Average salary 16.51 LPA, IIM A inaugurates JSW School of Public Policy new building at campus, Registration for JEE Advanced Drops 61% registered in 2022, 4 IITs, get new Directors. Apply For PhD Applications, IIT Delhi Gets New Director. In my mind, I imagined the couple being able to eat guacamole to their heart's content. At times, he guessed that I wanted something different than R&D just from the way I walked to his desk. Basically, he wanted to send some group to our academy, to see how we function, and this group was a co-op. I observed that Kandy was a very good listener. Several of Dilip's IIT classmates have written very nice things about him and Avinash Kulkarni has done a great job of compiling all those messages. Sulabha would give him company. I also want to thank the IIT alumni who have showered us with kind words and memories of our dad these are certainly going to go a long way in easing our pain, the fact that he is so fondly remembered by so many of his friends. My deepest condolences. Jayants interests focused on research, modeling, and policy analysis of climate change mitigation, energy efficiency standards, building energy use, power and forest sector analysis. I could have gone down the deep end, had there been no one like Dilip. They will miss his ever-smiling face and friendly disposition, which have left an indelible and unforgettable mark in their lives. Raj was born in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India, and first came to the United States when he was a toddler, returning for graduate studies in 1973. He was one of the most energetic and happy go lucky batchmates. Engg. I used to meet him whenever I visited the Andheri plant. He is always reserved and serious person. I wondered how most of them knew Kandy and his popularity was undeniable. 1. Despite his wild success as an investor, the words simple and humble repeatedly turn up in reminiscences about him. Its his smile, his love to converse about matters simple or complex with a clear mind. One can compare it to a giant tree where one could climb get hold of any limb and traverse the tree. '70 Chem. Just to name a few, he was the Chairman of the Electronics Commission. Linus would specify a particular day and time when Urban should call. A stint with Indian corporates convinced Sid that he could not play someone elses hand. We were all thrilled that this union had been forged on the Charles and one of us had the distinct honour of being the custodian of the wedding rings! What I remember of him is a very lighthearted jovial and an individual who had a good sense of humour. And the hotel was celebrating American week and had pictures of the American eagle in the restaurant. IIT Baombay 60th convocation's Chief Guest Kumar Mangalam Birla Congratulated the graduating students and said, To thrive in this world, I believe you must operate at the intersection of purpose, people, and machines (PPM). '72 Chem H4)[AKA Shankar, Shanky]. RIP in heaven Mohan Patil, my unique childhood friend. The lovely Helena went on to take her Ph.D.In the late eighties, Helena secured a post-doctoral position in San Diego. "The training that our students receive will definitely see them taking up leadership roles, as always, in the academic and corporate world, thus contributing to the needs of our country, he added. I got to know Manohar Parrikar while residing in Hostel 4 (H4), IIT Bombay. The 'President of India Medal' was bestowed on Siddharth Chandak, a (BTech) student from the . He will always be remembered as a pleasing personality, hardworking, humble and a true gentleman at heart! The person who walked amongst us was more than a gentleman. May his soul remain in peace and tranquillity. Services, IBI Chematur, SNC Lavalin and Shiva Engg. Prior to that, I did my undergrad from IIT Bombay. 3 time Gold Medalist at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) [2006-09] 3 . We travelled during weekends to Ahura Bakery Stores, Andheri to negotiate best bargains for cakes and pastries and to Joy Ice Cream office in Worli to convince them to install the first Softee Ice Cream machine in the Campus. With her trademark warmth and candour, Rebeccas ingenuity in designing and adapting gadgets to normalise Sids life and mobility(from forks and spoons to beds to standees to shoes to exercisers et al just short of a blade runner) made one wonder if she was a Mechanical Engineer from IIT, Bombay, in addition to her position as HOD at St. Josephs College, Bangalore. 4 time Chief Minister of Goa and 6 times MLA from Panjim constituency. Where on one hand the impact of inflation is not taking the name of abating. There was a new boy in my 10th grade class. After that he became a recluse or so it seemed. The International Collegiate Programming Contest is an algorithmic programming contest for college students. In the last few years, I started to appreciate the sound of Pt. One day he told me he felt he was on to something big and wanted copies of some articles published in a few technical journals. I told him my wife Nancy, who was equally fond of Biju, and I, would look forward to seeing him back at our home after a nearly ten-year hiatus. Georgie commenced work in Beaverton, Oregon, with the fabled Tektronix, rising to Manager, New Product Introductions, in the Grass Valley Group division of the Company. About Who Can Participate? Those days (1978-82) I shared a cabin with my friend Rajiv Deshpande (Chem 72, H5) and Sushil would keep us entertained with anecdotes. He was a God-fearing person and a man of principles. Being with him was always fun. Mornings at 54 he would be the first to awake, run get the newspaper, light up a Winston, get a cup of community coffee and have finished reading the paper before anyone arose. I have known Krish or Kicha, as we called him and his family for over 50 years. But his smiling handsome face is etched in my mind. I lost contact when he returned to India, and I really regret not having made the effort to establish contact with him in spite of Ranjus efforts. Its been a long 50 years after we graduated; time does fly! He then took up cultivation of turmeric(Haldi) and started to produce very high-quality organic turmeric powder. He had a good handwriting but would use almost every inch of available space. When he met UstadAbdull Halim Jafar Khan, (from Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan trio), he was so taken in by the charisma of the artist ( AHJ Khan was a terrific Sitar player and an intelligent man) that Ganesh enrolled Sudhi, his elder son into the Academy as well as wrote and produced a book, something like a Bio with a CD on the Artist. He had not been keeping good health for the last one year but took on the task of designing and procuring a memento for our Golden Jubilee Reunion on 19th January 2019. After graduating in 1967, Nanda joined Khare & Tarkunde Infrastructure Pvt. He received his B.Sc from Agra University to which Jaswant College was affiliated. I can understand it was not always possible for Urban to do this and tried to explain to Linus but his calls continued with the same request which I conveyed to Urban. As for as we recollect, he established many Oxalic Acid manufacturing plants, Antimony Oxide plants, Organic, Oxygenated and Halogenated Solvent plants. After B Tech (1976), he also completed M Tech (1978) in Mechanical Engineering as jobs for Aeronautical engineers were not easy in those days. He was a very quiet and disciplined person. May his Atma attain Moksha, Om Shanti, and may his family be blessed with the strength to bear this sad loss - Bhuppy GurtuSorry to hear. He also co-supervised undergraduate students of the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, for their final year research projects. Thanks, and best to all *** It is indeed sad news. They hosted our lunch. Leading hydraulics innovator in India. So, in the linguistic sense, Mohan was the closest I had. Thanks for checking, I assured the policeman and sent him away. He held many responsibilities in his long and distinguished career starting with NOCIL soon after graduation, where later he got deputed to Shell in The Netherlands. Sci. May his soul rest in eternal peace. Even after Kvaerner Powergas diversified into the Construction business, Dr. Iyer displayed a clear understanding of this business too. Six months before he died, he went swimming in an Indian river with a band of water buffalo. A wry sense of humour often broke up tense moments: In 2003, he managed to time a visit to New York City with a rare black-out; calmly climbing down forty floors in inky darkness, he joked about how that was no way to treat a guest. Even at IIT, his friends knew him with the same ambition, and often found Ravish hostel lounge devouring one newspaper after another. He later received a PhD from the University of California Irvine. Rahul Sharma play the santoor at the Banganga Festival in Mumbai. Their quick reply was, 'we are managing at home'. Ajitkumar Madhav Dusankar(B.Tech. Or the time in the 1980s when he entered a Bombay magazine competition for ideas on improving the lot of Bombayites in the burgeoning metropolis (gut the insides of the old, then-abandoned textile mills in Lower Parel, and rebuild and repurpose them as low-income housing apartments). My mother is 91 years old now, also knew his family very well. Publications Author names are in alphabetical order of last names, as is common in theory. In the nineteen seventies, the Govt of India recognized his contributions and his talent and it was not long before he moved to Delhi to hold a series of administrative posts concerned with the development of science and technology in India. The proprietors, in the cut-throat business of training hyper-competitive school kids, saw value in his grasp of IIT-level material and knew right away that they were dealing with no mere volunteer. Kamlesh had a passion for music, good food, personal finance, travel, and doted on his grandchildren. I hope youre busy creating art, smiling and enjoying Gods chikki. As a result of his IIT training, he proudly did hands-on projects around the house. She joined the Department of Physics in the Mahila Mahavidyalaya in Banaras Hindi University, where she taught for more than 30 years. At critical times she took long leaves of absence, or even sabbaticals, from her job to mobilize people, travelling from village to village in Madhya Pradesh. Kandy is survived by his wife Maya, his daughter Gayatri and his son Utpal. He strongly believed in doing enough rehearsals to give a good performance. Seeing her proved to us that soulmates are not born for each other, they are made here on this earth. ***********Sad to hear about the passing of Shekhar Kulkarni. He believed that an appropriate tribute would be to install a statue of Te Whiti next to statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Wellington, giving the Maori leader a status equal to that of Mahatma Gandhi. Subhash Kamte passing away was sad news. To her surprise and shock, he collapsed on the floor. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. (The Web has an interesting account of a British citizen named Cyril Hoskin, 1910-81, who wrote under the pen name Lobsang Rampa, a Tibetan monk). The monsoons brought waters cascading into the Powailaketempting us to swim in the muddy waters and Sid was there on the Hostel 7 walkway cheering on fellow hostelites, messworkers . He had the knack of quickly winning hearts and bonding with young children and adults alike. Ghanshyam Soman, B. He then joined the Royal Institute of Science in Mumbai and earned his Masters degree in science. All through this period, he never talked much about his engineering achievements and never had any airs about himself. 2, This website follows the DNPA Code of Ethics. Kesav picked the table mat and created a beautiful American Eagle and calligraphed Stars n Stripes. Hisseva (service) to the community with his teaching via Balavihar and guiding families with their adoptions "RajiKrishna" hold many accolades. While his extracurricular exploits need not be detailed here, suffice it to say he had a great time at IIT and made many of his closest lifelong friends during his time at the school.Upon graduation, Satish joined Metal Box, an industrial manufacturing company where several IIT graduates cut their teeth in the workforce. Milind Wakdikar, Scientist-G & Advisor to Ministry of Earth Sciences, passed away in Delhi on 19th May 2021. ~ PC Govil. Pic:ANI New Delhi/Mumbai. His lab partner at IIT, Niranjan Pardasani, remembers him as, a model of absolute honesty, simplicity and straightforwardness! I was the GS of the Metallurgical Engg. My deepest condolences to Kedars family. All that's gold doesn't glitter. All rights reserved. For SOF IEO, SOF NSO & SOF IMO, class one and class two exams are single level exams. This included driving his granddaughter Saya to and from school every daya highlight of the day for both. licenses in Pennsylvania in the category of Environmental Engineering. . Institute Gold Medal : It is given to the students of BS/B.Tech (with Honours) or B.Tech+M.Tech Dual Degree who stands second on criteria mentioned above for President of India Gold Medal. Professionally, Biju tenured entirely at CP Tools. Kesav, I hope you like it, as you settle down in heaven. Projects/ Summer Training for External Students. To help him cope with his life was a Herculean task for his family and friends. He would always stop to chat. It was during his work at Ganesh Benzoplast that he had significant exposure to energy conservation and performed a number of factory audits to improve energy efficiency. It was magic. He proudly adhered to the values he believed in until his last days. We selected the same hostel and the same wing and graduated in 1971. In early 1998 he started working for Ganesh Benzoplast, his last job working for someone else. For a short while, he had a sense of persecution mania of 'Black Cats', trying to catch him. At TIFR, he continued his studies on cosmic rays by integrating himself with existing research groups. Was indeed a jovial and happy go lucky fellow. Apart from all his qualities listed above, he was a lover of Sanskrit language. Goodbye Kandy! Especially remember Every Breath You Take. ~ Edited by Arvind Keerthi from reminiscences provided by Neelesh's friends and family. Knowing him, I am not surprised by this action. Nanda was a 1967 Civil Engineering graduate from IIT Bombay. He departed rather suddenly, succumbing to a pulmonary infection that progressively worsened. (Metallurgical Engineering), Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of, Corporate Banker; Senior Vice Chairman of, B.Tech., M.Tech. Ltd., the Design and Contracting firm headquartered in Nagpur and established by his father. Yogesh sported khadi just like his Gandhian father(who was elected to BMC/MCGM Bombay ). He is survived by his wife and two married sons. The UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Feb 2023 won Gold and Silver medal at the 2nd Annual Anthem Awards for its 'Don't Choose Extinction' campaign. God Rest His Soul. "May God Grant Eternal Peace and Mukti to My Friend"! Subhash used to get parts like a siren, some lamps from the displayed battle tank and supply electric power to these items in the hostel room. Ishwar unki aatma ko sadgati de. My recollection is that he had gone abroad for higher studies. I remember Shiva Nayampally as a very quiet, an ever-smiling classmate. From Kiran ParanjpeThe outstanding quality about Rajan Modi was his brilliant mind. I first met him when i was working on a catalytic converter environmental research project under the guidance of Prof TRR Mohan in 1988. Dusy had a warm disposition, was rarely flustered, and approached life with casual anticipation and a very unique aloofness. Dilip's parents had sent him to Pune to attend Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya (NMV) High School, the then top-notch Marathi medium high school in Pune. In some matters, Dilip was a very private and an unassuming person. Very sad to hear the news. Mark Castelino, his close buddy and bandmate, says of his meetings with Brian in the USA Brian and I enjoyed smoking Cuban cigars (Cohiba) and sipping Scotch. They moved to the US where he worked with Professor David Curtin on solid-state organic chemistry as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Being from Nagpur, Uday spent most of his university weekends in Powai unless he was visiting his sister and brother-in-law, Usha and Achyut Thatte, who lived in Bombay and who taught him to play bridge which he did skillfully in IIT and also later in life. That he played cricket seriously and that too partnered Sunnybhai was news to us. Missed you all the years that you and I did not meet after 1969 and will keep missing you for all the years to come. He was quite up to date with the latest gadgets and used to enjoy taking and sharing of photos. Login. There was something about Dilip that each person, not just me, recognized as Godly. This he said in 1968. Yogesh contributed to the society, like his father, by spending time for an NGO Library offering free services to the poor in form of books, notebooks and a place to study. Dr. (Prof.) Rangan Banerjee, Suicide drives IIT B to draw up lighter curriculum to cut stress, JEE Advanced 2023: Cut-offs Trends for CSE at IIT Bombay, IIT Hyderabad introduced B Tech in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. He used to say, that is where I can start making some difference to the society, Prof Ballal said. Classical Music, hikes to Matheran or elsewhere, travelling out of town on various occasions, someone you took for granted as one of the group.There were times we met every day, I remember dissecting the Bofors scam based on daily developments coming on TV or Evening News . By the time of our batch-mate gathering on the campus in 2012, he had already authored 9 books. Please write tonewsletter-group@iitbombay.org with the above information and include a photo if you wish. Have faint memories of him. He was also the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Bombay from 1997 to 2003. This hobby made him popular in college as he took interest in playing as an accompaniment to budding singers and instrumentalists. His endearing smile will forever be etched in our memory. It is a great loss to the entire IIT fraternity and India with his work which improved our lives in ways both civic and social. Those days he was a bachelor and we married guys were envious of him since we were just able to balance our domestic budget with our modest salary. guys moved to a different building of Hostel 5, but our friendship continued. Swati supported us warmly throughout our courtship, extending to us the hospitality of her wonderful elder brother Shanker Dutt in Colaba, South Bombay; Shanker "Dada" welcomed us into his family. And above all, loved India. In the late Sixties, it was the tallest building under construction in Mumbai. But surely, we all will miss our buddy, a good friend with lots of zeal and a Happy-go-lucky friend, and a Giver to Society. . He called his wife from the reunion venue and I talked to her. The two of them were accompanied by young Anuroopa who became the centre of attraction for the remaining 12 elder persons in the group. It was not to be. I did not have any further contact with him after leaving IIT, unlike others who have been fortunate to do so. Let us join hands. Type above and press Enter to search. He was a good friend of mine from school days. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a180f8d7e2dc45c That helped us find out quickly what we needed to study harder. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016, India +91-11-2659-7135 ; info [at] iitd[dot]ac[dot]in Apart from excelling at academics, he had a number of hobbies, one of which was singing popular songs of the time. I was deeply saddened to hear that Shivshankar Nayampally has passed away. While many patients struggle with the slur and the shuffle to hide their symptoms, Rebecca stood like a rock beside Sid and confronted the big P head on. He was always smiling and very mixing and helpful also. His optimism for the teams performance has sparked anger in my brother a number of times! Publishing several research papers in the field, she helped establish the Department of Bio-Informatics in BHU, guiding several Ph.D. candidates in their research in Physics and in Bio-Informatics. Too early for SN to depart. He often talked about Bhagavad Gita (his favourite subject ). and the buffaloes, before climbing over the water pipelines behind Hostel 4 to swim with the crocodiles in picturesque Vihar Lake. IIT Bombay has awarded the 'Institute Gold Medal (2020-21)' to Koustav Jana, a (dual degree) student from the Department of Electrical Engineering, the 'Institute Gold Medal (2021-22)'. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. I pray to the Almighty to make his soul rest in peace. In his professional career of 25+ years, he travelled for work to Europe and Korea to collaborate and bring the best equipment to India. He worked for John Deere & Cummins over his career ~ 40 years as Director of Engineering before retiring in 2012. Prakash Koppars note on late Ganesh familiarised me with his multiple interests and other activities. Thank you, my dear friend.We fellow IITians will always miss you for your simple principled approach to life!May his soul rest in eternal peace! This consulting work allowed him the flexibility to visit his sons in the US and Australia for many months at a time. A great friend and a permanent recluse. He was known to leave one unforgettable story as a shared memory for each of the people in his life. CONDOLENCE MESSAGES from OTHER BATCHMATES, We lost our live-wire friend Kedar Diwan. He visited me once in Melbourne many years ago. But he was cool, shared a selfie taken by him with his two daughters who had arrived from the USA to be with him. They poured in from people across ideological and political spectrums from President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and Aam Aadmi Partys Atishi, among many others. Sad that we have lost him so early. I know he has many friends and well-wishers at J&J. For some reason possibly because while Mohan could speak Marathi as good as any other but because he was still from Karnataka, speaking to him in Konkani came naturally. Ganesh was a great contributor to the close bonds Batch of 1969 developed. But he tried a lot. Biju learnt that Anil Biswas was upset deeply as he was running short of cash because one of the Film Directors had refused to pay him. I never asked him how he got started with music, he would tell me many stories of the IIT Bombay music festival where he listened to many famous artists. Pune. Dulal Panda, cell biologist and chair professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Unflappable to the very end, he smiled and flashed a thumbs-up sign out of his ICU to visiting friends, only a day before tuberculosis took his life. So there was not much social interaction although we enjoyed it when we did interact. He was always there to catch us. They had come back from their Mumbai visit for GJRU. In 1974, he received one of the first Professional Engineer (P.E.) Ravish Kumar Tiwari (a.k.a. I second Mittra's thoughts. 7. This year, 35 research scholars have been selected for the award of Naik and Rastogi award for Excellence in PhD Thesis for the year 2020-22. An absolutely uncomplicated and utterly lovable man. Tech., ME. We had never discussed which college to go to at any time while in high school, and several of our classmates form the high school had chosen to go to Fergusson College, which was generally perceived as a more prestigious local college. Brian stayed true to his profession of Civil Engineering, the basics of which he had learnt at IITB. (Computer Science and Engineering), Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of, Joined with B.Tech. - Satish Sutaria. Limaye 1965 Dr. C.P. He was my roommate at H4 at IITB for three years and we both moved to H2 in the final two years of our IITB life where he was in neighbouring room in the same wing. Some persons leave an everlasting serene impression in our fading memories. from the University of Colorado in Environmental Engineering and returned to India in 1972.In 1975, Kamlesh started FourShahs, a forging company in Bharuch, Gujarat. Linus used to know my grandkids by their names. He berated my Dad for not caring enough to get me the prescription glasses I clearly needed; my Dad loved him for it.Toward our final year, Georgie came upon a dysfunctional Garrard record changer identical to my Dads functional one. We pray that his soul rests in peace. ~~Milind Patankar. Rest in peace, dear friend Linus. Very sad. It is with a great deal of sadness that I compose these few lines to remember and celebrate the life of my classmate and friend Manguexa Wagle. Looked after women and old people in Goa through imaginative schemes. On top of all this, Brian went into the dreaded examination halls and came out with flying colours. Although a chemical engineer by qualification, he was a wizard at financial projection and analysis of projects we conceived for our clients.. He initiated group functions for festivals like Holi, arranged for necessary council permissions for Holika Dahan and coordinated with cultural organisations of all faiths to make it a success and promote values of working together. Two more of our IIT Powai batchmates, Mr. Sharad Nandurdikar and S. Pancharatnam (Pancha), and Pancha's brother S. Santosh who went into medicine, had also joined us the same time. Adventurous and persevering, he was always fun to be around. AK was very closely associated with IITBAA Hyderabad Chapter. This is where he met, fell in love with, and married Anjali. Obviously, he did not let his status and success get into his head. He and his wife Ami resided in Columbus, Indiana for the past 30 years and he passed away peacefully with his familys care. It was a cherished privilege to have been Nandas IITB classmates and friends for many years. He was a dutiful son, passing up the opportunity to settle in the United States just so he could be with his parents, over whom he constantly fretted. His body was taken to Srinagar and then flown to Vadodara via New Delhi. In all the five years at IIT nobody knows of him having had a conflict with anyone. He was a loving and supportive husband and a dedicated son, brother, and friend. I would often visit him in H8 but he never came to my room in H4. We all maintained close cordial contacts in later part of life as well.Mr. As batchmates, we had several get-togethers in the past, very often led by our batch-leader Dipak Sheth. Of course, our company never received any orders from CPT but thats another story. He lived a grand life and now goes into the annals of IITB as an illustrious Alum. Vivek battled lung cancer for six years, finally succumbing to the dreaded disease on April 13, 2017. IIT Bombay Institute Prize for excellence in academics [2012] Awarded Gold Medal for Rank 6 at the Indian National Mathematics Olympiad [2008] Recipient of the KVPY Young Scientist Scholarship, Govt. Saiteja Talluri. ', Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group was the Chief Guest. Om Shanti! His second love was undoubtedly cricket and he could reel off statistics of cricket matches long gone and was a walking encyclopedia of all things cricket. Leja was a Professor at IIT Powai those days and she helped me by obtaining those articles from the IIT Library which I couriered to Linus. Biju would drop in regularly. To newcomers, he appeared to peer down upon them through the binocular telescopes resting on his nose. 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