The Family of  Sundara Mahal

Veda and Vishnu of Sundara Mahal

Veda and Vishnu

Veda is a Doctor. She has a Phd in International Relations. She spent a year at Peking University, Beijing, China and another at Harvard university, Boston, Massachusetts, USA as a doctoral fellow. She is an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and is currently doing her Post Doctoral studies at Princeton University NJ.

Vishnu is a Medical Doctor. He finished his MBBS at Govt. Medical College, Trivandrum, MD in General Medicine at Madras Medical College, Chennai and his Super Speciality DM (Nephrology) at Government Medical College, Kozhikode. Some persons are meant to be Doctors. He is one of them. Passion and empathy soundly based on knowledge and facts.

Our daughter Veda and Our son in law Akhilesh photographed on their son.

Veda weds Akhilesh

Veda and Akhilesh were married on 03 July 2017, at the Krishna Gowder Memorial Mandapam, Kalpetta. Akhilesh is the son of Smt. Kala Madhavi and Sri. Balakrishnan who reside in New Delhi and the brother of Smt Malini Prakash who along with her family reside in New Jersey, USA. Akhilesh did his BTech from Trivandrum. He is a 2012 batch IPS Officer. He was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship and completed his Masters from Columbia University, New York. He is currently working from New Delhi.

Our son Vishnu and daughter in law Deva on their wedding day.


Vishnu weds Deva

Vishnu and Deva were married on 06 July 2017, at the Ashirwad Lawns auditorium at Kozhikode. Deva is the daughter of Dr. Srilatha and Dr. Rejeev who reside in Kozhikode and the sister of Tarun alias Manu .
Deva did her MBBS at Madras Medical College, Chennai, her MD in General Medicine at Bangalore Medical College, Bengaluru and completed her Senior Residency at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Medicine at Bengaluru. She is currently the Consultant Physician at National Hospital, Kozhikode.

Prabha and Murali of Sundara Mahal

Prabha and Murali

Prabha completed her Post Graduation in MSW at IGNOU and is currently on her second Post Graduation on Counselling and Family therapy and is a Life Skills Instructor. Besides she is the home maker, mother, manager of the farm, accountant, PR Chief, the chef, a person who is the living embodiment of a workaholic with a variant of productive OCD. Her genuine interest in people reflects on all of us when we have families as repeat guests every year. Thirty eight years of marriage and she still has this laugh.

Then there is me. Murali alias AV Narayanaswami. Orphaned at a young age I got lost in the forest of life. After attaining the age of majority legally, I purchased Sundara Mahal and adjacent lands from other legal heirs and decided to settle here. I actively ran businesses, Invested well, acted as a retained consultant for UNDP, Kerala State IT Mission, developed Asia’s largest agribusiness database, designed and built the database to protect the IPR of traditional knowledge in Kerala, organised farmers to be aware of the opportunities arising out of Globalised trade regime, appeared on TV channels, enjoyed public speaking and writing articles and essays.

I have come to realise that it is extremely complicated to keep life simple.
I live it minute by minute and am enjoying my family, our guests, my studies, the gardening, reading, writing and now being the creator and webmaster of this site!

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