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Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2020 – Updates

Note: I have not figured out yet. I will update with a new blog once I am sure. – May 20, 2020 Usually I announce the results on April 14. This year it won’t happen. When I announced it in Jan 2020 world was a different place. Today world is a different place....

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echo “I am echo and I am here”

He is here. He was supposed to come home next month. Thanks to Corona Virus our travel got cancelled. We are mostly working from home. So why wait? He is five six or seven. Super friendly. We adopted him from CUPA, Second Chance. That’s all for now. TTYL

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Android Kunjappan, Alexa and Loneliness

Note: Spoilers Subramanian (Soubin Shahir) lives with his father Bhaskaran in a small village in Kerala. Subramanian is a smart mechanical engineer. He wants to get out of his village to work like most educated Malayalees. His father Bhaskaran is a stubborn man, He won’t let his son go out (village) to work....

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How to Kill Innovation in India using Customs

I did my engineering from 1998 to 2002. It used to be very difficult to get the latest and greatest in the electronics world from the local market. My go-to way to get something interesting was to apply for freebies from companies in the USA, whether it was PICs from Microchip or the...

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Nagarathna Memorial Grant – 2020 Open for Applications

We are in the third year of Nagarathna Memorial Grant. This year we are opening a month early so we will have more time to figure things out. Nagarathna Memorial Grant is a no strings attached grant of one lakh rupees (~$1400). It’s a micro grant targeted at everyone. The reason for grant...

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Listen to Panchavadyam – Temple Orchestra

I did some recordings of Panchavadyam (Temple Orchestra) at Sri Sankarankulangara Temple festival (chuttu valakku) in Thrissur. Panchavadyam (Malayalam: പഞ്ചവാദ്യം), literally meaning an orchestra of five instruments, is basically a temple art form that has evolved in Kerala. Of the five instruments, four — timila, maddalam, ilathalam and idakka — belong to the...