Composed by Kamlesh Pande, 72-74 Batch, MTech, Mech, Hostel 1
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A Ph D from Waterloo became an HoD
Was always in the lab measuring BoD
Unleashed terror during our defence
Spotted errors with magnifying lens
Thank God! Finally went on a sabbatical to MOD
(MoD= Ministry of Defence)
2
Back in the seventies in Bombay IIT
Card punching was an ordeal nasty
Minsk didn’t make life easier
Debugging @ TIFR was a horror
Still the memories are refreshingly meaty
3
In IITB we learnt numbers non-dimensional
Variables complex and M.I. rotational
Designing a machine was a ‘shear’ pleasure
Ended up acquiring a big knowledge treasure
Yet our wives label us (infinitely) irrational!
4
Yes, we might have lacked etiquettes
And wrongly flaunted nasty sobriquets
Yet most eligible was the IITB grad
Girls would chase and drive him mad
How come now they call us wives’ puppets?
5
Remember during our IIT stay
How unwelcome was the M.C. way?
While availing MC’s service
We’d lose our mind’s peace
Heat treatment–a better cure, we’d say
(MC = Medical Centre)
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That was the IITB of decade seventy
Forgettable was the mess food quality
Perhaps it had inverse proportionality
With students’ intellectual capability
Conspicuous was absence of on-campus beauty
7
We watched ‘A Single Girl’ in our IIT
She invited us for a cup of Darjeeling tea
Our excitement hit the ceiling
But there was an eerie feeling
Quietly said she: Entry iff percentile >90!
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Back then, was ignorant journos’ refrain:
‘IITs causing damage, abnormal brain drain’
Then came Prof Sukhatme’s study
That cleared the water muddy
Now the whole world rushes to pick IIT brain
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That is our prof emeritus Gaitonde
Explains entropy even on a Sunday
Sets questions subtle to the brim
Junior Sukhatme we called him
Prefers Thermo to an apple a day!
IIT Bombay 1974 Reunion 