In Kshetra's House

I have visited Kshetraprasad’s house for the first time. It’s nice to see his parents, in-laws and bhava. I finished dinner at his house. The Huli (Sambar) was very nice. Before that we both ate Akki Rotti at his Akka, Meena’s house.

These days I am very frustrated to eat Andhra style food! And I am really happy to taste the real tasty food J

Anand in action…

Finally Viswanathan Anand won a game (ending a long chain of nine consecutive draws) over Alexei Shirov in the tenth round of the of the Corus chess tournament in Wijk Aan Zee.

 

'A' group positions after tenth round:

1.     Vladimir Kramnik (Russia): 7 points

2.     Magnus Carlsen (Norway): 6.5 points

2.     Alexei Shirov (Spain): 6.5 points

3.     Viswanathan Anand (India): 5.5 points

3.     Hikaru Nakamura (US): 5.5 points

3.     Leinier Dominguez (Cuba): 5.5 points

3.     Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine): 5.5 points

3.     Sergey Karjakin (Russia, defending champion): 5.5 points

 

'B' group positions:

1.     Anish Giri (Holland): 7 points.

2.     Erwin l'Ami (Holland):  6.5 points

2.     Ni Hua (China): 6.5 points

 

Parimarjan Negi is joint fifth on 5.5 points

Harikrishna is seventh on 5 points.

 

'C' group positions:

 

Abhijeet Gupta is joint fifth on 5.5 points

 

World junior girls' champion Soumya Swaminathan scored her first victory stands 13th in the 14-players competition.

 

Abhimanyu Mithun

 

Abhimanyu Mithun has been included in the Indian squad for the first Test against South Africa next month.

 

Mithun has emerged as the highest wicket-taker in Ranaji Trophy with 47 wickets.

All the best to Mithun J

 

 

PuPu is now Harshini

My niece PuPu (Putani Putti) has been named as Harshini in the Namakaranam which was held at Sri Subrahmanya Temple in Tarikere. There were many names in the list like Haritha, Harini, Haripriya etc

 

Finally Harshini was selected by my Akka and Bhava. It was a nice gathering of all our relatives and friends.

 

Since I am on strict diet,  I missed the Laddus but not the BajjiJ

 

Gummadi is no more.

Gummadi Venkateshwara Rao, veteran actor of Telugu movies  has died on 26th Jan at Care Hospital, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. He was 82. He acted in nearly 500 movies.

A saga by name “Chindodi Leela”

We have lost 4 eminent personalities of Kannada film industry within a month.

The death of Chindodi Leela is the latest one. I still remember the power of her acting, especially in theatres. I saw her for the first time in Davangere in 1998. She has camped for her play "pOleesana magaLu".  This play has seen 4500 shows and entered Guinness Book of Record.

 

I and Anjan were very enthusiastic to watch her acting. One day, after finishing our dinner at our hostel (Brahma Chaitanya), we got the great idea of watching the "Drama" of Chindodi Leela. We did not think for the second time and simply went to the "Camp" at municipality ground opposite to the railway station.

 

KS Ashwath is no more

It’s very painful to loose someone to whom we were emotionally attached. Ashwath was on of such rare persons who was respected by all.

It’s also very bad to loose Chamayya Meshtru and Ramachari just within 20 days.