Saturday, July 29, 2006

A corrigendum to the previous post

Frankly, as many people who know me will testify, I am what the feminists would call, a “Male Chauvinist Pig”. Hence when I talk about the family of my paternal grandmother, I will be unhappy if I do not talk about my paternal Grandfather. It grieves me immensely to state that I only know that my paternal Grandfather was called Ramaswamy Iyer, after whom I am named, and that he belonged to Thrippalur, near Alathur in Palakkad district of Kerala. He died, I do not know how, when my grandmother was pregnant with her first child, my father, Narayana Iyer or Mani. If, through this blog, I am able to locate the family of my paternal grandfather, then nothing would be more pleasureable than that. It is terribly frustrating to lose the link of ones patrilieal lineage just two generations before. Not knowing about ones paternal grandfather can be terribly frustrating. So if anyone can shed any light on this matter, I beg them to do so.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I sincerely hope that you get in touch with all our old friend and we (most of them) meet at a convinient place and date. My greetings to Madam Gomathy, i still remember her as the daughter of Narayanan Mami who taught me Mathemetics. I also learnt how to play cards (from Narayanan Mama) calculating what will be the next move of your oponent.

10:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I also like to add something to this page- Mr.Mathews(TRT 32/7) who was my neighbour and we used to live in TRT 32/8 is also at Thripunitara near to where Mr. K P Menon stays.

Nair aunty (sunder,sridhar and anitha) is now at Thrithala,near shornur. Mr.Bhaskaran of quarry is also at thripunitara.

Mr.Sundar is working with Cummins and is presently at Mumbai, a family of four(2 daughters)he resembels Nair uncle in all sense(baldness).
Mr.Sridhar is now at nigeria and his emid is sreedharan_cp@hotmail.com
Anitha settled in Bangalore.

Rest in my next Comments

10:49 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi..
So one of my Grandmothe's student is here.Mr.Jayachandran..idont remebr you.. perhaps u might remebr me as a todler when u used to come for tution at my grandparents home
yes..my grandfahter did teach me to play cards too... but during the alter days playing cards was almost prohibitted at home.May be be considered ill luck.

darn.. i wish i was not a todler at Wadi.I would have setteld for a teenager atlest.May be then i will be having more to add to wadi here :-(

10:51 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hai deepa
I left Wadi way back in 1980 never to return (except for once) after that it was a real Nadodi experience, I only heard about you and your Mother. Nice to hear from u and mind u your grandmother was excellent teacher my salutations to her.

10:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Ramdass,

You remian the same almost 12 years since i left you and came to Pune. I was delighted to see you on this blog of yours.I am contactable on 9890946285. Alternatively you can send mail to
meet_srinivas@yahoo.co.uk
Hope this time i will keep you more in touch.
I have missed you a lot ..Genius!
Your old jain hostel mate, BE from Gulb, Worked in Kirloskar and escorts at Delhi.
Now in Pune since 1995.
please give your contact details.
Regrds,
Srinivas Nagarad

5:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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11:25 PM  

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