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Deepak
Sharma:
dsharma@vsnl.com After an
initial 2 year stint at Eicher, worked for over 15 years in the
office automation industry with most of the time being at Xerox.
Based in
New
Delhi
since 1987, joined the
UK
based Invensys plc in 1998 in a business development (M&A)
role. Currently heading the
South Asia
operation for the Powerware Business Group at Invensys. Married
in 1983 to Jyotsna, we have one daughter, Stuti, who is 17 years
old and joined college in July 03 and is pursuing a B Sc in
preparation for a career in Biotechnology.
Subodh
Karnik (Powdri):
bfrillm@aol.com Subodh
Karnik (Mech. Engg. 76F05960) and his wife Bethann Frillman,
live with their two children, Nathan and Max, in
Atlanta
,
Georgia
,
USA
.
Subodh works in Marketing at Delta Air Lines and Bethann is a
professional photographer.
Abhijit
Nimgaonkar (Nimbu):
animgaon@zsassociates.com
Is in
Princeton
,
NJ
.
Works with a Sales and Marketing issues consulting firm. Happily
married with two children 12 and 6 (2003).
S. Pichamoorthy (Piccha):
picha@vsnl.com
Initially I worked for 11/2 years with Xomox (
India
)
Limited at
Calcutta
and for 2 years with Alfa
Laval
(
India
)
limited at Chennai. Now I am working for the
Germany
based KSB Pumps Limited for the past 16 years as Head of
Marketing of the Valves division at Chennai. I married Bhavani
in the year 1986 and she is practicing General Medicine. We have
a daughter Nandini who is at school- +1 Level.
Kundan Madrecha:
kundan.madrecha@ambotco.com
Currently working as SAP Technology & Development Manager at
American Bottling Company based in
Northlake
,
Illinois
.
Got married in 1986 to Rita. We have 3 kids. Jayesh born in
1988, Smriti born in 1991 and Samyag born in 2001.
Rajiv Sodhi:
rsodhi@ggn.hcltech.com I work for HCL
Technologies in
India
.
I am VP and Head their advance technologies center in Gurgaon
which does product development for Finacial and retail
Technology. Work involves embedded and system software
development. Am Married to Poonam who works in ICSE Board and
Head R&D. Have two kids Daughter 15 years and son 11 years.
C.
K. Dwarkanath (CKD)
- dwarkanathc@learnetindia.com;
After Pilani, I did PG in electronics at
Coimbatore
...cause
could not fit/stay into any job, then joined IISc. After 2 years
at IISc (
School
of
Automation
),
I joined DRDO and did 'desh ki seva' for 13 long years... I did
some work in Biomedical signal processing and lot of fooling
around at DRDO, in the name of seva (Velagiri??). I quit DRDO in
March 2000 and since then with Learnet India Ltd,
Bangalore
.
We develop software and content for eLearning in educational
Institutes and corporations. I
got married early (1984) [not as early as guy who has got
married in 1983-one year earlier to me!!!!!]
and I have a college going daughter(doing BDS) and another
daughter who is school going types. My wife maintains law and
order at home...sees to that whiskey bottles last for
months...untouched...
B.
C. Krishna
(BC) - bckrishna@alum.mit.edu; I work for a small
startup called Memento, Inc. as their CTO. After Pilani I worked
at CMC in
Bombay
,
OMC in
Hyderabad
,
was a whore for a body-shop called Kilchand-Devchand and
Company, spent a bunch of time at DEC, went back to school along
the way, and have been doing the startup thing for the past 7
years. Married to Geeta (Bhatnagar, Madhu’s sister), two kids
(Nikhil, 12; Tara 11). Became a vegetarian last week. That was
after I turned vegetarian two months ago. Gave up drinking
yesterday. Maybe I’ll start smoking to compensate. Or something.
Some balance is necessary.
Murali
Ganapathy (Gaffy) -
muralig@sympatico.ca
– After working in engineering consulting and the chemical
industry in Mumbai for 11 years, I immigrated to
Canada
and am working with an environmental consulting firm in
Toronto
.
I am married to Sita and she works for a mutual fund company in
investment management. We have two kids, Kritika -11 years and
Krishna
– 4 years.
Pankaj
Dhingra pankaj@dhingrafamily.com.
I work for Delphi
Corporation heading up their worldwide automotive battery
business. After
BITS, I have cycled through a number of careers - and the search
for variety continues. I
began with Unisys in software engineering, then moved on to
sales and finally to marketing.
After 10 years with Unisys, I decided to enter the world
of finance with treasury at General Motors, moved to strategic
planning, then to finance with
Delphi
and now into general management.
Home life is thankfully much more stable ... we live in
Michigan
with two children, 15 and 11.
We are in an interesting phase in our life, trying to
cope with two teenagers -- one is a bonafide teenager, while the
other thinks and behaves like a teenager.
Gokul Mishra (GN)
gnmishra@yahoo.com
After Pilani I worked for Tata Burroughs, a IT services company;
ZS Associates, a Sales & Marketing consulting firm; Booz
Allen Hamilton, a Management Consulting firm; Oracle Corp. with
the Larry gang, then ran my own company Information Insight Inc.
Currently I work for Sierra Atlantic, a IT Services firm
as a Senior Director of Business Development for
Central
US
. I live in
Naperville
,
a
Chicago
suburb, with my wife Ratna, 17 year old daughter Seetal, 13 year
old daughter Jyoti and 10 year old son Samir. Ratna works for
the Naperville Public Library. Seetal started college this year
(2003) at
Case
Western
Reserve
University
out of
Cleveland
,
Ohio
.
She will be majoring in Bio-Medical Engg. with Pre-Med.
Jyoti is in 8th. grade and Samir in 5th.
As you can see I have a long time to live the middle
aged, middle class, mediocre existence putting the kids thru
college.
Shashi
Warrier
- swarrier9@vsnl.net; I
kind of retired in 1995 and took to writing full-time. I have
since developed a talent for falling off things, mostly
motorcyles, though I have also fallen off bicycles, bullock
carts, rocks, and once a golf-cart. In between long spells of
falling off things I managed to write a few books, which
somebody suckered people like Penguin and HarperCollins to
publish. I got married late (only Sundeep Sahay continues unwed,
and may his tribe increase!)
to an old classmate from school, Prita, who has known me even
longer than you guys have. She is the busy one of the two of us,
and runs
Coimbatore
's
only art gallery.
In
between books and falling, I teach rhetoric at T A Pai
Management Institute,
Manipal. I have also co-authored (what a bloody pretentious
word) the screenplay of an English movie called Bokshu, which
has an international cast and is essentially a ghost story set
in Uttaranchal. Parts of it are quite spooky.
I
am now working on the story of a middle-aged man's pilgrimage to
Kashi and parts beyond. I tried writing for children, but didn't
do too well at it, and would like eventually to get back to
children's fiction (all right, fairy tales).
All
kidding aside, if you guys read, try my "Hangman's
Journal". Also a forthcoming
novel (hunting for a publisher in
England
)
involving Sufis and
Kashmir
,
for which I spent a month loafing in the hills around Baramulla
and Sopore. That was when I fell off rocks.
Anup
Bhargava anup_bhargava@yahoo.com
: Worked initially with Universal Cables Limited and Ranbaxy for
about a year and then joined Bhilai Steel Plant, a division of
SAIL and worked there for about 15 years in various divisions,
last 5 years in EDP (Computer Centre) as Senior Manager. Came to
US in 1999 as Oracle DBA and working for Flextronics
International, at
San Jose
California
,
from last 3.5 years as Senior DBA. Got married to Akanksha
Bhargava in 1991 and having 2 sons , Siddharth, age 10 years and
Saket 8 years.
Ram Mohan and Deepa Mahidara (aka
Deepa Bhargav)
- mahidhara@aol.com;
Did our Ph.Ds at
Univ.
of
Texas
, Austin --- Ramu in
Economics, Deepa in Operations Research. Had first
daughter, Pallavi when Deepa was still finishing up - she is
almost 16 now - a rising pianist and often, our claim to fame!!!
Second daughter, Radhika, is 12 - she is a riot like all second
borns. After changing a few jobs, Ramu is now with
International Finance Corporation in
Washington
,
DC
. Deepa is still
continuing with her first job - United Airlines in
Chicago
, she works from home
and goes to
Chicago
every week for a day
or two. Ramu and Deepa,
6609 Wilson Lane
,
Bethesda
,
MD
20817
, 301-320-2226
Ajay
Nijhawan (Budda)
- ajaynn@hotmail.com; Last twenty years have seen
me work in different parts of the country--- for the last twelve
years associated with the Cable and Satellite Industry-- Media
and Broadband Technologies- Distribution. Have ventured on
as an Entrepreneur since last one year. Based in Gurgaon. 3942
Palam Vihar Gurgaon. Presently working on to have a Cable
Consumer Magazine launched in
India
. Poonam , my better half is a Trainer in the field of
Organisation development and manages her own company...we
married in 1985. Arzoo--14 years and Saksham--12 years are our
daughter and son...I have bumped into a good number of you at
your homes, offices, get-togethers, airports, flights.. and it
has been always a beautiful feeling.
Shyam
Bagaria (Cine Sam)
- shyambagaria@satyam.net.in;
I got married as soon as we passed out to Smita in 1981 and I
remember, still, so many Bitsians, of our batch, present on my
marriage day. Well, and like all Marwaris like me, I joined my
family business of ship repairing at Calcutta and really worked
hard for 12 long years, earning lot of wealth, and finally
landed up in making (producing) a Hindi movie named
Nirnayak
(being the old cine Sam that I was) and in the bargain lost a
lot of my earnings. Now I have realized how risky it is, to be
into a movie business. And now I am still in
Calcutta
(a dying city now) and trying to still survive with some or the
other business. Regarding
family, I have 2 teenaged daughters aged 21 and 16 and my only
wife till date with me.
Arvind Joshi (Joey)
- arvind_neena@hotmail.com
Married
Neena in 1988. Daughter,
Mihi, aged 14 years and son, Aadi, aged 7. Employed by ICICI
Infotech to set up their office in
Sydney
,
Australia
.
Worked for Tata Engineering after BITS, followed by a 13 year
stint with Chase Manhattan Bank a couple of years with ICICI
Bank, MphasiS and then a BITsian
dot-com Entomo in Seattle (Sanjoy Chatterji, Sunil Pande, Suresh
Kumar). Have slowly
and determinedly worked in all English speaking countries with a
few left to go -
Canada
,
Sri
Lanka
and
South
Africa
. Always technology and
usually around financial services.
Gave up alchohol this morning.
Gave up facial hair in 1982.
My final weight in Pilani was 10 times my final CGPA, in
kilos. Today it is
17 times my final CGPA, still in kilos.
We must be thankful for small mercies - if I was a 10
pointer I would weigh a 170 kilos and would compete in flyweight
Sumo wrestling in
Hawaii
.
Anil Khasgwala
(Khasgi) appalto@sancharnet.in
After BITS, I was refused student visa to US. Stayed and worked
in
Bombay
for 1 year before starting my own venture in process control
equipments. Started the venture in 1983 in the name of Appalto
Electronics. Added one more unit in 1994 in the name of Arucom
Electronics Pvt Ltd. We are presently developing and selling
special electronics
and software (SCADA) to various manufacturers of process control
equipments in
India
.
Got married in 1984 to Snigdha Mehta. She was an international
table tennis player ranked 2nd in
India
.
She has represented
India
in various international tournaments. I have a son Vishal 17 yrs
studying Mechanical Engineering at MNIT Jaipur and a daughter
Namrata 13 years studying in 8th. Lost a lot of hair while
running the unit. Now established OK but cannot get the lost
hair. Any help coming from my batch mates on hair growth would
be welcome.
P. Sreedhar (Poly)
sbina@blr.vsnl.net.in;
I'm settled in
B'lore with a couple of my own Industries....
Engineering can
you believe that??? We
all went to BITS to do Engg. but never to practice it .. well
that’s what I'm doing now.
Life is pretty cool for me. Industry sustaining my
FAMILY, Golf and
Daaru bills. Am
married to Bina and have two sons Ashish & Varun
great Brats. I've
a comfortable place here and am quite settled
so any one of you wish to make a beeline
to South of Vindhyas and specifically to B'lore here are
my contact nos. Sreedhar
off. 91 80
8395405 /
8396603 /
51171395. Res 91
80 3236375 /
3233072 Email
sbina@blr.vsnl.net.in
. mechano@vsnl.net
Dilip
D'Souza
- dilipd@rediff.co.in;
The best thing I ever did in my life happened in
Bombay
in August 1992, when I met Vibha Kamat. (OK, here's where I take
a short break to collect a substantial sum of money from her for
writing that ... I'm back now). We were married in December
1993, and our son Sahir was born in June 1999. The two of them
are the lights of my life (OK, hold on while I collect some more
... I'm back again). Vibha teaches French. Sahir goes to KG and
sings a lot. I lead an essentially retired life in which I try
to convince myself, with Vibha's help, that I am writing for a
living. Pilani
seems very long ago, but some of the memories remain as fresh as
the smell of rajma in the mess on Tuesday nights. I put it down
to that excess of bucket booze I consumed the night I learned,
to my everlasting
joy, that I had collected 17 votes in my Students' Union
Presidential bid. (Hey, I did beat Rajiv Sodhi, who got 4). Who
those 17 were remains one of the great conundrums of my life.
Subramanian Iyer (Manian):
S.Iyer@motorola.com After
a couple of jobs in
India
,
been in
Chicago
since 1987. Last 9
years at Motorola, in Cellular Infrastructure.
Got married in 1990 to Lakshmi, have 2 kids.
Lavanya, 11 years old and Kishore, 4 years old.
R. S.
Mani (Mani) - msubramani@csom.umn.edu;
(http://umn.edu/~subra010).
Currently
go by the name of Mani Subramani (this sounded funny initially
but I've got used to it now!) Asst. Prof, IS Dept,
Carlson
School
of Mgmt, Univ of
Minnesota
.
Went to IIM Bangalore right after BITS.
Worked for several computer companies in
India
till 1990.(ORG, OMC Computers and WIPRO Infotech)
Came to the
US
to join the PhD program at Boston Univ. Been a Prof at the
Carlson School of Management since 1997. Live in
Minnetonka
(a suburb of
Minneapolis
)
with wife Vidya and two daughters - Vaishnavi (15) and Gauri
(12). Vidya works in the Mkt Research group at Best Buy. She is
also an accomplished Bharatanatyam dancer and continues to
teach, choreograph and perform here.
P.
N. Sathees Kumar (Tish) -
pnsatheeskumar@yahoo.com;
After BITS, I joined IDBI and worked there till 1990. In
1990, moved to SIDBI, IDBI’s fully owned subsidiary and worked
there till 1995. In 1996, I moved to CARE, IDBI’s rating
agency and continue to work there till date. Married to Devi and
have two daughters: Mythili aged 9 and Anjali aged 6. Devi works
in Bharat Petroleum, Mumbai.
I am based in Mumbai and do move around within the
country on different assignments.
Avadh Saxena (Sexy):
avadh@lanl.gov is a
Technical Staff Member (Physicist) at Los Alamos National Lab,
New
Mexico
,
USA
.
After spending the 1980's in
Pennsylvania
(
Philadelphia
and
Penn
State
)
since 1990 I have been living in the
Land
of
Enchantment
(
New
Mexico
).
Perennially single and globe trotter! (76TRF610).
Siddharth
Chaturvedi (siddharthchaturvedi@oasiscellular.com)
Age:44+.
Marital
status: Married
since '89
Spouse:
Mridula Age:35+
Domicile:
Co-existing in Jaipur
Kids:2,
aged 12 and 3+
Parents:
Co-existing with us
Life
After BITS: Ups and downs
Life
In BITS: Fun
Interests:
Leisure, Family and Travel
Hair:
Few remain
Money
comes from: Salary
Achievements:
Still sane
Soul
Song: Bichre sabhi
bari
bari
from Kagaj ke phool
1st
Job: GET in L&T, Mumbai
Present
Job: Head, Activations and Credit Control, Oasis Cellular, a
service provider
Last
Visit to BITS: Feb.' 93 for rolling out Cellular service
Salutations:
To Dilip for his indulgence
Degrees:
BE-EEE & MBA (Mktg)
Rahul
Shah
- rahulss@comcast.net
EEE, BITS, 1981 (loved the cricket, polished my hindi,
bankrupted by mannalal radiwallah). MSCS, Virginia Tech, 1986.
Single, significant other is Marcia, a Brazilian.
Worked
in various
US
locations in the IP networking industry as a software engineer -
Silicon
Valley
,
Portland
,
Roanoke
,
Raleigh, and DC. Last
4 years as a software manager at Ericsson.
Right now I am looking to start a small IP software
outsourcing group with a bunch of engineers here in DC.
Balaji
Ramadurai
balajir@msn.com I am now in
Mumbai after working all over the world -
India
,
China
,
US,
Japan
,
Italy
,
Indonesia
,
Singapore etc. I returned back to
India
in 1998. I am a certified Project manager PMP and did my MBA
enhancement from
Harvard
Business
School
in 2000. I am married and have two wonderful children - 11 year
old boy & 4 year old girl. Till last month I was working as
the CEO of a Logistic company - NS Guzder & Co in Mumbai.
Now I am on my own and on a sabbatical.
Raghunath Babu
- praghunathbabu@hotmail.com;
After passing out from Pilani, did Industrial Management for a
year at IISC. I then
worked for about 9 years in software industry in
India
before joining Blue Star. I have been with them since 11 years
and work as a Software Consultant for them. I am presently based
in
Boston
,
MA
.
It’s about 17 years since I married Indira. My first
son Karthik is 14 years old and my second son Uday is 8 years
old.
Thomas Matthews (Thomax)
- thomax@optonline.net;
After
Pilans, I worked in
Bombay
for Hinditron.
Involved small stints at
Baroda
and
Mysore
.
I came to the
US
in '86.
Since then I have been in the NY metro region apart for a
year in
Illinois
and another in
St Louis
Missouri
. I now work for Goldman Sachs an
Investment Bank, in their technology area. Am also doing an MBA
at
Columbia
University
.
Serious degeneration, I guess. Got married in '92 to
Deepa, who works at Bear Stearns, another Investment Bank. I
have a 7 year old daughter, Marcelle. (Contributed by CKD)
Sudhakar Menon (Sud)
- smenon323@cs.com;
Sud and Bosha live in LA.
Bosha is a research scientist in some high funda lab in Caltech.
If you google "Kaushiki Menon" you will reach her lab
page which says - "Our overall focus is on the molecular
mechanisms of axon guidance and synaptogenesis in Drosophila.
Our approach combines genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry,
and cell biology. We are especially interested in cell surface
and signal transduction proteins that function in growth cones,
presynaptic terminals, and their postsynaptic partners."
PHEW!! Can you imagine Bosha doing all this?
Sud
works in a Geographical Information System company near LA. Has
been working in the same place for 15 years. The dot com boom
did not touch him. But you can literally count the hairs he has
left on his head!! (Contributed by your bitsaa rep!)
Venkatesh
Kulla
- venkies@comcast.net;
After I left TCS, Cap Gemini
Ernst & Young (as it is called now) for over 18 years now,
if you can believe it.
Sankur
Basu (Pissu)
- basusankar@usa.net;
Have been living in
Bangalore
since 1985 after a short stay in
Cal
after BITS. Have worked for various engineering companies of
various sizes and in various capacities. Settled (married!) down
in 1993. Got married to Moon (Malasri) and have two kids (both
girls) Udeshi-8 years and Utshaa-4 months!!
K.
Ramachandran (Ram) - ramlatha@cscoms.com; Fooled around in Bombay with IMRB
for a couple of years pretending to be a programmer of sorts
(you will remember the
Perry Road days I expect), then did Market Research in IMRB
Chennai, mainly conning gullible customers about the state of
their brands , till 93 , moved to Dubai with a research agency
called
MERAC (now part of NFO-Taylor Nelson Sofres), more conning till
2000, saw a lot of Arabia and North Africa in the process, then
moved to Singapore (wanted to see some rain -- it rains everyday
at 4 pm there, some kind of Govt. rule I think) where I spent
all of 8 months before Coca-Cola picked me up in July 2001. I
now work for Coke's South East and West Division, looking after
research for a clutch of 9 countries –
Thailand
being the biggest of these, I am based in
Bangkok
.
Latha
and I met in IMRB Chennai , we married in 87 , and she has since
put up with all these moves , working intermittently wherever
possible, not to mention raising Janani, now 10 and Aravind who
will be 9 next week.
Contact details : Res landline (662) 2555184 and hp :
(661)8280443.
Niranjan
Sharma nsharma@ram.net.au I did EEE from 1976-1981. I
am living in
Sydney
for the last 15 years and working in the power industry. Web
page www.ram.net.au/users/nsharma
V.
S. Kulkarni (Kulki) - kulki@adelphia.net; Married
to Medha and have one daughter (Rucha, soon
to be 13). After working for DOE in
Delhi
,
and TCS in
Bombay
,
finally settled on to
Boca Raton
in sunny
Florida
,
1991. Have not moved since. On the way had a stint in Brussels
for a couple of years, opened, managed and now closed a small
contracting firm, made decent money. Now have settled with
Motorola, waiting for its stock to rise above water so that I
can cash some of my options. I know I am in for a long haul....
Sankaran
Iyer
(Sankaran.Iyer@alcatel.com.au)
After completing
EEE in 1981, I worked in ORG systems (1981-1984 Baroda,
Hyderabad
), CES Delhi
(1984-1985), PSI data systems (Bombay 1985-1989, Bangalore
1989-1991). I migrated to
Australia
in 1991,completd my
Masters in Computer Science and for the past 7 years I am with
Alcatel. I got
married in 1988 to Maya. She was working in CDOT then. After a
working for various organisations, she has also ended up in a
different department in Alcatel. We
have 2 bright boys: Shreyas (aged 12) and Tejas (aged 9). We
also have an adorable puppy named Tuffy. My
most precious possession is my family and am leading a quiet and
peaceful living.
Inder
J Koul (IJK): ijkoul@aol.com
or ikoul@carolina.rr.com
is happily married with two children (14 and 10). After living
in
Colorado
for last 10 years, they have moved (this summer of 2003) to
Charlotte
,
North
Carolina
.
R.
Venkateswaran - rvenkateswaran@hotmail.com
Tested the waters for a couple a years after Pilani
before joining Indian Oil Corporation. Something in the Oil
industry must have caught my fancy as I have continued in the
same industry since; living in
Bahrain
,
Dallas
and now
Singapore
. Currently managing the strategic and business planning
functions for the refining and supply facilities east of
Suez canal
for ChevronTexaco Inc., based in
Singapore
. Married to Parvathy in 1989, we have three wonderful boys -
Vysak (12yrs), Tanay (8 yrs) and Aaditya (6 yrs).
Goutam
Lath
(glath@vsnl.com) : I am in
Bangalore
since last 15 years, have my own business of manufacturing and
export of silk fabrics, mainly for furnishing, to
USA
and
Europe
.
Married Warsha 20 years back. She is an artist. Adrit and
Aparajita are 16 and 12. Anyone coming to
Bangalore
call me at 9845042100, will be great to meet up again.
Nemish
Mehta
- ndmehta@hotmail.com;
(76F06825) After Pilani, I have settled in Mumbai. Have family
business in maufacturing, agencies, import and distribution.
Manufacturing of electric resistance wires and thermocouple
alloys. Manufacture “Neo" brand PP stationery products
which is now a well known brand in
India
.
Import of various electrical products and raw materials,
minerals, stationery, building and home accessories like tiles
and bathroom fittings etc. Neha, my better half is homemaker.
Have 2 kids, Son Shaurya is 19 years old, presently doing 3rd
year B.S with major in EE and minor in CS at university of
Illinois at Urabana-Champaign. Daughter Shamika is 8 years old,
naughty and darling of the family. God has been kind; life is
good with sound health and prosperity. My contacts :
Office:
22005483-84. Home:
23883067, 23867660. Email: ndmehta@hotmail.com or ndmehta@yahoo.com
Ajay
Karkhanis (Ghaati) ajay_karkhanis@vsnl.com Post Pilani, worked in the
environmental and project engineering areas. Put a MBA and
joined ICICI in 1988. A decade later, quit ICICI and co-founded
a boutique management consulting company- Technology Network or
TechNet. We mainly advise Indian Corporates on strategies &
processes for Innovation/New product development/R&D. We are
also into Value Chain Re-architecture to enable companies
achieve quantum improvements in their performances. As far as
the consulting business goes, there have been ups & downs
but on the whole it has been exciting and rewarding. We do have
a decent set of clients. I have settled down in Pune and my
wife, Sangeeta (an ex-Citibanker), is training to be a film
maker at the FTII, Pune.
Arindam
Mitra (Dom) mitraarindam@yahoo.com
Here's the brief guided tour of the life and times of Arindam,
the Dom. After BITS,
started life in Driplex, a Chemical firm in
Delhi
doing turnkey projects in water treatment and ash handling for
thermal power plants and industrial effluent treatment plants.
After a stint of 3 years here, moved on to Gujarat Heavy
Chemicals (GHCL) which became home for the next 15 odd years.
Working first in projects, set up the plant and then
moved on to marketing. During
the marketing years moved to Mumbai (nee
Bombay
) in 93 to take over operations there and then to the main
marketing setup in Ahmedabad as the GM marketing in 96. In
between got married in 88 to Madhumita. About
five years ago in 1998, I was the victim of a hit and run
accident. Someone up there was smiling on us so against all odds
and expectations, I managed to pull through but this caused a
spinal injury, which resulted in paralysis and quadriplegia.
After an initial 6 months in hospital, it has been a long
hard road. With the blessings of God and extensive
physiotherapy, I am slowly regaining movements and have also
started walking a few steps with support. Am hopeful of reaching
a reasonable functional level in the future. So we are here in
Ahmedabad - my mother, me, Madhumita and son Aniruddha who is
10, studies in Vth. Presently
working from home with some NGO’s on projects, with an Art
company Indiaart.com, doing my own copywriting and designing of
brochures and other communication material. That,
as they say, in a nutshell, is that. Co-ordinates:
A - 84, Pruthvi
Apartments, Opp -
Mangaldeep Flats,,
Jodhpur
Char Rasta, Ahmedabad – 380015,
India. Phone – 91 – 79 – 6923712, Cell
- +919825876284, Mail – mitraarindam@yahoo.com
Sudhir Rao
- sudhir_gitanjali@yahoo.com;
After Pilani hung around doing nothing for 6 months and then
joined Ingersoll Rand (almost started working at the infamous
Bhopal Union Carbide plant, but chose
Madras
over
Bhopal
).
Hung around with Chetty and Kulla while there.
Stayed at Rahul's house and ended up marrying his sister
!!
Came
to
Ann
Arbor
in '02 to do my MBA and then
joined GM (with a brief interlude in
Chicago
).
GM has been kind to me in that I have lived in
Zurich
for over 5 years;
India
for 5 and
Thailand
for a year with them. Was
in touch with YS quite a bit but never got to
Cal
to meet up with old buddies Hara and Das Babu.
We are now back in the
Detroit
area, where my daughter goes to 10th grade and son 6th.
Have been in touch with Shantanu here -- if anyone else
is close to here, please let us know.
Rajesh
Katariya
rajeshk@us.ibm.com;
After PS worked in
Delhi
for a few year. Came to US and worked for a while in
Chicago
.
Thereafter moved to
Rochester
,
MN
and have been working for IBM for last 10 years. Have three
kids, 1 son and 2 daughters.
Vijaysen
Jain : vijay_jain@eth.net
I was
one of those who opted for Bpharma, completed
in 1980 and after a brief stint at Euphoric Pharma at
Ankleshwar Gujarat, returned to my native place at Partbgarh,
Rajasthan in 1981, joined family business of Retail Pharmacy and
ventured into Manufacturing Herbal Medicines. In 1991 I shifted
to
Indore
(m.p.), and doing pharma distribution and C&F agency business. Married
to Smita in 1983 ,lucky to get her as wife and companion, have two
daughters Nehali and Mitali. Enjoy life, live in present, like
Holiday
traveling especially hilly terrain. We have BITS Alumni at
INDORE
with 100 members, among them 76 batchers are Anil Khasgiwala, Anil Jain,
Raju Sethi, Niranjan Garg, Gajendra Katiyar, Niranjan Rathore.
Other 76 bathchers I am touch with are Ashok Tanted at Ratlam,
Kamal Jain at Roorkee, Vinay Phatak at Mumbai.
Kamal
Lodaya kamal@imsc.res.in
Finished
PhD (CS) at TIFR in 87. Continued in research since then at IMSc
in Chennai. (Ramanujam is a colleague here.) Major spare-time
activity in the last decade has been working on Jantar Mantar (http://hsb.iitm.ac.in/~jm/),
a science magazine for school children. The better half is Aruna
Rathnam; she did her PhD in education from
Syracuse
and works at Unicef.
Narendra
Tuteja
Narendra.Tuteja@dipnr.nsw.gov.au
Post BITS I started as an engineer and over the years have
transformed into a environmental research scientist. Spent about
10 years at
Delhi
with NHPC. Moved to National University of Ireland in 1991 and
spent about 5 yrs at
Galway
.
Enjoyed the stay at
Ireland
(and the Irish Pubs and Guinness of course!). Moved to sunny
Australia
in 1997 and currently based at
Canberra
.
Love for Hockey since Pilani days still persists. Restarted
playing Hockey with Australian Vets about two years ago. Got a
small family - wife Vinita and son Mayank.
Ramanujam,
R. (Jam) jam@imsc.res.in
(http://www.imsc.res.in/~jam)
After
pilani, i spent a few years in
Bombay
,
most of it getting a PhD from TIFR. since then it has been
chennai living, earning the latter at the Institute of
Mathematical Sciences (IMSc) -- a career
path
shared by Kamal Lodaya as well.
family:
Indu is a theoretical physicist who has journeyed along since
TIFR, also in IMSc now. Leela (3) and Maya (0.9) can be met on
my page.
otherwise,
I have dabbled a bit in school education, adult literacy
etc,
and in writing science for children.
Ravi Kichloo Ravi.Kichloo@Avnet.com
Ravi Kichloo( Kich the bitch)(Ravi.kichloo@avnet.com)
After graduating from BITS, started work in Bombay in 1981.( I
went to the IIT Powai festival--Mood Indigo-- the previous year
along with Dilip, Mota and a few others
as part of the team and fell in love with Bombay). I
started work with Nemish Mehta--Tin Tin--and from there went on
to Work for Philips, TVS, HCL,And the MAX Electronics group.
Along the way lived in
Bombay
(I refuse to call it Mumbai)--had the time of my life there.
Then to Pune for a short stint and then to
New Delhi
for 12 years. Last 3 years I am in
Singapore
.
Work for a company called Avnet------Electronics components distribution
and Design and supply chain services. I look after the
South
Asia
operations for Avnet. Avnet is Headquartered in
Phoenix
,
Arizona
.
Went back to Pilani once --perhaps in 1997--as part of a holiday
to Jaipur etc---didn't like it there much--Kapoor and the samosa
walla was still there--I think he still had one stove--but I
didn't want to wait long for a samosa. Saw a lot of Donkeys
hanging around the gate--I think the campus was closed and the
whole place had a different look --and of course the familiar
faces were missing. I have had the pleasure of meeting a few of
you or being in touch with you and it has always been wonderful.
It always amazes me when
I meet someone even after 20 years---how the conversation starts
as if it was just yesterday that we used to be in BITS. My wife
Veena--we married in 1987-- is a housewife currently, after
having come to
Singapore
.
I met her in my 9th Std--first girl in my life. After an initial
dreamy phase we lost touch because I came to BITS. In my First
Sem, She wrote a letter to me with just my name and BITS. One of
you good souls--I cant remember which (Maybe Memani--Machar- not
sure though) happened to see that letter in some other Hostel
and passed it to me almost
half torn --and that
is how we renewed contact. May God bless you --whoever did that.
So after a long courtship of almosy 13 years I finally married
Veena--one of the brighter things I did in
my
life so far. Our life together has produced two bright children Supriya(daughter)
is 15 currently in Std 10th----and planning to become a
journalist, Biologist, full time writer etc etc-- not yet sure
which line to follow... and Parth my son is 10. Currently in Std
5 and enjoying life. My contact numbers in
Singapore
are--- 65806003(office), 65883276( home), 97309900( Mobile) If
any one of you happens to be here give me a call. It will be a
pleasure.
STILL
WAITING ON …
Vigneswara
(Viggy) Row - viggy@oberonft.com;
Sajan
Jacob (Jakes) - sajanjacob@aol.com;
Brahamaji Potu - bpotu@pacbell.net;
Cherian
Samuel
(Paddy) - csamuel@worldbank.org
Sundeep
Sahay (Munnu) - sundeeps@ifi.uio.no;
Nikhilanand
Nair (Niki) - nicknair@stoweresearch.com;
R.
S. Tanwar (Tan) - rstanwar@stoweresearch.com;
Sharad
Gupta (Das Babu) and Madhurima Ajmera -
sharad_gupta@lurgi.de;
Salil
Agrawal - agrawals@whosea.org;
Yogesh
Shinde - shinde@rcn.com;
Sanjay Phanse - sphanse@prodigy.net;
Humayun Khan - khan@xnet.com;
Shantanu Dutt (Nunu) - sdhar@umich.edu
Gurinder
Sohi (Guri) - sohi@cs.wisc.edu;
Sunil
Unni - su_unni@rediffmail.com;
Neeran
Chibber (Phud) - neeran@airtel.sc;
Koshy
Matthews - koshy_shoba@hotmail.com;
Sujit
Chowdhury - sujitchowdhury@hotmail.com;
Bhupendra Mathur (Bhupy)
- bhupendra.mathur@imrbint.com;
Dinesh
Mirchandani (Mirchy) - dinesh.mirchandani@boydenindia.com;
Gautam Lath - glath@vsnl.com;
Parvati Bhaskaran? - parvathybhaskaran@yahoo.com;
Rajiv
Basu (”Baysoo”) - rbasu@deloitte.com;
Mustaque
Ahamad - mustaq@cc.gatech.edu;
Sam Thomas sxt17@weatherhead.cwru.edu
Navneet
Paliwal navpal@exchange.microsoft.com;
Sandeep
Choudhary dippriya@hotmail.com;
Akhilesh
Tyagi tyagi@cs.iastate.edu
Kartikeya
Mayaram karti@eecs.oregonstate.edu;
Suneet
Bahl sm.bahl@worldnet.att.net
KK Kemmu kkkemmu@vsnl.net.
Arun
Sehgal sehgalarun@rediffmail.com
Surinder
Razdan surinder.razdan@orbitgroup.ca
Rajeev
Jaipuria
rjaipuriar1@optusnet.com.au
Naresh
Mittal nareshm@PacomSystems.com
Praveen Modha sales@premiertrading.co.uk
Deepak Sehgal Deepak.Sehgal@shelldub.simis.com
ChandraKumar
Chopda ckchopda@pavilionsports.com
E
N Venkat
Envenkat@afl.co.in
Rajashekhar Asangi (Sheikh) rajashekhar.asangi@alcatel.fr
Y. S. Ravi raviYS@cal.exide.co.in
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