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Some of the pictures from 1999 and 2000 are from old sets of slides that I recently found.

1999 Tirupati pictures    
Trip to Hogenekkal falls in 1999
2000 pictures of Tirupati etc
2000 trip to Vijayawada on the way to Konanki to fulfill a promise to my friend Nagaraju to visit his native place
2000 trip to Konanki

For pdf of my diaries for 1999 Click Here;     For pdf of my diaries for 2000 Click Here

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...TOP........... 1999 pictures    I could find very few old slides taken this visit   Click here for my diary of this visit
 
  Me at guest house and friend waving goodbye
 
  In the almost open-air lecture room with Biotechnology class
 
 
 
  Nagaraju and my ladies
 
  Walking past the guest house on the way home from the dairy farm from their duty in the Govindaswarmy temple
 
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  Somewhere in Tirupati showing my four forms of transport: by walking, bicycle, rickshaw and autorickshaw
 
  The trade-Wings 'school' where my friend Surya was learning computing
 
  The virology department with the seven hills behind
 
  View of the hills
 
  The Guestline hotel where we went to use their swimming pool in later years
 
  With Surya in Mahabalipuram
 
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TOP Trip to Hogenekkal waterfalls withh Surya and friends
Hogenakkal Falls is a waterfall in South India on the Kaveri river on the border between Dharmapuri district of Tamil Nadu and Chamrajnagar district of Karnataka.
They are 125 km south of Bangalore (Bengalaru) and 310km South west of Tirupati. We drove there and back in a day  
 
  On the journey (probably about 5 hours)
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    This image is from internet
 
  Lunchtime in the perperual spray  
   
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.....TOP....... Pictures from 2000    In 2000 I went to stay in Konanki. with my friend Nagaraju. To get there I first went to Vijyawada with Surya who had lived there for much of his life.
 
  Surya's family home in Vijayawada
 
  With his cousin at the house entrance
 
  All the family
 
  Alll the family
 
  With cousins
 
  Me with cousins
 
  The family
 
  Surya's friend
 
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......TOP........ Tirupati in 2000
 
  Chennai airport (Before 1996 it was Madras) viewed from the window of the Trident hotel
 
  The Trident hotel, 8 minutes drive from the airport and 4-5 hours to Tirupati in our Ambassador - hired by Surya from the Kalyan Residency Hotel in Tirupati
 
 

The dining hall of SVU guesthouse, seen from my ground floor room
 
  View from my veranda of the road
 
  The seven hills and my favourite walking place
 
TOP My village friend with his mates working on the dairy farm
 
  Rajiv Dixit and biochemists working on the ' Clean and Green' working day. Note the lecturers are atcing as foremen
 
  At home of Kiran (Steven) celebrating a birthday
 
  Kiran's father (Christopher Daas) and mother and the force-feeding of birthday cake
 
  Surya with Kiran on bike
 
  Suryas mum and a friend
 
TOP Images at the fair