My Musings

This year, 2016, Appa sratham was on 13th September 2016, Tuesday, at our house 3, Kalakshetra Avenue, Chennai. Avani  Sukla Dwadasi. We performed it in Hiranya roopam. The sastrigals came at 7-10 and completed by 8-00. Arvind, Krithika, Aditi, Arjun joined us. Sri VENKATESA SARMA and his brother Sri Venkatachala Vathyar came.  (1000 + 1000) This is the second Sratham we are performing in Hiranya roopam. {First Sratham without my brother Sugavanam who passed away on 27 August 2016 at his house} Rajappa 14-09-2016

SUGAVANAM, (aka Krishnan). my younger brother passed away on the early hours of Saturday the 27th August 2016 at his house in Radhakrishnan Nagar 1st Cross street, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai 41. He was born on 19 October 1946 , and died on 27 Aug 2016 at the age of 70. He was the 8th child to our parents GR Subramania Iyer and Sampoornam. and was born at Salem. He was suffering from Cancer for the past 4 years and particularly during the last 3 months he was just sleeping, eyes closed for 24 hours a day. There was no consciousness at all and he never uttered a single word during this 90 odd days. Vijaya and I were in Bangalore when the news came (5-40 AM) and we two and Ashok and Neeraja came to Chennai in Ashok's car and reached Thiruvanmiyur house by 4 PM. Susha and family had left for Delhi on Thursday only (25th) and they rushed back direct from NDLS station. Pattu Manni had also come. Later Vasu, Srikanth came from Delhi, Suresh, Sudhakar from Mumbai, Rama from Hyderabad....