The flight from Vancouver to Chicago was memorable; the Sun brightening the entire sky, the clouds glistening as if they are all made of pure silver, crimson beams passing through in between, layers and layers of snow covered mountains and then barren hills exposing the silent brooks,water falls and weak dents, then green or dark … Read more
I have been here for five weeks now and could see a few places depending on the limited time my nephew Ramu and his wife Ashu, busy medical practitioners could spare. The Nature has showered Her bounty unreservedly on this land and first taste of it, I had when I stood awe-struck before the Niagara falls … Read more
The unusually bright sun, alluring early morning rituals combined with music and poetry, attendance of all the invitees and appealing food, all made the formal grihapravesaham to Ramu’s new house in Vancouver, a colorful event. Sreeram Shakti Bhattar from the nearby Surrey Yoga Hanuman temple, originally form Sriperumpathur, inaugurated the event with auspicious, pre-recorded nadaswaram … Read more
June 22, 2013 Ashu and Ramu took us, for a ballet show, last night, staged by their daughter’s dance school. It was awesome, not because my grand niece participated but the girls gave a memorable performance. ‘Girls’ here, means not only over one hundred kids in the age group of 5 to 10, about 20 … Read more
June 21, 2013 I have been dropping Ramu’s kids and collecting them from their school which is close by. Am surprised to see the Principal waiting at the gate, every morning to receive the kids , smiling and showing his closed fist to receive a hit from the little fists of the kids or … Read more
july 19, 2013 ”Nama poorvaya girayae, patchimayaadraye namah—-”. Agasthya Maharishi in Aaditya hridyam, asking Srirama to salute the East and West mountains too, which have an important role to play in the the Sun god’s traverse across the sky. The Himalayan ranges was not a great stone mass, covered by ice, but a living entity, … Read more
June 14, 2013 In Vancouver, since 3 days, with my nephew Ramu. Ramu and Ashu both medical specialists, go to the hospitals and children to the school. We three oldies, my first sister Ammu, her husband Ambi and self, spend our time chatting incessantly and the youngsters wonder, ‘ from where do they derive so much energy?. Does … Read more