October 28, 2011

Yellowstone Videos

I finally got around to downloading the videos for the Yellowstone trip. Here they are. The thermal areas and wildlife are especially interesting.

Getting to Yellowstone:
Our Cabin:
Thermal Areas
Wildlife

Link to Original Yellowstone Post

Deepavali 2011@Jarvis Avenue

We had a good celebration with deepalu, poojalu, bhojanalu and tapasulu. Aditya and Arjun had fun. Unfortunately, I mistakenly deleted all videos which are now unrecoverable, so only pictures :-(




More pictures
https://picasaweb.google.com/100439682375564182182/Deepavali2011?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCKb9pbak9MbrHg&feat=directlink

October 27, 2011

The case of the inspired judge












When SRM retired he was having roaring practice. Usually doctors and lawyers peak after they are past 50.He said “there is no compulsory retirement for people like me. But I want to retire at 60”.Afterwards; he went away to ashram at ANGALA KUDURU to practice “detachment”, and that is another story.

The problem was to find a suitable man who can take over the practice to the satisfaction of all his cliente.M.V. Narayana caught his attention. He was self made man. A pleaders clerk, who did his B.L .Degree privately, and was working under Y.Janaki ramiah.The practice was handed over to him.SRMs judgment about the capacities of MVN were proved to be correct and all the clients were pleased with his knowledge and capacities.

MVN went on to become a leading lawyer, caught the attention of N.T. Rama Rao, who offered him M.L.A. ticket. He moved to high court and is practicing there. He wanted to repay his debt to his “guruvugaru” and proposed the unveiling of a portrait of SRM at bar of Kavali.Our story begins there.

Justice P.Venkata Rami Reddy garu was a student of J.B.He was the judge of Karnataka high court, A.P. high court, chief justice of Karnataka high court and judge of Supreme Court. He is now chair man, law commission.MVN invited justice PVR for the unveiling of the photo and he kindly agreed.

It was raining heavily that day. The function was held at Radhakrishna Kalalyana Mandapam, opposite Krupa Nursing Home. After the introductions by MVN, speeches by other colleagues and unveiling of SRMs portrait, SLN was asked to talk on behalf of the family.

An out line of the speech by SLN

I will talk about SRM not as a father but as a man. He is very shy and unassuming. He is very sincere in his profession. Treated clients with respect. We are used to see him working late into night when ever there was a case to be argued next day. He hated all sorts of strikes especially by lawyers.

Then justice PVR spoke. Important part of his speech

It gives me great pleasure to unveil the portrait Sri SRM. One thing most of you do not know is that he was our lawyer. When I finished my inter and waiting to join degree, there was a panchayat election related case of our family and SRM was our lawyer. I used to attend every adjournment.and was inspired by SRMs way of preparing, arguing. In a way he was the reason for me to choose this profession. His portrait here is a symbol of great values and it should inspire many generations.