Chempil Arayan Road, Chempu

Chempil Valiya Arayan Anantha Narayanan (1935 - 2009), Thikkodi
s. of Puththanpurackal Thanu Arayan and Madhavi
h. of S. Leela (Retd. Teacher, Palur L. P. School)
f. of Rana Pradeep (Malabar Public School, Moodaadi); Rajarajeshwari (Polachirackal High School, Nelliampathy); Rana Dwivedi (Indian Army)

അമരം [Stern] (Direction: Bharathan; Screenplay: A. K. Lohithadas; adapted from the short story `Pooram' by Pallissery; Lyrics: Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri; Music: Ravindran; Mammootty as Achuthan Kutty, Maathu as Radha alias Muththu, Ashokan as Raghavan, Murali as Kochchuraaman, Chithra as Chandrika, Balan K. Nair as Pillaichan, Kuthiravattam Pappu as Ramankutty, KPAC Lalitha as Bhargavi) (1991)

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`Colin went into the Indian army, and died a general. He followed the example of the more ambitious among his brother officers, and exchanged military for civil duties. In 1799 he acted as secretary to a political and diplomatic Commission which accompanied the force that marched under General Harris against Seringapatam. The leading Commissioner was Colonel Wellesley, and to the end of General Macaulay's life the great Duke corresponded with him on terms of intimacy, and (so the family flattered themselves) even of friendship. Soon after the commencement of the century Colin Macaulay was appointed Resident at the important native state of Travancore. While on this employment he happened to light upon a valuable collection of books, and rapidly made himself master of the principal European languages, which he spoke and wrote with a facility surprising in one who had acquired them within a few leagues of Cape Comorin.'
-- George Otto Trevelyan, in `Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay', Chapter I.

`Colin Macaulay, General. Was the right-hand man of the Duke of Wellington, in his Indian campaigns. He governed for many years a large part of the Madras Presidency, and, in spite of his active life, was a first-rate scholar both in ancient and modern literature. He was constantly mentioned in contemporary literature as a wonder for his erudition and abilities.'
-- Francis Galton, in `Hereditary Genius'.

`Colin entered the Indian Army, in which he had a distinguished career, ultimately attaining the rank of General. He was present at Seringapatam, and was, with Sir David Baird, imprisoned by Hyder Ali. He afterwards entered the Civil Service, and was for a time Resident of the native state of Travancore. On his return to England, he sought and obtained Parliamentary honours, as M. P. for Saltash. Wellington appears to have held him in high esteem, and maintained a friendly correspondence with him. He died at Clifton in 1836.'
-- William C. Mackenzie, in `Lord Macaulay's Ancestors', The Gentleman's Magazine, v. 285, Jul.-Dec. 1898, p. 134.

"He [T. B. Macaulay] had another Maecenas in the person of General Macaulay, who came back from India in 1810. The boy greeted him with a copy of verses, beginning

`Now safe returned from Asia's parching strand,
Welcome, thrice welcome to thy native land.'

To tell the unvarnished truth, the General's return was not altogether of a triumphant character. After very narrowly escaping with his life from an outbreak at Travancore, incited by a native minister who owed him a grudge, he had given proof of courage and spirit during some military operations which ended in his being brought back to the Residency with flying colours. But, when the fighting was over, he countenanced, and perhaps prompted, measures of retaliation which were ill taken by his superiors at Calcutta. In his congratulatory effusion the nephew presumes to remind the uncle that on European soil there still might be found employment for so redoubtable a sword.

`For many a battle shall be lost and won
Ere yet thy glorious labours shall be done.'

The General did not take the hint, and spent the remainder of his life peacefully enough between London, Bath, and the Continental capitals. He was accustomed to say that his travelling carriage was his only freehold; and, wherever he fixed his temporary residence, he had the talent of making himself popular. At Geneva he was a universal favourite; he always was welcome at Coppet; and he gave the strongest conceivable proof of a cosmopolitan disposition by finding himself equally at home at Rome and at Clapham. When in England he lived much with his relations, to whom he was sincerely attached. He was generous in a high degree, and the young people owed to him books which they otherwise could never have obtained, and treats and excursions which formed the only recreations that broke the uniform current of their lives. They regarded their uncle Colin as the man of the world of the Macaulay family."
-- George Otto Trevelyan, in `Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay', Chapter I.

"In September 1808, his [T. B. Macaulay's] mother writes: `My dear Tom continues to show marks of uncommon genius. He gets on wonderfully in all branches of his education, and the extent of his reading, and of the knowledge he has derived from it, are truly astonishing in a boy not yet eight years old. He is at the same time as playful as a kitten. To give you some idea of the activity of his mind I will mention a few circumstances that may interest you and Colin. You will believe that to him we never appear to regard anything he does as anything more than a schoolboy's amusement. He took it into his head to write a compendium of Universal History about a year ago, and he really contrived to give a tolerably connected view of the leading events from the Creation to the present time, filling about a quire of paper. He told me one day that he had been writing a paper, which Henry Daly was to translate into Malabar, to persuade the people of Travancore to embrace the Christian religion. On reading it I found it to contain a very clear idea of the leading facts and doctrines of that religion, with some strong arguments for its adoption. He was so fired with reading Scott's Lay and Marmion, the former of which he got entirely, and the latter almost entirely, by heart, merely from his delight in reading them, that he determined on writing himself a poem in six cantos which he called the "Battle of Cheviot". After he had finished about three of the cantos of about 120 lines each, which he did in a couple of days, he became tired of it. I make no doubt he would have finished his design, but, as he was proceeding with it, the thought struck him of writing an heroic poem to be called "Olaus the Great, or the Conquest of Mona", in which, after the manner of Virgil, he might introduce in prophetic song the future fortunes of the family;-- among others, those of the hero who aided in the fall of the tyrant of Mysore, after having long suffered from his tyranny; [General Macaulay had been one of Tippoo Sahib's prisoners] and of another of his race who had exerted himself for the deliverance of the wretched Africans. He has just begun it. He has composed I know not how many hymns. I send you one, as a specimen, in his own handwriting, which he wrote about six months ago on one Monday morning while we were at breakfast.'"
-- George Otto Trevelyan, in `Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay', Chapter I.