After IIT, besides being engaged in his profession, I noticed he advised his nephews who were running a factory manufacturing ball chain in Goregaon. Sometimes we used to go for a walk in the evenings and we would ask each other questions about topics related to our academic courses. Just to name a few, he was the Chairman of the Electronics Commission. Do you live here, sir? Yes. Your neighbors reported a prowler in the neighborhood. Some of his fellow students asked each other how he could humanly handle the notoriously demanding workloads of IITB and this grueling regime. In January, I was fortunate to visit him at short notice and had a simple meal cooked by Anuradha. 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. That is where the idea of becoming a journalist germinated in his mind. Lockheed Martin Corporation, US and Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India - Gold Medal 2016; . College. He combined humility and pride, science and creativity, honesty and kindness. 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. CONDOLENCE MESSAGES from OTHER BATCHMATES, We lost our live-wire friend Kedar Diwan. We met each other along with our parents who had come to see us off on that memorable day in June 1966 and naturally they felt comfortable that there are known friends already. His science fiction book titled "Udya" (tomorrow) was deemed to be the best, and won the yearly Marathi Sahitya Academy Award. licenses in Pennsylvania in the category of Environmental Engineering. We used to have long conversations. No long hospitalizations, no prolonged pain. Pune. His writings also exposed the societal truths which specifically demanded unwavering determination, strong will and iron guts, which all were indeed Nandas very own trademarks. He had great respect for some of his professors especially Prof Sukhatme and Ramaswamy. But he did leave strong memories in my mind. This was Bijus second (unannounced) visit with me via that Air India freebee. Tiwari had the opportunity like many of us to setup companies and become multi-millionaires. 4 time Chief Minister of Goa and 6 times MLA from Panjim constituency. Sharvas excitement for this ritual was evident in his squeals of delight each morning. NEW DELHI: India secured one gold, one silver and three bronze medals in the sixty-second International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2021 organised from St. Petersburg, Russia.Pranjal Srivastava from Bengaluru, aged 15, won gold this year becoming the first Indian to win the gold medal twice. He gradually progressed to the pinnacle of his engineering career and assumed the role of the Managing Director of the firm before retiring at the age of 55 years. May his departed soul rest in eternal peace!! He was also open to asking his own doubts. On Friday evenings Dilip and I enjoyed going to the movies that were screened in the small auditorium behind the main building. Prof. Swati Dutta leaves behind her husband Aflatoon, a political activist; her son Rileen, who is a US-based post-doctoral cancer-researcher and an expert in computational microbiology; and her daughter Pyoli, a Delhi-based Supreme Court lawyer, who brought forth Swati's grand-daughter Imara Rosa. Sids prowess in contract bridge became the standard for many rather than the marks sheet at the end of each term. In its 60th Convocation, IIT Bombay awarded 2,551 degrees to 2,324 students. May his soul remain in peace and tranquillity. 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. A pretty jovial guy, an enthusiastic Bridge player. In 1974, he received one of the first Professional Engineer (P.E.) - Satish JoglekarI am still trying to process the, untimely, passing of my dear friend and classmate, Kedar. Bhambhani 1964 Shri M.C. 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. The fun days had to yield to jobs and repaying of education loans and travel. Kesav, I hope you like it, as you settle down in heaven. 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. He was a very bright student. Her love for India, and her intense desire for giving back to society, saw her return to India in the early 1980s. He never spoke ill of anyone. My earliest memory of Sushil was when he used to land up every day during the vacations at our adda at an Irani Hotel attached to the MGMO Swimming Pool in Shivaji Park, facing Dadar Chowpatty. - S. ShivashankarVery sad. Ashok was kind and gentle, happiest when able to help others. I enjoyed playing flute with him on tabla. I got to meet him with his wife Veena, and son Amit when they were going to Niagara Falls. Kandy was a good fellow. We were all seated on the terrace floor with our backs to the wall. 7. Linus was in touch with me personally since 1990, even worked in my office for a few months in engineering design. A group of us Civil guys knew that Nanda was studious and clever, but what set him apart from the most was his keen interest in literature. This model is being tested for studying skin irritation and toxicity. His classmates remember Dusy as a brilliant student a crackoo whose notes benefitted many during exams. 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. Increased BJP vote Share from 0.35% to 35% in 10 years. Yogi, as he was known to his friends and family, very regretfully passed away on April 30, 2022 after a brief but brave fight with cancer.After IITB (Hostel 8, Civil 1971), he completed his MBA from Bajaj, Bombay, and did a 12 year stint as a Corporate executive in Dhootapapeshwar, Wipro and Parle Beverages. He worked with BARC until he decided to pursue Ph.D. and was extremely happy to have completed Ph.D. in his late 40s. Very quickly, he found his metier in Operations, rising to Manager, Capital Purchase.He presented to Nandita, for approval, a young lady, Helena, a scientist who had taken his fancy. !From Dhiren MorarjiI remember the good old days that we played bridge with him in Hostel 2.From VikasTipnisI shall fondly remember him as a warm and humble person.From Runi Ratnam (nee Basabi Mukherjee)He was smart and funny and though I didn't know him well he has always been part of the lovely memories I have of IIT and all the beautiful friendships.From Nitish ThakoreSo, everyone knows that Rajan was the IIT topper for 1969. He was born in Bangalore in 1948 and was a1969 graduate in Mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. God Bless you Sid. He left all of us on 15th October 2020 with short notice after a brief illness! 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. Switched on and switched off lights and AC in his office. Yogesh received his B. After Noor passed, he moved to the Washington, DC area to help take care of his grandchildren for two-plus years. We built a meta meta data modelling engine called Adex. 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. Prostrated himself before his IIT professors. A colorful journey for Ganesh, in which he did a lot for his family and friends. He continued to St Xavier's College, Mumbai and then did Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay - passed out in 1970. His classmates at Elphinstone as well as IIT may care to remember this. He is survived by his wife and two married sons. That helped us find out quickly what we needed to study harder. I remember Shiva and Pradeep Buch in jugalbandi at Convo Hall. May he rest in peace. Though I am a little inclined towards NLP, I am passionate . He did all of this while working through a genetic heart condition and other serious maladies that eventually would claim his life, without ever seeking a break for himself.Satish is survived by his son Sachin, daughter-in-law Ankita, grandchildren Saya and Ellora, brother Ajit, mother Suvarna, and an extended circle of family and friends he was very close to and who also will miss him greatly. Those days (1978-82) I shared a cabin with my friend Rajiv Deshpande (Chem 72, H5) and Sushil would keep us entertained with anecdotes. 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. His mildly eccentric manners, Hinglish banter, a ready smile, and contagious guffaw endeared him to his friends. Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal. He would often push business opportunities that came his way to me. Also vivid in memory from 1964 is the escape to the city from Powai to see "My Fair Lady" and "Becket" on the same day, back to backboth fantastic movies and the pleasure heightened by the analysis and running critical commentary from Sid. Saiteja Talluri. He was simple but at the same time stylish. Neeraj Chopra: Finally, India's national record holder in Javelin Throw, Neeraj Chopra secured a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. 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. Ishwar unki aatma ko sadgati de. Even a couple of times I had invited him for lunch at my Thane home while he was working with me. He received his B.Sc from Agra University to which Jaswant College was affiliated. . This would be our residence for the time till we left IIT. So proud to participate in the launch of the National Diagnostics Catapult (InDx 2.0) in New Delhi last week in presence of Dr Parvinder Maini, Office of the By the time of our batch-mate gathering on the campus in 2012, he had already authored 9 books. With Kesav, Philosophy was the fifth dimension. Rahul Sharma play the santoor at the Banganga Festival in Mumbai. So he had a very distinguished career which continued almost to the end. IITBAA Hyderabad Chapter lost a colleague, a friend, a mentor, and its best sounding board to cruel fate.I hope wherever he is now, AK, is busy charting out his next course of action to help the poor and needy. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Tech (1971) and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgy from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Prof. Menon was born in Mangalore on August 28, 1928. IIT-B students' magazine, Insight, has pulled out old editions that covered two agitations. He was born on 20.5.1948 and left us on 20.9.2022. As per Linus wish, I sent his worksheets of the algorithm to a few of our classmates named by Linus, most of whom replied that it was too technical for them to understand.For the last few decades, Linus was in touch with me, initially on my landline and later on my mobile. Neelesh Wagle was born in Dadar, Mumbai on 7th Sep. 1970 to Vivekananda and Aparna Wagle, in a simple Maharashtrian middle-class family. Writing about Manguexa is no easy task as one does not know whether to start with his intellectual brilliance or his sterling qualities of humility, kindness and concern for others. 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