Beautiful Kerala, uncut...again!!

These photos I took while travelling from Trivandrum to Ernakulam by train. Once the city limits are off, there are alot of paddy fields, backwaters, coconut groves (for which kerala is famous for!) on either sides....

Tapioca fields....

Coconut groves....

Paddy fields...(u can see ppl reaping!)

Paddy fields which havent sowed!

Again coconut groves...

This was a sunset which I happened to see accidently from my home's terrace. It was accidental cos, i rarely go to my home-terrace.

Another view from my terrace (pls ignore the water tank of our neighbors)...Those yellow flowers are the "konna" flowers which are down, beside the road.

Those are the mangoes, which in fact can be plucked from the terrace, using bare hands!

Some aerial photos of Ireland.

I am very busy with my new schedule,that my back seems to threaten me with my "old" disc issues. So I will be posting mostly pictures in my coming blogs. But believe me, you will love it..Cos I have a very big collection with me....

Starting with...

Some aerial views of Ireland (mainly Dublin). These were taken by me,apparently on a fine cloudless morning, which was very rare phenomenon on March.

Cameras were not allowed inside airplane during take off and landing.But I couldnt waste the precious moment!

The sun was on my side of the window. It really helped me in making the pictures clear!

Ireland is the land of grasslands...Its rare to see a brown color  in these green meadows...even in town centres, every single piece of earth is made into lawn...(except for parking areas)

Aint the clouds sooo beautiful!!

 

Another one!

This is a much higher view! you can see Ireland as an island in the N.Atlantic and Irish sea....this always make me wonder how they made those atlases..

Some more photos....

me, mom, dad (1978)

 

mom,dad, me (1979)

 

mom and her college mates (1970)

can u identify mom??

me and my collegemates (1999)

can u identify me??

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dad's dad(left most) and mom's dad---my achachan (rightmost)

 

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Mom's dad --"the achachan" (left) and Dad's dad (right)-1997

Some B &W photos--story of a lifetime!

Swathi (1978)

 

Swathi (1982)

 

Swathi (2006, 2 weeks back, !!)

 

Dad & Mom(1976)

 

Dad & Mom(1995)

 

Mom & dad (2004)

 

MOM (1970)----does she has any resemblance with me????

...i think she looks like some old malayalam film actress...with all those kohl in her eyes !!

Guess who? Pretty easy?huh?

"Bees Saal Baad" a.k.a after 20 yrs!!

This is my cousin(left) and me (right), when we were 5 and 6 yrs old ....

 

 

Again us, (she is standing, and I am sitting) when we were 26 and 27 yrs old....(20 yrs later....)

Is there any change in appearance? i dont see anything....

Tha last thing to share---obituary space !

May 1, was my achachan's 2nd death anniversary.He was the best granddad for me. But it wont be fair, if I give a blind eye to other behavioral traits of him.

He was a never forgiving brother, who kept revenge inside his mind for years, till his death. The story of extreme love which turned into extreme rivalry started long before my mom's and my birth. Achachan's brother was 15 yrs younger to him. So achachan took the responsibility of teaching him and finally getting him a job in Penang (the then Malaya).

They both had their ancestral property together as a single one. I don't know how, but as it is heard that one fine morning, my other achachan's sons (we called him also achachan, as they looked very much alike!) divided the property , acquiring some portion from my achachan's. This happened when I was 2 or 3 yrs old. Soon it turned into a property fight b/w achachan and his brother. Each side had their children fighting for their fathers. Actually the fight was not in the name of property. The main reason was ego clash b/w the two brothers. Achachan couldn't accept that his youngest brother, who was almost a son to him, did that to him. There ended the extreme love and started the extreme rivalry. They didn't see each other or talked to each other for next 23 yrs (till the "younger" achachan died!!!).

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On this May1, I saw achachan's photo in the news paper in  obituary column. But along with that, just  on the right side of it, was his younger brother's (our "other" achachan) photo, in the same category. Ironically he also passed away on May 1, but 5 yrs back. Till their deaths, they never met. Now after their death, they meet in the obituary column.

Seeing this I called my cousin (my mom's sisters daughter--- the third generation) and told her to take a look at the two achachan's photos. I told her "See....everything ends here...for all their 23 yrs of rivalry and hatred, the final end was here....after all, this is where it ends....." and she was silent for a minute and said "Yes, chechi (sister), after all those fights , they ended up sharing same obituary space in a single news paper".

May be if she understood the deeper meaning, this fight wont be dragged into the third generation, I.e., between me and her !!!