![]() Somasundaram Play Ground, at the intersection of Vyasa Rao street and Hanumantha Rao street, was my most favourate spot which my childhood memories were strongly linked with. My brothers returned home with a saddened face, still living in the memory of the sad deaths of the Shakespearean heroes, as if returning from a crematorium after consigning a dear one to flames. His lectures were arranged as the last class of the day so that the students did not bunk classes after the lunch hour. He often fainted after teaching the last lines depicting the death of the tragic heroes. He threw himself heart and soul especially when he taught the fall of Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth. He used to teach Shakespearean tragedies at the class. My elder brother Narayana Rao and eldest brother Janakiram, who studied at the college were great admirers of this scholar. Almost on the opposite side of Rajaji's house was the house of Krishnamurthy, the great English scholar and principal of Patchayappa College, Chetput. His daughter lived in the house and Rajaji used to visit his daughter at this house. Rajagopalachari, the great freedom fighter and the last governor general of India. ![]() After a few houses in the same row was the house of C.
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