Archana Anandakrishnan, Muni Anandakrishnan, and Jayalakshmi Anandakrishnan

00:01 Play my name is archana. Anandakrishnan. I'm 28 years old. Today is Tuesday, May 4th, 2021. I am currently in Ellicott City, Maryland, and I'm speaking with my grandfather when he on the Krishnan and I'll let him introduce himself now.

00:28 Should I stop now?

00:32 My name is. My first name is Monique. My last name is on, on depression, and my age is 93. And today's date is August 8th. May 2021 a city called Chennai in India. And my partner is my granddaughter.

01:04 That's it.

01:07 Okay, stop.

01:11 So what I wanted to talk to you today about was I wanted to know your relationship with education, you built a career out of Education field. So I want to know where it started and how your relationship with the field progressed.

01:34 Yeah, I'm now designated as an educational.

01:44 But I would love to go back and give you a little bit of background.

01:50 I was a born in July 1948 to July 1928.

01:58 And that is a small town.

02:03 My father was an art design in building construction.

02:07 And that we had nine children and the family. I was the second and I had a sister was older to me right now, only myself and my sister are living.

02:20 My education was in the media after finishing, my high school, which is charitable trust and Mathematics mathematics. They used to tell me that those who are golden mats are likely to become a genius.

03:07 So I can buy on the 10th class. I will State Forest.

03:12 Be there. Some of the family. My father wanted me to stop there and the 10th class and accept the job in the battle. Over my head. Boston was a very nice gentleman and Sunday. I would arrange a scholarship for him.

03:42 So, I did well in the final examination, the college, each district has the highest rank order in my district. Papa. Can I ask a question? So education, how about your father? You mentioned that he was an artisan. What was his education level was? Did you have any help at home with your math classes? And he had no medication whatsoever.

04:42 Drawing equal study, building work and education.

04:53 Did you have any help with your math homework at home from him math teacher, in high school. I used to go to him and even sorry if I messed up, my message used to give me additional books or addition problems to solve.

05:27 Then you had gained admission to gindi and Junior in college. You said, and I got a job as a junior engineer construction, roads, and bridges, and supervising road, but I like the job.

06:10 What kind of corruption and the supposed to start a petition against the ban were just returned from United States?

07:10 Enjoy his time in the US.

07:18 No, not before I come back. I'm going to give me all the books that he had brought from their pre and the body of the life of the United States is from there. I got transferred to your chief engineer office in charge of bridge design. Designer immediately after Independence author. Lot of new construction going on a project and he said,

08:18 He said, you are a few of your heretical ranked in the college you and I said, no, I don't think I will pay you some money 7:52 p.m.

08:43 So, I went dead. I got selected. I got the University of Minnesota.

08:53 What are you part of the interview is done? In India? Is so, I've been selected and I've been assigned to University.

09:14 So, I was really happy and that, by the time I was married in 92 in a place called Deborah. My wife's Place Danish me. I said, okay.

10:04 So then we got so much taken aback. And after the marriage.

10:54 She can't believe in a better place. That's true that after you married my grandmother to pee, but she is stop you from sweating so much or do you think she actually encouraged you more than I used to come early during the weekends. I want to my phone, my home, my father. Like your family might not like that.

11:44 And then I ended up at the same time. I had an offer to that. I do engineer and a cheap fix.

12:41 I went by my flight, the airfare from the dead. And they were very nice inside their house for a few days, till I was able to find accommodation in the oven.

13:25 Then one day it was over. I finished my master's degree in 1956, Chevrolet. Then at the end of an era finished. My master's degree.

14:17 And my brother said he was very fond of me. And so he said, then I said my PhD. I said no, I don't I don't have money and my wife and child in the United States. So what are they did? What you did and then you pay me back after you get this. Money, was about what year? 10 months old.

15:17 Is there only 10% of yesterday? There was no flights directly from her dress and how her journey all the way from India was with a small child, so we can work.

16:17 Beach Bar water and density, ocean clean, the car.

17:16 Spreadsheet. Did you buy her warm or cold? So she did it all in a size before she came. I was living in an apartment in Minneapolis and babysitting cooking bite on a used to be cooking. You left it.

18:06 And then they lived in the same Park Campus.

18:40 Better. I don't remember exactly how. Okay, give me food in my house. And I must finish my PhD and I got a job in India, accepting the job.

19:40 Company so fast, I joined as a part-time student at what time will probably be nice to be inside easy to stay.

20:27 Play, I think I'm going back. Why did you feel like that?

20:44 April, just give me a call. I love you. My wife on day three, boys. We should take the car. All the places. I see some discrimination in some places. They want a hotel and decided to try to go back to India.

21:40 What was your favorite trip that you took? While you were in the US, your favorite road trip?

21:47 Road trip Dallas to West Coast San Francisco to Los Angeles.

22:00 Which city did you like the best at that time?

22:04 At the time, I was in one of these, when we were driving it back, once I one more year in the same company, and they said that,

23:02 I came back so nice. David dead of the fishermen said that he will pick it up.

23:36 What does funny? But Shepherd for The Gardener's London? We did some sightseeing in London like that. Okay, and then, I got the train in Naples.

24:32 It's all good. We landed in Bombay in Chennai, coronavirus station.

25:41 The bed, I went to, we went to the morning, buddy. I did. What was it like being back in India after all that time?

25:58 I liked it, even though I kept the back with a traveling traveling or anything, but you missed about the US.

26:26 I didn't miss a lot of things in the US, the cleanest this institute as a senior scientific officer, identified the job and his wife and two children.

27:26 I'm debating whether I finish my letter to be from Minneapolis.

27:44 Alfred my job, but I'm okay. I think I was scouting for PhD under the evening. So that letter was forwarded to be

28:30 When did they were very happy to receive University started by it was supported by US law.

29:04 Are you remember? Yes, I remember. So I went there and they both in terms of infrastructure laboratory, Jose and curriculum for the first time in 1961.

30:04 Following is a person system from the US accept new program, new curriculum and different daily. I went directly there and there from 1963 to 1974.

30:48 So, I came to India far along with the children, and it's an interesting job. Back to United States, and I forgot to tell you.

31:37 Yes, and the United States was a good contact with number of scientists in the United States.

32:23 Then at the end of furious, this game is a surprise. So I went and joined it for ten years. I worked at the United Nations, 70, countries around Russia.

33:23 So I need my advantage to get the troopers at the bus. You can send it to and Lee and countries alarm in the conference. In Ethiopia Ethiopia like that. You wanted India, accepted in some African countries. So I had your heart of money might give me a chance to visit.

34:23 Go to Circus. Circus address.

34:41 And this is what I got the job with the vice-chancellor. Why are you going back? Why don't you stay back here? And so yeah, that was an addition and sent you a new curriculum.

35:41 Dina, Dina Dina and I made lots of contacts in India after going back from United States to India consulate.

36:41 Jobs like that kept me on a mission event. What? What was the probably the most rewarding job that you had?

37:19 Why? Because in Brazil?

37:45 And there. When we came three weeks with against what they wanted to kill me, escape that came to the United States.

38:47 So, I went back and give me some piece of advice from all of your experiences.

39:43 Can you give me a piece of advice that you think that I should follow from all of your life experiences?

39:53 Yeah, better.

40:00 In spite of difficulties. So This Is War II that it is always good to keep. You may be a doctor, but you should try to learn something else like the age of Frederick. Thanks. Papa.

40:55 Accurate accurate account.

41:14 I wanted to see to tell if you gave an accurate account of your life.

41:28 Okay, thank you. Love, you know, this is all.

41:36 Yeah, so what's up?