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The batch of 1986

The year Platoon won best picture

Batchrep:

Arup Ghosh Dastidar (Dusty)

Degree(s)

Physics/ Instru

Years:

1986 – 1991

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'86 Batchmates from all over,

Hello and welcome to our batch site. This is pretty much our area for keeping the 86 fraternity posted on the latest happenings. Do view the first edition of our class notes. Please send me an email if you would like any updates in your life to be included in the class notes. We also have a BITS86 yahoogroup up and running with 75 members as of Jan 2003. Feel free to join (Email me).

About myself, I work for Gillette UK and live in Langley, Berkshire, with wife Sangeeta and three year old daughter Srobona. I have been living in the UK for the last 10 years and would like to meet and share a few warm beers with friends passing through London.

Lets stay in touch.

 

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Batch accomplishments & awards

  • To come

Our entrepreneurial batch mates

  • Manisha Dahad
  • Ravi Baid, Alliance Infotech
  • Luke Lenus Solomon Lenny Abrao (Lenny)
  • Upasna Kumar

Our batch mates in Academics

  • Ganeshan Ram Kumar, Asst Professor, Operations & Information Technology, School of Business, College of William & Mary
  • Gaurango Banerjee, Department of Business Administration, University of Texas at Brownsville
  • Suraj Srinivasan, PhD candidate in Accounting, Harvard Business School

Class Notes from around the world - January 2003

G. Ram Kumar (Ramku) is Asst. Professor at the College of William & Mary’s Business School in Williamsburg, VA in Operations & Information Technology. He is married to Tonya and they have a one year old daughter Ava.

 

Govind Shankar Narayanan (Govoo - 86A1) works for TAS and has been in London UK for the last two years on an assignment with Tetley Tea. The assignment ends soon and he is scheduled to return to Mumbai in early 2003. Govind is married to Avanti and they are blessed with three year old twins - son Vinayak and daughter Kaamya (sp). Govind recently took some time off from work to complete a Masters in Finance degree at London Business School.

 

Raymond Miranda (Gerry - 86B3) works for Oracle and lives in Phoenix Arizona.  He is married to Lekha and they have a daughter Isabelle who has just turned one.

 

Gourango Banerjee (Banjo - 86B3) teaches economics at the University of Texas at Brownsville. He is married to Malini and their son Avik too has just turned one.

 

Sanjeev Singh and Aarti (nee Ranjan - 86A5) have recently relocated to Canada. Sanjeev is heading the Logistics Department of a company in Toronto, while Aarti is working with Xerox Canada in Marketing. Prior to the move, they were both living in the Middle East for ten years. They have a five year old daughter Arushi.

 

Chandna Sethi (86C4) is married to Srivardhan Sharma (Shri - 85A3) and lives in the south of France. They have a year old daughter, Indira. 

 

Upasna Kapoor (nee Kumar- 86B3) was just blessed with a second child, Shiv, a baby brother for two year old Joya. She heads her own Oracle consulting firm and lives in Minneapolis with husband Sanjeev.

 

Manisha Dahad (nee Kabra - 86C4) lives in Hitchin, Hertfordhire with husband Sudesh and  four year old daughter Tanika. Manisha has recently started a business forum for Asian women entrepreneurs in the UK.

 

 

 

 

P. S. Devarajan (Deva - 86A3) has just returned to Hyderabad India after living in New Jersey, USA for the last seven years. He is now currently setting up home and actively looking for suitable job opportunities. He is married to Archana and they have a two year old son Aamish.

Kinnar Ghiya (86B5) completed MS in Systems Engineering and MBA in Technology Management after graduating from Pilani. He has been working for Intel for the last 5 years and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with wife Nisha and 2 week old daughter Ameya.

Aparna Durvasula (nee Guruzada 86A3) lives in Maryland, USA. She is married to Naresh, with two kids Samir 7, Ankitha 3. Has her own firm and works as a freelance programmer.

Ravi Baid (Baid, Jabba – 86B2) has been running his own company, Alliance Infotech at Delhi. He is married to Shilpa, and has 2 daughters, four year old Srishti and 1 year old Yushika. He is generally seen hanging around the office or trying to grow goatees.

Arvind Gopalakrishnan (Adoor – 86B5) is working with Baid in Delhi. He is not married and does not have any kids. He is also seen hanging around the office listening to the same old music and trying to grow sideburns. He likes old monks a lot and reckons he is generally going senile. Has not played the guitar for 2 years now.

Luke Lenus Solomon Lenny Abrao (Lenny – 86A1) runs his own stevedoring outfit in Cochin. He is married to Priya and has a 2 year old daughter. He smokes India Kings, drinks the same booze and is mostly seen haunting old school pals. He has also not touched the drums for years.

Suraj Srinivasan (86B5) went to IIM Calcutta right after BITS and then worked till 1999 in India primarily in Madras where his last job was with a retail chain that he co-founded. Since then, he has been pursuing a doctorate in business administration at Harvard Business School and will be graduating in 2004. Suraj has been married to Radha who was working in India as a Chartered Accountant and is now pursuing her CPA. They have a 4 year old son, Krishna.

 

Madhu Rao (86B3) and Amrish Kacker (86A7) have been married for two years. Amrish works for Analysys, a UK telecommunications consulting company, while Madhu is with The  Wildlife Conservation Society. They live in idyllic rural Cambridgeshire with a few scores of sheep as neighbours.