ROHINI THE HALF ELDER SISTER OF MY MOTHER

MY MOTHER HAD A HALF ELDER SISTER WHO PASSED AWAY IN 1974 AT THE AGE OF FORTY DUE TO ILLNESS WHICH WAS PROLONGED. HER FATHER WAS A PISHARODY FROM PAYYANOOR.THIS LADY FACED A TOUGH LIFE IN THE RUSTIC ENVIRONMENTS WHERE SHE WAS REARED BUT WAS A FAIR AND TALL WOMAN OF APPEALING COUNTENANCE.MY TRIBUTES TO HER THROUGH THIS PAGE.

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S L KIRLOSKAR

Shantanu Lakshman Rao Kirloskar

Few months back I was at the library of National Law School of India University and among the law books chanced to see a book personally written by S L Kirloskar. It made very interesting reading and I spent considerable time reading it.Sadly I  dont remember the exact name of the book but he has very lucidly and in very simple style elaborated his life in the early part of the 20th century and the early large scale manufacture of cycles by his father LAKSHMAN RAO KASHINATH KIRLOSKAR and later Pumps. He even explains the incidence of Plague to which his mother fell victim and their relocation to Belgaum if Iam not mistaken at length.Such books give deep insight into the era through which mankind progressed in general.

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RAHUL MASUREKAR 

MANAGING PARTNER

RAHUL A MASUREKAR  Managing  Partner of  ACE CARBO-NITRIDERS in Peenya Industrial Area  Bangalore...An Engineering Graduate from BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCES ....who put up ACE CARBO-NITRIDERS in 1974.

I  have written about Peenya Industrial Area earlier and many people from around the world must have had a look at it for the large conglomerate of  small scale sectors it has and has served as the back-bone of the economy of the city and the country for several decades now.The estate is a miracle in itself and I was personally associated with the minute aspects of the estate for many years.

In one such association I had the good fortune of  meeting and interacting with Rahul Masrekar who runs ACE CARBO-NITRIDERS which is in the heat treatment industry.I recently met up with him and was nice to see his enterprise having a much better strategic posture than the one I saw twenty years ago.The office staff were courteous to me and conducted me to his office.I even had a look at the plant working for few minutes and found a disciplined outfit.

Heat Treatment is an important component of any economy..by heat treatment the properties of materials change for the better and make it more valuable and the Economy in general need the large-scale support of such outfits.I  have seen heat treatment using gases and special electrical power equipment..some times high-power current devices that drive large current at very low voltages into charges.It is largely a metallurgical process and phenomena and is a speciality in itself. I must congratulate Rahul for having stuck to this field and progress in its various challenges.He services many formidable organisations in the country.

I have pasted some excerpts from his web site which organizations would find it interesting. 

ACE CARBO NITRIDERS is a pioneer in the Heat Treatment of steel parts. It is located in Bangalore, at the Peenya Industrial Estate, the largest industrial estate in South-East Asia. The total capital employed is 20 Million Rupees with a current plant capacity of 400 tonnes / month.

ACE CARBO NITRIDERS undertakes –

1.    Heat Treatment Job Work      2.    Metallurgical and Failure Analysis of Steel Components     3.  Consultancy on Heat Treatment process and Plant setup

DHANYA TALKIES NEAR REC NIT CALICUT

I  had made mention that this Talkies near NIT REC Calicut is no longer functional and it made me sad. Dhanya Talkies contributed to the pangs and glory of students at that time. I was under an misguided conclusion that I had written something about this place  but only recently noted that I had not written an exclusive page for this place which we sometimes referred to as our Hollywood.

To those of you who know nothing about this talkies.  It is some 200 meters from  Kettangal on the  Mukkom road side. When we approach the road towards Mukkom it is on the right side.It is a typical talkies and not a full fledged theatre. Fifty percent of the area in the front for people to sit down and see the movie and the rear portion with benches. We students were always on the benches.On the approach road to this Talkies there were a couple of arrack shops.

There was a Matinee show , a First show , and a Second show. Our students very often could be seen in the Matinee and First shows. A Tamil film Tiruvillayadal was being screened here and Raghuvaran badly wanted to see the movie and asked me if I could accompany him which I gladly did. Many of our senior students were also present on that day.This film is basically a mythological film.

Seeing a movie in this Talkies was never a pre-ordained or planned affair.It just happens.  Many times I  used to be in Kettangal to buy something and people like  Gautam Hendre coming from the other side forcibly changed my course to see some Malayalam movie.Hindi and Malayalam movies were mostly shown.

The first movie I had seen at this place was some Prem Nazir film   KILUNGATHA CHANGALLAGAL..in 1982...second show....all of us ..i think seven of us made a quick decision in our room B 315 to see something at this talkies. We were so fleet footed that before long we were at the theatre and none of my cronies knew Malayalam and most of the time I was busy translating the dialogues for them.I think we also saw Great Gambler one afternoon.

The two key situations when we were at  Dhanya  were first the interval when some of us used to come out and the night used to be deathly quiet with no traffic on the road and an errie silence which was frightening and secondly the trudge back to the hostels which was sometimes moon-lit and on other occasions very dark and remote.

Friday nights were largely reserved for Dhanya. I remember a large contingent of us saw the movie ABDULLAH. , I remember even PVK Mohan who later studied at IIMB was also with us.It was a very well lit moon-lit night and a large contingent of us walking back to the hostels with lots of laughter and giggling is still vivid in my mind.The best part of Dhanya Talkies is that we treated it as if it were our own..a private resort where we all were very much at home.The best part of the experience at this talkies were the various comments students used to pass during the course of the movie.

Now it is a facility of the past,and the present and future generations at NIT, will never know what Dhanya Talkies was all about.The Talkies must have become an economic victim of changing circumstances. Good Bye to you my dear Talkies and thank you for all the fun laughter and smiles you brought on our tender faces and the climate of enchantment that you created and the scores of movies students must have seen at your place and there must be many all over India from Assam to J  and K.......to Rajastan and the entire stretch of the country who would still remember with nostalgia the feelings and moments they had  which once held the title "HOLLYWOOD OF REC".

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A PHOTO TAKEN FROM THE MAIN BUILDING IN   1986