H K Tukaram

Born in 1951 on Mahanavami festival, October nine 1951 Tuesday, as the first son in an undivided family of two brothers in a small village called Hochaknalli, in a potter’s family and was loved by all family members and brought up with tender care by all the members together; Tukarm, so called me my parents. I was sent to school to a neighboring village for primary and secondary education. I passed in first class in my SSLC board examination held in 1969. Then I Joined the B V Bhoomareddy College Bidar for degree in science. Mathematics and Physics were the subjects I opted for my B Sc course. i Passed my B Sc in 1973 with good merit. Joined the Post and Telegraph department as Telephone Operator in 1974 and was posted to a taluka place called Bhalki, in Bidar district of Karnataka.

After serving for a period of five years, I appeared for competitive exam and was selected as Phone Inspector and after initial training of six months induction course, I was  posted to Sandur, in Bellay division as exchange incharge . The CBNM exchange was housed in a rented building with five operators one RSA and a local lineman. I shifted my family here and remained here for one and half year. Again I appeared for competitive exam for the post of Junior engineer and was selected and was posted to Trivandrum for one year, for induction course and finally I was placed as Junior engineer Trunks at Raichur, in Karnataka. By this time I had three children and remained at Raichur for twelve years, 1984 -1996.

In 1996, I returned to Bidar on a mutual transfer. In 1999 I was selected as SDE and posted in district office Bidar itself. Worked until my retirement at Bidar and constructed a residential house in Bidar town.

Science fascinates me. G. T. Narayanarao, explained the meaning of science through his kannada book, Vaignyanika Manodharma [The scientific temper]. I encounter this book in 1994 while I was working at Raichur telephones. I understood the meaning of science at last! This made me to think in a different way. Many questions arose in my mind. And my journey into the scientific world started. Still I am a traveler in a bus called science. Once I attempted to evaluate the diameter of Sun through simple calculations. The value what I got was not discouraging. Science is exact mathematics. One needs mathematics to read scientific equations, which are the the truth tables of the nature. For Example,         E =mc2 , E= hv  and so on. Somehow my attention turned to chemistry and I entered into unknown journey. All branches of science are interlinked as we go higher and higher in our understanding the nature. Curiosity generates questions and makes us to solve puzzles of nature. I could visualize the nature of electron while studying the process of photosynthesis. How electricity and chemistry are related; The concept of Farad [quantity of charge] etc. And many and many, are such encounters; the turning points, in the natural scientific puzzles.

See a simple property of silicon diode, or a transistor, which opened entirely a new era of many possibilities; The ICs, the PCs, and www. The quantum theory solved almost all chemistry related problems. The photo-electric power generation by passive systems called solar cells. These things changed the way we work and live.