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

22 Jun 11, In Black & White - Indian Express

An article from the Indian Express web edition of 22 Jun 11

In Black & White - Indian Express