Raju, my wife's Chamarajanagar cousin, was delighted to hear that we were bringing along Karthik to lunch at his son Ashwin's place in Palo Alto.Karthik, doing MBA in Tucson AZ,is visiting us at San Ramon, and his presence evoked in Raju memories of Karthik's mother. He recalled, for the benefit of young Karthik, that his mother Chitra as a toddler had won a chubby baby contest.
He told Karthik that his grandfather - mother's father - as a forest officer had an eventful career. Recounted his encounter with a wild tusker in Topslip ; and how he came to bring home a couple of new-born tiger cubs that had apprently been separated from their mother in Cumbum forst.Raju said Karthik's grandma Meenakshi used to bottle-feed the cubs and nurse them as a baby. When they grew up to be old enough to bite, the tiger cubs were gifted to the Madras zoo.
Raju and his wife,now settled in the US,split their time between Palo Alto, California, where their son Ashwin works for SAP, and Philadelphia, where their daughter,son-in-law, and their grand-daughter live. The Rajus are a hospitable couple who relish meeting relatives and friends.They had lined up for lunch a feast that included vada, payasam, bisibelebath, rasam morecozhambu,and a couple of curry items.
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