BITS, Pilani-Goa!

ByDivya divakaran (’01 Instru), Sandeep mukherjee (’95 Phy Mech) & Akash RAMAN (’04 Goa)

The spanking new state-of-the-art campus at Goa is being built on 180 acres of land and overlooks the Zuari River located on the National Highway NH17B connecting Marmugao Port to the National highway NH17.  The campus is easily accessible being only 5.5 km from the airport, 22 km from Madgaon Railway station and 9.5 km from Vasco Railway station.

The new campus is being positioned as BITS, Pilani-Goa, to leverage the “Pilani” brand value proposition. In the following sections, we attempt to communicate the various infrastructure and campus life aspects of the Institute to help you better understand the state of the affairs.

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Bridle IT: Made in Pilani Labs!

 The Bridle Team with Anupendra Sharma (’87 Eco Instru)

2004 marked a strategic milestone for the mobile industry.  The number of mobile subscribers surpassed the total cable and satellite television subscribers in India, which number 40 million today. With 46 million mobile users, a number that is expected to double next year, the phenomenal mobile revolution in India has given rise to Bridle’s idea.

Bridle is a software company focused on creating mobile applications for the Indian market.  Their ambitious mission is “To touch every mobile subscriber in India, at least once a day” by offering software applications initially in education, and later in healthcare and home appliances through the mobile phone.

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Spicmacay: The BITS Chapter

By The Spic Macay Team

SPICMACAY or the Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth is a non-profit, voluntary, apolitical and participatory student movement. Founded in 1977, it has grown from strength to strength and has caught the very imagination of the youth across the length and breadth of the country. The fundamental aim of SPICMACAY is to create an awareness of and an appreciation for the many facets of our rich cultural heritage. The educational system of our country has zero inputs when it comes to making our students aware of their rich heritage. This is where SPICMACAY steps in. Through concerts, lecture-demonstrations, informal Baithaks in classical music, dance, folk arts, literature, theater, cinema, painting, Yoga and spirituality by eminent artists and thinkers—it exposes the students to the cultural tapestry of this land that they seem to be slowly, yet steadily, losing touch of. SPICMACAY has nearly 200 chapters in schools and colleges across India and some 70 chapters abroad.

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A Woman of Substance-Dr. Meera Bannerji - MB Warden

By HIMABINDU CHITTA ('02)

Capturing the essence of a conversation with Meera Banerji in mere words is an arduous task. She is a master storyteller and the “interviewer” is usually lost in a maze of anecdotes. Here we’ve tried our best to sum it up without leaving out any interesting titbits.

 “Saurav, Neha – aa gaye tum log? Apni copy nikalo… Badmaash Saurav – page phadna nahin! Aaj tum handwriting practice karoge. Apni pencil sharpen karo aur shuru ho jao. Neha yeh page yaad karna. Aur Deepak tum bhi.”

Dr. Mrs. Meera Banerji is back in form. Having ended her thirty-eight year long career in BITS, she has now begun to teach primary school children at home. Kids of various ages come to her modest home on Loharu Road to learn the basics of spoken and written English. We suspect, however, that they learn a lot more than that.

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