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Letter to my cousin, Guru ( Read more... )

DS' grandfather, Bob Shaffer, is 97...and he's truly a gentleman of the old school...gentle and kind. He's also a highly qualified man; he was the Dean of Indiana University (and my cousin met him when he...the cousin...was studying there!)


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It was a jam-packed trip, and I managed to visit three temples and a hitherto unvisited cave temple, too....I'm off to Sirsi/Banavasi again later today and have just not had any time (a quick trip to the Bannerghatta-Kaggalipura Forest area with Rosita and her son Mark took away whatever little free time I had yesterday!)..so let me just post a few ( Read more... )

Off to

Trichy

NOT looking forward to the heat after the lovely cloudy coolth of Bangalore! But going to enjoy the temple visits...and the

Shashti Abdha Poorthi

celebrations of my cousin, which is what I am going to attend. There's going to be yummmm food...!

for a day, back on Thursday.....meanwhile, I can't comment on any LJ post yet...

Jeddy Narayan is a bear of somewhat ancient vintage; he's the only bear I know, who has moved from Europe to Asia to America.


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N L Narayanan, or N Lakshminarayanan, to give him his full name, was my uncle....to be precise, my mother's younger sister's husband. He was known to the family as "Ambi" (a dimunitive of "thambi" or younger brother, being, as he was, the youngest of three sons). (My own father, in another Thanjavur variation of this nickname, was "Ambu"....though ( Read more... )

What do I do when someone gives me a gift of surpassing hideosity (well, I just invented that word, but surely you see its meaning) and extreme uglifism ( Read more... )

While doing several chores, and getting stuff organized for my departure, I suddenly decided to listen to the video of "Kannamma" that my nephew Rakesh Raghunathan had sent me a little while ago.

Just listen to his voice...it's approx. 7 min long:

Some might remember Anil and Gurucharan speaking at the TED talks in Mysore and Chennai ( Read more... )

Here's a picture of one of our relatives (well, technically KM's...but you know how it is, after 30 years of marriage, there are no YOUR relatives and MY relatives, only OURS)...a very hard-working lady who has stood by her husband's business ups and downs, always lending a helping hand as well as coping with the household, with staunch affection ( Read more... )