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Rope way at Malampuzha dam Palakkad kerala

There is a rope way available near the dam and we can view the park and dam better using the rope way. It moves parallel to the dam across the park and the beautiful greeneries around will great to look.

The rope way entrance is just near the main gate of the park

The below are the pictures taken during my visit June 2010

 Entrance to the rope way ( Udan Khotla )

 Tickets

 View of the total rope way while on ride

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Mallampuzha Dam palakkad kerala

It is the largest reservoir in Kerala and is near Palakkad. One and half hour journey from Coimbatore by Bus. There are frequent bus services from Ukkadam bus stop in Coimbatore. One need to get down at a stop before Palakkad and take an auto rickshaw or another bus to reach the dam. Dam has beautiful park and rope way.

The following are the pictures of the dam and the park taken while visiting during July 2010.

Malampuzha Dam 

 Center of the Malampuzha park 

 Beauty of the dam and the park

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Shirdi the holy place of Shri Sai baba

Shirdi is the small village in Ahmednagar district where Sai baba used to live here and shown his miracles and worked towards upliftment of poor and the suffering.

How to reach Shirdi:

Nearest airport to Shirdi is Nasik, Aurangabad, Pune and Mumbai. Mumbai is the best place for transit due to its connectivity. Nearest stations to Shirdi are Kopargaon and Manmad stations in Maharastra.

 Deity of Shri Sai baba using his bare hands to mix the boiling rice

 Temple on the way to Shani singanapur , 80 km from Shirdi 

 A park near Shani singanapur temple

 The peak of the temple made of gold - Shirdi Sai baba Temple

Sugar cane juice vendor using bullock cart for crushing the sugar canes 

Educative Videos from Visvesvaraya museum Bangalore

Illustrative Video of earth and satellite movements and relative motion

Sewing machines from invention to present

History of Science 

Kalpana Chawla life in pictures as taken from Visveswaraya Museum

Kalpana Chawla life in pictures as taken from Visveswaraya Museum



The video was taken by me while my visit in Feb 2010.

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Convectional windmill models at Visvesvaraya museum bangalore

Various convectional windmill types



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Model Water pumping using Animal power in visvesvaraya museum

This model gives the idea of using animal power to pump water out.



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Registering a Partnership firm

While planning to register my online portal http://www.evhub.in in India, I got two options

1. Proprietorship: this mode of business doesn't need any registration.
2. Partnership: Hence to make the EVHUB operations legal, decided to go with partnership

Process of application which I have followed

1. Visit a Charted accountant/ Tax consultant in your city and discuss your business idea.

2. Decide who all can partner with you. Better plan to include your family members to reduce the risk.

3. Document and information required

a. Name of the firm
b. Name and permanent address of the partners
c. Firm address and letter of consent from the owner , preferably one of the partner should be the owner of the office space. This will reduce many formalities in applying for the registration.

d. Municipality house tax/ water tax document copy to be submitted along with the deed.

e. A partnership deed is drawn and the partner will be signing it along with witness.

f. 5 non-judiciary stamp papers worth Rs.100/- each used and a Rs.50/- stamp paper.

It costs less than Rs.1000/- for the formalities but need to pay the service charge to the CA office for application.

The process will take approximately a week for getting the registration.

Next a bank account to be taken for the firm for transactions. PAN number to be applied for the firm before operating any transactions.

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Engine Operation demo at Visvesvaraya Museum Bangalore

This video is the replica of the engine operation and useful for mechanical engineering aspirants



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Visvesvaraya Museum - History of Earth and mankind

Video of the oldest civilization, history of the Earth and Mankind



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Visvesvaraya Museum - Virtual Makeover

Virtual Makeover



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The video is my own and taken by me in Feb 2010.

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Visvesvaraya Museum - Live Dinosaur with real time effects

The real time presentation and effect of dinosaur in Visveswaraya museum , a must seen one. The video was taken by me during my visit in Feb 2010.



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Chip Manufacturing presentation- Visvesvaraya Museum Bangalore

Chip Manufacturing - Part 1



Chip Manufacturing - Part 2

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http://www.evhub.biz : Media portal for electric vehicles 

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Visvesvaraya Industrial and technical Museum Bangalore

Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technical Museum is on the of most revered technical museums in India. It is the most visited student attractions where one can find real implementations of various technologies. We can see engine hall, live dinosaur, space technologies, electronics and fun science for children. The below are some pictures and get a feel of the museum. The pictures are taken by me during my visit in Feb 2010.

Live Dinosaur which gives us a feel of a real one with perfect audio effects 

 Full scale replica of 1903 Wright flyer 

 Oldest Type writer

 One of the greatest inventions in Automotive sector - Various types of spark plugs 

 Optical illusion 

 Identify my parents - a game for children 

 Real portrait of an Astronaut 

 Dr. Visveswaraya Statue , on whose honor this museum started 

 Musical Instruments

Gulliver & Lilliput tale   

There are many more to see, only a few are shared here.

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Worst experience with Moserbaer portable DVD player

The very first look attracts people to buy it instantly. I am one among the unfortunate guys who bought it as it is portable, easy to use while travelling, easy handling. But I have not thought of its quality and reliability while buying. Believing Moserbaer's brand in CDs & DVDs, got tempted to buy for Rs.7000/- from a Mall in New Delhi.

It worked fine for first six months and the real problem started then. Some DVDs ceased to work with the DVD player and finally nothing worked. Spoke to the customer care and they visited my home for repair. The problem is the LED and it doesn't have the warranty and was to pay Rs.1000/- to service guys to get repaired.

It worked well for 3 more months and again the problem repeated. Really upset with the reliability of a product bought for Rs.7000/- which doesn't even run well for 9months. At last exchanged this for a compensation of Rs.500/- with a new DVD player.

I request you not to buy this DVD player and bog into troubles.

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Career in Electrical machines

In this post we shall discuss about the career opportunities in electrical machines and company who hire motor designers.

Electrical machines is one of the specializations in electrical engineering. Most top institutes and universities provide Electric Drives/ Electric machines & Drives as specialization where students will pursue motor control and power electronics. By "Electric Machines" , I mean just electric machines, design aspects of various motors for various applications, expertise in various motor technologies. Due to the IT burst, people who are taking this course reduced drastically. Most Electric machine designers are veteran and current generation is not much involved in this career.We know electrical machines are everywhere and every application from domestic, automotive and industrial. Hence the man power requirement is unlimited but no one is actually working in this field. Hence in coming years " Motor designers" will have great importance around the world.

There are many motor technologies around the world and are as follows

1. Induction motors, DC motors, Synchronous motors are convectional motors and are for following applications
- Textile mills, industrial applications, Heavy electric vehicles, electric traction,
2. Brushless DC motors, synchronous motors are latest technologies and are for following applications
- Light and medium electric vehicles, small automotive motors, starter motors, servo applications, aerospace.

There is a great need of R&D to optimize the motor efficiency and increase the system efficiency. Hence people who understands motor are having great demand.

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Masani Amman temple pollachi

Visited on Jan 2nd 2011

Temple of Goddess Masani Ammal  is 15 km south west from Pollachi and 45 km from Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. The Goddess is famous for getting back the lost items.

Goddess Arulmigu Masani has four hands of which two are placed on ground and two are raised above and 15 feet high idol is in lying posture. The temple is believed have a custom of applying grinded red chillies paste on this deity, the lost valuables of the devotees will be restored.

15 feet deity of Goddess Masani Amman 

Masani Amman Temple, Pollachi

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Singapore Airport and Singapore airlines in videos

Singapore Changi airport is one of the biggest airports in the world. You don't even get bored while you are having longer transit period and waiting for your next flight.

Singapore airlines is too good with lot of inflight entertainment, nice quality food and great hospitality from cabin crew.

The following are the videos shared which were taken by me during my visit in Nov 2009

Lingshan Grand Buddha Wuxi china

Lingshan Buddha is located in Maji mountains in Wuxi is one of the biggest tourist attractions in China. The Buddha status is more than 80m high, the grand Buddha was built at the end of 1996.

The above video is taken at Lingshan temple and it is beautiful. The video was taken by me during my visit to China in Nov 2009

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The below videos are shared from Youtube and not taken by me.

Lingshan palace

Oriental pearl tower shanghai pudong

Shanghai city is the most populated city of China which influences the commerce, finance, culture, research and entertainment. It has grown to an international destination from a normal city in very less time. 

Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower

 This is located in Pudong district with a height of 468m and one of the tallest structure in China. This is one of the biggest tourist attraction in China. There three observatory levels at 350m, 263m and 90m heights from the ground. We can see whole Shanghai city from the 350m level using high dimension telescopes.

 Shopping place on the top of Oriental pearl tower in Shanghai 

Beauty of Shanghai City


The pictures are original pictures from my Camera during my visit to China in Nov 2008.

Sachin & Kallis on the top in Test ratings January 2011

After the concluded test series between India and South Africa, Sachin and Kallis are on the top of the test batsmen list with 883 points.

Interestingly it is the 10th time Sachin got this place. We all know Sachin has crossed biggest hurdle for any cricketer can dream i.e. 50th century in Test. He even got his 51st ton again South Africa recently.

Interestingly Sachin is on highest form last year 2010 with around 10 centuries came out of his bat.

Hurray Sachin.. keep this form on and Bag India the WORLD CUP

Indian premier league auctions status - LIVE!

Update: 08.01.11

Players are being auctions today.
Total number of players: 350
Total teams: 10 ( Two new teams joined the league this year are Kochi and Pune )

Teams - players selected (cost of player)

1. KKR - Gautham Ghambir ($2.4million) , Yousuf pathan ($2.1million), Kallis( $1.1million), Brad haddin ($0.325million), Shakib Al Hasan($0.425million), Bret Lee($0.4million),

2. Pune warriors - Yuvraj singh ( $1.8millon ), Robin Utappa ( $2.1million ), Graeme smith($0.5million), Tim Paine($0.27million), Angelo Matthews($0.95million), Ashish nehra($0.85million),

3. Kochi - Mahela Jayavardhane ( $1.5million ), VVS Lakshman ( $0.4million), Brendon Mc cullum ($0.475million), Sreeshant ($0.9million), RP Singh ($0.5million), parthiv patel($0.29million), Ravindra Jadeja($0.95million), Steven smith($0.2million),

4. Royal challengers - De villers ( $1.1million ), Zaheer khan ( $0.9million ), D. Tilakratne ($0.65million), Vettori ($0.55million), Saurab Tiwari($1.6million)

5. Rajasthan royals - Ross taylor ( $1million ), Rahul dravid ( $0.5million), John Botha ( $0.95million)

6. Deccan chargers - Kevin peterson ( $0.65million ), Cameron White ($1.1million), Kumar sangakkara($0.7million), Sikhar dhawan ($0.3million), JP Duminy ($0.3million), Ishath sharma($0.45million)

7. Mumbai Indians - Rohit Sharma ( $2million ) , Symonds ( $0.85million), David Jacobs($0.19million), James franklin( $0.2million)

8. Kings X1, Punjab - Adam Gilchrist($0.9million), David Hassey($1.4million), Dinesh karthik($0.9million), Abhishek Nayar($0.8million), Stuart Broad($0.4million), Praveen kumar($0.8million),

9. Delhi dare devils - Irfan pathan ($1.9million), David Warner($0.75million), Naman Ohja ($0.27million), James Hopes($0.35million)

10. Chennai Super Kings - Michel Hussey ( $0.425million), Wriddiman saha($0.1million), Dwayne Bravo($0.2million),

Topslip Pollachi

Topslip is the picturesque location of Anamalai hills around 37 km from Pollachi. It got its name as "TOPSLIP" as its timber slip down the plains below during British. The ticket needed to be taken at entrance of the forest

5 persons Rs.75/- and extra Rs.25/- for Camera.

 Anamalai forest 

  Anamalai forest 

 A village in forest

 Scenic spot in the forest

 Anamalai forest 

We need to hire a bus which costs around Rs. 35/- per head and the bus authorities will start their service only when they got 25 people for the forest ride. 

You need to be quick in booking the bus service and better reach Topslip early morning for the ride as you can see the animals on the road during that time. You can also book the elephant ride but should book earlier in the day for not missing this wonderful ride.

The above pictures are taken by me while my trip on Jan 01st and 2nd 2011. 

Aliyar Dam Pollachi

Aliyar Dam is around 24 km distance from Pollachi. The dam is beautiful and must visit places near Coimbatore. You can take one bus from Coimbatore or Palani and can reach here. This is on the way from Pollachi to Valparai.

Some pictures of Aliyar dam

Landscapes around Aliyar dam

Landscapes around Aliyar dam

Greeneries around Aliyar Dam, Pollachi

Path to down the bridge

Instruction for boat ride but no boat ride found :-(

Garden in Aliyar Dam

Canal in Aliyar dam

Places, park, landscapes in the dam is good. The above pictures are taken by me while my trip on Jan 01st and 2nd 2011. 

Monkey falls in Pollachi

We visited this place on Jan 1st 2011, I think this is the best water falls I have ever seen. It is one of the tourist attraction 24km from Pollachi. Pollachi is around 45km from Coimbatore. We find many monkeys around the falls and I think the place is named due to it.

Being the new year day, many people visited here and the place is very busy. The falls are just after Aliyar dam while driving from Pollachi.

Spent around 3 hours and we don't know how the time has passed. we got chance to be under the fall for longer time.

Must visit place.

Stayed in Shakhi Hotel in Pollachi that night. Hotel is good and economical. Visit http://sakthihotels.com/ for more information.

Two beds room is Rs.660/- and 110/- for extra bed along with complementary breakfast.

Launch offer of Times of India new paper in Coimbatore and litigations

Times of India is planning to launch TOI Newspaper with yearly subscription of Rs.299/- and a sports bag free. I have subscribed for it in Oct 2010 and waited the news papers delivery will start from Dec 2010 but not done so. The following are the email discussion with the customer service team. 

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My email to crm.coimbatore@timesgroup.com 

Dear Sir, 

I have subscribed to TOI on 28.10.10  and expecting the delivery of the newspaper from Dec 1st. But still I it is not getting delivered. I wonder what is the problem and not happy with the service. 

My order number: IAA 019385

My address: 

*******

I tried to call the number 0422-4201222 and nobody lifted the phone. 

Please arrange it quickly as possible.

Response from TOI to my email

Dear Sir,

Thanks for subscribing to “The Times of India Coimbatore Edition”.

The launching date is not fixed, it will be announced on December last week r by January first week through MEDIA and also by SMS.

Our executive told unknowningly, surly will take action on him.

Sorry for this inconvenience.

With regards

CRM TEAM

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This is already Jan 2011 and no SMS/Email came to me about the starting of the service. I don't understand how they have taken the money and invoiced even without deciding the service date. Wonder if they are waiting for the minimum number of subscribers to pay money to get it started. 

Really not happy with the services. 

Welcome to Muraliii's Blog

Hello Everybody

Thank you for visiting this blog and happy to see you here. I am Brushless dc motor designer by profession, electric vehicle enthusiast, blogger by passion. I am a frequent traveler for both pleasure and work. This blog is my attempt to preserve my experiences with people, places, organizations, and last but not least my work.

I would focus to share candid and original thoughts from my heart and committed not to simply "copy & past" the content from web.

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