Person of the Month

Sept / Oct 2003: Dilip D'Souza, Award Winning Author of Two Books, Rediff Columnist, Engineer & Promoter of Social Causes PDF

When I met Dilip in New York in Mid October, it was to meet him for the first time face to face, and to make a decision on which of our deserving candidates would we choose for the Person of the Month.  Halfway through our conversation I realized that Dilip should be that deserving person.  Here follows an interview with Dilip, conducted through conversations, phonecalls and emails. Read his interview 

July/Aug 2003: Aditi Pany, First Woman Student Union President & Founding President, Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership PDF

Aditi Pany is 21 years old. Which means she was born soon after I graduated from BITS in 1981. Now there's a thought. So in one way of looking at it, you might say there's a full BITS generation that separates us. In another way, there's all kinds of changes at BITS that separate us: from the way we were assigned our disciplines to the student lingo to the great increase in the number of women students at BITS.

And, too, this interesting fact: On September 8, 2002 , Aditi was elected President of the BITS Students' Union. The first woman ever to hold that post. I mean no disrespect to the fine young ladies of my time in Pilani, but I have to say I cannot imagine, for reasons they had little control over, any of them becoming President. That Aditi has done so is really an indication of what has changed at BITS, besides saying things about her. So I was very intrigued by the prospect of speaking to her for Sandpaper. In June, we met very briefly in Bombay . Briefly, but enough to get a sense of the kind of person BITS has elected as its President. Enough to look forward very much to this conversation.  

Aditi came 9th in Orissa in her 12th standard exam. She wanted to study engineering, and thus applied to BITS and did the Orissa Joint Entrance Examination; but remarkably for a budding engineer, did not do the IIT-JEE.  Excerpts from our conversation, conducted by Internet chat. Read her interview

May 2003: Vinod Agarwal, CEO, LogicVision PDF

Vinod left a stellar career in academia to commercialize his theories that led to one of 2001’s few successful technology IPOs with LogicVision, as the stock rose from $9.00 to almost $15.00 by the end of the year.  LogicVision  a small chip testing company that is reducing and eliminating the need for capital and labor intensive testing.  LogicVision has kept Vinod on his toes, with a weak economic environment and a recent set-up in Bangalore, but he finds time to focus on BITSConnect. Vinod’s faith in his alma mater is reflected in his teammates - Chairman Navindra Jain and India-head Hitesh Bhatnagar are BITSians. He has  plans to recruit at Pilani. Read his interview

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