The Creative Mind

A writer, a good one like Shakespeare, an artist like Michelangelo, an architect like the one who designed Taj Mahal, these are just examples but it is only people like them who live on in people’s memories or history long after they have left their human bodies. No matter what happens Beethoven will be remembered and admired till the end of time. These professions guarantee the people who practice them a kind of immortality rarely seen in any other profession. A doctor who cures people is a hero when alive but then he becomes old and people he has treated dies and when finally he himself dies nothing is left of him back here to remember him by, unless of course he has developed a vaccine or a cure for something. Then it will probably last till the human race is there. When considered that way architects seem to be the only people whose work is forever.

Appan designed a lot of churches, hotels and hospitals. Some he has got credit for, some credits was stolen from him but as long as these structures remain his ideas remain on earth long after he is forgotten. There are a few churches designed by him in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Then the grand Hotel in Ernakulam was a project he worked closely with, as was the Grand Hotel in Tripoli Libya, the airport in Libya and houses of ministers in Libya. The homes he has designed for people. The Medical Trust hospital in Ernakulam, which design, was his but another took the credits. The list could go on and on.