He would ring me to remind me that it is Sharad Sarafs birthday today or some other alumnus birthday. I participated in a few sessions of the interviews we used to conduct to decide the names of students to get the Vilas Karnik scholarship. He spent it all on foreign vacations and indulged himself in the good things of life. After graduating from IITB, Vinayak worked as a Project Manager to build multi-million dollar plants, fully automatic plants manufacturing detergents to pharmaceuticals. The hostel is just as it was. I remember her, a sort of pioneer in many ways. 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. Shekhar was "Dada", in Reverse Engineering, and had come to our campus also, to give a talk to the Faculty and students of the Engineering College, about how to go about it. Shrikant, an alumnus of IIT Bombay, graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1972. He left for the US in 1971 and just as I was thinking everything was hunky dory with him, his life fell apart. Let us pray for his atma to attain sadgati and may GOD give sufficient strength to the family to face this loss. Mr. Sadanand Yadwadkar, another IIT batchmate, came from Mumbai and joined us at the S.P. Last I met in Sudheer's house at Juhu he was pretty weak I couldnt bear it, yet he was cracking jokes at his own cost. We played Table-Tennis (Ping Pong) at the same club in Sion and were in touch for a few years. Buddy, I will run the project consulting part and you do your strategy consulting. Congratulations to the women's cricket team .. Still, after my return to India in May, he contacted me and again in two more occasions. The degrees include 206 PhD, 34 (MTech, MPhil+PhD), 24 dual degree (MSc+PhD), 3 MS (by research), 700 MTech, 53 MDes, 14 dual degree (BDes+MDes), 23 MPhil, 115 MBA, 1 EMBA, 17 MPP, 204 two-year MSc, 326 dual degree (BTech+MTech), 654 BTech degrees, 50 Interdisciplinary dual degrees (BTech, BS+MTech, MSc), 6 five-year Integrated MSc, 6 Dual Degrees (BS+MSc), 48 BS, 14 BDes and 24 PDGIIT. May his departed soul rest in eternal peace!! His colleagues, batchmates and friends describe him as A person whod make your problems his own, and be there for you any time of the day. After graduation, he joined a company owned by my family and soon became the most respected and trusted colleague of my cousin. Ajit told the taxi driver to first drop me at Matunga, he helped take all the things like mattress, etc up to my house and then took the taxi back to Sion.Like Cyrus Dordi has mentioned, Ajit was a constant team member of Inter Hostel, Inter-Class and Inter-Department Cricket team. He was brought up under the care of his grandmother. He served the Aditya Birla group, Sapoorji Pallonji Mistry group, National Chemical Bahrain, and Rhodia Chemicals, almost at all levels for 40+ years. In 1983, he immigrated to the US with his family and settled in New Jersey. Wishing Peace and Bliss for him in the hereafter. and give his family the courage to bear this loss. I had once peeped through his notes and his one line contribution amazed me - 2 electrons with opposite spin (for Helium). My heartfelt condolences. ~~Kiran Deshpande (M.Tech. We were a trio - PV Bala, also a classmate & schoolmate, and we were together on the same floor, and we had the best of our times in a world-class institution. As he stayed in Baroda, we hardly met after IIT though we were in touch on phone and mail. But many who came across him would go out of their way to help him. He was not a regular to our MMM or Alumni Annuals. 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. I came to know those much later. Along with another batch mate R.Jayaram, we all grew up at Sion in Bombay and have been very close all these years. Yogesh received his B. Gold Medal in BSc Chemistry, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata -Institute Silver Medal in MSc Chemistry, IIT Bombay -Test Scores CSIR-NET 2015 Score: AIR 7 GATE-2017 . Engg. He is survived by his loving wife of 45 years, Mrs. Madhura Bapat, two sons, two daughters-in-law and two grandsons. I learned so little of him after passing out. He could be called a pioneer on the Bombay Rock scene and took his music seriously, playing regularly in a beat group at the downtown Taj Mahal Hotel up to midnight. Bhambhani 1964 Shri M.C. I enjoyed playing flute with him on tabla. The Institute stands proud to be an alma mater to such great souls. When Gaurishankar called me as he got the news from Vinay, hours after the last surgical procedure it shocked me badly. Sid was cremated in Bangalore and his ashes immersed in Chennai. Anant (Nanda) Khare passed away on July 22, 2022 at the age of 76 after a lengthy battle with seriously compromised lung functions. Noorjehan was one of four distaff members of her class of nearly 80, joining Gita, Nandita and Sushama as trailblazers of that era -- very few ladies entered the profession in those days. He was also a passionate follower of the Art of Living. I also visited the farm when he had called all of us for a get-together. He was known to leave one unforgettable story as a shared memory for each of the people in his life. He took up learning violin in Detroit from concert-level artists. 15 years ago, following an intensive Internet search, I re-established contact with Didi through the good offices of Jyotirmoy Sarkar, Webmaster at BHU. At a close family lunch earlier this year our conversation moved to cricket, the cricket of our times, especially recalling the performance of my brother that led our school team to reach the semi-finals of Harris Shield, beating teams with players such as Gattani, Kundaran, Solkar, Amroliwalla, Rege and of course Gavaskar, who all went on to play for State or India teams. Chalekode was a victim of Parkinson's for the last few years and suffered from dementia too in recent times.Chalekode studied in SIES High School, Mumbai from 1st to 11th std - passed out in 1964. His gentle smile, open heart free of prejudice made his good-heartedness shine through. Linus also met my family in Mumbai and my mother had a high regard for him. He often spoke to me about his wish to bring some transformative changes in the political and administrative system. In this group Kedar Nath Diwan, i.e., KND became KANDY. ~~Malla Praveen Bhasa (Ph.D. '06 SJMSOM H1). 50 + Internships Offered. He taught us to follow our dreams and be fearless in our intellectual ambitions. AK was on our faculty panel and was introduced to me by my colleague. Being away from Mumbai, I left touch with the batchmates . He proudly adhered to the values he believed in until his last days. His behaviour at times also exhibited an aggressive streak when he could not get what he wanted (like a techno-commercial offer for Compressed Air Dryers the next day!!). After staying in Roha for a couple of years he moved to Hico Products Ltd. in Mahim, Mumbai and this move allowed him to be back with his family. 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. This included driving his granddaughter Saya to and from school every daya highlight of the day for both. We were witness to the huge works he was doing tirelessly and the respect he enjoyed at the site from people of all levels and the diversity of skills needed in executing the works under the most demanding and adverse conditions.I know Ajit enjoyed music, Bollywood as well as Hindustani classical,semi-classical. All four went into the Electronics and Communications stream, taking their B.Tech Electrical Engineering (Honours), 1972, from IIT, Bombay. James Bond was the flavour of the day and Sid would explain the famous deal from Moonraker where Bond with only 7 points makes a contract of 7 clubs against Drax who had 31 points. and the buffaloes, before climbing over the water pipelines behind Hostel 4 to swim with the crocodiles in picturesque Vihar Lake. Your IP: The reunion rekindled many happy memories and was an occasion for all of his wingmates to sit together, with their spouses, reminiscing about their past decades of work careers, family lives, interests and hobbies. We all had been in the same wing all 5 years (or was it 4 years) and all that has been stated about his nature is so well described by his persona. IITB President of India Gold Medal # Name of Awardee Year 1 Thangavelu S.R 1964 2 Muthukrishnan C.R 1965 3 Srinivasan V 1966 4 GuruSharan S Sidhu 1967 5 Raghavan G 1968 6 Raghavendran P 1969 At IITB Yogesh was the consummate batchmate. Tech (1971) and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgy from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. This sheer willpower is something he exemplified throughout his life's journey. He was an Origami expert and was excellent at calligraphy. Shreya Pathak, a (BTech) student from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering bagged the Dr. I inquired after Paramjit and asked if it would help for me to go to Delhi, whether for assistance or for comfort. Anurag Wahi, the Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft, has passed away due to complications from COVID. Step by step he tweaked, twisted, and realigned its parts to cajole it into performing as it should a triumph that let him play his favourite 33-1/3rpm records to his hearts content.Upon graduating, he began his career as a Mechanical Engineer with the International Tractor Company of India, a Mahindra operation in Kandivli, Bombay. He could be found deep in discussion about soccer teams in the English Premier League with kids young enough to be his grandkids and rattling off stats to support his argument of how Liverpool was better than Chelsea! 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. Thats how I remember him from mid-2011 when I last met him in Pune. ~ Kalyan Sen (Batchmate ; B.Tech. 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. IIT Bombay Director Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri Institutes Report for the year 2021-22 and highlighted the difficulties faced by the batch due to COVID-19. Prof. Menon was appointed as the Director of TIFR. He will always be remembered as a helpful colleague, a thorough gentleman and a sincere friend. She divided her time between Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, providing stellar support for the movement during its initial phase. I remember his first Summer Training was for New Consolidated Construction-NCC for short, at the Overseas Communications Services (OCS) Tower - now known as Videsh Sanchar Bhavan. RIP my friend. 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. He told me that he would like to attend each trip that we conducted. , IIT Baombay 60th convocations Chief Guest Kumar Mangalam Birla Congratulated the graduating students and said, , IIT Bombay Convocation 2022: Over 2300 students received degrees. That helped us find out quickly what we needed to study harder. Vrajlal Hiralal Vyas got married in 1973 and is survived by his wife, son, married daughter and two grandchildren, all living in Vadodara. We smoked our first cigarettes (Cool) while dipping our toes in Powai Lake.We were team-mates in the Campus Treasure Hunt of 1967, where I met Nandita Mazumdar who subsequently became my wife. Ganesh was a man with wit, wisdom and warmth. Urban De Souza, 1987 Metallurgical, Hostel 6. Besides exceptional professional achievement, here was a warm-hearted, genuine and simple person. He was on the campus on the historic day of March10, 1959 when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of the Institute. Till date, I cannot eat chikkiwithout thinking of Kesav. This hobby made him popular in college as he took interest in playing as an accompaniment to budding singers and instrumentalists. 28 Feb 2023 09:30:04 He was to occupy the next room for next five years and my life thereafter. Unfortunately, Kandy passed away due to a sudden, massive cardiac arrest on 15th November early morning. Prof. Chaudhuri will assume charge as Director, IIT Bombay on April 15, 2019. Building on her passion for science, Dr. Swati Dutta commenced research in the new field of bioinformatics, in 2005. Bezos used this Framework to start Amazon and quit his job at DE Shaw, and we do know how it As everyone observed he was indeed a jovial guy! His work included visiting companies in Mumbai which employed IITB engineers and enrolling them as members of the Association. Our dear friend Parasuram Chalekode aka CK Parasuram passed away on Sunday, 3rd January 2021 at 3:30 pm EST in Detroit, USA. He was always smiling and very mixing and helpful also. He had this contrarian style. S. Ganesh - my neighbour during the first year, and wing mate for all 5 years. He had so many well-wishers, the list is almost endless. The lovely Helena went on to take her Ph.D.In the late eighties, Helena secured a post-doctoral position in San Diego. Entrenched International film festival in Goa. He is always reserved and serious person. After B Tech (1976), he also completed M Tech (1978) in Mechanical Engineering as jobs for Aeronautical engineers were not easy in those days. Biju was a go-getter, extrovert and a bindaas guy. He with Kothari, Nadkarni and MN Patil - we used to envy this Mumbai localities group as they used to head to their homes every Friday evening after the film show, while we were left to enjoy the mess food and great hostel 4four ambiance. Through training and competition, teams challenge each other to raise the bar on the possible. His level of energy was amazing even then. He later had several stints with Raymonds, Legwear, Procal Electronics, Jolly board and Paperboard as part of their senior and top-level management teams.A gymnast during his IIT days, Suresh was intellectually gifted; soft-mannered and from a humble background. But he was adamant in not registering, nor attending. Gold Medal, Top 1% Topper, Sustainable and affordable sanitation solutions for small towns: policy, planning and practice, NPTEL, IIT Bombay, August 2019. I hurriedly scribbled a few lines to the IITB67 group. Gold Medal, Top 1% Topper, Plastic waste management, NPTEL,IIT Kharagpur, April 2019. 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. Subhash Kamte passing away was sad news. When Anand Deshpande visited TRDDC and gave a talk on nested relational databases, lots of conversations started on the history of databases, Coads relational algebra, what RDBMS were doing to application areas, normalization and de-normalizations, complex data objects, object databases that were beginning to show up, structures compilers deal with, etc. The apartment at 54 Western Ave near Central Square was legendary as a dharamshala for almost every Indian and definitely every IIT Bombayite, to live in, however briefly. - SreeramVery sad to learn about the sudden demise of dear Diwan. Rajiv worked for Information Technology in India and U.S.A. for TCS (in U.S.A.), R&D excellence centre of Computervision Corporation, Bedford, USA, GAIL and Kinetic Technologies while studying and gaining practical experience of application of technology. 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. May her soul rest in peace. Our dearest eldest brother, Linus Stanislaus Anthony D'Souza, passed away suddenly and peacefully, on 20.9.2022, at the age of 74. Prof. D.B. He was the co-founder of one of the unique life skills-oriented school in Indore. This was India's 6th medal in this year's Olympics. He was the plant engineer at J&J's Mulund Plant. I bought a few shirts online and found them worth every penny that I paid. I have observed him at IIT as a very disciplined and self respecting student. Ashok Modak was born on April 11, 1946 in Pune, which was then a quiet country town, and eventually his family moved to Mumbai, where he spent much of his youth. 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