My Memoir

It was truly  a rare honour to propose vote of thanks for the Declare Open Ceremony of the CAREC (Centre for Advanced research in evolutionary computing ) of our college of which Bharat Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam was the chief guest.

I was so delighted to see the great man and felt so previliged abt it.He was talking on the use of science and technology to carry out societal transformation.He talked on various fields in which students have to bring out transformation . He gave lot of ideas on research projects and briefed areas in which there is a lot of scope for quality research has to be carried out.

Dr.Kalam also pointed out the importance that professors of Indian Universities have to give to research.He quoted an incident that once  when Sir C.V.Raman was invited by the president of India for the Bharat Ratna Award function to get the honour , Raman denied gently explaining a genuine reason that he had to sign his student’s Ph.D that day!!

Thanks to my neighbour for introducing me to JK!! I ve started off  reading JK and now i am through a book “A wholly different way of Living“  its a dialogue between JK and Professor Allan Anderson of San Diego State university.This happened in 1974.

J K starts it beautifully stating the importance of individual transformation needed to bring out societal transformation.Then he moves on to talk on conflict in human relationships, responsibility of a human being , fragmentd human mind , fear , knowledge desire so on an so forth. I hardly find words to express how i really wonder his great thinking. Its worth reading , really a hundred times !!!

This year the first day january 1 2008 turned out to be different. We had been to visit an old age home in pykara , Madurai.There are around 45 old people and  3 children there.It is ashram founded by Narayana Guru(a saint who visited and stayed at that place). I dont remember the details of the founder exactly.We had bought some sweets for them that day.There is only one person who takes care of these old men and women.Six of them cook for all the others.

We were able to help them a bit  financially.Planning to do in future also.