Prof. U.R. Rao is an internationally renowned space scientist who has made original contribution to the development of space technology in India and its extensive application to communications and remote sensing of natural resources. Prof. Rao started his career as a cosmic ray scientist, under the late Dr. Vikram Sarabhai. In association with the JPL group, he was the first to establish the continuous nature of the solar wind and its effect on geomagnetism using Mariner 2 observations. Prof. Rao’s experiments on a number of Pioneer and Explorer spacecrafts, led to a complete understanding of the solar cosmic ray phenomena and the electromagnetic state of the interplanetary space. Prof. U.R.Rao and his group have also carried out extensive work in X-ray and Gamma Ray high-energy astronomy using rocket and satellite borne payloads.
Prof. Rao hails from Udupi. Prof. Rao is a recipient of many national and international awards and the D.Sc (Hon. Causa) from more than fifteen Universities. He was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 1976.
Kota Shivram Karanth was one of the giants of Indian literature. He was a novelist, playwright, essayist and much more. He was also an art historian, popularizer of science, actor, dancer, director, restorer of Yakshagana, educational pioneer, and environmentalist. He continued to be active till his death. The language in which Shivram Karanth wrote, Kannada, is the mother tongue of 45 million people and he has been a familiar name in every literate Kannada home for more than six decades.
He won every kind of honour open to an author in India-- the awards and fellowships of the Sahitya Akademi, as well of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the Jnanpith prize and the Tulsi Samman, honorary doctorates from a dozen universities and the Padma Bhushan from the President of India (which he returned during the Emergency).Karanth was born & brought up in Kota which is a small town in Udupi district.
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The creation of this site was totally an accident.I was getting bored as I did't have anything to do, so thought why not design a site for Udupi, my home town.The information presented here have been collected from several resources & I am thankfull to respective persons/web sites.Any feedback/suggestions related to the site are always welcome.
