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A brief account of my early life.


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Hi! My name is Prasanna Vijayaraghavan. I hail from India. I am the first of the two children in my family and was born in my mother's native town of Thirupattur, 500(?) km south-west Madras, in the state of Tamil Nadu. For three years thereafter, we lived in my father's hometown of Bombay, capital of Maharashtra state and India's financial capital. I have only fleeting memories of this period. When I was three, we moved to Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad, capital of Andhra Pradesh state. My parents tell me that initially I had a very tough time adjusting to the place which was then very different from Bombay. I don't remember any of that, though. Today I won't give a second thought if asked to go back there. For nineteen long years now, I have lived in this city. Today I proudly call myself a 'Hyderabadi' ( a native of Hyderabad). I have had my entire education, from kindergarten to my undergraduation and thus lived the best part of my life here. Today, it is a part of me. I suppose that is the way it always is with the place one grows up in.