Down Memory Lane : A familiar face, a familiar landscape ...

Me and Mine

Me ...and my moods

• Me and the deer.
• Me , in a melancholy mood.
• Me at work and having fun teaching .

Me ...and a few of my friends

• Shrija , my best friend ... among other things, she also happens to be my wife.
  And here's some of her many facets 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... and the cozy hug !! ( She is doing her Masters at USC)
• Dagmar, an ice-cream too many!! and `I quit'.
• The CLMC group at USC, ahoy captain and surprise party .
• Dagmar and Masa, at the birthday bash.
• With Pablo and Arno , one of those wild parties.
• At home, with Anjali , amchi Pune.
• Doing the `tough' thing, with Christian Thygesen.
• Miho - reporting at the Sydney Olympics 2000 . With Miho and family .
• At the Harada's .
• The Batesons at their home in Kyoto - hosting another of those awesome BBQ parties.
• The Dielhmanns (Anke, Gernot and Anne-Maria) in Germany - great friends.
• The Trappenbergs (Thomas, Kanayo and Kai-chan) just before they left for Oxford.

Me ...and my hobbies

• Soccer, our team 'guarani' , playing for another team and with teammates .
• Mountain biking. ( and I promise you a snap of my cool 'Mongoose' triple-butted Chromoly Rockshock MTB soon!!). Biking in Santa Barbara .
• Canoeing.
• Skiing ...on the slope and a flagstaff .
• Hiking..the forests of Kamakura , with friends and Tanzawa national park .

Me ...and home

• The fishing nets on the rivers of Cochin, Kerala, my home town.
• The setting sun provides the perfect silhouette... Cherai beach, Kerala.

Australia - Perth, Sydney , Melbourne, 25Nov.-09Dec.'95

ICNN Conference, Perth, Western Australia.

• The UWA Campus , venue of ICNN'95.
• Presenting my paper at ICNN'95, Perth.
• Another shot of UWA.
• Queen's park, Perth with delegates.
• The Tumbulgum farm.
• With Prof.Michael Arbib, USC,Los Angeles.
• The Best Paper Award.
• With Shobhana and family at their Perth residence.

Mountain biking in and around Sydney.

• Mountain biking in Glenbrook, NSW.
• Friends from the 'Oz on Dirt' Mountain biking group,
  Rob Saunders, Scott Taylor and others.
• Sydney on the bike, a short stop.

Melbourne and Miscellaneous

• Melbourne ...the city of trams and kind people.
• Pack-up time.
• Time-off at Changi Airport , Singapore

The Japan Alps (Kamikochi) Hike and Camp, July 26-30,'96

The GROUP: The front ...and the back !!

The PLACE

• Base camp
• Swinging time
• Trail from camp1
• The nature at it's best.

The FUN : With Iyota and the bonfire.

The CLIMB : tough

The DWELLINGS : The tent and the food