----- Original Message ----- From: "John Feltham" I went to school in Kurseong, where the best tea comes from. Even Prince Charles buys his char from Makaibari. Harshawardhan it is like saying that you live in Buti Bori! ===================================== Wish it were true! A huge international air cargo complex catering to the needs of entire India is coming up a few miles from the existing airport in Nagpur - and Buti Bori (a small village 20 miles from Nagpur) lies just beyond. It's also close to the newly-built cricket stadium. And then there is this sprawling industrial area at Buti Bori, set up some years ago by our state government for entrepreneurs who want to move away from the traditional Bombay-Poona belt. ALL this has made the property prices in and around that place zoom skywards - almost all agricultural estates between Nagpur and Buti Bori have been sold out, converted to residential or commercial use; and now you can get a 3000 sq. ft. of plot there only for what previously we used to expect from a prime piece of land in downtown Nagpur. So if you are a multi- millionnaire and wish to make a fast buck, think of buying an acre of land in Buti Bori. Guaranteed hundred per cent doubling in just one or two years. Should I talk to a realtor I know? You can thank me, John, by inviting me for a cup of the best Kurseong tea that is served to HRH. (GRIN) How did you find the name in the first place? Sorry, folks, for this off-topic chant. To bring this on-topic, it is well-known that Nagpur is considered the exact geographical centre of India and we have a British-era stone pillar that marks the spot. Locally it's called the Zero Mile Stone. However, recent studies have indicated that the dead centre of India is not in Nagpur, but some miles up north on the way to Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) via Kamptee Cantt. But, interestingly, it's this place Buti Bori which marks the exact magnetic centre of India, and it is in the south-westerly direction from Nagpur. Scientists working for the Government of India proved this some twenty-five years ago and that's why they chose Buti Bori to house the government-owned radio station's (All India Radio) most powerful medium-wave transmitter for an all-India broadcasting coverage. A geo-stationary satellite hovers some twenty thirty miles up in Space exactly above the Buti Bori transmitter's long antenna - and catches the signals it beams up, for further relay throughout India. The 1000-kw transmitter beast is so powerful that when it starts working every evening for a 12-hour stint, you can feel its reverberations shaking the earth in a three or four mile radius. What a long way we have travelled since the first one-KW radio transmitter began working at Nagpur in 1948. And 'that' machine was imported from Aurangabad which was till then in the Nizam of Hyderabad's domain. He had imported it originally from England for setting up a radio station at Aurangabad, much before 1947. It was shut down during the 1948 Police Action to liberate Hyderabad and the machinery was moved on to Nagpur. --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

G'day Harshawardhan, On 28/04/2010, at 2:28 AM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar wrote: > How did you find the name in the first place? A very mundane method these days, Harshawardhan. I to wanted find a place that was a similar distance away from Nagpore, as Darjeeling is from Kurseong. So it was off to Buti Bori, which was found on Google Earth! I went through Nagpore in July 1947 on my way from Bombay to Calcutta. That was the only time I was ever there. ooroo

I have a photograph of my father sitting at a transmitter at Gondalpara Jute Mill, near Chandernagore, in 1937.. He was a 'radio ham' . It has the details of the transmitter written on the back of the photo, eg: Receiver - Eddystone 'Klyodine-4', 50 watts, frequency 14200 Kcs, Y100KCs and Y220Kcs, his call sign and so on. I don't know what I am talking about here - merely quoting some of the details on the back of the photo!! So presumably it was only half as powerful as your quoted "first 1-Kw transmitter" at Nagpur? Carol T. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:28 PM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Off topic - on topic Re: ''Under The Old SchoolTopee'' (re)visited > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Feltham" > > I went to school in Kurseong, where the best tea comes from. > Even Prince Charles buys his char from Makaibari. > > Harshawardhan it is like saying that you live in Buti Bori! > ===================================== > > Wish it were true! A huge international air cargo complex catering to > the needs of entire India is coming up a few miles from the existing > airport in Nagpur - and Buti Bori (a small village 20 miles from Nagpur) > lies just beyond. It's also close to the newly-built cricket stadium. And > then there is this sprawling industrial area at Buti Bori, set up some > years ago by our state government for entrepreneurs who want to > move away from the traditional Bombay-Poona belt. ALL this has made > the property prices in and around that place zoom skywards - almost > all agricultural estates between Nagpur and Buti Bori have been sold > out, converted to residential or commercial use; and now you can get > a 3000 sq. ft. of plot there only for what previously we used to expect > from a prime piece of land in downtown Nagpur. So if you are a multi- > millionnaire and wish to make a fast buck, think of buying an acre of > land in Buti Bori. Guaranteed hundred per cent doubling in just one or > two years. Should I talk to a realtor I know? You can thank me, John, > by inviting me for a cup of the best Kurseong tea that is served to HRH. > > (GRIN) > > How did you find the name in the first place? > > Sorry, folks, for this off-topic chant. To bring this on-topic, it is > well-known > that Nagpur is considered the exact geographical centre of India and we > have a British-era stone pillar that marks the spot. Locally it's called > the > Zero Mile Stone. However, recent studies have indicated that the dead > centre of India is not in Nagpur, but some miles up north on the way to > Jabalpur (Jubbulpore) via Kamptee Cantt. But, interestingly, it's this > place > Buti Bori which marks the exact magnetic centre of India, and it is in the > south-westerly direction from Nagpur. Scientists working for the > Government > of India proved this some twenty-five years ago and that's why they > chose Buti Bori to house the government-owned radio station's (All India > Radio) most powerful medium-wave transmitter for an all-India broadcasting > coverage. A geo-stationary satellite hovers some twenty thirty miles up > in Space exactly above the Buti Bori transmitter's long antenna - and > catches the signals it beams up, for further relay throughout India. The > 1000-kw transmitter beast is so powerful that when it starts working every > evening for a 12-hour stint, you can feel its reverberations shaking the > earth in a three or four mile radius. > > What a long way we have travelled since the first one-KW radio transmitter > began working at Nagpur in 1948. And 'that' machine was imported from > Aurangabad which was till then in the Nizam of Hyderabad's domain. He > had imported it originally from England for setting up a radio station at > Aurangabad, much before 1947. It was shut down during the 1948 Police > Action to liberate Hyderabad and the machinery was moved on to Nagpur. > > --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >