Mysore/Mysuru: “The Vice-Chancellor called me and I felt happy. In fact, I studied in the University of Mysore (UoM) in 1961 as it was the only University then. But I was studying in Bangalore. I have fond memories of my education and this doctorate will be close to my heart,” said Dr. V.K. Aatre, former Director General of DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organisation).
Speaking to Star of Mysore this morning, Dr. Aatre said, “I have attended many meetings at Crawford Hall but I am attending an event of this scale there for the first time on Mar. 22 where I will receive the honorary doctorate at the 102nd Convocation of the Varsity.”
Dr. Aatre, who has been honoured with many awards including Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan, reached the highest position in the DRDO due to his outstanding contributions in many spheres of defence technologies. He had a brilliant academic record and a meritorious career in India and abroad. Dr. Aatre received BE (Electrical) from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), then a part of the University of Mysore, in 1961.
DRDO has been just a white elephant. All it did was to promote people like APJ Abdul Kalam, because, he was a Muslim. He later became the president of India.
UOM has been a third rate university mired in casteism and nepotism. Even proper doctorate earned such as PhD and MD degrees have been earned through the use of money, caste and other unsavoury means.
@Mann Ki Baat! if you say DRDO promoted Abdul Kalam because he was a Muslim and you criticize UOM Doctorates & MD degree holders then we are tempted to ask ‘Arre Gadhe!! Tere Avkaath Kya hai?” You should call yourself ‘Gaand ki Baat’! Not everybody in Mysore have enough money even to pay the fees and many borrow for their education! Only a True ‘A$$h0le can find fault with Kalam!!
@Mann Ki Baat – Are you from any Muslim extremist outfit? Only they hated Abdul kalam! No Hindu or Muslim disliked him!
If somebody says APJ Abdul Kalam was promoted because he was a Muslim and not because he deserved it, he or she needs their head examined and preferably locked up away from civilization. This disorder is dangerous to the society
Hello Raju Gowda
You are back crawling underneath from that big stone!
Are you angry because, you have no brains or are you angry because Linagayats are ruling your state? Either way, you are a loser!1
It was well knwon that Kalam was promoted and feted because he was a Muslim. India has a long history of bending over backwards promoting Muslims. Think about Zakir Hussian and Fakrudin Ali Ahmad as presidents because they were Muslims, and think about Gowdas who were promoted because they were Gowdas.By the way, why you call yourself ‘Raju Gowda’ , normally the name should have been ‘Raje Gowda.
It is the meat that you eat makes you so unbalanced.
Hello Raju Gowda
You are back crawling underneath from that big stone!
Are you angry because, you have no brains or are you angry because Linagayats are ruling your state? Either way, you are a loser!1
It was well knwon that Kalam was promoted and feted because he was a Muslim. India has a long history of bending over backwards promoting Muslims. Think about Zakir Hussian and Fakrudin Ali Ahmad as presidents because they were Muslims, and think about Gowdas who were promoted because they were Gowdas.By the way, why you call yourself ‘Raju Gowda’ , normally the name should have been ‘Raje Gowda.
It is the meat that you eat makes you so unbalanced.
Hey Haneef
Well, you were posting it from Lahore , Pakistan! How is your leader Imran Khan?
4Your language used in that post shows why In India, people hate Muslims! It is your religion , that makes you do it.
My friends used to say about Indian Muslims too this way: “scratch an India Muslim’, you will see a Pakistani!
Kalam and all Muslims one sees in India, were converted descendants , thanks to Mughal Rule, Tipu Sultan and before then Malik Kafur.
I have seen the Saudis treating Muslims like as infidels, meaning a converted low class ones!
I agree that promotions in a central government establishment like DRDO look at the candidate’s religion-SC/ST or Muslim. Unfortunately for Hindus, it was Nehru under the tutelage of Gandhi ensured that Muslims were treated as minority, even though at that time of India’s independence, Muslim population in India was the second highest in the world , Indonesia being the first.
It is a distinct advantages even in competitive exams like the IAS exams which are supposedly merit based, to be SC/ST or Muslim. Kalam must have had an uplift in his initial stages of career- from selection on wards, he studied in Madras Institute of Technology, a local engineering college, not the IIT Madras, a top ranked institution.
When , even today during the appointments of judges of high courts and the Supreme Court, special consideration is given, if a lawyer is a Muslim.
Muslims have atrocious human rights problem-they treat their women folk as second class humans, ordering them to wear hijab or B urkha. They can take multiple wives.
@Haneef Here in Mumbai, Muslims are either terrorists or criminals or smugglers. They smuggle drugs and gold from Turkey and Gulf countries.
In Gulf countries, where these Muslims, mostly Keralites, are not recognised as real Muslims; but they do dirty work for their masters-the rich Sheikhs from procuring women to drugs to arranging visits to flesh spots in Thailand.
@Haneef Do you respect that thug Tipu Sultan who imprisoned thr rightful king? How about your cousins in Muslim countries like Pakistan and Middle East/ Do you support your women folk wearing hijab and force them to wear Burkha?
In India, the central government and all PMs, have for too long supported Muslims as minorities. Hence, their fast promotion in central government services and establishment. That is the fact.