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FeaturesThe Magnificent Sixty: A Brotherhood That Time Only Made Stronger
Five men from CFTRI school, Mysuru, who have been friends for 55 years — meeting multiple times a week, surprising each other at milestone birthdays, and raising children who call themselves family too.
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FeaturesA Surprise Every Decade: The Birthday Tradition That Has Lasted 55 Years
Every ten years, the group plans separate surprise parties for each member — with the same childlike joy and the same intelligence-grade secrecy. The 60th birthdays were no exception.
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FeaturesMultiple Times a Week, Every Week: What Lifelong Friendship Really Looks Like
At sixty, with full lives and families, these five men still meet multiple times a week. Not on special occasions. Just because a day without the others feels incomplete.
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FeaturesRavira's Journey: The Friend Who Flies from the US Every Time, Without Fail
J. N. Ravindra Rao moved to the United States years ago. But every birthday, every milestone, he is back in Mysuru. "My best friends are there," he says. "Why would I not go back?"
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FeaturesSixty and Thriving: The Friends Who Figured Out the Secret a Long Time Ago
"Find good people. Then never let go." Those words from R. Vijaya Shekar are not a philosophy these five men arrived at in old age. They have been living them since 1970.
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FeaturesFrom Road Trips to Tea Estates: The Getaway Traditions That Bind Them
Over five and a half decades, the group has accumulated a library of trips, each one now a story retold so many times it has become mythology. The road trips, the hill stations, the overnight stays.
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