Wednesday, August 19, 2009

A walk through Berkeley

These guys know not how to walk;they run, wherever they find open space. And there appears no dearth of it - open space - on the Berkeley campus.
Chasing Nikhil could be one way to work your calf muscles.If you don't want him running around all over the place,carry him.
Karthik posing for picture,with Free Speech Movement Cafe in the background. The cafetaria close to the university library has a political background that is inherent to this university. As its former chancellor Berdahl said: "Inherent in Berkeley's excellence in the postwar era has been the free and open expression of ideas by all members of the university community, an assumption that many of us may take for granted. No one would disagree that the Free Speech Movement had a significant role in placing the American university center-stage in the free flow of political ideas, no matter how controversial."Dedicated to the memory of Mario Savio,a leader of the Free Speech Movement,the cafe that figures in wikipedia opened in 2000.Organic food and beverages are its speciality. Mario Savio was among those who led during 1964–1965 academic year a student protest unprecedented on the campus of any university those days.
Sidharth and Nikhil settle for glass of juice at the FSM cafe, to which we were guided by Srinivas,Ila's father, who is a research scholar on the Berkeley campus.
Visitors to FSM cafe, with flair for international news, get to read Page One headlines from an assortment of US and foreign newspapers,including Irish Examiner, Haaretz, Gulf News and Washington Post.
Karthik with Subbu periamma. They form a natural pair at any outing,if only because they never seem to run out stuff to talk about.
The clock tower on the campus,said to be the third tallest in the world, has its spire under repair. But visitors are allowed upto the viewers gallery at the base of the spire.Looking down from the clock tower, one gets a bird's eye view of Berkeley.

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