S & B 5 at Bangalore 12 Aug 12

It definitely was a memorable evening and we all had a great time. Thanks to Kishore, Gita, Kuldeep and  Kaushal for being such wonderful hosts. Photographs speak for themselves.

 The welcome board created by Kishore. Please solve the clues and post in the comments.

Rishikesh aka Gridman, Kishore, Sujeet and Richard

Tanu Kulkarni from The HINDU, Gita Iyer and Shuchi

 Devanathan aka Arden

 Richard, Khushnoor and Tanu Kulkarni

Rishikesh, Bhargav, Kishore, Richard and Shuchi

 Richard, Shuchi, Khushnoor, Sujeet and Gita

Tanu Kulkarni, Rishikesh and Bhargav

Standing L to R - Kishore, Shuchi, Richard, Padmanabhan, Devanathan, Gita Iyer, Bhargav, Sujeet and Self

Sitting L to R - Khushnoor, Gita Gopinath, Rishhikesh, Gita Kishore and Tanu Kulkarni

 Gita Iyer, Shuchi, Gita Gopinath

 Devanathan, Kishore, Padmanabhan and Bhargav

 Self, Padmanabhan and Kishore tucking in

Three Gitas of the THCC Family Kishore, Iyer and Gopinath

Read about the event at this link.

Kishore's trip to Chennai Jul 12

Report by Kishore

I had been to Chennai (somehow I still call it Madras) over the last weekend to call in on Uncle Sam's consuls to get their green signal for my proposed sojourn to the US of A. CV was kind enough to help me with the hotel booking at a short notice. We met for dinner on Sunday night and a couple of photos taken at that time are attached for uploading to THC families.

We spent a nice hour and half together and they also gave me a nice book "Management -Say it with fun" which has great cartoons by Gopulu of the Ananda Vikatan accompanied by cryptic one liners by R Natarajan- a thoughtful present.

 Mrs Lalitha Bhargav, Mrs Gita Rishikesh, Mr CG Rishikesh, Mr CG Bhargav and Kishore

Mrs Gita Kishore, Mrs Lalitha Bhargav, Mrs Gita Rishikesh, Mr CG Rishikesh and Mr CG Bhargav

We also visited CV's house where I had the occasion to look at his wonderful collection of books, especially crossword books, which provided an insight into the pre-computer era setting methods. We also met CV's daughter in law and grand daughter. We were also treated to a sumptuous and toothsome dinner.

S & B 4, 11 Feb 12, Chennai

Here are some of the snaps taken at S&B 4.

 CV welcoming Ajeesh as Padmanabhan looks on

Devanathan(Arden) looks on

 Nikhil and David

 L to R Sudhakar Rao from the back!!, Ajeesh, Dr Sumitra, Dr Pankajam, Bhavan & Amudha Bhavan

Ajeesh, Dr Pankajam, Amudha Bjavan, Bhavan with Devanathan taking a look see.

L to R  Devanathan (Arden), Padmanabhan, Muthaiah, Rengaswamy, Sudharshan Rao, VP, Ajeesh, Amudha Bhavan, David John, Bhavan, Chaturvasi, Sudhakar Rao (Sudharshan's brother), Anuradha (Sudarshan's sister), Dr Pankajam, Rajalakshmi, Dr Sumitra

and here is the link to the article that appeared in The HINDU on 12 Feb 12

S & B 4

Lunch with Raju Umamaheshwar at Coimbatore on 21 Aug 11

Self with Raju and his wife Sapna (They call these Patel shots!)

Limca record held by Raju (Enlarge & read)

The framed copy of the solution to the worlds largest CW (See photo of Limca record for details) and at first I thought it was a piece of art!!

We need to have a marathon S&B meet in Coimbatore with this 4 ft x 4 ft CW fixed on the wall to solve the 12,500 clues that it has!!

Veer Dhandapani's family

 Ananya

 Dhiya

 Veer and Anu

Lollipop

Chaturvasi's Grandchildren

Pics show Chaturvasi's grandchildren Sharanya (nearing 9 years) and Anirudh (7 years). Photos taken in Switzerland which the family visited in June 2011 while on way to Madras.

 Ani

Shasha

Latest addition to the Gopinath family on 11 Jul 11

With the Grandfather

With the grandmother

The proud parents with little Ms Gopinath

I have arrived