In Memory of Russian Designers of Kundankulam Nuclear Reactors ( Tu-134 Crashed in Russia on 21st June, 2011 )

1. Summer Solstice at Stonehenge* on 21st June 2011. 

2. On 21st June 2011 Tu-134 Russian Airliner crashed
in Petrozavodsk ( in Russia's Republic of Karelia)
less than a km short of the runway

Summer solstice in Northern Hemisphere
The day we lost Russian Designers dear


When sun rays touched the northern most limit
And north of Equator all places well lit


Yearly a day of festive season
But plane crashed and became a mourning reason


Designers Ryzhov**, Banyuk and Trunov among killed many
Top three officials of famous Gidropress Company

3. Gidropress Company Then*** ( 1946 )

4. And Gidropress Now**** ( 2011 )

Who designed Kundankulam Power Project in Tamil Nadu
And all Indians pay due respect to them too


Now blame we the pilots and blame we the weather
But high time we designed safer air travel rather.



Pictorial sources :-
1. neshtoto.com   
2. arsipberita.com     map
3. gidropress.podolsk.ru  company
4. gidropress.podolsk.ru.


Notes
* The northern hemisphere celebrated the summer solstice on June 21, 2011. Stonehenge, near Salisbury, England, is host to a summer solstice celebration every year. The stone structure was erected between about 3000 BC and 1600 BC, according to the Associated Press.

** Their full name and designation are as follows - Gidropress CEO and Designer General Sergei Ryzhov, Deputy CEO and Chief Designer Gennady Banyuk and Chief Designer Nikolai Trunov

*** OKB “GIDROPRESS” was established by the decree of Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR on January 28, 1946 and by the order of the People’s Commissar of the USSR heavy engineering on February 01, 1946.

**** Today the company is focused mainly on elaboration of WWER rector plant designs of a wide power range from 300 to 1700 MW.  The WWER reactor plants constructed according to the OKB “GIDROPRESS” designs are operated at 18 nuclear power plants in Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Finland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia and China.

  Today OKB “GIDROPRESS” is the only company in the world whose reactor plant designs are implemented simultaneously at five units abroad: Kudankulam NPP in India, Bushehr NPP in Iran, Belene NPP in Bulgaria. Each of the designs is unique, and each of the nuclear power plants has its own peculiarities. All designs have the following common features: high quality standards of work and maximum requirements for the safety level  (gidropress.podolsk.ru.).

My New, New, New Friends, Welcome All, Dear Women And Mens

1. Location of Albania in Europe

2. Volunteer Teacher* in Uganda 

Albania, Uganda from north and south,  I need to thank you for coming from far
Pearl of Africa is the one from south,  whilst the north is near a city named Bar

3. City named Bar in a small country 
called Montenegro north of Albania

Ireland, New Zealand, island both, one near Greenwich, other near earth's end
I pray the Good Lord Preserve you both, we will surely come for hilly ascends.

4. Ireland, land of hilly terrain
 and restful waters

5. Dublin**  Does this remind you of a song ? 

Thanks to each, each one of you for your stay at People n Places
I await your visits, I swear I do, please do quicken your leisurely paces

6. With New Zealand's help warm are we 

7. See Greenwich in the middle and 
New Zealand at earth's end

Traveler's joy in America all do sight, for Brazil n Mexico both cultural delight
Thanks for visting and walking with me, People n places you have come to see

8. Brazil - a Kaleidoscope of colors

9. Mayas of  Mexico - Revel in their past

Greece and Qatar with ancient histories, Olympic history in the former resides

Trade with Mesopotamian's the latter did, now oil is all does Doha*** speak


Ancient lands I bow to thee, I thank you for stopping along your way
Please accept my Shukran****,as Arabs say n also my  Efxaristo***** as Greeks do say

10. Good old Greece

11.  The ancient gate of Qatar

 From Around the World I Have New Friends 

Thank You All, Dear Women And Mens

Pictorial sources

1. luventicus.org  

2.telegraph.co.uk 

3. absoluteastronomy.com 

4. bohemianwriter1.wordpress.com     

5. gemofaday.com     

6. tripadvisor.com 

7. picslaw.co.cc     

8. traveltobrazil.info    

9. mayan-world.com 

10. seodirectoryinfo.com    

11 .flickr.com   

A Wee Bit More


*The Teach Inn Volunteer Project in Kampala, Uganda was set up in 2007 where Katie Lowe in the picture
 learnt some valuable lessons when she spent one month volunteering as a teacher in Uganda in 2008.
** Irish Folksong

In Dublin's fair city, Where girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, As she pushed her wheelbarrow Through streets broad and narrow, Crying, "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh"!

*** Doha is capital of Qatar. Fish and pearl hunting Qatar was famous for before the discovery of oil in the 1940's.

**** Shukran is thank you in Arabic 

***** Efxaristo is thank you in Greek


Ireland is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world

New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Due to its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. Polynesians settled New Zealand in 1250–1300 AD and developed a distinctive Māori culture, and Europeans first made contact in 1642 AD.

Greenwich - is a district of South East London, England, located in the London Borough of Greenwich.
Greenwich is best known for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time.

Brazil - The culture of Brazil is basically seen in the diversity of its people. Initially, Brazil was inhabited by Portuguese settlers who ended up marrying the locals. This brought about the term, “mestizo” which essentially means interracial children. Then the Africans came and also married Portuguese which brought a race called “Mulattoes.” When slavery was abolished, many different cross over happened that sort of merged everyone. Today, everyone has a little Portuguese, African, natives, and European blood, and the result is breathtakingly beautiful.

Mexico - The Maya people number between four and six million and that makes them the largest single
block of indigenous peoples north of Peru. The largest Maya groups are the Yucatecans from the tropical Yucatán Peninsula; the Tzotzil, Tzeltal and Lacandón of Chiapas; the Quiché and Cakchiquel of Guatemala; the Chontal and Chol of Mexico; and the Kekchi of Belize. They are divided into groups who speak around 30 different languages.

Many do not speak Spanish and hold rigidly to the Maya way of life, while others are slowly losing tradition and language. The indigenous thatched roof houses, called "casa de paja" are pretty much the same. The old crops (corn, beans, chile, tomatoes and squash) are still being grown using slash and burn cultivation. The form of village social organization seems to have survived intact in villages removed from the larger cities. (mayan-world.com)

Qatar - Excavations at Al-Khor in northeastern Qatar, Bir Zekrit and Ras Abaruk, and the discovery there of pottery, flint, flint-scraper tools, and painted ceramic vessels there indicates Qatar’s connection with the Al-Ubaid civilization which flourished in the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates which is present Iraq during the period of 5th –4th millennium BC. There had also been a barter-based trading system between the settlements at Qatar and the Ubaid Mesopotamia, in which the exchanged commodities were mainly pottery and dried fish (wikipedia ).

Matters Of Life and Death

              

God Alone Rules

1. What  Colors I do Show

When flowers bloom and birds twitter
When calves stumble and dogs litter        
And in the breeze, when trees do sway
I hear God's voice, from day to day

2. The Bond of Love

                                                                     
With a cold caress, cheeks do glow                
But a burning touch, me filled with woe
And with raindrops then, when I do cool
Made to remember, that God alone rules

3. Snowy Days and Glowing Cheeks

                         
                               

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  And Time Will Pass

4. Rainbow Near, I Love You Dear

5. Green View - In Uttar Pradesh  Do View

Just as seasons fill the calendar year
Many colors maketh rainbows dear
And sandy, rocky or earth be green          
So also joys and sorrows, life does mean

6. A Road for All,
 Leading to Heaven I Pray

Plentiful time for everything
Be it sorrow or joy, I still will sing
From this earth, will I soon take wing
A heavenly welcome, I hope will ring







         





                                                    

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                                          Awaiting Immortality

7. Within Seconds a Lightning Touches the Ground
   And Within Seconds We can be  Space bound

The embers die, yet the fire glows
Body weak, yet the sailor rows
The plaster crumbles, yet the curtains drawn

                                   Death is near yet hope not gone
                                   Pain does increase, yet smile deepens
                                   Heart does weep, yet teeth do show

How long now Lord, can I keep on the show
Take my body, as now spirit yearns to go



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Pictorial sources:-  
   
1. johnbokma.com           
2. wisecreatures.blogspot.com 
3. adaughteroftheking-morgan.blogspot.com 

4. gadgetrivia.com    

5. mary's archive 

6. lightproofbox.com     

7. edanritcheys.blogspot.com

Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi

1. Institute of Social Sciences
8, Nelson Mandela Road
New Delhi - 110070

                                                                                                            
A Pretty institute with plants all green
Endowed with an equatorial fresh sheen
Well tended by gardeners sincere
Bathing them just as infants dear

2. Canteen no, call me Cafe please

3. Basement with potted plants
A sight one can never forget

Nearby too is a quaint canteen
Basement it is, into which air is bent
Seems strange, but is so the case
From open sides through which I gaze




White pebbles and grey tiles in a maze
A patch of green and potted pants encased
Even a bit of green can brighten the day
Come sit in my enclosure it seems to say

                                                                     

4. A cozy niche it is for sure. If you click on the
 picture you will see white rounded 
pebbles in the extreme left

Note:-
This small poem was written around 2004 when I happened to visit the place with my husband and we sat in the cafe for an hour or so. Actually I think we were waiting there for someone, but in fact I enjoyed every moment of it. Now I just checked out who the designer is and this is what I found and thought why not share with you all. 

So do you want to know who designed the Institute?

Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi was designed by Pradeep Sachdeva Design Associates, New Delhi in collaboration with Christopher Charles Benninger and Associates, Pune.

                             
                              Designer of Dilli haat and Garden of Five Senses.........

                              Pradeep Sachdeva Design Associates gives you worth your cents.........

Pradeep Sachdeva Design Associates started in the early 1990s as a small design studio, working mainly on domestic projects. Today, the practice has 25 architects and designers involved in a wide range of projects, from the design of a chair to the redevelopment of a street.

In 1999, they were commissioned to build an office building (with a built-up area of 1500 sq.m ) for the Institute of Social-Sciences, New Delhi.

Their work includes numerous critically acclaimed projects such as: Dilli Haat at Aurobindo Marg and Pitampura, Garden of Five Senses New Delhi, Street development and Godavari river front development at Nanded, Taj Usha Kiran Palace Gwalior, and new spa at the ITC Mughal Agra, Samode Palace and Samode Haveli in Jaipur.

5. Samode Palace in Jaipur 

6. Samode Haveli in Jaipur  

7.  Dilli Haat at Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi

Pictorial source

1 to 7 - psda.in