THE TIMES OF INDIA (SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2003 02:00:45 AM)
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Sathya Sai Baba's younger brother dies
ANANTAPUR: Puttaparthi Sathya Sai Baba's younger brother and senior Congress
leader R V Janakiramaiah (76) died at the Sathya Sai Super Specialities
Hospital in Puttaparthi on Friday. He is survived by his wife and three children.
A key member of Sathya Sai Central Trust, Janakiramaiah played a vital role in
the development of Puttaparthi as a spiritual centre. Janakiramaiah was
hospitalised at the super specialities hospital since September 26 after he
suffered a massive heart stroke. Doctors kept him under observation in the ICU
for the last three weeks and provided artificial respiration, hospital sources
said. Efforts to revive him failed to bear fruit and due to his old age, doctors
did not favour an open-heart surgery. Sai Baba visited his brother on Thursday
after his condition was said to be
serious.
THE HINDU Saturday, Oct 18, 2003
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Satya Saibaba's brother passes away
By Our Staff Reporter
ANANTAPUR OCT. 17. The younger brother of Satya Saibaba, R.V. Janaki Ramaiah
(76), died at the Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences at
Puttaparthi in the district on Friday morning. The end came at 10.10 am.
According to the information reaching here, his body was kept in the
hospital till 2 pm and was later shifter to his home in Puttaparthi to allow the
public to pay homage. Thousands of people from surrounding areas including his
friends paid homage to Janaki Ramaiah.
It is learnt that Saibaba had called Janaki Ramaiah's son, Ratnakar Raju, to his
room in Prashanti Nilayam and spoke to him for an hour after the death
of his younger brother. The Minister for Animal Husbandry and Dairy Development,
N. Kistappa, and the former Minister, A. Veerappa, were among
the first to pay tributes to Janaki Ramaiah after visiting the body.
As a key member of the Satya Sai Central Trust, which governs all the
institutions set up by Satya Saibaba across the world, Janaki Ramaiah played
an important role in all the development programmes and works taken by the trust.
He was like a bridge between the local people and the Prashanti
Nilayam.
Janaki Ramaiah always dreamt of formation of a separate district in the name of
Satya Sai with Puttaparthi as its headquarters. At various fora, he had demanded
the separate district out of backward areas like Gorantla, Nallamada and Kadiri
from the present setup of Anantapur district. The body of Janaki Ramaiah was
buried in the evening on the banks of the Chitravati river. He is survived by a
son and three daughters.
Among those who paid tributes to the departed soul were the secretary of the
trust, Chakravarthy, the Vice-Chancellor of Satya Sai Institute of High Learning,
S.V. Giri, and the Congress leaders P. Venugopal Reddy and A. Venkatarami Reddy.
CM Condoles death
Hyderabad: The Chief Minister, N.Chandrababu Naidu, in a statement expressed
shock at the death of Janaki Ramaiah. He conveyed heartfelt sympathies to
the bereaved family.