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                                 Some Special India Pictures

This is a collection of pictures taken between 1982 and 2015 during my visits to Tirupati in South India. They represent so many wonderful memories. I have selected them from my main pages of my India pictures.

 

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People;    Special Indian light;   Countryside;   

Tirupati and villages;   Bits and pieces

2007       After a lecture I was asked to give in honour of Prof. NV Naidu who first invited me to India in 1982
TOP People  
 
  2008 Lecture at Sree Vidyanikethan College After my lecture at the Sree Vidyanikethan College
 
  2007 In VIP lounge with my wife Elizabeth at Madras airport being welcomed by John Prabhakar With my student friend and driver Satheesh
 
  2012 At entrance to PURSE Centre with my welcome banner 2012 Lunch in the Guest house
 
TOP 2010 Visiting some special students at their hostel; my friend Edwin Satish Kind Prof. Sai Gopal, Head of Department
 
  2012 Bharath Kumar (Balu) Very special Thumulagunta friend 2015 Balaji my top Thumulagunta frined for many many years
     
TOP Countryside around Tirupati FOR HUGE SETS OF PICTURES OF MY iNDIA BIRDS CLICK HERE
 
  2012 Bea Eater For huge number of bird pictures click here 2003 Pariah Kite near Thumulagunta
 
  2003 Egrets flying home near sunset 2005 A cloudy evening walk with the special hills in the distance
 
  2012 Morning light 2013 Evening clouds
 
  2013 The old pig farm, part of my favourite morning walk 2013 I had to have at least on portrait of a cow
 
  2013 Hurrying home before sunset 2010 One giant haystack at the dairy farm
 
TOP 2011 Irritated camel chasing its irritators at the dairy farm 2006 Skilled ladies
     
TOP Special India Light  
 
  2009 Sunset from guesthouse roof 2011 Another sunset
 
  2003 A sadhu at sunset near Mahabalipuram 2011 Sunset over Thumulagunta hils
 
    2008 Working after sunset 2010 Approaching sunset during approaching storm at Mahabalipuram
 
  2012 From Guest house to Tirupati town 2013 Moin on the guest house roof just after a storm
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  Tirupati town and Thumulagunta and Konanki villages  
 
  2003 My friendly bookseller Ghandi Road in 2005
 
  Pedal power The painter of signs (as in Narayan's stories)
 
  2012 Dancing in the schools competition in the University auditorium 2012 Tirupati cricket ground
 
  2007 Posting and peeing 2011 University Senate House by moonlight and more
 
  2003 Sandy road in Thumulagunta; man making palm leaf roof 2003. An obector to the 'pukka' road (their Tianment Square moment)
 
  2013 Two of my frineds in Thumulagunta 1982 Thumulagunta (Mallepalle) - my first visit
 
TOP 2000 Konanki village at Pongal time 2000 Helping with the chilli harvest in Konanki
     
TOP A few bits and pieces  
 
  The Taj Mahal . Visit for International Congress in Delhi 1994 2005 After the tsunami - some helpless gods on the beach at Mahabalipuram (Mammalapuram)
 
TOP Very proud of his ducks - in Kadapa visit My sadhu neighbour by the guest house