High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan) into a Tamil Hindu family, the third of ten children to Sita Balakrishnan, and Subrahmanya Iyer, also known as C.S. Iyer, a senior officer in the Indian Audits and Accounts Department. m The name Chandrasekhar is one of the appellations of Shiva, meaning "holder of the moon" in Sanskrit, and is a common Hindu name. Subrahmanya was posted in Lahore as the Deputy Auditor General of the Northwestern Railways at the time of Chandra's birth. His mother tongue was Tamil.