Celebrating the life of

Jayaram Paramesan

09 Feb 1943 - 03 Feb 2023

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Shri P. Jayaram was born in Bengaluru on 9th February 1943 to K. Paramesan and Kamakshi. He was the oldest among 7 siblings. After completing his BSc at the early age of 19, he went on to get a degree in Mechanical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering. He joined Indian Airlines shortly thereafter and worked in the Engineering department until his retirement in the year 2000 at the post of ... more

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1945Bengaluru, KA, India

Smita Jayaram Animal lover from a young age

1956Bengaluru, KA, India

Smita Jayaram Early years with siblings and parents

1962Bengaluru, KA, India

Smita Jayaram College days

1971Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Smita Jayaram Glasgow photos

10 Jun 1973Mysuru, KA, India

Smita Jayaram Marriage

10 Jun 1973Mysuru, KA, India

Smita Jayaram Photo uploaded on behalf of Rekha Sashi

10 Jun 1973Mysuru, KA, India

Smita Jayaram Message from Rekha Sashi: Feel overwhelmed viewing my photo sitting with you chitthappa at your wedding with Pattu Chitthi ❤️❤️ Chittappa - Your old Mumbai friends live here in Sydney. One of them is Ambika Prasad that fondly remembers attending your wedding with my dearest chitthi in 1973 Ambika said that you introduced beautiful chitthi to them by saying 'meet my snow-white wife' What a great bonding of love 💕💕

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1974Agra, UP, India

Smita Jayaram

Roopa S. He shared this Agra trip episode on our visit to Delhi in the year 1998 . He made my aunt get on the stairs to visit the mataji mandir on...

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1978Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram

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1992Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram At work in Mumbai and with colleague Mr A.K.Singh

1993Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram Photo uploaded on behalf of Rekha Sashi

1998Mysore and Delhi

Roopa Srinivasa Murthy Jayaram chittappa liked photography the above photos are clicked by him. I remember as a young girl in Mysore, jayaram chittappa with his camera.

Oct 1999Mumbai, MH, India

Roopa Srinivasa Murthy He liked my daughter Archana

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2000New Delhi, DL, India

Smita Jayaram Retirement photo

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Feb 2003Dombivli, MH, India

Smita Jayaram 60th birthday celebration

Roopa S. Always had soft corner for girl children of our family. I was one of his favourites

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2006Chennai, TN, India

Smita Jayaram Siblings

23 Nov 2007Zions Park, UT, United States

Smita Jayaram

24 Nov 2007Bryce Canyon City, UT, United States

Smita Jayaram Bryce Canyon National Park

25 Nov 2008Death Valley Junction, CA, United States

Smita Jayaram At Death Valley National Park

18 May 2010San Diego, CA, United States

Smita Jayaram At San Diego Wild Animal Park

5 Sep 2010

Smita Jayaram At Sequoia National Park

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10 Jun 2013United Kingdom

Smita Jayaram During UK trip taken with entire family to celebrate his 70th birthday and 40th wedding anniversary

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May 2014Yosemite Valley, CA, United States

Smita Jayaram

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25 May 2014Los Angeles, CA, United States

Smita Jayaram At California Science Center

10 Jun 2016San Diego, CA, United States

Smita Jayaram 43rd wedding anniversary celebration dinner with Smita's in-laws and family

14 Jun 2016San Diego, CA, United States

Smita Jayaram At Balboa Park with niece Padmini and daughter Smita

15 Jun 2016San Diego, CA, United States

Smita Jayaram Teaching grandson Sandhyavandanam

23 Jul 2016San Diego, CA, United States

Smita Jayaram At Comic Con festival. Posing with "zombies"

26 Jul 2017Navi Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram Showing off Neruls parks and lake to visiting grandkids. He was very appreciative of all the greenery and calmness in Nerul

Aug 2018

Padmini Sastry always available and there for all the important events of my life, chittappa- I miss you

2 Sep 2018Kotilingeshwara

Roopa Srinivasa Murthy When I was posted to Kolar

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11 Apr 2019Navi Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram Celebration at temple for mom's 70th birthday

13 Apr 2019Navi Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram Spontaneous dance at mom's 70th birthday party. He never let his RA pains stop him from enjoying life

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13 Apr 2019

Smita Jayaram 70th birthday party for mom

15 Apr 2019

Padmini Sastry chitappa took us all around mumbai and had so much energy

Nov 2019Bengaluru, KA, India

Padmini Sastry happily going to rahuls wedding

Nov 2019Bengaluru, KA, India

Smita Jayaram Photo uploaded on behalf of Rekha Sashi

Nov 2019Bengaluru, KA, India

Smita Jayaram Singing an abhang at nephew Rahuls wedding. Uninhibited and enthusiastic as ever he ends it with a dance

23 Nov 2021Navi Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram Photo uploaded on behalf of Mr Naveen Duggal Participating in online MRL events

Jun 2022Navi Mumbai, MH, India

Sweta Jayaram Ever enthusiastic... completed a 5 km walk in Jun 22 just after (only partially) recovering from knee issues. The walking stick was hidden for this pic 🙂

18 Jun 2022Bengaluru, KA, India

Subhramani Sathyanarayan Jayaram Periappa has always stood out from the rest of the family from the time I knew him growing up. Always different in his interests and attitude towards things. I was able to appreciate this better only once I grew up and took a liking for the same things. In fact, my mother often says I remind her a lot of Periappa in many ways! Our love for wildlife- birds in particular, and travel, was a common topic in most of our conversations. A couple of years ago, we moved into our new house which was surrounded by birds and I was so so happy that he took the time to come and stay with us for those two days. We enjoyed that short but exclusive time with him. We would have loved to have him back but now, we can only be thankful for the good times we’ve had and the memories we created together. Thank you Periappa for breaking the stereotype and being a role model for us. We really will miss you!

22 Jun 2022

Padmini Sastry celebrating birthday

22 Jun 2022

Padmini Sastry

Jul 2022Navi Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram Last meeting with both the daughters, son in law and all grandchildren

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15 Aug 2022Navi Mumbai, MH, India

Mahesh Sastry This was on 15th August 2022 .Actually it was a dry day being Independance day, but since I was coming, he had got this can of Beer a day in advance and looked forward to having it with me. I was surprised and thrilled too and enjoyed the evening with chilled beer and hot discussions with him on Modi, politics , wild life, civilization and history. I will miss him a lot especially my Mumbai visits and the intellectual stimulation I had discussing and arguing with him. I also remember the previous visit when I had a party with my old Mumbai friends in Andheri and reached very late perhaps 1am and he waited till late night to open the door.

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2 Sep 2022The Machan, lonavla

Sweta Jayaram Our last trip together to Lonavala in Sep 2022

28 Oct 2022Navi Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram Photo uploaded on behalf of Mr Naveen Duggal from MRL International Day of Elderly people on 28th Oct 2022, Mrl foundation Get together @ Bharti Vidya Bhawan, Vashi

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Dec 2022

Sweta Jayaram At a picnic with his Senior citizen group. Loved this candid pic of him petting a dog.

6 Dec 2022Navi Mumbai

Naheed Abidi Dinner at Mr. Jayaram house A monthly dinner A monthly meeting at Cottage land. Mr Jayaram was a lively member of our group, always ready with new thought to share. He had courage and we saw him as an example to follow with his wide range of knowledge and varied interest

6 Dec 2022Navi Mumbai

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Smita Jayaram Message and photo from Rekha Sashi: Jayaram Chitthappa - The tall, intelligent n handsome pillai and maapillai that parents and inlaws were very proud of

Sudha srivatsa here. My husband srivatsa and myself met him about a month back before his passing. He was as enthusiastic as ever and jokingly told us that his right leg was totally gone. He never missed any opportunity to make his RA turn into a joke, which made us feel he was not suffering at all. When I invited him with vaidehi to visit us at My...

Sudha Srivatsa6 Jan 2023

9 Feb 2023Navi Mumbai, MH, India

Smita Jayaram Cake cutting organized by his building friends on what would have been his 80th birthday

Rekha S. Tears simply roll down viewing this Yes we need to celebrate chitthappa's life But his passing just before his 80th bday is rather overwhel...

Soon after my marriage, he was introduced to me by Mohan as a man of 'Bournvita quiz'.From then I observed him a lot. Yes, he is a man of knowledge knowing many things. But won't open up very easily. What I feel is we have not explored him thoroughly. As rightly said he is master of many subjects. If you sit and talk, you can listen for hours. I ho...

Lalitha Natarajan26 Feb 2023

26 Feb 2023Bangalore

Muralikrishna KR I am happy to say that during my childhood I was Jayaram Mama's favourite. He used to call me curly tops..He was very close to my mother and used to speak to her regularly. He was a very empathetic and kind person and used to share his knowledge whenever possible. Once he mistakenly thought my mother had RA and sent me an email related to RA and how it should be treated. Shared that mail..His kindness and understanding had no bounds. Year 2010 was bad for me financially as I was getting a house constructed and also lost my father. Jayaram mama visited us, stayed with us for a day, enquired my mother as to how the construction was going and left for Mumbai. On reaching his house, he called and gave my mother his mail ID and asked me to send my account details ..He rightly understood my need for financial assistance without me even asking him and chose to voluntarily give me a small loan . Have shared the communication I had with him..His good deed helped me immensely and allowed me to tide through my bad phase. Can never forget it. He will always be in my memory 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

We have known Jayaram Anna for 50 years and he was a good friend more than a relative. He was an erudite and a lively person. And a good conversationist - we discussed varied subjects like music, computers, history and world affairs to name a few and the depth of his knowledge on these subjects was exceptional. We used to discuss about the book...

Lalitha Ananthakrishnan26 Feb 2023

Dear Jayaram Mama My early memory of you is at mavalli house where you scolded me for some mischief that I had done. I used to be scared of you when I was young because I remembered you as an angry person. But as I grew older and got to know you better and you visited Chennai frequently I enjoyed your visits and your company a lot. We talked a lo...

Arthi Sivagurunathan26 Feb 2023

Practical, straight forward, innovative, Nature lover, hunger for knowledge, empathetic, fighter and always inspired others

Roopa Srinivasa Murthy28 Feb 2023

Myself Suguna Nagarajan Jayaram and myself worked together at PPC Engg Dept. He is down to earth person. He treats everyone equally. He taught me everything about the work. He is knowledgeable person. Because of him I could able to understand the functions of aircraft to some extent. He supported me whenever I needed help. He trusts the subordinat...

Suguna Suguna2 Mar 2023