Tent Story & NCC of 1966-67
Monday, March 4, 2024
Monday, February 19, 2024
Smt. Shanta Bai
Arts & Crafts Teacher
by
Dr Dwarkanath K. Murthy
Probably very few of us recollect Smt. Shanta Bai, our Middle School arts and crafts teacher who established a unique art-oriented culture in the school. Her classes were very enjoyable as they did not involve the use of books or even pencils/pens, and avoided the monotony of her teaching as well as the requirement of our attention. By nature Mrs. Shanta Bai was a motherly figure, very soft and compassionate, with a typical Kannadiga/ Maharashtrian attire.
It was in class VII that I prepared an Agarbatti stand using wire ,andvelveteen threads, all under the able guidance of Smt Shanta Bai. The stand was well secured, and for a few years became an annual exhibit during the Dassera doll festival at home.
Let me now pay due respects to our teacher. I spend some time on iPhone, photographing, creating pictures and editing them to develop anunique presentation for self-satisfaction. Here is a collage of pictures shot, cropped and edited on iPhone
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Global Alumni Meet 2023 OU
An edited clip of Global Alumni Meet 2023 of OSMANIA UNIVERSITY on 3rd Jan. at Tagore Auditorium OU campus.
Monday, February 12, 2024
Reminiscence Sri Udapachar Esq
A Short Story
A Short Story
GLORY OF THE CONDEMNED PLATE
One may not may believe how an in inanimate object could find its way to adore the almighty' decorative environment. A glittering plastic plate was to be trashed as usual At Natick MA following its purpose, it was to be trashed in the dry trash bin and would start it's unknown journey along with scores of dry trash and probably in no time would have been converted to an unknown article following recycling. IT'S destiny was elsewhere, couple of days later it flew as part of luggage all the way from Boston to Dubai and to Hyderabad. Got itself relocated at Hyderabad with due respect with un diminished shine and sheen. Never to understand it's own journey and role to play. Plate was destined to be a decorative item adoring LORD KRISHNA on his JAYANTHI on third of September 2018, seated in front of the crawling AMBEGAL KRISHNA carrying the beautiful CHRYSANTHEMUM flowers intermixed with JASMINE and the sacred Basel - THE TULASI. The flowers being offered to THE LORD a 1000 times by way of individual flowers plucked from a composite, coinciding with SAHASRA nama of the GREAT ORGANISER LORD VISHNU and also served the LORD the NIVEDYAM. A YEOMAN service offered by the condemned plate UNRAVELS unimaginable ACT of finding a way in the service of the LORD.
The whole episode reminds another story, travails of "TATTERED wiping cloth ordained to be A WICK". A devotee, who could not afford either a lamp or oil to serve the almighty, as desired, was on his errands begging people for offer and none had responded. The only thing he got was was tattered a wiping cloth thrown on his face in a fit of anger and hate, by one doing his domestic chore. THE CLOTH In its state never knew its destiny. All that devotee could do was collect it, wash the linen clean and dry it and untangle the strands for its new role. The WASTE cloth never ever knew that it would be a part illuminating LORDS chamber spreading light to DRIVE AWAY THE DARKNESS 🙏🙏🙏
One may not may believe how an in inanimate decorative 🙏🙏🙏
2018
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Osmania University Centenary Celebration honouring of Retired Teachers 2017
Studies on genetic effects of Total Solar Eclipse (1980) by CS Reddy, Dwarkanath K Murthy and NGP Rao, REPORTED IN THE HINDU 1981 Jan 28