GEN KRISHNASWAMI SUNDARJI - CREMATION CEREMONY
Ranjit Mathews
A Jewish name (also common among Syrian Christians - Avrachen=Avram)!
Fancy that. How did he get a name like that ?
> as the General's son was unable to reach the cremation ground on
> time due to unforeseeable reasons. The young boy was helped in
> performing the task by the General's wife, Vani, and daughter-in-
> law, Padma Rao.
SB
with ji ending which purely a northern style. Just wondering.
Ranjit Mathews wrote in message <36C1FCBB...@austin.ibm.com>...
Srivatsan Seshadri
SB wrote:
>
> I have also wondered how a Tamilian like Gen. Krish.. Sundaji got a name
> with ji ending which purely a northern style. Just wondering.
>
Correct me if I'm wrong but, isn't Gen. Sundarji a Kannadiga. I thought
he was from the Mangalore area.
cheers
--v
SB
his Tamil connection. I might be wrong.
Srivatsan Seshadri wrote in message <36C201B8...@osmic.com>...
chaddha
Ranjit Mathews wrote in message <36C1FCBB...@austin.ibm.com>...
>> The pyre was lit by his 12-year-old grandson, Avram Sundarji,
>
>A Jewish name (also common among Syrian Christians - Avrachen=Avram)!
>Fancy that. How did he get a name like that ?
Just like u got the name Ranjit Mathew.
Dr. Jai Maharaj
By Our Staff Reporter
The Hindu
Thursday, February 11, 1999
Nayee Dillee, Feb. 10 - The mortal remains of the former Chief of
the Army Staff, Gen. K. Sundarji, were consigned to the flames at
the Brar Square Crematorium here today.
The pyre was lit by his 12-year-old grandson, Avram Sundarji, as
the General's son was unable to reach the cremation ground on time
due to unforeseeable reasons. The young boy was helped in
performing the task by the General's wife, Vani, and daughter-in-
law, Padma Rao.
The cremation ground was flooded with Defence personnel. The Army
Chief, General V. P. Malik, and the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief
Marshal A. Y. Tipnis, were present along with the Scientific
Advisor to the Defence Minister, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the
Cabinet Secretary, Mr. Prabhat Kumar, and the Defence Secretary,
Mr. T. R. Prasad. Also present were two former Army Chiefs, General
O. P. Malhotra and General V. N. Sharma, the former Navy Chief,
Admiral H. S. Tahiliani, and former Union Ministers, Mr. Rajesh
Pilot and Prof. M.G.K. Menon.
All of them placed wreaths on the body. Wreaths were also laid on
behalf of the President, Mr. K. R. Narayanan, the Vice-President,
Mr. Krishan Kant, the Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, and
the Defence Minister, Mr. George Fernandes.
This morning the body was kept in state at 6 Baird Place from where
it was taken in a procession to the cremation ground in the
afternoon. Two pilot jeeps escorted a column of nine trucks, the
eighth of which was a gun carriage on which the coffin had been
placed. The wooden case was kept wrapped in the Tricolour and was
bedecked with wreaths and white roses which adorned the gun
carriage.
A large number of people lined up the route to watch the General's
last journey.
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