Down the Memory Lane at Airlines Hotel, Bangalore.

You listen to an inspiring convocation speech by Nani Palkhivala for your engineering graduation. Commencement, they call it, in America. You move on to go for a celebration dinner. To Airlines Hotel. Masala Dosa, ice cream and the whole bit. The prime mover, and sponsor, for this kind of graduation celebration, was my uncle, himself an engineer.

That was January 1972.

A Chance Visit to the KSCA Cricket Stadium, Bangalore.

KSCA Stadium Entrance.

KSCA Cricket Stadium, also known as M. Chinnaswamy Stadium after India's prominent Cricket Administrator, is a powerful landmark in Bangalore. The stadium is in the center of the city, and very close to the inaugural campus of my Alma mater, University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, K R Circle, Bangalore. (KSCA have their own web site).

Just about 3 weeks earlier, I had the opportunity to visit the Lord's in London. Who would have thought I'd get an opportunity to visit the KSCA Stadium a mere 3 weeks later?

3 UVCE Alumni Friends at Mt. Madonna

When you meet friends from college days or from years past, the dimensions in which you can converse increase substantially. In the video shown here, which was taken when three of us — M. S. Chandrasekhar, K. Ramesh Babu & K. H. Sathyanarayana Rao, all UVCE graduates in Electronics & Communications Engineering (1971) — visited Mt. Madonna near San Jose, CA, you get a glimpse of that variety.