Ablaze in a Blizzard

Once Ganesan decided to record his experiences in writting the first thing came in his mind was his Antarctic experience. Only 700-800 people in the entire world get the oppurtunity to winter in Antarctica. Ganesan had the unique previlege of going as leader of a great nation India. so he decided to write that. வெண் பனிப் பரப்பிலும் சில வியர்வைத் துளிகள் .took shape in one year. M/s Paliappa bros published it and priced as Rs.150. With in a month 7500 copies were ordered and sold. Ganesan was paid Rs.30,000 as Royalty. Ganesan had developed interest in litrature and poetry from very young age and many of his thought process were reduced to writtings as diaries, just scripts etc. These became handy now when he started making it as books. Letter writting is a good habit to express our thoughts. In the early stages of Army life espacially in the mighty Himalayan belt his imagination power developed many folds. He started writting to his genius elder brother almost every day and each letter would be about 4-5 pages. When Ganesan retired his brother gave him a bundle of letters all written by Ganesan. He said "Not because these are useless but because what you felt un crossable , un surmountable in yester years can be seen today as they are. These came up as எல்லைப்புறத்தில் ஓர் இதயத்தின் குரல். took shape. At this time I came aross a great peronality by name M S P Murugesan. This gentleman, a Retd Tamil teacher in Govt scool , was about 65-70 years old when I met him. He was a far superior writter in tamil, Malayalam and English and highly patriotic, He holds Defence services in very high esteem and was deeply impressed by Ganesan's achievements. We started discussing about my interests in life and Mr.Vaiyavan (that is what his pen name ) started giving book shape to all my writtings.

The above books were except one or two are the contribution of Mr.Vaiyavan. His entry in my life is a divine gift to me and through him the stored informations and experiences in Ganesan's brain will be displayed in a broader world forum. The first book was கல் சொல்லும் கதை. The same was later made into "Story of the Stone." Other books were சிவந்த மண் கைப்பிடி நூறு. The greatest writting which came in print by Mr.Vaiyavan is இலக்கைத் தேடும் ஏவுகணை . Senior Army officers who had gone through the last book felt that every soldier of the Indian Army should get an oppurtunity to read this book. Situation management, moral courage , Spirituality of this great country India , Man management etc are inter mingled along with Colonel Ganesan's life in that book. By this time Ganesan was little familiar in Tamilnadu. One retd govt servant who was passing through Sannanallur, stopped his car there and wanted to know more about Ganesan. Since that was his birth place he asked few pwople here and there. The people of Sannanallur told him that no such person called Ganesan existed ever there. What a great patriotism and pride about ones own country and countrymen.! But the cosmic force of the universe was observing these. After about 7-8 months of that incident Ganesan was travelling in Day express train to his native place. It is about 4-5 hours journey. After about one hour of journey the co passenger in course of casual conversation was exited to know that Ganesan is a retd military officer. He narrated about his travell experience at Sannanallur and with curiosity asked Col Ganesan , "He also being an Army officer , Does he know Col Ganesan ?" There starts our new chapter "The Inspirational Park" அகத் தூண்டுதல் பூங்கா Welcome to "The Inspirational Park".