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GOLDEN JUBILEE REFLECTIONS
By
Prof.M.S.Ananth
 The word IIT today represents a brand name that India is proud of.
The IIT system represents the realization of a vision...... |
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PanIIT 2008: Innovate, Inspire, Transform
By R Nagarajan [1981-BTCH]
 Founded
in 2002, PanIIT is the IIT Global Conference that brings together
IITians spread across the world for building and strengthening.... |
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Tarbela Damned: A review
By Mr T L Palani Kumar [1971-BTCH]
 IIT Alumni often have surprisingly diverse careers, some even far
removed from their core engineering disciplines.... |
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Unemployable Engineers:
Whose fault is it?
By Mr Thomas Tharu
[1969-BTME / 1987-MSME]
 Founded in 2002, PanIIT is the IIT Global Conference that brings together IITians spread across the world for building and strengthening IIT..... |
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Water, India and Pan-IIT
2008
By Ram Krishnan [1967-BTME]
 That is
the correct amount, in those days. Being such an old alumni myself, I do
not know what the students have to pay for tuition these days...... |
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IITM Alumni Meet at
Hyderabad on 27 June 2008
By Phani Arega, [1994-BTME]
 The collective IQ zoomed and the seminar hall at the
Centre for
Organization Development
(COD), Hyderabad came alive on 27-Jun-08 evening with impassioned
and thought provoking discussions.... |
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Arizona ReUnion
Grande ' 70 batch
By Mr Tushar Dutt [1970-BTEE]
 Ben
Thomas single-handedly put on a show for us, the' 70 batch, at
Arizona, which was beyond compare. His project management.... |
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Narmad class of
1998 10 year Reunion - June 2008
By V.Jayaraman (a.k.a. Frog), [1998-BTEE]
 The Narmad class of 1998 held a small 10 year reunion in the Bay
Area this summer. About 30 alumni and their families..... |
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Music Festival
By B Gautham [1978-BTMT]
 As part of their Pearl Reunion Celebrations, and also constituting
the Golden Jubilee of IIT Madras, the Class of 1978..... |
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Passage of Time
By Mr Suresh Dore [1983-BTME]
Belonging to the 1983 batch that graduated from IITM I represent the silver jubilee alumni. Of the several discussions..... |
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As Good As Gold
By Ramesh N, [1973-BTME]
The legend that is IIT,
Is etched in my mind;
The five-years as a boarder,
Was one of a kind...... |
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Queueing
By R Nagarajan [1981-BTCH]
My rant of the month is…. Queuing, or lack thereof in the context of India. When the damned souls line up for entry into hell and eternal damnation, and Beelzebub..... |
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My Journey
By Supreet Singh Gulati, [2002- BTEE]
 Supreet Singh Gulati ('Super') got the second rank in
the Civil Service examination this year, and is headed for a high-impact
career in the IAS. In this article, he describes his formative
experiences at IIT Madras...... |
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Reminiscences from the year 1989
By Srinivasa Gopal [1990-BTME]
 Turning the clock back forty years is not easy but when
Karma wishes so, so be it.
I had been reluctantly toying with.... |
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The
Journey is my Reward
By Mr Tushar Dutt [1970-BTEE]
On this positive,crazy ‘hotha hai’note,I embark on my enjoyable safar…...
It was mid ’65 when the news of my figuring in the IIT..... |
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Obituary
Iswaran, Coimbatore Venkateswaran
 Dr. Coimbatore Venkateswaran Iswaran went to be with our Lord on July 26, 2008.
He came to the U.S. from Madras, India in 1969 to take his master's degree from
Clemson University in South Carolina..... |
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This
month’s issue was timed to coincide with what is hoped to be the premier
event on the alumni calendar in future years: The Alumni Student
Conclave. This event was held on the 6th of September, 2008. Attended by
about 80 alumni, and about 250 students, the event proved to have caught
the mood of the moment and carried itself off very well indeed.
I
have seen a question like this pop up in various IIT forums. I have
tried to address our activities in the quarterly issues of Journeys. I
will do so again in this issue and also distribute this via all vehicles
so this gets wide distribution. This will be more detailed than usual.
Much of our work has been done in the background and we have not
indulged in any email traffic or fanned any flames of controversy other
than the ones caused by our going about our business very quietly.