Chagla B.S. He was in Hostel 5 from 1966-71 and graduated in Electrical Engg. After the 1965 Indo-Pak war, IITB got a battle tank which was displayed in the long corridor from Main Building. He was the life and soul of the party I recall in 1980, when our companys MD hosted his engagement party, he regaled a large group of fellow guests with stories of his adventures and of all the bigshots among alumni and industry whom he was close to. (Electrical Engineering), Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the, B.Tech. This sheer willpower is something he exemplified throughout his life's journey. Kesav spent time at ETH Zurich with Prof. Wirth. Teaching was his passion and he conducted a number of professional courses for practicing engineers,through the auspices of various professional associations such as IIW- India, PPMA, Indian Welding Society among others, for developing an in-depth understanding of welding metallurgy as well as International Codes governing welding. But even before that, it used to be a competition for who would get to tear out the crossword from the daily TOI; if someone had beaten Sid to it in Hostel 3 then there was Hostel 5 or hostel 7 on the way to Main and Department Buildings which provided fertile hunting grounds for the coveted crossword! Fifty years' gap has not dimmed my memories of Linus. In its 60th Convocation, IIT Bombay awarded 2,551 degrees to 2,324 students. Internal Links. Only on the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras campus.. Sign of peaceful coexistence or better still, gainful coexistence.. Video credit: @Vamsi We pray that his soul rests in peace. Verma was highly appreciative and had very high regards for Prof. N.R. But he was a jolly good fellow with a vast network of contacts in the industry and amongst fellow alumni. - Anil AggarwalSad. He started his career as a lecturer in IIT Bombay and joined Powergas Corporation (now Aker Solutions) in 1965 as Project Engineer. Vivek Gopal Bhandari passed away on May 14, 2022 in Mumbai. My deepest sympathies to his bereaved wife, son and daughter, all of whom I knew very well. We all maintained close cordial contacts in later part of life as well.Mr. All rights reserved. Sushant studied computer science and engineering at IIT-Bombay as an Aditya Birla Scholar, and won the president of India 's gold medal for graduating with the highest grade points. We all pray for his soul to rest in peace in eternity. Gold Medal Aditya Vikram Singh . 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. on 28th February and expired on 9th March due to acute blood infection in the hospital itself.Mr. Biju, knowing how great the man was, promptly took out his wallet and handed over whatever cash was inside. The times together are forever etched in our minds. Thanks! I was quite sad when I read about his passing away at such a young age. 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. There may be more but among those, I was in touch with among IITB69ers (H3 and EE) there were four (SRane, Albert M, Sudhakar S and Mohan who were Konkani speaking. You will be missed sorely. Later he established his own Chalekode Enterprises Inc. in the field of wealth management.Chalekode was a very lively, outgoing person and a happy-go-lucky individual. Over the past few years, Dusy had relinquished his thriving career and settled in Pune to pursue his deeper interests a passion in pure maths, and coaching and mentoring young students. I was in H6 and he was in H8. After a successful career as an investment banker, he started his own business and founded Apps4Rent LLC, with offices in India and the US. In due course, he was entrusted with higher responsibilities, in the companys heavy Engineering Division, and then in Oil & Gas division. I am unable to get out of the shock. ~~Milind Patankar. All of you have proven yourself as great graduates. 15 years ago, following an intensive Internet search, I re-established contact with Didi through the good offices of Jyotirmoy Sarkar, Webmaster at BHU. I had the chance to visit him when we drove thru Baroda, on our way to Rajasthan 8 years ago, but unfortunately, he had to leave suddenly and we could not meet. We all knew GVG as the benchmark purveyor of Broadcast TV Electronics gear. Devang V. Khakhar Director, IIT Bombay Nominees of the Council Prof. Anurag Kumar Director, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore - 560 012 . He was the recipient of the first-ever scholarship awarded by the Central Government of India to promote top boarding schools in each of the states. A fitness enthusiast and an avid runner, swimmer, trekker since his IIT days, Deepak was running the last leg of a half marathon at the time of his sudden and unexpected demise.After IIT, Deepak completed his Masters from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and had a stellar career in software sales spanning over two decades. The Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) was established in 1999 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the country's independence. Noor spared no effort in calling us in Melbourne every week for long hours, holding our hand long-distance, with inspirational words of encouragement, hope, motivation and prayer. Having believed and lived that way, he had opened his house to many aspiring young Marathi authors to mentor them through the process of discussions and debates. It never mattered how much money we had! He had no old age-related health problems when I LAST met him at his residence in Mar 2016.The news of his death came as a total shock to me now, a year and a half later. On Dec 19, 2020, Ajitkumar Madhav Dusankar bid us adieu and breathed his last. His wife had expired about 18 months back and Harshad was living a lonely life thereafter. He placed first in his Masters program at Pune University and received his Ph.D. in Organic/Polymer Chemistry from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. The steely negotiating skill shown with his first employer by the young Neelesh Wagle, who passed away on 13th Dec. 2019, prefigured his spectacular success as an investor. By nature being reserved and shy he would refrain from socializing. He also invited me to visit them before I departed for the U.S.A. Ashok died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 31, 2019. ., he was very calm and composed. He then joined the Royal Institute of Science in Mumbai and earned his Masters degree in science. PRESIDENT'S GOLD MEDAL Past Recipients Year Name of the Students 2019 Someshwar Jain 2018 Saksham Sharma 2017 Sansit Patnaik 2016 Ayush Sekhari 2015 Karan Singh 2014 Nitish Kumar srivastava 2013 Shubham Tulsiani 2012 Shubhayu Chatterjee, Ankit Kumar & Ashish Gupta 2011 Mohit Mittal . Celebrating his 49th birthday only weeks before, and their twentieth wedding anniversary only months before, we still cannot believe Neelesh, the family man, the giant gentleman, the erudite investor, is no more. His ability to strike up a friendship and smile was infectious and he had a wide circle of friends not just in his Hostel or Engineering discipline or his class of 1970, but across the length and breadth of the campus and globally. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) at Delhi, Madras, Mandi and Indore got new directors on Monday, according to officials. Sid won many friends, counted many victims of his grapes of wrath for leading a wrong card and honed his bidding skills playing in different hostels and with different partners. I quickly associated "baram bare chavve chalase" with Dilip's birthday. Having lived in Hostel 4 at IIT Powai for five years while pursuing a degree in Chemical Engineering as a classmate of Linus, I knew him as a brilliant student, simple, gentle, hardworking, intelligent, and a noble and kind-hearted soul. '74 MEMS H5). The hostel is just as it was. A Matunga, Mumbai native, he loved to breakfast at Cafe Madras. And from H8! Nanda left behind his wife Vidyagauri, daughter Narmada, son Amitabh and three grandchildren. Bhimsen Joshi and I was partial to Pt. By the end of the first hour at 9.30am, the challenge was to complete the Times of India daily crossword puzzlenever mind the periodic tables, spf levels, Fibonacci and other expletives scribbled on the classroom blackboard. He moved to Clearwater, FL from Chicago after he retired, but still retained his Chicago home. degree. Heartfelt condolences to his family. and Ph.D. degrees from UC Berkeley, all in mechanical engineering. And they made a good couple. Nanda declined to accept this award due to his firm view that such an award should be given to encourage and celebrate Marathi literary work by younger authors as opposed to the oldies like himself. We lost touch as we grew up until our paths crossed again at IITB. and Met. Madhukar Ramchandra Deodhar earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay. CPT would bid for Air Compressor Packages for large projects across India which included Desiccant-based Air Drying Plants which was our speciality product. A few days later our inimitable and endearing friend Sushil Bijawargi passed away peacefully. Yogesh received his B. He would often push business opportunities that came his way to me. He was a very quiet and disciplined person. Prof. Menon was born in Mangalore on August 28, 1928. He left full-time scientific work to enable him to spend more time with humanitarian causes. Mr. Nath Diwan, his father who was a Govt. What really set apart Manguexa from the rest of us were not his qualities of the mind but his unparalleled qualities of the heart which coupled his towering intellect. Those who loved him knew of his huge heart, his willingness to help and inspire confidence in others. We will miss him enormously. In case of a tie in CPI, the CPI across all courses taken (including additional and minor courses) up to end of 4th year is used to break the tie. Eventually, I started a social enterprise on my own largely inspired by his thinking process and his constant motivation. Often jumping piggyback on Pani whenever they scored a touchdown! Rest in peace, Shocked and saddened at the news of your departure! During Bijus wakeful moments he had been asking for Nancy and me! He left all of us on 15th October 2020 with short notice after a brief illness! He wanted us to partner up and work together. His phone call on the 17th of February came as a rude shock, for we had no inkling of what he was going through. Since Linus did not have email facility, he would post his worksheets to me which I would scan and email to Urban. Subhash and I were neighbours in Matunga for several years (300 metres gap between our Telang Roadhouse and his Shraddhanand roadhouse. He completed his 11th and 12th standard at Ruparel college choosing Electronics as his specialization in place of Biology. Ramaswamy Iyer M. Mehra Ashok was an avid reader and in later years studied cosmology, trying to understand the secrets of the universe and human life. Prostrated himself before his IIT professors. He was a God-fearing person and a man of principles. 1 If"' " 'r ' If yon want today's j r W p news totlny you can find I It only In THE STAIt. He lived a grand life and now goes into the annals of IITB as an illustrious Alum. May he rest in peace. Kesav was the Buddha who showed me the light to search the science of software and gather the courage to swim in the stormy ocean of computer science. Despite being a good friend of Dilip's for 3 years up to the point of joining IIT Powai, I didn't know some things about him. Two of us went to the airport and came back too in that scooter! In the second innings, we always saw and met him with his wife Anuradha. I heard about his movie venture, but don't know in detail. Being the gifted fellow that he was, he upended the defunct unit to compare its motion sequences with our Garrard, in our home over summer vacation. The truly greats were also truly simple, no egos of any kind. He spent it all on foreign vacations and indulged himself in the good things of life. (File photo/PTI) A student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay allegedly died by suicide on campus early Monday morning. Of course, our company never received any orders from CPT but thats another story. She retired from BHU in 2013 as Associate Professor. 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. Her family actually owned an Electrical Engineering business, Kheraj Electricals, in Bombay; EE students at IIT Bombay recall doing training stints at Kheraj. When asked how he spent his spare time, Manguexa innocently said he lay in bed listening to old Hindi songs on the radio, which was not taken to kindly. Another about buying your first home in Worcester MA by winning a tennis match over Ray, who seemed to have been a superior tennis player! In 1975 he earned a Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies. Lalit Surajmal Kanodia, entrepreneur and chairman of Datamatics. He was a God-fearing person and a man of principles. The tributes that poured in Marathi newspapers after his passing, praised his writings as being well thought through and thought provoking. 6 and also were in the same wing and same floor. Ajit was the youngest of 5 siblings- 4 brothers and 1 sister.Ajit and Sulabha (maiden surname Kotwal) were a happy family-elder daughter Sujata, son-in-law Mayuresh Vaidya and grand-daughter Ariana settled in Vile Parle and younger son Satyajit working and living in Dubai. The only sad part was, with all my efforts, he never came to attend any of our get-togethers. He wanted me to collate voluminous data and translate them into meaningful graphs. I learnt 2-wheeler riding for the first time that very night. 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 came to the U.S. in 1979 after completing an engineering degree at IIT Bombay, where he received the President of India Gold Medal Award. M N Ramamurthy was a jovial person and always gave an impression of being a friendly guy. I must record the great work done by Linus D'Souza in the formative years of IITBAA Mumbai Chapter in spite of his mental health issues. Mohan used to be a non-fussy, easy to get along persons on all our trips. He had so many well-wishers, the list is almost endless. We last met Noorjehan when she and Satish hosted us in their Atlanta, Georgia home in 2010. You would have cried and laughed. Currently, CRSI represents more than 3000 lifetime members, who participate in the study, practice, teaching and promotion of Chemistry. All from the first year. Lockheed Martin Corporation, US and Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India - Gold Medal 2016; . Almost every teacher asked him to introduce himself and our class learned that he came from Dahanu, a place I had not heard of until then. He appeared without any serious preparation and cleared the JEE. Throughout his career he remained faithful to his first love, hardcore Chemical Engineering. Yes, he indeed did it his way and I pray for eternal peace for his soul. An out-and-out family man, he was always there not just for immediate family, but also extended family and friends. When finished, he had returned it neatly folded to their on-street mailbox, then walked over and tried jiggering my front door open. He did his schooling at Nutan Marathi High School and New English High School, Pune. The President of India Medal was bestowed on BTech student. A couple of years later, he wrote a book dealing with biological, social and economic evolution of mankind (Homo Sapiens), perhaps considered to be the best scientific book authored by Nanda. He was proud to be a member of the IIT fraternity and kept in touch with his classmates and the campus into his final years. I got to know Manohar Parrikar while residing in Hostel 4 (H4), IIT Bombay. 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. Tiwari had the opportunity like many of us to setup companies and become multi-millionaires. He and Phyllis moved to Boston, where Ashok worked for various research and technology companies. Neelesh quickly moved from ICICI to Barings Bank to the Bank of America, all in equity research positions, successively expanding the scope of his portfolio until he managed assets worth $250 million. Many of us will forever cherish very fond memories of Dusy and how he helped us through some of our academic, career, and other life challenges. Some of the key highlights from these current affairs are:-. When we got to know you were doing medicine - our first reaction: of course, you would. He said whatever strange ideas Sreeram may have he would follow them seriously and would be very successful in the long run. His college education was also partly in Jodhpur where he was a student of Jaswant College. Now you need to reinforce and retain human empathy. He showed the Marathi movie at the 40 years Ruby Reunion of our batch at Goa, and we all were surprised at him being a Film Producer.Regarding E-Cell, he had developed a similar cell at a Kolhapur Engg college. Tuition fees at IIT for the current academic year are Rs. I was given the honor of picking up the Gaan Saraswati and Krishna Hangal from Dadar Railway Station up to the Venue and then back dropping them to a simple Lodge in Dadar. It is unfortunate that he will not get to experience the various joys of Sharva growing up, his first wheee on the slide or his first bike ride. In our Wing, we called him Bandya. H3). At the time of his death, he was a respected intellectual in Indian investment circles, famed for his clarity of thought, his careful analysis of the earnings call, and his sometimes baffling investment decisions, later proved right. Due to this he was not very social and had relatively fewer friends. I was devastated to learn of his kidney problem, but his family closed ranks and saved him, with his elder sister donating one of her kidneys. Once he became better, much better we both often would go for long walks, particularly to Union Park,16th Road Bandra. Rajiv was devoted to a number of social causes. Such was his personality. The subject line in his email would always start with from Ganesh: he would write short lines and brief paragraphs and would always appreciate the good work done by others. Operations Management from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Technology ( IITs ) at Delhi, Madras, Mandi Indore. 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