KUNJACHAYAN is a star. He is the grey eminence of CMC - Vellore. He is also the most brilliant of the Tiruvalla parepedicail family.
A D.PHIL in Physiology from Oxford and an MBBS and a MD from CMC Vellore in Physiology he became the Head of the Physiology Department at CMC Vellore, a pro-Dean and pro-VC and a permanent board member of the CMC Vellore.
I remember Kunjachayan from my childhood, when he suddenly turned up after his Oxford education at Theepany. He taught us chess and Western table manners - we were allowed only cooked joints on the table and all elbows off. Our leisurely unmonitored holidays were over,
He was quite strict. We visited Kunjachayan at Vellore before he was married and when he was the warden of the boys hostel. There was some indiscipline and kunjachayan looked and acted very stern with the male medical students.
He used to visit us on Delhi on the way to the West where he travelled to collect money for CMC Vellore. I remember going with Kunjachayan to the latest discotheque called “The Cellar” at Connaught Place with Leela. We left after sitting there for 20 minutes and reading the menu which was far too expensive for us and ended up a the Tibetan restaurant at Majnu ka Tila in old delhi where we drank soup and ate noodles for peanuts. Kochanamma kochamma may have been too happy with our Cellar visit.
Kunjachayan was instrumental in my marrying Bengt from Sweden. Actually my marriage to Bengt was partly arranged by Ashok and partly a love story. After being introduced to Bengt by Ashok we had a 2 year correspondence to get to know each other.
Then Bengt invited me to Sweden and talked of marriage. I was not sure of western men so I sent kunjachayan to Sweden when he was visiting Europe for Vellore to whet out Bengt. Kunjachayan crossed over to Sweden and was collected by Bengt at Copenhagen and spent 3 days with Bengt, where Kunjachayan tasted Bengt´s cooking - ate steak and drank Cognac with coffee. Kunjachayan came back with glorious reports of Bengt and supported the match.
Following summer vacations I visited Bengt in Sweden and met his relatives and friends and got engaged. We were married on the 8th of December of 1984, after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had been assassinated by her sentry. Of course kunjachayan was the master of ceremony at my wedding and introduced Bengt to everyone in his speech. Bengt was greatly appreciated by my friends in Delhi.
After Mummy passed away, Leela became my surrogate home and kunjachayan and Ammai have become an important site to visit every year.
I enjoy my intellectual exchanges with Kunjachayan and his and ammai ' s solicitations and feel emotionally fulfilled like I used to, after my visits to mummy.
I am so happy and fortunate that I have both Chackochayan and Kunjachayan in my family with whom I can discuss existential issues, personal life and life in general. I have come to know Anand closely because of my visits to vellore. I also visited Santosh and Anuja in Seattle for week in 2004, during my US travels.
A D.PHIL in Physiology from Oxford and an MBBS and a MD from CMC Vellore in Physiology he became the Head of the Physiology Department at CMC Vellore, a pro-Dean and pro-VC and a permanent board member of the CMC Vellore.
I remember Kunjachayan from my childhood, when he suddenly turned up after his Oxford education at Theepany. He taught us chess and Western table manners - we were allowed only cooked joints on the table and all elbows off. Our leisurely unmonitored holidays were over,
He was quite strict. We visited Kunjachayan at Vellore before he was married and when he was the warden of the boys hostel. There was some indiscipline and kunjachayan looked and acted very stern with the male medical students.
He used to visit us on Delhi on the way to the West where he travelled to collect money for CMC Vellore. I remember going with Kunjachayan to the latest discotheque called “The Cellar” at Connaught Place with Leela. We left after sitting there for 20 minutes and reading the menu which was far too expensive for us and ended up a the Tibetan restaurant at Majnu ka Tila in old delhi where we drank soup and ate noodles for peanuts. Kochanamma kochamma may have been too happy with our Cellar visit.
Kunjachayan was instrumental in my marrying Bengt from Sweden. Actually my marriage to Bengt was partly arranged by Ashok and partly a love story. After being introduced to Bengt by Ashok we had a 2 year correspondence to get to know each other.
Then Bengt invited me to Sweden and talked of marriage. I was not sure of western men so I sent kunjachayan to Sweden when he was visiting Europe for Vellore to whet out Bengt. Kunjachayan crossed over to Sweden and was collected by Bengt at Copenhagen and spent 3 days with Bengt, where Kunjachayan tasted Bengt´s cooking - ate steak and drank Cognac with coffee. Kunjachayan came back with glorious reports of Bengt and supported the match.
Following summer vacations I visited Bengt in Sweden and met his relatives and friends and got engaged. We were married on the 8th of December of 1984, after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had been assassinated by her sentry. Of course kunjachayan was the master of ceremony at my wedding and introduced Bengt to everyone in his speech. Bengt was greatly appreciated by my friends in Delhi.
After Mummy passed away, Leela became my surrogate home and kunjachayan and Ammai have become an important site to visit every year.
I enjoy my intellectual exchanges with Kunjachayan and his and ammai ' s solicitations and feel emotionally fulfilled like I used to, after my visits to mummy.
I am so happy and fortunate that I have both Chackochayan and Kunjachayan in my family with whom I can discuss existential issues, personal life and life in general. I have come to know Anand closely because of my visits to vellore. I also visited Santosh and Anuja in Seattle for week in 2004, during my US travels.
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