Jyoti engaged!

Yeah... After a long time... i'm back. Will tell you the reason. Earlier I was preoccupied with a project. And recently something else took my time. Siva Jyothi... the youngest cousin of mine, and the youngest grand daughter of Yalamanchili Kutumba rao garu ... has got engaged last week. Her would be is Mr. Bharat kumar.. Grand son of Mr. Mohan Rao garu(Orissa). Mohan rao garu is Bhanu babai's uncle i.e. mena mama :-) Since the event took place in my house I happenned to be busy.
And Friends .. who can read Telugu ... please have a look at this site. http://forwomen.in/index.php
And as usual I request for your feed back :-) .. padma

Few more Singampally kaburlu ..

I am back with some more..
And some more stuff regarding my naughtiest cousin and jungle.
Out of all the cousins, my peddatta's second daughter(Amaleswari atta's daughter, chinnamma) is the
most naughty one. There used to be few wild boars (looks like pigs with horns) in the jungle, though i never
saw one. Chinnamma used to always interpret everything to wild boar, i mean even if there is a rabbit in the
bushes, she used to shout "there is wild boar in the bushes", we used to run like anything till we
reach home. The same thing used to repeat even during night time. Since we used to go to Singampally during
summer,we used to sleep outside frontyard of peddatta's house along with all the cousins , few more friends of my
cousin's also used accompany us.  we used tell and listen to chandamama stories and then sleep.
Even in the dark my cousin used to see wild boar in the dark shadows and scare us off.
I don't know why we never thought of complaining to grandpa about this.
Most of the time i used to be around her, and she know to ride the bicycle, i am not.
She used to give me a ride on the bicycle, i remember she always used to put the cycle in the ditches(there used to
be two small canals either side of the road used to feed the fields in rainy season,but dries out in summmer).
Though she alwasy misses the road, never used to miss the ditch.
I am always careful to jump before she puts the cycle in ditch.
I remember once we are carrying milk can to give it to somebody , as usual she did put the cycle to ditch and we
lost almost all the milk, we filled the remaining portion of the can with water and gave it..
Still it is so fresh in my mind.
Some more kaburlu next time..

-Suseela

After a long time...

I am really sorry. I know all of you are eagerly waiting to know whats happennning in the family. Hence I was engaged with some personal commitments... I could not afford time.
Ammanni pinni and myself went to Nizamabad for a day to attend Ashok's reception that is on 8th February. On fifth February Ashok and Sabita got married in Tirupati. Aunts Sita, Krishna kumari, Pavani, Ammaji... attended the marriage at Tirupati.
Cousin Suseela is in States for two months. She is in Los Angeles. She is expected back home by the end of March.
Thats all for now. will get back soon.

I'm proud of them!

Here I am with all the information about our uncles. Except Subhash Chandra Bose all others are well educated. All are soft spoken, kind hearted, gentlemen. I always feel proud of them.  Since all of them are mamayyas to me let me use that word for convenience.  Yogeswara Rao mamayya holds a Ph.D. He is the first person in the family who went to University. He did his graduation in Agricultural Science i.e. Ag.B.Sc, did P.G. in  Delhi. Later he went to U.S. to pursue his M.S. from the University of Kansas. After coming from the States he joined JNTU for his Ph.D. programme. Coming to the career part... he associated himself with Cashew Research centre Bapatla, Banana Research centre Tanuku. Later he joined Ag.University of Hyderabad as a Lecturer. After rendering his services to AP seeds corporation as Managing Director, he went to Delhi as Vice President of  National seeds corporation. Post retirement now he is with Vicky Seeds as Technical Director. As a journalist whenever I happen to meet people who are associated with Science and Agriculture I listen all praises about Yogeswara rao mamayya. Once somebody even mentioned He should have become the Vice Chancellor of the University. In certain situations I would proudly announce... he is my mamayya!
Nageswara Rao mamayya is an engineer. He served  in the State government as Asst. Engineer. Post retirement he is also working with a private firm called Nuziveedu Seeds as a Consultant.
Ramakrishna mamayya did some course related to Banking but he never worked with any firm. He had his own business.
Chakradhara Rao mamayya is again like Yogeswara rao mamayya. An engineer, he dedicated himself to teaching. He too has many specials regarding his career. He became a lecturer in the same college where he studied. He  Started as a Demonstrater in the SMVM polytechnic college, Tanuku,  and retired as Head of the Department. Post retirement he is continuing his teaching. Here in Hyderabad, I often meet his students. Whenever he comes to Hyderabad, he goes out for a walk and comes home with somebody saying 'he is my student... I met him on the road'. Not only in Hyderabad, wherever he goes, I'm sure he will find his students.
After SSLC, Nagabhushana Rao mamayya tried his hands in business later settled in a central government job i.e. Security Printing press Hyderabad.
Raja mamayya used to work in a bank. He is one person with whom I spent some precious moments in my childhood. He is the first one who brought a scooter, a Gramophone to our village. Whenever he comes to the village all the village people used to assemble in our house to listen him. He used to tell a lot of good things to the people. Mimicry is one of his favourite pastime. He used to mimic his customers, cinema heroes and we all enjoyed. Tall, fair and handsome Raja mamayya really looked like a hero.
Bose mamayya was a farmer, now he is working in a Govt. owned factory.
I heard Ramesh mamayya was a genius. He did B. Com. Murali mamayya also did his graduation. He is with an oldage home now.
Untimely demise of Raja mamayya and Ramesh mamayya are the saddest moments in our lives.  These unfortunate incidents left both their families grief stricken.
So... thats all for now. Will get back with their pictures.

On the job

Though it's long time I am not writing any news... let me confirm. I am on the job. Now we all know upto some extent atleast about our grandparents. Profession wise... we had a doctor, a businessman, a govt. employee, a farmer... among  them. Coming to the next  generation we have versatile, talented  people as our uncles. In this generation we saw our aunts also as professionals. They are the first generation of working women in our Yalamanchili family. Jayaprada and  Pavaneswari  are dedicated teachers.  Varalakshmi earlier worked in private sector, now she is with the LIC.  Annapurna worked for sometime  in Hospital Management field.  Vani is an expert in crafts, and she is doing good business with her art. So in that way all four brothers' daughters  proved themselves.  
To write about our uncles ... I need to work. I  have to collect information. Friends... you know ... journalism is not that easy. We have to work hard really : ) so I am gathering. Once I get enough material I write the post.
By the way let me blow my own trumpet for a while. I am the only Journalist in the family. Of course my husband also. Our daughter is also showing some interest in this field. She has already started blogging. You can visit her at  www.fairylandofsuhana.blogspot.com.
I welcome inputs from all of you. Please write to my mail ID.  padmasri.y@gmail.com  or  padmasridayana@yahoo.com

happy new year

Friends...
I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year. Hope this new year all your dreams come true. And I am looking forward to see many happy news about  our families on this blog.
Talk to you next year.. I mean tomorrow. Have a happy celebration.

'kolli' connection!

Yes. This Yalamanchili and Kolli family connection continued. You all know famous cine director late Kolli Pratyagatma, and his son K. Vasu (also a director). They are very much related to Yalamanchili family.  Let me explain. Remember the elderly lady in the family photo... Kolli Bhushamma garu daughter of Kolli Venkatadri garu and Seethamma garu.
She had two brothers Sri Kolli Kotayya Varma garu(1890-1959) and Sri Kolli Venkatappayya garu.
Kotayya Varma was blessed with five sons and three daughters (one son-Paramatma & one daughter-Rajahamsa died at very early age).
Pratyagatma was one among them. The other sons are :  Sri Guruprasada Rao (father of Sri Bhanu koteswara rao), Sri Chaitanyatma (father of Koteswara Varma and smt Yalamanchili Geeta), Sri Hemambaradhara Rao(also a cine director). Since I am not good at movies, I request inputs from the blog readers about the pictures directed by these brothers.
Their two sisters : Late Paramahamsa and Smt. Sugnana prabodhini. All four brothers and Paramahamsa reached the abode of the lord.
Smt. Sugnana Prabodhini lives in Chennai with her youngest son Sri Kosaraju Sateesh Chandra Babu.
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       Wed Lock  between these two families known from the past century .....
1. Kolli Bhushamma                  ~  Yalamanchili Nagayya
2. Yalamanchili Mallikarjuna rao  ~ Kolli Paramahamsa
3. Kolli Bhanu Koteswara Rao  ~  Yalamanchili Annapurna Devi
4. Kolli Geetha Kumari              ~  Yalamanchili Sivaramakrishna Prasad