Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
TOPSYS SOLUTIONS PVT LTD AND Mr.BALAGOPAL KARAT
At the entrance of the 100ft road in Indira nagar operated a firm called TOPSYS SOLUTIONS PVT LTD in the mid 1990's and was run by an alumnus of IIT Kanpur by name Mr.Balagopal Karat an enterprising person in many ways and had skills at developing and packaging new software.He had a wide range of products one of them in the design of Electrical Layouts and another was an Accounting Software formidable in many ways called ACCOUNT-21.
I worked for a couple of months here as a consultant doing business development for the software Account-21 and was successful in selling them through software channels.I got rare insight into the accounting software market. During these times TALLY used to be the leader.I used to meet software re-sellers in Kolar,Hosur ,Mangalore ,Hyderabad etc.During my tenure here I understood there were scores of Accounting softwares in the country-numerous of them. Accounting Softwares paved way for the mdern ERP softwares of various kinds.
Mr.Balagopal Karat handled the overall operations very well. I dont know what became of TOPSYS later but is an inspiration that relatively small outfits using minimum number of people can work wonders in sectors like software where to my understanding there is more scope for developing custom-made specific softwares.
Monday, August 18, 2025
Monday, August 4, 2025
MADANAPALLY NEAR BANGALORE
Madanapalli is a township in Andhra Pradesh State not far
from Bangalore city and few kilometres from the State border.It is a historical
place in many ways and comes within the Rayalaseema territory of the
Vijayanagar empire. The emperor Krishnadevaraya was fond of this town for many
reasons and the term Madanapalli has Vijayanagar origins..Madana being name one of
the founders and Palli meaning village and is simply a village
in the name of Madana. Madanapalli is a small township in the cradle of the
eastern ghat mountain ranges some 75 kilometers from Chintamani off the NH 4
highway.
One of the key hillocks at this
place is Basinikonda which has a temple atop it.It has a statue of
Krishanadevaraya at two places. The Basinikoda and its adjacent hills give source
to a river in the past and a drain of today that criss-crosses the heart of the
city. In ancient times this river must have been the source of water for this
township.
The paradox of this place is the
dichotomy of weather. As we approach the city the area some twenty five kilometres before the city is very cool with temperatures increasing steadily
over evey kilometer. This is an irony of sorts. The reason for this is that the
Eastern Ghat ranges twenty five kilometers before the town carry very high
amounts of vegetation adding to the the cool nature of the weather but as we move
into the town the hillocks like Basinikonda are hard rocks which absorb
sun-light and emit the heat into the town creating a furnace like feeling
within the town; To cool the town Government could consider rampant addition of
vegetation of some kind on the hills adjacent to the town to create a more
cooler atmosphere.
Once the English took over this
place they added many logical components to it like English education through
the Theosophical Society of Annie Beasant. The present day Madanapalle could be
made even more endearing by adding various forms of professional inputs to it
and developed in ways it can support the city of Bangalore in many operational
and functional ways.

