Thursday, June 11, 2026
Monday, June 8, 2026
Sunday, June 7, 2026
MY GREAT GRAND FATHER KOTTAYAM KADANKOT CHINDAN NAMBIAR
This is a rare and priceless photograph of KOTTAYAM KADANGOT CHINDAN NAMBIAR, the father of my Grand Mother. A unique person in many ways and of compassionate and constructive disposition and a true Genius of sorts. I was for a very long time trying to get a glimpse of his persona which has happened now and some facial similarity with me cannot be totally over-ruled and a stern countenance even which I carry.
His ancestors are from the Kottayam village in Telicherry about which I had written earlier. He is the second generation of people who made the village of Cherukunnu their home. His immediate ancestors fled the township of Kottayam in 1800 ad or so from the hegemony of the East India Company who took control of Telicherry and its surroundings. When Kottayam Kadangot Chindan Nambiar was nine years old his uncle built a traditional Naalu Kettu house in Cherukunnu extending their dynasty in Cherukunnu in Kannur or Cannannore which exists even today.
K K Venugopal who was the Attorney General of Govt. Of India is a grand-nephew of Kottayam Kadangot Chindan Nambiar. The people of this clan are well mannered and development oriented building artistic houses with professional finesse. Dr. K C Nambiar FRCS who was the Dean of Stanley Medical College Madras is a nephew of this person.
Saturday, June 6, 2026
Saturday, May 30, 2026
DR. ABDUL KALAM MEMORIAL RAMESHWARAM
Few kilometers before the township of Rameshwaram Government has created a memorial for Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam former President of India and exists adjacent to the highway. It is a well maintained place with artefacts and murals.
The temple town of Rameshwaram is the birth place of Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam and it is apt a memorial be constructed here. Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam was an extra-ordinary Engineering and Scientific person before becoming part of Government as President of the Country.
Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam is some-one engineering graduates must be proud of as he is a global embodiment of Management, Science and Engineering..largely home-grown and self made. Any one travelling on this highway must visit this place as a tribute to his persona. He is respected both in the country and globally and is an example of what Indian Education system as we see today can engender considering that he had his entire education within the country.
The Government of India must be praised for erecting such memorial as it sends the right signals to posterity.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
REVIVING ITI THROUGH CHINESE HELP
The public sector ITI could be brought to glory and action through Chinese help and participation; Sudden technological and market impacts owing to globalization could be seen as reasons for stagnation of Telecom giants like ITI. Chinese participation in revival of Public Sector could be seen as a weird concept. The idea is to get back the old ITI which had some thirty thousand people working in it with dynamism and purpose.
Why the Chinese? Point 1 they are our neighbour with land connections which involves lesser supply chain costs; Point 2 they have a population as that of India when combined creates a large market for wired and wireless telephony; Point 3 the Chinese have designs which are less costly but of Quality and time need not be spent for re-design; Point 4 large amounts of Chinese Telecom work can be out-sourced to India creating scores of employment in the manufacturing sector , Point 5 a combined work and technological force that the two countries can engender in the Telecommunication field can supply extra-ordinary telecom products to nearby continents. Seen from any angle a co-ordinated action can benefit both the countries and even the world at large.
Times have changed and so have markets, technology and paradigms and some of the foundations created in the past must be preserved ,nurtured, maintained and developed even if it is with outside support and help which might be the need of the hour.
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