t help but think back to the times when we all went to school during the rainy season, fell asleep, and woke up early to collect the dripping raindrops.
That’s why I constructed a concrete house there to stop it from happening again. Since my father is accustomed to working and is constantly working, I am unsure if he is sleeping soundly there.
After I got a job and took care of my mother and father, they felt I should get married. I’m content right now with my wife and kids. My father made me work hard in school, so I used my earnings to force my younger brother to study as well. Today, he is employed as an assistant inspector in the police department.
At the moment, I am employed in Thiruvannamalai as a Pioneer Bank Manager. It was all down to my father Ayyanar, who supported me in taking out loans for school, eating healthily, and using free buses to get about. As a result of my schooling, I was able to advance to the position of bank manager.
Like everyone else, he made me study and got me everything I needed to study, rather than just letting me study when something came up. My father’s water cycle and the knife that gave him a sword now appear before my eyes even when I’m asleep. Now that I am a bank manager, no young person who comes to school will ever say no loan. Because I still have to endure the humiliation of seeing my father visit every bank to obtain an education loan.
How many would have made fun of me in the village. They all walk with their heads lowered, and I walk straight.
All of this is a result of my mother lakshmi, who supported me throughout my entire life despite having no idea what I was studying. My father Ayyanar promised me not to ask for anything needless, and he bought everything I asked for, and I will never forget that as long as I live.
