Kevin, also a Karnataka topper, is a Class 12 student of Nehru Smaraka Vidyalaya in Jayanagar.
Kevin Martin
Bengaluru :
Bengaluru boy Kevin Martin (17) is among the 24 students across the country who scored a perfect 100 and will be qualifying for the JEE-Advanced examinations. The National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the exams, declared the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main Result on Monday night.
Kevin, also a Karnataka topper, is a Class 12 student of Nehru Smaraka Vidyalaya in Jayanagar.This time, the exam was conducted twice in online mode: from January 8 to 12, and on April 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12. Kevin who appeared for JEE Main in January secured 100 percentile then. Despite topping, he took the JEE Main in April and got an NTA score of 100 again. He is also appearing for the ongoing Karnataka CET.
A total of 11,47,125 candidates appeared in JEE Main in January and April. The top 2,24,000 rankers in JEE Main (including those who appeared in January exam) will be eligible for JEE Advanced 2019 exam.
JEE Main is held for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes offered at NITs, IIITs, SFTIs, and CFTIs.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Express News Service / April 30th, 2019
Winning accolades: The gold medallists at the 54th annual convocation of Bangalore University on Monday.
65,039 candidates receive degrees; 216 students bag 328 gold medals and cash prizes
A Colonel and a farmer’s daughter were among those in the spotlight for bagging gold medals during Bangalore University’s (BU) 54th annual convocation on Monday.
Fifty-year-old Col. Swaroop S. Lohit, who bagged three gold medals, was elated. Hailing from a small village called Konanur in Arkalgud, Hassan, he is currently serving in Nagaland. He took up an MBA course in finance after taking a sabbatical-cum-study leave for two years.
Col. Swaroop said that he studied at the university’s Central College campus and went back to the classroom after a gap of three-and-a-half decades.
“I was initially apprehensive of whether I would be able to complete the course or not as I’m a computer science engineer and commerce was very new to me. I was allotted finance as a subject by the military training directorate, Army headquarters. I had to start from scratch and read NCERT books for classes 11 and 12 to understand the basics,” he said. He is all set to return to service from Tuesday.
Another medallist who made news was Asha K.N., the daughter of a farmer who bagged six gold medals. She also found mention in the speech of Vice-President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu, who was the chief guest.
Ms. Asha, who completed M.A. in Kannada, has joined a B.Ed programme but says that she aspires to become a KAS officer. Overall, 65,039 candidates received degrees in various disciplines. In all, 328 gold medals and cash prizes were awarded to 216 meritorious students. A total of 166 Ph.D. degrees have been awarded in different disciplines.
Real gold medals for the first time
For the first time, Bangalore University has provided real gold medals to students. The medals have a silver base of 20 grams with 1.3 grams of pure gold embedded on the silver plate. Prior to this, students were only given gold-plated medals. Vinutha K.V., who won seven gold medals from postgraduate studies for M.Sc in Chemistry, said she was thrilled to receive medals that had real gold. “Most of our seniors had said that they got only gold-plated medals,” she said.
Governor gets plastic water bottle
No drinking water was provided during the convocation, as the organisers cited plastic ban. Some of the dignitaries on the dais were served water in a glass, but the Governor and Chancellor of the university Vajubhai Vala was the only one to be served water in a plastic bottle, which raised several eyebrows.
M.Sc. in solid waste management
With the city grappling with garbage crisis, Bangalore University has decided to introduce a postgraduate course in solid waste management from the coming academic year. K.R. Venugopal, Vice-Chancellor of Bangalore University, said that in addition to this, they would also introduce a new courses in disaster management, criminology and forensic science medicinal botany, aeronautical engineering and space technology, media management, graphics and animation, advertising and public relation, and film-making.
Need to preserve linguistic, cultural heritage: Naidu
Vice-President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu spoke about the need to preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage and diversity and the need to protect and develop regional languages and mother tongue.
While stating that it was important to lay a robust foundation through the creation of a strong base of natural sciences such as physics, chemistry and biology to promote scientific temper, he also said it was important to patent our indigenous knowledge and medicine.
The Vice-President also said that there was a need to ensure affordability and accessibility of higher education. “Access parity is at stake owing to commercialisation of education and commoditisation of knowledge. It is imperative that the principles of social equity and gender parity be of paramount concern as far as higher education is concerned,” he said.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Bengaluru / by Staff Reporter / April 22nd, 2019
Higher uptake: Iodine forms a stronger halogen bond with the receptor, say Surendar Jakka (sitting) and Govindasamy Mugesh.
The team achieved nearly sixfold increase in protein uptake by cells
In a breakthrough that might have huge medical implications, researchers at Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have used a novel strategy to directly deliver proteins into mammalian cells. Proteins are big molecules and so cannot enter the cells on their own. So a team led by Govindasamy Mugesh from the institute’s Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry substituted a hydrogen atom of the protein with an iodine atom to achieve a nearly sixfold increase in protein uptake by cells.
The increased protein uptake was seen even when the molecular weight of the protein was 28,000 dalton, meaning the protein was much bigger in size than most of the therapeutic small molecules.
The researchers also tried replacing a hydrogen atom with an atom of bromine and chlorine but the uptake was way lower than when iodine was used.
In the case of bromine, the uptake of proteins increased by only about two times, while the uptake increased only marginally when chlorine was used. The results were published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.
Other researchers have tried tagging the protein with cell-penetrating peptides, supercharged proteins and even used virus-like particles to ferry the proteins into cells. But these approaches have severe limitations including altering the protein function inside the cell. For this reason, most of the applications involving proteins are directed to extracellular targets. Proteins inside the cells get impaired during diseased conditions such as neurodegenerative and cardiovascular disease. Supplementing the cellular protein in such cases becomes important and this is where the method used by the IISc team will come in handy.
The team had to first synthesise a green fluorescent protein with one hydrogen atom being replaced with an iodine atom. “To introduce iodine at a specific site on the protein, we had to use an iodinated amino acid. Since the iodinated amino acid used is unnatural (not genetically coded), protein synthesis machinery does not accept it. So we had to expand the genetic code of the organism to accept and incorporate the iodinated amino acid into the proteins during the biosynthesis in the cells,” says Prof. Mugesh.
Since the iodinated amino acid is introduced on the surface of the protein, the secondary structure is not altered and so the protein remains functionally intact.
Strong bond
Iodine forms a halogen bond with a specific receptor (caveolin) that transports the protein from the cell membrane surface to inside the cells. “Compared with bromine and chlorine, iodine is heavier and so it forms a stronger halogen bond with the receptor. This might be responsible for more proteins getting into the cells when we substitute a hydrogen with an iodine atom,” says Surendar R. Jakka from IISc’s Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry and first author of the paper.
To be functionally useful, the proteins must enter the cytoplasm of the cell. However, the moment proteins are ferried into the cell by the receptor they are trapped inside the endosomes and transported to lysosomes, where the proteins are degraded. Significant decrease in protein concentration as measured by the fluorescence intensity was seen by the researchers after 24 hours.
To overcome the problem of protein degradation, the team treated the cells with a peptide (ppTG21). “The peptide also gets into the endosomes along with the protein and changes the pH of the endosomes. The endosome gets ruptured due to pH change leading to release of the proteins into the cytoplasm. In this case, there was no decrease in the protein concentration even after 24 hours,” says Prof. Mugesh.
No toxicity
“We are substituting only one hydrogen atom with an iodine atom in the entire protein. So the toxicity is similar to native protein,” says Prof. Mugesh. “We tested the cell viability by treating the cells with different concentrations of the proteins for 90 minutes. The cells were healthy after taking up the protein. The morphology of the cells that had taken up the proteins did not change even at the end of 24 hours,” says Jakka.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sci-Tech> Science / by R. Prasad / April 20th, 2019
The daughter of Manju, an auto driver and MB Rukmini, a homemaker, hails from KR Nagar, and was inspired to take up in sports professionally by her elder sister MR Anusha, also an athlete.
MR Dhanusha. (Photo: EPS)
Mysuru :
Financial obstacles need not come in the way of dreaming and achieving big, proves 19-year-old MR Dhanusha, an athlete from Mysuru, who is the only girl to have qualified from University of Mysore, to represent India at the 30th Summer Universiade World to be held in Napoli, Italy from July 3 to 14.
The daughter of Manju, an auto driver and MB Rukmini, a homemaker, hails from KR Nagar, and was inspired to take up in sports professionally by her elder sister MR Anusha, also an athlete. So far, she has participated in more than 30 nationals; 50 state events and hundreds of district-level heptathlon events, a track of events consists of seven combined events, which include, 100 metre hurdles; 200 metre dash; 800 metre run; high jump; shot put; long jump; and javelin throw.
Unlike most of her college mates and friends, Dhanusha, a first-year BBA at Basudeva Somani College spends most of her time on the field practising track events. “Heptathlon events are tough and require stamina and endurance. I practice relentlessly for 8-9 hours a day. My dream is to win a gold medal for India,” she said.
While she was considered an extra player during school days, it was in middle school that she started participating in taluk-level events and was selected to undergo training in the Department of Sports and Youth Services for five years. “That was the turning point in my life,” she said.
In the history of the University of Mysore, she is the only girl to win gold at the All India Inter-University event held at Japan and this is the second time she has qualified to take part in the World University event.
“She is the only athlete selected from Mysuru to participate in international events. Despite hailing from a poor family, her achievements are remarkable, and we are confident that she will win more medal for our country,” said M Puneeth, coach, Sports Authority of Karnataka.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> States> Karnataka / by K Rathna / Express News Service / April 17th, 2019
A few years ago Gulhati suddenly started noticing news articles on droughts and water-related issues across the country.
Garvita Gulhati
Bengaluru :
Garvita Gulhati isn’t a typical college-going student. For one, she doesn’t have social media accounts, and second, she doesn’t binge watch TV shows. Instead, the 19-year-old student from PES University is on a mission to conserve water, for which she has been going from restaurant to restaurant requesting managers to fill only half a glass of water unless otherwise requested for by the customer. Her initiative #GlassHalfFull, which she started at the age of 15, has borne fruit with 200 restaurants adopting the campaign and now, the National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), which represents over 1,00,000 restaurants, has extended its support.
A few years ago Gulhati suddenly started noticing news articles on droughts and water-related issues across the country. What particularly struck her was an article on 14 million litres of water being wasted every year, simply because customers at restaurants leave behind half-empty glasses. “I started researching on how we waste water without realising it and decided to teach people water management,” she says. She visited several restaurants to pitch the idea of filling only half a glass, which would save 50 per cent of water that was being wasted earlier.
When she started her online petition, it wasn’t easy to convince people who would advice Gulhati to concentrate on her studies. “Many schoolmates would say I was doing this to earn fame as they did not realise the importance of carrying out the drive. It was only my environmental studies teacher who motivated me to take the movement forward,” says the BTech student.
The biggest accolade has been launching an organisation, Why Waste? and receive recognition from several quarters. Gulhati was the only Indian among 60 changemakers between 18 and 23 years to receive the title of ‘Global Changemaker’. “Working towards saving water is worth being off social media and watching fewer TV shows. Neither do I party like most of those my age would,” she says.
Raising awareness
About the partnership, Rahul Singh, president, NRAI, said, “Ninety seven million people in India do not have access to clean drinking water. As a part of the #GlassHalfFull initiative, NRAI will encourage restaurants to adopt sustainable alternatives for reducing consumption of water. We will not only sensitise the restaurant staff but customers as well to reduce wastage of water.”
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Akhila Damadoran / Express News Service / April 08th, 2019
The helmet will be able to send alert GPS location of rider to rescue personnel and has a multi-directional impact protection system.
Smart helmet
Bengaluru :
Available in the market soon will be a motorcycle accompanied by a smart helmet which will alert riders of emergency situations while also sending out messages to emergency rescue personnel with the location of the rider, in case of an accident. The e-motorcycle and smart helmet is the invention of a group of 3rd year engineering students of the MVJ College of Engineering from the city. Though not a part of a compulsory class project, they worked on it considering how increasingly, two-wheeler riders were becoming victims of accidents.
Talking about their invention, Saivenkat Patro, an Electronics and Communcations (E&C) student said, “We have applied for patents and also have to conduct trials for the vehicle and helmet. Once this is complete, we will work on permissions from authorities to release these in the market for sale.”
The team plans on selling both products as a package instead of as standalone products. “The cost is going to be quite less. We plan to sell both between Rs 7,000 to Rs 10,000,” he said. The team has named the helmet ‘KAWACH’. Other students in the team are Nikitha, Megha S of Electronics and Communication and Surva Pratim Roy of the Computer Science department.
The team is also working on a helmet for construction and mining site workers and will name it Kawach M&C. Another product is a helmet for children named Kawach Junior. “The sensors placed on the helmet alert the supervisor that an accident has occurred and help needs to be sent immediately. Along with the alert message it also sends the location of the accident to make it easier for the help to locate the victim. This helmet also comes with a mechanical SOS button which the person can use when in need.
The advantage of this technology is that the connection between the supervisor and worker is not lost even in adverse conditions like being underground or in a remote area of the site.” explained the members of the team. “Kawach Junior is a variant specially designed for kids. The smart features included in the helmet are the accident alert system, SOS alert and GPS tracking system.”
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Express News Service / April 06th, 2019
RBANM’s Educational Charities is located in a quiet place in Gangadhar Chetty Road and has been running successful educational institutions since it was founded in 1873.
Bengaluru :
RBANM’s Educational Charities is located in a quiet place in Gangadhar Chetty Road and has been running successful educational institutions since it was founded in 1873. The 146-year-old institution, which was founded by Dharmarathnakara Rai Bahadur Arcot Narrainsawmy Mudaliar, runs and manages five schools, two PU colleges and two degree colleges today.
AA Sanjeev Narrain, secretary, RBANM’s Educational Charities, tells CE that the institution provides education from pre-primary to masters level. It was founded by Mudaliar, an entrepreneur who made fortunes by running various businesses. The founder used to supply furniture to the Maharaja of Mysore and set aside one-third of his wealth for the charitable trust when he got a contract for the High Court. “The primary school was set up to cater an English education to the local population. Indians did not have access to an English education. The schools in the Cantonment area catered only to British and Anglo-Indian kids,” Narrain says.
Laying the foundation
According to a collection of records from Dharmarathnakara Rai Bahadur Arcot Narrainsawmy Mudaliar Family History (1827-1998), Origin and Development of Chattram and Other Charities (1872 – 1998) and Educational Charities (1873 – 1998) by Chitra and T V Annaswamy, Mudaliar founded a free English primary school in the cantonment area with an initial endowment of `15,000. Later, it was raised to `40,000 in a rented building on Commercial Street in his deed of settlement dated April 24, 1873, which was approved by JD Gordon, the then Chief Commissioner of Mysore. Since the initial building was not suitable, Mudaliar constructed a stone building in the spacious high grounds of Dickenson Road at a cost of `50,000. During the period, this school was the only one in the Bangalore Cantonment area that was founded by a Hindu citizen that taught students English up to matriculation.
Narrain adds that Bipin Chandra Pal had served as a headmaster at the school for two years. Pal, who was one of the builders of modern India, had come to Bengaluru in August 1881 to take up the post. He had received the offer through Shivanath Shastri, a Sanskrit scholar. However, two years later, a strained relationship with the proprietor led to Pal leaving the institution to return to Kolkata.
Mudaliar was deeply anguished by the wretched conditions of Panchamas, Pariahs, Valangapurathars and Thirukulathars. They lived in separate localities in the cantonment areas and their children were denied admissions in educational institutions that were meant only for people belonging to a higher caste. Mudaliar tried to persuade the government to provide free education to the downtrodden children but all was in vain. He then took matters in his own hands and established Thrukulathar School in 1883 in Bazaar Street, exclusively for students from lower caste communities.At a time when most women were denied a public life, Mudaliar went on to establish the Govindammal Girls School, which is named after his departed wife, in 1886 at Apparao Lane, Ulsoor.
Second technical institute in city
Earlier, technical education was hereditary, where children of craftsmen learned from their fathers and so on. Providing technical education commenced in the state in the late 19th century, thanks to the first technical educational institute, School of Engineering, in Bengaluru in 1860. The second technical institution, Rao Bahadur Arcot Narrainsawmy Mudaliar’s Technical School, was established in 1887 by Mudaliar. Civil engineering was a part of the syllabus and the annual results of the school formed a part of the Annual Administration Report of the Civil and Military Station of Bangalore. The government back then aided the school by absorbing successful students in the State Public Works Department. The institute also attracted students from other places such as Kodagu and Kerala.
In 1888, he then laid the foundation stone for Narrainsawmy Mudaliar’s High School. The establishment was built in an area of 1.5 acres of land at a cost of `60,000. The school has produced several students now in prominent roles. Owing to the want of sufficient space within the compound for physical exercise, a large open ground has been secured on lease from the military and municipal authorities for the use of the school in 1912. MLA Roshan Baig and former CEO and current vice-chairman of Cognizant Technology Solutions Lakshmi Narayanan are also a part of Narrainsawmy Mudaliar’s High School’s alumni.
1) RBANM’s Educational Charities located on Gangadhar Chetty Road
2) The trust has nine educational establishments under its umbrella
3) The stone building is of the gneiss type
4) The high school has about 600 students
5) The Wellington Chair presented by the British to the ancestors of Narrainsawmy Mudaliar’s family in recognition of services rendered
6) The carriage portico in the South
7) The paved flooring of the school’s corridor
8) Bipin Chandra Pal had served as a headmaster at the school for two years
9) The old structure has been maintained well by the institute
When Bengaluru was hit by the Great Famine in 1876, Mudaliar invested in the Mysore Railway Debentures to gain security for the amount he had already set aside for schools established by him. On October 13, 1981, the debentures were nearing their maturity and Mudaliar requested the government to permit him to deposit an amount of `75,000 with the government at the same interest paid by the debentures. This was done to ensure safety for the endowment and assured annual income for the schools.
Architecture
The stone building is of the gneiss type, which is generally found in and near Bengaluru. While the floor is all paved, the roof has flat terracing throughout and is supported on steel girders and wooden joists in the hall and on wooden beams and joists in other parts. The building has a main entrance with a carriage portico in the South.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Akhila Damodaran / Express News Service / March 07th, 2019
He was an ace linguist, grammarian, lexicographer, editor of numerous volumes, epigraphist and literary critic. He roughly churned out 80 research articles in 40 years in both Kannada and English. Always seen in a close collared coat and dhoti, he was humility personified. The Government of Mysore conferred on him the Kannada Rajyotsava Award. And in recognition of his Lifetime contribution to the world of Kannada Studies, the University of Mysore bestowed on him an Honorary D. Litt in 1969. He is D. L. Narasimhachar, the epitome of scholarship.
By Dr. S. N. Bhagirath
Doddabele Lakshmi Narasimhachar was born on 27th October 1906 in Chikkanayakanahalli, Tumkur district. His father Shamayya Iyengar was a clerk in the Sub-Registrar’s Office. His mother Lakshmamma was daughter of Annaswamy Iyengar, known for his rendition of Mahabharata (Bharathavachana). D.L. Narasimhachar (DLN) spent most of his childhood at Annaswamy Iyengar’s house and he had mastered “Jaimini Bharatha” by the age of 12 ! His family had migrated from Salem during the Vijayanagar Empire’s reign.
Narasimhachar had his schooling at Pavagada, then at Madhugiri and Sira. He learnt Sanskrit through private tuition. While in school, he was an avid contributor to the school magazine “School Folk” which was started by Principal Krishnaswamy Iyer. His earliest articles were an English article titled “The Story of a Cotton Seed” and a Kannada article titled “Dodda Manushyaru Yaaru?” In his school years, he had read works of Raghuvamsa and Champunarayana. During these school years, B.M. Srikantaiah once paid a visit to DLN’s school and took a class on “Stories from Aeneid.” This class captured DLN’s attention and fostered an ardent devotion to B.M. Srikantaiah under whose aegis he would later complete his Master’s qualification.
Narasimhachar joined Central College, Bangalore, in 1927 for his Bachelor’s Degree. His chosen subjects here were Chemistry and Physics. As he scored high marks in Kannada, he joined MA Course (in Kannada) at Maharaja’s College, Mysore. Here, his classmates included K.V. Puttappa, K.V. Raghavachar, Anantarangachar and K. Venkataramappa. While at Maharaja’s College, he came under the tutelage of B.M. Srikantaiah, Rallapalli Anatha Krishna Sharma, C.R. Narasimha Sastry, T. S. Venkanayya and A.R. Krishna Shastry. During his free time, he would frequent Oriental Research Library to peruse old Kannada manuscripts. Narasimhachar completed his MA in 1929 and was awarded the H. V. Nanjundaiah Gold Medal.
DLN was among the first to secure a research grant set aside for the Kannada Department. The Research topic was on the period during which Veerashaiva Literature developed in Karnataka. His first job was as a resident lecturer at Oriental Research Library. Concurrently, he was taken in as a part-time lecturer at Maharaja’s College Kannada Department.
DLN married Muthamma, last daughter of Tiruvallur Sreenivasa Raghavachar, who was himself a great Kannada Scholar. Raghavachar’s residence was a treasure house of rare Kannada books. Narasimhachar utilised this veritable library and penned “Pampa Ramayana Sangraha.” The couple’s first issue was a daughter by name Rajalakshmi. Their second child, a boy, died early in his childhood and this was a great loss to the parents. They would have four more children — Prabha, Padmini, Jayashree and Madhavi.
DLN is famously believed to have dissuaded his first daughter from pursuing Kannada Studies for BA degree. He felt that if she happened to secure a first rank in BA degree, then the gossiping tongues would blame him for favouritism and nepotism !
DLN had a penchant for ‘snuff’, something he picked up from his close friend Kuvempu. Interestingly, Kuvempu is believed to have later given up the habit, whereas his friend continued it till his later years.
D.L. Narasimhachar (standing second from right); T.S. Venkanayya (sitting second from left), B.M. Srikantaiah (sitting third from left) and G. Venkatasubbaiah (squatting on floor – extreme right). Others’ name not known. (File photo)
Narasimhachar was appointed full-time lecturer in Kannada in 1932 at Maharaja’s College. He remained here for the next seven years and was deputed to the Intermediate College in Mysore (present day Yuvaraja College) from 1939 to 1941. His promotion to the post of Assistant Professor saw him being transferred to Bangalore Central College in 1945. By 1948, he was promoted and consequently transferred back to Maharaja’s College, Mysore.
In 1954, he was appointed Chief Editor of the ‘Kannada-Kannada’ Dictionary Project — a role which required him to again relocate back to Bangalore! Two years hence, by 1956, he was promoted to the post of Professor and came back to Maharaja’s College where he would teach for the next six years before retiring in 1962. His teaching tenure spanning thirty years from 1932 – 1962 was divided almost equally between Mysore and Bangalore.
Following his retirement in 1962, he was appointed UGC Research Fellow for the next six years at the University of Mysore — Department of Kannada Studies. On the demise of T.N. Srikantaiah, he took over the position of Chair of ‘Kannada-Kannada’ Dictionary Project. He eventually presided over the official release of the first edition of the Dictionary. During these years, he published his magnum opus on the art of ‘editorship’ titled “Kannada Grantha Sampadane.” This hectic schedule sadly resulted in him suffering his first heart attack in 1965. Between 1959 and 1963, he edited the prestigious academic journal “Prabuddha Karnataka” on behalf of Prasaranga of Mysore University.
Narasimhachar delivered many lectures on Mysore Akashvani (later AIR). His radio address in 1943 on contemporary Kannada poetry dealt with many elements, which critics later considered to be an early foretelling of ‘Navodaya Literature.’ He penned a memorable preface to K.S. Narasimha Swamy’s famous work “Shilalathe.” His love for ‘Halegannada’ saw him evince keen interest in Epigraphical studies — resulting in a close involvement in the publication of successive volumes of ‘Epigraphia Carnatica.’
His closest acquaintances included T.N. Srikantaiah, N. Shivarama Shastry, K.V. Raghavachar, T.P. Krishnachar, K. Venkataramappa. S. Srikanta Sastri and Kuvempu. Among his list of friends were the likes of V. Raghavan, N. Anantarangachar, Pu.Ti. Narasimhachar, Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar, D. K. Bhimasena Rao, Manjappa Bhatta, M. R. Sreenivasa Murthy and A. N. Murthy Rao. Among his illustrious students were Parameshwara Bhatta, D. Javare Gowda, H.M. Shankar Narayan Rao, M. Chidanandamurthy and T.V. Venkatachala Sastry.
DLN authored four major works in Kannada, edited about nine comprehensive volumes, penned about eleven prefaces, close to eighty-odd articles across three decades, seven monographs in English and four masterly introductions to various books. His introduction to ‘Vaddaradhane’, ‘Pampa Ramayana Sangraha’ and ‘Sukumara Charitam’ are the best of their kind in Kannada.
Narasimhachar’s scholarship was vast. In fact, it is believed that T.N. Srikantaiah once remarked that “DLN’s name was synonymous with scholarship!”
Maharaja’s College Group Photo (undated) shows (sitting from left) Prof. Chandrashekhar Pattankar Bhat, M.R. Varadachar, Lakshminarasimaiah, M.H. Krishna, A.R. Krishna Sastri, Name unknown, Name unknown, Dr. S. Srikanta Sastri and Ralapalli Anantha Krishna Sharma; (standing bottom row from left) Name unknown, Name unknown, Name unknown, V. Sitaramaiah, K. Venkataramappa, Prof. Nam Sivarama Sastri, Dr. D.L. Narasimhachar and Chengalvarayan. Others’ name not known.
He was an ace linguist, grammarian, lexicographer, editor of numerous volumes, epigraphist and literary critic. He roughly churned out eighty research articles in forty years in both Kannada and English. Always seen in a close collared coat and dhoti, he was humility personified.
He was honoured on multiple occasions by the Kannada Sahitya Akademi. He presided over the 41st Kannada Sahitya Sammelana at Bidar in 1960. He received two Felicitation Volumes — “Jnanopasaka” (1960) and “Upayana” (1967) with rare articles penned by subject experts and close friends. The Government of Mysore awarded the Kannada Rajyotsava Award. In recognition of his Lifetime contribution to the world of Kannada Studies, the University of Mysore bestowed on him an Honorary D. Litt in 1969.
The relentless pace of work sadly resulted in a second fatal heart attack on the night of 7th May 1971. He was 65-years- old at the time of his death. He is cherished by generations of Kannada scholars (many of them his students) who remember his affable, affectionate bearing which often concealed a mountain of intellect.
The Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has named the Fifth Cross Road in Saraswathipuram after this great soul.
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source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Feature Articles / by Dr. S.N. Bhagirath
Anuradha Vikranth believes that dance enhances the personality and helps to connect with oneself and will be attending the TEDxMSRIT event as a speaker.
Ramaiah Institute of Technology (Photo | RIT Website)
The talks at the conference, called TED Talks, are then made available on TED.com. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bengaluru is organising an independent TEDx event on March 2, 9am to 5pm. Renowned speakers will be joining the event. Anuradha Vikranth is a danseuse who has incorporated dance into every aspect of her life. She believes that dance enhances the personality and helps to connect with oneself and will be attending the TEDxMSRIT event as a speaker.
Other speakers include Archana Timmaraju, who has a hearing impairment, and Daniel Sundaram.
Through sheer grit and hardwork, Timmaraju embarked on a journey called ‘Silent Expedition’ with her partner Sundaram to empower the community across India. Dr Prabha Chandra will also be present at the talk. He is the Head of Psychiatry at NIMHANS and has spent the larger part of her career exploring and unravelling the intricacies of the mind and will enlighten the audience with a talk on the complexities of the mind. Cohan Sujay Carlos is a researcher and the CEO of Aiaioo labs. The speaker’s brainchild, Mechanical Chef, is a robot that can cook more than 100 Indian dishes.
Kim Sain Jidung will also be joining the panel and is actively involved in the drive against prevention of sex trafficking and empowering survivors to lead a transformed life. Girish Badragond is the son of a farmer and is currently a partner at Santepp Systems, a fast-growing technocrat proprietary firm in the field of agricultural technology manufacture. N M Prathap will also speak at the event and is well-known for being the epitome of a small-town boy from Mandya making it big in the world. He won a gold and silver medal and $1,0000 in International Robotics Exhibition held in Tokyo in 2017.
The event will be held at Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, on March 2, 9 am – 5pm. Tickets are priced at `800 and available on http://bit.ly/TEDx_Tickets.
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Bengaluru / by Express News Service / March 02nd, 2019
Vedkiran was devastated when he wasn’t able to hire the right chef who shared his vision for healthy, tasty and sophisticated desserts in his establishment.
Bangalore-based ‘Whitecaps International School of Pastry’ was not just a startup but also what Vedkiran needed to equip his own business along with the entire food industry.
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Vedkiran was devastated when he wasn’t able to hire the right chef who shared his vision for healthy, tasty and sophisticated desserts in his establishment. Now, as a businessman himself, he couldn’t afford to go away for a three-year course to learn all the nuances taught in pastry school. “I needed a place that could give practical training in this regard. Theoretical training through conventional courses was not enough,” says Vedkiran. A small look into the state of pastry chefs in the country showed him a bigger picture.
Bangalore-based ‘Whitecaps International School of Pastry’ was not just a startup but also what Vedkiran needed to equip his own business along with the entire food industry. “After failing to find a pastry chef who matches my vision, I did some research into finding professionals and realised that there wasn’t any professional institution to teach confectionery or baking. I always wanted to start up in the food industry and through this research, I also realised the gap that the education sector had with the confectionery industry,” says Vedkiran.
Although some may argue that baking is too niche a category to have an institute for, Vedkiran begs to differ. “We as Indians have a conventional way of seeing things. Anything that isn’t usual, we consider niche. But if you look deeper, most of the urban populace is familiar with international gourmet food. And confectioneries, dessert bars are on a rise lately. You can find sophisticated outlets that exclusively serve desserts running successfully. Today’s urban citizen is not happy with the usual. And, as the industry grows so does the need for professional pastry chefs. That’s where Whitecaps International comes in,” he explains. Whitecaps International School of Pastry offers three-month specialisation courses in various skills required to be a pastry chef with 1 week of industry experience. “Our alumni are already placed in star hotels across the country,” says Vedkiran.
As Vedkiran learns along with students, he also has the help of Aravind Prasad, a celebrity chef who represented India globally. Ved shares, “He helped me structure the courses and his experience and expertise got our students the hands-on learning that they needed to go ahead and pursue their dreams.” Their alumni are placed in prestigious positions in establishments like Shangi La, Ritz Carlton and Hyatt Regency.
Started with a self-funding of `1 crore, Vedkiran after just one year of establishing the institute valuated the company for `11 crores and acquired investment for a 6 per cent share in the company. Besides expanding the infrastructure of the Bengaluru institute, Vedkiran plans on franchising the institute to Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai.
In a Nutshell
Vedkiran, a Bengaluru-based MBA grad started Whitecaps International School of Pastry in 2016
Self-funded with E1 Cr, the company use their valuation at E11 Cr in a year and got investment for 6 per cent of share
The alumni of the institute work at establishments like Shangri La, Ritz Carlton and Hyatt Regency, while most set up their own confectioneries.
Vedkiran plans on franchising the institute to Hyderabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai
source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Kochi / by Srividya Palaparthi / Express News Service / February 28th, 2019
