Friday, November 6, 2026

DR. P P GERWADIS AT REC NIT CALICUT

Dr. P P Gerwadis can be seen in this photograph extreme right a photo taken in March 1986.

Dr. P P Gerwadis used to be professor of ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING at  REC NIT Calicut of our times.I heard he passed away sometime earlier this year. This was a sad news.He must have been in his 90's


He used to teach us BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING in the first year and SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES in the fifth semester.He had a very good mind for ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. He used to attend church services at the Catholic Church up-hill on Sunday's.


He used to be active in the labs and a un-assuming and a-political gentleman.

Tuesday, November 3, 2026

DR. S THIRUVENGADAM AT REC NIT CALICUT

Dr. S Thiruvengadam used to be Professor of Electrical Engineering at REC NIT CALICUT during our times and also HEAD OF DEPARTMENT for two years. He served REC for many decades and holds a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from IIT DELHI.


His quarters used to be away from the Campus yonder to the Guest House and he used to walk in a measured way every day the entire distance very often dressed in a White shirt. I searched for a photo of his on the internet but could not find one..He used to be one of the guides for our final year project and we used to go to his house sometimes for some discussions.


The unique aspect about this person was that he was an excellent administrator and could keep things under control and ensure stability sometimes showing anxiety about the matter and used to solve administrative problems well and for-see them before hand.


Later I heard he joined an Engineering College in Chennai holding a high post and this institute in Chennai would have derived immense benefit from his rich administrative  experience at REC.

Tuesday, October 27, 2026

SHANMUKHA TEMPLE R R NAGAR BANGALORE

 




On one end of RR Nagar off the Mysore Road towards Hosakerahalli is a Murugan temple on one of the hillocks. It takes a flight of 180 stairs to reach the top with many other temples near by. The view of the city from the hill-top is also imposing. Very few people are aware of this place and is something any resident of Bangalore and adjacent towns must see.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026

THE TOWN OF MANDYA

 Travelling from Bangalore to Mysore we come across the township of MANDYA.     The order of towns on this route are BIDADI  RAMANAGAR CHENNAPATTANA  MADDUR MANDYA PANDAVAPURA SRIRANGAPATTANA and MYSORE. This entire belt is known for agricultural produce and MANDYA known for growing SUGARCANE. Growing SUGARCANE needs large water resources and the Cauvery basin provides water.KRS dam and the Brundavan gardens are technically in the larger district of MANDYA.


The town of Mandya is a commercially vibrant place and has a decent railway station attached to a large park and the KSRTC bus station is slightly far from the Station like in many towns in this part of the world.. MANDYA is 20km from MADDUR and 30 kms from SRIRANGAPATTANA.


There are many Express trains today that traverse this route and most of them have a stop at Mandya. Mandya can be developed as a TECHNOLOGY HUB to ease the stress on Bangalore something that the Central Government CAN CONSIDER SERIOUSLY.

Sunday, October 11, 2026

SHRAVANABELAGOLA BELUR AND HALEBID

           These three places combined form a key triangle of tourist importance in the Karnataka state all of them near the metropolis of Hassan   some 150km from the city of Bangalore.


SHRAVANABELAGOLA  is a township which basically has two mountain structures and a man made pond in between , a KSRTC bus stand and a railway line near-by. One of the hill structures is a mammoth one and is a mountain by itself which hosts the Gomateshwara statue on the top and the smaller hill called the CHANDRAGIRI hill which is a smaller and miniscule version of the big mountain. Both these hills house temple structures.


The key activity endured here is the climb up the bigger mountain to the statue of BAHUBALI also called GOMATESHWARA. It is a climb up the steep mountain for nearly a kilometer and the climb can be described as a arduous one and another flight of stairs takes one to the GOMATESHWARA statue. Generally carrying a bottle of water would be an advised thing to  do and keep yourself hydrated when you climb the mountain..


To my mind  all these three towns of Belur, Halebid and Shravanabelagola are some one thousand years of vintage and were sacred townships of ruling dynasties.


Belur has a VISHNU temple which has many temple complexes within it and the entire temple complex is housed in a two acre land  space and the temple built on a pedestal some four feet high and the entire structure and its carvings made out odf stone.There is a majestic diety of VISHNU also called CHENNAKESHAVA which is the heart of the temple.. The Belur temple exists on some kind of a mountain-top and the road descends downward..



Inside view of the CHENNNAKESHAVA temple.


The temple at HALEBID is a SHIVA temple well designed and planned adjacent to a man made lake and excellent gardens. The symmetry seen here is appealing and so are the carvings and again this temple exists on a pedestal.Basically there are two temples within the  single structure and both have SHIVA LINGAS  and both these lingas face a NANDI bull carved out of stone exactly in shape and size of the NANDI BULL seen on BULL TEMPLE road in Bangalore in the Jayanagar area. The BULL TEMPLE of Bangalore must have been inspired by the NANDI seen in Halebid. The city of Halebid was a Capital city of ancient times.


     The township of SHRAVANABELAGOLA is some fifty kilometers from the city of HASSAN and BELUR  and HALEBID some twenty odd kilometres from HASSAN diametrically opposite to SHRAVANABELAGOLA.



Map shows Shravanabelagola in relation to Hassan, Belur and Halebidu.B is Shravanabelagola, D is Belur and C is Halebid.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

MAJID THE IRANIAN STUDENT AT REC NIT CALICUT OF OUR TIMES

        MAJID was an IRANIAN student one year   my    junior at   REC NIT CALICUT  of our times. He used to live in the B hostel. He owned an ENFIELD motorcycle. I used to be friendly with him.


Iam not able to forget him for one reason. I was stranded in KUNNAMANGALAM one evening struggling to get a bus to REC. Suddenly MAJID showed up with his motorcycle from no-where. What a relief?. He picked me up and  I rode pillion on it up to the D Hostel.


MAJID wherever you are try to get in touch if possible.

Monday, September 21, 2026

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

THE UNDEPASS AT REC NIT CALICUT


       There is a underpass inaugurated recently at REC NIT CALICUT. It goes under the Mukkam main road.

The road in front of the HOSTEL OFFICE  which used to lead to the main road is the location where the underpass has been created. Once you cross the hostel office on this underpass the road bifurcates into two one leading to the International Hostel and the other towards the right to Guest House.

With this underpass the need to cross the main road gets reduced both for Pedestrians and Vehicles within the campus.

 

Friday, September 11, 2026

CALICUTCITY:HOTEL KINGFORT BUSINESS HOTEL IN CALICUT(KOZHIKODE)



 

HOTEL KINGFORT is basically a budget business hotel near PALAYAM BUS STAND in Calicut Kozhikode close to JAYALAKSHMI SILKS on Kallai Road some four kilometres from CALICUT central KSRTC bus stand.


HOTEL KINGFORT
SUNLIGHT TOWER
KALLAI ROAD
CALICUT-2
0495-2304415/9526268199


WWW.hotelkingfort.com

info@hotelkingfort.com

Sunday, August 30, 2026

Thursday, August 27, 2026

MANGALORECITY:MALABAR OXYGEN COMPANY PVT LTD BAIKAMPADY INDUSTRIAL AREA

 









HYDROGEN,NITROUS OXIDE,HELIUM,NITROGEN,MEDICAL OXYGEN,INDUSTRIAL OXYGEN,GAS MIXTURES,DISSOLVED ACETYLENE,CARBON DIOXIDE,ARGON,SPECIALITY GASES




MALABAR OXYGEN COMPANY PRIVATE LTD

189-B BAIKAMPADY INDUSTRIAL AREA MANGALORE 575 011.

0824-2406221 / 9172779258 /7410093787

malabaroxygen.com


MALABAR OXYGEN is a plant with existence near the entry of BAIKAMPADY INDUSTRIAL AREA since many decades with its headquarters in Goa. It is an enterprise that has faced the test of times in the area of Gases and owes its growth to the visionary excellence of its promoters.








Tuesday, August 25, 2026

MANGALORECITY: THE BAIKAMPADY INDUSTRIAL AREA

The BAIKAMPADY INDUSTRIAL AREA ( BIA ) is a reasonably large industrial area in the city of Mangalore some ten kilometres from the city on the Udupi highway.

This Industrial area primarily owes its origin to the Mangalore port near-by which had many ships arriving to the port since time immemorial. Ships have various professional requirements largely involving metal forming industry through the melting of metal and poring it into moulds to make heavy equipment's like anchors and pulleys. Since Iron is available in plenty in mines nearby...read the Kudremukh Iron Ore company.. such complex metal forming companies took shape in the Baikampady Industrial area. It was cheaper to source such products from the Mangalore port for Shipping Institutions.

With the growth of agriculture in this belt came MCF Mangalore Chemical and Fertilizers which once used to be a large complex adjacent to this Industrial area making fertilizers like Urea and many constituent Industries in the BIA catered to the Agri industry in various forms ..Even today Cashew processing industries form a key part of BIA. Industrial  gases of various kinds are also manufactured here for medical and industrial use.

The skill at Metal processing which was originally the activity of BIA  automobile Spring manufacturers cropped up here making suspension springs for Trucks and similar vehicles. BIA is today a key Industrial area which has the potential to house companies that work in other areas like Information Technology.

MANGALORECITY:LAMINA SUSPENSION PRODUCTS....BAIKAMPADY INDUSTRIAL AREA

 








LAMINA SUSPENSION PRODUCTS LTD
17/19 INDUSTRIAL AREA
BAIKAMPADY
MANGALORE 575 011
INDIA
91-824-2407611/12/13
98456 92250
laminasprings.com

LAMINA SUSPENSION PRODUCTS is a professionally run suspension products manufacturer, more precisely leaf springs for the automobile sector. The factory is a well ordained one in the Baikampady Industrial area in the city of Mangalore,India .It caters to both domestic and global markets and has a professional posture as an organisation.