Tukaram kumbar hochaknalli

Born in a poor family in Hochaknalli village in Karanataka in1951.

Father was a potter who expired in1967. it was a suicide.

Educated in neighboring village up to matriculation.

Married after matric examination, in 1969 summer , though a minor.

Went to college at Bidar, completed my degree in science during 1973.

Was employed in telecommunication department since 1974.

Worked for 34 years and opted for retirement during 2009.

My passion is science; since 1994 I am after it.

 Science is Natural Truth about the Universe. Mathematics is the language of Science. It all started from astronomy, the observation of moving objects in the open space during nights.Tykobrahe did this observation regularly for a period of two years and constructed many maps of the stars. It was known that only a few objects were changing their locations with respect to the other objects. These were known as planets. This data was used by Kepler to construct formulas relating to planetary motion.

My Education:

I took minimum marks in science in my 7^th board exam.my score was 43% only, where as I could score 90% in maths paper. I used to spend most of my time in making maths notes. Mr. Gurubasappa was my maths teacher. He explained maths in very excellent way. He was ideal teacher. Both my parents were illiterate as did the others in those days.

There was only on NTMS primary school in the locality of about a dozen villages. Very few students would attend to this school from neighboring villages. I joined this school in 1961 as a third standard boy. I was regular to my classes. Some times when food was not ready in the morning, I would go to without eating any thing. By the time I was 6^th standard boy, mid day meal was arranged for students from other villages. The local student would go to their homes for mid day meals relief.

When my primary school education was over, I joined to 8^th standard, as a new TDB High School was just started the previous year. It was second batch when I joined to this new school. There was no building and they used a temple premises to start with. The temple called ‘Maharudrappa temple’ had vast ares surrounded by many mango trees. It was in a remote place away from village, like a natural Ashram.

Here in this school, I completed my high school education.My head master was from Tumkur district. Maths teacher was from Belagavi district. Social teacher was from Kamalapur area. I got first class grade in my high school final board exam. My science teacher, guided me to continue my education as science student. And I did so.

I took Mathematics a major subject and Physics as a minor subject for my degree.but I got a second class merit about 57% in my degree. I was selected in Telecommunications department on my SSLC merit as Telephone Operator in 1974.

My maths and physics combination helped me to write my competitive examinations to get my promotions in the department up Junior engineer’s grade in due course of time. For last ten years of my service, I was Sub Divisional Engineer Telecommunications. I worked as SDE Phones Bidar from 1999 to 2008. Bidar is the place where I completed my collage education.

After retirement, I had opted for free teaching activity.

I teach high school students, the subjects like Maths, Science and English.

I had found the truth

I had discovered science after 21 years of my graduation in science,probably in 1994.Though I was science graduate, I could not make out what science really was all about! I had completed my B.Sc. From Karkataka university during 1973.

I had encountered a book called” Vaignanika manodharma” which taught me all about what exactly science is and all about science history.The book was written by one Mr. G. T. Narayanarao, in Kannada which is my mother tongue. It contained all about, How the heliocentric universe was confirmed. How the speed of light was enumerated by Romer and all. How Galileo Galilee confirmed that the earth rotates around the Sun. The Newton’s universal law of gravitation fascinated me. The true story of nature started revealing before me. I asked to myself, “Does the so called God really exist?” The probable answer was no, there is no God as we define it. But the notion of God was needed for peaceful co-existence of social life.

 I had one more question in my mind that “what would be the height at which the clouds form above earth surface?” With some reference, I came to know that temperature falls by two degrees, at the height of every 1000 feet above the ground level. By some calculations, I could guess that probably at the height of about 5 to 6 kilometres height , the temperature falls to zero degree Celsius. Therefore the clouds should form at that height. I found that my argument was roughly good. I attempted to calculate the diameter of Sun by some experiment assuming that the distance to Sun from earth being 150000000 kilometres. I applied Trigonometric formula and radian measure to do so. I calculated the geostationary orbit of satellites as 36000 kilometres.

Thus my journey started in that direction. I calculated the speed of earth around the Sun by applying elliptical motion to earth. This result was almost nearer to actual one. Most of the superstitions vanished of my mind.I became a thinker in new direction. Started reading to understand the nature in a better way. Every day I spend reading and taking some notes of science when ever time permits to do so after my duty hours. The journey is still in progress even after two decades.

I had retired of my duty and once went to my sister’s village casually. One day, I happened to visit the new government high school at that village. There was no maths teacher available to teach the students of high school. I attempted to teach them. Somehow I became a teacher there and taught there till a new teacher was appointed for that school after a lapse of two long years. I still visit that school regularly and if a period is vacant without a teacher, I teach the students some thing on maths, science or English language. People started addressing me as a teacher. Little kids would salute me in respect. Some of the students occasionally visit me at my residence. They seek and learn maths basics at my private coaching location in the evening hours after school time is over.  

I had discovered many truths of nature and wanted to teach the interested people. But it was difficult to come across such curious people in rural environment. Most of the education is all about scoring good grades for getting a good job and earning money for livelihood.

 once I visited a high school in a neighbouring town, and met the management and expressed my desire to teach science to the students. But the head master did not care for what I was saying to. There was a girls high school, in the same premises, where I was given a last period to teach. By the time I started some introduction, the students from villages would request me that they need to leave the school to catch a bus to their village and I was forced to terminate my lesson.

I happened to read photosynthesis. The breakdown of water molecule into hydrogen ions, electrons and oxygen due to sun light absorption was interesting. When electron absorbs sufficient energy, it is ejected gaining momentum and this energy being transferred to ADP molecule to form ATP, the electron again gets energy and move further, where it is captured to form NADPH molecule. This activity made me to think the nature of electron that electron can be ejected and can be absorbed in some other molecule in photosynthesis. I had learnt the nature of electron.

My interest then turned to chemistry. I studied the nature of covalent bond and ionic bond. How metals and nonmetals combine to form salts and all.

The semi conductor crystal of silicon could be used to make ICs to build logic gates and they can be used to make calculations and the solid state amplifiers and all.

The 1980 saw the advent of personal computers and internet services were the result of modern world.