Officially, we left the boundaries of Bangalore at 7:30, taking the longest and the most tedious route to Doddaballapur. Bangalore was already wide awake as scores of thousands of vehicles thronged the roads. We were very hungry as we reached Doddaballapur by 9:30.We didn’t find any hotels on the way. We had to deal with our hungry stomachs for yet another 30 mins for Gowribidnur to come. We had our breakfast at 10 in the most sophisticated hotel of the town- 'Krishna Bhavan'. We finally reached Hosur.
There were quite a few things that made us fall in love with the institution at first sight. First, the school was constructed by Mr. H. Narasimhaiah who hailed from this village. Just in case, you don’t know who the above mentioned person was, he was a renowned freedom-fighter, a Gandhian and an educationalist. Second, there was a 'Science Centre' built by Infosys. Third, the school was very spacious and well maintained. Forth, it had a beautiful museum and Biology lab, even better than what my college had. All the tots on the ground looked little Narasimhaiahs with their sky-staring Gandhi-caps. And also, it is not everyday that the Principal of a reputed school awaits you in the scorching sun. The weather was a bit harsh.
We began the programme. It can’t get more exciting than me, a Dharwad Kannada speaker; open the talk in the local Mysore Kannada. As planned Avinash touched upon the Basics of Computer, while Ganesh dealt with technical intricacies of networks, Internet and the related topics. The crowd was also very huge around 750. Then we conducted the Quiz to bring about reverse knowledge sharing. I formally concluded the programme with my 'outstanding Kannada' and received a huge round of applause. Look people understand my Kannada!
Then we installed Pariksha, an examination-support application we had developed to the school machine. It felt nice when one of the teachers acclaimed that it was much needed by the school and the processes will be improved by the use of the application. We had a decent meal at the school, now this has almost become a routine. Then we left for our colleague- Ms. Ambica's house. She was the bridge between Parinati and the school for this programme. After having some fresh coconut-water and cucumber kosambari, we headed to Raman Research Institute, an astrophysics research centre. We were beautifully taken through the concepts of Sun, like Heliospheres, corona, UV etc. The emphasis was on Sun-spots. We also asked fair number of questions.
From there we visited the famous Ghati-Subramanya Temple and left to Bangalore, my cozy wonderful place.
