Anna's father Natarajan, according to his biographer R Kannan, was a village scribe who wrote property documents for a living. His mother was Bangaru Ammal. It was his mother's younger sister Rajamani Ammal, a portly woman with kind eyes and the wife of a village doctor according to Kannan's biography, who brought Anna up and educated him. In Pic: E V Ramasamy Naicker ( Periyar ) with Annadurai