An honourable way of living

This photograph of my grandmother Seethamma with my father and my elder half-brothers, H.N. Ramakrishna (left) and H.N Srinivas Anand (right) and was taken around the same time. In this photograph my father is holding an image of his Guru, Bhagawan Anandagiri (Tanjore Swamigal).

The gods expected him to make a temple

This is a picture of my paternal ancestor, Seth Ram Gopal Malani, most likely taken in the late 1890s. We conjecture that this photograph was taken by the Raja Deendayal and Sons studio like most of the pictures within our family from this time.