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A Tamil Brahmin Indian girl the world and the people of India forgot. Every English-speaking Jesuit-educated Indian knows Florence Nightingale's story, but history has no record of Padmavathi Iyer. When women were traditionally confined to the kitchen/illiterate: In 1917, a Tamil Indian girl was born into a middle-class family in Rangoon, Burma, where her father had gone for a living. He named her Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavathi. At a time when women were traditionally confined to the kitchen/illiterate, this middle-class girl did MBBS from Rangoon Medical College. Then unimaginable for a Female Indian doctor: When the Japanese invaded Burma, they briefly returned to their traditional home in Coimbatore. In 1949, she went to London to do an FRCP, then unimaginable for a Female Indian doctor. She was selected to study further at Johns Hopkins University, US, where she trained under the legendary cardiologist Helen Taussig. Firm in returning to India and serving Indians: Thereafte...

Bengaluru: The alma mater of the 1984th batch of BV Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology (BVBCET) took time to celebrate their 40th year of graduation at a private resort in Goa on 14th and 15th September. It was a well-attended reunion as 72 batchmates came from different places in the country. Sharad Limaye, settled in Australia made it for the first-ever time along with a handful of others also for the maiden time, apart from five guests. 14th September Bonhomie pervades the entrance! As many batchmates started pouring into the resort it turned out to be bonhomie time. They started greeting one another, exchanging pleasantries and cracking jokes in light humour. As the numbers began to dwindle so did the decibels and it became difficult to grasp what the person next to you was saying unless told in a screaming manner. The skylight at the reception was more than 40 feet high, yet the rumbling appeared to have gone beyond it. However, the hotel staff didn't complain...