Nandoda’s motto is, “Pour vivre heureux vivons caché” to be happy in life, one must remain unknown… Nandodulal Dé grew up ‘cache,’ unknown, in a humble family living in a small French town in Bengal-Chandernagor, today known as Chandannagar. What was ‘French’ about the small town? A convent, a few buildings, some street names like Le 14 Julliet, and a French administration. There was also a school, free of cost, where the French language was taught. But why learn French? Almost since a century, there was no French trade out there; the few jobs in the French colonial administration were taken by Tamils from Pondicherry.  So why were they learning French, especially when a child’s fate was to be a factory worker by nine or ten years of age? Perhaps the dream of a French colonial empire in India had to be sustained through a link to history, a link to old stories. This story is just beginning.