

I recovered these pictures from my file. Hopefully, this would prompt others to dig into their 'inbox'to salvage family photos for this blog.
Returned to Mysore after a four-month stay with Ravi-Meera family in San Ramon, California. Lakshmi and I went to the US in mid-May, to spend time with grandsons - Nikhil, 10 months, and Sidharth,who will be three this December.
My sister Baby moved to Mysore during our absence to give company to our mother Mangammal.
Meanwhile, at San Ramon,Ravi has switched job, joining TCS; and Meera, a doctor, has put parenting before professional advancement. She has taken up an assignment that leaves more time for her children. The job enables her to stay in touch with her profession.
Meera says she doesn't plan to take up a full-time medical job till Nikhil, 10 months, is old enough to go to school.
The idea is to bring together distanced cousins whose parents or their parents had links - close or tenuous; by birth or through marriage - with the Chakrapani family. A scattared lot, the second and subsequent generations of cousins, uncles, aunts and 'athimbers' are separated not only geographically, but also because of lack of information about one another.