Dear Subbu ji,

Thanks for the message. Good to hear that there is some other soul residing
in Phoenix, and working for the University of Phoenix.

I bet a great majority of the Indian population in US pursuing their MBA
through distance education do so through this University.

Regards

V.V. Sundaram

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Vanakkam Subbu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you very much for your mail. My sisters' daughters' husband Mr.
> Karthik Karuppiah is working in University of Phoenix.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vanakkam Subbu
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:51 AM, sundaram v.v. <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> After being a member of this one of a kind family for some time, it is
>> nice to get acquainted with quite a few members, either through their
>> regular contributions or otherwise.
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>> I met Mr K. Raman, a founding member of the Group, at a party in
>> California. Seeing his and his wife’s predicament of holding their
>> grandchildren in one hand and the dinner plate on the other, I offered to
>> take care of the kids till they finished their dinner. In the chat that
>> followed, Mr Raman enrolled me in the Group’s mailing list. I have since
>> then been benefiting by a few of his contributions, which are informative
>> and educative.
>>
>>
>>
>> Two years ago I had the pleasure of speaking to Cheenu-Pune on reading his
>> posting that he was in California. But by then he was already in Chicago and
>> ready to take off to Pune the next day. But it was nice to talk to him. He
>> seems to be a Mr Know All.
>>
>>
>>
>> I also phoned up Mr Narendra Gupta on his last visit to California. But
>> the total dependence on children for transportation in both our cases
>> restricted the acquaintance to telephone conversation. I read with interest
>> his postings, and forward some to my family circle.
>>
>>
>>
>> I had written to the other Cheenu, of Coimbatore then, and now of
>> Hyderabad, that I would be visiting Coimbatore to sell my plot of land, and
>> if we could meet. It was all fixed, but with things not falling in place at
>> the Registrar’s office, I was left with very little time to have that
>> privilege. I like his postings, more so his Badrianath trip coverage, the
>> Marutha malai visit, etc. not to speak of his recent useful Good Mornings.
>>
>>
>>
>> In response to my introductory mail, a member rang me up from California.
>> It transpired that his younger brother and I were classmates in school, as
>> were he and my elder brother.
>>
>>
>> Responding to the same letter, Mr Krishnamoorthy, then of California, and
>> now of Coimbatore and California, wrote back to ask me if I was the same
>> Sundaram married to Lalitha, the daughter of his friend Murthy of Calcutta.
>> It was a pleasant surprise to hear from him. For our elder son, he and his
>> wife had recommended a girl, who is now our proud daughter in law.
>>
>>
>>
>> Responding to my one-line letter to Mr Sivasubramanian Perinkulam on a
>> good piece that he had written, he rang me up from Baltimore for a chat. It
>> turned out that I lived in Vadakkantharai, and he in Olavakkode – a distance
>> of three miles. And by his year of birth and the school he studied, he and
>> my elder brother should be classmates, though he could not place him. He
>> introduced his daughter in law Meghna over the phone, and during the brief
>> chat with her I discovered that my father’s Athai’s sons and her mother are
>> cousins. What a small world.
>>
>>
>>
>> Another member whom I have not met but know well is P.R. – Mr P
>> Ramachandran, a retired senior scientific officer based in Bangalore. He was
>> the one to whom I referred, on an average, half a dozen horoscopes a day for
>> my second son, for his astrological opinion, when I was stationed in Geneva.
>> Promptness was the hallmark of his responses. I like his postings on
>> Tharpanam, religious clarifications, and the like. I feel guilty that I have
>> still not had the courtesy to visit him during my sojourn in Bangalore. I
>> will, sir, one of these days, if you happen to read this.
>>
>>
>>
>> It was nice of “Vanakkam’ Subbu to clarify in detail the queries I had
>> raised on remittance facilities from and to India. I like his very useful
>> contributions, and jokes.
>>
>>
>>
>> Then there are members with whom I may not have particularly interacted,
>> but whose contributions I like no less. I may not be able to guess how Mr G.
>> Viswanathan looks like, but I do know him as the friend of my colleague
>> through his posting asking for a suitable girl for my colleague’s widower
>> son. I see points in some of GV’s observations. Then we have MGK Nair,
>> Partha-devarajan, Lalitha Subramanian, Saibaba SV, Vaidya Lingam, and a host
>> of others (forgive me if your name is missing - the list is endless) on each
>> of whom we can write volumes. They have been sparing their time to inform,
>> educate, enthrall, and entertain us, let alone cause us to ponder, smile or
>> laugh aloud.
>>
>>
>>
>> And this round-up will be incomplete without a mention of Mr
>> Gopalakrishnan, whose painstaking analytical study of items ranging from
>> Kachhatti, Aappai, Kodai, Vadi, Thadi, Thengai, Mangai, Chakkai, though may
>> not be my cup of tea, has not robbed him of his fan following. My wife never
>> misses them.
>>
>>
>>
>> By way of gain from the Group if this is less, then what is more?
>>
>>
>>
>> V.V. Sundaram
>>
>> Phoenix, Arizona
>>
>> 480 988 5705
>>
>> 12 October 2011
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> *But  "Challenge" is an aim of life
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