Kerala !
Diya and Keethu at home
Animamen's place in Bangalore
Sathyaaunty and amma at Bangalore
Sathyaaunty and family
Lazing, after a heavy lunch
Forum mall at Bangalore
Greeshma/Nikki's place at Bangalore
Prabhaaunty and family
With Vivietten and family
Vivietten's place
Keethu at her balcony
With Kaju and Soorejetten
More family pics ...
When I caught up with some of my colleagues in Bangalore
One of my old bootcamp-mates
With Bharat and gang outside Zigma mall
My very own 'Scout' team here at home ;)
When Prakashetten and Shakeelachy came calling... in their brand new Maruthi A-star
The girls modeling for the car
Outside our home at Thrissur
9 years after leaving school, 'DeBatch' meets up at the Lulu Centre, Thrissur for a grand reunion
Round table conference at the reunion
Catching up on old times, we staged a 'Know your batch' quiz ...This was team 1
Team 2
Team 3 and the ultimate winners - thanks to an exclusive round that was dedicated to Vimal !
Team 4
The gang outside the Lulu Centre
Swetha takes us out for dinner at Thrissur Towers
Some of the guys I grew up with
It was Swetha's birthday and we made a surprise visit to her place, armed with a cake :)
The train to Alleppey
Guess we're seriously running out of land in Kerala
Diya enjoying the train ride
The house-boats of Alapuzha
On the house-boat ...we spent a day on it
Local fishermen
The traditional Keralite architecture along the banks
One of the bedrooms inside the boat
The 'Sports Authority of India' office
Trying the wheels
Enjoying a sumptous lunch, on the house-boat
Diya takes on the sun
A church along the banks
Time for goggles
Kids playing in the water
When 'having nothing to do' can be so much fun :)
A temple along the banks
Sunset at the backwaters
Pirates of the backwaters !
The Ernakulam railway station
The countryside !
School - had first landed here rather reluctantly back in 1990, in 3rd grade ....A lot has changed since then !
Down memory lanes
A lot has changed here ....but can't forget twisting my ankle and spraining it under that post !
Ranjith Boban at the entrance to school
Inside one of our old class-rooms !
Ranjith on what used to be the tracks where he had broken the 100m school record !
The Poovani temple near school
Shyamala teacher - was our class-teacher when I landed here in 3rd grade; and Parvathy !
At Calicut, when I caught up with ex-colleague and current IIM-K student - Arpit
Aunt's place at Calicut ....getting ready for cousin Chintu's wedding party
Nikki and his new car
The parents of the bride !
Grandma and her sister-in-law
Sis and Chandana - First-cousins, albeit having 31 years of age difference between them :)
Chintu - the bride, flanked by family
Nikku and Sapna
Mom and her sis
Wedding day !
Beenachy and the girls coming forward to receive the groom
The groom arrives !
The bride arrives on the stage
Exchanging vows
The photo-ops
The newly-weds head home
Amma and the aunts
The new generation
Soho and Sapna
When we visited Chitratten and family at Coimbatore
Diya outside our home at Coimbatore
Trying to pose
With Rocky
Back in Thrissur, enroute to Guruvayoor
The paddy fields
The Vadakkechira lake near Sakthan Thamburan Palace, Thrissur
The Western Entrance to the Vadakunnathan Temple
At Cochin
Diya at Cochin