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Got a famous horn handicraft of Parlakimidi - only place where you get them.

Two of my old cricket friends, Raghu Maharana and Nasir Beig.

The vast flute collection of Anupama's celebrated husband, Vellanki Babu. Flutes of various sizes for various scales and for bass and treble etc., with scales marked on them.

My house at Parlakimidi now with Bangalore tiles. My niece Anupama, who manages the house, standing there

My collage, SKCG Collage Parlakimidi, is now an autonomous body and has expanded vastly. My old class room was busy. The ground where I played cricked and scored a century is also expanded and very well maintained.

My school Maharaja's Boys High School Parlakimidi is expanded and well maintained. Went and saw my old class room too!

Had a great trip covering Arasavilli Sun temple, Srikurmam Vishnu temple and Srimukhalingam Siva temple and spent a couple of days with my niece at Parlakimidi and saw some of my old friends.

Bhishma, laying on a bed of arrows shot by Arjuna, asks for Ganga water. Arjuna shoots an arrow and a jet of Gangajal sprouts from the ground straight into Bheeshmas mouth. After that the Gangajal forms a pond nearby and this place is called Bheeshmakund situated at Kurukshetra. It is here that Bheeshma teaches Vishnu Sahasranama to Youdhisthara after the war.

On the way to Kedarnath as its rainy season, I saw more rivulets and water falls than ever before.

Bhadrakali at Kurukshetra Shaktipeetha.

Finally at the age of 72 I completed a long cherished dream of completing the visits to the Char Dham and Dwadasa Jyotirlings by visiting Badrinath and Kedarnath.

Holy trip #2
Had a great trip of Maharashtra covering all the Jyotirlinga temples, Ajanta caves, Sirdi, Shani Shingnapur, Narsobawadi Datta temple and Kolhapur Mahalakshmi Shakti Peetha. Call it my luck or Gods grace, I visited the Grishneshwar Jyotirlinga Temple on the auspicious Shravana Masa Ekadashi day, Shani Shingnapur on Shravana Shani Trayodasi day and Bhimashankar Jyotirlinga on Shravana Poornima and Monday!