Wed Dec 10 17:11:01 IST 2003
I pushed the older entries off to another page, so that this one loads less
slowly.  The last entry on the other page is wedding pictures.


Thu Dec 11 19:21:48 IST 2003
Three more pictures of Shashi and Tejas.  Tejas demands constant attention.
Right now Yeshas is reading him a book.  Tejas has a limited spoken vocabulary,
so he tends to say things like "You read!" and "Another one!".  He doesn't have
his pronouns completely right, either.  He refers to people as "that one."  When
he is playing with blocks, he is always building a house or a sailboat.  He is
obsessed with monkeys, which frequently visit his preschool (downstairs from the
grandparents' house, with the monkey bars).  He is beginning to understand when
to use English or Kannada, but isn't quite there.  The other night, though, he
announced to me that "Mangana means monkey!"  He got a reaction from everyone,
and so proceeded to repeat "Monkey means mangana" and so on, and still says it
periodically.





This time with the flash, for better colors.


Mon Dec 22 01:45:20 IST 2003
We went to Yeshas's school last week, to see a sort of show that the 1-4 grade
kids put on.

























A big screened-in porch-room at the "study center"


Looking the other way in the big screened-in room


Flowers in front of the "study center"


The path to the music building


The path to the pottery building


Students in the pottery building


Yeshas playing the tabla, sitting with the tabla teacher


Tabla action photo


Tabla action closeup


Random instruments in the tabla building


Another view of the pile of instruments


On the way back from the school, we encountered a busy intersection that had
been blocked by two quarrelling bus drivers (not pictured).  We sat for several
minutes, stuck in the middle of the intersection.  I took this picture as the
snarl was clearing up.  The bus is apparently associated with some "School for
New Age."


Gaj's grandmother


Madhavi, the kids, and the kids' great-grandmother


Gaj's grandmother's house is in an area of relatively recent sprawl.  The
subdivisions go in several years ahead of the utilities.  This area is still
being built on.  Several of the surrounding lots were vacantish -- not vacant of
people, course, but lacking a big house.  The roads are not paved for some
distance around.
This view is looking left from the front door.


Looking right from the front door.


Looking across the street at a house under construction.


Looking out the window, across the vacantish lot to the left.


Tejas using an inverted bucket as a small table.


Tejas chewing.


Like most houses, this one is made of concrete, and has a flat roof used for
drying laundry, etc..  This is a view, from the roof, to the right.  At the
bottom of the picture you can see a bit of the little house on the neighboring
lot -- a one-room (ten feet by five feet, maybe) cement-block house with a metal
roof.  At left and at center are some cows.  This part of town had lots of cows.


Looking behind the house, from the roof.


Looking to the left, from the roof.  A clear view of a one-room brick house.


Looking across the street, from the roof.


You may recall Sujata, with whom we went to the silly country getaway (with her
husband and children).  In any case, we went last night to visit her store,
which is an expensive clothing stop.  They were having some sort of special
event, so we went to see.