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Month November 2014

Memoirs

The RVCE Years 1987-1991 Revisited….

Written in 2014 for R V College Golden Jubilee Memoirs It was my inquisitiveness to explore electronic gadgets in my 11th and 12th standard that had made me devote a lot of time with an elderly friend Satish who was…

Chandrashekar B U
November 22, 2014

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