Family Memoirs

  Another issue of ತರುಣ ವಾಣಿ(Youth voice) newsletter from 1943. The editor of Taruna Vani was my uncle N.S. Chandrashekara. ಸನಾತನ ಧರ್ಮ (Satana Dharma) explains a nice verse Satyam Bruyat.. from Manu Smriti. http://godbless-u.ning.com/profiles/blogs/satyam-bruyat-priyam-bruyat Stories in this issue are ಸಂಖ್ಯಾ ಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ ಕೋವಿದ ರಾಮಾನುಜಂ written by my father Narayana Swamy about mathematician Ramanujan's story, ವಿಚಾರಾವಲೋಕನ, a tribute to Late Prof. N. S. Subba Rao  https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.186360/2015.186360.The-Foundation-Club_djvu.txt a very interesting narration ಜೇಬು ಕಳ್ಳತನದ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶನ (Display of pocket theft) by Shastri and some excerpts from Readers Digest July 1942 like the conversation between Harmodius and Iphicrates. Audio version of the issue ( recorded by Suresh) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lFIE6jcG11iFtvQu1W11VDP6_HWp95KO

  Wedding invitation dated 16th May 1956 of my aunt Malathi ( M N Krishna Rao's granddaughter) held at their heritage house. http://www.indiaoutsidemywindow.com/2015/02/inside-heritage-home-in-basavanagudi.html

  My father Narayana Swamy's middle school exam hall ticket.(1942)

  I found a few issues of ತರುಣ ವಾಣಿ(Youth voice) newsletter from 1942 - 1945. The editor of Taruna Vani was my uncle N.S. Chandrashekara. This was an issue published in 1942. Stories in this issue are ಸಾಹಸಿಯ ಕೈಯಲಿ (In the hands of an adventurer) written by my father Narayana Swamy about the story of 11 year old Sikorsky's dream and how the dream came true 30 years later.  https://kpi.ua/en/sikorsky-about , ಜಪಾನಿನ ಪಾಠಶಾಲೆಯೊಂದು(One of the schools in Japan) written by my uncle about all the activities at the girls school and how the students and teacher managed it and other stories. Audio version of the issue ( recorded by Suresh) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LXYbftBchDrx9JV3JyG3kR22NZi7DEJw

  A letter from Sir C. V. Raman to my grandfather Dr Narasimha Moorthy.

These are a few old pictures of my maternal grandparents Hosur Mrithyum Jayam (H. M. Jayam) and Sharadamma. There is also a picture of my grandfather’s parents. My grandfather started his career as an electrical man carrying poles and working as a meter reading boy. He loved drawing and architecture and he was drawing various types of buildings. With encouragement from his superiors, he was able to submit his drawings and get AMIE certification. He then worked as an engineering drawing teacher in Government Engineering college for many years. His students remember him as a very good and strict teacher. He had many hobbies which included photography, playing musical instruments like veena and violin. He also liked dogs and had two Great Danes and a beautiful garden in his house in Sampige Road, Malleswaram Uma Photo of H.M.Jayam (around early 1930's) printed from glass negatives. Photo of Sharadamma (around early 1930's) printed from glass ne...

My grandfather Dr Narasimha Moorthy's 8 mm movies, some of which could be converted to DVD with audio track added by my late father Narayana Swamy. (Videos 7 and 8 are from his trip to USA and Europe. The ship can be seen in Video 8). These movies are probably from late 1930s to early 1940s. I have also included a pdf of a writeup about my grandfather which my father wrote a few years back. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjeLFLBNtb6IHg8qgty85vD-PL8dhBFgQ