Chris Anthony

My camera this year is a Canon Power Shot SX40IS, having 35x optical zoom.
I was met in Chennai by my friend Moin; we went to a nearby Trident Hilton hotel and then, the next day, by car to Tirupati, near the temple hill town of Tirumula, where I stayed for five weeks, teaching in Sri Venkateshwara University [SVU]. As usual I stayed in the SVU Guest House, 3km from town on the Bangalore road. I was the guest of Professor Sai Gopal, Head of Virology and Microbiology Departments. He had recently masterminded an application for a multidisciplinary centre and is now its Coordinator. This is the DST-PURSE Centre (Department of Science and Technology – Promotion of University Research and Scientific Excellence). I was funded completely and generously by this project. I gave a total of about 40 lectures and tutorials in the centre and in the Biochemistry Department.
This year’s web page is dedicated to my very good friend Professor Sai Gopal, Coordinator of DST-PURSE CENTRE.

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DST-PURSE CENTRE and Guest house                      TOP

Ceremonial removal of my banner

Presentation of banner to Prof. Sai Gopal, Coordinator of Centre

From left ot right: Pedanna, SaiGopal, Srikanth, ? ?, Manohar (my most loyal student)

Some specially helpful, important Centre staff; Bhuvana, Venkaiah, Janikiramy and Dr. Subba Rao

SVU guest house; my second home.

The guest house from other side of road

Guest house; my room is on the right

My room soon after arrival, complete with Moin

Typical lunchtime with Darwin on my Kindle

Ganga Raju, my friendly cleaner, on the roof

Venu my special friend at the guest house

Venu in the setting sun

The moment of sunset, from the roof

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