It was he who introduced me to AA and went delirious when I got elected to the Board of Directors. In the nineteen seventies, the Govt of India recognized his contributions and his talent and it was not long before he moved to Delhi to hold a series of administrative posts concerned with the development of science and technology in India. I second Mittra's thoughts. For olympiads, however, only a limited few apply. Well, I ran into a business opportunity immediately upon landing in the US where Kesavs techniques could be applied. 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. 6 and also were in the same wing and same floor. Step 2: On the main page, verify the NSO 2022-23 level 1 result. What do you suggest? After graduating from IITB, Vinayak worked as a Project Manager to build multi-million dollar plants, fully automatic plants manufacturing detergents to pharmaceuticals. who needs a golf cart! There was a shop tucked inside the petrol pump. Currently working as a Postdoc fellow in Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in tumor Immunology. Brian will be laid to rest at St. Monica Catholic Church, Mishawaka, Indiana on the 4th of May 2020 at 10.30 a.m. May his soul Rest in Peace. Kesav not only accepted but embraced databases, meta data, persistent data models and rule-based engines (that pretty much defined AI in those times) at TRDDC. From 1992, he worked as an independent consultant providing welding procedures and qualification of procedures for new and exotic materials used in construction and fabrication of pressure vessels with various engineering industries. All that's gold doesn't glitter. D. Thesis Awards : It is given to Ph.D. He came into our lives in his typical humble, very unassuming way, we learnt by his example and he left a lasting impact on all who were fortunate enough to know him. He, along with three other IITian friends was the founder of Pune based Technofour Group, a company of high repute in India and abroad. Two more of our IIT Powai batchmates, Mr. Sharad Nandurdikar and S. Pancharatnam (Pancha), and Pancha's brother S. Santosh who went into medicine, had also joined us the same time. When the month of December arrives this year, I will surely and sorely miss him. Uday Patankar passed away peacefully on October 31, 2019 due to complications from acute myeloid leukemia. Mr J. N. Godbole passed away on January 4, 2022. Ever the family man, Brian was a devoted husband to Maria and father of three children, Michelle, Valerie and Barry and a growing brood of 5 grandchildren. As luck would have it, Dilip Karandikar, Avinash Kulkarni and I had rooms in the same wing on the ground floor. Jayants interests focused on research, modeling, and policy analysis of climate change mitigation, energy efficiency standards, building energy use, power and forest sector analysis. I pray to the Almighty to make his soul rest in peace. ', Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group was the Chief Guest. I was planning to meet him, when I was going to come to Mumbai, for the Golden Jubilee (which I had to cancel due to health-reasons). Once he stayed in my house, when he came down to attend the wedding ceremony of the elder son of Pradip Mittra in 2007. '70 Chem. Gold Medal, Top 1% Topper, Plastic waste management, NPTEL,IIT Kharagpur, April 2019. A few days later our inimitable and endearing friend Sushil Bijawargi passed away peacefully. He was a member of Saturday Club, which I believe, is an organisation of businessmen, from Pune. As happens quite a few times, we went our separate ways till 2015 get-together and formation of our e-group. We used to have long conversations. He had a rough idea of my commuting schedule and had resourcefully soloed his way to my house an hour earlier. He worked with BARC until he decided to pursue Ph.D. and was extremely happy to have completed Ph.D. in his late 40s. College. My research here involves structural biology, drug discovery, innate immunity and neurodegeneration.<br><br>My PhD work at the University of Queensland involved examining the structural aspects of thumb domains of Acid-sensing ion channels (ASICs) to screen for, design and refine . In recent years he was associated with Logistics Skill Council as Program Director. Shortly after the sad news of Nandas death had reached a group of us friends from IITB Hostels 4 and 5, we were reminiscing about our time together with Nanda, both during our IITB days and during sporadic contacts with him thereafter. I had met Percy in Mangalore around a year or so prior to his sudden demise. Around 2 am or so, we silently parked the scooter and went to bed. The fun days had to yield to jobs and repaying of education loans and travel. He completed his engineering by securing scholarships all through the 5 years! We lost touch as we grew up until our paths crossed again at IITB. Sad to lose a friend with whom we spend years together. He held many responsibilities in his long and distinguished career starting with NOCIL soon after graduation, where later he got deputed to Shell in The Netherlands. Condolence Messages from Classmates and Friends, M. N. Ramamurthy joined with my batch in 1966 in Met Engg department and was a cohabitant of H6. From his time in high school, he always believed in the ability of scientific reasoning to solve any problem, if that problem were posed correctly. With Kesav, Philosophy was the fifth dimension. In 1983, he immigrated to the US with his family and settled in New Jersey. His last rites were performed by his father in the presence of his family, friends and colleagues at a crematorium in Gurgaon. Ganesh had two enterprises going, but both out of his love for enterprise, not necessarily for making money. Find every unique opportunity to reinforce humanness., IIT Bombay partners with JSW Group to establish Technology hub for steel manufacturing. Bhambhani 1964 Shri M.C. He is survived by his loving wife of 45 years, Mrs. Madhura Bapat, two sons, two daughters-in-law and two grandsons. He then moved to Mehta Pharmaceuticals in Amritsar working there from 1977 1982. We knew they were classmates at the St Xaviers High School, Dhobi Talao. In the second innings, we always saw and met him with his wife Anuradha. He has left behind a lot of memories to cherish, honour and emulate. He will be sorely missed by his friends and family. Now we have the mammoth task of keeping the memory of their loving grandfather alive in their minds. As batchmates, we had several get-togethers in the past, very often led by our batch-leader Dipak Sheth. 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. IIT Bombay Conclude Phase 1 Placement. In fact, when he was conversing with someone, he would get fully engrossed and focused and reacted occasionally in such a way that the person knew that Kandy was listening. Dr. Swati Dutta, vice-president of Samajwadi Jan Parishad and long-time socialist and feminist activist, passed away in Varanasi on Saturday 2 May at the age of 72. I also visited the farm when he had called all of us for a get-together. At one point, he was a Professor at the Walchand Institute of Technology, Solapur. And the farther away you lived, the longer he came to unabashedly stay. Heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family. The Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) was established in 1999 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the country's independence. The emotions that have been coming in waves since the 16th, and more as a flood as I write this today, can be summed up in the following words of an anonymous poet. We will miss him enormously. 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. Vipin Joshi passed away on December 20, 2020. You will be missed sorely. He was always there to catch us. One night, four of us went to the wardens office at 11 pm. Yogesh was a doting father, teaching his girls everything from Mathematics and Physics to principles of grit and tenacity. My memories of interactions with him during the hostel days will last forever !From Homi ByramjiI have nothing but the fondest memories of him and his wonderful crooked smile and the glint in his eye.From Joe GonsalvesA couple of years ago Cawas and Viju Parameshwar reminded us that Rajan got the No. Very sorry to hear this. He is the co-inventor for influence fuse for Adrushiya mine MK2, along with Scientists from A.R.D. His origami was amply visible in the TRDDC library. Phone: 022 2576 7771. He was very dynamic and had also established good contact with Govt officials in Maharashtra and also our Dear 'Manu' Parrikar, CM of Goa, Ex-Minister of Defence. I was glad to know he was slowly returning to normalcy. He will truly be missed. Junior, mentee, and close friend Nitin Saluja (IITB 07, Founder-Chayoos) sums it up best: Bhai hamara Stud tha, ye to pata tha, Wo Legend tha, ye nahin pata tha. All through his career in Mumbai and outstation, Sulabha supported him through thick and thin. Increased BJP vote Share from 0.35% to 35% in 10 years. He told me, that his assistant is taking care of all the arrangements, then. 3) As he told me about his modest financial background, my respect for him grew; and so did his for me. When he met UstadAbdull Halim Jafar Khan, (from Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan trio), he was so taken in by the charisma of the artist ( AHJ Khan was a terrific Sitar player and an intelligent man) that Ganesh enrolled Sudhi, his elder son into the Academy as well as wrote and produced a book, something like a Bio with a CD on the Artist. One can compare it to a giant tree where one could climb get hold of any limb and traverse the tree. He was listed in the FastCompany list of 100 top business leaders in 2009. After waiting for some weeks, we pressed them to let us know their schedule. President of India Gold Medal : It is given to the student of BS/B.Tech (with Honours) or B.Tech+M.Tech Dual Degree with the highest CPI. As the eldest sibling, in many ways, Dusy was the beacon and a guidepost for the family. You would be missed dear friend Yograj! I didn't think I was hiding. During his last stint in Gujarat, to relax he took to learning harmonium as well as singing. He often talked about Bhagavad Gita (his favourite subject ). My deepest condolences to Kedars family. This consulting work allowed him the flexibility to visit his sons in the US and Australia for many months at a time. To her surprise and shock, he collapsed on the floor. The convocation was held in physical mode and Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group attended the IIT Bombay 60th convocation as chief guest. He was a down to earth, simpleton with rustic Maharashtrian culture. He pursued a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from IIT-Bombay. And you of course, constantly pushing yourself too! She joined the Department of Physics in the Mahila Mahavidyalaya in Banaras Hindi University, where she taught for more than 30 years. He was carrying on efforts for Skill Development, in Pune. His lifestyle reminds me of the famous Frank Sinatra song My Way. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. He was simple but at the same time stylish. Prof. Menon had been associated with IIT Bombay in a number of ways on many occasions. I believe he never recovered from this blow and decided to fade away. He has a few papers to his credit published in international journals where he has written about his pioneering work in the field. They would steal time from their working life to meet at Indore, halfway for both, she from Delhi and he from Mumbai.Biju firmly believed no country should have borders nor should they have any army. Kesav Vithal Nori left for his heavenly abode on May 29, 2021. He was very interested in puzzles, from the cryptic crosswords in the daily TOI to Sudoku and KenKen. We selected the same hostel and the same wing and graduated in 1971. In fact, we attended many IIT Bombay seminars where he would stand up boldly to ask questions or clarifications. respectively, but all three of us were given rooms in Hostel 5. Yogesh was born in a family with Gandhian ways and ideology. Noor's truly compassionate nature was revealed in full when the bottom fell out of our life in 1996-97. He was my roommate at H4 at IITB for three years and we both moved to H2 in the final two years of our IITB life where he was in neighbouring room in the same wing. Kandy was very much influenced by his father. On returning home from a business trip to San Francisco, Georgie suffered a massive coronary incident that interrupted blood flow to his brain long enough to render him comatose.And thus he remained, for nearly 20 years, nursed at home with unswerving devotion and tender care by Helena, true to their marriage vows, until death parted them at 2:30 pm that terrible Friday a week before Valentines Day.While Ravi holds his own, Sruthi (who herself took a Ph.D. and is an academic at the University of Portland) married Michael Rosenfluth; they have a beautiful daughter.Nandita and I spent half a day with Helena and the recumbent Georgie last July in their lovely home in Portland, in the presence of the whole family. Subsequent to that, he joined the Exim Bank promoted GPCL Consulting Services Limited with experience in Global Procurement. There are very few people who effortlessly amalgamate science, engineering, art and business. He was a really an outgoing guy. (Computer Science and Engineering), Co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer of, Joined with B.Tech. Thanks for checking, I assured the policeman and sent him away. The passing of Brian has left a huge void not just in the hearts of his wife Maria and his family, but also his many batch mates all over the world. His body was taken to Srinagar and then flown to Vadodara via New Delhi. We studied together at Robert Money Technical High School and later at IIT Bombay in Mechanical Engineering. While at IIT, both during the UG and the PG days, my relations with my own parents were very unhealthy and it was a source of constant mental pain and anguish to me. Mohan told me and Arun too that he changed from being shy or silent (I wouldn't call it exactly an introvert) to open after our 2015 reunion and he gave all the credit for this change to Arun J. By all accounts, he was a curious sort. Two of us went to the airport and came back too in that scooter! Brian stayed true to his profession of Civil Engineering, the basics of which he had learnt at IITB. A stint with Indian corporates convinced Sid that he could not play someone elses hand. I remember Shiva and Pradeep Buch in jugalbandi at Convo Hall. However, he forever remains with us with his laser-sharp intellect, his ability to always dig to the core of any problem, his wit, and his love for Math and Science. I am extremely sorry and pained to hear about the demise of our classmate Harshad Bhinde and I pray that his soul rests in peace. His brilliance, positive outlook on life, and devotion to his family defined him. I kept him abreast of Alumni matters by gifting him a subscription to Fundamatics. He later received a PhD from the University of California Irvine. 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. 1 rank when we took the IIT Joint Entrance Examination in 1969. 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. A colorful journey for Ganesh, in which he did a lot for his family and friends. Here are thoughts shared by his old friends and acquaintances from IIT. I could have gone down the deep end, had there been no one like Dilip. The grub discussions. Mr.HarshadAmratlal Bhinde of Hostel No.8 had settled in Ahmedabad about 4 years back, after retirement along with his wife. Due to this he was not very social and had relatively fewer friends. This was to ensure that the receiver did not get disturbed from his work and receiver's work was not interrupted. IIT Gandhinagar | Awards Awards and Medals IIT Gandhinagar is always keen to celebrate the success of its students. Click to reveal For the preceding 10 months, she had been fighting a brave battle with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer of the plasma cells, and kidney failure related to the disease. The person who was our dear friend was more than a thorough gentleman. He and his wife were made for each other, and their two sons are well settled in life. He appeared without any serious preparation and cleared the JEE. ***********Sad to hear about the passing of Shekhar Kulkarni. on 28th February and expired on 9th March due to acute blood infection in the hospital itself.Mr. Pular para contedo principal LinkedIn. 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. My friends from H6 knew him very well as he was their wing mate who lived together. Fast forward to his years in Farmhouse in Shahapur. Dr. S. Rama Iyer graduated M.Tech in Chemical Plant Design (1962) and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (1965) from IIT Bombay. He was particularly proud of being a part of the GTZ CTC phase-out project where his role was as a CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) and ODS (Ozone Depleting Substance) consultant. We all pray for his soul to rest in peace in eternity. Brian truly belonged not just to his family or Hostel 7 or his Civil Engineering class or the Class of 1970, but to the entire community of IITB globally. We played Table-Tennis (Ping Pong) at the same club in Sion and were in touch for a few years. Meet Ravish Tiwari. This was India's 6th medal in this year's Olympics. We were almost like neighbours, in the same wing, all through. When I spoke to him this August at the Senior Citizens Home in Vasai, the only thing I could make out from his garbled speech was to wish me in advance for my birthday in early September. 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