@ShashiTharoor, Shashi Tharoor, INC. MP for Thiruvananthapuram :

At the Ambassador’s lunch, had the great pleasure of meeting two venerable academic couples who have each held India’s flag aloft in the Brazilian capital for more than half a century: Prof Vijayendra Kumar and his wife Devi, who herself taught Hindi to Brazilians; and Prof Haridas and his wide Padmaja, who hail from Palakkad district and have seen my ancestral home on a visit to Kollengode! (which explains the extra pix of them).

Prof Kumar explained that aside from the diplomats, there are only five Indian families in Brasilia’s 4 million population, something i find impossible to believe!