Updates on alumni life events and accomplishments. Click on the name for their bio or scroll down: Ajay Tankhiwale, Anil Sawe, Ashok Kalbag, Ashwin Bondal, Bakul Shah, Bhaskar Ramchandran, Chandrashekar Kaluskar, Chris Farias, CV Ravishankar, Dilip Shirke, Kamlesh Pande, Murali Murti, Nandlal Singh, Nandu Kulkarni, Narayan Kulkarni, Narendra Goliya, Nitish Thakor, PV Balasubramaniam, Pradeep Mankame, Raj Melville, Ramesh Advani, Rathin Banerjee, Suhas Sawant, Uday Ladsaongikar, Uday Mehta, Varadarajan Chari, Vijay Bhagatwala, Vijay Rajadhyaksha
Life Since IIT – Ashwin Bondal
I was born and brought up in Matunga Mumbai and currently reside just across the street from my old house. After completing my SSC in 1968 from Don Bosco High School, I went to Jai Hind College in Churchgate for my First Year Science. I joined IIT in 1969 in the Mechanical Department, staying in Hostel 2. Subsequently I did…
Keep readingA brief about me – Uday Ladsaongikar
I was born in Nagpur in 1953 and completed my B. Tech in Aero at IIT Bombay and followed up with a Masters in Mechanical specializing in Heat and Power in 1976. Some of my memories at IIT include funny incidents like when one of the professors caught a back bencher chatting with is neighbor and said, “Don’t try to…
Keep readingJourney of a Common Man – Narayan Kulkarni
की राजहंसाचे चालणे । जगी जालिया शहाणे॥ म्हणोनि काय कवणे। चालोचि नये॥ – पु.ल. देशपांडे (or may be some ancient verse quoted by पु.ल.) I showed up for my IIT interview in June 1969. It was my first trip to Mumbai – then Bombay – and my astonishment seemed to have no bounds. Wide roads, local trains that ran on…
Keep readingHow IIT taught me to live with the Unknown – Raj Melville
My IIT experience started before I even set foot on campus with a crash course at the, then, well known Agarwal Classes. Having completed my Senior Cambridge exams, which in those days were in December, I thought I had six months of freedom before attending any college. Visions of lying in bed till noon were dashed and one schlepped to…
Keep readingIIT Hostel Memories – Rathin Banerjee
After my schooling and college at Don Bosco and Ruia College in Matunga, I was lucky to get into IIT Bombay with a decent enough rank to get admission into Chemical Engineering, which usually was the first discipline to get filled up. It was an awesome experience sharing the same class room with some brilliant and outstanding toppers like Manguexa…
Keep readingMy Journey Since IIT – Narendra Goliya
After completing B. Tech.EE degree in 1974, I completed a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After IIT, Stanford was a cakewalk, and I completed it in five quarters against the regular eight. While at Stanford, I had the good fortune to meet many leaders like David Packard (of Hewlett Packard fame) and Nobel laureate William Shockley, inventor…
Keep readingFond memories of IIT Days – Bakul Shah
Like everyone else, I have too many fond memories of my IIT days. However, two of them stand out in my mind. The first memory is that of returning to the hostel from home one Monday morning. As I unlocked the door and entered, there was a sense of total confusion. I had to step back out and make sure…
Keep readingRandom walks through random thoughts – Murali Murti
Rain is something I associate a lot with IIT Bombay. It was raining the day I arrived in 1969; it rained on many of the days I left for the holidays or returned from them; and if you lived in H-7, you learned to respect the weather gods, or you got very wet. I’m starting with this because It’s difficult…
Keep readingMolded by Moments That Matter – Nandlal Singh
Growing up in a quintessential Tarachand Badjatya-style joint family in Matunga, my life seemed destined to follow a well-trodden path. The family business flourished, but true prestige lay in academic achievement. Success in the SSC board exams was not merely encouraged; it was expected. From there, the blueprint led to an esteemed college in Matunga, a professional degree in medicine…
Keep readingLife after IIT, A pixelated journey – Anil Sawe
We all have a wealth of fond memories from our IIT days. Our campus memories interweave common threads that create a unique shared bond. Mine was a somewhat different path after IIT – hardly by design but driven by a lifelong interest. Like some of you, my career after IIT was related to electronic hardware, whether working for startups or…
Keep readingAn Accidental Economist- Tales of Unexpected Journeys – Varadarajan V Chari
It was a hot Bombay day. I was about 16 and my father patiently explained: Look, engineering is not for you. Take up medical school. My brother challenged me: Can you draw a straight line? If you can’t, engineering is not for you. I couldn’t draw. Their arguments completely convinced me. The next day I enrolled in the Agarwal classes…
Keep readingLife Since IIT – Dilip Shirke
I joined the B.Tech. Aeronautical Engineering program in 1969 at IIT Kharagpur. After a short, yearlong stint with Bengali culture I got transferred to Bombay IIT in the 2nd year due to family issues. It was quite a traumatic experience as I was transferred 6 months late and my father met with a fatal accident, almost the same time. Though…
Keep readingConverting Pain into a Positive Force – Uday Mugatlal Mehta
Being human, pain is inevitable due to our Past Karmas (Prarabdh); however, converting this pain into positive force is in our hands. Our Present Karmas (Purushartha). Let me share with you my own personal story on this long and at times very painful journey, where I am being guided by Shiv Shakti. Whatever I share today I learnt from them.…
Keep readingFinding my Soulmate – Chandrashekhar Kaluskar
Last night, while watching the movie ‘Jindagi Na Milegi Dobara’, I was reminded of my vacation with my batchmates during my IIT days and how it impacted my life. During December ‘71, a bunch of us 3rd hostelites went for a short vacation to Bakul’s grandfather’s bungalow, a nice house in Pune. There were no adults to supervise us, and…
Keep readingMy Post IIT Journey – Ajay Tankhiwale
As a metallurgist, my home paper focused on aluminum alloys used in foundries. It was an interesting project as I was looking to introduce a small amount of graphite into aluminum. In those good old days, you had to go to the library and look up research papers in the journals. The papers I referred to said that you had…
Keep readingLife is Destiny – PV Balasubramaniam
I came from a very humble middle-class family and I was not even aware of IIT till a few months before the exam. At the time, I had absolutely no knowledge of different branches of engineering. My family would have been thrilled if I had just done some graduation and taken up a bank job! Hence it was indeed destiny…
Keep readingLife since 1974 – Kamlesh Pande
I worked at Tata Consulting Engineers in Bangalore, BHEL Energy Systems & New Products Division in Delhi, and Corporate R&D Division in Hyderabad, Forbes Marshall as Chief (R&D), Mahindra & Mahindra in Nashik as Head (Technology & Knowledge Management) and Thermax India in Pune as Vice President (Innovation and R&D). I have been a visiting and adjunct professor at School…
Keep readingLife Post IIT – Vijay Bhagatwala
PROFESSIONAL I had appeared in on campus and site interviews for many companies including L&T, Tata Motors (Then known as TELCO) in their Pune works, GKW, Siemens and so on. First confirmed reply came from Siemens for posting in their Kalwe factory. But based on impressions and some general knowledge, I had very high image of L&T as a real…
Keep readingBhaskar Ramchandran – Life after IIT
I graduated in 1974 somehow with a first class in Mech Engineering. I had got placed with Tata Motors (Telco that time), Pune and also with Batliboi Mumbai. Since Telco’s offer was effective August 2nd, 1974, I joined Batliboi in July and was sent to Udhna, Surat for training. It was fun and Mr. Davar, who was handling us, was…
Keep readingMy Life Journey by Chris Farias
My first job after IIT was at L&T General Workshops, on the other side of Powai Lake! I found it to be a frustrating place to work in for a fresh graduate engineer trainee, because all they did was let you loose in the shops. I got great on-the-job shop floor training, but little mentorship. I guess it was the…
Keep readingFun times at IIT – Nitish Thakor
There are so many memories so where do I start? Every year there was some excitement! Well, my first year’s memory is arriving with a high degree of excitement after having gotten into IIT and meeting some other wing mates, particularly C and Rathin were my neighbors and, therefore, us and our parents already had a feeling that it’ll be…
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IIT Bombay 1974 Reunion 