One morning four fresh graduates from Government Siddha Medical College in Chennai came to pray at a tiny shrine in the lower reaches of Vellore’s Fort Hill. The shrine is dedicated to Puttu Maharishi, the first guru to start a gurukulam (school) in the 15th century to teach Siddha medicine.
After praying the graduates sought the blessings of a middle-aged man standing nearby. They bowed before him and respectfully asked him to bless their degrees.
The man they approached is Dr Kalyani Parasuraman Arjunan, 58, an outstanding practitioner of Siddha medicine and a guru to hundreds of. . .
