Home / vvv001 I am starting my recording for the final time. This is F zero double one, my folder. We will keep going in chronological descending order. This is the TCS Half Marathon I participated in January 2026. I did two hours forty-three minutes with a lot of difficulty. Blue shirt. I am wearing a blue shirt today as well. Today is the fourteenth of April, 2026. I have decided to do a lot of videos and upload them into Video Press since there is a huge memory available, especially dedicated to my friend Kupra Raman, who works in Chennai at Samsung Data Systems. A very good friend of mine. My webcam is also captured. Webcam is right in front. I have done the region setting, which restricts the window to three-fourths of my screen. Hopefully, I should be able to move from photo to photo based on this. The cursor is also on here as you can see. I can see a bald head. Some function. I think it’s Satyanarayanan and Jayamathi wearing that mallipu. The elais are put based on the tradition of closest relatives having their lunch along with the couple. Jayamathi is looking this side. Jayamathi, Parthu are the parents of Balaji and Bharat. Bharat is in London. Balaji is in Dubai. This is the groom wearing one North Indian or a minor kind of uniform with a chain. Doesn’t seem to be too pleased with himself. I have no idea which function it is. So he is eating all by himself. Here we have Usha, Sudha, Sangeetha, Viji, Latha, Shilpa (the dark female), Prema, and Indu. This must be in front of the reception for one of the functions. You got Jivi who typically wears vibhuti along with kumkumam with all my relatives. Sudha wears her kumkumam like this. Usha with her diamond chain. Prema in the background. Viji also wears vibhuti. Sangeetha with rettai jadai. T.V. Samana, S. Prashanth. I think this is the wedding of Girija, Sridhar. Kuppachar again is the achar. I do not know who else is there. T.V. Samana, Prashanth. Date is June two thousand something. Two thousand ten, is it? Or two thousand eleven? No idea. Maybe slightly later. Same marriage. We have Girija and Sridhar right here. Kuppachar again is the achar only. Two thousand fourteen. This was at AVM Rajeshwari Kalyana Mandapam, and I had gone for the reception the previous day. What are these blocks? I have no idea. Urundai, pori urundai. Timing is given here. Three hour fifty-seven minutes. Timing is four minutes. I will do it till ninety minutes and then close the video. The marriage continues. Samana and Prashanth. Samana is Sridhar’s daughter, whereas Prashanth is a neighbor of Latha at Ram’s Colony in West Mambalam. Prashanth migrated then to the US. It seemed to be a lower middle-class family, and it’s great that he has hooked with Samana because Sridhar comes from a fairly rich background. They got married. Good for them. Videographer and photographer taking these videos. Videographer standing on one particular kind of stage. AC. Here, Prema closing her eyes with Jivi in front of Venkata Chalapathi and Lord Krishnan. Jivi is on the healthier side, but wearing a lot of jewels. Pattu pavadai. Pattu podavai, sorry. Prema with white and black and gold jarikai sari. This must be at Guru’s place. No, sorry, at Venu’s place. Some waterfalls and somebody… Murali, Guru, Prema, and Jivi are here in this waterfalls. Not sure if it– It could be Kutralam. It could be anywhere else as well. You have some monkeys here. Most probably Kutralam. No, but why would they go all the way to Kutralam, which I have not heard about? The water is definitely in a trickle. Murali, as usual, taking photos. Prema in a blue sari of the pond by– near the waterfalls. And the pond continues. Someone’s calling, so let me pause it. After the pond, which they visit, there is a eel here. I think this is from the Bangkok Waterworld. Octopus or some sea organism like that. Or maybe it is in Goa. They had gone to a Goa water park, Prema and Praba. I had booked tickets for them. This is an aquarium there, where you can see a lot of sea organisms, various kinds of fish with Gem’s chocolates put in there. Dead animals. You have a duck. One of the backwater spots at Goa, possibly. They have pointed to some cave vegetation. You perhaps have a small lake with some boating. These are ducks by the side. Prema in a cottage, blue color saree. Praba walking down the path before she had Parkinson’s, which she suffered for three years before finally passing away. We had gone to their place yesterday, Prime Vivaan. Raghu, Ramya, who’s an Iyengar. The fields are there. The bus which took them to those places. Praba wearing her pearl necklace. Prema, dark blue and green saree. Ginger Hotel is where I booked them into. Nice place. This is their room at Ginger. They get a coffee machine, TV. Prema nicely dressed in her saree. The next marriage where they have put a parda, a veshti parda. The photo is hazy. Everyone crowding around the bride. Can’t make out who this is. Previous camera. This is coming. Raghavendra Kalyana Mantapam. Everything is from a far off distance. I can see a lot of Sampah relatives there, is it? A puja room. Some puja photos are there. This is Chikguru’s wife. Inside that Gauri Puja ceremony. Again, Raghavendra Hall comes into focus. These hazy photos are taken by none other than Prema. The photographer arranging. The hazy photos continue. Plastic chairs are put in at the small wedding hall. Chikguru. So it must be a function at their end, which must have been a lower middle class kind of ceremony. This is Papu. Could have been in Dharmapuri. Papu mama and Vimala. You also have the other person from Dharmapuri, Raghavendran, who is the husband of Nagamani. Chikguru died in Palakkodu sometime back. His wife, her name I forgot. She still survives. Wife is… Name forgotten. Vimala? No. Jaya. Correct. Niharika and Nisha. Pink and gray dresses. This is a silver coin of Ganesha, probably. This is at GR Mai three four zero five. My father’s photo is in the background with a sandalwood garland. The front table is there. The AC remote is also seen here. Prema has taken these snaps. The garland of my father, which is still there with me in front. TV is running some Arya movie, Aquos. I think I disposed of this TV right through Rajini. Niharika with her pink swimming pool glasses with purple swimming dress. Nisha going to the pool. This is at Gopalan Admiralty Square. Removing her glasses. Purple swimming dress with Manorama Rao in the background with some flowers. Prema again here. Maybe she’s come for some function. Satish with something on his ear, with a garland around him. In the function, the homam fire has been lit and the homam is in full progress. Some Ganapati puja, Navagraha puja and stuff like that. There are two achars at Gopalan with a lamp there. There is a coconut with some leaves sprouting out of it. Seven different kinds of fruits. The huge white bag which the achars carry with kumkum and some sticks of wood. Satish and Rajini, both of them in front of the fire and praying to the god. The achars exchange something amongst themselves. Prema snaps which are not of great quality. I think Vivaan is sitting on my lap. Obviously by force. You have Nisha also who’s there. There is an intercom which one can see right above us with that particular shelf. Two lamps. Probably Prema has got these lamps. Orange curtains. And that sofa which is at the back. The aachar looking on. Dr. Rao with Vivaan. Manorama Rao sitting in a corner. The puja continues. The soft toy. The fire is dead, and one rangoli is put on that fire. Rao and Vivaan get along very well with each other. A nice, cozy, intimate snap. Satish looks to be slightly thinner then, is it? Mano praying to the god. The puja room. The bear toy, which is right here. This must be very early in the morning, probably. This is my father. Again, GR Maitri, the woodwork. A lady in the train. Can’t make out who she is. This is Raghu, who is entering the house of Ram’s colony, where Brinda had passed away. Cheenu, an impromptu moment where he’s laughing. Sofa and chairs arranged at the back. This must be Aishwarya, is it? Chikkaguru and others are sitting. I think this is the subham day with the coconut tree and the backyard of the house. Yes, Chikkaguru again here. Jaya. Jayalakshmi. They are serving food to people. This is Arhaan Prasad Vanguri, the dropper and the son of Anusha. I have no idea how Arhaan has scored in JEE Mains two and where he’s gonna join. Prema, I can see in this snap. Viji Baba, Balakrishnan, Deputy Superintendent of Police. This is Satyanarayanan along with Venu. The same occasion. Indu and Vimala with Swati. You have Raghu with their relatives. A couple of other relatives and friends of Brinda are seen here. Guru. The cooks who have come from some village for the entire thirteen-day period, similar to how we did for my father. Prema and Raghu having a chat. Prema would be sorely missed by a lot of these guys. Kuppachar is there along with a younger-looking Venu. You have GV and Sampa. Papu has come in. Raghu. This is somewhere else with Prema and Gopika. Gopika wearing one orange shirt which says Reservoir Bay, USA. It says California Rangers, Reservoir Bay. This is the Darjeeling trip. Nisha very tired with Rajini in the car at the back. We are on the way probably between Darjeeling and Gangtok. It’s a five or six hour road trip near the Teesta River by mountainous terrain. This is a train, a track which we can see here. A lorry right in front. The Teesta River appears. All these snaps are taken from the cab itself. People on the road. NH thirty-one, lifeline of Sikkim, border roads. The bridge which perhaps connects West Bengal with Sikkim. Fairly fast-flowing river, this Teesta River. Some monkeys and the mountains, the ghat road path, clouds in the horizon. All fantastic scenery of that place. Some blooming flowers somewhere. Work happening with a truck by the riverside. This is Pelling and Darjeeling. Okay, this is towards Darjeeling, is it? Whatever. Some particular place where we have stopped. The river is still seen. “Use me.” Monkey dustbin. A momos place. We missed eating momos there. I had not heard about them before, so did not even have vegetarian momos. The name was quite unfamiliar. Some viewpoint here. The mist. The Teesta River once again. Ropeway at Darjeeling. The friend had taken us to this ropeway. Somebody doing rafting there. Just took a snap of that. The town below. Lot of cars. I think this is towards Nathu La Pass because we can see a string of cars going that side. There is water rafting happening in the horizon. The ropeway again here. All these cars at one go in the morning, and they come back in the afternoon from Nathu La, a famous attraction. Clouds and mist. The river. More and more mountains. Construction activities. Already spoken about the ropeway. This is the Kyongnosla Waterfall, developed by the tourism department. It’s a small waterfall. The town of Darjeeling. The shops there selling trinkets. Small water stream. Trekking place and all here. Water rafting once again. I think this is in the ropeway where we are looking at one waterfall below as we are proceeding in the ropeway. This is a nice view of Darjeeling town from the ropeway. Those are Jeep, which I think is going towards Nathu La. Some nice snaps by the ropeway junction. Lot of rocks by Teesta River. Shops and some square. You can see the sun rays floating in. One green city central square or village central square for eating places and all is here. Looks quaint and nice. The Jeep has stopped in one side. Here, Nisha in a– sorry, Niharika in a lovely place with a pink cap and gloves also with a yellow jacket. Looks quite cute. She’s been wearing that pink jacket for a long time. This is the wedding of Priya Ariyer at Pune, where we have Jasmini, Sundar Natarajan’s father, Natarajan Mama, and Jaya Mami. Jaya Mami and the daughter-in-law are having fun. Sunita Vora, nee Shah, along with Jay Shah, who has just been recently promoted. This is at the Coffee Day or some joint at Commercial Street, where I had met them. This is at Jane Farms where we had taken Snowy when Rajni was away in the US. You can see Niharika and Nisha playing with other kids here. We had gone in the Scorpio, and Snowy was a large enough dog then, but it was still staying with us only. Towards the process of having Anand get married, I think Murali Mama had conducted some Godhanam or cow puja at Udupi. This orange snap is right here. Kumar with Malathi and Rupesh’s upanayanam. Ritesh and Rupesh are the two kids. Kumar has come home now for Gopika’s marriage function, I think. Birthday party. This is June 2007. Five-year-old Nisha with– Sorry, Niharika with Nisha in the background. This is 2007 at Artillery Road before we shifted to Gopalan. Venkatesh Ananta Narayanan having a moment of joy with an old contact or acquaintance of his with Sundar Mama and Mami looking on. This is again June 2007, birthday party of Niharika. Lot of gifts she got. Venkatesh entering and being welcomed by both Prabha and Preeti Hariharan. The Udupi achar with Anand, Raghu, and Murali. Yellow car in the background. Sundar with that uncle. This is again October 2007, when we did a function for Nisha at Gopalan’s community hall. Shiva and Mohan looking quite smart and young. Darjeeling, where I picked Niharika on my shoulder and took her around the marketplace for a long time, because both Rajni and Nisha were not keeping well. They were nicely sleeping away in the hotel room. The uncle who had signed on the Sanskrit or Kannada document for Anand’s wedding. Jay Vara, the engineer from SRM, along with the doting mom, Sunita. A pose of Natarajan Mama. Niharika observing something on the ground when we had gone to Srirangapatnam. This is with her laptop at Artillery Road. Jesmini with Natarajan at Priya Hariharan’s wedding. Niharika with Rajni, a candid moment of affection and joy. Ginger Hotel with Venkatesh, where with Sundar and Jesmini and the others, we walk across the place, highway, expressway, road. Sundar’s room where he’s with Natarajan receiving some instruction. These are the Birlas, Southern Stars, Duryodhana Sahu, Biju Bhargavan. This is Geeta Mani with some relative at one of the functions. Anand with Murali and Jayamani. We can have Babu there, out there. Raghu with Swati and Nagaraj’s wedding, and Harish with Nagaraj’s mom. The two achars once again. Not achar, cooks from Brinda Auntie’s function. The four cousins, Sangeeta, Shruti, Surya, and Shilpa. Shilpa, the dark one. Both of these are dark, actually, and both these Usha’s children are fair. Fair, but short. Sundar birthday party with a purple and a blue balloon at Jalvayu Heights. Jyothi, Jyotsna, the two sisters. I always get confused between who is the elder and who is the younger one. One of them was with Marvel and currently with some other IT company. The other one is with NSO, National Statistics Organization. YV Mama with his grandchild. Very happy look. Mukund marriage ceremony. Latha and Sampath are looking on. Umachari with Satish, talking about something. Nisha with her specs. We are having some cool drinks. Caricature done by both Satish and Nisha. This is on house internal function of Satyanarayanan, Satish with Viji and Aishwarya in a red sari. Arshit’s birthday party. Large cake. Satish looking very stylish in specs with a blue and stripe shirt. Could be at Gopalan. The car which I disposed of in 2007 or eight, just before selling it off, I had taken this photo KA zero three P five one six nine. The Maruti 800, which I had got back from Chennai after my father’s demise. This was 2009 beginning. In a train, looks like a Shatabdi where I’m– because the windows are quite large, where I’m off to Chennai. No clue for what. This is KR Puram station. Keep calm and stay fresh is what the chicken box says. We get it for Oreo. The construction of the new unit at Adarsh Vista, where we are expanding the guest room for the sake of my in-laws coming in here. At Sundar’s house by the swing and this is again at Sundar’s house only probably. By the Pinya metro route. Here I am on a train, metro in Chennai. Where I have gone for God knows what. I can see Simran here. It says some dance program stage, Kathak Bharatanatyam. The party is Indian style. I think this is closer to current times when I had gone to the wedding of Sachin. Again, at Sachin’s wedding. The conceptualization of the house which Rajini and Pallavi are going to construct at Jain Farms. Praise the Lord. Lord, I say to you, you are my strong helper. You keep me safe when I fight in a battle. Blessed Saturday. The concept house. Anand in a green uniform at Adani, Chhattisgarh. Murali wearing that same dress. Happy birthday to Badri. Residency Tars. Everyone is probably recognizable here. Nimmi and Nimmi Baba with Ramesh, Satish, Harish, Shweta, Lakshmi Aunty, Vimala, Anusha, Arhaan Manguri, Venu, Indu, Raghu with Badri, Guru, Prema and Cheenu. Usha Krishnan, Sudha Haribhaskar, Nirmala Madesh. At the time of purchasing the car, six seven one five, Suzuki Swift. We have Pramod and Raghu and Indu and Lakshmi with their families, and they went for the car. This is at Shiva’s marriage function at Melkote. Niharika, coordinator of Sruthileya, announcing its coordinating committee for academic year. Simran at some entrance to the school or some museum where someone is giving away some bird. Here we have Preeti propitiating to the Lord, which has been decorated on the sofa itself. My friend at office, so Jude, Suresh, Puneet and Sam were the four people who are in real estate in Indiranagar. Harish with his friend. So I know two of them here. VP, VP Ishwadas along with Suresh Mohan. Prabha, who was not keeping well, and Prema used to visit her occasionally. This is at Badri’s function again. Shweta looking brilliant with some huge necklace. Unisys Innovation program, which Sundar was part of at his house. Suresh Mohan, a nice snap with a veshti and a Krishnan statue. Congratulations, to welcome you on board at BITS Goa Women in Tech program. Nisha did the interview for WISH, which is a one-month internship program for Texas Instruments that will happen during the month of May. Three weeks online and one week in campus. Some water bottle, which is there. Lot of pillows on top of Oreo. Sujanita, Ranjani Krishna, Kapil Chandwani, Upasana Swaminathan. Upasana is an engineering student at Mysore. Rajalakshmi Swaminathan. All these are friends of Sundar in his list. On top of an elephant idol, this is Badri. We have Ritu Mariam Chandy with her daughter, Rachel, and Sabu with Ritu’s husband. BITS, November 2022, when Niharika was down with body ache and sore throat and cough. Went to the college. A nice moonlight by some resort kind of a place. Satish had dropped or is picking up Niharika, yellow shirt. A thumbs up sign, very happy. Probably is picking. Satish relaxing with his kovadam after a large walk, obviously. Suresh Mohan at the cricket ground. Date and time not known. Sundar by the cows. This is a valuable deposit counter at Adiyogi in Coimbatore. Wearing his veshti in a panchakacham format. He is also volunteering cutting carrots, wearing some strap, blue. Preethi with daughter Adyashri making some flower arrangements. Here, Satish has taken a nice selfie snap with Pavitra’s daughter, Satvika. Jazz Realtors and Fin Consultants at Nettissery in Thrissur. Pattakke Parayil, that’s the name of the place. Because Suresh Mohan Pattakke Parayil is the full name of Suresh with his son Abhay and wife. At the Raghavendra Mutt, during some puja. This looks like– No, it is Raghavendra Mutt at Mahalakshmi Layout. Preethi sitting on top of Arvind, with some damru. Consuming a huge glass of sugarcane juice. Have fun. Heart never stops. The volunteering work at Adiyogi for Shivaratri. Nap at old photo. P.H. Narasimhan, Pai Money House. Rajani and me had gone to Skandagiri, where we had taken a snap by the sunrise. Rajani’s holding the rising sun in her hands. This is Guru and family in front of some temple here. Some match which Satvika was a ball girl in at Australian Open. Happened probably in Sydney or Melbourne. Murali during one of his trips to North India. Jai Sri Ram. Niharika singing with her friends. On the right, I can see Shreya Savineya. Niharika practicing the song with her phone, behind a tree. This is Murali with some of his young friends during his North India tour. Pleased to invite you for a get-together at 216 Ninth B Main. This is by Nagarajan, Kanchana, and Sneha. Jyoti, Suresh’s wife. HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar. Big snap of Rajani right here in the corner. Great in studies, but sort of a nerd kind of a person because the others are dressed very well. There is Rajani, Tanya, Puja, Vibhu, Chandan, Anshu, Monica, Sonali, all these people. Sundar with his veshti status. Prema with the parents of Jagan, the husband of Sumitra. These are Mudaliars from Madurai. A trip with Venu and Lakshmi and Pramod and Abhinaya. Shiva has gone to London on an open-deck bus. Anand with Badri here. Slightly on the healthier side, you have Ramesh with Anusha at the Kalyana Mantap. This is Aditya with Utpalmala. Balaji and Arti Balaji, again at this Sachin function. The four brothers, Murali, Guru, Chinu, and Raghu, at Adiyogi. Anand singing some song, next to the DJ with Chinu egging him on. Nisha very upset and crying because of ninety-eight point six percentile. Lots of tears, lots of sadness, heartbreaking, not talking to anyone. We have friends of Niharika here. This is how the relationship chart looks like. You got Sundar, Jasmini, and Simran. You got Krishnamurti, Revathi, Karthik and Kaushik. Karthik, of course, Shobana and Kaushik got married to Priya Mathur. They have two children, Krishank and Abhigyan. Jayshree, Bharat, and their children. Manorama with Rot and Niharika. This is February 2007 when we had gone to Chennai for a function of Sampath and Satyanarayanan at Marina Beach. Satish with Nisha. Satish is really looking fat, man. Sundar had purchased Sa Re Ga Ma caravan for Natarajan mama in his old age. This is at 269th B Cross. Bhatri wearing his punal with Aditya looking on. This is at Cheenu mama’s house. Some court, food court, possibly. Raghu and Indu. A photo of Sri Lanka with this couple. Raman wearing full helmet during COVID time when we went to see off the father of Harish, Vaideeswaran mama. Anusha with a beautiful snap with Aruna’s daughter. Aruna has two daughters, Anjana and Ashna. This is Aswath Ashok. Aswath Ashok and Aradhana are the children of Anuradha Sriram. Arhaan again. Satish in an old photo with Balan mama and Priya, Balan’s daughter, along with Nattu mama. Raghu Prasanna, who called me yesterday also with Soumya and Avaneesh. Arvind and Anusha look on. Venu is cutting a snap with Abhinaya. Anand is also looking on. The five daughters-in-law of the house, Jivi, Brinda, Indu, Lakshmi, and Vimala in that order. Half marathon, where Sundar is my emergency contact person. The venue entry is Mahim Reti Bunder, which is opposite St. Michael’s Church at Mumbai, right? Where I could stay at Dharavi. Must be the same place every year. And I was in wave F. When Vasantha and her husband visited Prema with Latha and Radhakrishnan at RMN Square. Here we have the employees of Harish’s sister’s company production unit. Launch of AGSM. Heartfelt appreciation and congratulations. Thanks for kind words. Overjoyed. Usha Ramesh. Sundar’s birthday at Sydney. Dance program of Arpita. Ramana Maharshi of Tiruvannamalai. Unstoppable. Sujanita Prakash, after the demise of Prakash, faced many battles alone. Like the sun, absolutely capable of shining alone. Throw me to the wolves. I’ll come back leading the pack. This is the place which Ritu and her sister wanted to sell. 176 Kodambakkam High Road. Laying down Vishnu. I had sent this to Cupra to tease him. Rajini Rao, visa application, one sixty. Sundar, looking gaunt and tired after the walk, perhaps. Here, someone is dead, and they have covered. Who is this person? Oh, no, it’s actually something at the Adiyogi center, which Sundar took a snap of. Satish Narayanan finished his SBI Green Marathon at the best possible half-marathon time for me. My own birthday, two forty-one fifty-five. That has been my best ever. Tata Mumbai, it’s two forty-three. I got both these present beautifully here. Valentine’s Day special, some ice cream. This is at Mohan’s house where they had visited and met up with Agastya. This is at Phur, the new restaurant at Twelfth Main with that fluffy mango dessert. Niharika with her pink dress at Darjeeling waiting for some momos. Continuing the photos of Darjeeling again by the river. Thank you for not smoking. No smoking. Niharika looks sad because it was a very tiring trip. This is at the ropeways station. Tired and despondent, she looks. Hotflix, Gangtok property. Oh, the ropeway was at Gangtok. Where this friend also picked us up, right? Because Darjeeling we were by ourselves. We had some refreshments. Nice road curving on the left and right. Beautiful place. Again, some gulab jamun and eating stuff. We are past all that travel with the kids. By the mountainside and that central square. Nice eating. We need to mind our eating now. The buildings are there, the cooks are there, the kitchen is there, the food is there. Flyover is being constructed, right? These are the flats which overlook the valley, the apartments. Across the Teesta River, the huge bridge. Many more photos of the ropeway, which probably is a big attraction out there. Three-storied and more buildings. On top of a yak, near one of the Gangtok lakes. Nisha is there with a red cap, the small one. They are actually standing very close to the yak. Probably the driver or the yak owner is on the other side. Rajni is also smiling away. The beautiful road, single road of Gangtok. It’s a white and black yak. You can see the rope which is held by the yak owner. You got snow on the background. A truck. From somewhere up, I have taken some nice snap of the town of Gangtok. Niharika seems to be angry because it’s been very tiring for her. Nisha now on the yak. The red cap, Nisha. Ganesha, where our cab is taking us somewhere. We have all this. The apartments once again. Nisha getting down the yak. The river keeps winding all near Gangtok. The car is going somewhere from place to place. There is a lake here. Snow we can see in the distance. Small pieces of snow by the mountainside, like how it is always. The cabs have stopped at some distance. Some small puddle of water by the car. The tourists are being shown the yak. There is this building, perhaps a collector building or something like that. Snow. This is definitely Nathu La. That river where we had stopped, the lake. I think the yak was there by that lake on the way to Nathu La. This is an iconic photo, which I just skipped. Niharika crying by the snow. Almost at Nathu La or on the way back from Nathu La. Somewhere we wanted to take a snap of hers by the snow, and she’s bawling. Teesta again, the ropeway again. Slightly calmer, but still in a very bad mood, Niharika by the snowfall. She didn’t enjoy it at that point of time. Maybe later looking at the photo, she would have liked it. This is some place back. Rajni by the snow and looking very happy. Chief Engineer Suraj Prakash. This is some bridge over the Teesta River. Rajani walking across the snow. Several photos of Rajani are there by the snow here. Nisha with Rajani. Some nice snap by the snow. Which building is this? Another nice photo of Rajani, Nisha at the snow. The bridge, some water bottle. The two children somewhere by the lake. Niharika with that black shawl. Cars on the road. People waiting for the toy train, I think. The red cap and the pink purple cap of Niharika. The ropeway came finally. We have more photos of the Gangtok Ropeway. Union Bank of India ATM is there at Nathu La at a very high spot, fourteen thousand odd feet above mean sea level. The ropeway comes here. Some more photos. Nisha’s time to be sad in the– This is, I think, the toy train, Darjeeling toy train, which we took. Nisha crying on Rajani’s shoulder. They’re waiting for something there. This is the entrance to Nathu La, perhaps. The Union Bank of India ATM, where you can see Nisha crying. Obviously, they’re very uncomfortable because of the air as well. Now slightly calm. Niharika is far better now. Gangtok Ropeway. Damodar Ropeway is in construction. You have Rajani with her kids here. Narrow road, drive slowly. The ropeway again. Niharika with some puja prasad, which someone has given her, with the gloves on. Going into some temple there. Again and again, photos of the road, the ropeway, the valley. The friend of Dr. Rao who helped us, who was with us the whole day. Some steps which are leading to late Baba Harbhajan Singh. Some memorial of this fellow. His memorial is seen here. Obviously, respect these people a lot. Indomitable three, Baba Harbhajan Singh. Like how 120 Bahadur movie was taken. Some viewpoint. The mist covering the road. Watershed memories. In English, you have those army sacks. All the jeeps going towards Nathu La. Some shops. A huge dish antenna there. The small mountains. Entering small villages on the way. Purple with black shawl, yellow jacket, Niharika. Petrol bunk. Staircase, memorial, green. Follow traffic rules. Sikkim, a land of peace and prosperity. Through the small towns. This guy was quite helpful. He took charge of one of our kids. This is by the zoo, I think. Here we have an army truck. Lot of army presence. One monastery, Sikkim Monastery, which we had gone to. We also played with those monastery bells, right? Could be a few snaps of that. A view of Gangtok town on the way to Nathu La. This is this lake I was talking about, the monastery inside, perhaps. Police people here. The snow and the Buddha and vote for Seva. Group photos inside are not permitted. Oldest monastery in Darjeeling and belongs to the Yellow Sect. The cylindrical bells we were talking about. Tourist Reception Centre. That angry horse by the monastery. In the car, both the children very tired. You can see Niharika shedding her teeth. Started happening in this trip. She was about eight years old, I think. Eight or nine years old. This is at Nathu La. All the vehicles are parked here at the monastery. Nathu La versus the monastery. The photos are mixed. Ropeway also, lot of photos. Children are sleeping in the car. See how tired their face is. Some tourist bus. Someone’s really happy back in her room. Huge snow presence out there on the way to Nathu La. Kalimpong, Pelling. I’ve seen this board earlier. Niharika at the hotel room. The zoo at Gangtok, I think. The Teesta River curves hugely. Brothers, Jeep people. Right at Nathu La, this photo. Siliguri. From Siliguri, this vehicle has come, huh? Niharika displaying her teeth. Beautiful snap of Rajni at the botanical gardens, I think. They’re about to take a run. The sisters are huge good friends right here by the flowers. The monastery. Nisha with her customary red cap. Niharika always is wearing her red gloves, right? The children have taken a photo by the Nathu La peak entrance. I didn’t go to the top, thanks to this girl. I got scared. And somebody commented, “Don’t take the kid up.” So the friend. Some photos by the snow. More snaps of the children. By our hotel room. At the memorial at Nathu La. This is the snap where Nisha is at the highest spot that we guys have been. You can see Nathu La written on top. After we went to that particular place, we just turned back, myself and Nisha. This particular place. I just put her up the steps, and we came back. We could have gone up the hill, but I was too scared to take the baby. One snap of Niharika candid. Do your work today for a better tomorrow. By the snow, red Nisha. Some marketplace at Gangtok. Nisha keeps looking at the snow. By some library in the hotel room? Could be. All the horses, and she’s looking at them. The snow and that topmost point is there. You have Ganesha here. I think this is Gandhar’s upanayanam function at Mumbai, where we were invited to, somewhere in the middle. Gangtok and the monastery. The army people with a huge mountain top which goes to Nathu La. The zoo again. This is at a house, griha pravesh, is it? Buddha. It’s a lot of mix and match of the houses. You have Guru doing some puja with Arvind. I think this must be at Mantri Apartments. Here you have Niharika with the red gloves. This is the father of Preethi, and this is the younger sister. Preethi and her sister, who’s a gynecologist. I forget her name. Children’s Hospital at Bellandur is where she currently works in. This guy is Raghuram. Rangpo, Siliguri. Some temple. Once again, Preethi’s younger sister is right here. Good brother-in-law to look up to. Happy for them. Happy for their family. White flowers. The puja continues for Guru. The story of Buddha, where an elephant chases this guy. Botanical Gardens, Niharika. Appi taking some snaps. Arvind showing some photo there, some waterfalls. Bulletproof glass for VIPs, obviously. This could be Satyanarayanan’s mom. Is it? No. Could be. Camera for sale. Where is this place? Definitely Botanical Gardens. Of course, he died, Raju Doctor, with Doddamma and Raju Doctor’s wife, Vimala. Her name is also Vimala, I think. Huge tunnel. Border Roads Organization, BRO. Sachin’s upanayanam, right, at Vismayavanam. Satish with the family, is it? But I’m looking a little different with this snap at the monastery. The army people who are there. Sachin’s upanayanam again. The face is the same with Madeshe. Niharika walking past. Very flat Botanical Gardens surface. The watchtower. Snow by the roadside. Niharika is my famous person for taking photos. Purple parda where Sachin is standing on this side. Jai Anjaneya. Red Anjaneya right here. Sachin is there on this side of the parda, about to put his upanayanam thread. You have all these god snaps here. That same monkey trash bin. Rocks by the mountainside. Chimes at the monastery. Many tourist vehicles all over the place. Observatory Tower, Tashi Viewpoint, Gangtok. Raghu, is it? Or someone else? The mountains of Gangtok again. This is Guru and Sukumar and Latha by some restaurant here. The black shawl. Here I’m holding Nisha on my shoulder. The interview, Nandkouri. They went in this Nandkouri ship, Prema and her relatives to Andaman. I think one way they flew back, if I’m not wrong. Very similar to us. Sukumar also went with them. Prema obviously loved going with her relatives. She could be freer there. Nandkouri again. Manipur Handloom Stores. Some viewpoint. Some baby in front of us in that Jeep on the way to Nathula. Southfield College. Meena’s Ladies Tailor, West Mamblam. This is right next to Naped. Aruna with Arhan. Sorry, Anusha. Murali getting into the car. This must have been on their trip to Andaman. Mimmi seeing them off along with Sampah. The Gangtok photos continue. Horse, Reliance. Maned horse already is there. Astrology. Lakshmi. Pleasant looks. Some people are really very good. Lakshmi. The dog, the statue. The pristine waters of that lake at Gangtok. The beautiful view. Brinda and someone else are having some food by the Vazhai Elai. Birds. Niharika feeding them. Another fourteen minutes to go, is it? Chubakola Bridge. The sisters. The friend who helped us out in Gangtok. This is a girl dressed in some nice wear. Oreo’s sitting right underneath me. The main marketplace of Gangtok. Curio store, art, crafts. Walkway. The mall. Pathway. Someone’s puberty function. Niharika by the marketplace. Happy. Whose puberty function is this where Sudha Raghu is actually putting some lipstick on? This is 2009. Nisha at Euro Kids, Indiranagar. Some vegetable day. The monastery, Buddha. Niharika having some soup. One of these girls, I think, again, looks like Gopika. Here, I think, she’s petting a cat, Nisha. The fruit and vegetable day. This one is also having soup in the hotel room. Akshaya’s puberty function, is it? The cat is being petted by both of them. Yes, this is Ranganayaki and her husband, along with Prema. This is the snap which we have taken for doing Prema’s profile photo. The cat went away. Akka is feeding something to the younger sister. Tripathie, looks like with Prema. They’re so tired. Some Shen Ling Resorts at Gangtok. Ranganayaki. Both the mom and the younger kid were not keeping well. Tashi viewpoint we are going to. Green color building, four stories. The cat comes in many photos. Food at the hotel room itself during our trip. Some goats. Nice food they are having. This again continues with Gangtok. Not sure how many more photos we will proceed. Mayfair Gangtok Spa Resort. Rajini having come out of a temple, I think, with red and yellow bindi, with huge teeth. Having some tea. After I finish this, I will make some tea for myself. This is Prema, a candid snap at Indiranagar, three one two three, near ASA Hospital signal. Vimala. The blouse, as always. The yellow jacket of Niharika, as always. This is the elephant costume of Nisha at Euro Kids. One rare photo of Prema, but not with one of the granddaughters, with somebody else. Some more photos where some construction is happening at Gangtok. Who is this? Angry Nisha in the car. Euro Kids’ entry point. All happened around the same time. This again at Gangtok only. Tea estate, looks like. Hay they have put for children to play on. Nice arrangement. Lots of fruits, vegetables. Carrot, I can see. Children in monasteries who are learning from the masters. Those Buddhist children. The Euro Kids ma’am, especially the ma’am with the cowboy dress and black hat. The fathers are all there. Some snaps were taken with Niharika and Nisha by the very fresh carrots and beetroots. We took a photo of the Buddhist kid also. Play items next to the hay. The Buddhist monastery. This is Aishwarya. In the car, taking rest. This is Ramamurthi, Ramu, with Gopi Sridhar. Something which Nisha has drawn, some ball in blue color. Hotel room. Restaurant rather. They are having some nice food. The kids by a laughing Buddha. Satyanarayanan bhava. Nisha with elephant dress. Again at Sikkim only. Prabha lying down in a berth on the way somewhere with Prema. The viewpoint and the children in their costumes. No clue. Office of Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gangtok. The mountains, the viewpoints, the watch points, Prema. The parents looking at the cowboy photos. Sikkim, the temple on the way with Anjaneya. Our children. The pink background of the car. This is the place where I think Niharika lost her teeth. Something given to Kuppachar, Mani. Niharika having some juice. The guru and Sathya. Best of the best, the banner. The lake, we went for boating in the lake. You have Raghu here. The parent, some other parent like me. The Buddha cylinders. Lays chips, some artifacts, showcase. People going in those jeeps. This is Brinda with Arhan. Puppet theater by the teacher at Euro Kids. Watchtower or tower. Arhan being fed. Siliguri puppet

vvv001 I am starting my recording for the final time. This is F zero double one, my folder. We will keep going in chronological descending order. This is the TCS Half Marathon I participated in January 2026. I did two hours forty-three minutes with a lot of difficulty. Blue shirt. I am wearing a blue shirt today as well. Today is the fourteenth of April, 2026. I have decided to do a lot of videos and upload them into Video Press since there is a huge memory available, especially dedicated to my friend Kupra Raman, who works in Chennai at Samsung Data Systems. A very good friend of mine. My webcam is also captured. Webcam is right in front. I have done the region setting, which restricts the window to three-fourths of my screen. Hopefully, I should be able to move from photo to photo based on this. The cursor is also on here as you can see. I can see a bald head. Some function. I think it’s Satyanarayanan and Jayamathi wearing that mallipu. The elais are put based on the tradition of closest relatives having their lunch along with the couple. Jayamathi is looking this side. Jayamathi, Parthu are the parents of Balaji and Bharat. Bharat is in London. Balaji is in Dubai. This is the groom wearing one North Indian or a minor kind of uniform with a chain. Doesn’t seem to be too pleased with himself. I have no idea which function it is. So he is eating all by himself. Here we have Usha, Sudha, Sangeetha, Viji, Latha, Shilpa (the dark female), Prema, and Indu. This must be in front of the reception for one of the functions. You got Jivi who typically wears vibhuti along with kumkumam with all my relatives. Sudha wears her kumkumam like this. Usha with her diamond chain. Prema in the background. Viji also wears vibhuti. Sangeetha with rettai jadai. T.V. Samana, S. Prashanth. I think this is the wedding of Girija, Sridhar. Kuppachar again is the achar. I do not know who else is there. T.V. Samana, Prashanth. Date is June two thousand something. Two thousand ten, is it? Or two thousand eleven? No idea. Maybe slightly later. Same marriage. We have Girija and Sridhar right here. Kuppachar again is the achar only. Two thousand fourteen. This was at AVM Rajeshwari Kalyana Mandapam, and I had gone for the reception the previous day. What are these blocks? I have no idea. Urundai, pori urundai. Timing is given here. Three hour fifty-seven minutes. Timing is four minutes. I will do it till ninety minutes and then close the video. The marriage continues. Samana and Prashanth. Samana is Sridhar’s daughter, whereas Prashanth is a neighbor of Latha at Ram’s Colony in West Mambalam. Prashanth migrated then to the US. It seemed to be a lower middle-class family, and it’s great that he has hooked with Samana because Sridhar comes from a fairly rich background. They got married. Good for them. Videographer and photographer taking these videos. Videographer standing on one particular kind of stage. AC. Here, Prema closing her eyes with Jivi in front of Venkata Chalapathi and Lord Krishnan. Jivi is on the healthier side, but wearing a lot of jewels. Pattu pavadai. Pattu podavai, sorry. Prema with white and black and gold jarikai sari. This must be at Guru’s place. No, sorry, at Venu’s place. Some waterfalls and somebody… Murali, Guru, Prema, and Jivi are here in this waterfalls. Not sure if it– It could be Kutralam. It could be anywhere else as well. You have some monkeys here. Most probably Kutralam. No, but why would they go all the way to Kutralam, which I have not heard about? The water is definitely in a trickle. Murali, as usual, taking photos. Prema in a blue sari of the pond by– near the waterfalls. And the pond continues. Someone’s calling, so let me pause it. After the pond, which they visit, there is a eel here. I think this is from the Bangkok Waterworld. Octopus or some sea organism like that. Or maybe it is in Goa. They had gone to a Goa water park, Prema and Praba. I had booked tickets for them. This is an aquarium there, where you can see a lot of sea organisms, various kinds of fish with Gem’s chocolates put in there. Dead animals. You have a duck. One of the backwater spots at Goa, possibly. They have pointed to some cave vegetation. You perhaps have a small lake with some boating. These are ducks by the side. Prema in a cottage, blue color saree. Praba walking down the path before she had Parkinson’s, which she suffered for three years before finally passing away. We had gone to their place yesterday, Prime Vivaan. Raghu, Ramya, who’s an Iyengar. The fields are there. The bus which took them to those places. Praba wearing her pearl necklace. Prema, dark blue and green saree. Ginger Hotel is where I booked them into. Nice place. This is their room at Ginger. They get a coffee machine, TV. Prema nicely dressed in her saree. The next marriage where they have put a parda, a veshti parda. The photo is hazy. Everyone crowding around the bride. Can’t make out who this is. Previous camera. This is coming. Raghavendra Kalyana Mantapam. Everything is from a far off distance. I can see a lot of Sampah relatives there, is it? A puja room. Some puja photos are there. This is Chikguru’s wife. Inside that Gauri Puja ceremony. Again, Raghavendra Hall comes into focus. These hazy photos are taken by none other than Prema. The photographer arranging. The hazy photos continue. Plastic chairs are put in at the small wedding hall. Chikguru. So it must be a function at their end, which must have been a lower middle class kind of ceremony. This is Papu. Could have been in Dharmapuri. Papu mama and Vimala. You also have the other person from Dharmapuri, Raghavendran, who is the husband of Nagamani. Chikguru died in Palakkodu sometime back. His wife, her name I forgot. She still survives. Wife is… Name forgotten. Vimala? No. Jaya. Correct. Niharika and Nisha. Pink and gray dresses. This is a silver coin of Ganesha, probably. This is at GR Mai three four zero five. My father’s photo is in the background with a sandalwood garland. The front table is there. The AC remote is also seen here. Prema has taken these snaps. The garland of my father, which is still there with me in front. TV is running some Arya movie, Aquos. I think I disposed of this TV right through Rajini. Niharika with her pink swimming pool glasses with purple swimming dress. Nisha going to the pool. This is at Gopalan Admiralty Square. Removing her glasses. Purple swimming dress with Manorama Rao in the background with some flowers. Prema again here. Maybe she’s come for some function. Satish with something on his ear, with a garland around him. In the function, the homam fire has been lit and the homam is in full progress. Some Ganapati puja, Navagraha puja and stuff like that. There are two achars at Gopalan with a lamp there. There is a coconut with some leaves sprouting out of it. Seven different kinds of fruits. The huge white bag which the achars carry with kumkum and some sticks of wood. Satish and Rajini, both of them in front of the fire and praying to the god. The achars exchange something amongst themselves. Prema snaps which are not of great quality. I think Vivaan is sitting on my lap. Obviously by force. You have Nisha also who’s there. There is an intercom which one can see right above us with that particular shelf. Two lamps. Probably Prema has got these lamps. Orange curtains. And that sofa which is at the back. The aachar looking on. Dr. Rao with Vivaan. Manorama Rao sitting in a corner. The puja continues. The soft toy. The fire is dead, and one rangoli is put on that fire. Rao and Vivaan get along very well with each other. A nice, cozy, intimate snap. Satish looks to be slightly thinner then, is it? Mano praying to the god. The puja room. The bear toy, which is right here. This must be very early in the morning, probably. This is my father. Again, GR Maitri, the woodwork. A lady in the train. Can’t make out who she is. This is Raghu, who is entering the house of Ram’s colony, where Brinda had passed away. Cheenu, an impromptu moment where he’s laughing. Sofa and chairs arranged at the back. This must be Aishwarya, is it? Chikkaguru and others are sitting. I think this is the subham day with the coconut tree and the backyard of the house. Yes, Chikkaguru again here. Jaya. Jayalakshmi. They are serving food to people. This is Arhaan Prasad Vanguri, the dropper and the son of Anusha. I have no idea how Arhaan has scored in JEE Mains two and where he’s gonna join. Prema, I can see in this snap. Viji Baba, Balakrishnan, Deputy Superintendent of Police. This is Satyanarayanan along with Venu. The same occasion. Indu and Vimala with Swati. You have Raghu with their relatives. A couple of other relatives and friends of Brinda are seen here. Guru. The cooks who have come from some village for the entire thirteen-day period, similar to how we did for my father. Prema and Raghu having a chat. Prema would be sorely missed by a lot of these guys. Kuppachar is there along with a younger-looking Venu. You have GV and Sampa. Papu has come in. Raghu. This is somewhere else with Prema and Gopika. Gopika wearing one orange shirt which says Reservoir Bay, USA. It says California Rangers, Reservoir Bay. This is the Darjeeling trip. Nisha very tired with Rajini in the car at the back. We are on the way probably between Darjeeling and Gangtok. It’s a five or six hour road trip near the Teesta River by mountainous terrain. This is a train, a track which we can see here. A lorry right in front. The Teesta River appears. All these snaps are taken from the cab itself. People on the road. NH thirty-one, lifeline of Sikkim, border roads. The bridge which perhaps connects West Bengal with Sikkim. Fairly fast-flowing river, this Teesta River. Some monkeys and the mountains, the ghat road path, clouds in the horizon. All fantastic scenery of that place. Some blooming flowers somewhere. Work happening with a truck by the riverside. This is Pelling and Darjeeling. Okay, this is towards Darjeeling, is it? Whatever. Some particular place where we have stopped. The river is still seen. “Use me.” Monkey dustbin. A momos place. We missed eating momos there. I had not heard about them before, so did not even have vegetarian momos. The name was quite unfamiliar. Some viewpoint here. The mist. The Teesta River once again. Ropeway at Darjeeling. The friend had taken us to this ropeway. Somebody doing rafting there. Just took a snap of that. The town below. Lot of cars. I think this is towards Nathu La Pass because we can see a string of cars going that side. There is water rafting happening in the horizon. The ropeway again here. All these cars at one go in the morning, and they come back in the afternoon from Nathu La, a famous attraction. Clouds and mist. The river. More and more mountains. Construction activities. Already spoken about the ropeway. This is the Kyongnosla Waterfall, developed by the tourism department. It’s a small waterfall. The town of Darjeeling. The shops there selling trinkets. Small water stream. Trekking place and all here. Water rafting once again. I think this is in the ropeway where we are looking at one waterfall below as we are proceeding in the ropeway. This is a nice view of Darjeeling town from the ropeway. Those are Jeep, which I think is going towards Nathu La. Some nice snaps by the ropeway junction. Lot of rocks by Teesta River. Shops and some square. You can see the sun rays floating in. One green city central square or village central square for eating places and all is here. Looks quaint and nice. The Jeep has stopped in one side. Here, Nisha in a– sorry, Niharika in a lovely place with a pink cap and gloves also with a yellow jacket. Looks quite cute. She’s been wearing that pink jacket for a long time. This is the wedding of Priya Ariyer at Pune, where we have Jasmini, Sundar Natarajan’s father, Natarajan Mama, and Jaya Mami. Jaya Mami and the daughter-in-law are having fun. Sunita Vora, nee Shah, along with Jay Shah, who has just been recently promoted. This is at the Coffee Day or some joint at Commercial Street, where I had met them. This is at Jane Farms where we had taken Snowy when Rajni was away in the US. You can see Niharika and Nisha playing with other kids here. We had gone in the Scorpio, and Snowy was a large enough dog then, but it was still staying with us only. Towards the process of having Anand get married, I think Murali Mama had conducted some Godhanam or cow puja at Udupi. This orange snap is right here. Kumar with Malathi and Rupesh’s upanayanam. Ritesh and Rupesh are the two kids. Kumar has come home now for Gopika’s marriage function, I think. Birthday party. This is June 2007. Five-year-old Nisha with– Sorry, Niharika with Nisha in the background. This is 2007 at Artillery Road before we shifted to Gopalan. Venkatesh Ananta Narayanan having a moment of joy with an old contact or acquaintance of his with Sundar Mama and Mami looking on. This is again June 2007, birthday party of Niharika. Lot of gifts she got. Venkatesh entering and being welcomed by both Prabha and Preeti Hariharan. The Udupi achar with Anand, Raghu, and Murali. Yellow car in the background. Sundar with that uncle. This is again October 2007, when we did a function for Nisha at Gopalan’s community hall. Shiva and Mohan looking quite smart and young. Darjeeling, where I picked Niharika on my shoulder and took her around the marketplace for a long time, because both Rajni and Nisha were not keeping well. They were nicely sleeping away in the hotel room. The uncle who had signed on the Sanskrit or Kannada document for Anand’s wedding. Jay Vara, the engineer from SRM, along with the doting mom, Sunita. A pose of Natarajan Mama. Niharika observing something on the ground when we had gone to Srirangapatnam. This is with her laptop at Artillery Road. Jesmini with Natarajan at Priya Hariharan’s wedding. Niharika with Rajni, a candid moment of affection and joy. Ginger Hotel with Venkatesh, where with Sundar and Jesmini and the others, we walk across the place, highway, expressway, road. Sundar’s room where he’s with Natarajan receiving some instruction. These are the Birlas, Southern Stars, Duryodhana Sahu, Biju Bhargavan. This is Geeta Mani with some relative at one of the functions. Anand with Murali and Jayamani. We can have Babu there, out there. Raghu with Swati and Nagaraj’s wedding, and Harish with Nagaraj’s mom. The two achars once again. Not achar, cooks from Brinda Auntie’s function. The four cousins, Sangeeta, Shruti, Surya, and Shilpa. Shilpa, the dark one. Both of these are dark, actually, and both these Usha’s children are fair. Fair, but short. Sundar birthday party with a purple and a blue balloon at Jalvayu Heights. Jyothi, Jyotsna, the two sisters. I always get confused between who is the elder and who is the younger one. One of them was with Marvel and currently with some other IT company. The other one is with NSO, National Statistics Organization. YV Mama with his grandchild. Very happy look. Mukund marriage ceremony. Latha and Sampath are looking on. Umachari with Satish, talking about something. Nisha with her specs. We are having some cool drinks. Caricature done by both Satish and Nisha. This is on house internal function of Satyanarayanan, Satish with Viji and Aishwarya in a red sari. Arshit’s birthday party. Large cake. Satish looking very stylish in specs with a blue and stripe shirt. Could be at Gopalan. The car which I disposed of in 2007 or eight, just before selling it off, I had taken this photo KA zero three P five one six nine. The Maruti 800, which I had got back from Chennai after my father’s demise. This was 2009 beginning. In a train, looks like a Shatabdi where I’m– because the windows are quite large, where I’m off to Chennai. No clue for what. This is KR Puram station. Keep calm and stay fresh is what the chicken box says. We get it for Oreo. The construction of the new unit at Adarsh Vista, where we are expanding the guest room for the sake of my in-laws coming in here. At Sundar’s house by the swing and this is again at Sundar’s house only probably. By the Pinya metro route. Here I am on a train, metro in Chennai. Where I have gone for God knows what. I can see Simran here. It says some dance program stage, Kathak Bharatanatyam. The party is Indian style. I think this is closer to current times when I had gone to the wedding of Sachin. Again, at Sachin’s wedding. The conceptualization of the house which Rajini and Pallavi are going to construct at Jain Farms. Praise the Lord. Lord, I say to you, you are my strong helper. You keep me safe when I fight in a battle. Blessed Saturday. The concept house. Anand in a green uniform at Adani, Chhattisgarh. Murali wearing that same dress. Happy birthday to Badri. Residency Tars. Everyone is probably recognizable here. Nimmi and Nimmi Baba with Ramesh, Satish, Harish, Shweta, Lakshmi Aunty, Vimala, Anusha, Arhaan Manguri, Venu, Indu, Raghu with Badri, Guru, Prema and Cheenu. Usha Krishnan, Sudha Haribhaskar, Nirmala Madesh. At the time of purchasing the car, six seven one five, Suzuki Swift. We have Pramod and Raghu and Indu and Lakshmi with their families, and they went for the car. This is at Shiva’s marriage function at Melkote. Niharika, coordinator of Sruthileya, announcing its coordinating committee for academic year. Simran at some entrance to the school or some museum where someone is giving away some bird. Here we have Preeti propitiating to the Lord, which has been decorated on the sofa itself. My friend at office, so Jude, Suresh, Puneet and Sam were the four people who are in real estate in Indiranagar. Harish with his friend. So I know two of them here. VP, VP Ishwadas along with Suresh Mohan. Prabha, who was not keeping well, and Prema used to visit her occasionally. This is at Badri’s function again. Shweta looking brilliant with some huge necklace. Unisys Innovation program, which Sundar was part of at his house. Suresh Mohan, a nice snap with a veshti and a Krishnan statue. Congratulations, to welcome you on board at BITS Goa Women in Tech program. Nisha did the interview for WISH, which is a one-month internship program for Texas Instruments that will happen during the month of May. Three weeks online and one week in campus. Some water bottle, which is there. Lot of pillows on top of Oreo. Sujanita, Ranjani Krishna, Kapil Chandwani, Upasana Swaminathan. Upasana is an engineering student at Mysore. Rajalakshmi Swaminathan. All these are friends of Sundar in his list. On top of an elephant idol, this is Badri. We have Ritu Mariam Chandy with her daughter, Rachel, and Sabu with Ritu’s husband. BITS, November 2022, when Niharika was down with body ache and sore throat and cough. Went to the college. A nice moonlight by some resort kind of a place. Satish had dropped or is picking up Niharika, yellow shirt. A thumbs up sign, very happy. Probably is picking. Satish relaxing with his kovadam after a large walk, obviously. Suresh Mohan at the cricket ground. Date and time not known. Sundar by the cows. This is a valuable deposit counter at Adiyogi in Coimbatore. Wearing his veshti in a panchakacham format. He is also volunteering cutting carrots, wearing some strap, blue. Preethi with daughter Adyashri making some flower arrangements. Here, Satish has taken a nice selfie snap with Pavitra’s daughter, Satvika. Jazz Realtors and Fin Consultants at Nettissery in Thrissur. Pattakke Parayil, that’s the name of the place. Because Suresh Mohan Pattakke Parayil is the full name of Suresh with his son Abhay and wife. At the Raghavendra Mutt, during some puja. This looks like– No, it is Raghavendra Mutt at Mahalakshmi Layout. Preethi sitting on top of Arvind, with some damru. Consuming a huge glass of sugarcane juice. Have fun. Heart never stops. The volunteering work at Adiyogi for Shivaratri. Nap at old photo. P.H. Narasimhan, Pai Money House. Rajani and me had gone to Skandagiri, where we had taken a snap by the sunrise. Rajani’s holding the rising sun in her hands. This is Guru and family in front of some temple here. Some match which Satvika was a ball girl in at Australian Open. Happened probably in Sydney or Melbourne. Murali during one of his trips to North India. Jai Sri Ram. Niharika singing with her friends. On the right, I can see Shreya Savineya. Niharika practicing the song with her phone, behind a tree. This is Murali with some of his young friends during his North India tour. Pleased to invite you for a get-together at 216 Ninth B Main. This is by Nagarajan, Kanchana, and Sneha. Jyoti, Suresh’s wife. HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar. Big snap of Rajani right here in the corner. Great in studies, but sort of a nerd kind of a person because the others are dressed very well. There is Rajani, Tanya, Puja, Vibhu, Chandan, Anshu, Monica, Sonali, all these people. Sundar with his veshti status. Prema with the parents of Jagan, the husband of Sumitra. These are Mudaliars from Madurai. A trip with Venu and Lakshmi and Pramod and Abhinaya. Shiva has gone to London on an open-deck bus. Anand with Badri here. Slightly on the healthier side, you have Ramesh with Anusha at the Kalyana Mantap. This is Aditya with Utpalmala. Balaji and Arti Balaji, again at this Sachin function. The four brothers, Murali, Guru, Chinu, and Raghu, at Adiyogi. Anand singing some song, next to the DJ with Chinu egging him on. Nisha very upset and crying because of ninety-eight point six percentile. Lots of tears, lots of sadness, heartbreaking, not talking to anyone. We have friends of Niharika here. This is how the relationship chart looks like. You got Sundar, Jasmini, and Simran. You got Krishnamurti, Revathi, Karthik and Kaushik. Karthik, of course, Shobana and Kaushik got married to Priya Mathur. They have two children, Krishank and Abhigyan. Jayshree, Bharat, and their children. Manorama with Rot and Niharika. This is February 2007 when we had gone to Chennai for a function of Sampath and Satyanarayanan at Marina Beach. Satish with Nisha. Satish is really looking fat, man. Sundar had purchased Sa Re Ga Ma caravan for Natarajan mama in his old age. This is at 269th B Cross. Bhatri wearing his punal with Aditya looking on. This is at Cheenu mama’s house. Some court, food court, possibly. Raghu and Indu. A photo of Sri Lanka with this couple. Raman wearing full helmet during COVID time when we went to see off the father of Harish, Vaideeswaran mama. Anusha with a beautiful snap with Aruna’s daughter. Aruna has two daughters, Anjana and Ashna. This is Aswath Ashok. Aswath Ashok and Aradhana are the children of Anuradha Sriram. Arhaan again. Satish in an old photo with Balan mama and Priya, Balan’s daughter, along with Nattu mama. Raghu Prasanna, who called me yesterday also with Soumya and Avaneesh. Arvind and Anusha look on. Venu is cutting a snap with Abhinaya. Anand is also looking on. The five daughters-in-law of the house, Jivi, Brinda, Indu, Lakshmi, and Vimala in that order. Half marathon, where Sundar is my emergency contact person. The venue entry is Mahim Reti Bunder, which is opposite St. Michael’s Church at Mumbai, right? Where I could stay at Dharavi. Must be the same place every year. And I was in wave F. When Vasantha and her husband visited Prema with Latha and Radhakrishnan at RMN Square. Here we have the employees of Harish’s sister’s company production unit. Launch of AGSM. Heartfelt appreciation and congratulations. Thanks for kind words. Overjoyed. Usha Ramesh. Sundar’s birthday at Sydney. Dance program of Arpita. Ramana Maharshi of Tiruvannamalai. Unstoppable. Sujanita Prakash, after the demise of Prakash, faced many battles alone. Like the sun, absolutely capable of shining alone. Throw me to the wolves. I’ll come back leading the pack. This is the place which Ritu and her sister wanted to sell. 176 Kodambakkam High Road. Laying down Vishnu. I had sent this to Cupra to tease him. Rajini Rao, visa application, one sixty. Sundar, looking gaunt and tired after the walk, perhaps. Here, someone is dead, and they have covered. Who is this person? Oh, no, it’s actually something at the Adiyogi center, which Sundar took a snap of. Satish Narayanan finished his SBI Green Marathon at the best possible half-marathon time for me. My own birthday, two forty-one fifty-five. That has been my best ever. Tata Mumbai, it’s two forty-three. I got both these present beautifully here. Valentine’s Day special, some ice cream. This is at Mohan’s house where they had visited and met up with Agastya. This is at Phur, the new restaurant at Twelfth Main with that fluffy mango dessert. Niharika with her pink dress at Darjeeling waiting for some momos. Continuing the photos of Darjeeling again by the river. Thank you for not smoking. No smoking. Niharika looks sad because it was a very tiring trip. This is at the ropeways station. Tired and despondent, she looks. Hotflix, Gangtok property. Oh, the ropeway was at Gangtok. Where this friend also picked us up, right? Because Darjeeling we were by ourselves. We had some refreshments. Nice road curving on the left and right. Beautiful place. Again, some gulab jamun and eating stuff. We are past all that travel with the kids. By the mountainside and that central square. Nice eating. We need to mind our eating now. The buildings are there, the cooks are there, the kitchen is there, the food is there. Flyover is being constructed, right? These are the flats which overlook the valley, the apartments. Across the Teesta River, the huge bridge. Many more photos of the ropeway, which probably is a big attraction out there. Three-storied and more buildings. On top of a yak, near one of the Gangtok lakes. Nisha is there with a red cap, the small one. They are actually standing very close to the yak. Probably the driver or the yak owner is on the other side. Rajni is also smiling away. The beautiful road, single road of Gangtok. It’s a white and black yak. You can see the rope which is held by the yak owner. You got snow on the background. A truck. From somewhere up, I have taken some nice snap of the town of Gangtok. Niharika seems to be angry because it’s been very tiring for her. Nisha now on the yak. The red cap, Nisha. Ganesha, where our cab is taking us somewhere. We have all this. The apartments once again. Nisha getting down the yak. The river keeps winding all near Gangtok. The car is going somewhere from place to place. There is a lake here. Snow we can see in the distance. Small pieces of snow by the mountainside, like how it is always. The cabs have stopped at some distance. Some small puddle of water by the car. The tourists are being shown the yak. There is this building, perhaps a collector building or something like that. Snow. This is definitely Nathu La. That river where we had stopped, the lake. I think the yak was there by that lake on the way to Nathu La. This is an iconic photo, which I just skipped. Niharika crying by the snow. Almost at Nathu La or on the way back from Nathu La. Somewhere we wanted to take a snap of hers by the snow, and she’s bawling. Teesta again, the ropeway again. Slightly calmer, but still in a very bad mood, Niharika by the snowfall. She didn’t enjoy it at that point of time. Maybe later looking at the photo, she would have liked it. This is some place back. Rajni by the snow and looking very happy. Chief Engineer Suraj Prakash. This is some bridge over the Teesta River. Rajani walking across the snow. Several photos of Rajani are there by the snow here. Nisha with Rajani. Some nice snap by the snow. Which building is this? Another nice photo of Rajani, Nisha at the snow. The bridge, some water bottle. The two children somewhere by the lake. Niharika with that black shawl. Cars on the road. People waiting for the toy train, I think. The red cap and the pink purple cap of Niharika. The ropeway came finally. We have more photos of the Gangtok Ropeway. Union Bank of India ATM is there at Nathu La at a very high spot, fourteen thousand odd feet above mean sea level. The ropeway comes here. Some more photos. Nisha’s time to be sad in the– This is, I think, the toy train, Darjeeling toy train, which we took. Nisha crying on Rajani’s shoulder. They’re waiting for something there. This is the entrance to Nathu La, perhaps. The Union Bank of India ATM, where you can see Nisha crying. Obviously, they’re very uncomfortable because of the air as well. Now slightly calm. Niharika is far better now. Gangtok Ropeway. Damodar Ropeway is in construction. You have Rajani with her kids here. Narrow road, drive slowly. The ropeway again. Niharika with some puja prasad, which someone has given her, with the gloves on. Going into some temple there. Again and again, photos of the road, the ropeway, the valley. The friend of Dr. Rao who helped us, who was with us the whole day. Some steps which are leading to late Baba Harbhajan Singh. Some memorial of this fellow. His memorial is seen here. Obviously, respect these people a lot. Indomitable three, Baba Harbhajan Singh. Like how 120 Bahadur movie was taken. Some viewpoint. The mist covering the road. Watershed memories. In English, you have those army sacks. All the jeeps going towards Nathu La. Some shops. A huge dish antenna there. The small mountains. Entering small villages on the way. Purple with black shawl, yellow jacket, Niharika. Petrol bunk. Staircase, memorial, green. Follow traffic rules. Sikkim, a land of peace and prosperity. Through the small towns. This guy was quite helpful. He took charge of one of our kids. This is by the zoo, I think. Here we have an army truck. Lot of army presence. One monastery, Sikkim Monastery, which we had gone to. We also played with those monastery bells, right? Could be a few snaps of that. A view of Gangtok town on the way to Nathu La. This is this lake I was talking about, the monastery inside, perhaps. Police people here. The snow and the Buddha and vote for Seva. Group photos inside are not permitted. Oldest monastery in Darjeeling and belongs to the Yellow Sect. The cylindrical bells we were talking about. Tourist Reception Centre. That angry horse by the monastery. In the car, both the children very tired. You can see Niharika shedding her teeth. Started happening in this trip. She was about eight years old, I think. Eight or nine years old. This is at Nathu La. All the vehicles are parked here at the monastery. Nathu La versus the monastery. The photos are mixed. Ropeway also, lot of photos. Children are sleeping in the car. See how tired their face is. Some tourist bus. Someone’s really happy back in her room. Huge snow presence out there on the way to Nathu La. Kalimpong, Pelling. I’ve seen this board earlier. Niharika at the hotel room. The zoo at Gangtok, I think. The Teesta River curves hugely. Brothers, Jeep people. Right at Nathu La, this photo. Siliguri. From Siliguri, this vehicle has come, huh? Niharika displaying her teeth. Beautiful snap of Rajni at the botanical gardens, I think. They’re about to take a run. The sisters are huge good friends right here by the flowers. The monastery. Nisha with her customary red cap. Niharika always is wearing her red gloves, right? The children have taken a photo by the Nathu La peak entrance. I didn’t go to the top, thanks to this girl. I got scared. And somebody commented, “Don’t take the kid up.” So the friend. Some photos by the snow. More snaps of the children. By our hotel room. At the memorial at Nathu La. This is the snap where Nisha is at the highest spot that we guys have been. You can see Nathu La written on top. After we went to that particular place, we just turned back, myself and Nisha. This particular place. I just put her up the steps, and we came back. We could have gone up the hill, but I was too scared to take the baby. One snap of Niharika candid. Do your work today for a better tomorrow. By the snow, red Nisha. Some marketplace at Gangtok. Nisha keeps looking at the snow. By some library in the hotel room? Could be. All the horses, and she’s looking at them. The snow and that topmost point is there. You have Ganesha here. I think this is Gandhar’s upanayanam function at Mumbai, where we were invited to, somewhere in the middle. Gangtok and the monastery. The army people with a huge mountain top which goes to Nathu La. The zoo again. This is at a house, griha pravesh, is it? Buddha. It’s a lot of mix and match of the houses. You have Guru doing some puja with Arvind. I think this must be at Mantri Apartments. Here you have Niharika with the red gloves. This is the father of Preethi, and this is the younger sister. Preethi and her sister, who’s a gynecologist. I forget her name. Children’s Hospital at Bellandur is where she currently works in. This guy is Raghuram. Rangpo, Siliguri. Some temple. Once again, Preethi’s younger sister is right here. Good brother-in-law to look up to. Happy for them. Happy for their family. White flowers. The puja continues for Guru. The story of Buddha, where an elephant chases this guy. Botanical Gardens, Niharika. Appi taking some snaps. Arvind showing some photo there, some waterfalls. Bulletproof glass for VIPs, obviously. This could be Satyanarayanan’s mom. Is it? No. Could be. Camera for sale. Where is this place? Definitely Botanical Gardens. Of course, he died, Raju Doctor, with Doddamma and Raju Doctor’s wife, Vimala. Her name is also Vimala, I think. Huge tunnel. Border Roads Organization, BRO. Sachin’s upanayanam, right, at Vismayavanam. Satish with the family, is it? But I’m looking a little different with this snap at the monastery. The army people who are there. Sachin’s upanayanam again. The face is the same with Madeshe. Niharika walking past. Very flat Botanical Gardens surface. The watchtower. Snow by the roadside. Niharika is my famous person for taking photos. Purple parda where Sachin is standing on this side. Jai Anjaneya. Red Anjaneya right here. Sachin is there on this side of the parda, about to put his upanayanam thread. You have all these god snaps here. That same monkey trash bin. Rocks by the mountainside. Chimes at the monastery. Many tourist vehicles all over the place. Observatory Tower, Tashi Viewpoint, Gangtok. Raghu, is it? Or someone else? The mountains of Gangtok again. This is Guru and Sukumar and Latha by some restaurant here. The black shawl. Here I’m holding Nisha on my shoulder. The interview, Nandkouri. They went in this Nandkouri ship, Prema and her relatives to Andaman. I think one way they flew back, if I’m not wrong. Very similar to us. Sukumar also went with them. Prema obviously loved going with her relatives. She could be freer there. Nandkouri again. Manipur Handloom Stores. Some viewpoint. Some baby in front of us in that Jeep on the way to Nathula. Southfield College. Meena’s Ladies Tailor, West Mamblam. This is right next to Naped. Aruna with Arhan. Sorry, Anusha. Murali getting into the car. This must have been on their trip to Andaman. Mimmi seeing them off along with Sampah. The Gangtok photos continue. Horse, Reliance. Maned horse already is there. Astrology. Lakshmi. Pleasant looks. Some people are really very good. Lakshmi. The dog, the statue. The pristine waters of that lake at Gangtok. The beautiful view. Brinda and someone else are having some food by the Vazhai Elai. Birds. Niharika feeding them. Another fourteen minutes to go, is it? Chubakola Bridge. The sisters. The friend who helped us out in Gangtok. This is a girl dressed in some nice wear. Oreo’s sitting right underneath me. The main marketplace of Gangtok. Curio store, art, crafts. Walkway. The mall. Pathway. Someone’s puberty function. Niharika by the marketplace. Happy. Whose puberty function is this where Sudha Raghu is actually putting some lipstick on? This is 2009. Nisha at Euro Kids, Indiranagar. Some vegetable day. The monastery, Buddha. Niharika having some soup. One of these girls, I think, again, looks like Gopika. Here, I think, she’s petting a cat, Nisha. The fruit and vegetable day. This one is also having soup in the hotel room. Akshaya’s puberty function, is it? The cat is being petted by both of them. Yes, this is Ranganayaki and her husband, along with Prema. This is the snap which we have taken for doing Prema’s profile photo. The cat went away. Akka is feeding something to the younger sister. Tripathie, looks like with Prema. They’re so tired. Some Shen Ling Resorts at Gangtok. Ranganayaki. Both the mom and the younger kid were not keeping well. Tashi viewpoint we are going to. Green color building, four stories. The cat comes in many photos. Food at the hotel room itself during our trip. Some goats. Nice food they are having. This again continues with Gangtok. Not sure how many more photos we will proceed. Mayfair Gangtok Spa Resort. Rajini having come out of a temple, I think, with red and yellow bindi, with huge teeth. Having some tea. After I finish this, I will make some tea for myself. This is Prema, a candid snap at Indiranagar, three one two three, near ASA Hospital signal. Vimala. The blouse, as always. The yellow jacket of Niharika, as always. This is the elephant costume of Nisha at Euro Kids. One rare photo of Prema, but not with one of the granddaughters, with somebody else. Some more photos where some construction is happening at Gangtok. Who is this? Angry Nisha in the car. Euro Kids’ entry point. All happened around the same time. This again at Gangtok only. Tea estate, looks like. Hay they have put for children to play on. Nice arrangement. Lots of fruits, vegetables. Carrot, I can see. Children in monasteries who are learning from the masters. Those Buddhist children. The Euro Kids ma’am, especially the ma’am with the cowboy dress and black hat. The fathers are all there. Some snaps were taken with Niharika and Nisha by the very fresh carrots and beetroots. We took a photo of the Buddhist kid also. Play items next to the hay. The Buddhist monastery. This is Aishwarya. In the car, taking rest. This is Ramamurthi, Ramu, with Gopi Sridhar. Something which Nisha has drawn, some ball in blue color. Hotel room. Restaurant rather. They are having some nice food. The kids by a laughing Buddha. Satyanarayanan bhava. Nisha with elephant dress. Again at Sikkim only. Prabha lying down in a berth on the way somewhere with Prema. The viewpoint and the children in their costumes. No clue. Office of Deputy Inspector General of Police, Gangtok. The mountains, the viewpoints, the watch points, Prema. The parents looking at the cowboy photos. Sikkim, the temple on the way with Anjaneya. Our children. The pink background of the car. This is the place where I think Niharika lost her teeth. Something given to Kuppachar, Mani. Niharika having some juice. The guru and Sathya. Best of the best, the banner. The lake, we went for boating in the lake. You have Raghu here. The parent, some other parent like me. The Buddha cylinders. Lays chips, some artifacts, showcase. People going in those jeeps. This is Brinda with Arhan. Puppet theater by the teacher at Euro Kids. Watchtower or tower. Arhan being fed. Siliguri puppet

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