If you want to see a candle and its light, you should have eyesight. You must be able to see. For the ‘candle’ for the first month of a new year, let me hold aloft the life of a man who helped tens of thousands of people see. He died on 21 November 2023, but the institutions he created with a far-reaching vision are continuing to help millions receive or recover their eyesight.
S.S. Badrinath (Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath) was born in Triplicane, a traditional, well-known area in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India on 24 February 1940. His father, S. V. Srinivasa Rao, was an engineer in government service. His mother, Lakshmi Devi, was the daughter of an advocate in Nerur, Tamil Nadu. An illness forced Badrinath to begin his school education a little late at the age of 7. He studied at P.S. High School, Mylapore, and Sri Ramakrishna Mission High School, Chennai. Sadly, when he was just 11, his mother died and eight years later his father too passed away.
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