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VOICES

emagazine of the alumni of IITK

Issue 3 November 2013

COLLABORATION FOR VOICES - 3 NOVEMBER 2013

Contents MODERN SAINTS IN IITK 4 Arun Srivastava V O I C E S C O N N E C T S 7 CONGRATULATIONS Sir 8 Bharat Ratna Prof C N R Rao SEAMUS HEANEY (1939 - 2013) 9 Travelogue Slowly Down the Lower Ganges Canal 10 Prof Amitabha Mukerjee Interesting Links 12 RAJIV MOTWANI Still Shining 13 S Kanavi TECHNOLOGY A BRIEF HISTORY OF ELECTRONICS 17 S Kanavi Interview 21 PAWAN KUMAR Poems and Paintings by Prof Ashutosh Sharma 23 A STRIKE AND AN OPPORTUNITY IN THE MESS 28 Dr Suthash Kumar

एक अखबार का जीवनिचतर - परमोद जोशी 31

AKbaar - AruNa EaIvaastva 32 Sanjiv Bhatla - Poems 33 Haikus By Sanjiv Bhatla 34

VOICES November 2013

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डा० सकमार थरजा Hindi Poems 35

A BOOK REVIEW 37 ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS By Kreyzik GANGU MOCHI TALKS TO THE CHASHIRE CAT 37 Volley-Ball Team 1967-68 39 Volley-Ball Team 1966-67 40 R E M E M B E R I N G 41 S a t y e n d r a W O R K I N G HARD 43 CORPORATE LIFE

Cover Design Voices - 3 A Lithograph titled Glimpses of IITK

By Prof Ashutosh Sharma (77xxx BT Chem) and C V Seshadri Chair Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering IITK

Ashutosh made this lithograph back in 1979 depicting some facets of IIT Kanpur

From left to right A strike and a classroom lecture in progress (turbulent 70s) Faculty Building from the Lecture hall

Complex Computer Center with a brand new Dec 10 Red Rose (now campus Restaurant) Air Strip complete with its

control tower and a glider and finally the Dollar dreams of the IITK janta (right corner)

Old issues of VOICES can be read at

VOICES-1 httpwwwiitkalumniorgVoices_Jan2013pdf

VOICES-2 httpwwwiitkalumniorgVOICES20IIpdf


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MODERN SAINTS IN IITK

Arun Srivastava

(67xxx BT EE) editiitkemagyahooin

I was very fortunate to meet a few young people just out of college who are teaching in a school for the under privileged children living in the villages surrounding IITK It is being run under the aegis of a purely voluntary organization called Shiksha Sopan (Rise with Knowledge) They are engaged with an amazing enthusiasm in this service just to pay back to the society and with no other personal ambition They are in the age group of 20 to 35 years and many of them have no other engagement although they are capable of getting a good remunerative employment elsewhere In the absence of such an initiative the children enrolled there can never break the vicious cycle of poor opportunity leading to poor status throughout their lives and they can easily slip into crime as well That is why I prefer to call the people involved in this activity - Modern Saints They are bringing hope in a few lives of utter despair with dignity of self-reliance attained through education and skills not charity The organization is run with meager resources and is totally dependent on donations from us and the IITK communityProf HC Verma of Physics Dept IITK is the chief mentor of this initiative hcvermagmailcom Phone +91 99352 71481 They need an endowment fund for these activities which are already under implementation

1 A community library

2 Scholarships from class 6 to 12 (Rs 1000 - 2000 per month)

3 Nutritious meals snacks

4 Higher education support for students who get selected in professional courses but cannot afford to pay the fee

and hostel expenses

5 Training of teachers in similar schools in other nearby villages and towns

6 Making video clips and lecture series on science and mathematics A video photographer has quit his business

and joined the team full time to help in this effort

7 Making kits (costing only Rs 1000) for demonstration of various scientific concepts in a class room There are very

young enthusiasts in the team who can engage children endlessly on scientific modelling and games with the aim

of creating interest in science and mathematics

8 Scouting talent in rural areas near Kanpur and coaching them during summer vacations in IITK with free lodging

and boarding

9 Imparting training in employable skills

10 Visiting other schools for training and upgrading their teachers

11 Inviting teachers to IITK from far away schools for training during summer vacations

12 Anveshika ndash A workshop for giving practical shape to new ideas has been setup outside IITK

13 Replicating the model of Shiksha Sopan to other locations

Anaupacharic Shiksha Kendra (Informal Education Center) at village Barasirohi very near IITK provides a healthy breakfast free basic education arts and crafts up to class 8 It trains the children in orderly living practices and hygiene which extends to their homes and community It is having a transformation in Barasirohi as the volunteers visit their homes


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and community occasionally to see if they are correctly implementing the healthy living practices learnt in the school

There are schemes to help these children financially provide school uniforms pay their fee if they get selected in premium schools in the city teach them for competing in professional courses after class 12 and continue financial support in the professional courses for a selected few

There are scholarships (Rs 1000 to 2000 per month) for students in class 6 to 10 to take care of their expenses on books clothes and stationery Tutorials are held for two hours in the evening to solve individual problems in learning from class 6 to 12 in the old SAC building inside IITK again free for anyone who can come there Some students from IITK also teach in these classes There are no chairs and tables just one room with jute carpets to sit on and two black boards for teachers Incidentally this building will be demolished to make an extension of the Central Library very shortly Hopefully they will get some other place on the campus Prof HC Verma is preparing a science kit costing only Rs 1000 It will be possible to perform several demonstrations for understanding of scientific concepts using just one kit Occasionally they go out to villages in a radius of about 150 km around Kanpur to scout for talented children Exams are conducted on the spot and they visit the homes of successful candidates to ascertain the eligibility of children for support After that they are brought to IITK for short periods of mentoring in education and skill development They are housed in a vacant flat in IITK completely free during summer vacations for this purpose Classes are conducted in IITK for teachers of other schools during summer vacations and they are provided with free teaching aids like video clips and video having demonstrations for experiments in science to be shown in a class ectures These are specially made videos for teachers with instructions on teaching methodology If the alumni of IITK get interested the growth and reach of Shiksha Sopan will get a big boost and it will get extended to the society at large beyond Barasirohi and Kanpur

Website of Shiksha Sopan wwwshiksha-sopanorg

Donate by direct Link to Shiksha Sopan in US httpticketsindolinkcomphpbuyTicketsphpevent=2084

In India choose Shiksha Sopan from the pull down menu at httpwwwiitkacindoradonationusing credit cards

Write a cheque in favour of Shiksha Sopan and send it to Prof H C Verma Dept of Physics IITK-208016

Make online transfer to Shiksha Sopan account in State Bank of India IITK branch in the Account 10426002488 in the name ldquoShiksha Sopanrdquo The swift code of the bank is SBININBB499

Your support is critical in helping these children break the cycle of poverty

For further information please contact Prof HC Verma on his email or phone

hcvermagmailcom Phone +91 99352 71481

Their land might have contributed to growth of IITK

(Photos courtesy Contour 1975)

Shiksha Sopan

SHIKSHA SANSKAR SWAVLAMBAN


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Acknowledgement For The Photo Album Published In Voices II (June 2013)

The photo album was highly appreciated by all as a priceless piece of our heritage- Ed

The credits page of This Bit of That India is reproduced here courtesy Paul Joseph and Angshu Das who saw those photos and mailed the entire magazine to VOICES It is available at httpwwwiitkalumniorgaboutiitkaaThis20bit20of20that20Indiapdf Angshu Das These were doodles on my lecture notes done when the lectures went above my head Paul managed to retrieve them and print in This Bit of That India We never had a year book nor did we understand the relevance of a batch group photo So This Bit of That India is the only printed document of our nostalgia we still hang on to We still get goose bumps every time we browse through it as it is a slice of history we will never want to forget - angshudasgmailcom Paul Joseph (70XXX BT Mech) The magazine in Photos from the 70s in the issue of VOICES (II) was called This Bit of That India and was published in 1975 I was a co-editor - pauljoseph888gmailcom


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V O I C E S C O N N E C T S

BEEN THERE DONE THAT

SHARE YOUR CREATIVITY AND EXPERIENCE WITH ALUMNI AND IITK

E X P A N D YOUR UNIVERSE

Everything printable (except politics) is welcome If you can talk about it you can also write it for sure

Happenings in halls of residence mess lectures tutorials play grounds cultural clubs and festivals interaction with faculty issues in senate outings in Kanpur vacation journeys exams and quizzes creative explosions eccentrics Vs genius and current happenings on the campus the list is endless and so must be our collective memories Let us share them

The emagazine is in English and Hindi email ID and phone number (If available) of the contributor will be printed with every entry for continuing relationships Please send your original writings poems photos drawings etc to editiitkemagyahooin

with a CC to

guptaohioedu

Due credit will be given for each piece to its author If the matter was published elsewhere previously the writer should mention it along with a statement that there is no copyright issue if it is republished in the AA e-magazine Responsibility for ensuring originality and correctness of information remains with the author and the Alumni Association or the editor will not be a party to the views or matter submitted for publishing in the VOICES Submissions should be in plain text or an easily editable format Photographs and sketches should be submitted in the jpgjpeg format




Arun Srivastava (67xxx BT EE)

Editor editiitkemagyahooin November 2013 Kolkata


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CONGRATULATIONS Sir On being a true Bharat Ratna

Photo by permission The Frontier Batch The early days of IIT Kanpur Frontier Batch (1963-1968)

of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur By Bimal Srivastava Ram Behari Misra and Ravi Sethi Published by Radhe Shyam Agarwal Karan Printers New Delhi March 2013

Unfortunately the prevailing value system is preventing the country from succeeding Scholarships in science and mathematics are no longer honoured in our society Making money and doing banking has taken precedence over scholarships and we need to get more respect in our value system Tap young boys and girls from rural India where 60 of the countrys population lives who are very enthusiastic about learning science My message to youngsters is dont give up Dedication and intelligence is ok but tenacity perseverance and doggedness are the three qualities that India needs most at this time Everyone who has tried hard has succeeded in India

- Bharat Ratna and Fellow of Royal Society Prof Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao

Some links to Prof Rao compiled by Ms Lalitha J in the office of Alumni Association IITK

httpbooksgooglecoinbooksid=-ajEFddmiDUCampprintsec=frontcoverampsource=gbs_atbv=onepageampqampf=false

httpstube-proxycomnph-proxifiedcgi20httpwwwiiscernetincurrscimar102005687pdf

httpeduranchiblogspotin201301china-confers-top-science-award-on-c-nhtml

Many of us were fortunate to be taught chemistry by you in L - 7


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SEAMUS HEANEY (1939 - 2013)

In his Nobel Prize lecture in 1995 he said Walk on air against your better judgment

And that is the stuff poetic thoughts are made of - Ed

From The Cure at Troy

History says dont hope

On this side of the grave

But then once in a lifetime

The longed-for tidal wave

Of justice can rise up

And hope and history rhyme

He spent his youth through the most violent period of the Irish sectarian conflict His poetry defies fear and he not only walked in air he managed to stay there and engaged his readers well


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Travelogue

Slowly Down the Lower Ganges Canal

Prof Amitabha Mukerjee amitcseiitkacin

The sun is quite high already glinting on the brown waters of the canal Faint traces of mist rise near the bridge and in the distance smoke from the Panki power house To our right a boundary wall protects desolate fields of tall grass buffalos graze inside My brother and I lock our bicycles at the bicycle repairmans shanty just before the bridge and I produce a bright yellow inflatable raft from my backpack

In the five minutes it takes to inflate the raft the normally deserted juncture of canal and road suddenly comes to life A number of people on the roads adjoining the canal come over to watch us We can hear snatches of conversation - technological intricacies being explained to the less gifted how the valves work how the oars are threaded and how this huge yellow contraption came out of that little bag there A bus on the road to Shiuli slows down because of the crowd and comes to a stop over the bridge Passengers on the roof and doorway have a grand view of the proceedings

Considerably flustered the two of us quickly launch and clamber on The merciful current carries us gently away from the shore the bridge and the onlookers A faint breeze and tall reeds sway on either side of the canal Ruins of a red brick house pass us on the right near them a little boy writing on the ground with a stick There is a sense of timelessness in the water the smooth surface unhurried pace and an occasional birdsong from a tree comes on The colour has leached out of the landscape under the intense sun and our boat is a vivid blotch of colour Gradually the bridge becomes smaller behind us An occasional bicyclist goes by on the adjoining path Ahead of us is Panki whose tall chimneys accompany us along the canal

Here we are two Indians floating down a canal that the British built in a raft that was made in Taiwan and purchased in the US All around us most people have never been more than a few kilometers from their place of birth One wonders about the contrast between our cloistered world teaching advanced materials from foreign books and the realities of this world just a little beyond those classes I have been here for only a few months now and even in the rarefied atmosphere of the campus I

often feel different traces of US linger in my bicycle helmet and the shorts that I wear to work in the summer and more importantly in my attitude What I like about

IIT though is that it may actually absorb all this which is more than can be said perhaps of many other institutions in India I have always felt that the greatness of an academic institution is in direct proportion to the number of non-conformists on campus and this analogy holds right up to and beyond the edge - the proportion of confirmed lunatics is surprisingly high in institutions such as MIT and Berkeley and I am told that there are quite a few of them here as well

In the meanwhile the Panki power house is looming above us There is a drop in the canal here where the water rushes over a parapet and a fall of about six feet A sentry up on top of the huge building watches us and some street urchins are now running alongside chattering to friends Come Atty come see this strange Nao To the right is a large grating the water intake for the power house A dead buffalo is stuck here poisoning the air all around

The parapet has come and we pull the boat onto a bank walk past the rolling waters and launch it again on the other side The street urchins fall in behind us In the process of launching my chappals which are in a plastic bag get dumped into the water and are carried off Sadly I watch them bobbing up and down ahead

The waters here are still a little frothy from the fall and the current a little quicker Trailing my hand in the water I feel the stream getting warmer suddenly - the discharge from Panki Further down there is a branch with the sign Drinking water supply City of Kanpur Underneath is an impressive list of fines and imprisonments that could ensue from acts such as washing and bathing in the water A few meters down a man in white dhoti and dark skin stands oblivious soaping himself in the glistening sunshine

Just then I catch sight of the fugitive package with my sandals It hasnt sunk yet Paddle paddle and we catch up with it It has got stuck on a breach in the left bank where the canal has eaten its way through to the cemented canal path Along with it in this nook is other hubris of civilization ndash a polythene bag a red agarbatti box a white plastic cap cracked at the thread Civilization has also sprung up on both sides of us To the right the huge mechanism of the power plant To the left there is township of Panki Bicycle traffic on the adjoining path has gone up


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After another bridge the vista improves with large willows overhanging the canal from both sides and confining us in our canal microcosm The current is slower and we try our erratic oars from time to time but are largely content to float along The chimney is behind us now spewing its smoke into a dense dancing wool-string in the sky Hidden in the rushes with an umbrella stuck into the ground is a rod-fisherman his string disappearing patiently in the stream

We are approaching another bridge now a brick arch structure of definite British construction on Kalpi road On the mud flats before the bridge a series of six little alcoves with their resident deities and the mandatory clump of yellow flowers on top and petals all around Women bathing and men are lounging in the dark ledge beneath the arch

I have been planning to go down the canal ever since I discovered it in my first week on a bicycle ramble I went down the adjoining path for a few bumpy kilometers and the canal gave every impression of continuing for a long while Enquiries revealed little someone in the Civil Engineering Department knew a few things about the canal but I couldnt find him So on this fine morning we have just decided to go out and find out for ourselves What we didnt know was that the raft has a leak It is a small one and it keeps on discharging air below with a disconcerting brr-krrbr sound and once in a while when we shift position on the boat a huge bubble of accumulated air will burp out from one side or the other Babun is not a keen swimmer and he doesnt fancy the water in canal and this sound certainly is not helping his mental peace We pull up to inflate it and check up on what lies ahead since we have not reconnoitered beyond this point There is a fork ahead someone says and the right branch leads all the way to Fatehpur and beyond The left branch goes somewhere into the city he thinks

The currents under the arch look fairly intense We push off carefully and go under another bridge - the railway line to Jhansi Immediately there is a sense of expansion and peace - a large walled compound on the right - probably the Indian Oxygen Ltd and to the left is a railway yard But we have to be very careful around here there may be sudden drops in the level and we could get into trouble very quickly An occasional tattered black umbrella betrays a fisherman hidden beneath it

A few trucks lie in semi-abandon on the grass to our left There is an iron bridge across the canal - seems like a drop - yes it is - paddle to shore for the carry Ahead is a decrepit built-up area a shanty town with people everywhere An old house to the left says - Lower Ganges Canal Authority Kanpur Branch These are the folks who have put up the notice upstream about drinking water Suddenly the canal seems to be ending - there are some iron gates rising up from the canal Closer up we realize that the iron gates are a kind of valve and that the main canal turns right here while a part of the canal goes straight after a drop of about twenty feet This is the fork A lot of thatched roofs surround us and many people are out and about We are moving forward cautiously ready to grab the edge at quick notice when we come to the bend where it goes under a very low

walkway all around which a number of dhobis are thrashing clothes passionately

Initially we reckon that the walkway is high enough for us to squeeze underneath but Babun bangs his head on the concrete tablet that constitutes the bridge He manages to pull himself up and out of the boat I am wedged in with the boat and the current which is stronger here since it is narrower is shaking me and rushing past angrily The crowd is surging forward sensing an event of interest Unwilling to give up I manage to lie down and squeeze underneath the walkway but it is a pyrrhic victory for the boat is now full of water and we need to pull up on shore to shake it dry I am dripping wet Meanwhile a formidable crowd has gathered and people want to know where we are coming from We also ask them about the way ahead and they tell us that there is a dangerously sharp fall coming up However we can see that it is clear for a while at least so we push off into the privacy of the stream as fast as we can

Why it is that such crowd at close quarters bothers us so much There could be an element of fear perhaps but that is really not rational There is a vague sense of unease maybe the close proximity of such a large crowd violates our personal space (which is of course greater in the west than in India) Or is it just because these people poorer and dirtier as a class are unsavoury to us It is difficult to say but certainly the crowds are a little disconcerting if not intimidating

We are now in a wide flat stretch with grass on both sides In the distance ahead of us is the curved sweep of a large road bridge There are no houses here but the crowd has not left us On both sides fifteen to twenty people walk alongside I have misplaced my towel after drying myself and am searching all over when someone from the shore shouts - its on my shoulder The privacy and peace is lost but it is still fun floating slowly downstream though there is the tension of the drop ahead We find it about half a kilometer down it can be heard clearer than it can be seen There is a body of water continuing straight but most of the water is going left into a tributary falling off to the left without warning After we pull the boat out we have to decide which stream to follow The straight one looks like the original canal so we decide to try that Someone says that it is broken ahead but some others think it goes on to Fatehpur In any event we walk for a bit - there is a sluice gate the water has been dammed up behind it and a frothy flow appears from beneath the gate The canal ahead has steep banks and shallow water After we launch the boat we find ourselves going backwards - the strong current in the middle has created a reverse flow at the edges Paddling to the center of the stream sets us moving in the right direction again The canal is very shallow here and at times reeds or bamboo spikes are showing through At the end of this stream there is a small fall We are feeling brave this time we grab a branch before the drop and discuss if we could try to take it on the raft We are both pretty wet anyhow and this is after all a raft poorer cousin to true whitewater rafts So we let go and the current sucks us into and over the fall of two feet Water all around us in a blur of brown and white and the columns of the bridge rushing past and more water comes clammily into the boat The


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current is still quite strong and when we are at the drop we notice a number of buffalos in the water right ahead of us They are panic struck to see us coming and bolt for the shore huge black masses moving rather quickly We are petrified - the last one lunges when we are almost on top of it paddling hard to the other side Though there is no mishap we break off to take the water out

From now on the canal is really shallow We are on the bottom of the original canal and you can see the watermarks on the steep banks A bit further down past the tall arc of the bridge the waters take a last plunge

over a parapet and peter out into a little stream to the right This I am told is the Pandu river (Some weeks later I saw the same river in the town of Shiuli where it looked a more respectable stream and a boatman took us across pulling on a rope tied at both sides)Bedraggled and tired we get out deflate the boat in the relative privacy of a dozen onlookers and hitch a ride on a truck In three hours we have come nine or ten kilometers traversing vast panoramas of mental attitude From the cab of the truck one can see the brown waters of the canal still glinting in the afternoon sun

Though the conclusion of this article is that the canal may be petering out after Kanpur it is possible for one of the other branches of the canal to continue to Allahabad as designed

Interesting Links

New website of the Alumni Association httpwwwiitkaaorg A Story of IITK Saga is underway You can contribute your anecdotes to it httpwwwiitkacininfocelliitknewhtmliitksagahtm Directions is a research publication of the Institute httpwwwiitkacininfocelliitknewhtmlnewsletterhtm A Hindi magazine from campus httpwwwiitkacininfocelliitknewhtmlAntas Newsletters and magazines from DRPG httpwwwiitkacindrpgnewsmaghtm News at IITK httpwwwiitkacinnews Institute Archives httpwwwiitkacininfocellArchive Office of Research and Development httpwwwiitkacindord Souryadeep Bhattacharyya A highly accomplished Sarod player + Best All Round Post-Graduate IITK (Chem 10102xxx) pursuing PhD Chem at Georgia Atlanta One of his renditions in raag Pilu httpssoundcloudcomsouryadeep-bhattacharyyadhun-in-raag-pilu

A news contributed by Deepak Sahay (66xxx BT ChE) Mr P Kalyanasundaram was a librarian for 30 years in Tamilnadu He donated his salary during service and pension of Rs 10 lakh to orphans and needy The US government honored him with Man of Millennium award and he donated Rs 30 crores the full award to the social causes

Full story httpwwwpardaphashcomnewskalyana-sundaram-man-of-millanium699792html


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RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining

His vast domain Maths gtgt Randomized Algorithms gtgt Godel Award gtgt Robotics gtgt Drug Discovery gtgt Googol

Rajeev Motwani Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University passed away on June 5 2009 at the age of 47

Mrs Asha Jadeja Motwani wife of Late Professor Rajeev Motwani and their daughters have donated $ 15 million towards construction of Rajeev Motwani Building at IIT Kanpur The six storey building for Department of Computer Science and Engineering will also house activities for nurturing entrepreneurship and innovation in the areas influenced by Rajeevs work

Rajeev did his BTech in Computer Science and Engineering in 1983 from IIT Kanpur (IITK Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2006) He went to the University of California Berkeley for a PhD which he completed in 1988 under the supervision of Professor Richard Karp

Aided by a $25 million gift from Google Stanford University has created an endowed chair in memory of Rajeev Motwani

Sergey Brin described Rajeev as his friend and teacher and said that his legacy and personality lives on in the students projects and companies he has touched Today whenever you use a piece of technology there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it If Rajeev had not been there chances are there would be no Google today

Shivanand Kanavi another alumnus of IITK had interviewed Rajeev in July 2002 while researching for his book Sand to

Silicon These are excerpts from in India Abroad Aug 7 2009 ndash Sivanand skanaviyahoocom

SK Tell me about growing up

I also always wanted to be a mathematician or a

scientist Then I decided that I did not want to be an

Einstein but wanted to be a Gauss I was an avid reader

and I used to read a lot of books

I did not have any idea what a computer was

One of the people who really influenced me was

Kesav Nori At that time there were Prof Rajaraman

RShankar Sahasrabuddhe Somnath Biswas Kesav

Nori Harish Karnik to name a few It was the best

environment for doing computer science in India

We had DEC and Vac machines with a terminal and

they required login and password Nori gave names of

famous computer scientists as passwords Bob Floyd

was my password He was one of the mentors of this

field called analysis of algorithms He also did the early

work on randomized algorithms The first chapter of

my book on randomized algorithms was on Floydrsquos

algorithm Definitely IIT Kanpur was one of the top

five schools in computer science education

I went to Berkley for PhD It is very different from

Stanford You could call it the JNU of the US because

it was highly politically charged My PhD thesis was on

randomized or probabilistic analysis of problems in

optimization network flows and graph matchings and

so on These are general formulations of a large class

of problems

SK Traffic problems

RM Yes traffic problems or network routing Routers

on network are basically implementing matching

algorithms in some form at a micro level and at macro

level flow of packets on networks These problems

were hard and I was trying to find a heuristic faster and

better solution to get the right optimal value

Pioneered by Carp NP- Completeness says that some

problems are essentially impossible to solve You can

solve a problem approximately with some assumptions

such that the instances of the problem or the inputs

are randomly distributed with known distribution

SK Why random Connection with Gauss again


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RM Reason is once you assume that there is

distribution you can give a structure to the problem

and use probabilistic techniques to say that on a certain

fraction of the inputs Irsquom still going to get screwed up

however if I bound a fraction on which I dont

perform well with a typical example I will get a good

solution Randomness is a way of capturing a

probability that you will get bad flows but many times

you will also get good flows which is good enough

While doing all this I was about to graduate and was

wondering what to do next Go back to India or stay

in the US again other people made the decision for

me I was invited by Don Knuth at Stanford for a

lunch during a dinner hosted for him at Berkley

Wondering why this great man wanted to have lunch

with me I went and met him at a restaurant near the

church at quad He invited me to Stanford for a year to

see if they liked me and vice versa after which if

things worked out well they would hire me It was hard

to turn down although I had better paid offers It was

the same as Einstein inviting you to Princeton for a

research I joined him

At Stanford I even made my own courses like

topography algorithms and complexity theory I am a

perfectionist and still get nervous talking before a class

What if someone asks me a question and I am unable

to answer it Therefore I always over prepared That

nervousness has taught me more than what I learnt as

a student I have a tendency of getting bored very

easily My threshold of working in one particular area

is about 5 years

Some of the non-obvious areas in my work are

robotics I was inspired by Jean Claude Latombe from

France who was in this Dept He told me that there

were a lot of algorithms in robotics which were needed

to plan actions of a robot It may seem like a triggered

action but there are a lot of complexities and degrees

of freedom involved In the human body itself every

joint in the body gives a degree of freedom Each can

be controlled independently by setting the angle of

each joint to accomplish a task Control of these

degrees of motion becomes very important Although

we live in a three dimensional world the robotic

movements and freedom work in a higher dimensional

surroundings If you want to send a space craft to

Mars it requires very high dimensional planning It is

like having a starting point A and end point B in space

and moving from A to B without being hit by any

obstacle The same task would be easier with 2 points

on a table So the space that we are talking about is not

the physical space but a space of complex possible

motions

SK There are constraint surfaces

RM They become very complex constraint surfaces in

high dimensional geometry I learnt this space for a few

months and realized that this problem could be solved

through randomization It is very hard to plan motion

in high dimensional complex places but very easy to

pick a random point in space and figure out if it is

going to hit any obstacle in space if it is a free part of

space

If you pick many random points it is easy to sample

but very hard to find a free point in that space If you

find many free points then you hook them together to

make a path The path may not be the smooth but you

can smoothen it later That was the fundamental idea

we used But to realize this and analyze it apply it and

turn it into a real systems is a lot of work I worked for

5 years on it putting high dimension geometry and

randomization together

Jean Claude was a systems guy while I was the

theoretical guy in this venture Students implemented

some of these things and they were used at places like

General Motors in their robotic assembly lines I got

the Godel Prize for my theoretical work In science it is

said that one guy stands on the shoulders of another

and another on his and so on The guy on top gets the

prize In my case I was on the tip of the pyramid and

so I got the prize Everyone forgets the pyramid

Sometimes in mathematics you do things just for sheer

elegance of it Intel had a problem with pentium2

When you multiplied 2 specific numbers on that p2

chip which was being used in all the desktops and

laptops the answer was wrong An overflow perhaps I

got a call from Intel to ask me if there was any way

they could use the verification technology But it was

not possible as I was purely mathematical abstraction

trained whereas they needed a real system with 10

million gates where you had to do some checking Very


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hard to translate But this did show the possibility of

verifying errors in a complex system by doing a small

amount of work It required the system to be written

in a certain code and that was the catch for getting a

solution

For some large class of problems we faced we had the

possibility of reaching an approximate answer but for

some problems even an approximate answer was not

possible That was one of the big breakthroughs in

comp science In 1971 Carp and Cook (Berkley) came

up with the theory of NP-Completeness which tries to

describe why some problems can only be solved by

reaching the approximate answer and not the optimum

answer Twenty years later as a consequence of this we

said that for large subset of their problems not only is

it not possible to get the optimal answer but also hard

to get even an approximate answer It means that it is

of no use trying to solve those problems

I did this robotics and compiler optimization I did

PLIW compiler optimization and then moved on to

computational drug design While finishing the work

on random motion planning in robots we had realised

that molecules and robots actually behaved in a very

similar way

Drug design is all about figures folding and matching

like a lock and key mechanism We said we knew how

things folded we knew how degrees of freedom are

created in high dimensional space Letrsquos throw it at this

problem Pfizer funded this research which went on

for 2 ndash 3 years and we came up with a software based

on our theory It was an intriguing experience I had to

go back and learn my high school chemistry and

biology and the other fun stuff

SK It can be applied to catalysis and designing

chemzymes as well right

RM Yes We never got into that because by then the

World Wide Web was coming up and I just got sucked

into it I was thinking that we could randomize the web

in some way because it was going to grow and

randomness was going to be important though I did

not know how and why So I thought about doing

random walks on the web and there was this problem

of crawling on the web At that time a search engine

called Inktomi had just come out of Berkley Excite

and Yahoo had come out from Stanford so we had

seen the first signs of all of this

I remember going to Inktomi and searching for the

word Inktomi and it could not find itself In the

context of all this I was listening to some people from

IBM talk on Data mining and Ullman had just

introduced me to a few problems in databases I broke

them down with a student and was getting pretty

excited about the concept of databases Sergey Ullman

and I decided to do some data mining on the web

because it sounded like a nice mix We formed a

research group called Midas which stood for Mining

Data at Stanford Then there was this guy called Larry

Page who wasnrsquot really a part of the Midas group but

was a friend of Sergey and would show up for these

meetings He was also working on this very cool idea

of doing random walks on the web

When I understood what the WWW would look like I

knew I had to somehow force randomness into it

When Larry showed us what he was doing it was like a

complete epiphany and it was absolutely the right

thing to do They then created a search engine called

Backrub and it was running from Stanford just like

Yahoo until the traffic got big and our IT guys sent it

off the campus So these two guys would come to my

office and say ldquoHey We need some more disc spacerdquo

They were completely non-respectful of me which

was a wonderful thing They treated me like an equal

These 21 year olds were demanding things from me

We needed more discs and money These discs were

those cheap ones bought from the back of a truck and

they were generating a lot of heat They put them in

Legos to allow for air circulation

For me it was a fun research project At some point

this thing started getting very serious and we wanted a

better name for it than Backrub Somebody came up

with the name Google Google means 10 raised to the

power of 100 It is actually spelt as GOOGOL but

somebody miss spelt it and thatrsquos how the search

engine got its name Of course the official story is we

deliberately spelt it that way but my guess is we miss-

spelt it

Andy Bechtolsheim an ex-Stanford guy who along

with Vinod Khosla had founded the Sun

Microsystems put in a little bit of money They


15

managed to raise a million dollars and started a

company it was right here in the university avenue It

used to be on my drive home and I used to go and

hang out with these guys It used to be wonderful

Then they took over the world Feels like I was part of

a little bit of history and contributed to that history

SK Can you explain in simple words the concept of

search engines How has it evolved

One of the key things they did was coming up with a

ranking function If queried on yeast and bread I

would go to the most authoritative page on the web

which talks about yeast and bread A yeast or bread

makers association of America is presumably the most

authoritative page on how to make bread out of yeast

The question was how to find the most authoritative

page on a certain topic Here is a simple basic idea that

underlies that notion The notion is ndash Look at the

structure of the web Secondly how to we convert this

structure to a ranking scale This goes back to the

random walking I was talking about earlier Let us say

my page has 7 links You randomly clicked on one of

the links You reached the next page which had 3 links

and clicked on one of those at random and it took you

somewhere so on and so forth After a million or

billion clicks you could be on any random page The

question is what is the probability that you are sitting

on a particular webpage

SK Itrsquos a graph theoretic problem

RM Yes it is This is called doing your random walk on

a graph which excited me Turns out the probability

distribution is not unique There is a different

probability on different pages Quite obviously if every

page in the world points out to my web page then the

chances of ending up on my page are very high If

nobody points to me or if one guy points to me then it

is very unlikely On the other hand if the important

pages in the world point to me then you are likely to

end up at my page But what are important pages

Those are the pages to which other important pages

point This logic of circularity or flow is what led to

the notion of page rank

Ranking of pages is Googlersquos secret sauce They

discovered that this is the right thing to do

In hindsight I came up with the estimation of random

web surfer that there was a purely mathematical thing

of eigenvectors and matrices etc Now on a query on

yeast and bread we look at all pages that contain yeast

and bread find a page with the highest rank or score

which has the words yeast and bread and we say that it

must be your answer and it is usually right Google got

so cocky on this that it has lsquoIrsquom feeling luckyrsquo button

If you give a query and hit that button it takes you to a

page That page usually has the right answer

RAJIV MOTWANI

Further reading about Rajiv httpalumniconnectwordpresscom A blog viewed in 122 countries and had achieved 109000+ views in about a year Stories are being shared with

IITK students by Student Gymkhana in httpwpmep2uMIv-6u


16

TECHNOLOGY

A BRIEF HISTORY OF ELECTRONICS

Voices is grateful to Shivanand Kanavi for sharing his immensely readable book Sand to Silicon from where these nuggets of history are being presented - Editor

Shivanand Kanavi skanaviyahoocom

The Early Stage Jagdish Chandra Bose created a semiconductor microwave detector in 1890s which he called the lsquocohererrsquo It was made of an iron-mercury compound and the first solid-state device that was demonstrated to the Royal Institution in London in 1897 Guglielmo Marconi used a version of the coherer in his first wireless radio in 1897 Bose also demonstrated the use of galena crystals for building receivers for short wavelength radio waves and for white and ultraviolet light He received patent rights in 1904 for their use in detecting electromagnetic radiation Neville Mott who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1977 for his contributions to solid-state electronics remarked ldquoJC Bose was at least 60 years ahead of his timerdquo and ldquoIn fact he had anticipated the existence of P-type and N-type semiconductorsrdquo Microwave engineering was further developed with the need of Radar and it proved to be a game changer in the WW II for the Allies Magnetron was developed to produce microwaves It is said that more money was spent on development of radar than on Manhattan Project for the atom bomb The transistor John Bardeen and Walter Brattain built an amplifier using a tiny germanium crystal It was put together by tapping two wires into a block of germanium Shockley developed it further by creating a P N junction transistor in 1950 Germanium was easy to purify and deal with but devices made from it behaved erratically beyond sixty-seventy degrees centigrade Silicon could deliver good results up to 200 degrees centigrade but it was difficult to purify In 1954 Texas Instruments commercialised the silicon transistor and tried unsuccessfully to sell a portable radio made from it Sony a fledgling company in post-war Japan made portable radios with it and the word transistor became synonymous with it

At Bell Labsrsquo Bardeen and Brattain were working under their team leader Shockley to invent a transistor Shockley tried on his own to create a Field Effect Transistor but did not succeed because in his design the gate used to draw current Bardeen and Brattain beat him and made the first transistor The disappointment left its mark on an otherwise brilliant career of Shockley Putting an insulator between the metal and the semiconductor was a logical step but efforts failed until researchers abandoned germanium for silicon It had one major handicap as soon as pure silicon was exposed to oxygen a highly insulating layer of silicon dioxide was formed on the surface This property was later used in making lsquometal oxide semiconductor field effect transistorrsquo or MOSFET Shockley walked out of Bell Labs to start Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories in California with a team consisting of Robert Noyce Gordon Moore and others A brilliant scientist though he was a poor manager Within a year eight scientists led by Noyce and Moore left Shockley Semiconductors to start a semiconductor division for Fairchild Camera Inc A type of MOSFET transistor called CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) was invented later which operated at very low voltage and dissipated very low amount of heat A large number of CMOS transistors can be packed per square inch depending on how sharp is the lsquoknifersquo used to cut super-thin grooves on thin wafers of silicon CMOS is the preferred technology in all microchips A planar transistor was created by Jean Hoerni a Caltech post-doc theoretician He just sat in his office scribbling things on a piece of paper and came up with this idea of building a transistor by growing a silicon oxide layer over junctions It turned out to be a great idea that solved all the previous surface problems Robert Noyce came up with the two key inventions to make a practical integrated circuit by leaving the oxide on one could run interconnections as metal films over the top of its devices and one could also put structures inside the


17

silicon that isolated one transistor from the other The Leap of Solid State Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to Jack Kilby in 2000 for inventing integrated circuit or the chip at Texas Instruments in 1958 In the summer of 1958 Kilby was a newcomer to his assignment and he did not get his vacation while everyone else went on holidays The empty lab gave Kilby an opportunity to try out fresh ideas ldquoI realised that semiconductors were all that were really required The resistors and capacitors could be made from silicon while germanium was used for transistorsrdquo Kilby wrote in a 1976 article titled Invention of the IC ldquoMy colleagues were skeptical and asked for some proof that circuits made entirely of semiconductors would work I therefore built up a circuit using discrete silicon elements By September I was ready to demonstrate a working integrated circuit built on a piece of semiconductor materialrdquo He used a sliver of germanium with protruding wires glued to a glass slide for his experiment It was a rough device but it showed clear amplification without distortion He had invented the integrated circuit Later he said ldquoI thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then but that was a much simpler business Electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers What we did not appreciate was how lower costs would expand the field of electronics beyond imagination It still surprises me todayrdquo Texas Instruments challenged Kilby to find a use for his integrated circuits which led to the successful invention of the electronic calculator While Kilbyrsquos invention had individual circuit elements connected together with gold wires making the circuit difficult to scale up Hoerni and Noycersquos planar technology set the stage for complex integrated circuits Their ideas are still the basis of the process used today Though Kilby got the Nobel Prize Noyce and Kilby share the credit of coming up with the crucial innovations that made an integrated circuit possible Noyce and Moore seeded a new company - Intel (Integrated Electronics) in 1968 Intel applied the IC technology to manufacture semiconductor based memory and then invented the microprocessor These two concepts have powered the personal computer revolution In Kilby and Noycersquos days one could experiment easily with IC technology ldquoNo equipment cost more than $10000 during those daysrdquo says Kilby Today chip fabrication plants called lsquoFabsrsquo cost as much as two to three billion dollars Texas Instruments was the first to introduce a 4 MB DRAM memory back in 1985 The Microns And Moores Law 009-micron refers to hi-tech scalpels that can etch

channels as thin as 009 micron To get a sense of proportion it is equivalent to etching 350 parallel ridges and vales on a single strand of human hair Roughly each new technology is able to etch a transistor in half the surface area of the silicon wafer than the previous one That is the ldquosecretrdquo of Moorersquos Law of doubling transistor density on a chip While working at Texas Instruments in the 1970s and 1980s Pallab Chatterjee played a major role in developing reliable micro transistors and developing the lsquotrenchingrsquo technology for packing more and more of them per square centimeter Another person of Indian origin Tom Kailath a professor of communication at Stanford developed signal processing techniques to compensate for the diffractive effects of masks in manufacture of the chips A new company Numerical Technologies has successfully commercialised Kailathrsquos ideas How India Missed The Race Bob Noyce came and stayed in Delhi in the sixties for fifteen days trying to convince the Indian government to allow Intel to establish a chip company in India The Indian government rejected the proposal According to Bishnu Pradhan of C-DOT (Centre for Development of Telematics) prototypes of personal computers made in India in the 70s were as sophisticated as those being developed in the Silicon Valley But the Indian government discouraged these attempts on one pretext or another That is why while India has supplied chip technologists to other countries several countries which were way behind India in the 1960s are today leagues ahead of us Automated Circuit Design - A Dream Come True Sorab Ghandhi wrote the first-ever book on transistor circuit design in 1953 Designing a circuit from scratch using the principles of circuit design takes a lot of time and money There would be too many errors and each designer would have his own philosophy which might not be transparent to the next one who wished to debug it Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools do just that A trend to develop such tools started in the 1960s and rsquo70s but largely remained the proprietary technology of chipmakers EDA tools use methods similar to those used by software engineers The programs specify functionality and EDA generates implementation Special languages known as hardware description languages have been developed to do this That is the secret behind designers in Bangalore and Pune developing cutting-edge chips In a sense India is catching the missed electronics bus at a different place one called chip design Interestingly several Indians have played a pioneering role in developing design tools Raj Singh a chip designer who co-authored one of the earliest and the most popular books on hardware description languages went


18

on to build several start-ups Suhas Patil makes customer-specific ICs using his own developed SLA toolkit and runs Cirrus Logic as a fabless semiconductor company In 1980 Vinod Khosla at the age of twenty-five started a CAD software company He found that such a software needed powerful workstations which did not then exist That led to Khosla joining Andreas Bechtolsheim Bill Joy and Scott McNealy to co-found Sun Microsystems in the spring of 1982 Sun workstations continue to dominate chip design labs Verilog a powerful hardware description language was a product of Gateway Automation founded by Prabhu Goel in Boston His was also one of the first companies to establish its development center in India ldquoTesting a chip can add about fifty per cent to its costrdquo

says Janak Patel of the University of Illinois He has designed some of the first testing and verification software ldquoThe next big thing will be a programmable chiprdquo says Suhas Patil ldquoElectronics will become a playground for bright software programmers who are in abundant numbers in India but who may not know a thing about circuitsrdquo says Patil Integrated Gate Bipolar Transistors or IGBT co-invented by Jayant Baliga at General Electric in the 1970s - rule the roost in most control devices It can handle very large power To sum up the achievement of chip technology if a modern-day cell phone were to be made of vacuum tubes instead of ICs it would be as tall as the Qutub Minar and would need a small power plant to run it

WILLIAM SHOCKLEY

SHOCKLEY BARDEEN AND WALTER BRATTAIN SHARED THE NOBEL IN PHYSICS

(TRANSISTOR) 1956

JOHN BARDEEN THE ONLY ONE WITH TWO NOBELS IN PHYSICS TRANSISTOR 1956 SUPERCONDUCTIVITY 1972


19

ROBERT NOYCE (Chip) INTEL

JEAN HOERNI PLANAR TRANSISTER

GORDON MOORE (The law) INTEL

PLANAR TRANSISTER Photomicrograph and

sectional view

JAYANT BALIGA (IGBT)

PRABHU GOEL

VINOD KHOSLA (WORK STATION FOR

CHIP DESIGN)

VINOD DHAM (PENTIUM)


20

Interview

PAWAN KUMAR (64xxx BT Civil MT ChE) pawanvmokshagmailcom

A profile in transience from agriculture to IT with no algorithm

or even a plan

Did you have a business background

Pawan No I come from a small town in UP from a farming family

What was your background and degree from IITK

Pawan Went to IIT after my intermediate from Hindi medium IITK had 50 American visiting professors By the time I translated my question from Hindi to English in my mind the prof would have gone ahead therefore I could not ask any question during my first year Took some effort and confidence building to overcome this challenge I did BTech Civil Engg M Tech Chemical and my first job was as a manager in the computer center at IITK the largest assemblage of computers in India at that point of time I was offered the job without having to write any application

What was your first job like

Pawan I started my career as a manager and continued to be a trainee all my life after that I enjoyed my job at IITK When a lot of my friends got fed up with my involvement with the positive politics of the institute Prof Rajaraman sent my CV to Mr Kohli at TCS His reaction was that he needed someone like me to fix the union problems at TCS They had then 200 data entry operators and they were unionised staff they could hold TCS to ransome My task was to reduce that strength to zero and outsource the work I was able to achieve this in three years I worked in TCS for 18 years

Did you know the future

Pawan Not at all Lot of things happened without any planning like moving from Civil to Chemical and then taking up a job with computers which was not my main subject at all

Even if you knew a thing or two about doing business in India did you know anything about the uncharted business models of an IT company its global environment its rapidly changing technology and itrsquos poorly informed customers (in computer science during those days) who hardly knew what they were going to get finally and what should be the right price for it

Pawan Learnt all this by doing it Exploring new territories was never a problem thanks to IIT education

How did you motivate young engineers to spend their energies on your projects

Pawan Leading by example For example at IITK computer center when operators used to sleep on duty I would feed all the card boxes through a card reader on IBM 1401

What excited your work force to deliver their best output

Pawan To know them personally by name know their family as well My affiliation motive was higher than achievement motive and that led to higher achievements

Where did you get your gut feelings and how

Pawan My family allowed me to handle the family finance during my school days That boosted my confidence in my ability

Did you have a mentor or an inspiration or a guide

Pawan I have always been a keen learner My Profs at IITK like Dr Anandakrishnan Dr G D Agarwal Dr C N R Rao and Mr F C Kholi at TCS were my mentors

We all know that IT field was new to our generation and it required great courage and grit to jump into such an arena with no precedence

Pawan Opportunity was offered to me based on my management skills demonstrated through activities at the hostel Society of Civil Engineering and other extra-curricular activities at IITK


21

What did you face from the city administration as help or hurdle in setting up your shop on the street

Pawan When I went to TCS Delhi every one there told me that you cannot get anything done without paying money I went to Mr Kohli to discuss it His reaction was try it without paying money If it does not work then you come back I worked with this determination Things worked including allocation of a plot at Noida without paying any money to anyone Most of it started happening with personal relationships (affiliations)

What was your first project And all the differences between the first and the last

Pawan Apply all your leanings from the first project to the next project and so on In fact even in talking I have difficulty in one on one communication I am quite fine in a group communication My difficulty is I think a lot faster than I can write hence I often miss some characters in my written words

(It is very heartening to know that Pawan has not missed anything in his trajectory from farming to an enviable success in the IT business with brief stopovers in Civil and Chemical Engineering at IITK)

What are you doing about the small town you came from

Pawan I went to Gandhi Primary School and finished my high school from Gandhi Inter College Charthawal my home town In fact I appeared for IIT entrance because I did not qualify due to age in Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee) IITs were not so well known in 64 People used to mix up IIT with ITIs

I am in touch with my school I visit them whenever I am in Charthawal Have been helping the college with construction of rooms and computer lab I am now working hard to have our Golden Jubilee celebration scheduled for 6th December Most of the teachers are no more but we have been able to locate at least one I have the list of my class mates and we are in the process of inviting them We want to donate a good library

Some activities while at IITK

Publisher Alok the first Hindi campus magazine Mess Secretary - hall II hall I and hall V class captain volleyball team Society of Civil Engineering - G Sec and then Vice President Secretary Chemineers

Played a key role to have the first mess workers strike at IIT K which was supported by Dr A P Shukla with the blessings of Hussain Zaheer then Chairman Board of Governors

Organised summer schools for Dr M Anandakrishnan the current Chairman of The Board of Governors These schools were for teachers from all over the country Global president of IIT K alumni association first Chairman of PanIIT India

At present

Present work assignments after my retirement are mentoring and angel investments Two areas of interest are visualization and virtualisation Had created a company called Jadooworks the largest animation company in India Worked for Disney in making 26 half an hour episodes of Finding Nimo Atlantis Computing is a company for desk top virtualisation which is likely to be my best investment NASSCOM EC member for many years a very active TiE charter member YOUR FEEDBACK ON VOICES-2

I like it being both in English and Hindi 66 pages is little big I wish they also mention Spark and Alok the campus magazines during our time Starting something like this is easier than sustaining - Pawan Kumar Excellent piece of work My Heartiest Congratulations - Kamal Sharma Chem Engg IITK 1964 Batch Took me back to many decades of nostalgic memories Wonderful effort urge you to keep it up - Prof K R Sarma Thanks for forwarding Some of the blurbs with the pics seem to have been perennial Not sure why I didnt get a copy though IITK has my e-mail - Aseem Shukla aseemshuklahotmailcom There is so much in it to learn from reflect on life and appreciate the Professors and Alumni beyond engineering education For me this is the best forum to education from the elders and youngsters - Pls keep it coming Manoj Kumar IITK77 EE


22

Poems and Paintings by Prof Ashutosh Sharma (77xxx BT Chem) ashutosiitkacin

Epitaphs of an Information Bank

Rows upon rows of printed words in neatly arranged columns in crisscrossing corridors hang like so many coats discarded and forgotten On gleaming metallic racks in little corners of subdued lights bracketed by a diffused darkness swirling staircases rise to the top Embedded in a matrix of rows columns and corridors

rest little epitaphs for the crusaders of the past In every preface lurks a shadow A musty smell Envelops it all ldquoRemember friend as you walk by As you are now so once was I As you are now I too will surely berdquo

TRILOGY OF AN ACTIVIST ONE DADrsquoS SONG Do as Romans do Life is short Make it sweet Add zeros to the sum of your profit Donrsquot stir a hornetrsquos nest Let sleeping dogs lie

TWO FOOTPRINTS OF PARADISE I laughed and cheered Bowed and feared Paid my tax I stand now in Rome Where else would I be Where else could I go Sure in mountains of mirrors Streams of people Bounce like rubber And acid clouds chase iron dreams But how would your plastic soul Negotiate such entangled elastic goals How would she indeed

Scan from the vaporous skies The most exquisite polyurethane heap For her breast And a pool of activated sludge to absorb her sighs Even now her long fallen hair sparkle with the dust of Rubies Even now her immortality hides a billion years long stretch of radioactive sites

THREE OF SON SAND AND BUTTERFLIES Daughter This was my dadrsquos advice ldquo If you kick dirt it will get in your eyesrdquo But in the rainbows of reflected twilight in the rivulets of reflex tears it will at least be a sphinx could even be a butterfly

Ashutosh Sharma (1995)


23

She Walks In The Clouds


24

Memories of Music


25

Remembrances (and Good Bye) A tide rushing out sings not the song of separation but of anticipation and unfolding And returning brings with it memories of distant shores its beloved And beautiful melodies of misty nights before receding into the sea And so it is with a new generation of turtles on the beach With gaping mouths in strong saturated breeze A drama forever repeats From father to daughter same dreams are ever reborn But never mature Fallen leaves of Neem chase each other in circles They have no resting-place Only the murmur of days gone by In the continuity of repeating days and nights Activities are mapped to the clock The mind hides but the time passes Desires grow strong Men grow old and their minds tremble with the possessions of yore Words freeze in mid-mind or in mid-air Do you remember Remember your breath Orsquo Mind Remember

your source and abode Remember your deeds How many roads to traverse The hour is rung Rolling fog opens vistas of an ancient land A swing is set from the memories to yearnings Images dance their incessant song lsquoA mother spider eating its web a yellow bird stationary in its flight a wave which is forever the sea in all its wanderings an actor outside of the playrsquo A thread of love hanged on to nothing A network of memory mapped on to the great void A dancing spark a vastness beyond An onslaught of gushing blood In verbal approximations Neither this Nor that Jump now and there is no return The sun it is suddenly near In a pond still and clear All the stars will come out tonight but one

- Ashutosh Sharma

For more of his art work visit httpwwwashutoshsharmaartcom

httpswwwfacebookcomartofashutoshsharmaiitk


26

Ashutosh Sharma (77xxx BT Chem) ashutosiitkacin

Around 6 of his artworks (each 2 feet by 3 feet) are displayed at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced

Scientific Research Bangalore and courtesy Prof C N R Rao who caught him doing a sketch in a

conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

Prof Sharma the Coordinator of Nanosciences Centre is renowned for his work on mechanics and instabilities of

interfaces and ultrathin films self-organized meso-patterning and interfacial and colloidal interactions These studies

have direct applications in a variety of nanotechnology applications including micro- and nano-fabrication smart

and functional materials coatings adhesives detergency wetting adsorption and nucleation He has authored over

130 peer-reviewed publications of which the ten most cited have received over 1000 citations Professor Sharma has

received numerous honors and awards for his research including the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of

the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2006) Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences (2002)

RPG Life Science Professor M M Sharma Medal and Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award (2006) the Herdillia

Award (2003) and the Amar Dye Chemical Award (1995) all of the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers the

Maharashtra National Award (1996) and the ISTE-SGSITS National Award (1993) both of the Indian Society for

Technical Education He has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Colloid and Interface Science

(2000-2002) Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (2006-) and Indian Chemical Engineer (2006-) He is a J C

Bose Fellow of the Department of Science amp Technology (2006-) and an elected Fellow of the Indian National

Science Academy Indian National Academy of Engineering Indian Academy of Sciences and the National

Academy of Sciences India Professor Ashutosh Sharma has been conferred the Distinguished Alumnus

Award of IITK for his outstanding contributions and academic achievements in the field of Chemical

Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE

A STRIKE AND AN OPPORTUNITY

IN THE MESS

Dr Suthash Kumar SuthashKumarduke-energycom After I completed Ph D program in 1976 I continued as SRA until September 1979 During that time I was quite active in Athletics and Soccer with students I had spent most of the time training undergraduate student for Athletic competition for IIT meets Mess Strike During mess workersrsquo strike in 1973 we supported them but it was also a very challenging time for us The mess was abandoned by the workers and we had to survive by managing to prepare four meals a day for the entire hostel on our own I had learnt cooking from my mum by watching her in the kitchen when I was young in Burma but never had a chance to cook for a crowd like Hall V It was need of the hour and I did not hesitate to throw my hat in the ring I was sort of a head cook and was called whenever there was a problem in the mess One day a post graduate South Indian student Freman came forward ldquoI will make rice pulao with green peasrdquo he declared Ok go ahead I told him We had to cook in huge brass utensils over gas and coal stoves He started off with confidence but a little later there was commotion and I was called in The rice had cooked but it had a huge amount of water still boiling over it I looked around for Freman but he had vanished from the scene just in time I called for two strong mates and requested them to pour the excess water into another utensil after it had cooled a bit We mixed some rasam powder to it cooked a bit with some more water and added boiled peas for garnish I had invented a new recipe Rasam Rice Soup With Peas

Just then our Director at the time Dr Muthana came along to enquire how we were doing I was delighted to have an un-biased expert at hand to test our new creation and gave him a glass of our new concoction He liked it and commented that he had never tasted that good rasam in his life Of course no one had until then I admire his honesty because no one had ever made anything like that before that too after a fiasco in the kitchen I also cooked later chick peas (Chhole) and Bhindi for that day Rice pulao was largely left over as it was a bit runny but we did not discard it I mixed some gram flour (besan) onions and condiments into it and made pakoras for tea time It was an instant hit for the ever hungry mind and body of an IITian after a grueling day having little hope for a tasty meal with cooks on strike Next day there was another challenge Someone forgot to put milk in the cold storage and it soured I told them not to worry We sliced tomatoes - about 5 kg and boiled the milk with them The milk curdled into paneer and water With tomato onion and turmeric (haldi) I had made another tasty soup Everybody sighed in relief I was very busy in the remaining three days of strike Being a Burma born innovative Punjabi I tried to give the students a different taste of food and we never wasted what we had After the strike was over some of the mess worker came to me and commented about my cooking They were keeping a watch on how students were dealing with the situation and were quite surprised that I had taken up the challenge and we had survived I call it


28

the IITianrsquos sprit Being an active sportsman I like challenges THE AFFECTION I do remember that I was sleeping in my room (Hall IV ndash 304) after late night arrival from IIT Kharagpur meet one of the mess workers came and knocked at my door When I opened my door he asked where the medals and championship cups were I pointed him to my study table he took away all of them with him Later I went to have my lunch As soon as I entered the mess there was a shower of clapping and hugging from the mess workers and friends That moment is embedded in my heart Even now I can feel it and now I am getting my eyes wet We were like a family From the faculty Prof R N Biswas and Prof C V Shashadri were very encouraging 1991 IITK Visit I had a chance to visit IITK in 1991 with my family and could not resist visiting Hall IV I met most of the mess and office workers It was around lunch time We were sitting in the mess managerrsquos room One of the old hands Ram Dean came over with a tray He told me that sahib here is your favorite Kari Pakora I was amazed that he had remembered it so well after so many years We were deeply touched That is a kind of relationship we had developed with our mess workers They were like our family and looked after us very well They also enjoyed playing

volley ball and soccer with us I still enjoy cooking at home My keen interest of athletics and soccer from IIT time continued in the US I played Soccer with a private club in Pittsburgh indoor as well as outdoor until age 57 I ran 200 and 400 Meters corporate races for Westinghouse team until 1998 Most of the races were held at UCLA MIT and Stanford in the university fields I enjoyed doing it Even my two daughters born in the US were quite active in sports and games western and Indian cultural dances etc A MEMORABLE TIME Most enjoyable time I had was during the preparation of IIT meet in the month of December 1975 and 1976 All the participants got free meals for about two weeks before meet for the preparation During that time we all had to meet on ground early morning for training Our coaches used to soak black gram (chana) over night and feed us after the practice Time has passed now we have different kinds of energy drinks We used to have different activities and practice throughout the day After two weeks of training we would go to host IIT for the competitions We would book a whole compartment Newar (cotton strips used in steel cots) from our hostel cots was taken out for tying between two sleeper births in the train to provide for additional sleeping space It was a very enjoyable journey with Dr R N Biswas as our chief

An illuminating interview - Dr K G Jung httpwwwyoutubecomwatchv=eTBs-2cloEI Psychological type is nothing static ndash it changes in the course of life He advocates for psychology as the most potent tool for understanding human nature and thus saving humanity from itself We need more understanding of human nature because the only danger that exists is man himself ndash he is the great danger and we are pitifully unaware of it We know nothing of man ndash far too little


29

Suthash Kumar - A Retrospective Photo 1 - 1977 Graduation picture (Left to Right - Presently Prof Peeyush Chandra of Mathematics Dr S V Sachidananda myself Dr Suthash Kumar) Photo 2 - Athletic Meet at IIT Kanpur 1976 (Myself finishing 200M race) Received gold for 100M 200M and Silver for 400M) Photo 3 - Athletic Meet at IIT Kharagpur 1975 (Receiving Gold medals for 100M 200M 400M and Individual Championship Cup 400M and finish line beating Bombay IIT teammate Ambrose) It was first time in IIT Kanpur history that someone had won three golds and a championship cup I also won 1975 1976 Kanpur District competition in 100M and 200M and represented in UP State for Kanpur District in 1976 I still have these medals and cups with me in US

1 2

3


30

एक अखबार का जीवनिचतर

परमोद जोशी (MT EE 79xxx) pramodkjoshigmailcom

२६८२०१३

आज िफर अखबार ल कर आएगा वही सिखरया

वही बबस लाचारी क िक स मानवता क िह स

िकसी िनरीह अबला की खामोश तड़पती चीख

िकसी नता का अस य अमानवीय प टीकरण

िकसी अिभनतरी क अधरनगन रगीन िचतर की भीख

कछ अनगरल बात कई बतक राजनीितक समीकरण

आज िफर रग बरसगा िकसी िनद ष क खन का

समाचार और भर टाचार क बीच की छपी खाई पर

टटगी िकसी एक अदद स यवादी अफ़सर पर ग़ाज़

िकसी मखयमतरी क मखौट का होगा थाना तरण

बोलगा अखबार िफर वही बात खोलगा वही खल राज़

सामािजक याय होगा कद होगा लाज का खला अपहरण

आज िफर चाय की चि कय म घलगी हज़ार की मौत

िब कट क करारपन म िसमट आएगा आतकी ज़नन

ज़हरील भोजन की बदौलत िमलगी ब च को अितम पनाह

काल द कमर भटकत भटकत पायग िकसी बाबा की शरण

िदनचयार की भट आज िफर चढ़ जायगी करोड़ की कराह

होता रहगा कल की खबर क िलए आज का िनत चीर हरण

MARK TWAIN had this to say on newspapers

I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy

It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell But the trouble is that the stupid people - who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper and there is where the harm lies

- License of the Press speech 31 March 1873


31

AKbaar AruNa EaIvaastva


[sa KamaKyaalaI maoM jaInaa caahta hUM ik kla saubah ko AKbaaraMo maoM sabasao pr Cpa haogaa saba zIk hao gayaa hO AaOr saMpadkIya maoM KuSaI ko saaqa yah elaana haogaa ik Aba [sakI jarUrt nahIM kla sao KbaroM nahIM haoMgaI basa [iltalaa haogaI imalanao jaulanao kI maaOsama kI manaaorMjana kI trkI kI AavaajaahI kI sad`Baava kI bao[Mitha AcCo [MsaanaaoM kI na[ na[ ClaMagaaoM kI [sa Kama KyaalaI ko Kbar haonao tk maOM baovakUfI ko ilahaf maoM maMuh Zk kr saaonaa caahta hMU [sa AKbaarI duinayaa sao hT kr jahMa baasaI KbaroM nae ilabaasaaoM maoM raoja naumaayaa haotI hOM yaa ifr jaoba ktro ivaampapnaaoM maoM iCp kr Anajaanao idmaaga maoM saoMQa lagaatI hOM AaOr jajabaataoM kI duknadarI krtI hOM jaba QaaoKo maoM hI rhnaa hO tao ifr ApnaI Kama KyaalaI hI yaa baurI hO kla saubah haonao tk tao caOna sao jaI laoM ifr vahI AKbaar Aanao tk hma AKbaar KrIdto hOM yaa r_I


32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)

sanjiv_bhatlayahoocom

Futility

When the prince charming drove by

On his throbbing mobike

Only the prettiest of them all

Didnrsquot turn to look

And as the prince charming

Roared by on his throbbing mobike

He didnrsquot see hellip

That she

Did not look

Footpath

Lost friends meet the shoes shine

And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath

While the elder child let out his bewildered

Meek cries

I hurried my steps along

Lest the one-year-old might

Raise her blouse

Out of the habit of hunger

I am too young to vote


33

Haikus By Sanjiv Bhatla

Manrsquos basic nature

Is to exploit I learned from My shoe-shine boyrsquos boy

A white neon sign

Glowing in clear moonlit sky

Her mind after love

One lone greeting card

On a birthday makes the house

Look so big at night

A shy man too must

Fend to live Itrsquos sad they call

A loner selfish

We want to see old

Friends as in old photo them

To see us in new Left to right

Suresh Chowdhry Sanjiv Bhatla Shekhar Agarwal Mukesh Thakkar Arvind Agarwal Muktesh Paliwal


34

डा० सकमार थरजा (रसायन शा तर म पी० एच डी 1986 IITK) sukarmatharejayahoocom एसोिसएट परोफसर कराइ ट चचर कालज कानपर

आई० आई० टी० कानपर - दीपक

सदर कल - कल िबठर गगा जल का मीठा शोर

जड़ता एक छोर उसका क याण पर की ओर

म य म िसर उठाय खड़ा गवर स

भारतीय परौधोिगकी स थान कानपर महान

इसको हािशय पर ह ऐितहािसक नानकारी बारहिसरोही गाव

इसका - मित िच ह - शिकत तरोत

आई ० आई ० टी ० - क० - दीपक - महान

परितपल परितकषण परितिदन

िव व परितभाओ का पथ परदिशरत कर

पलक - पलक जलता आई ० आई ० टी ० क ० - दीपक

िस ध सा िवजञान परो यौिगकी जञान

टाफ िशकषक िव याथीर नमन कर लत उजार इसकी कण - कण वाला स

तब गवर स जलता

आई ० आई ० टी ० क० - दीपक l


35

एक ह जादगरनी ndash बारहवी परीकषा

िदखाती तमाशा - सभी बारहवी पास करन क इ छक िव यािथरय को

डगी-डगी बजाकर मजमा सा-जमाकर

सभी अ छ शिकषक स थान की खयाली शोभा यातरा िदखाती

अजब ह इस जादगरनी का किर मा उसक पब दी झोल म ह

सही कोिचग स टर का चनाव एन0 सी0 आर0 टी0 की िकताब सी0 बी0 एस0 ई0 का पा यकरम

८० स ९० परितशत अक पान का जगाड़ बीए (आनसर) बी एस सी (आनसर) बी0 टक0

कोस की सौगात स टर टीफन कालज िमरा डा हाउस मायो कालज स टर ज़िवयर स थानो म

पढ़ाई क सपन डी0 य0 आई आई टी आई एस0 ई0 आर0

की सनहरी मोहर मलटी नशनल क पनी की नौकरी १२ स १६ लाख नौकरी का पकज

पिरवार वाल क सपन उनम धमड़त िव यािथरय क सपन

िवदश की सखद यातराए ना जान कस उसक झोल म रहत ह

आप इनकी किवताए पढ़ सकत ह httpwwwpoemoceancompoetsukarma-tharejapoem


36

From The Cheshire Cat Innaugural Issue March 1976

Blame mahadevan_rameshhotmailcom

A BOOK REVIEW

ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS By Kreyzik

WILEY EASTERN PRIVATE LIMITED $ 1395 (Price of original)

ldquoWas this the book that launched A Hundred PCOs in a course unknown

ldquoTough melodramatic ingenious irritating acute funnyrdquo some say

Some others chose to articulate their feeling with four letter words Then of course there is that Lady (of Feathersword Association) who claimed to have spent her hols with a Kreyzig a sister and a dog (One wonders whether all that she meant was feeding bits of Kreyzig to her papyrophilic kid-sister and dog)

Kreyzig today is a campus thriller a killer in fact of its many wooers the PCOs your SPI my CPI and not to speak of the traditional fathroos By the end of the semester the pulverization of the PCOs is complete And the muggard who cracks down upon the bookrsquos esoteric contents with the fervour of a cat upon a constipated cockroach emerges chastened and subdued at the end of it all

Among other things one discovers to onersquos horror that ordinary differential equations are complex the problems dealing with imaginary quantities very much real and the solutions one obtains almost unfailingly imaginary and quiz papers return one after the other with curvaceous ziphers staring gleefully at your face

Chapter three on power series provides ample food for thought = whether one should continue with engineering or search for pastures anew

Yet there is a heartening feature to the book This book is neither dedicated to lsquoAmmarsquo nor to lsquoApparsquo for that matter an example for many to emulate

GANGU MOCHI TALKS TO THE CHASHIRE CAT

We went to him with a pair of torn sneakers that needed mending He was sitting on his haunches under his usual tree at the corner of Hall 3 He gave us a toothless grin then squinted professionally at the sneakers and set to work It wasnrsquot hard to set him talking about himself He was only too glad to do so Perhaps he had never had such an appreciative audience

He wasnrsquot quite sure how old he was Definitely more than sixty or seventy so he informed us with finality And what was his name Hira Lal - he said with a wry look He added that he didnrsquot like his name much Neither did we we preferred lsquoGangu Mochi

He had come to the lIT as a construction worker when most of the buildings existed only as blueprints With the construction completed Gangu had taken to the cobblerrsquos trade first in an itinerant way - going around the halls and quarters a work bag slung over his shoulder soliciting work and then having made a name for himself he had set up shop under a rather nondescript tree (no spreading greenwood this) confident that even if he didnrsquot go to the students they would come to him And they did That was eight years ago They still do in spite of competition from upstart mochis at Jaggu market and the shopping centre


37

Had he been a mochi even before he came to the lIT Oh no ndash and here his eyes flashed as he began to talk about the past He even dropped the sneakers he had been working on the better to gesticulate Hersquod been an intrepid freedom fighter in the days of the British Ra In the forties there couldnrsquot have been any satyagraha strike or sit-in within a radius of ten miles around Kanpur without Old Gangu And hersquod been beaten up for his pains more than once by His Majestys police Hed been a staunch Congressman too campaigning for the party and contributing every spare paisa he had to it

And what did he think of boys these days He shook his head sadly Just look at his own sons One had dropped out from a Mandhana College squandered his fathers hard earned money and then run off to Bombay Here Gangu waggled a finger at us and pronounced in the manner of an Old Testament prophet - That son of mine wont come to any good you wait and see (Incidentally Gangu thinks that Bombay is all of 25 miles away) Another son had left home and a Rs300- job at the lIT to marry a girl Old Gangu hadnrsquot approved of No wonder Gangu had such a low opinion of the modern generation and its new fangled notions of love

The sneakers had been mended by now - with the strongest thread so Gangu assured us - and Irsquove fired one last question a professional one this time Wasnrsquot footwear getting better over the years Gangu snorted in reply and then qualified his snort with lsquoThese days its all fancy multi coloured uppers but they donrsquot last Otherwise I couldnrsquot survive Why in the old days you bought a shoe the way you bought a wife (for you did buy a wife) to last for better or for worse for a lifetime

The Guinness book may not publish these records

SHORTEST LAB REPORT 12 comp card by Anil Kumar for ESc 330 on Oct 181972

MOST LENIENT GRADING ChE 431 (Chemical Kinetics) in 72-73 2nd Sem taken by Dr CV Seshadri who gave 62 As out of 67 Note that this is a PSI course

MOST HARD-WORKING PHUD M~ NV K Tyagrajapandian visits the Hall IV canteen only twice a day

Oh young Cheshire Cat is come out of the press

On all the grey notice boards his views he expressed

And save his old ball pen he weapons had none

He wrote quite cattily and he wrote all alone


38

Volley-Ball Team 1967-68

Photograph Contributed by

Ramesh Chandra Sharma rcsindrisifycom Year of graduation 1971

BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40

R E M E M B E R I N G S a t y e n d r a

Absolutely True to his name

WHAT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN Voices collected some excerpts from various sites on the world wide web He is reported to have said in his letter to The Prime Minister of India A dream project of unparalleled importance to the Nation but in reality a great loot of public money because of very poor implementation at every state I request you to kindly go through my brief particulars (attached on a separate sheet to ensure secrecy) before proceeding further hellip the story is almost same with all other projects which are under implementation and would be no different for forthcoming Projects unless we take certain corrective measures immediately The DPRs prepared by the design consultants are in very poor shape and cannot be implemented in the field without major modifications It appears that the design consultants have made the designs and drawings with little consideration for the actual ground conditions and the same have been accepted by NHAI without any scrutiny The proof consultants (deployed for checking DPRs submitted by Design Consultants) appear to have done only cosmetic work and it appears that the officers in NHAI have not even opened the final DPRs submitted by the consultants before putting the works to tender The result is that the DPRs on the basis of which tenders have been called are like garbage When the problems are being noticed in DPR at the implementation stage and the design consultants are being requested to clarify them we are getting a very cool and negative response from them This is contributing to delay in the implementation of projects Many contractors are submitting forged documents to justify their technical and financial capabilities to execute the project The big contractors have been able to get all sorts of help (including even the most secret information and documents) from the officials in NHAI and even the note sheets carrying approval of chairman have been leaked outside NHAI officials have shown great hurry in giving mobilisation advance to the selected contractors (no surprise as the commission to officials for award of work are linked to the contractors getting their first mobilisation advance There is a big fraud in the selection of SupervisionDesign consultants which mainly depends on their technical manpower To get the consultancy work the consultants are proposing to deploy well-qualified and senior professionals in their technical proposals (many times their qualification and experience are being forged and NHAI officials are not taking any pain to ask for the documentary proof in support of their claims) This whole drama can be very easily checked provided we have the will It is all the more easy in the totally computerised system at NHAI A few steps outlined below will go a long way in remedying this ill (i) No consultant should be allowed to propose the deployment of same professional in more than one technical proposal (ii) It should be ensured that the same person is not proposed to be deployed by more than one consultancy firm


41

(iii) It should be ensured that the person proposed by a consultancy firm is actually working in the firm or is having a bond with the firm to work in the project if the firm is awarded the project (iv) Replacement should be approved only under very extraordinary circumstances and a penalty should be imposed on the firm for their inability to deploy the proposed professional (v) All documentary proof in support of the qualification amp experience claimed by a person should be asked The problem of subletting or subcontracting The main Civil Contractors who have been awarded the work by NHAI are doing all these under the veil of labour contract which is permissible under the Contract Agreement But in reality they are getting most of the work done through numerous small petty contractors (main contractors are supplying only a few critical equipment amp materials) at 50-60 per cent of the price quoted by them and the rest 40 per cent of contract price is being pocketed by them without much effort I have written all these in my individual capacity However I will keep on addressing these issues in my official capacity in the limited domain within the powers delegated to me If any elaborationclarification is needed on above issues I would be glad to render all my assistance in the interest of this very prestigious National Highways Development Project which is undoubtedly the biggest ever project undertaken in India after independence Links httpwwwindianexpresscomstoryOldphpstoryId=36695 httpwwwsuchetadalalcomid=8d491823-9be5-ad8b-492e8b730c0aampbase=sectionsampf httpinrediffcomnewsdubeyhtm httpsenwikipediaorgwikiSatyendra_Dubey

It is his 10th death anniversary in 2013 IITK honours him with an annual S K Dubey Memorial Award to any IIT alumnus engaged in elimination of corruption


42

W O R K I N G HARD

(A bit too H a r d perhaps)

Recently I had shared a poem ldquoCorporate Liferdquo with a few of my friends on the present existential position of work overload at offices and ldquoraise the bar every now and then to extract the maximum out of everyone and discard those falling belowrdquo prevalent in the corporates for quite some time now Sadly they take pride in it Winner takes all is the guiding principle Think of gladiators they only killed one at a time in a fight once in a long time in a barbarous sport but in the present game the winner kills all and sometimes with family A person with average skills has no life or a wretched life He and his family have a very little chance to come up once defeated because education is becoming very costly with the rise of profit seeking schools and the ability of the schools for the rich to catch the best talent with money It will leave the others in a negative feedback cycle of low achievements with some miniscule exceptions of course In the high growth business culture hardly any one comes back home in time for an evening with family Talk of familial affiliations and family values is a farce on young minds It is an existence which alienates one from onersquos own life and its dependents Feelings and emotions are suppressed because time to share them is missing as it has been usurped by the employer and pressure at work to gain acceptance rewards at any cost is unending It was not so when we were young and yet those work places were not laggards in their business There were no computers to help us in our daily grind though most of us knew how to use them small bliss The PCrsquos were supposed to reduce our burden provide ample time for leisure and not make us sit in offices until 8 PM as a routine The reverse has happened and who is enjoying it Jobs are getting reduced profits are on the rise and they are getting concentrated in very few pockets According to a study in the US in the past 20 years corporate profits have quadrupled while the corporate tax percentage has dropped by half The payroll tax paid by workers has doubled and spending power has come down The real incomes of many people on low and middle incomes have barely risen over the past 30 years in developed countries where well documented records are available for such analysis The situation appears to be very similar elsewhere too Manufacturing sector has seen the largest reduction in jobs with rise in automation and robotics as well as relocation of facilities to cheaper destinations worldwide has given rise to an increase in exploitative practices Prices of products should have come down if the cost benefits were distributed evenly and more people could afford the produce but it has not been so Reaping huge profits from over worked labour in some countries which have poor labour regulations and safety rules is an acceptable norm Tax avoidance is rampant and legalised by those who make laws and ironically they are empowered by their electorate to provide equal opportunities for all The globalisation has its pros and cons but it appears that it has hardly helped the masses in a country of origin of technology or where the final product is manufactured The social and economic system is under tremendous pressure even in rich countries with very less population density as compared to India The solution proposed almost everywhere is to cut back on welfare and earning of the poor and helpless who vote to form a government but have not a say in the process of making laws Little surprise that they get crumbs from the cake they help prepare That is another story around great profits The over stretched professional life is affecting families and health of those involved in this unending rat race with no alternative or respite 24x7 is a curse for those who have to deliver it People have lost respect for othersrsquo time Convenience has become a curse Why do we need it everywhere except in emergency services The youngsters are made to work for 10-12 hours a day with the lure of high salary free pantry free gymnasium and sometimes a bed for night in the office premises

Who is enjoying really

Is money and dazzle all that we care for in life


43

Is the good old middle class vanishing

Only super rich and a large remaining population of labourers will survive this trend

What happened to the division of labour

Why a task cannot be divided into normal working hours with more number of hands

Why a few are overloaded while a lot have no job

Is it a case of simply wrong estimation of work content time involved and labour or a perpetual and deliberate effort

to make profit out of prolonged office hours of helpless staff in the name of productivity

Why nobody seems to be asking these questions

What has gone wrong Left to its own business does not self-regulate as it charges forth in chase of ever increasing profits It has been proven many times in the recent past in different parts of the world with economic disasters repeating unpredictably The cult of productivity needs to be demolished now since it has been merged with a bottomless pit of greed Recently there was news about a German intern in U K who died of fatigue after working non-stop for several days A spokesman of the industry said Its a glamorous high octane facade but when youre working its 12 weeks of 24 hrs six and a half days is standard You will go in at the weekend you might get a Sunday afternoon off This is inhuman but it has evoked hardly any reaction Except for a few news reports not much has happened to end this unacceptable work culture We have been pushed back by more than a century into the dark era of serfdom with a difference now that it is guilt with a veneer of wealth and the dubious pace is set by technology Contrast this with the fact that number of suicides and broken families have increased several fold in the mecca of technology and quickly earned prosperity ie Bangalore Laws have to be enacted to stop this modern way of human sacrifice which does not make sense in the age of unprecedented technological and economic advancement The wealth is all time high but can we say the same about happiness and its content Is this a lowly existence in times of abundance or a problem of plenty Some of the friends responded to this poem with their take on the issue in their poetic manner presented here but the concern remains Arun Srivastava (67xxx BT EE) editiitkemagyahooin Editor

CORPORATE LIFE

To sit in one place for hours And slog To watch a screen for hours And read To read and react with expectations Fulfilled or denied To respond for making a profit Endlessly Requires living in a trance Day of awakening may never come For some Itrsquos a broken dream and a recursive loop Lucky are few who enjoy what they do


44

Responses Prabal Roy (PrabalRoyfuzzylcom) (May I extend the ending) Yet for others Who will not accept the daily humdrum and the slog They will be impatient until they find a different way Though more challenging They will give up some comforts In quest of fulfilment They will work long hours They will exhaust every possibility and never give up Until they find the light at the end of the tunnel They will not rest until they satisfy their quest

बालक ण ग त (69xxx) baalkeeggmailcom

त सोचता ह जो करता नही ह वो िदल ह कही और िदमाग़ कही और

जब तक रहगा ऐसा िमलनी नही ह ठौर िदल को िदमाग़ स

त जोड़ क तो दख कया ह तर भाग म

कछ सोच क तो दख

नयी िदशा ह सामन

ग खोल क त दख Bal Krishn Birla bkbirlagmailcom And since all of us are in a poetic mood

िमटा िदए सराग सभी याद की रत स तम न

ह प अभी भी कछ

टटी लकीर बाकी ह

कछ बतरतीब तरीक स

इधर उधर िबखरी हई


45

कछ अनजान मकाम स

बपरवाह गज़रती हई

कछ प थर क नीच

नमी रह गयी थी उन को ज़ािहर करती हई




गरम आिधय क िलए

कई ज बात क छाल

कई सहम हए उजाल

होठ प कभी आती ह

एक सलगती हई दआ बन कर दब जाती ह शोर म िफर

एक सीली हई हवा बन कर





Vah vah Vah vah Virla hi hoga aisa reader Jo na kare ye consider k Dimagh kehta hai titar bitar Rooh kehti Come Hither Deepak Sahay (66xxx BT ChE) deepaksahaygmailcom Took some time to figure this out Here is my take below JOB BLUES Some say their job is boring But Albert Darwin and MrEliot Prove a jobrsquos the very thing Next to wealthy wife or daddy Here he is our dear Albert Weekly paid in kind and silver Thinking thinking thinking thinking


46

But patent files he will not suffer Nowadays even children recite His own strange equation Wonder would hersquove failed it Presented in an application

They passed Herr Brunos patent For loathsome agent in dark canister It arrived fee paid by proper channel Recommended and hardly sinister Chance is just a bad hair day And here is Mr Eliot three floors down Lloyds of London muttering away Dollars Dinars and English pounds Images n words flow out and in Jumbling ideas in verse and prose The Waste Land forever alters Why and what and how we knows Let them not know you know I know What it is to scuttle so low Across the floors of silent seas Lloyd hell nae make Branch Manager I close my case of jobs and men With hoary Darwin on the Beagle Two years for stocking specimen Thirty writing The Origins Regal I thank the lord for Emmas wealth That kept him sound enough to tell Itrsquos not what Adam done to Eve Itrsquos Maccaca Mullata that rings my bell If your job gives you the blues Recall the poem in your heart Each and every genius shows It lives forever it is the light gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt gt


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COLLABORATION FOR VOICES - 3 NOVEMBER 2013

Contents MODERN SAINTS IN IITK 4 Arun Srivastava V O I C E S C O N N E C T S 7 CONGRATULATIONS Sir 8 Bharat Ratna Prof C N R Rao SEAMUS HEANEY (1939 - 2013) 9 Travelogue Slowly Down the Lower Ganges Canal 10 Prof Amitabha Mukerjee Interesting Links 12 RAJIV MOTWANI Still Shining 13 S Kanavi TECHNOLOGY A BRIEF HISTORY OF ELECTRONICS 17 S Kanavi Interview 21 PAWAN KUMAR Poems and Paintings by Prof Ashutosh Sharma 23 A STRIKE AND AN OPPORTUNITY IN THE MESS 28 Dr Suthash Kumar

एक अखबार का जीवनिचतर - परमोद जोशी 31

AKbaar - AruNa EaIvaastva 32 Sanjiv Bhatla - Poems 33 Haikus By Sanjiv Bhatla 34


2














3


Arun Srivastava







and hostel expenses








and boarding








4














Shiksha Sopan



5





6








with a CC to

guptaohioedu








7












8













9

Travelogue














10











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47














3


Arun Srivastava







and hostel expenses








and boarding








4














Shiksha Sopan



5





6








with a CC to

guptaohioedu








7












8













9

Travelogue














10











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47


Arun Srivastava







and hostel expenses








and boarding








4














Shiksha Sopan



5





6








with a CC to

guptaohioedu








7












8













9

Travelogue














10











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47














Shiksha Sopan



5





6








with a CC to

guptaohioedu








7












8













9

Travelogue














10











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47





6








with a CC to

guptaohioedu








7












8













9

Travelogue














10











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47








with a CC to

guptaohioedu








7












8













9

Travelogue














10











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47












8













9

Travelogue














10











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47













9

Travelogue














10











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47

Travelogue














10











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47











11





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47





Interesting Links





12

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47

RAJIV MOTWANI

Still Shining



































of problems

SK Traffic problems














13































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47































is about 5 years





















motions









space






























14





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47





solution



















similar way






























































spelt it





15






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47






















































RAJIV MOTWANI




16

TECHNOLOGY







17




18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















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BTech Mech


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BTech Mech


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W O R K I N G HARD






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CORPORATE LIFE



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TECHNOLOGY







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WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



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sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




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Memories of Music


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- Ashutosh Sharma




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conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




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1 2

3


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२६८२०१३
























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32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





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A BOOK REVIEW















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BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





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W O R K I N G HARD






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CORPORATE LIFE



44















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18



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





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A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47



WILLIAM SHOCKLEY


(TRANSISTOR) 1956



19





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47





sectional view


PRABHU GOEL


CHIP DESIGN)



20

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47

Interview



or even a plan






















21













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47













At present




22











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47











23



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47



24

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47

Memories of Music


25



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47



- Ashutosh Sharma




26




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47




conference

AN AMAZING ACHIEVER

















Engineering


27

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47

HALL OF RESIDENCE


IN THE MESS




28





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47





29


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47


1 2

3


30



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47



२६८२०१३
























31





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47





32

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47

Sanjiv Bhatla

(70xxx BT EE)


Futility








That she

Did not look

Footpath


And also a woman

Can die

On a footpath


Meek cries



Raise her blouse




33




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47




A white neon sign


Her mind after love




A shy man too must


A loner selfish

We want to see old





34


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47


















35















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47















36



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47



A BOOK REVIEW















37













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47













38




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47




BTech Mech


39




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47




BTech Mech


40





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47





41




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47




42

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















45




















46




47

W O R K I N G HARD






43










CORPORATE LIFE



44















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CORPORATE LIFE



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