Down Memory Lane 1943 - 2023
TODAY 3RD APRIL 2023
BEAUTIFUL RED ROSES FOR THIS 80 YEAR OLD FROM DEAR FRIENDS PUSHPA, AVINASH, MONT AND RUDRA WITH SOME DELICIOUS CHEESE CAKE
2023 Me with Annikki, Avinash, Rudra, Mont and Pushpa
with the Cheese Cake and red roses!
1943 Bangalore Basavangudi
Dewan Bahadur Kuriyan "Mysore" Matthan
Family. I am the dear chubby baby boy held in my mother's arms on the extreme left!
1946 Bangalore Basavangudi with my mischievous birthday smile!
1946 Bangalore Basavangudi with my Christmas gift.
1947 Chennai, Day after wedding of K. M. Mammen Mappillai. I am on the extreme right with my elder sister
late Nalini. Late cousin Kunjumonchayan and late aunt
Annammakochamma are also in the photo.
1947 Mysore Good Shepherd Convent Kindergarten
I am in the front row on the ground with black shorts and white shirt.
I am in the front row on the ground with black shorts and white shirt.
1947 Mysore At my favourite tree in our Mysore home.
1948 Mysore Visit of Miss Brookesmith
Former Principal of my mother's school in Kottayam
1953 Chikmagalur Estate visit by elder brother
Ranjit and me.
1953 Bangalore Basavangudi with my paternal grandmother
1953 Kottayam with my cousins
Vinoo, Thambi, Rajen snd Suresh
Photo was published in Malayala Manorama
Photo was published in Malayala Manorama
1958 Bombay Cathedral Hockey First XI
1959 Bombay Cathedral School Cricket Team. I was the Scorer!
1959 Bombay Cathedral School Prefects
As Savage House Captain I am in the front seated
As Savage House Captain I am in the front seated
row second from right.
1959 Bombay Family before
Wedding Reception of sister Nalini
1959 Bombay Cathedral School Hockey First XI
1960 Mussoori With Arvind and Viney
1960 Musoori With Viney, Anil, Noel, Arvind and
late Ashok Ruia.
1960 Bombay Classmates late Ashok Kapur, Noel Ezekiel,
late Trevor Newnes and Vijay Shivdasani on the steps of
Chateau Marine. Photo taken by Viney Sethi.
1966 London Engagement to Annikki
1967 Shrewsbury Cake cutting after wedding
1967 Shrewsbury After Wedding
1967 Shrewsbury Wedding photo outside St. Mary's Cathedral
1967 Shrewsbury Off after wedding with best man, Josey
1967 Welsh Beach on Honeymoon
1967 Welsh Beach with Annikki
1967 Shrewsbury Town Hockey Team
1968 Chester Off day with Annikki and Susanna
1968 Shawbury Portrait by Annikki
1968 Portrait of Susanna and me by Annikki
1969 On Board ms Victoria with Annikki moving to India
1969 On Board ms Victoria with Susanna and Jaakko
1972 Bombay Celebrating my father’s
60th birthday at Bhaktavar, Colaba
1075 Madras Velacheri house family picture
1976 Bangalore Basavangudi with my Matthan family
1981 Maddur Anil and Marion visit the factory
1984 Oulu English Club lecture by Annikki and me
Rare picture of Annikki in a sari.
@1987 Oulu University HE K. P. Fabian, Indian Ambassador to Finland visited the Microelectronics Laboratory
1988 Oulu Pehkolanlamppi Annikki takes over
as the Chairperson of the English Club of Oulu
1989 Bangalore With the family of our
dearest friends Raghu and Gayathri
1989 Bombay With Ooky (Elijah Elias) and his wife
Rivca. If it was not for our school friendship MRF Tyres may never have been!
1989 Bombay At home of late Ashok Kapur
1989 Bombay With late Ashok Kapur
at his home in Worli
1989 Bombay At the 30 year reunion of our class of 59ers of
Cathedral school with Shabir Ahmedbhoy, Akhani and late Naubir Mohindar
1989 Madras With Vishnu snd Veena
the former CEO of my company in India
1989 Delhi With my dearest cousin, Rajen Mammen Mathew,
(Padma Shri) who did and does everything for me from our
childhood days in Kottayam. With his friends he got me
elected in college as the President of the JCR, and even till
today has a daily dose of motivation to keep me on the right
Mtrack. Above all we both believe in the "Power of Prayer".
1991 Periyar Sanctiary on holiday with Annikki
to attend family reunion at Kovalam
1992 Exeter Annikki with her wedding cake
creation for Susanna’s wedding
1002 Exeter with late Radha and Gnani
Peerinpanayagam Susanna’s wedding
1992 Exeter with Tim and Pauline and Susanna and Chris
after Susanna's marriage to Christopher Rogers.
after Susanna's marriage to Christopher Rogers.
Year unknown but somewhere in our middle age years.
My most beautiful wife!
My most beautiful wife!
1999 Chennai Annikki made this cake for niece Suchi's wedding to Michael.
1999 Oulu University Attending the doctoral defence
of Peter Antionac which I had edited.
This thesis was the pre-runner to the Google glasses!
of Peter Antionac which I had edited.
This thesis was the pre-runner to the Google glasses!
2000 Oulu Attending the Ladies Day event as the
Project M;anager of "Will You Play With Me?"
Project M;anager of "Will You Play With Me?"
.2001 Oulu Torikatu With my birthday cake designed and made by Annikki. A very meaningful log of wood cake.
2001 Oulu Torikatu with my honoured friend and guest - Grandson Samu.
2003 Oulu Kampitie My best ever greeting card. Went to
bed at midnight and woke up at 5 am. Looked out of the
kitchen window to see this snowman created by Annikki
over the night to wish me on my birthday!
2001? Oulu Horticultural Centre with Professor
Balakrishnan from Bangalore Agricultural University.
He had come to help Nokia Mobile Phones on
localisation of their phones to Indian languages.
2004 Oulu University Zoological Museum with grandchildren Asha and Samu.
2004 Oulu This first electric scooter to Euroope arrived in Oulu, Finland as a gift for me from the late Anil Anathakrishnan.
2006? Pulkilla With late Jussi Kynsilehto, the former
World Ice Motorcycle Racing Champion and Rally Driver,
at the opening of his Petrol Station in Pulkilla,
1 hour from Oulu.
2009 The following set of pictures are taken at the many events which made at the Golden Reunion of the Class of 59 of Cathedral School, Mumbai. Over 50 of us, many with their spouses and several of our teachers, attended the events in Mumbai and Alibaug. The Findians event was hosted by Annikki and me.
Alibaug, Viney Sethi and me
Vijay Nayar and me
Annikki and me at the waterfall dining table.
Ratan Singara with Annikki and me.
School classmatesJangoo Moos (India), Armeane Choksi
(US), late Hasnain Chinwalla (Canada), Vikram Savara
(US), Ellis Hayeem (US) with me
The group photograph at Alibaug home constructed by
late Ashok Kapur. His wife, Madhu, and his two
children hosted this event.
2009 At the Cathedral School Reunion of the 64ers where
I am with our 1959 Class Teacher John Billington (UK) and
our Physics Teacher Bill Shiri and his wife Puspha (Canada).
2009 Oulu with Isaac Sunderajan who took over as CEO of the small Finnish company, Codenemicon.
Year Unknown: Oulu Koskela with the oldest pine tree in Oulu thought to be 300 years old!
2005 Oulu Three pictures on my soap box on Freedom of Speech Day in Oulu organised on the Hyde Park Model.
2007 Oulu Speaking at the Freedom of Speech Day (Second year)
2007? Olkiluoto Having a Fish meal at the local restaurant with Kannan Balaram, the super brilliant engineer from a Pondicheri village!
2007? Oulu Kannan Balaram hosts an event for his friends in Oulu
2007 Two pictures At a CHAFF ervent where we met for a
buffet every Sunday at a small Thai restaurant to help
others. CHAFF stands for Chamber for Helping Finns and Foreigners and was started by Annikki and me.
2008? Oulu With fellow Cathedralite and Stephanian Professor Ajeet Mathur.
2008? With my ever popular Joulupukki Beard.
2004? Oulu With two children at the Indian Potluck Event.
Rita's son is now entered his final year in Oulu. Rita has been
a dear friend of our daughter, Joanna, ever since we moved to Oulu in 1984.
Rita's son is now entered his final year in Oulu. Rita has been
a dear friend of our daughter, Joanna, ever since we moved to Oulu in 1984.
2008? Addressing a CHAFF get together.
2007? Visit to Rauma to meet Kannan Balaram.
2009 Delhi Trying on some new clothes
2009 Delhi reunion of Cathedralites organised by 64er
Deepak Deshpande to welcome Annikki and me.
Attended by 49er Yezad Kapadia, late 54ers Rahul Bajaj
and Ravi Jaitly, late 57er Ashok (Tony) Jaitly, 59er Vijay
Nayar, 60er Jotysna Singh (née Jaitly) married to my
Stephanian classmate Siddarth Singh, amongst others.
2009 Delhii I was driven around by Salegram who was the
Malayala Manorama driver when I studied in St. Stephen's
College in the early 60s. Wonderful gentleman and great driver.
2009 Mumbai Annikki and me at the Findians event we
hosted where I wore my traditional Kerala clothes.
The event was organised by Malathi Khembhavi and the
food, typical Malayali cuisine, was produced by
Abhijit Gautam.
2009 Mumbai at the Findians event with my school class
John Billington who flew in from the UK for this Golden Reunion of 59ers.
John Billington who flew in from the UK for this Golden Reunion of 59ers.
2009 Mumbai Findians get together with late Naubir
Mohindat, retired Captain Vijay Shivdasani and
Madhu Kapur, wife of late Ashok Kapur.
2009 Mumbai Findians get together where Vicky
Savara (from US) proposed a vote iof thanks for my
efforts in holding together our Class of 59ers and
released a T-Shirt for the Reunion.
2009 Mumbai At the Findians event with my longtime
friend and classmate Viney Sethi who will visit us
this year in JULY!
2009 Mumbai. Our friendships are not just our school
classmates. Here I am with late Ashok Kapur's younger brother, Billy who came from the US.
2009 Alibaug With my classmate Jangoo Moos. He could
recite our school class register forwards and backwards.
Top legal brain who gave up the corporate world to go
trekking in the Himalayas.
2009 Mumbai Elvis Night in St. James's Court hosted by
Vijay ´Nayar. I am with Jangoo Moos, Ellis Hayeem and
the husband of a 59er Anju Mansukhani.
2009 Mumbai At our Golden Reunion event, hosted by with
Jangoo Moos, our school wizard Vinay Dabholkar and
his wife Sulabha.the Parsis in our group including Piloo Tata (née Dastur) and Armeane Choksi,
2009 Mumbai at the event organised by the Parsis in our
class our male colleagues relaxed on the lawn after
dinner. Participants from India, Canada, US, UK, Malaysia and Finland!
2009 Mumbai I visited our school and stood at the gate
where I used to do my duty as Prefect sending boys
back home in the school buses!
2009 Mumbai After the traditional Founder's Day
Church Service at the St. Thomas Cathedral, a group
photo of the 59ers and their spouses from all over the world. Besides our class teacher John Billington, our
Physics teacher, Bill Shiri and his wife Pushpa from
Toronto, Canada, were in attendance.
2009 Mumbai Group photos of all the 59ers who attended our Golden Reunion
2009 Mumbai Annikki and me at the opening event of the Golden Reunion held at the old Girl's School.
2009 Mumbai With Ribu Tharakan at the Sea Lounge
2009. Mumbai Findians Reunion event with two
honoured guests 64ers Rustom Dadabhoy and
Deepak Deshpande.
2009 Alibaug with Annikki and Mika.
2009 Mumbai At the Golden Reunion with classmates
from around the world relax on Piloo's lawn after dinner.
2009 Mumbai Getting ready with nAnnikki and then late
Gita Simoes (née Vaswani) for a traditional Parsi
dinner organised by Piloo Tata.
2014 Delhi Having a south Indian idli sambar with Stephanian Ashok Joshi
2009 Delhi Hosted by Stephanians at a get-together.
2014 Espoo Onam get together attended by
Indian Ambassador HE Ashok Kumar Sharma.
2014 Helsinki Annikki and I took a group from Oulu to meet
the Indian President Pranab Mukerji on his visit to
Finland. He was accompanied by his daughter Stephanian Sharmistha Mukerji.
2014 Helsinki I was interviewing at the Helsinki Book Fair
Professor James Tooley from Newcastle University
who wrote a great book about the small unorganised sector private
schooling in developing countries.
2014 Helsinki With Indian President Pranab Mukerji and
his daughter Stephanian Sharmistha Mukerji where he
released a Finnish translation of the selected works of Rabindranath Tagore.
2014 Mumbai with top Indian Chef Abhijit Gautam
2014 Mumbai 55th year Reunion of the 59er Class of Cathedral School.
2014 Mumbai Annikki, Mika and me.
2014 Oulu Surprise party to celebrate Annikki's 70th birthday atternded by over 100 people from all over Finland.
2014 Oulu Indian Ambassador HE Ashok Kumar Sharma visited the Oulu International School with me.
20xx ? A selfie when I still had teeth!
2014 Powai With Amal and Joseph in the Guest House in Powai. I arranged for their marriager in a small church in
Mandaya District when Amal was working in my factory in
Maddur. Amal's late brother, Chacko, worked as my van driver.
2014 Powai Relaxing at the Powai Guest House.
2014 Mumbai 55th Reunion photograph of 59er Cathedralites.
2015(?) Helsinki Cousin Nirmala visited Helsnki with her
husband Gulden. Her mother, my father's sister was my
godmother.
2015(?) Savonlinna Nirmal and Gukden with Annikki
and me visited the Savonlinna Castle on the island
near Helsinki.
2015 (?) Oulu With the Garam Masala Restaurant owner and staff.
20xx (?) A selfie with some teeth!
2019 Oulu At the Nallikari Beach in Oulu.
2018 Oulu Granddaughter Asha and husband Mathew
with Annikki and me.
2019 Oulu Asha is off to Helsinki
2018 Oulu By Oulujoki for a coffee session
2018 Oulu Ajeet pays us a fleeting visit
2018 Oulu Annikki and I relax in Sarkkatie
2018 Oulu Granddaughter Asha with Annikki and me
2018 Oulu Granddaughter Asha and husband
Mathew with Annikki and me
2018 Oulu Sarkkatie selfie
2018 Oulu Sarkkatie Annikki and me
2019 Oulu Royal Garden Annikki and me
2019 Oulu Annikki visits me in hospital
2020 Oulu Onam celebration
2022 Oulu with Indian Ambassador
HE Raveesh Kumar
2022 Oulu Sihtikuja I wear a beautiful shawl
gifted to me by Ashok and Malathi
2023 Oulu Sihtikuja Malathi with Annikki and me
2022 Oulu Sihtikuja Ashok with Annikki and me
2022 Oulu Malathi and Ashok visit us in
Sihtikuja bearing beautiful gifts!
2022 Oulu I wear my Joulupukki costume for Rudra and Mont
2022 Annikki, Pashu, Rudra and Mont at Christmas dinner
2023 Oulu Annikki and I go out for a visit
2023 Oulu A selfie
2023 Oulu Visit to Mika’s studio apartment
2023 Oulu Mika shows us his Linnanmaa studio
2023 Oulu Visit to Mika’s studio apartment in Linnanmaa.
And now ready for the next 80 Years.,,..
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