When people across the world are celebrating New Year, ace badminton player Jawala Gutta is grief struck. Jwala Gutta’s grand father, renowned freedom fighter Gutta Subrahmanyam passed away on December 30th. 102 year old Subrahmanyam breathed his last on Dec 30th.
According to his last wish, family members donated his eyes and body to Medical College for research purposes. Subrahmanyam was Gandhian to the core and on his request, Jwala Gutta’s father Vardha spend some time in the ashram.
Gutta’s father fell in love with a Chinese girl in the Ashram and married her. So Jwala has a mixed parentage, with father a Telugu person and mother a Chinese. Jwala Gutta’s grand father’s remembrance function would be held on Saturday.