I traveled to Chennai, India, for the Golden Jubilee reunion of the class of 1971 at my undergraduate alma mater, the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), and then to Coimbatore to visit my mother at Serene Shenbagam, a senior community.
Some visuals from the visit.
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When I was in high school, the schools in the city had a puzzle master come to each school to entertain the students. The event at my school happened to be the day after the event at my nephew’s school. On the day he came to my nephew’s school, my nephew came home all excited to show off what he learned at the event. He said the man called the students up to the podium to solve riddles on a board. My nephew posed a puzzle. It was not a complex puzzle to solve, but it took some thinking, but we cracked it. The next day when the man came to our school, he posed the same to us. Of course, I recognized it, immediately ran up to the podium before anyone else could, and solved it – thus getting a prize! Would you say that I had an unfair advantage? What if I was a voracious reader of puzzles and had trained myself in solving riddles?
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I was honored to participate in the Tartan Alumni Oral History project of my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon university.
Carnegie Mellon University’s social media team gave me two prompts to answer during the Women’s History Month. The short tweet: Who influenced Shantha Mohan? Here is my long answer.
Q. What motivated you to go into Integrated Innovation as well as teaching?
Continue readingDelivering a toast is one of the speeches I had to give as part of my Toastmaster journey to Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) award. I chose to do it on an imaginary toast that I would have given at the launch of my daughter Anita’s book, Love Songs for a Lost Continent which was published in 2018. This short story collection won the 2016 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award.
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Earlier this afternoon, while cleaning out some old stuff, I found a limited edition print (one of 20) about a scene from Madurai, titled “Hay layden bullock cart near Madurai,” and a few postcards. I have now spent the rest of the afternoon reminiscing and reading the news about the Padma Shri award conferred on the author, Manohar Devadoss, by the Indian Government.
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