India visit 2013

Happy memories of a short, but sweet India trip in June-July '13.  Thanks to Kumar and Mouli for organizing the Mascot meet in Tvm and to Ramamurti for taking the time to meet in Chennai.

Madan

Dubai grand get together

Some of our dear friends at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai at the grand get together hosted by our  Rajagopal.

A great high res photo from Kumar to add to the above.

In memory of Kaladhar

A warm hearted colleague dear to all of us. We will miss him.

Madan

Get together at Mascot Hotel July 3rd, 2011

We had a small, but fun get together at Mascot.

May Day '11 meet at Mascot

Reunion in Chennai

Some photos (courtesy Kumar) of a grand reunion at the happy occasion of Rajagopal's daughter's wedding in Chennai.

Congratulations to the handsome couple and wish them a long and happy married life !

Madan

Our dear friend V Ganesh

Our classmate and friend V Ganesh passed away last month. Here is a beautiful tribute to him from our classmate and his friend and cousin Sriganesh.

Madan

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“ It is when you give of yourself that you truly give ”

The words of Kahlil Gibran sums up what Ganesh was.
My humble gratitude to the family and all around him for having waited for me, his friend, classmate and cousin, to reach before his cremation.

As he lay there still, frail and dark, having faced all the onslaught of modern medicine to cure the evil which was growing and eating inside him, my faint hope of he getting up and saying bye to me was in vain.

Thoughts of times of learning, youthful adventure and achievements, we had together, raced my mind. His communications during his early life in the Airforce, his affair with Petula and his later life all seems like yesterday.

Even when young he had a way with people. He could win over anybody, young or old. And he was always there to help whenever anybody needed it.
My father and Ganesh had mutual admiration.

My prayers to God for giving strength to Petula, Siddarth, Shagorika and all who were around him, to bear the sorrow of the loss.

He has left a big void and again Kahlil Gibran’s words bring solace to me :

“ For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun ?
And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides , that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered ?

Truly
Sriganesh

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Meet at Mascot Hotel Tvm June 2009

Tvm Golf club meet 2006 and other photos

Photos from Poovar 2

Photos from Poovar meet provided by Ramesh

Tvm, Kochi and Chennai reunion

Here are some more photos from Tvm and from Kochi where Ramesh spared some time from his tight schedule to meet and from Chennai where Rajagopal took time out of his Sunday to meet. Missed Ramamurti because he was hard at work on a Sunday ! The Model School work ethic still is at work :-) Could only speak on the phone with TP in Delhi and Satish in Mumbai. Maybe next time we'll meet in person.

Regards,

Madan

Golf club reunion Nov. 19th, 2006

Kumar organized a grand reunion at the Trivandrum Golf Club on Sunday night, Nov. 19th. It was a great opportunity to meet Ashwini, Cherian, Fenn, Joy Jyothish, Kumar, Lakshmanan, Sanjeev, Sankar and Sree Ganesh, many after nearly 34 years. It was a wonderful occasion. Here are some photos, which don't do justice because of the poor resolution of the stills on my video camera.

Madan