Bangalore, INDIA Photos.

RIP. Prof.P.S.Subramanium.

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P.S.Subramanian - fondly known as PS to all his friends and acquaintances - passed away on 2nd Nov. 2006 at night at the St. John's Hospital, Bangalore. He was ailing for a short period of time. He led a life dedicated to the cause of science & technology in India which is a model of inspiration.

PS was born on 26th Jan. 1948. He lost his father when he was merely two and a half years old. He was brought up at a relative's place in Mumbai while his mother was with another relative in Chennai. As a student, he had to share a small (even by Mumbai standards) house with 15 other people. So there was no way he could study during the day. The only way he could study at night without disturbing the others was to use a torch under the cover of a bed sheet! Sleeping hours were therefore shifted to the time between the end of classes and other peoples' bedtime. As a result, his relatives thought he was a loafer and, in great concern, called his mother from Chennai to talk to the principal. The principal was quite amused with the `loafer' theory and assured them that he was one of their best students!

After PS completed his engineering education, he joined the Indian Railways. His job was to carry out maintenance and repair of electric and diesel-electric locomotives and then test-run them on the tracks. The repair and maintenance required him to go under the locomotive and carry out checks on the circuitry. Since this was quite inconvenient and made his clothes dirty, he wanted to find another method. He devised a method by which he could do all the diagnosis by carrying out electronic tests from inside the cabin of the locomotive and then deducing the faults. He had independently rediscovered the concept and methodology of fault coverage!

Upon seeing what PS had done, his enlightened and visionary supervisor from the railways bought him a book on Computers. Thus was PS inducted into a `new' world that we now take for granted.

A chance sighting of an advertisement made PS apply to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR). On the interview panel was Prof. Narasimhan who founded the school for computer science in TIFR. He wrote a string of zeroes and ones on the board and asked PS what it meant. PS said that the meaning depended on the semantics which was determined by the context. If the string was presented to an arithmetic unit, it could be a number; if presented to a string manipulator, it could be a string of characters in ASCII; if presented to an instruction decoder, it could be an op code and so on. The comprehensiveness and articulation of the answer and the use of the apt word "semantics" so impressed Prof. Narasimhan that PS was immediately hired.

PS spent about 30 years in TIFR working on all aspects of electronics and computer science. While being quite at ease with the most abstruse of mathematics, he was also good `with his hands' and was responsible for designing and prototyping India's first four- functional calculator.

One of the major contributions that PS made in TIFR was to VLSI. He headed the VLSI Task Force set up by the Govt. of India and wrote a report like no other. In response to the recommendations in the report, the govt. set up VLSI Design Centres in all the IITs and IISc. These centres seeded VLSI activity in India which has blossomed today to stand up to global competition. One of the achievements of these centres was the development of a hardware description language called IDEAL (Integrated Design Automation Language) and an EDA tool suite called IDEAS (Integrated Design Automation System) that was used successfully by engineers from the Semiconductor Complex Limited to design chips.

After TIFR, PS joined Sasken Communication technologies in Bangalore where he set up and guided the R&D team.

In 2002, PS joined the Embedded Systems team in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and made technical contributions to a large number and variety of fields. Besides leading R&D in Multimedia, he led TCS' participation in the EU-sponsored R&D consortium E2R (End-to- End Reconfigurability) which deals with reconfiguration of telecom networks in response to context changes. Not satisfied with routine engineering, PS developed a `processor design paradigm' for reconfigurability, essentially creating a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for solving the problem.

.. All the people around him picked his brains and he guided and inspired many PhD students .. Any discussion with PS was like a spiritual experience. All those who have known him will miss his presence but draw inspiration from his memories for the rest of their lives.

His favourite topics and books recommended by him include: Lawvere's category theory, Hodges' model theory, Abramovici's digital system testing, Smullyan's To mock a mockingbird, history of galois theory, galois theory applied to sofware developement, software radio, and combinatorial proofs.

pss homepage.

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Wesley Tamil Church on Residency Road (near Brigade Road)

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Flower sellers near Airport Road HAL Market, Bangalore.

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Man in Red in Jayanagar

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Angry lady waiting for a bus in Bangalore\

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Temple at the Bus stop

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Hotel Bawa

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Bangalore cop keeps the traffic flowing during the rush hour.

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Hari Om, prayers to the Lord by the pious and the Powerful.

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Friends in the Concrete Jungle

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Clash of the Green Lady and the Cyclist at Malleshwaram

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Bangalore boys

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KFC at ITPL Bangalore, why eat fresh food when you can get frozen fat?

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Room with a view

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Doll's House

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House on the golden sand in Goa

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Sun and Hay in Goa

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Coconut trees at Calangute beach, Goa

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Sunset in Goa, dil chata hai

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Dog in the manger, feller of flies
I see a stranger laughing in your lies
Though I don't know how.

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Morjim Beach (Turtle Beach) / Asvem Beach

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Rich man's poor house in goa

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Outdoor toilet in goa.

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House by the water front

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Goa house

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Cafe Mambo, Goa

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Goa waterfront

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Frozen Goa in a Bottle.

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"Stick No Bills" said the sign in English on HAL wall, Hindi and Kannada, but the Southern language proponents have blacked out the writing in Hindi. It means, don't put bill board ads on this wall. Every wall without this notice is covered with cheap ads.

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The house in the forest.

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The Lord and the king outside Shanthi Sagar in Domlur, a fast food joint, serving Sasians of Sasken.

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Mandatory shot of inside of an Autorickshaw following the trend set by google founders.

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Service with a Smile is his motto, something you will never find out.

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The traffic cop from Echo watches the traffic, while the people do their washing under the water tank in Domlur.

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Gardener on Airport Road examining the weeds in the grass.

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New Horizon school next to Sasi (Sasken, Sas) on 100 feet road is in Pursuit of Excellence since 1970.

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Food world says the sign, while the hungry watchmen keep a watch on the hungrier men on CMH Road.

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A pot and mask for all occasioins to keep water and scare the demons and the evil eye of the neighbours?

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Bored flower ladies threading roses and jasmine in a mala fit for the Gods.

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Fruitseller in Tipusundra market yawns at the dark lady in a sari. He is selling Papayas, Chikkoo, Mosumbi, Apples, Pineapples, Grapes, Pomegrantes under a sign that says "Pay and Use Toilets 100 meters (mod parent for MKS units)".

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Roadside flower sellers doing brisk business in Jasmine (white flowers) for lady's hair and Marigold for Gods, while a man drags his kinetic Honda with the wheel tied by ribbons of white thru Tipusundra market.

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The tin woman's house juxtaposed between the mansions of Indiranagar.

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Quickturn at the Indiranagar nursery deserves another.

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Resplendent Blues on House number 3399, is it a dream?

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House number 3399 in Indira Nagar is straight out of Sartre's novel, resplendent blues of the night that never ends.

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Making of a pavement out of red soil is no mean task, the cement mixer will churn cement day and night while people will walk thru the wet red ground as if nothing is amiss, that is my Bangalore.

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Cleaning the garbage, the hierarchy is infinite.
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Coffee shop on a cycle, while kids head to school on a foggy winter morning.
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One way from Wipro Infotech, near Brigade Road to Richmond circle, to St. Joseph's hostel, where I spent the winter of '84, eating Kerasi Halwa and tea for Breakfast and Kashmiri Pulao for dinner with Pat and Kishore Ramnani of H7, Aero, IIT Bombay.
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Praying before exams is definitely in.
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Bor (Ziziphus mauritiana) shop on a broken cycle. Bores come in many types: 'Banarasi (or Banarsi) Pewandi', 'Dandan', 'Kaithli' ('Patham'), 'Muria Mahrara', 'Narikelee', 'Nazuk', 'Sanauri 1', 'Sanauri 5', 'Thornless' and 'Umran' ('Umri'). The skin of most is smooth and greenish-yellow to yellow. Not to forget the talkative types.
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"Style is the word, style is the way we are", modern generation of Engineers and Office workers waiting at a bus stop to get to work in Indiranagar.
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Towing the tow trucks.
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Shiva

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Red

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Bangalore Iris

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Church in Bangalore

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Church

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Ulsoor Vishnu Temple

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KSRTC Bus in Ulsoor

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Pot shop in Ulsoor

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C.M.H Road (CMH Road) to Ulsoor

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Ulsor Temple

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Indira Nagar in Spring 14th Main, yellow and purple flowers in bloom.

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Travelling waterpot salesman, store on a cycle.

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Closeup of the milkman and the lady in red. (I have never seen that dress you're wearing, Or those highlights in your hair, That catch your eyes, I have been blind - Chris de Burgh).

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Closeup of a ground digger, notice the clean pagdi (cap) inspite of the heat and the red dust. Red dust is a favourite of centipedes.

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SriKrishna teaching his grandson to drive a Kinectic Honda Scooter in Jayanagar, 4th Block.

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Election time means erecting flags of BJP and Congress poster on wall.

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The knife sharpner juxtaposed with a water table.

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A sugarcane juice seller prays to the sun at noon "Will the night never end?"

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The Man and his disobedient dog examining the greener grass on the other side of the wall.

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A prophetic sign "GO SLOW", warning people who are on the move to slow down and live life.

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A boy and his water pots, in front of his house.

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Fast food joint for the workers.

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A autorickshaw driver fixes his spark plug, in India every driver can fix his car.

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A motercyclists giving directions to a scooterist. You are never lost in this city, who needs emaps, when we have epeople.

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Scooterist takes his family for a ride in Bangalore, but pillion riders don't get a helmet.

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A shop in Tipsundra market. Near Gandhe's house.

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A fashion concious Banglorean on lunch break, notice the casual look, the D'Vinci shirt and gucci watch, signs of the city on the move.

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A little care will avoid an accident, so says the writing on the policeman's kiosk, but the tempo driver ignores the red light, and gets a little red ticket, as you can see in the picture.

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Programmer on lunch break, notice his badge, his bagpack, polished shoes, and confident stride in Koremangala.

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Bangalore, a city of hats, caps, helmets at a Traffic Jam in Malleshwaram?

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Outsourced programmers on the prowl.

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Water seller in Domlur

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ITPL (International Technology Park of Bangalore) Support staff at Lunch time.

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ITPL (International Technology Park of Bangalore in Whitefield)

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ITPL (International Technology Park of Bangalore - just a phone call away)

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Autorickshaw driver

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Way to go on Bajaj Scooter

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Son of the soil, toil in the red soil of Bangalore

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All roads lead to Texas Instruments in Bangalore

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SASKEN building at Domlur

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Gods of the City

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Drinks to go

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Traffic Jam at Domlur

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Beauty and Milkman

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Sasken Intel Building on Airport Road

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Vote for me

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Election decorations