Dr.Sarasu Esther Thomas Registrar NLSIU

Sarasu Esther Thomas who used to teach me Human Rights Law at the NLSIU and present Registrar of the University.

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Dr.M V Kesava Rao..FIRST DIRECTOR OF REC NIT CALICUT

There is an interesting anecdote in my life.I was travelling in 1998 from Bangalore to Chennai by a JTC corporation bus and happened to pick up a conversation with an elderly person sitting next to me who happenned to be the nephew of Dr.Keshava Rao the first principal of REC NIT Calicut from 1961 to 1969.He spoke to me at length about Mr.Rao and his trials as Principal at REC Calicut and political interference made him step down. Dr.Rao was earlier Principal of College of Engineering Trivandrum from 1950 to 61 and after his tenure as Principal of REC NIT Calicut  was at NIE Mysore.

The thought that a Mysorean was involved in laying and nurturing the foundations of  REC NIT Calicut makes a person like me feel proud.

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