Monday, January 14, 2019

AMC batch 1959

 ANDHRA  MEDICAL  COLLEGE

Visakhapatnam  1959 to date






The readers of this 'scribbling' may post to me (drtramaprasad@gmail.com  /  WhatsApp +91 98427 20393 / WhatsApp GROUP 'AMC batch 1959') any photos / text connected to the "AMC batch 1959' / AMC for inclusion in this document. --  T. Rama Prasad.

LONG  HIATUS  OF  TIME   

        After about half-a-century,  Gajanan could somehow got my phone number and reached me to get me there on January 24, 2019.  Some correspondence then after between us is reprinted here.  He was a true link between all the classmates.  I wrote about him in a post on our WhatsApp group which is also reprinted below.  
 

REMINDER FOR SHASTI POORTHY CELEBRATIONS - AMC 1959

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Gajanan Nanduri nanduri39@gmail.com

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Dear Friends and their Spouses,
I am attaching here the final programme fixed for our Grand Get-together at Visakhapatnam on 24th and 25th Jan 2019. We are going to have more than 75% of our living friends, many with their spouses. Hence, this will be an occasion not to be missed at all.  This is a second and final request to you all to attend this event without fail. If you have not yet confirmed your participation to me or Dr Achuta Rama Rao or Akkala Naidu or Adams, Please confirm now. Those, who are yet to make their travel reservations and lodge bookings, please do it now.  It is not late.  If Green Park Hotel reservations for our batch are over, please inform me or Rama Rao or any one of our organizing members and we will do it for you somewhere nearby in an equally good place.  You need not send any money now to any one. Please pay your subscription in cash on 24th morning at the Reception Desk. You may also bring your credit / debit card and there are ATMs nearby to draw cash.  

This is also an invitation from our classmate Dr PMM Krishna and his wife Mrs Rajya Lakshmi (They requested me to convey their wish to all of you) to attend dinner at their home on the evening of 23rd Jan 2019.  Their address is given in the attached file. They will be happy if you confirm your attendance on 994-956-7895; 900-063-3146

My FINAL REQUEST YOU TO ALL NOT TO MISS THIS GRAND OCCASION TO MEET EACH OTHER, EXCHANGE PLEASANTRIES, ENJOY ALL THE ARRANGED PROGRAMMES AND HAVE GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS IN ALL THE PLACES FOR FUTURE REMINISCENCE.

With Best Wishes for Good Health, we await your arrival in Vyzag by 23rd evening or at least by 24th morning.
Dr N Gajanana Rao
984-910-3439; 767-397-2459

FINAL PROGRAMME & A GENTLE REMINDER

SHASTI POORTHI REUNION OF A M C 1959 BATCH

24 January 2019: Green Park Hotel, Visakhapatnam

25 January 2019: Sai Priya Beach Resort, Rishi Konda

 

Dear Class Fellows,

We have completed all the necessary arrangements for our Grand Reunion on the occasion of Shasti Poorthi (60 years of joining Andhra Medical College). This is a preview of the event, with a Final Reminder  to those who have not yet confirmed their attendance. Please hurry up and confirm your bookings for journey, stay and participation in this unforgettable event.  At any rate, you should not miss this.

 

Numbers Game!:   We have 77 classmates on our list and  we are expecting 60       classmates and 35 spouses. Please encourage other undecided friends to attend.

 

Accommodation: There are only limited number of discounted rooms available at Green Park Hotel. Please send your e-mail request to: 

Vasu@hotelgreenpark.com Copy to: reserve.vizag@greenparkhotel.com

You can also phone the hotel directly: +91-891-661-5151 and ask for Vasu.

Give our Code: A M C 1959. Any problem, give a ring to Akkala Naidu.

 

Your Arrival: PLEASE ARRIVE IN VISAKHAPATNAM BY 23rd January 2019 AN so that you can take rest before participating in the programme on 24th & 25th Jan 2019. 

 

SPECIAL INVITATION BY Dr PMM KRISHNA, OUR CLASSMATE:

Pre- Reunion Dinner: You all are invited by Rajya Lakshmi & Murali Mohana Krishna Prayaga for Dinner at their residence, on 23 January  at 6.00 p.m. 

Address: 304 & 305, Bhagya Sai Apartments, Opp. Century Club, Vizag.

PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR ATTENDANCE TO Mrs PRAYAGA: +91-900-063-3146.

 

We are delighted to inform you that our beloved Professor S S Reddy garu will be attending as our Chief guest on Day-1.  Programme on 25 January will now be conducted at Sai Priya Beach Resort.  We have invited the well known writer and actor, Sri Gollapudi Maruthi Rao garu who will address us on Day 2.

 

Final Programme

DAY-1: 24 January 2019. Venue: Main Function Hall, Green Park Hotel

 

8 a.m. to 9 a.m.:      BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION

9.30 a.m.:                  Programme starts with Vedic Blessings & Prayer song.

                                    Welcome Address

                                    Obituary to Departed Friends, no longer with us.

                                    Address by Chief Guest: Professor S Srinivasula Reddy.

Individual Introductions; Exchange of greetings; Reminiscences; Presentation of Mementos by Chief Guest.

11 a.m.:                     Coffee Break and GROUP PHOTO

11.30 a.m.:               Above Programme continues.

1.0 p.m. to 2.0 pm: LUNCH

2.0 p.m.                     Above Programme continues.

3.00 p.m.:                  High Tea

4.0 p.m.:                    CLOSE OF SESSION.

 

Evening Session: Decorated Lawns of Green Park Hotel

 

07.0 p.m.:                  Cocktails & Refreshments

Musical Programme – with nostalgic film songs of our student days.                

09.00 p.m:                Dinner will be served (Music continues).

10.30 p.m.:               CLOSE OF DAY 1.

 

DAY-2: 25 January 2019

 

OUT DOOR EVENT: SAI PRIYA BEACH RESORT, RISHI KONDA

PLEASE ARRIVE AT GREEN PARK HOTEL BY 09.00 a.m. PROMPTLY FOR COACH TRANSFERS TO THE VENUE

 

09.30 a.m.:                           Coaches will leave from Green Park Hotel

10.00 a.m.:                           Arrival at Sai Priya Resort.

                                                Coffee / Tea

10.30 a.m.:                           Bharatha Natyam / Kuchipudi by Kalakshetra students.

11.30 a.m.:                           Celebrity Guest Speaker, Gollapudi Maruthi Rao

12.30 p.m.:                           Free Time

01.00 p.m.:                           LUNCH

02.00 to 03.00 p.m.:           Free Time

                                                Coffee / Tea

04.00 p.m.:                           Coaches depart to Green Park Hotel

 

05.00 p.m.:                           FAREWELL & GOOD BYE TO EACH OTHER !

 

 

PLEASE PAY CASH ONLY AT REGISTRATION DESK(high denomination notes 

are preferred. If you bring credit/debit cards, ATM is there to draw cash). 

Non-residents of Green Park hotel: Please make your own arrangements for

breakfast on 25 January (Day 2) before leaving for picnic. Please be prompt for coach pick up on Day 2 at Green Park Hotel by 9:00 AM.  If you wish to use your own vehicle, you may do so & arrive directly in Rishikonda and enquire about Saipriya Beach Resort.

 

ARRANGEMENTS  ARE MADE FOR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY.
WE WILL TRY TO PROVIDE SOFT COPIES OF PHOTOS ON A PEN DRIVE FOR YOU TO TAKE HOME AND SEE THEM LEISURELY.

A specially designed Memento of this historic meet will be presented to all the delegates to take home on Day-1.

 

 

    Dr N Gajanana Rao        Dr K Akkala Naidu        Dr Adams      Dr V Atchuta Rama Rao

       (984-910-3439)            (944-121-6400)     (984-925-6476      (970-410-6861)

 

Gajanan Nanduri nanduri39@gmail.comOct 27, 2018, 8:38 PM


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Hi Rama Prasad,
It is so nostalgic and wonderful narration, I read word by word what all you wrote. I am sure that we all loved your writings.  We, all our classmates missed you and your talents all these years. When you meet all of us in Jan 2019, you will meet two more poets and great writers among us, Dr Achyuta Rama Rao of UK and Prayaga Murali Mohana Krishna of many countries, settled in Visakhapatnam.  We should see more of you.
With Best Wishes,
Prof Nanduri Gajanana Rao
B.Sc; M.B; B.S; MNAMS; Ph.D. (Computer Aided Medicine).
Retd Professor and International Adviser on Clinical Informatics, Quality Healthcare and Telemedicine,
Supervisor and Examiner for Ph.D. Students,
Ex Lt Colonel, Indian Army.
984-910-3439; 767-397-2459

Gajanan Nanduri nanduri39@gmail.com

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From NGR to all my Friends for ever.
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From: Gajanan Nanduri <nanduri39@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:36 AM
Subject: Document from Gajanan Nanduri
To: <nanduri39@gmail.com>
Dear All our Friends,
Kindly see the Paper cutting on the day of retirement  of 
Our Classmate,  Dr Sreeramulu Kankipati, Forensic Pathologist, who worked for 
the government of Barbados for more than 2 decades. 
Now, he settled down in California, USA.  Due to many health problems, he is not sure whether he can make the trip
to Vyzag in Jan 2019.  I am boosting his morale and immunity to withstand the journey to India. We did not know about him
and his address, hence, he could not take part in any one of our re-unions until now.
We pray the Almighty to give him adequate strength to him such that, he can come to Vyzag with full support from his devoted wife.
Prof NG Rao
984-910-3439 and 767-397-2459
PS: Some of our friends have been asking me how to send the subscription for our re-union. All of you kindly bring cash to the receptionist 
table of our get-together and pay to one of our classmates meant to handle the cash. If you have credit card or debit card, you can withdraw
cash in the hotel or any where nearby. We will not be able to handle cheques or demand drafts as we experienced problems last time.
The hotel people accept both cash and credit/debit cards for the room rent.
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Dr T Rama Prasad drtramaprasad@gmail.com

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October 27, 2018

Hi,  BULLET (Laxminarayana Reddy) !!!

          Thank you for your compliment on my writing faculty and for remembering me.  I have a bit of photography talent which I owe it to you ... read the following excerpt from my 'scribbling' titled "My Love Story & Good Old Days" to understand how I owe it to you.  

          " ... My father used to send me  Rs.100 per month by ‘postal money order’ (an amount which may not be sufficient to have a good breakfast in a good hotel today !).  Postman used to come to the hostel and deliver the money.  Bank services were not well developed;  credit cards, debit cards and online transactions were not even in the dreams.  After paying the ‘hostel mess bill’ I used to lavish a little of the extra money for my hobby of photography.  The Yashika roll film camera (no digital cameras in those days;  and mostly ‘Black & White’ pictures) of one of my classmates (V.L.N. Reddy who settled in UK ) used to be with me always. ..."

           What happened to that Yashika camera ?  Perhaps, it found its way into a garbage bin !

           Dear Bullet and other friends,  click on the following link of the 'scribbling' I referred to above which would take you down memory lane to the 1960s in Vizag:   http://drtramaprasad.blogspot.com/2017/05/good-old-days.html

Where are N.V. Chalam,  P. L. Rama Dayal, J. Prabhakara Reddy, Satya Pal (Body builder), that Anglo-Indian girl, Simpson, and that tall hefty figure who used to wear a neck tie as a clinical student ?

T. Rama Prasad,   www.rama-scribbles.in    www.rama-scribbles.in 

యేమిసేతురా వెంకటేశ్వరా

        April 23, 2021

Gajanan Nanduri nanduri39@gmail.com

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Dear Friends,
I thought why not to follow our greatest telugu writers of our class Dr Achyuta Rama Rao and Murali Mohan Krishna ?  I can't write like them.
I am making a small effort. I used to write few real classical telugu poems in my SSLC days and a Loyola College (Intermediate) and left it and forgot.   
I wrote few Free hand English poems in BSc and MB;BS and I left that also 60 years back. 
Please read the attached poems and try to give me answers on behalf of GOD. 
Attached: నా స్వగతం - ఎవరికి చెప్పేది ?
         రచన :  డాక్టరు నండూరి గజానన రావు

నాస్వ గతం-ఎవరికిచెప్పే దిరచన డాక్రుట నండూరి గజానన రావు

యేమిసేతురావెంకటేశ్వ రా
నామొరలుఏవీ నీకుచేరలేవురా నీవెంతదూరానఉనాా వోఎరికే లేదాయే మాఆ
రతనాదాలు,వినా పాలునీకుచేరలేదాయే నేనేమిసేతురాశ్రీవెంకటేశ్వ రా?

మాకష్టా లేవి నీకు లెకక లేదాయే నీలీలలేమిటోమాబుర్రకెకక వాయే
నీవునాా నెంటావు
లేనిచోటు లేదెంటావు ఇప్పు డీర్రరెంచానికినీజవాబుఏమెంటావునేనేమిసేతురాశ్రీవెంకటేశ్వ రా?

మాచదువులుఅనుభవాలు ఏమీ లాభెంలేదే ఈపీడలనీా ఎప్పడు పోతాయో తెలియడెంలేదే మా ఆనాత దాలనీా నీకు చేరడెం లేదే నీకసలుచెవులునాా యోలేదోఎరికలేదే నేనేమిసేతురాశ్రీవెంకటేశ్వ రా?

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తెలియనివారెందరో లక్షల్లో పోతునాా రే తెలిసినవారెంతాకనుమరుగవుతునాా రే అసలునీవునాా వోలేదోతెలియదాయె ఎనిా వినతులు చేసినా నీకు చేరవాయే నేనేమిసేతురాశ్రీవెంకటేశ్వ రా?

ధనమునాా ఒకటేలేకునాా ఒకటే
చు
టాా లెెంతమెంది వునాా లేకునాా ఒకటే ఏదీ రనిచేయదు ఎనిా మెందులునాా నీవెంటేవునాా నినేా కొలుస్తతనాా నేనేమిసేతురాశ్రీవెంకటేశ్వ రా?

రరిశోధనలెనిా చేసినా ఫలితెం దకక దాయే మెందులెనిా వాడినా వైరస్ పోదాయె
ఎనిా అనుకొనాా ఏెంచేసినా ఏదీ కాదాయే 
రుుజువవుతెంది మా చేతిల్ల ఏమీ లేదాయె నేనేమిసేతురాశ్రీవెంకటేశ్వ రా?

ఎవరూరారుదరగ కు,
వారవవ రూరారుఅకక రకు రరిశోధనలెనిా చేసినా వృధాయే
ఎనిా జార్గ
లుత వునాా అనీా స్తనాా యే నేనేమిసేతురాశ్రీవెంకటేశ్వ రా?

ఈమహమాా రి అవతారాలెన్నా తెలియవాయే
నీ అవతారాలలాగానే ప్పడతాయేమో తెలియదాయె నేనెప్పడుఎకక డపోతాన్నతెలియదాయె దహనసెంస్కక రాలెవరుచే
స్కతరోతెలియదాయె నేనేమిసేతురాశ్రీవెంకటేశ్వ రా?

కూడబెట్టనా ధనమెంతా వైదుు లకే హుళకిక దహనాలుకరా కాెండలు అనీా హుళకిక ర్రరెంచమెంతా పోతెంది వనకిక రాతియుగెంమళ్ళీ వసేతఅెంతారడతాెంఉలికిక నేనేమిసేతురాశ్రీవెంకటేశ్వ రా?


Thank you for your patience. 
Prof (Dr) N G Rao
+91 984-910-3439  |  +91 767-397-2459







































































WORLD  HEART  DAY     …    September 29

Various writings and ads (with commercial colour of discounts) appeared today across the globe scaring the public about their heart health.  Some of them, purported to be of educative value to the public, may have a hidden agenda of vested interests.  And, some normal persons may be converted into patients ! Much of the modern treatment may be like cutting some of the branches of an evil tree without tackling the roots – tobacco, trans-fat, junk food, smartphones, stress and most of the comforts of modern lifestyle – which are the root cause for HEART diseases.   ‘Modernity’ in lifestyle brought in its wake all the adverse factors,  STRESS & ECOLOGICAL IMBALANCE (destruction of Nature) being the important ones, associated with money, materialism, competition, comparison, ego, hubris, hegemony, selfishness, greed, arrogance, anger, miserliness, manipulability, vanity, vengeance, etc.  MODERNITY may be the root cause for the arrival of COVID.  Moderns may have to mend their ways to prevent emergence of more heart problems and new viruses. 


 

WORLD  HEART  DAY     …    September 29

Various writings and ads (with commercial colour of discounts) appeared today across the globe scaring the public about their heart health.  Some of them, purported to be of educative value to the public, may have a hidden agenda of vested interests.  And, some normal persons may be converted into patients ! Much of the modern treatment may be like cutting some of the branches of an evil tree without tackling the roots – tobacco, trans-fat, junk food, smartphones, stress and most of the comforts of modern lifestyle – which are the root cause for HEART diseases.   ‘Modernity’ in lifestyle brought in its wake all the adverse factors,  STRESS & ECOLOGICAL IMBALANCE (destruction of Nature) being the important ones, associated with money, materialism, competition, comparison, ego, hubris, hegemony, selfishness, greed, arrogance, anger, miserliness, manipulability, vanity, vengeance, etc.  MODERNITY may be the root cause for the arrival of COVID.  Moderns may have to mend their ways to prevent emergence of more heart problems and new viruses. 

Cell phones arrived,  we forgot writing letters;
Automobiles arrived,  we forgot walking;
Computers arrived,  we forgot spellings;
Calculators arrived,  we forgot mathematics;
Modern jobs arrived,  we forgot families;


TVs arrived,  we forgot cinema theatres;
Digital games arrived,  we forgot playgrounds;
Modern pharma arrived, we forgot grannies’ remedies;  

Speciality hospitals arrived,  we forgot ‘MBBS clinics’;

Super-specialists arrived,  we forgot family doctors;


Nuclear families arrived,  we forgot relationships;
Junk food arrived,  we forgot healthy meals;
Food courts arrived,  we forgot cooking;

Internet has arrived, we forgot libraries & teachers;
HEART specialists arrived,  we forgot HEARTY meals !

 

COVID has arrived,  we forgot everything else !

( I too forgot everything else, and authored 28 articles in 30 months on COVID, during the COVID pandemic, which were published in a monthly medical journal, The Antiseptic – a WORLD RECORD of sorts in medical journalism !!!)

And, now, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) is coming to make us forget about our BRAINS !

 

Dr. T. Rama Prasad,

https://drtramaprasad.blogspot.com     WhatsApp: +91 98427 20393       drtramaprasad@gmail.com,  Director & Senior Consultant in TB and Lung Diseases,  'PAY WHAT YOU CAN CLINIC’,  Perundurai,  Erode Dt.,  TN.  Former Medical Superintendent (Special),  RTS & IRT Perundurai Medical College and Research Centre.



BLOG :  https://drtramaprasad.blogspot.com       NOTHING is PERMANENT

Left to right:  1 Rajiv Gandhi  2.Morarji Desai  3.Pandit Nehru  4.Balagangadara Thilak  5.  Mahatma Gandhi  6.Rabindranath Tagore  7.Subashchandra Bose   8.Bhagath Singh  9.Dr.Radha Krishnan 10.Indira Gandhi

There are only 10 faces in this drawing,   but the COVID has many more  !

The face of COVID would be remembered for a longer time than any of the faces in the ‘tree’ above.   Of course, everybody would be forgotten in course of time.  And the ‘time’ is a very relative thing.  Just see the ‘timeline’ below:

 

'Age' of the Sun       --  4.54 billion years.   Expected lifespan.  --  7 billion years more

'Age' of the Earth     --  4.54 billion years.   Expected lifespan  --   1 billion years more

'Age' of Himalayas  --  50 million years

'Age' of Humans.     --  3  lakh years

'Age' of Religions   --   4  thousand years

'Age' of Temples.     --  3  thousand years 

                    

‘Age’ of viruses       --  3.5 billion years  

‘Age’ of viral epidemics  --  12,000 years 

‘Age’ of COVID       –  about 5 years    as in 2024

 

We have 380 trillion viruses (mostly harmless) on or inside our bodies !!!

“Computer Virus” is a “Mechanical Organism”, such as a computer code, which may damage computers, ‘copy’ itself and ‘infect’ other computers, just like a “Biological Virus”.

 

                                             … Dr. T. Rama Prasad

                                                                                                    




Dr. T. Rama Prasad   

LOVABLE  RURAL  FOLK ... February 10, 2018

 

Yes, rural are really lovable folk. Most of them have a refreshingly rural and innocent background. They have blind faith in gods, and doctors as well.

After a few decades, we may see no more of such good plain-hearted rural folk. And, even now, we rarely see the good old grand grandmother of ‘topless’ (‘blouseless’) era ! The women of that generation cover their upper bodies with a piece of a cloth only (end piece of sari) wrapped around without any underclothing like bra or blouse. 

Today (February 10, 2018), one frail-looking grandmother in that 'topless' attire (see the attached photo) walked into my consultation chamber, accompanied by her grandson, but not needed to be assisted by him to walk in.  She (Gowandayamml) fluently talked in the grand old style ... said she got the appointment with great difficulty (limited consultations today, as I had to spare some time to attend my granddaughter's 'food court bonanza' at her school).   At the end of the consultation, she wanted a 'cough syrup' (most of the 'cough syrups' are used unnecessarily and for psychological satisfaction, and to the great delightfulness of drug industry !).   I gave her a sample bottle of a cough syrup, free of cost, of course ... and lo and behold, her face was lit up with happiness. Little pleasures ... little things matter in life ... read the 'Scribbling' titled 'Richness & Happiness' on my blog.   She narrated at length of her previous visits over decades and profusely thanked me for keeping her fit (in fact, it is her good old lifestyle and her constitution that kept her fit, not me !).   I asked her whether I may have a photo with her.  She was amused and laughed.  I called the receptionist to take a photo.  The lady of the old school put up a serious pose for the photo.  Receptionist, Nandhini, asked her to smile ... in vain ... perhaps, the grandma thought that one should not move or smile when the camera clicks (In our school days, photographers used to instruct us not to move or smile when they take group photos in the school, with those bulky 'plate' cameras with a long exposure time !).  I shall give her a print of the photo when she visits me again ... curiously, we both are of the same age group by the calendar, though seem not to be by the images !   Finally, the plain, simple, candid and 'topless' granny left my chamber.  After a while, she came back with money (hundred rupees notes) in her hand to put into my tiny 'Pay what you can' hundi,  as consultation fee.  I had to persuade her a lot not to give any consultation fee,  saying that it's a great pleasure for me to treat her free of cost ... again there was a flash of a cheerful smile across her face.  This is the most pleasant reward we get in medical practice -- the cheerful smile of satisfaction.

If you wish to read more about the good rural folk, click on http://drtramaprasad.blogspot.in/2017/08/rural-are-real.html

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Dr. T. Rama Prasad,  www.rama-scribbles.in        http://drtramaprasad.blogspot.in
'PAY WHAT YOU CAN’ Clinic, Perundurai, Erode Dt., TN, India., Former Medical Superintendent (Special), RTS & IRT Perundurai Medical College and Research Centre, Perundurai.