Extracts from Ravivars of July 04

Addendum to Ravivar040704:

The baby coloumn of the Ravivar 040704 was incomplete with out pictures as I had some technical problem for inserting the pictures I wanted to be put there. The revised version of that column is here.

Baby news: Baby News: Judge for yourself from this photo, who is prouder, Alaka or Sanjana?. This is what Alaka tells about Sanjana and Amrutha. “Sanjana and Amrita are doing well. Sanjana is a great big sister. She loves playing with Amrita and helps me take care of her. She loves to read, listen to stories. She is making good progress in swimming.
Amrita is growing fast. She is very friendly & has a big smile for everyone. She cooes constantly & trying very hard to roll over. She is almost there. She can propel herself forward & backwards & one time she ended up under the table. Together, they keep me busy every minute of the day. And on 6^th July’s mail… “Amrita mastered the art of rolling over”

Guru/Sharatha’s baby is very fair, tall with long limbs and fingers. Baby was at the Brindavan Nursing home Bangalore, on Sunday the 4^th July 2004. Baby weighed 1.95 KG at birth. It is too early to say whom she resembles.

This is what Viji tata says about Nikita. “Nikita is fine and 'talks' with Bhimesh and fights with me, in her own way. Neha has gone to Newark with Harish to meet Gauri.”

Baby news: Baby News: Judge for yourself from this photo, who is prouder, Alaka or Sanjana?. This is what Alaka tells about Sanjana and Amrutha. “Sanjana and Amrita are doing well. Sanjana is a great big sister. She loves playing with Amrita and helps me take care of her. She loves to read, listen to stories. She is making good progress in swimming.
Amrita is growing fast. She is very friendly & has a big smile for everyone. She cooes constantly & trying very hard to roll over. She is almost there. She can propel herself forward & backwards & one time she ended up under the table. Together, they keep me busy every minute of the day. And on 6^th July’s mail… “Amrita mastered the art of rolling over”

Guru/Sharatha’s baby is very fair, tall with long limbs and fingers. Baby was at the Brindavan Nursing home Bangalore, on Sunday the 4^th July 2004. Baby weighed 1.95 KG at birth. It is too early to say whom she resembles.

This is what Viji tata says about Nikita. “Nikita is fine and 'talks' with Bhimesh and fights with me, in her own way. Neha has gone to Newark with Harish to meet Gauri.”

Ravivar 11^th july 04

The regular desk of the editor is not yet fully restored. Please bear with the deficiencies in the presentation.

Local news: Sharatha and the baby are fine. Tomorrow is the ninth day for the baby and Pommi ajji is making arrangements for the “Gedda veelya”, a small function to offer a few minor things to the “Muthaide”s with a sense of relief or victory of having managed the ordeals of pregnancy and child birth, successfully. They will be discharged from the nursing home on 14^th morning and the “Punyaha Vachana” and the cradle ceremony for the baby are scheduled for that day at Raghu’s place. As the baby is too delicate yet the “Namakarana will be at a later date. So there is no urgency for selecting the name. Suggestions for a suitable name are welcome.

After helping Sphurthy and Ravindra is setting up their house, Lannu and Latha have returned to Chennai.

Prakashs have returned back to Bangalore from Delhi.

News from abroad: Ragesh had a chance of watching the Bull fighting rituals in Spain. He has promised to write about it for Ravivar. He has been asked to report at Losangeles, cutting short his European assignments. His next quarter assignment has also been announced. It will be in Chicago. Jagadish Prakash will be in Bangalore from 6^th to 26^th September

Baby News: One sucks the right finger and the other baby the left finger. One print is of much better quality than the other. What other differences can you spot in these two pictures?….Pranesh

Ravivar 25^th july

A few issues back there was a brief reference to the “Adhika Masa”, in the Ravivar. Now the “adhika Sharavana masa”, is running (from 18^th July to 15^th August). Any month on which the “sankaramana” or the first day of the solar month is absent is considered as an extra month. For vaishnavas this month is very auspicious for doing “Dhaan/ Dharma”. The real “Shravana Masa” and the Series of feasts (Habba salu), is thus post phoned by a month. Ravivar will try to bring out with the help of Pommi, a brief description of, how each feast is celebrated at BT Road house.

Local news: Sharatha and the baby are doing fine. They will be leaving for Trichy to Sharatha’s sister’s house on the first of next month for the continuation of the “Baananthana” there.

Congratulations and best wishes for bright academic career for Madhav (Jayanth), son of Chandramohan/Vatsala, for having secured a seat in Chemical engineering in REC Surat.

News from abroad: August September is heading to be in an eventful month with Madhusudhan, Raghesh, Jamuna, Shruthi and Jagadish and possibly Gurudutt, Alaka, Sanjana and Amritha also coming to India on visit

Baby News: Maitris, Venkateshs,Vani, Jagadish and of course Viji and Harishs will be joining Bhimeshs to celebrate Neha’s birthday on 31^st.

This is the photo of the five day old baby of Guru and Sharatha, taken and circulated earlier by Ambika, reproduced here for the record of Ravivar