Reflections of Rajaram Bojji

Dear Rajaramji, I have great appreciation for your achievements and your knowledge. I see in some of your blogs a high degree of religious conviction and messages. One of them is the link between science and religion. I have some questions on that interface between science and religion. As a statistician I believe in the equation Knowledge+Gaussian Error or IGNORANCE =Truth Our mission is to explore continuously the unknown (error or ignorance) to improve our knowledge about the truth. Florence Nightingale thus said rightly that the statistical work is the work of God or discovering God, or discovering truth through improved knowledge and reduced ignorance. Florence Nightingale was one of the founding members of the American Statistical Association and her statistical analysis of health surveys of epidemics in India were donated to the American Statistical Association and are kept in their headquarters in Washington DC. Excellence in any field from cleaning a toilet to cleaning persons...

Dear Fellow Prof. Chakraborty, It is truly wonderful to be remembered by a person of your eminence and achievement. Then it is a great honour that you consider I am of value to contribute to the brain storming session on the image deficit and its correction for our profession. In my opinion it is members of our own profession who destroyed the pride in our field by being grossly unprofessional. While self-flogging is not a pleasant nor a means of finding a solution, the fact remains and has to be recognised that we need introspection first. We have reduced our profession to mere tenders, bids, outsourcing to paid consultants, consultants to oversee consultants and another prime consultant having consultants to further advise, finally each of them acting subservient to a programme manager who has no inkling of what is civil engineering. In the days of the great engineer Shri Viswesarayya , an engineer is considered a man of great integrity, intelligence and capable of thinking originall...

B Rajaram to present paper on Gravity Power Towers at 13th APM-ATS in Paris January 05, 2011 05:41 PM | Moneylife Digital Team http://www.moneylife.in/article/78/12942.html Our babus continue to ignore his inventions, while the world honours the technology man who patented an anti-collision device, made the Skybus and more recently the Gravity Power Towers Rajaram Bojji, former chairman of Konkan Railway, never got a chance to implement his revolutionary Skybus project which would have provided inexpensive, air-conditioned mass transport without land acquisition! The idea, backed by 17 patents, was abandoned by Indian authorities despite a successful demonstration in Goa. But Mr Bojji, who is better known as B Rajaram, moved on to new research and has kicked off the new year with a bang. Automated People Movers and Transit Systems (APM-ATS) has accepted Mr Bojji's work on Gravity Power Towers (GPT) as a peer-reviewed paper to be presented at its 13th International Conferen...

Do all animals have souls. including insects and bacteria ? How does the cycle of rebirths cease when one attains MOKSHA ? Detailed descriptions are available in Bhagavata and Bhagavadgita when the process of creation is described. 84 lac species we go through a a jeeva ( soul) and human species is the one we reach as the last one of the 84 lac species. Today science has identified only about 10% of these species. Jada and living are two categories, and amongst living, the faculty of thinking, discernment, and free will with communicating skills of very high order are gifted to human species while others have to lesser and lesser degrees. Every living entity hence must have a soul. Trees too live but do no karma. They just serve , serve and serve!!! The moment you are given intelligence, thinking, desires and physical prowess to deploy, you start karma and the details of karma, akarma, vikarma all are well described in Bhagavadgita. The same karma depending on the intention, becomes ...

What I find is humans are basically caught intheir own world of making, where greed and pelf and power rule. We ultimately become sub-humans. Recently after commenting on the way we govern ourselves, I realised, I have not understood their world. In their own world of value systems, they think and revel that they are doing fine. may be happy that way. How can you deny that the worm must be enjoying its own world of mud and filth. Different worlds co-exist even at this time as we can see-in the same space and time, and it is ultimately a matter of choice where we want to be. Taking judgmental views, hence, seems to be pointless. The karma phala chases and the consequences of actions inexorably drives the events. Certain kinds of joys one gets are so instantaneous and it is followed by deep depression. Again a matter of choice. Some keep doing the same thing to have that instantaneous gratification, suffer the depression and again hanker for the same state of instant bliss. Best is to ch...

Former RBI Governor : "PPP in the infrastructure area is private profit at the cost of public expenses" [News Reports] Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 In a one to one discussion almost 6 years ago when he was in Reserve bank, I argued the same thing and he agreed with me. Same thing about derivatives, and when Government allowed PSUs to also to indulge in interest rate swaps, I was unhappy and he too cautioned me. But dynamism in finance officers to realise the initial cash flow benefits to present a better balance sheet was difficult to rein in. With all precautions, after 4 years of such swaps, we found the going tough, but on longterm it all evened out and I sighed with relief. Reddy is one single person in the Government, who can be credited to have kept our finance system from a bankruptcy, even when he was goaded to become more relaxed and allow the unbridled derivative market to flourish. The current PPP projects actually are means to inflate capital costs and benefit...

Last fortnight was very hectic moving from one place to another every second day. Covered Kadapa, Mantralayam, Tirumala twice, Bengaluru, Hole Narsipur visiting relatives, friends, powerful soothing sacred divine presence, revered learned and highly respected Gurugalu, Moola Sri Rama Devaru, just to mention a few. It gave me great happiness to see the second generation youngsters taking life in stride and managing the tough competition of modern world with aplomb, cool and collected. It was so wonderful to meet the noble souls who are proactively promoting the new experiment in education by founding Poornapramathi School to give an allround developmental education, starting from lower KG. The tiny tots in the school look so cheerful and are devoid of fear. We pray for success of this novel experiment where spiritual, emotional development factoring in our ancient wisdom along with modern educational requirements are seamlessly getting integrated. I and my wife were happy to be taken ca...