Sparks from Memory

Emergency: Internal emergency was clamped in the country on the night of 25 June 1975. Emergency is a serious, unexpected and potentially dangerous situation needing immediate action. It is very difficult to say, whether, the emergency declared by Indira Gandhi in 1975 was good or bad. Her election to the parliament in 1971  from Rai … Read more

Background: MBM Engineering College was the first government engineering college established at Jodhpur in 1951 by Principal Vinayak Govind  Garde. Directorate of Technical Education of Rajasthan  started functioning at Jodhpur in 1957, with Principal Garde as the ex-officio Director of Technical Education and Chairman of the Board of Technical Education. The services of Principal VG … Read more

Our mother at Bundi during 1930 to 1940: Our mother Kalawati  was born sometimes in the year 1893.  She was a simple, down to earth  lady, who rose from Janupra, a small village  in Meerut District of UP. She dedicated all her life for the upbringing of  children and was inextricably tied to the household. … Read more

Looking back: Back in 1958, there were three polytechnics. Jodhpur Polytechnic was created by transfer of diploma classes from MBM Engineering College to Jodhpur Polytechinc in 1958. The building of Jodhpur Polytechnic was under construction  and  polytechnic was functioning from the campus of MBM Engineering College in 1958. Udaipur Polytechnic was established in 1957. The … Read more

Freedom from Fear: There were wide spread arrests of political leaders, immediately after the promulgation of emergency. All voices of dissent were curbed. Freedom of the press was curtailed and the judiciary, as also the legislatures were made pliable. All strikes, demonstrations and agitations were curbed. Political leaders of the opposition, their families and large … Read more

Morarji Desai:  After the general elections in March 1977 and with the victory of Janata Party, Morarji Desai became the fourth prime minister of India on 24 March 1977. Morarji was born in a village in Bulsar district of Gujrat in 1896. His father was a school teacher. After graduation from Bombay, he joined  Civil … Read more

Indira Gandhi: Indira Gandhi was elected as prime minister of India in 1966 after the death of Lal Bahadur Shastri. She soon consolidated her power and was in absolute control of the government as also the congress party from 1967 to 1971. She won the general elections in 1971 on the plank of her popular … Read more

Singapore: Singapore is an island lying  on the southern tip of Malaya Peninsula, facing  Sumitra, Java and Borneo on the south. Stanford Raffles of East India Company landed at  Singapore in 1819 and eastablished  a trading post there and  looked to  Singapore as a natural place for the development of port facilities.  Subsequently, it was … Read more

Background: Whatever be the forms and whatever be the titles, the process of transferring specialized knowedge and skills from one generation to another or from a master craftsman to his disciples and  fellow workmen, has been going on, in almost all parts of the world,  since times immemorial. Look at any of the conventional arts … Read more

Background: North western region of Rajasthan is mostly desert with  large tracts of sand and sand dunes. The rainfall is scanty with  almost no traces of surface water. Most of the rivers running through the region are seasonal. People have survived in the region for centuries,   with  primitive methods of agriculture and  all the uncertainties … Read more