Kamalamma Sharada Prasad (92), freedom fighter and wife of veteran journalist and Information Adviser to Mrs. Indira Gandhi and two other Prime Ministers, late H.Y. Sharada Prasad, passed away at a private hospital in New Delhi on Aug. 11 at 6.30 am.
A resident of Paschima Vihar in Delhi, she leaves behind two sons — Ravi Prasad, a Freelance Journalist (Defence) and Sanjeeva Prasad, Professor at IIT, Delhi.
According to H.Y. Mohan Ram, younger brother of Sharada Prasad who too resides in Delhi, many VIPs including Rahul Gandhi (AICC Vice-President), Kapila Vatsyayan (scholar of classical dance) and Sanjya Baru (political commentator) paid their last respects to Kamalamma.
Cremation took place the same day at 3 pm at the crematorium on Lodhi Road, Delhi.
Hailing from Mysore, Kamalamma had participated and was arrested in the Quit India movement of 1942. She was an official interpreter at the Mahatma Gandhi murder trial in 1948.
Kamalamma moved to Delhi in 1957, after marrying her college mate Sharada Prasad.
Speaking to SOM, their family friend Ratna Satyan, wife of noted photo-jounrnalist late T.S. Satyan and a resident of Saraswathipuram in city, said that T.S. Satyan and Sharada Prasad were close associates for over six decades since their college days at Maharaja’s College in Mysore where Kamalamma met her life partner and also while in Delhi. Whenever Sharada Prasad was in Mysore he used to call on the Satyans.
Late Satyan’s daughter Kalpana and son-in-law Gowtham Murthy, who reside in Delhi, too attended the funeral of Kamalamma.
Sharada Prasad’s younger sister Neeraja Achuta Rao, a vocalist, resides at Jayanagar in Mysore.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / August 13th, 2014
With 25 years of experience, this doctor has established herself as one of the city’s foremost IVF experts. She recounts her early days
Dr Kamini Rao (60), Medical director of Milann- The Fertility Centre
When Dr Kamini Rao headed to Bangalore after 10 years in the UK, armed with degrees in gynaecology, pediatrics and in vitro fertilisation (IVF), not everyone was as gung ho as her. It was 1990. Even as naysayers suggested that she settle down in Mumbai or Delhi, she insisted that she would not test the waters with just her feet. “I knew I wanted to take the plunge,” she says about her vision — to make in vitro fertilisation a reality in India.
In fact, even her father, Dr PR Desai, who was Bangalore’s first male gynecologist, expressed concern. “He told me I was going to be experimenting in an over-populated country,” she recalls. Nonetheless, he gave her a building on rent — within the now Dr P R Desai Hospital (previously known as Desai Nursing Home) at Kumara Krupa Road — to start her practice. Armed with a loan of Rs 35 lakh from Karnataka State Finance Corporation and a single incubator, she began operations.
It wasn’t easy. “When the incubator broke down, six weeks would go by without anything happening,” she says. She often slept in the room next to the incubator, and spent sleepless nights fretting over all that she had taken for granted in the UK. Adapting to the Indian environment after a break of 10 years, she found herself grappling with problems of pollution and electricity shortage. “I had to teach the staff how to scrub the floor. That’s because embryos are very sensitive to dust and will not fertilise,” she says. It was a nightmare for the doctor when the power went off and the incubator had to run on the generator. “I even used to import water from the United Kingdom,” she reveals. “I was trying to establish myself and deal with a medico-socio problem at that point in time, without making any money.”
Her first big break came at the end of 1990 when the first IVF pregnancy was successful. In February 1991, the number became six. In October the same year, she found herself beaming when three boys and three girls were born. Today, the staff of five has gone up to 215, and her success rate has gone up from 10 per cent to over 50 per cent. The biggest satisfaction is when people come up to her saying that they light a candle in their house and remember her. “Some of those I “saw” as an embryo are now in medical and engineering college. Often they come up and call me ‘Mamma’,” she says, gratified.
Today, she has four centres in the city — at Indiranagar, Koramanagala, Jayanagar and MS Ramaiah College. Last month, she opened a centre in Delhi while she is currently working on two others — one in Dubai and another in Ahmedabad. Besides, she also runs a two-year programme — Fellowship in Reproductive Medicine. “My students are all over the country,” she beams.
Even with several competitors, Rao only looks at bettering her own record.
source: http://www.bangaloremirror.com / Bangalore Mirror / Home> Columns> Work / by Vidya Iyengar, Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Augutu 02nd, 2014
The 8 ft. tall stone sculpture spreads message of oneness; Former CAVA student designs art work
(Top Left ) Stone brought from Sadarahalli being lowered at the circle in Nazarbad. (Top Right) The sketch drawn on the stone for carving the sculpture. (Bottom) The sculpture that symbolises ‘Welcoming all’ to spread the message of oneness.
Mysore :
A stone sculpture spreading the message “We are all one” has come up in Nazarbad making it as one of the attractive circles in city.
Mysore, known as the Cultural Capital and Heritage City, has added another artistic circle spreading the message of oneness.
The circle is named after late Dr. H.C. Vishnumurthy, Founder of Gopala Gowda Shanthaveri Memorial Hospital, who was also a writer, thinker and a social reformer.
Former MLC D. Madegowda had urged the MCC to name a circle or a road in the surroundings of the Hospital after Dr. Vishnumurthy and the MCC during a meeting decided to name the new circle opposite Ginger Hotel in Nazarbad after Dr. Vishnumurthy.
K. Lokesh, a BFA graduate in Graphic Designing from CAVA and a resident of Kuvempunagar in city, designed the art work. Speaking to SOM, he said that it was decided to install an unique stone sculpture at the circle as the family members of Dr. Vishnumurthy had told him that the sculpture should spread the message of oneness to the public.
According to their instructions, he created a design and showed it to them which they accepted. He further said that a 10 ft. height stone which was six feet wide and weighing nine tonnes was brought from Sadarahalli to the city and sculptor Roopesh with the help of two other artists created the sculpture in 25 days.
The sculpture is now 6 ft. tall, five feet wide in the bottom and three feet wide on the top with a carving of a human spreading the hands etched into the stone. “The open hands symbolises welcoming everyone and is a abstract work,” said Lokesh.
The MCC wanted a statue of Dr. Vishnumurthy to be installed but Dr. Rekha, wife of late Dr. Vishnumurthy and family members did not want that. Instead, they requested the MCC to install a artistic sculpture spreading the message of oneness in society. They also wanted an artistic sculpture as it went with the idea of Mysore being a cultural city.
Interestingly, the family also told the MCC that since there is water scarcity, the circle be developed as a dry one by using pebbles to decorate the circle instead of plants.
Dr. H.V. Santhrupth, son of late Dr. Vishnumurthy, speaking to SOM, said that he was grateful that the MCC and Mysoreans had acknowledged the contribution of his father to health care, education and literature. He said he was also thankful that the MCC agreed to his family’s request not to install a statue or bust of his father and instead have put a artistic sculpture.
Dr. Santhrupth also added that it was time the MCC created circles that were artistic and added ” It not only encourages artists, but also become a taking point among tourists and Mysoreans. It will also promotes Mysore’s image as an cultural and heritage city.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / August 05th, 2014
Dr. Thomas Chandy has a collection of over 400 musical instruments from around the globe.
Meeting Dr. Thomas Chandy is not easy. The chance to see the orthopaedic surgeon’s collection of over 400 musical instruments was cancelled twice as the good doctor is called away for emergency operations. Finally when we do meet up, the musician-doctor takes us through his collection, which is arresting not just for its variety, but also for the insight it offers into Dr. Chandy’s interests. Walking through his house, is like stepping back in time.
A range of antique swords are on the ground floor and a host of musical instruments, including an ancient harp, occupy vantage points in his drawing room.
“I would advise everyone to be associated with music from a young age,” says Dr. Chandy, who first sang in a church choir when he was barely seven. He was later trained to play the guitar, saxophone and the piano. “Learning an instrument is a bonus for surgeons. Like musicians, brain-eye-hand co-ordination is vital for us.”
Dr. Chandy is Chairman and Managing Director of HOSMAT, and has done 30,000 operations in 30 years. After graduating from St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore, he moved to the U.S. in 1976 for his residency and returned to India in 1993 to start an orthopaedic, neuro and accident-trauma hospital.
“I am spiritual and worship my music,” says Dr. Chandy as he leads us into the humidity-controlled space that houses his instruments. Neatly stacked and labelled, he picks up each to play and explain. As he plucks on the strings of the harpsichord, he explains that it usually has two keyboards with two or more strings for each note. The concert harp and the 100-year-old lute from Germany have their sounds intact.
The U.S-based Society of Musical Instrument Collectors has recognised his collection as the biggest in Asia. Amongst his priced possessions are the South American Marimba (a large wooden percussion instrument with resonators;) a pedal steel guitar, a Steinway piano; a vibraphone; the stringed Chinese koto and the oldest 14th century keyboard clavichord from Germany. “I also made an electric guitar while I was in PUC.”
Thomas Chandy. Photo: Bhagya Prakash K. / The Hindu
Plucking on the psaltery that looks a giant violin, the doctor says: “I have nearly 70 guitars, more than a dozen saxophones and western flutes, several clarinets and host of percussion instruments including drums, marimba, xylophone and the Indonesian Anklung.”
Dr. Chandy, is a jazz vocalist, and heads the 14-year-old ensemble, Jazz Revival Band. The deep-toned native Australian Didgeridoo is an aboriginal wind musical instrument that looks like a straight wooden trumpet. Dr. Chandy remembers the instrument being confiscated by airport authorities as it looked like a missile!
He has travelled 15 times around the globe for his instruments that are from the U.S., Africa, China, Japan, S. America and Europe. Growing up in a family interested in music, young Thomas was warned by his strict father that music could be pursued, but not at the cost of studies. St. Germain High School at Frazer Town provided opportunities for weekly jam sessions at 3 Aces and Gaylords restaurants. “The pocket-money we earned made us enjoy our singing much more,” says Chandy, who nurtured his vocals and tried his hand on the guitar during his college days at St. Joseph’s College days. “Being part of music groups helped me develop team-spirit apart from being noticed by girls!”
Chandy moved from rock to folk music during his third year at St. John’s Medical College forming the Barbershop Harmony group. Later moving over to the U.S. was a boon not just for his post-graduate studies, but for his formal study of Western music at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music in New York. On his return to India, Dr. Chandy joined the Bangalore School of Music and built the Cecilian Choir. “Music is therapeutic and invigorating.”
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Features> MetroPlus> Society / by Ranjam Govind / Bangalore – August 05th, 2014
A vintage photograph showing Sandhya (middle row – third from left) at an event in Vanita Sadana, a women’s development institution in Mysore, contemporaneous with Mahila Samaja and Mahila Sadana.
Sir,
Readers of your curiosity-provoking news report on J. Jayalalithaa’s Mysore roots (SOM dated July 9) may find it interesting to know that her mother Sandhya was a socialite in Mysore, with links to the ruling elite. After leaving Mysore and living for a while in Bangalore, Sandhya settled in Madras and started acting in Tamil films at the instance of her actor-sister Ambujavalli (Vidyavathi).
Sandhya’s pre-screen name was Vedavalli (Vedavathi) and it is said that even Jayalalithaa’s original name was different: it was “Komalavalli.” It is also said that the prefix “Jaya” in the names of her family signifies their association with the Palace.
Jayalalithaa’s grandfather Dr. N. Rangachar, L.M. & S., was a Palace doctor in Mysore and his name is exclusively inscribed on a donation plaque in Mahila Samaja, close to Jayalalithaa’s ancestral residence on 2nd Main Road, Lakshmipuram (the building now houses the Lakshmipuram Sports Club). Dr. Rangachar’s image is also seen in an enchanting mural depicting a group of Durbaris at the Mysore Palace.
This context rekindles memories of the similar, interesting roots of Vyjayanthimala in Mysore. Her mother Vasundhara Devi, a glamorous dancer and Tamil film actress, too, enjoyed direct contacts with the Mysore Royalty. Vasundhara Devi counted the Yuvaraja of Mysore, Kanteerava Narasimharaja Wadiyar, among her admirers, and she and her family were part of the Yuvaraja’s contingent that toured Europe in 1939. Vyjayanthimala’s paternal grandfather Dhati Gopalacharya and step-grandmother M.D. Ranganayakamma founded Mahila Sadana on N.S. Road (near Maharani’s High School) in Mysore.
—S.G. Seetharam
on e-mail / Gita Road, Mysore / 17.7.2014
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Voice of the Reader / July 27th, 2014
SCHOLAR: Dr. R.L. Kashyap. Photo: K. Bhagya Prakash
Harvard-educated Dr. Rangasami L. Kashyap is fascinated by the Vedas and set up an institute to further his passion.
He has a Masters degree from IISc and a PhD. from Harvard. But Dr. Rangasami L. Kashyap is happiest when he is discussing the Vedas and Vedic studies. The Bengaluru-based scholar was recently honoured by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan for his contributions to Vedic study, and conferred an Honorary D. Litt by the Karnataka Sanskrit University. He has translated 23,000 Vedic mantras, in 26 volumes. In addition, he has brought out 50 books in what he calls the “Compact Series”, where each book runs to just 100 pages.
But what is interesting is Kashyap has not studied in a Veda Patasala. “My only acquaintance with Sanskrit in the early years was in school; it was my second language. I was taught Sandhyavandana mantras by my father,” he says.
Kashyap was curious about the import of the Vedas, but there was no one to answer his questions. Formal education claimed most of his time. He stood first in the State in his Inter exams, and went on to do BSc in Physics, Masters at the IISc and PhD in Harvard, where he won the Gordon McKay Prize Fellowship, and completed his PhD in less than three years. He became a faculty member at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the Purdue University, West Lafayette, U.S. He has published more than 250 research papers and guided 50 doctoral students. His doctoral work, ‘Ho-Kashyap algorithm’ is quoted even today in text books. He, along with with Dr.Ho, started the journal IEEE Transactions of Pattern Analyses and Machine Intelligence. And yet ask him if he gives lectures in his field of study after his retirement, and he replies, “Rarely. All my time is spent in Vedic studies.”
When did he start studying the Vedas? He answers, “When I was in the U.S., I first had my scholarship money and later during my tenure at Purdue, I had more money at my disposal. So I bought books on the Upanishads, the Gita, and translations of the Vedas by Griffith and Keith. I was surprised to find that although Rg Vedic mantras are quoted explicitly in the Chandogya and Brihaddaranyaka Upanishads, this aspect was not touched upon by speakers on Vedanta.”
In any case, with all the questions he had, Kashyap was in need of a guru. The visit to the U.S. by Madhav Pandit from the Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, was a godsend. Kashyap was drawn to the work of Aurobindo and Kapali Sastri, and his translations and interpretations of the Vedas are inspired by their works.
Post-retirement, Kashyap set up SAKSI (Sri Aurobindo Kapali Sastry Institute of Vedic Culture) for the revival of Vedic knowledge. He clarifies that SAKSI has nothing to do with the Sri Aurobindo Ashram or with the Aurobindo Society.
What was it that drew him to the work of Aurobindo and Kapali Sastri? “Aurobindo points out that Vedic mantras had a symbolic meaning. Kapali Sastri identified 30 key words such as Agni and Gau, which occur more than 500 times in the Rg Veda. These help you arrive at the deeper meaning.”
But if there are such deeper meanings, does he mean to say that no one had noticed them before Aurobindo did? “The concept is indicated in the Mahabharata. Madhvacharya in his ‘Rg Veda Bhashya’ said that Vedic passages have three meanings – one referring to Gods (Adhidaivika), one referring to rituals (Adhi-Yajna) and the esoteric meaning (Adhyaatmika). Later, Raghavendra Swami looked at the last aspect more elaborately in his work ‘Mantraartha Manjari.’ Aurobindo made a pertinent observation. He said that to understand the Vedas, the Vedas are the only guide.”
Do the Vedas talk of moksha? “By and large, no. Not in the sense in which we understand it. They talk of the divinisation of human beings.”
Is sanyasa recommended by the Vedas as the way to attain such divinisation? “No. Marriage was not regarded as an obstacle to spiritual progress in the Vedas. That idea came much later.” So how did that idea gain currency? “Some people might have felt that they could get more spiritual ideas that way. But the Vedas don’t have this material versus spiritual idea. They emphasise on holistic perfection.”
Kashyap says women were not excluded from studying the Vedas. He points out that of the 400 Vedic rishis, 30 were women. He says that even the words used to describe women seers show the importance they had – Aditi, because she is not dependent (Nirukta 4/22); Vishrutaa, for she is learned, Dhruva, for she is firm and so on. “Even in the Upanishadic times, you have the example of Gargi participating in philosophical discussions.”
Hasn’t the oral tradition been responsible for the preservation of the Vedas? “Oral chanting was an excellent strategy, because manuscripts could be destroyed. Also when people chant in different ways like krama, jata, ghana etc., errors can be detected. So, we had an Error Correcting and Detecting scheme, thousands of years before the West rediscovered it in the 1950s, for computer and communication applications. But the downside was that when invasions took place, patronage for Vedic learning dwindled, and many sakas were lost. Patanjali speaks of 98 sakas of the Yajur Veda. Today, we have only six!”
Veda patasalas keep alive the tradition even today, with emphasis on oral chanting, I point out. “What is the use of just learning how to chant? The meanings are more important. Sadly, even the teachers often don’t know the meanings. In any case, how many students stay for the entire duration of the course? Once they get the hang of things, they leave to become purohits.”
Kashyap says we shouldn’t look at Western solutions to Indian problems. He says that it is wrong to conclude that with the coming of industrial agriculture, fewer people are engaged in agriculture. What has happened is that work has shifted from the fields to the making of tractors and the monotonous work of extraction of oil, to fuel the tractors and harvesters. Kashyap gives statistics to buttress his arguments against the use of pesticides and fertilisers. “In 1948, farmers in the U.S. used 50 million pounds of pesticides, and crop loss was 7 per cent. In 2000, a billion pounds of pesticides was used and crop loss was 13 per cent. So that shows that the bugs have developed resistance. Organic farming, on the other hand, allows insect predator population to have a healthy presence.”
Kashyap practises what he preaches. He has a completely organic farm at the Edumadu village, near Kanakpura, Bengaluru, where he has cows, and grows vegetables and fruits.
•SAKSI has published 160 titles in eight languages.
•SAKSI has its own recording studio, and 18 CDs have been brought out on the Vedas, Upanishads etc. In addition to chanting, the CDs give the meaning too.
•Teachers in schools catering to the poorer sections of society, have been trained by SAKSI, and they teach Vedic chants to their pupils. The children say their memory power and their creativity have improved, as a result.
source: http://www.m.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> Sections / by Suganthy Krishnamachari / July 31st, 2014
The 26-member committee has to submit its report within three months
The government has set up a 26-member expert committee, headed by the former Law Minister M.C. Nanaiah, to suggest amendments to the law related to sexual assault cases and enhancement of punishment for the crime.
According to a government release on Wednesday, Mr. Nanaiah will have the Cabinet Minister status. As the chairman of the committee, he enjoys powers to invite opinions and suggestions from experts and officers concerned. The committee is expected to submit its report along with its recommendations within three months from the date of its formation, the release said.
Increase in the incidents of sexual assault on women and children, followed by protests both inside and outside the House, prompted the government to constitute the expert committee comprising legislators, representatives of social organisations and women and children’s organisations, and legal experts.
Legislators Shakuntala Shetty, Y.S.V. Datta, Motamma, Jaimala, Tara, V.S. Ugrappa, Basavaraj Horatti, K.B. Shanappa, Govind Karjol, Tanveer Sait and Vinisha Nero, the former Minister Rani Satish, the former MLC Prafulla Madhukar, Leela Sampige, retired IPS officer Jija Hari Singh, writer Suchitra Rao, journalist Gouri Lankesh, Sangeetha Saxena, Krupa Alwa, Chandramouli and M.R. Hegde are members of the committee apart from four government officials from the departments of Home, and Law and Parliamentary Affairs.
source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> National> Karnataka / Special Correspondent / Bangalore – July 31st, 2014
Prestigious schools in the city, Bishop Cotton Boys’ School and Bishop Cotton Girls’ School turn 150. As the schools and the Old Cottonians’ Association celebrate the landmark event through the year, Vidya Iyengar brings you some rare photos of eminent personalities who sat on those benches.
POWERPUFF GIRL J. Jayalalithaa (66) Fatima Jaffer, 68, 7th from left, standing in first row) was a class four student in the early 1950s at the Girls’ School. Her classmate was Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, who studied only in junior school. “I think she was a good student, though I didn’t know much about her. We studied together for a very short time,” she says. Apparently, Jayalalithaa and Jaffer were admitted to the school on the same day — sometime in January (the term back then was between January and December) On Jayalalithaa’s birthday in February every year, sweets are distributed at the school.
FERTILE MIND Dr Kamini Rao (60) Taken in the garden of the Girls’ School in 1962, this photograph of Dr Kamini Rao, the pioneer in the field of Assisted Reproduction in India, shows her in class two. The photograph was taken on Prize day, when she was awarded five prizes. The bright and ambitious student was allowed to come to school in “colour dress”, she recalls, for her outstanding performance.
CHEMICAL POTENTIAL Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (61) We dug out this picture from the school magazine of the ’60s, which mentions that the Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon, Kiran Mazumdar was a senior prefect in 1968. She was part of the games committee (hockey). The 1967 records mention that she was also a junior prefect of the school.
A FLAIR FOR DRAMA Gautami Tadimalla (45) A ctress and Kamal Hassan’s partner, passed out in the early ’80s. Gautami Tadimalla studied until high school in Bishop Cotton Girls’ School. She was a boarder at the school because her doctor parents practiced in Vandiperiyar, Kerala.
INFORMATION-BOUND Nandan Nilekani (59) This is a class photograph of Std 5 B from 1965 which was the centenary year of BCBS. Can you spot business tycoon Nandan Nilekani? Recalling his classmate, CN Kumar (first on the last row), remembers Nilekani as a bright student who’d always stand first in class. He joined in class four from St Anthony’s School. He was part of the Pakenham-Walsh house. “He was there until class six or seven after which he went off to Dharwad,” he says.
MIND OF STEEL General Thimayya The late General Thimayya is a soldier of the Indian Army who served as Chief of Army Staff from 1957 to 1961, the years leading up to the conflict with China in 1962. This picture was taken when the general visited the school circa in as CAOS and met with Rev IL Thomas, Warden, BCBS. A few years later, on retirement from the Indian Army, he went on to command the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus, where he died of a heart attack (1965).
WINNER Lalit Rai (58) A batchmate of Nandan Nilekani, Lalit Rai was a soldier of the Indian Army, who had the task of capturing the strategic heights of Khalubar in the Batalik sub-sector during Operation Vijay in the Kargil War. He was well-known as a football player. Joining the school in class five, he was there until class 10. He was part of the Pope house. Fun and mischievous is how C N Kumar recalls the colonel.
source: http://www.bangaloremirror.com / Bangalore Mirror / Home> Columns> Sunday Read / by Vidya Iyengar, Bangalore Mirror Bureau / July 19th, 2014
The CBR at the IISc was set up earlier this year with funding from a charitable trust set up by the former Infosys CEO. (Source: PTI photo)
SUMMARY
Carnegie Mellon University is a world-renowned leader in many areas of research and education.
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Infosys co-founder and former CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan has announced a donation of USD 1.8 million for the Carnegie Mellon University in the US to establish a research tie-up with the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore for studying aging related disorders of the brain like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
“Carnegie Mellon University is a world-renowned leader in many areas of research and education. I am very pleased to support President Subra Suresh’s strategic vision for the collaboration between CMU and IISc through this gift so that we can address one of the grand challenges of our times by understanding the human brain,” Gopalakrishnan said.
The CBR at the IISc was set up earlier this year with funding from a charitable trust set up by the former Infosys CEO.
The partnership between the Carnegie Mellon Universoty, one of the foremost in brain research and the Centre for Brain Research at the IISc aims to leverage the research strengths of the two premier research institutions.
“This partnership will provide opportunities for applying new technologies from fields ranging from imaging to machine learning to address critical questions about neuro-degeneration and one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity is to understand the human brain. Our hope is that this new research collaboration will lead to discoveries about neuro–degenerative diseases that afflict the aging population, and that those findings help improve our diagnostic and treatment capabilities for such diseases,” Carnegie Mellon University president Subra Suresh said.opalkrishnan who was instrumental in taking Infosys from a start up in 1981 to a USD 8 billion revenue company, has a personal wealth valued at USD 1.4 billion and is among the top 1500 billionaires in the world at present.
source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The New Indian Express/ Home> Cities> Bangalore / by Express News Service / Banglaore – July 17th, 2014
Shailaja, who claims to be the sister of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, met her elder brother M. J. Vasudevan, who stays at Srirangarajapura in T. Narasipur taluk on Monday.
Shailaja who recently appeared in TV channels claiming to be the sister of Jayalalithaa, visited the residence of her step-brother Vasudevan at Srirangarajapura.
Shailaja, in a statement issued to a newspaper recently, had claimed that she was unaware about the whereabouts of her step-brother, who was the son of the first wife of her father R. Jayaram.
Vasudevan, upon reading the report, contacted the newspaper office and came to know of his step-sister, following which Shailaja met him at his residence on Monday evening.
Jayalalithaa is a native of Mysore
R. Jayaram, who was the son of N. Rangachar, a Palace doctor during the era of Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar, had 2 wives named Jayamma and Sandhya. While Vasudevan was the son of Jayaram’s first wife Jayamma, Jayakumar, Jayalalithaa and Shailaja were born from his second wife Sandhya.
Jayaram, after separating from his first wife Jayamma, later lived with his second wife Sandhya at Lakshmipuram in city.
Meanwhile, Vasudevan said that he had contacted ‘Star of Mysore,’ when reports of Jayalalithaa’s birth place began to appear in newspapers and gave clarification in this regard.
Pointing out that Shailaja had prayed at Chamundi Hills and Srikanteshewara Temple in Nanjangud for the victory of her sister Jayalalithaa in the Lok Sabha Polls, Vasudevan said Shailaja visited Chamundi Hills and Nanjangud once again to fulfil her vows, following her sister’s success in the poll.
source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / July 09th, 2014
