Our post on super-seniors evoked touching comments from Kalyanam's cousin in New Delhi. T Srinivasan(Cheenu) wrote, "thanks for posting Periappa Balanna's photo ...and indeed of periamma". Cheenu said the first thing he did waking up in the mornings was offer payers to his periamma, who meant for him "more than my own mother". Referring to Cheenu's attachment for periamma, her son Kalyanam observed that his cousin grew up in "our house in Erode".
The smaller photo ( inset) was his mother's latest, said Kalyanam, adding that it was taken in Delhi during her visit to Cheenu's place. Cheenu, who runs a software company in New Delhi had worked his way up from a humble beginning, like most of us. Presumably, he owes his success in life to the upbringing he had in Periamma's home and her blessings.
Another New Delhi resident who has commented on the
super-seniors post is Uma, who has fond recollection of her mama Kalyanam. "(He) still looks quite good", she says. I tend to agree. Kalyanam, who retains his slimless and an athletic build, with his mushtaches and scholarly baldness, looks a retired army colonel, rather than a former railway official.
As evident from the photo, he is a ladies' man. Uma recalls Kalyanam mama as someone who "used to talk with us kids very nicely and in such a friendly way". The last time they met, presumably decades ago, was when Uma fell sick (food poisoning ?) at a relative's wedding in Bombay; and it was Kalyanam who carried young Uma to the hospital.
The smaller photo ( inset) was his mother's latest, said Kalyanam, adding that it was taken in Delhi during her visit to Cheenu's place. Cheenu, who runs a software company in New Delhi had worked his way up from a humble beginning, like most of us. Presumably, he owes his success in life to the upbringing he had in Periamma's home and her blessings.
Another New Delhi resident who has commented on the super-seniors post is Uma, who has fond recollection of her mama Kalyanam. "(He) still looks quite good", she says. I tend to agree. Kalyanam, who retains his slimless and an athletic build, with his mushtaches and scholarly baldness, looks a retired army colonel, rather than a former railway official.
As evident from the photo, he is a ladies' man. Uma recalls Kalyanam mama as someone who "used to talk with us kids very nicely and in such a friendly way". The last time they met, presumably decades ago, was when Uma fell sick (food poisoning ?) at a relative's wedding in Bombay; and it was Kalyanam who carried young Uma to the hospital.
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