| INDIA: My Pictures 1982 | |
| This was my first visit to India. To visit the Botany Department of Sri Venkateshwara University as a guest of the British Council and Professor M.V. Naidu. I flew by way of Sri Lanka, Madras to Tirupati airport. I stayed in the SVU guest house. The picture shows the welcome arch on the road from SVU into the town. The road is now a dual carriageway.During my 5 week visit I also flew to Hydrabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh to lecture at the Centre for Cell and Molecular Biology. I taught microbial physiology to MSC botany students and a few lectures in The Biochemistry Department [Prof. Venkaiah] |
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| Maps of Tirupati SV University University staff and students Tirupati Town Thumulagunta and surrounding area Tirumula Hyderabad |
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| Sri Venkateshwara University TOP of page |
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| The central University tower; picture taken from the road that links Tirupati to Chittoor and Bangalore |
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| SVU from 'main' road |
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| The main hall in SVU with Chowdappa |
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| SVU library with Chowdappa |
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| My friend, the peanut seller |
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| SVU guest house |
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| My drivers waiting outside the guest house |
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| Rear of the guesthouse |
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| The view from my window |
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| Passing traffic |
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| Passing traffic |
| Top of SVU TOP of page |
| University Staff and Students TOP of page | |
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| M.V. Naidu, Professor of Botany; my host in typical fast forward mode | |
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| Botany staff: ??, Sreeramulu, Naidu and Sreenivasulu. In the middle is Chowdappa [Student] and Naidu's son | |
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| Botany MSc students | |
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| Botany MSc students | |
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| More students | ?? and chowdappa with Lotus as gift for me |
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| The Peace & Solidarity council inviting me to lecture. | My friend Munjunath [we went to Mysore in 1984] |
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| Outside my room with ??? and wih Chowdappa | |
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| ??? with Chowdappa | |
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| SVU Guest house staff | |
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| Tirupati town TOP of page | |
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| The road out of Tiurpati. University is on the right of this road and the guest house after 2km on the left | |
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| School children on way home. The shaven boys gave their hair to Sri Venkateshwara at Tirumula temple. | |
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| My source of safe drinks; Limca and Kickapoo Joy Juice | |
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| Tirupati lit by the setting sun | |
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| Gandhi Road | |
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| Near Gandhi road | |
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| My tailors | |
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| My snackshop | |
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| The well on a street corner in Tirupati | |
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| Govindaswamy temple in centre of Tirupati | Advert for Thunderball [James Bond] |
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| The centre of Gandhi Road | |
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| Nethaji Road | |
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| My cycle rickshaw | |
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| The bike repair man | |
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| One of these wheels crushed my glasses [i had dropped them] | |
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| The walk down to town | |
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| Every evening finsihed with 15 minutes of glorious orange sky | |
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| Guest house staff | |
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| Top of Tirupati TOP of page | |
| Thumulagunta village and surrounding area TOP of page Thumulagunta is a small village surrounded by farmland. In 1982 it was reached by walking throught the dairy farm area or on a track leading from the main road. It is now surrounded by an expanding Tirupati and has a main road leading to it and most of the village has brick houses and concrete roads. |
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| The route to the village through the dairy farm area | |
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| Main street | |
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| I later got to know the family living in this house and became the family photographer | |
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| The road to the chicken sheds | |
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| One of the main water supplies | |
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| My friend who first took me to the village showing his family buffalo | |
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| Drying fuel | |
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| More friends [just one photo sir] | |
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| Ok One more | |
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| The girls were more shy | |
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| School | Work |
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| View from edge of village | |
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| On to the next village | |
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| On the walk home | |
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| The route home | |
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| On the way home | |
| Top of Thumulagunta TOP of page | |
| Tirumula TOP of page Tirumula is high in the hills above Tirupati and is the home of Sri Venkateshwara. His temple is the largest and richest in India. It has more visitors than any other temple in the world. |
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| Tirupati from the road to Tirumula; this whole area is now built up | |
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| Dr Srinivasulu [Botany dept.] and my kind hosts for the day [Madras Prof. of Botany] | |
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| The church band | |
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| The happy band - all very enthusiastic to have their picture take before we went on walk around temple | |
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| The hair from the shaven heads is donated to the god and is used for 25% of the world's wigs | |
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| The gopuram into the sanctuary | My kind hosts |
| Top of Tirumula TOP of page | |
| Hyderabad TOP of page | |
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| The Charminar | |
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| Government building? | |
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| In the grounds of the mosque | |
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| The winner of their impromptu contest | |
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| Maps of Tirupati | Top of Maps TOP of Page |
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| This shows Tirupati at the base of the 7 hills with the road up to the temple town of Tirumula. | |
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| The guest house is near where road crosses rail. The village of Thumulagunta is at bottom of map in middle | |
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| The 'waterfall temple' of Kapilatheertham is at top | |
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