I am taking a purely chronological sequence of my lifetime for want of a better approach :-)) and for purely political reasons I guess.
I
met Param(bagga), Prakash(katte) and Srikumar(lekhu) in college. That meeting
with the three of them went on to become to the most important friendship
for me. This photograph was taken at Katte's marraige ( :-)) kind of explains
why Katte has one eye closed)
Bagga is working in bangalore, Katte in madras and Lekhu is currently in Germany. All of us are far away from each other but still think of each other almost everyday ( Well almost because Param and katte who are married now have more important people in their lives to think about :-)) ).
The two and a half years that I spent at BFL were very
pleasent and enjoyable and in the process I also became close to Ashok,
Harsha, Sreenivas and Ranganath. UNITE project was the first that I did
at BFL and the same gang joined by Taranath were also with me in
the US - where else could friends go except to the same places. If not
for these guys my stay here in the US would'nt have been the fun that it
was.
Also at BFL I did a project called FISH. That was
the most closely knit project group that I had worked with and it was a
pleasure to work with these very talented group of individuals. Hats off
to Sudarshan (sudhiya), Sohan(Non resident american ), Vatsa(big talker
and big hearted) and ofcourse Adiga (TPdigs). Vijay kumar (Tagad) was a
visiting professer for this project and our friends from Malaysia - Kevin
and Wee were absolutely game for everything - even a days trekking in the
mountains of Mudumalai :-)). This photograph was taken before the trek.
They did'nt know what was awaiting them the next day :-)))).
Rajan and I have shared a lot of activities together
and its been a pleasure all the way. His friendship is again something
that I will cherish for a long time. Be it white water rafting or country
music dancing or rollerblading or skiing or photography, he has been part
of those activities. He is another person without whom life here in the
US would have been boring for me. He is a cat at Skiing and I hate to be
going to San Diego leaving him here in the Bay area.Thats rajan and me
at the Yosemite national park in November of 1997.
