Most remembered King of Mysore
If there is one noble and benevolent king that people of old Mysore State remember all the time… it is Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV. Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadeyar IV (Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar; 4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the 24th maharaja of the erstwhile kingdom of Mysore. He remained the crowed King from 1894 (when he was hardly a 10 year old,) until…
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“A Harvard Business Review says, ‘Data Scientist’ is the sexiest job of the 21st century.” “With the growing demand in the market with fat salaries, Data Science is becoming the problem solver for businesses.” “Salary reviews suggest that more than 1.5K Data Science professionals working in India are getting paid more than 1 crore per annum.” Research and Evaluation aims to design, develop, and…
Read MoreNobel Prizes 2021
This is the time of the year again when the Nobel prizes are announced, mankind’s highest awards given to one of their best contributors. I have been fascinated by the prizes since my teenage years. Particularly after reading “The Prize” by Irving Wallace, which is a plot based on Nobel prizes. Wallace did a lot of research to come up…
Read MoreMind is a moth eaten spider’s web!
Folks, Our mind is a moth eaten spider’s web! Think about it for a moment. When we contemplate within ourselves… digging deep into our past… connecting the dots to go back to our childhood we often end up in a deep abyss… a bottomless hole that perhaps never existed for us!? Have you ever wondered about this? I have! This…
Read MoreLulu Global Mall comes to Bengaluru
(pic) Lulu Global Mall, Bengaluru) My dad used to work as DGM at what used to be ‘Minerva Mills’ and ‘Raja Mills’ more than half century back. A giant Lulu Global Mall has come up now in the Minerva Mills compound. My dad had been awarded a full ‘scholarship’ to study textiles technology at Victoria Jubilee Technological Institutue (VJTI) Bombay;…
Read MorePower Politics in Karnataka state
(pic) Pavagada Solar Park to become biggest solar park in the world soon. Pavagada Solar Park is a solar park spread over a total area of 13,000 acres (53 km2) in Pavagada taluk, Tumur district, Karnataka. 600 MW of power was commissioned by 31 January 2018 and a further 1,400 MW are planned.The total investment required to build 2,000 MW of…
Read MoreBharat Biotech vaccine approved for age group 2 to 18 in India
Folks, this is outstanding success for COVAXIN innovation by a totally Indian company, Bharat Biotech (Hq., Hyderabad) The Drugs and Comptroller General of India (DCGI) has reportedly approved the administration of Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin to children in the 2-18 years age group. According to news agency ANI, the Subject Expert Committee (SEC) has given the necessary approval for the administration…
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WHICH PLANE DO YOU FLY? By Rajiv Dhar
WHICH PLANE DO YOU FLY? By Rajiv Dhar During my young days in IAF this question always haunted me, especially when asked by damsels. I often used to brood over, “why can’t an engineering officer fly an airplane”. As I moved on, I got armed with some standard answers to give, especially at the time of my marriage engagement and…
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Living At Constance Lodge….Part 10
Living At Constance Lodge….Part 10 There were other simple games that kept us entertained for hours. One of them was Cat’s cradle. I think all of us who were born in 1950-60s must have played this game with a piece of thread. It used to be a woolen thread in our case because the thread has to be thick enough…
Read MoreWomen who missed out on Nobel prizes
I wrote the following blog for our astronomy club’s monthly newsletter. The season of Nobel prizes is coming soon, in a week or so. It has been more than a century of Nobel prizes for the highest human achievements in the field of Sciences,Literature, Economics and Peace. Some controversies and some supposed misses have occurred in the past. I would…
Read MoreINDIA PM Modi’s 3-day Visit to USA … my musings
After Joseph (Joe) Biden became President of US in January ’21 (winning a photo finish race for ‘White House’ beating former President Donald Trump,) this is the first time PM Modi of India is making a 3-day visit to US… visiting Washington DC for one-on-one meetings with President Biden, VP Kamala Harris… also heads of States of Japan and Australia…
Read MoreHOW OLD ARE YOU ?
HOW OLD ARE YOU ?g Looking back with nostalgia I recall how easy it was to have pen friends abroad and have regular correspondence with them those days. I wonder if this still happens now, with all this advancement in technology. I mean, having Pen Friends. We did not know what they looked like – the Pen Friends – till…
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Living at Constance Lodge——Part 6
Living at Constance Lodge——Part 6 Remembering Father 18th September 2021 18th September was my father’s death anniversary, so let me write some more of what I remember about him. After listening to the morning news bulletin, he would start getting ready for going to the office. His office was hardly fifteen minutes by walk from where we…
Read MoreLiving At Constance Lodge—-Part 5
She used to be in the kitchen and the aroma of preparations for the breakfast wafting through the air aroused my hunger. She had a lot of work to do in the morning as four of her children and a short-tempered husband had to be served the breakfast and all of them had to be given their lunch packs on…
Read MoreLiving At Constance Lodge——Part 4
In between those morning tunes and songs I used to wake up. Sometimes I would hear mother’s voice calling me. Kakaaaaaaa, ve Navneeeet- that’s how she used to call me. I don’t remember hearing my pet name Bhola from her. She used to be in the kitchen and the aroma of preparations for the breakfast wafting through the air…
Read MoreNational Public Schools – Bengaluru
Advertisement National Public Schools (NPS) are a group of private schools for school going children in Bengaluru Urban district. NPS is likely to have a school to pick near your location in Bengaluru Urban district. NPS schools offer primary education (from grade-1 to grade-10) in up and coming newer and fast growing vibrant Bengaluru Urban areas. In the Times 20-21…
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