First let me announce that my Magnum Opus, viz., my redesigned and revised Home Pages on which I'd been working for the last three months are finally ready. You must all visit it at www.oocities.org/parthasarathyliveshere.

All the children of Ranganathan-Jayalakshmi who have gathered at T.Nagar on 6th April for my father-in-law's first Shrardham, will read Amritha's moving tribute to her father. She is back with 'Remembering Appa (My Musings-IV)'. My brother, Gopalan, who called himself 'a born follower', was called 'a born story-teller' by Prasad for his Agraharam Days last month. He continues with his fun-piece in Agraharam Days-II. Kannan did not find time this month, but I'm sure he will continue his Early Days from next month.

I am grateful to Prasad who is the only contributor to have not missed a deadline even once from November 2001, when he wrote 'A Lopsided View of the Crisis- One Airline's Struggle'.He has also maintained a high standard in every article. He has come up with another excellent piece-Visiting Jasper about his visit to Jasper National Park in Canada. Sudarshan has contributed two pieces as usual- one being Jokes, Quotes and Trivia and the other being Funny stories.

I hope everyone has visited the Newsletter archives at www.oocities.org/pamrithaarchives, which is a comprehensive authorwise, subjectwise and monthwise archives. It includes everything that was published in the last 27 issues - all the articles, poems, games, photos and everything else.

Cricket World Cup is over. After sometime, we may only remember India's thrashing by Australia and not the earlier matches. I have written an article 23rd March 2003 on the Finals. I continue fun with image using Javascript and we have Fun with photo-V this time, where Neha plays catch-me with a stationary Aarthi. All the other usual features, viz. Crossword Clues (from Sunday Hindu and Economic Times), Brain Exercisers and Cryptoquip are there. Editor's Picks at the bottom of this page contain a cartoon and an interesting link.

The section'FROM THE NET' contains Details of all the 54 matches in the World Cup, Clear Communication, Miracle and Tips for a 20-20 Vision.

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The first feature, as usual, are the old photos.

MEMORIES ARE MADE OF THESE
	This is a photo of Shoba and Vidya in 1983 (Vidya's first birthday).
Amritha and Harish with my parents, Vanaja and Radha in 1980 or so.

9 Super Six, 2 semi-final and the final matches kept us mostly confined to the house in March.

The news of the month was Hema's transfer on 27th. She has, however, only come three-fourth the way as her new posting is in Tambaram. She is staying in Kodambakkam. Kannan and Jaya Akka are both normal. Amritha attended her father's masyam on 6th March. On 7th March, Amritha and I saw the Tamil movie Julie Ganapathy in Baby Albert theatre. It was very good. Saritha and Jayaram have acted very well under Balu Mahendra's direction. Some parts of it remind us of Moodupani and Moondram Pirai . There was just one song sequence that was unnecessary. Overall the film was very well made with a beautiful photography. we also found time to see another movie, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer on 19th March at Studio-5, a nice cosy thetre in Satyam complex. This was directed by Aparna Sen and was good.

Formula- I racing for 2003 started in March, with Shoemacher not finishing in the top three in both Australia and Malaysia. 23rd March was of course the biggest day in India in 2003. Nobody here seemed to be bothered about anything else including the war. I have written about the match in a separate article. That morning, we went to a Tyagaraja Aradhana in a school nearby. Nila and Kunjumani, also known as Sikkil Sisters, who are famous flute players were the main artistes. It was good to see about 40 people ranging in age from 6 to 60 singing Tyagaraja's Pancharatna keerthanas in unison. We spent the morning there and came home in time for lunch and the finals.

Chandra came here via Dubai on 27th early morning and went to T.Nagar. Raghu came via Kuala Lampur on 28th night and also went to T.Nagar. On 28th, I was invited by KVIC to preside over the valedictory function of an exhibition in Royapettah. Amritha was also invited to distribute the prizes. We were told that Shankaracharya had inaugurated it 10 days earlier. It went off well (I spoke in Tamil).

We saw an exhibition of paintings and handicraft by the children of ICF employees on 29th. Some of the works were excellent. In fact the prize-winning painting in the group 12-20 years which was on thermocole was top class. Some of the embroidery were also very good. On 30th, we went to Kodambakkam and T.Nagar. We saw Raghu , Chandra and others there. Raghu has bought more than 30 old Tamil (and some Hindi/English) film CDs. Since Jaya Akka had been saying for some time that it was ages since she went to the beach, we went there. Chandra and I played catch-me (the others were too self-conscious to run), where I easily caught Chandra. All of us also shot the balloon with air-pistol. It was good fun.

We had visitors in my brothers, sister and nieces' families as well as Santhanam & Kausalya and Rukku, Mr.Varadachari & Aditya. In other news

We bought a new Samsung 29" TV ( the day before India-New Zealand match)
Aditya is joining summer camp in Bangalore.
Divya and Dipti (my niece Usha's children) have gone to Jakarta in March.
Shoba visited Disneyland and Universal Studios.
Mukund and Rahul attended Rahman's concert
Raghu is now in Nasik
America and U.K. are at war, but all is well in India.

Bye,
anbudan,


2nd February 2003