By Anuradha Gupta (’86 MMS)

They say never ask a woman her age and a BITSian her/his CGPA.  The first adage has changed ever so slightly - It is just as true for men nowadays.  And some women (at least yours faithfully) proudly talk of their mid-life crisis.

Back in the younger days when I joined BITS, more due to societal expectations (gotta be doctor or an engineer; didn’t matter what I really wanted), the first issue that confronted me on day 2 in Pilani was: “Ok, I’m here. What’s next?”

Now I have friends who knew that this was their chosen vocation from Day 1 and I envy their focus and their choices. Things were a little different for me, so I had to devise a strategy for survival.

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The Battle of The Pilani Masters at Bunker Hill

By Anupendra Sharma (’87 Eco Instru)

The aroma of fresh warm idlis mingled with the smell of newly cut grass in Princeton, New Jersey and added an exotic excitement to the famed Bunker Hill golf course.  Over two hundred years ago, the battleground of the same name had witnessed a bloody battle that the British won. But it was a historic battle. For at Bunker Hill, the American soldiers discovered their own prowess, courage and almost beat back the regulars. Bunker Hill became a rallying cry of the patriots throughout the war. Today, on a warm, grey day, the tone was set for the third year of the acclaimed Pilani Masters Golf Tournament.                                                                            

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Poetry by Anuradha (’86 MMS) & Sagarika (’93 Bio)

They came in a jeep,
Demolished the little shop,
At the corner of the road
They didn’t even stop,
To see the havoc they wrecked;
It didn’t affect
Them in anyway-
Justice is here to stay!
But is this justice really?
I loved the shop dearly;
Tiny and homely,
It was her life’s earnings,
Invested in the shop.
That is why I stop,
To ponder,
Should it be done,
Doesn’t the road belong to everyone?

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Cartoons from cactus flower archives

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Yaad Na Jaye - Poem

By Srinivash Kulkarni (’74)

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