To, Aunty Kotha's family, please accept our heartfelt condolences on your loss. Aunty Kotha's was a fun loving person,and whom we all remember as the aunt who had a snake for a pet. She will be deeply missed by all of us. May soul rest in peace.
Jeya & Thana ( Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur)

A bright light has gone out from our world but her memory will live for ever.  We are blessed to have known Kotha and family.  RIP Kotha lots of love.

Dear Aunty Kotha, I am so saddened by your passing. The world is missing a truly wonderful person. Our family will always miss you and you will forever be in our hearts. Thank you for being in our lives. love always Janani, Trent and baby Anika

All at Mayfield Medical Connection offer their heartfelt condolences to Peter and the rest of his family at this time of mourning Kotha's passing but celebrating her wonderful life.

I have met Kotha several times since coming to Newcastle/Maitland 30 years ago esp. at Tamil Sangam events and concerts. She has always been a dedicated and giving person. I will not forget her personally donating with another person to a visiting artist group to Newcastle. May she rest in peace. Condolences to Peter and all in her family.

Kotha was one of the most caring and giving people I have ever known.She was one of our volunteers at the Mater and in particular Ward 4C. She came to help us each Thursday even while she was receiving treatment, always putting others first. She was a calm, quiet,lovely lady who everyone wanted to be around. Kotha loved Christmas, she always came into our ward to decorate it for Christmas and made it very special for the staff and patients. She has battled her illness in a dignified, gracious way and when she went to the hospice said to me "don't be sad and don't cry,it is just my time and I have had a wonderful life" The way Kotha led her life can be an example to all of us, she will be sadly missed and yes I am crying. All my love Janice

Kotha is a lighthouse to many of us who first first met her when we were students. I continue to thank her in my heart whenever I steam rice - she taught me how to do this and I have never looked back since that day.
Her kindness will continue to be an inspiration to me.
Heartfelt condolences to all the extended family members I know (in Oz and Singapore).

Kotha – what a beautiful soul; such a strong and amazing woman; such a wonderful life.
I don’t think there is a person who has met Kotha who has not been touched by her warmth, kindness and generosity. Kotha’s acceptance of others despite any difference is inspiring and a lesson to all.
Before I met Kotha my husband Adrian (friend of Andrew) would tell me about this amazing woman and how he’d cancel dates when invited for dinner at the Elliott household (until he met me – when I’d come along too!), to sit at opposing ends of the dinner table with Peter – the only ones with fork and spoon and steam pouring out of their ears from the spicy and wonderful food! And then there were the dinner parties /ad-hoc cooking lessons that let many an afternoon pass most pleasantly, and the card games and the jokes and laughter. These I had the pleasure of joining in…. nearly 20 years ago… but it feels like yesterday. I’ll also never forget Kotha appearing at my hospital bedside some years ago bearing kindness and a lovely basket of fruit and nuts….and her wonderful and welcoming smile. It is vivid still in my mind –an image I will never forget.
We will miss you Kotha. With much love, Hellen & Adrian Gold

As the sun moves into the sign of Aquarius - the sign of new beginnings - so Kotha slips peacefully into a wondrous land of comfort..... no more doctor's instruments probing, no more pain. My heart alternates between heaviness and lightness at the thought of her departing, but soon the heaviness will be replaced by complete lightness, as I recall the 55 years of loving friendship that she gave not only to her husband, Peter, but to all. Her life was blessed with wisdom, courage, and a reaching out to people with a caring devoid of judgment. I was best man at their wedding in Penang in 1959 and the association has continued down these long years. Kotha broke the mold of young Indian ladies in Malaya in those days. Those were the days of arranged marriages, but Kotha would have none of that. She stepped forward into life as eager and wide-eyed as anyone could possibly be, breaking staid conventions with her cheekiness and may I say, wisdom. I had this strange feeling on Monday that when the sun moved into Aquarius, she would slip away to be with God, and that is exactly what happened when the sun made its move on Tuesday. She has left behind her an enduring legacy for her children and grand-children and abundant memories for her relatives and friends. Her love affair with husband Peter was the most caring and enduring I have ever witnessed. Kotha had this ability to cast off tribulations as if they were mere trifles - she always came up not only smelling of roses, but totally imbued with them. As Han Suyin writes at the close of her book 'A Many Splendoured Thing,' "I have dreamed a wonderful dream; of life, and love and death, of laughter, and tears, and good and ill, and all these things which are equal under Heaven, which equalizes all things. A wonderful dream, my many-splendoured thing." Yes, Kotha and Peter, you have not missed that many-splendoured thing. Now it is time for me to say goodbye dear Ko, but one cannot say goodbye to that which still lives in one's heart. Till we meet again.

When my wife Thana was very ill at Mater Hospital in 2000, Kotha visited her and consoled her with kind words. She was there to support her and console her. I and my family was very grateful for her gesture and help.