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. Linus Anthony D'Souza, who was the silver medalist of the 1971 batch of engineering students of IIT Bombay, passed away on 20th September 2022. He proudly adhered to the values he believed in until his last days. He also worked on Delhi Metro and later Calcutta Metro. This was Bijus second (unannounced) visit with me via that Air India freebee. In corporate life, Yogi was known for his problem-solving skills and creative solutions.He is survived by Rashmi, his wife, and two sons, Nishant and Siddharth. I have been his neighbour at Borivali, Mumbai. At times, he guessed that I wanted something different than R&D just from the way I walked to his desk. 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!!). The family moved with her new job to Portland, Oregon, in 1993. To us, he was a brilliant, inspirational, funny, and loving dad and husband of almost 40 years. He was the Chairman of a Committee appointed by MHRD around 1975 to consider the possibility of establishing major Centres of Research in each of the IITs. The CPI is based only on the mandatory credit requirements for BS/B.Tech (with Honours). Over the past 5 years, Brian battled with cancer. 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. Engg. I also had unwritten responsibility to be the glue between TCS (the business) and TRDDC (the research). One party he organized for IITians on the terrace of his building I can never forget. For SOF IEO, SOF NSO & SOF IMO, class one and class two exams are single level exams. Obviously, he did not let his status and success get into his head. May her soul rest in Eternal Peace. He is the co-inventor for influence fuse for Adrushiya mine MK2, along with Scientists from A.R.D. Energy radiated out of you. I Will miss him. AK has worked with marquee organizations in senior leadership roles and has contributed immensely to the executive education industry. 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. Strangely, he could communicate much better with me than with his family members. It is with a great deal of sadness that I compose these few lines to remember and celebrate the life of my classmate and friend Manguexa Wagle. 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. And then on D 7days came the stage when Sid and Rebecca announced their decision to get married. "I remember that day very well, 3rd July 1978. He liked to play chess, especially the lightning variety. ., he was very calm and composed. 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. With her trademark warmth and candour, Rebeccas ingenuity in designing and adapting gadgets to normalise Sids life and mobility(from forks and spoons to beds to standees to shoes to exercisers et al just short of a blade runner) made one wonder if she was a Mechanical Engineer from IIT, Bombay, in addition to her position as HOD at St. Josephs College, Bangalore. Neelesh Wagle was born in Dadar, Mumbai on 7th Sep. 1970 to Vivekananda and Aparna Wagle, in a simple Maharashtrian middle-class family. Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to interact with him much all these years. He was in 4th year when as the GS of our Metallurgical Association I had led a group of students to Goa to study Chowgule's Pelletization Plant. He was a proud organizer of his sons Brahmopadesham and of family vacations. Mohan had invested and taken possession of a flat in an Old Age Home but always used to say that they would move there when they were not able to live in their own house. He knew exactly what his engineering interests were, and did not allow his high ranking unduly influence his career choice. Hisseva (service) to the community with his teaching via Balavihar and guiding families with their adoptions "RajiKrishna" hold many accolades. Please write tonewsletter-group@iitbombay.org with the above information and include a photo if you wish. Together we had a good time growing up at IIT, the golden years of our education. His worldview was coloured by a strong religious upbringing. I also want to thank the IIT alumni who have showered us with kind words and memories of our dad these are certainly going to go a long way in easing our pain, the fact that he is so fondly remembered by so many of his friends. He was born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India on 24 April 1949, the oldest of three siblings. He had a convulsion, slipped into a coma and was admitted to hospital. 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. He had a very high competence of modelling and software development for technical problems, including problems in metabolic modelling. Rest in peace, Shocked and saddened at the news of your departure! She was the heartthrob of very many of us in IIT. Not only did I often meet his family in Santacruz in the 60s but also visited his Vashi bungalow once with my wife as well. (Metallurgical Engineering), Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of, Corporate Banker; Senior Vice Chairman of, B.Tech., M.Tech. His favorite activities included hiking and biking in the East Bay hills around Berkeley, CA and playing tennis. It was a cherished privilege to have been Nandas IITB classmates and friends for many years. He developed global and country-specific models for the evaluation of costs and climate mitigation potential options in California, India, China, Brazil and other major developing countries. To his friends, he was the go-to man to steal away to the movies, to confide in or to discuss anything under the sun, to go to Goa for a spontaneous vacation, and, in at least one case, to quickly be taught a programming language under the shadow of a deadline. Performance & security by Cloudflare. In 1975 he earned a Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies. Building on her passion for science, Dr. Swati Dutta commenced research in the new field of bioinformatics, in 2005. She is living here in Houston and still remembers Mohan and his parents. We had offered to host him and Anuradha for some treatment on 'High sugar' quite near our home at Pune, in the last quarter of 2018. And come 9.30am.voila the puzzle was solved and passed around in the corridors to other classes too. But not now. Shekhar Kulkarni was a great person - I am stating some interactions with him in his last days. This Irani Hotel had a jukebox and a collection of about 400 old Hindi songs of the fifties like Kanandevi, Amirbai Karnataki, KL Saigal, CH Atma, Hemant Kumar, Suraiya, Talat Mehmood, etc. 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. He is survived by his only sister and her family. After completing his B.Tech., in 1977, topping the class, Vivek went to Canada to acquire a Masters Degree in Welding Engineering from McMaster University, Canada. We knew they were classmates at the St Xaviers High School, Dhobi Talao. Sardar Bhopinder Singh Nagi left for his heavenly abode on 11th December, 2019. The problem was ------who would do the dishes!!!!! After graduating, he joined his father's company Troika that specialises in technology and equipment for the vegetable oil industry, and took it to new heights and a global presence. The cocktails were quite refreshing at the end of a hard days work. He was known to leave one unforgettable story as a shared memory for each of the people in his life. In due course, he was entrusted with higher responsibilities, in the companys heavy Engineering Division, and then in Oil & Gas division. The Borivali college has then set up the E Cell which is running very well.Also, Shekhar was passionate about Reverse Engg of imported components. I knew him since First Year Science days at Elphinstone College, Bombay. Welcome To The New Director Of IIT Bombay Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri . May God grant eternal peace to the departed soul. Enjoyed treasure hunts, crosswords, quizzes. His father was a District and Sessions Judge in British India and so Prof. Menon spent his child hood in various parts of India. Returning to India during the dynamic and vibrant political atmosphere of post-emergency, Swati came into touch with the ongoing socialist movement of the time, although she had already been introduced to socialist ideas during her time in the US. He was not a regular to our MMM or Alumni Annuals. guys moved to a different building of Hostel 5, but our friendship continued. I understand he narrowly missed topping his class in B. in EE (Batch of 1992), he joined the ranks of budding entrepreneurs, industrialists and bankers at IIM-Calcutta for his MBA in Finance. Subsequently, he started his own consultancy company for setting up very economically viable small chemical plants in and around Delhi area. This was India's 6th medal in this year's Olympics. He was recognized as a fellow by both the POLY and PMSE divisions of ACS and was invited to speak at the Smithsonian about innovation. He regularly followed several sports including cricket, soccer and tennis to name a few. The 59th convocation of IIT Bombay was held today online in Virtual Reality (VR) mode, keeping in view the safety measures during the ongoing pandemic. degree. I pray that God gives his family the strength to bear this great loss and tide over this crisis. His focus area was welding technology and he was instrumental in driving the initiative of developing highly-trained young welders. IIT Delhi's 51st Convocation- List of Medal Awardees: Medal Awardee's Name 1. The doors were never locked and the password was to name any IIT classmate, batchmate or acquaintance. As a group of Nandas batch-mates recall, even during the early IIT days Nanda came across as a generally serious person but with a keen sense of humour. Swati became a founding member of the group Samta Sangathan, a grass-roots movement of the oppressed classes opposed to opportunist mainstream politics,. Its been a long 50 years after we graduated; time does fly! I cannot believe he is no more with us today. Verma worked for over a decade initially in two chemical companies, first in a sugar mill in Kopargaon in Maharashtra about five years and later in another sugar company in Uttar Pradesh. We were together in SIES College and also being from Sion (Shiv), a close friend. ~~ Madhura and Satish Bapat. Alcohol was served, not in glasses but in scooped out watermelons. Also, he was specially felicitated by his community in 1981, when he was the first from among them to go abroad, when he was deputed for training at Inventa, Switzerland by GSFC. Due to his own personal experience during childhood, he was very sensitive about proper education of the underprivileged children. Those bicycles are still being used!!! As his wing mates, we had the privilege and pleasure of enjoying his dry humour for an extended period through endless, late-night cack sessions as well as through our more infrequent get-togethers after IIT-B. Disclaimer: Team Campusutra did not create or edit this content. All conversations with Krish would make you laugh with his humor and one-liners. 2515 students were awarded the degrees on successful completion of their academic programmes. 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. During our graduate studies at IIT from 1962 to 1967, Mr. Verma, Mr. Radheshyam Goswami and I, Gajraj Singh Sachan, lived in the same hostel no. 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. He was always helpful. '78 Elec. He tutored 10th and 12th standard students as a social service and mentored anyone who looked up to him, including many JEE and MBA aspirants.He was active in IITB Alumni Association affairs during its formative years in the late eighties until recently and actively participated in most of its functions. Some of us brimming with pride at the thought of you becoming a cardio thoracic surgeon. He was the chillest dude ever - calm, placid, serene in the face of any adversity, never losing that gentle smile. Uday immigrated to the US in 1970, received his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and subsequently became a US Citizen. He was a dutiful son, passing up the opportunity to settle in the United States just so he could be with his parents, over whom he constantly fretted. I remember chatting with him after dinner on the Wing C balcony, he was always jovial and fun to be with. His zeal for 100 % indigenization of his developed products will be remembered by colleagues and those in the industry. 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. May God give strength to his family to bear this loss. Although if my mother is to be believed, he would watch anything but golf! Services, IBI Chematur, SNC Lavalin and Shiva Engg. He was on the campus on the historic day of March10, 1959 when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation stone of the Institute. Since Linus did not have email facility, he would post his worksheets to me which I would scan and email to Urban. (File photo/PTI) A student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay allegedly died by suicide on campus early Monday morning. I was fortunate enough to share a hotel room with him when we had our 40th-anniversary meeting in 2011. - Milind Patankar, Ramamurthy had come to our batch when we went into 2nd year. Om Shanti. I was in H3, and he was in H4. He was aware of the database of imported components maintained by Govt/ Pvt agencies which he shared with me. In 1965, which of these motivations brought Sushil Bijawargi (Biju to his select friends), the middle child of a disciplinarian (by his telling), well-to-do Dalal Street securities broker, to IIT Bombay has remained a mystery to me. His body was taken to Srinagar and then flown to Vadodara via New Delhi. It was magic. - Satish JoglekarI am still trying to process the, untimely, passing of my dear friend and classmate, Kedar. He tried spreading this business line by visiting several other colleges too. May his beautiful soul rest in peace! As the end of the 1961-62 academic year came near, some of us were driven by an intense desire to join IIT Powai. He joins our dear batch mates of 1971 who have left us behind. Donning his signature, burgundy MIT-emblazoned sweatshirt (gifted to him from there, by an erstwhile batchmate), from personal letters, he regaled us with titillating tales of the co-ed campus lives of American university students and informative tidbits of higher-education possibilities across the US. Dilip's profile in the Class of 1967 alumni book tells all about his post-IIT career, so I will not repeat it. He was from the Class of 1971, and I am from the Class of 1974, EE. I am not sure if any other batchmate knew those things either. Some of his fellow students asked each other how he could humanly handle the notoriously demanding workloads of IITB and this grueling regime. During his professional career he managed numerous projects such as Dams, Bridges, Roads and Industrial Buildings in Maharashtra. I will miss him and his positivity and will keep him and his family (sisters and brothers) in my prayers. He did his schooling at Nutan Marathi High School and New English High School, Pune. He was a really friendly person without any pretexts. Subsequently, he had a sterling globe-trotting career across India, UK, US, and Singapore comprising stints at AF Fergusson, KPMG, iFlex Solutions, Deutsche Bank, and the Royal Bank of Scotland. His superlative academic skills were quickly and widely recognized: when he ranked 6th in the HSC Maharashtra State Board Exams, his coaching class, the Multi-Purpose Academy crowed about it by publishing his photograph in a quarter-page newspaper ad. Since then, Dilip has been the only friend of mine, whose birthday I have remembered without fail. Vipin Joshi passed away on December 20, 2020. When the power of one's brain is as vast as the power of the universe, (and I'm sure all IITIANS will agree, that one DOES have that capacity, but only a percentage seek access to, hone and showcase it), can we contain describing such persons in words? In his 2 acre farm, he built everything himself with the help of friends like us, Gaurishankar being one. Well, I ran into a business opportunity immediately upon landing in the US where Kesavs techniques could be applied. Ajits loss is a huge blow to them. All rights reserved. He could never sit idle and hence started his own consultancy to support SMBs.Vinayak passed away peacefully on June16 at his Pune residence. Track Latest News and Election Results Coverage Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world. Venkatraman Krishnan passed away in Bengaluru on 29th April 2021. Subhash Kamte died of a cardiac arrest on the 18th February 2019 at Kolhapur. As everyone observed he was indeed a jovial guy! ~As reported by Suhas ( Aba ) Khedkar (B.Tech Civil 1976 , MTech Structural 1978). Prof. J.C.Bose Memorial Gold Medal Sayan Bhattacharjee Chemistry The Chairman, BoG Gold Medal (UG) Subhamoy Dey Physics Ashok was an avid reader and in later years studied cosmology, trying to understand the secrets of the universe and human life. A part of our great dies every time we hear such news. Biju had a knack of telling stories of the tussles within his company or the war between Ingersoll Rand and his company CP Tools, both of which were owned by the same American group in the US. A good friend, if somewhat unorthodox, officer. Let's meet and enjoy the rest of the time to complete our innings here. Sid had his priorities absolutely clear..Guys, marathons are meant for watching not for running. Swati supported us warmly throughout our courtship, extending to us the hospitality of her wonderful elder brother Shanker Dutt in Colaba, South Bombay; Shanker "Dada" welcomed us into his family. Ravish loved politicians, every aspect of them their ideological commitments (both in public and private), rhetoric, bombast, ambitions, jealousy, conspiracies, et al. 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. Kamte was a mischievous but a lovable friend. All through this period, he never talked much about his engineering achievements and never had any airs about himself. This would be our residence for the time till we left IIT. Milind Wakdikar, Scientist-G & Advisor to Ministry of Earth Sciences, passed away in Delhi on 19th May 2021. Kamlesh fondly remembered his time at IIT and the lifelong friendships he made there in Hostel 8. His several students including girl welders won global awards for high-tech welding. This model is being tested for studying skin irritation and toxicity. Ganesh was a great contributor to the close bonds Batch of 1969 developed. 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 . We selected the same hostel and the same wing and graduated in 1971. And the hotel was celebrating American week and had pictures of the American eagle in the restaurant. I had fewer and fewer occasions to meet with Dilip and his family after M.Tech., but we remained in touch by phone calls, letters and later via e-mails. . Was educated in Marathi medium. We remain inspired by what he wrote in his Batch of 1992 IIT-Bombay 25th Reunion Yearbook: Life to me is now . peace and content with what one has achieved, enjoy the happy memories, and the friendship of people who care about you. Here's praying that wherever you are, dear Neelesh, peace, contentment and loving memories of your family and friends will always stay with you. He was Kesav, Nori-saab, Prof. Nori, KVN to his friends, peers and mentees. From ArunTolaniMy memories of Raj are mainly from Hostel 2 and our EE class. ~~As reported by Rajiv's friendArun Bhambhra. Here are thoughts shared by his old friends and acquaintances from IIT. I had once peeped through his notes and his one line contribution amazed me - 2 electrons with opposite spin (for Helium). Although I was reluctant, I was also pulled into these acts. My win was his win. Around 2 am or so, we silently parked the scooter and went to bed. He was truly a multifaceted man. He and his wife were made for each other, and their two sons are well settled in life. He strongly believed in doing enough rehearsals to give a good performance. He had a special knack for the cryptic crosswords that amazed me well into my adult years. Very sad. In fact, when we used to make fun of Sreeram Dhurjaty, it was Kandy who told us time and again that we must take Sreeram seriously. His office was right in the Maidan of Calcutta.While with AFCONS where he spent most of his career, Ajit was posted for Konkan Railway work. We love him and will miss him deeply. I remember Shiva and Pradeep Buch in jugalbandi at Convo Hall. I remember travelling together to Chandigarh to watch Ramesh Krishnan playing in the Davis Cup against mighty Australia on the green turf. In my many conversations with him he would often quote biblical passages to buttress his view points. The truly greats were also truly simple, no egos of any kind. He had several passions that he nurtured throughout his life, the most avid of them being sports. We have priceless memories of that sojourn, though she was a little subdued rather than her usual effervescent self. My thoughts and memories of my dear friend Shivshankar Nayampally: He along with his other schoolmates who joined us in IIT were very close to me, DP Nadkarni, Mohan Patil, Kothari and others. The first few years in Cambridge, MA, were typically tough getting acclimatised to the sub-zero temperatures, the culture, the jolt of hearing the proposition, kiss for a quarter at the entrance to the Central Square subway station and exciting new friends at BYO parties. S. Ganesh - my neighbour during the first year, and wing mate for all 5 years. Vrajlal Hiralal Vyas took his last breath at the age of 73, on his way to the Amarnath yatra on 13th July, 2022. He firmly believed that medium of school education should be mother tongue. She then transitioned successfully from a full-time staff position to working as a Contractor, to give herself time to look after her ailing mother. Vrajlal Hiralal Vyas got married in 1973 and is survived by his wife, son, married daughter and two grandchildren, all living in Vadodara. I went to the U.S.A. to pursue higher education in August 1971 and he came on his scooter to send me off that night. Best Private University in India. My prayers are to God for the heavenly peace for the departed soul of our beloved classmate and my personal friend of many years. Thanks, and best to all *** It is indeed sad news. - Abdul TaiyabSorry to hear of Kedar's untimely demise. Dichotomously, Biju was an inveterate networker, the best I have ever known. I knew him as a Classmate in Chemical Engineering. Apart from all his qualities listed above, he was a lover of Sanskrit language. He was a very positive person and encouraged me to ask questions in technical seminars. I was able to speak to him, though just for a few minutes. 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