Experience

Journey of Phone

I was born in an era when phone’s speaker and mike were still connected to keypad through cables. Telephones in those days were good for some reasons. They had no battery problems. They had steady supply of DC power. Telephones worked even during power failure which was a great technical marvel during my childhood days. […]

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Fiction

102nd way to beat the stress

From: Karthik NilagiriSent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 2:38 PMTo: Saravana PrabhuCc: VK; RJSubject: RE: 101 Ways to beat stress My instant responses are in bracket; not reading them is the 102nd way to beat the stress. RegardsKarthik NilagiriCorporate Development From: Saravana PrabhuSent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 12:04 PMTo: VK; RJ; Karthik NilagiriSubject: 101 Ways to […]

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Article

K Balachander interviews Rajnikanth

Last year, in 2010, Director’s Association celebrated its 40 years of existence. Highlight was the interview of Rajnikanth by K Balachander. I had read the interview in Anandha Vikatan a few weeks back. But this Sunday I got a chance to watch the interview in Sun TV. Impressed and felt justified once again on why […]

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Article

Size of human ear

Once engineer, always engineer. We deal everything with numbers. And we stick to our calculation even if they are completely wrong. Recently a discussion came on the design of antenna size. I somehow related antenna to the human ear and I myself designed the size of human ear. The idea was summarily (and immediately) rejected […]

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Experience

Casio MA-150

Distance between me and music is to be measured in light years. I first tried flute. But when I tried it the very first time, I completely blew out my entire lungs for want of a single sound, leave alone music. I stopped playing flute, just in a hope to stay alive. Later when I […]

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