Venkat's Random Thoughts

 Rivika - My grand daughter and best friend On this very day 11th September ten years back two things happened, 1) The tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the twin towers in the US and  2) The birth of my Grand daughter Rivika, The second child of my son Anand and Mallika. Both the events are unforgettable in my life ,On the day of the 9/11 attack, I was in Bath UK on a visit to my son in UK and heard the news on the TV at a relation's house. On the day of Rivika's birth I was in Mumbai and on hearing the news , i booked my tickets to visit my son's in laws in Ghaziabad, U P to visit the latest arrival. I immediately posted on my Facebook page the following lines.   "Off to Ghaziabad to meet the latest addition in the family!!      My grand daughter" Needless to say I was very excited and was keen to see and hold this bundle of joy in my hands. We did travel and attended the naming ceremony in Ghaziabad. I next met her on her first birthday when I ...

JUGALBANDI This is getting predictive. It has now become customary for me to log in to blogspot every morning, and start looking for SRK's new blog. And sure enough there is bound to be one, more interesting than the previous. Now the next step is to write a comment on that. After the comment is over the thought process starts. How to write another blog to keep the ball rolling?(it has become fashionable to keep talking about the rolling ball in these days of WorldCup 2006). And so here goes another from me. It has become a sort of "Jugalbandi" between "Mama" and "Maruman" (meaning "Uncle" and "Nephew" for those who are not familiar with Tamil). I must admit though that my nephew is way ahead of me in terms of the quality of the content and I am only filling up space to keep the continuity going. I am at the same time proud that I have a smart nephew and I can proudly tell my friends and associates that SRK is my nephew and ask...