My name is Madhavan Nair. My parents were Chettur Karunakaran Nair (1889-1979) and Padmavathy Amma (1902-2002). I was born in 1919, in Mangalore, which was then part of the Presidency of Madras. I was the eldest of five children. In 1945, I married Krishnakumari Nair, daughter of a well-known scholar Vidwan Krishna Pillai of Thiruvanandapuram. We have a son and a daughter and a grandson and a granddaughter.

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