ttt On a serious note ( and inspite of my affiliation to muka and hasan), I think it’s a good initiative by TTD. Seriously txs appi – u must be waiting for the christmas break, coming in the next few weekstx raghu maama – i am now in delhi for last one week (and will be here for one more week) – whenever i pass thru the government buildings, am reminded of the many times that we have met in delhi, when i was at college !txs cheenu maama – need ur blessings !txs viji chikkamma – and please continue your “64 exercises” daily !txs gv aunty – pl be safe and also take care of my mom (!) during ur upcoming trip to tirupathi txs vimala aunty – trust back/health abs ok now. i also have backpain nowadays, managing with physio !txs sweta – one idea ! ask harish to take u to the thamizh arjun reddy, return home and u can fight with him abt which one was better!txs mukund – convey my warmest regs to my chikkamma (and chikkappa also) (and need their blessings) dear murali maama – start of week and saw ur bright photo, as well as namakkal anjaneyar photo. my heartiest wishes for your birthday. my full full prayers for this – we want you to be healthy & active & energetic, and keep touring, sending snaps etc – and also at same time be helpful to all in our family (and also to strangers on the road) – FOR MANY MANY YEARS TO COME ! i have never see our murali maama EVER, in any form except full energy. PLEASE PLEASE KEEP IT UP. u are always our inspiration for many things dear shruthi and anand – warm greetings from blr. pl accept our warm anniversary wishes. trust “master pragaladh anand” is doing great suggestion to cheenu maama to reach murali maama – u shud keep on trying him 5-6 times and then maybe u can reach him ! he keeps traveling all the time and is on the road for every single day, even at this age ! he is total opposite of raghu maama ! whenever i call raghu maama, he will be at home 😀. whenever i call murali maama, he will be on the road ll snaps wonderful. trust the whole family had a great time ! nice to see the young man APV after a long time – he has grown very tall ! grand food at grand estancia, by the bye-pass ?! and hope the birthday boy controlled his sweets mukund/sowmya – please convey my warmest anniversary greetings to chikkamma and chikkappa. not sure if they are in chennai or back at srirangam. praying for their health ! my memories now going back to their actual wedding in that very large mantap at parrys (same where sampa also got married), where, as a 10 or 11-year old, I had so much of fun warm bday greetings to pramod sudheendra kumar. sure u are gonna have a great happy year ahead, awaiting addition to family viji chikkamma – great photos. u are looking the youngest in the bajana mandali ! murali maama = energy leader of napad boys and viji chikkamma = energy queen for napad girls thanks for the early invite ! pl alson inform murali so that he does not schedule any pilgrimage trip during that time great invitation card ! first time i am seeing one with QR code ! ( i think it is for automatically loading map location, event calendar etc to your phone Looks like a snap straight out of one of those lifestyle or film magazines, with all good looking actors and actresses! Sastha’s family trademark smile must already be creating enough ripples in the US all of us in napad are learning about all these temples and religious places. as an chennai-born, even i did not know about iskcon in chennai. viji chikkamma covering chennai and suburbs, murali maama covering rest of south india ! great route chosen by viji chikkamma and her friends – but there are so many good beaches nearby this route, and looks like they will be missing them!!prema amma said happily – “early morning 3am to 6 am i saw vaikunta ekadesi on TV(tirupathi and other temples). During day i saw vaikunda ekadesi on whatsapp Saw ASN, day 3, kannada version. I still remember that inspite of being a rajni fan, I cud not sit thru 2.0. Now ASN was even more vera-level the little that i know about history of napad (from the time “na” and “pad” were born!)1.palavadi, palacode and paapparapatti are close to each other (maybe 20-30 km distance). all in dharmapuri district, and i think pennagaram taluk. so sometimes PH is quoted as palavadi harirao, sometimes palacode harirao. napad says it is palavadi but baroda dhodamma family says it is palacode !2. narasimhan was born in palavadi, did his school in palacode, then moved to dharmapuri since his father built a house there. then he went to mettur, blore etc before settling in saidapet chennai and then postal colony3. padma was from karur (heart of TN). sometimes in our family it gets confused with “harur” but harur was her elder sister’s place and not hers. na and pad got married either at karur or sholinganallur (not sure).4. i have always been told that palavadi venkatachalapathy temple is our main temple. about 7-8 years back, all of us had gone to this temple in a village and took group photo.5. i dont know about the palacode amman temple.i have also heard about many legends – ie great-great-great grandfather was a doctor in tipu sultan court, name was thipparasaaya. the king gave him one huge village as a gift etc etc. 6.my late father, who is also from the same dynasty, has also told me many stories – about the curse of a nagar-haavu, about one pudayal (treasure) which is still in some village “singipuram” nearby etc. very interesting amar chitra katha type !will be happy to get more details about our ancestors, family history etc from elders Actually, many old memories coming to me- perambur sundaram, sabalangadi gopal ( delhi LTC), bashyam maami tenant ( sowkiyam… and falling fracture)!!!14/01/20, 11:47 pm – Sathish: *actually viji chikkamma, with her energetic dance and enthu, is the one who is showing us all who is the REAL youth 1-great dubai photos2- cheenu, vimala looking so young and youthful(definitely not like maamiyaar, maamanar!),venu maama with his hairstyle and dye is vera level3- shows great bonding between the last 2 brothers4- venu hospitality to batch after batch of Dubai visitors with same enthu- no words to express feelings brought back tearful memories also of many who have left us – ammamma, appappa, my father, baroda street dhoddamma, brinda aunty, malamma….appappa’s “kurumbu”can be seen in a couple of snaps !solidaire tv in the back, the old napad hall. murali / venu in the late 70s fashion vijaykanth hair style anirudh, satyanarayanan’s son, is a bigtime coder at blr now. many achievements, and he is only in 11th std! warmest congrats to him and family both prema amma and myself have reached bangalore back safe. *thanks once again to cheenu maama and anusha/anand for the wonderful functions*, and amma was really happy to meet all her relatives. Over the weekend, she also met many of her old friends, so it was a very fruitful trip.The napad house was really very nice, with automatic lift, spacious hall, comfortable oonjal, bright open kitchen Feels so nice to see strong political messages here (because it gives me a chance to respond !). But for purposes mentioned much earlier, would be keen to “DM” the relevant folks rather than put it in NAPAD. Trust this is ok More than Saaree Maami, it is the “Golden Maami” – Kaasu Maalai, Golden Tiara, Oddiyaanam etc. Anand – golden bangles missing ( pl buy hi archana – pl convey to the child. the thank-u audios were superb, esp the addition of ” thaathas” and “paatis” at the end