Vishnu Vaikunta!
- IndiaGlitz, [Tuesday,January 12 2010]
The religious 13th day ÂVaikunta Samaradhane of Dr Vishnu Varadhan was held in Bangalore and other parts of Karnataka on January 11. A day earlier 10th January Dr C Ashwath Vaikunta Samaradhane was held in Sri Rama Mandir in NR Colony.
The ÂVaikunta of Vishnu was held in different ways in three places in Bangalore. At the memorial place next to Abhiman Studio where he was set to flames a mass feeding was arranged by Dr Vishnuvaradhan Fans Association. In the morning at 10 am at National College grounds the mega blood donation camp, eye donation camp and pulse polio drops was arranged by Halappa Foundation in association with Rotary Club and Indian Red Cross Society as a tribute to Dr Vishnuvaradhan. It is at this place Dr Vishnu body was kept for public viewing.
Dr VishnuÂs elder brother Ravikumar, Bharathi Vishnuvaradhan and actor Anirudh with his wife Keerthi Varadhan welcomed the guests on this occasion.
The veteran Sowcar Janaki came all the way from Hyderabad. Member of Parliament and former union minister Ananthkumar, former minister PGR Sindhia, Rebel star Ambarish, Sumalatha, Dwarakish, Dr Jayamala, Shivaramanna, Thara, Rockline Venkatesh, Shivarajakumar, Raghavendra Rajakumar, Sudeep, IM Vittala Murthy, YK Muddukrishna, Lahari Velu, Vinod Raj, Ramesh Bhat, Gurudut, CR Simha, Manjula Gururaj, Sudharani, Sudarshan, Shylashri, Avinash, Shobaraj, Ashok, Ravindranath, Ravishankar, and others were present at the ÂVaikunta SamaradhaneÂ.