NIE, a premier technical Institution in collaboration with vaNIEtabhyudaya Ladies Club and CICC celebrated International Women’s Day-2022 “Samathvam” recently in city. K.S. Jayalakshmi Sampath Kumar, Padma Shri awardee and Chief Editor of Sudharma Sanskrit Daily, who was the chief guest, was felicitated on the occasion. She is seen with (from left) Dr. K.C. Manjunath, Dr. H.S. Prasanna, B.S. Sharmila, Dr. M.V. Deepa Urs, R. Radha, C. K. Vanamala, Dr. N.V. Raghavendra, Principal, NIE and S.R. Gaikwad.
iS this person, who was the chief guest an alumnus of this institution? If it is, what is her year of graduation and in which subject?
If not, there is a pick of its women alumni, starting from ,mid- 1960s,who have distinguished themselves as engineers.
Even in its hey days during 1960s,this paper had only very few readers, as Sanskrit ,thanks to many ,led by Kuvempu, was degraded in high school and generally. Despite the presence of a Sanskrit college in the city, its students were hardly Sanskrit-literate. The paper was a dynastical exercise, with the publisher who started this daily, was also its editor, who was a well to do person, passed the venture to his son and perhaps this is his grand daughter. No one knew, how he financed the cost of publication and circulation then.
I used to read this paper then, as I had traditional Sanskrit education, when I was studying in this engineering college in early 1960s. Even suggested a number of articles bringing to the reader, the rich contributions of India’s great poets, starting with Kalidasa and his Megha Dhuta gem. These were spurned . the news were the regurgitation of what was reported in news papers like Deccan Herald.
Dutch and German universities have produced masters these studying the works of the poet mentioned as well as others.
This institution, which has lost its lustre, and, now ,is ‘an also an engineering college’ thanks to its mismanagement of a succession of governing bodies, basking in faded ancient glory. is trying to take a slice of spot light. How many of those, who appear there in that photograph, from this institution ,can read and understand this Sanskrit paper/