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  1. Vijayasarathy Camasamudram says:
    June 22, 2021 at 10:52 pm

    Hello
    This is Vijayasarathy from National Institute of Health Bethesda MD USA. I came across your website and got interested. I fondly remember my days at DRP (1967-68 DRP Course) and I remember most of those lecturers, Bisht, Devender Sharma, Rao, Supe, Shaw, Bhave et. al. I do remember one Nanda Kumar too. may I know his e mail Id.
    I think I remember you too but you did not take any class for us.
    Let us know more about each other and other friends

    Best Regards

    Vijay
    camasamv@nei.nih.gov

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    • ksparthasarathy says:
      June 23, 2021 at 7:37 am

      Dear Vijayasarathy,
      It was indeed a pleasant surprise to hear from you. I recall your name primarily because of the similarities in our names! In fact, I have not been contributing any content to my blogs at blogspot.com or wordpress.com. I am virtually blog illiterate! I typed a full version of my reply to you in my mobile phone, I messed it up. So returned to my laptop to retype it. I was not associated with DipRP courses for the first few years of my career which started in DRP on 1.8.1964. Then I was very active in giving lectures at various short term training programmes. I went to UK for my PhD in Sept 1969 returned in August 1972. Thereafter I gave lectures to all trainees attending various programmes. In the list of names you referred to: Bisht, my class mate retired; I am not able to recall Devender Sharma;.Rao May be Dr I S Sundara Rao he died a few years after retirement. Dr Supe lives in Trombay he must be 85+. He has some minor old age issues. Bhave, who was with P Gangadharan in electronics group left for USA decades ago. My guess is that he was last employed there as a medical physicist may be I guess in Chicago; Nandakumar took his PhD from Bombay University, Besides other subjects, he specialized on issues concerned with the transport of radioactive materials. He continued in DRP which later became RPAD (Radiological Physics and Advisory Division). He joined the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) a few years after it was set up in 1983 and retired as Head Radiation Safety Division. I am in touch with him and talk to him occasionally. His email ID is annandakumar@gmail.com. He lives in Navi Mumbai. I left DRP in Oct 1984 to join AERB.I am among the handful of persons who joined AERB from its early years. I served as the Secretary of the Board from 1987 and later as Secretary and Director of Information and Technical Services Division till I retired in 2004 after enjoying an extension for two years.
      Then I continued to serve the Department of Atomic Energy initially as as BRNS senior Scientist (BRNS The Board of Research in NUclear Sciences) which was renamed as Raja Ramannna Fellow till 2012 and then as a consultant to DAE reporting to Chairman AEC for three years till 2015. My hobby was science journalism since 1977. I spent more time on it now. Of late I shifted my interest to medical journalism. You may “google search” with the key words “K S Parthasarathy”, you may get a good idea of my journalism activities! I spent a year in the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville as a Research Associate (1981-1982) .I can claim some US experience as well! Please keep in touch. I wrote a tribute to my mentor Shri P N Krishnamoorthy. You may know him . If you have not read it in my blog here is the link: https://ksparthasarathy.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/p-n-krishnamoorthy-a-pioneer-in-radiological-protection-an-outstanding-scientist-and-an-able-administrator/

      With warm regards,
      Parthasarathy

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