2008 already!

Happy Birthday Wishes (belated) to Jyotsna.
Wishing A Wonderful New Year to all in the family.
With Love,
Gayathri & Sundaresan

Happy Bday

Dear Jyotsna, Wish you a very very happy Birthday. Hope you had a great day

Akila, Mohan, Vaishnavi

Happy birthday, Jyotsna!

Jyotsna celebrated her birthday yesterday, 29 December. Best wishes and many happy returns, Jyotsna.
The reason for the delay of one day is that Ujwala and Ramesh are visiting us and we have been busy chatting, eating out and so on. They leave for Kolkata this afternoon en route to Dhaka.

Vimala and Jayaraman

Here is VR athimbher

from the 'get- together'

In 1972-73 a get- together of PRS family was organised at Pattabhi mama's behest and with 'Periappa' - Saama- P.S. Swaminatha Iyer's sponsorship.
Youngsters passed around a box camera and clicked away as they pleased...
the two photos posted in this blog are the excavated remains .. What happened to the rest, I wonder.

more to come

Yes Chithappa
I plan to post a few more interesting photos which are in my possession right now.

Photos speak volumes- is it not?

wonderful photos!

Those are really wonderful photos. Just when I saw them, Anuj came online & I immediately gave him the link and went into a full history of our thatha-s! Kappu athai - what a beauty!
I am attending many concerts this 'Season', selectively, of course. The seats in some of the sabhas are so bad, that my back is protesting!
Akila, there is some confusion about what you want to say about appa's smile - I didn't really understand your second mail. After you mentioned it in your earlier post, I too thought that the mouth portion of appa does resemble thatha.
Gayathri

Resemblance

Perippa, Amma says that your smile resembles thatha's and not Ramakrishna perippa's :)

NICE PHOTOS

Excellent pictures of Kappu akka, and PS brothers , after a lull for some time. Thanks Ramaa.
My mind goes to those days, of my inter actions with each one of them. I want to write a few, but no time today.

This is a proof that preserving taking and preserving photos is a useful work. How all of us enjoy these pictures. I am sure that everyone, on seeing them, will stop for sometime and go back to those days and come back with difficulty.

Ramu

Nice pictures

Very nice pictures, all of them. The one of Kappu is particularly nice, a fine example of Pattabhi's patient photography. At a time when all of us had to think a lot about buying a roll of film, he would snap off pictures in quick succession and choose the best ones for printing. Like a pro.

Thanks Ramaa. I hope more are in the pipeline!

The three of the 'PRSundara Iyer's Five'

This photo is a nice one of the Kunja thatha, Venkatta thatha and Pattu thatha - the winsome three. (origin of the photo is unknown; the find is from Pattabhi mama's collection which was with Kannan (Raja mama's son)

p.s. sorry for the typo-error in the previous post Please read boax camera as box camera

This photo is a nice one of Kunja thatha, Venkatta thatha and Pattu thatha - the winsome three.

This casual photo was taken during the get together in 1972-73 with a baox camera.

Kappu athai's photo

This photo is also taken by Pattabhi mama on the same day as thatha-paatti's photo. mama had edited it (the marker line in red), had prints made and distributed them...

on paatti-thatha's photo

The photo of thaatha and jangapaatti was taken by Pattabhi mama at SAARANGI - Thambi anna's house at Kasturi ranga Road. Evidently Pattabhi mama had cracked some joke to make their faces break into those beautiful smiles. The house behind is that of 'sound maami'; paatti and thatha are posing on the path leading to Raja mama's house. That is why Ramu could not recognise...

thank you

Dear ramu thatha, Jayaram thatha, chandru thatha gayathri periamma, akila chitti

i was very happy to see my name and photo in this. Thank u very much.I had great time on my party.Got lot of presents.
Sumanth

Vidya here,
Saw all your messages today. Suamnth was thrilled to read theses wishes.He has become slightly literate compared to last year.As my sisterinlaw with family are here from Dec 13th ,I couldnt see the page earlier.I will be quite busy till 6th jan and hope to come back to update myself with latest happenings.
Sumanth saw PSCpatti thatha's photo and asked me "why is papa patti looking old suddenly?This lady looks like my papa patti."
Okay folks bye for now and see u all soon
Vidya

Resemblance

Do you think so, Akila? Even now, I am not quite able to see the resemblance. What does your father think?

I was looking at thatha and Patti's photo again today and realized that Ramakrishna perippa resembles thatha a lot, especially the smile

Akila

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUMANT

We wish Sumant a Very Happy Birthday.
Mythili Patti & Chandru thatha

HAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY RAMYA and ANUJ

Mythili and I send you our best wishes on your wedding anniversary. We wish you Many Many More Happy Returns of the Day.
Mythili athai & Chandru mama

Best wishes

Best wishes (though belated) to Ramya and Anuj on the occasion of their wedding anniversary. Many happy returns!

Happy birthday, Sumant!

Best wishes to Sumant on his birthday today. Many happy returns.

TO GAYATHRI

Was it the wedding day of Anuj Ramya!!
My list was prepared much earlier and I have missed it! Jayaramanna also probably did not have the date in his list.
Nothing to worry, Ramya and Anuj will start a home very soon.

Ramu

Belated comments

Wishing Srikrishnan athimber and Sumanth a very happy birthday.

That photo of thatha and patti is wonderful.

My god is it 2 years since Ramya and Anuj got married!!! Time is flying!!!

photo

It must have been taken by Pattabhi Chittappa only - because Amma is wearing the same sari in that famous picture of her alone, the setting also seems the same.
Happy Birthday to Sumanth.
We had subdued Wedding memories of Ramya-Anuj yesterday - each one of us in a different place just did not have the right mood to celebrate. Just prayed for them at Padmanabhaswami Temple. Two years have rolled past! Please join me in wishing that Ramya completes her Phd fast and sets up home soon.
Gayathri

Thanks, Ramaa!

That's a beautiful picture. Both the subjects look so natural and joyful. Wonder who took it. Pattabhi?

Thanks a lot, Ramaa.

NICE PHOTO

It is a very nice photo of Kunjappa and Janga manni and thanks to Ramaa.
Both of them seem to be in a jolly mood. I am unable to identify the place.

Ramu

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUMANTH

Dear Vidhya

Our best wishes and love to Sumanth on his birthday on 13th. We pray for his good health, and success .

Ramu Sarada

photo

WOWWWWW! That's a LOVELY photo of thatha & Amma! Thanks Rama!
They really come alive in this one!
Gayathri

this is the other half !! (pun intended)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SRIKRISHNAN

Dear Srikrishnan
Mythili and I send you our best wishes on your birthday. We wish you many many more happy returns of the day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

HAPY BIRTHDAY TO SRIKRISHNAN

Happy Birthday and very many happy returns to Srikrishnan

Ramu Sarada

Happy birthday, Srikrishna!

Best wishes to Srikrishnan on his birthday, 10th December. Many happy returns.

I have no pic of his to post. Can any one else do that?

Hi

I have missed quite a few B'days, sorry!
Wishes to Prashant, Vimala chitti, Pavitra.

I could identify the following in that huge pic:
Mahatma Gandhi, Bruce Lee,Saddam Hussein, Abraham Lincoln, Einstein, Mao tse Tung, George Bernard Shaw, Tagore, Sherlock Holmes, Lenin, Queen Elizabeth, Gengiz Khan!, Marlyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat, George Bush!, Prince Charles, Charlie Chaplin. Phew!!!!
Gayathri

PAVITHRA, MANY HAPPY RETURNS

Many Happy Returns to Pavithra ( sorry, I am late ).
Brig.Kumar was telling me Pavithra`s future plans.
We wish her all the best and success in all areas.

Ramu Sarada

Happy birthday, Pavitra!

Best wishes to Pavitra for her birthday yesterday. Many happy returns. I missed out on the date, as it was not in my list. But the good wishes are no less heartfelt because of that. Here's wishing you all thebest.

Happy Birthday

Dear Pavithra, A very very happy birthday to you.

Akila, Mohan, Vaishnavi

Pavitra at Madame Tussad's museum

30th November - HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAVITRA

We wish Pavitra Many Many more Happy Returns of the Day. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAVITRA