an hour on mami's 80th

today's thulo ekadashi... the tulasi planting one... and mami's birthday. she's completed 80 years... the pictures below are ones that we (cholu and me)took after the lunch (and during my lunch break at office), when mami's near and dear ones had come to greet her and to partake of 'satwik bhojan'... the pix are mainly formal 'posed' pictures as per mami's direction...


... mami with her sisters... uttara mami and licchi mami...

... and then with her brothers thulo mama and mahesh mama...

... then it's the turn of her kids.. baba, prava and jyoti.. and the phossa me too!

... and of course her other grown up child.. caretaker radha!

... the buhari's turn.. with sani maiju and bindu bhauju...

...kamalaji, nirmaliji with licchi mami and thulomama...

thulo mama and uttara mami...

... offering precious kashi ko mithaai...

... kanchha raja in the korner..

... mami distributes her write up 'majja ko marma' to everyone...

... sani maiju up close...

mahesh mama and mami with her camera...

... mami 'midst her maiti folks...

meanwhile a little bit of the party had migrated upstairs to muwa's room...

... including pakku and renudijju...

jyoti. slim and pretty in pink watches from the side...

so that was a slice of mami's 80th birthday...