My Musings

TRVG's son HARI got married to POORNIMA on 22 April 2018 at JD Mahal, Chennai. JD Mahal is 500 meters away from Kamatchi Hospital. We two went on the evening of 21st also. Aditi came with us. Many had come from Hyderabad - Ganesan, Sivasubramaniam, Vaithyalingam, Saibaba, Subba Reddy, UAV Prasad, Ramakrishnaiah etc. Ramesh P PAI had come from Kochi ! Aditi enjoyed eating the Buffet dinner. We two went on 22nd for the marriage also. It was a grand affair. After a grand lunch, we returned home.  God bless the young couple. Rajappa 22-04-2018

Vijaya and I went to Hyderabad recently. We started on the evening of 17 Mar 2008 from Egmore, Chennai. The train went via Park, Fort, Beach, Washermenpet stations before joining the main line at Vyasarpadi. I am seeing the Fort and Beach etc stations for the first time. We reached Kacheguda the next morning by 7-30. We were told that the local train (MMTS -Multi Mode Transport System) would arrive on PF 3. So we lugged our suitcases climbing the overbridge. Later, at the last moment, the announcement said the train is coming on PF 1 !! We had to lug once again via the overbridge. In fact, we had to climb overbridges in all the stations during our visit to Hyderabad. It was the norm. The MMTS trains are clean and nice. Even allowing for the unusually long stoppages at Kacheguda and Secunderabad Stations, the travel was faster. After bath and breakfast at Rama's place in Ashoknagar, we boarded another MMTS for KCG to go to the Pension Office there. This office is located at Barkatpu...