Thanx Datha and Gomathy, JC and Deepa

Thanks JC for your close monitoring and valuable inputs. You and Deepa seem to be ardently following the blog. I am encouraged. Datha called this morning to report that he had located several key characters in our plot. Dr. Surya Rao leads a retired life alone in an apartment in Hyderabad. His second daughter Bhavani stays a floor below in the same apartment block. Suryanarayana, my senior, of Rapheal’s batch in MCC, is in Dallas and Janaki is in Bangalore. She seems to be working for some company called iFlex IT Solutions as far as Datha could tell me. It seems he also spoke to her over phone, and all those who follow this blog from me, to Deepa who called her Janaki Peddakka, will hopefully get her contact details soon. Three cheers to Datha. Datha also spoke to D M Usha, of the Mohanmurthy family and our junior by one year. D M Murali, our classmate is in Indonesia, and I hope he will find out about D M Saikrishna too. Sai, though very much our junior was a close close friend from my Jain Hostel days in Gulbarga. Ashok Ratnam from our batch is also in Hyderabad and has been located. Gomathy meanwhile is in Kerala and will get in touch with the families of Aravindakshan and Menon, and has promised to mail me photographs soon. So the blog and its readers have turned up quite a few characters of the story, who were presumed lost. Insofar as that, I consider my objective fairly successful. But with all your help, I will continue to unearth all those kids from 1970s Wadi and 1980s Shahabad and Gulbarga and get to meet them all. So keep at it guys. Godspeed!

At this stage, I am taking up an exercise for which I require the help of Jayachandran or Geeta (through Gomathy) or Rama (through Datha). I try to name all our fifteen classmates who came to class 7 from class 6. If I have erred, I need corrections from JC, or Geeta or Rama. Here goes…..Ramdas, Jayachandran, Santhanam, Nazir, Rafique, Ambernath Das, Farook, Rajender Singh, Geeta Menon, Pushpa Parameswaran, Vidya Narwate, Rama Naidu, Sreelakshmi(chinti), Apsara, and Sandhya. I feel there is something wrong with the list. I am doubtful about Rajender Singh, Farook and Rafique, so pick your collective brains and post comments.