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	These are collections of photos that are already on my main India Pictures pages, arranged partly to show changes over the years 1982 - 2015. It is also an excercise in nostalgia for me, I first went there in 1982 to the Botany Department in Sri Venkateswara University (SVU) to teach a microbial physiology course. I returned for many visits , mainly to the virology, microbiology and biochemistry departments. I always stayed in the SVU guest house. In the mornings and evenings I usually went for a walk with my cameras, collecting large collection of bird photos and photos of rural India. I regularly walked into town also. In about 2002 a boy from a nearby village (part of Thumulagunta) invited me to visit his village and I becamse the village photographer getting to know the villagers as well as possible when few of them spoke much English. Later, the teenage boys 'adopted' me, visiting the guest house to entertain themselves and me. Between 2002 and 2011 I started and finished my visits to Tirupati by spending a few days at a fishing village with beach hotels about 50km south of Chennai - Mahabalipuram.
	My Tirupati History pictures:	SVU guest house	Hanuman temple in Tirupati	The Railways	The local rail level crossing	Tirupati at play
		Tirupati resting	Sri Venkateswara temple at Tirumala	Sri Govindaraja swamy temple	Tirupati transport
		Tirupati at work	Thumulagunta village	SVU University including staff and students	Mahabalipuram (fishing village South of Chennai)
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...TOP..................	The SVU Guest house         My home for a total of more than 2 years, between 1982 and 2015. It was on the road that goes from Tirupati past Chandragiri to Chittoor and Bangalore. I was able to have visitors here. These were staff, students, friends and in the last few years small gangs of my village friends. Their pictures in the guest house are elsewhere on my site
	Pictures from 1982    1984   1993    1999   2003    2006    2007  2009  2010    2011    2012   2013    2014    2015
	1982
	My transport outside guest house		My room was left of the right hand Ashoka tree
	Views from my windowThe elephants live in the nearby dairy farm and walk down to the temple twice a day		View of the hills. The Sri Venkateswara temple in Tirumula is up in the hills
TOP	1984
	The guesthouse staff
TOP	1993
	Guest house front		The annex where I stayed for visits over a number of years
	The guest house road
	Surya in the first year we really met up. In my reading in the sun chair.    With my friendly 'dummy watchman sir'			My room
TOP	1999
	On steps of my annex room		Opposite the Guest house on the way home
TOP	2003
	View from my 'inside' veranda		My nice big room with Sasi (left) and Imran taking over
	To show size of room		The road is wider now so they had to run
TOP	2004
	The first of the breakfast boys opposite the guest house.		Murali. On the staff of the guest house became a good friend fro many years
TOP	2006
	Building an extension to the Guest house
			My newly decorated room, with working lights, fan, water system, air conditioning
TOP 2007	The year Liz came with me. This year they were extending the dining room. and here were working next to 'our' roof opposite our room. Because my guest room the year before was now so good I thought it will be good for Liz to come. It was too good so they gave it to the Vice-Chancellor.
	Liz at the guest house		Now relegated to a room in main building. Liz said she enjoyed camping. Had nice access to roof.
TOP
	2009
	Newly decorated foyer, with welocming god.		Sunset view from the roof
TOP	2010
	My room for many visits. It opened almost directly onto the roof (my garden). T		Sury bringing my tea on the roof
	Newly painted stairwell.		Breakfast snack bar opposite guest house
TOP	2011
	Corridor outside my room towards the setting sun		Just outside guest house, with fruit sellars on pavement on left and level crossing in the distance
	Entrance to road to Agriculture college opposite Guest house		At entrance with the friendly starf
	My room
TOP	2012
	Moin in my room		Evening from the roof
	Early Sunday morning. View from other side of road		Venu, the kind staff member who woke me with tea every morning
TOP	2013
	Home		Just outside guest house at the start of the melon season
	My walk to level crossing		Moin on the roof after a rare windy rainstorm
TOP	2014
	The beginning of my morniing walk opposite the Guest house		The start of my walk - the Iron men
TOP	2015
	Breakfast		Lunch
	My neighbours opposite the Guest house		Sunday morning market
	Sunday morning market		My old friend Sury at Puja
	Bharath in his usual mode - Password Sir ?		Krishna
TOP	Balachandran playing Smash hit on my iPad		Some of the Thumulagunta gang on the roof