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They used to drop by occasionally and would sit
beside us, and give us some small tips, which were
priceless insight into nuances of music. Allah Rakha would
grab the table and would 'accompany' us for a few
minutes.”
This innate ability to be fascinated by curious things
remained with him. While earlier forays were into the
wonderland of new games and new subjects, the later day
exploits often led to applied innovations. In the late
1980s, one day Dr. Rajagopalan switched on the TV as he
was leaving for his university job, and was briefly
distracted by a programme on rural technology that droned
about making hand made paper from banana stem waste.
The strength of the paper arising from the numerous fibres
fascinated him. It so happened that it was all happening
in the town of Wardha, just an hour's drive from Nagpur
where he was working.Within a week Dr. Rajagopalan was at
the Centre of Science for Villages (CSV) and discussing
the possibility of making a board 12 millimetre thick and
with convenient dimensions.
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