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 Cover Story

 

BITSIAN WOMEN - YOU GO GIRL! 

BY Himabindu Chitta ('02), Krithika Kalyan ('00), Bharathi Balakrishnan ('00), Deeptha Ganapathy ('95), Aditi Pany ('00) and Dileepan Narayanan ('00) 

Several generations of women have passed through the hallowed portals of BITS Pilani and they have steadily, often inconspicuously, carved out a niche for themselves in the world. These BITSian Women boast impressive academic, professional and social credentials. They have neither shied away from taking risks nor bucked an at-times stagnant social system. And, most importantly, they have persevered relentlessly, sometimes in the face of significant cultural and attitudinal challenges. Sandpaper’s Cover Story produced in collaboration with the BITSAA Women’s Council is a celebration of the achievements of every single member of this community

Introduction

Entrepreneurs

Business Leaders

Academia

Community and Public Service

Creative Arts

Engineering and Technology

Prominent BITSian Women

What You Can Do to Help
We would encourage all BITSian Women to share their stories and successes with us. Your adoption of and active engagement in the BITSAA Women’s Council is vital to the success of this networking community and will go a long way in replicating your successes among future women leaders from all campuses of BITS Pilani.

You can email your comments etc. to bitsaa.woc@gmail.com.

To subscribe to BITSAA WoC, please visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bitsaa-woc

About the Authors
Deeptha Ganapathy (95B5A8) was part of the BITS basketball team and captain of the basketball team in 1997. She holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University, Boston. She loves to travel (defined as to take a solo backpacking trip) and is always planning her next vacation. Deeptha now lives
and works in New York city.

Krithika Kalyan ('00). currenty based out of Bombay, works in the area of product development of retail insurance products in Reliance General Insurance. At BITS, she was a member of the Department of Controlz and was the Co-ordinator the Engineering Technology Association for Apogee 2003. She has also been a cultural secretary of Meera Bhawan. She has also tried her hands at managing a couple of bands in the Mumbai/Pune rock circuit and writing for local music magazines/webzines. These days, she is busy collecting long lost vinyl records in between reading, travelling and experimental cooking/cocktail mixing!

Aditi Pany (’00) works for a social enterprise in Delhi and is trying to figure if it is indeed possible to balance social objectives and business principles. She graduated from BITS in 2005 with MSc. Economics and B.E. E&E. She loves the sea, has an interest in handlooms and handicrafts and enjoys driving. Aditi aspires to contribute to Orissa's development as a social entrepreneur.

Bharati Balakrishnan graduated in Chemical Engineering from BITS in 2004. At Pilani, she was an active member of DOPY and was its coordinator for Apogee 2003. Enthusiastic about writing and debating, she was also lead vocalist at the Music Club for four years and part of six English Drama crew teams while dabbling in acting in street plays. She followed this up with an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad from where she graduated this April. She is now all set to join Bain and Company as Associate Consultant, in June 2006.

Himabindu Chitta (’02 Chemistry-Computer Science) is a laid-back Hyderabadi! Himabindu is a member of the Dept of Controlz and the Cactus Flower editorial team on campus. She likes to read classics and has a new-found interest in poetry. Photography is a hobby.

Dileepan Narayanan ('00) He's currently doing his Masters in Industrial Engineering at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He joined BITS in 2000 for an MSc in Physics but transferred to a BE in Mechanical Engineering after a year. At BITS he was the captain of the BITS Cricket team and won the Best Player award in BOSM 2k2. He was also the Sports Secretary of BITS and organised BOSM 2003, the Joint Secretary of ELAS in 2002 and organised Wordstock in OASIS 2002 and 2003. He wrote and directed a play for the English Drama Club, which was staged in OASIS 2003, a member of the Poetry Club for a brief while. He continues to engage  in quite a bit of reading and writing. Wilde, Saki, R.K Narayan, Hardy, and Tennyson are among his favourite authors. His brother, Sriram, is currently pursuing an MSc in Information Systems also at BITS.

Acknowledgements
Mrs. Meera Banerjee, Dr. Daga, Dr. Raghunath, Dilip D’Souza, Dr. Raj Singh, Sanketh, Swati Satpathy, Sangeeta Patni, Vandana Malaiya, Gayathri Viswanathan, all the women profiled, Srivaths, Padmini Misra for the amazing photographs, BITSAA Women’s Council, SWD Staff, Mr. Nasir Memon, Mr. Shashi Warrier, Mythreyee, Kavya, Meena Ramakrishnan, Pushkala Venkataraman, Punita Pandey, Vidya Raman, Anupendra Sharma, Ashish Garg, Sandeep Mukherjee, Nandini Agarwal.


Disclaimer

This article and the list of Most Prominent BITSian Women (see next page) was created by the BITSAA Women’s Council. Both sets of data are not meant to be comprehensive in that they do not include the accomplishments of many exemplary BITSian Women. Rather, they provide a snapshot based on the information to us at the time of writing the article.

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