From June this year his health began to decline. From Vilas GadkariI also have very fond memories of organizing bridge tournaments with him in IIT and then meeting him and Meena in NY.From Raj MelvilleStill remember our annual July get-togethers early on as we were all just setting out with new families and kids. Uday found a lifelong career as an environmental consultant (1971-2013) in the Philadelphia area, starting with a small firm, James A. Commins & Associates (JACA) Corp., and ending with The Silvi Group Companies, Inc. as VP of Environmental Affairs. He was truly a multifaceted man. He joined i2 technologies in 1996 and was with Hyperion/Oracle for a few years. Almost every teacher asked him to introduce himself and our class learned that he came from Dahanu, a place I had not heard of until then. In case of a tie in CPI, the CPI across all courses taken (including additional and minor courses) up to end of 4th year is used to break the tie. Srivastava had won the gold medal in IMO in 2019 and before that, he had won the silver medal in 2018. Farewell dear Linus, till we meet again, someday somewhere. As luck would have it, Dilip Karandikar, Avinash Kulkarni and I had rooms in the same wing on the ground floor. Phatak, CSE, is the PI of this MHRD-funded project. I am very much saddened to understand from your email message that Linus expired today a few minutes back. He would quip, You are going to make me write part of some proposal, right. After staying in Roha for a couple of years he moved to Hico Products Ltd. in Mahim, Mumbai and this move allowed him to be back with his family. I remember strongly because he was a jovial person; I had attended his wedding at Chembur along with Jagdish Bhatia and lost touch as I changed my base. Sid and Rebecca would often be seen on a Sunday riding their bicycles around Cubbon Park with Vikram and now Chittoo (Chittaranjan) in the baby seats. I was hoping to meet him again in our reunion in December this year. Mohan used to be a non-fussy, easy to get along persons on all our trips. After graduating from IITB, Vinayak worked as a Project Manager to build multi-million dollar plants, fully automatic plants manufacturing detergents to pharmaceuticals. Subsequent work experience included ACC, Yanpet Saudi Arabia, Petrochemia Saudi Arabia, Jacobs Engg, Reliance and Exxon Mobil in Singapore in senior Engineering and Management positions. He used to actually bring a book to read during lectures that were of little interest to him. After Dr Bhabhas demise in an air crash in 1966. In my interactions with him -- I knew him for many years -- I never saw him displaying malice towards anyone. Both Krishnan and I had the gumption to quit soon enough, while Dilip Karandikar and Avinash Kulkarni from the Class of 1967 and Shailesh Kapadia from a later batch proceeded to win inter-IIT gymnastics competitions. Om Shanti. Engg. You will be missed. Deepak had a unique ability to forge deep long-lasting friendships wherever he went. ~ PC Govil. President's Gold Medal Mr. Deepanshu Jindal, B.Tech. Subhash and I were neighbours in Matunga for several years (300 metres gap between our Telang Roadhouse and his Shraddhanand roadhouse. As per Linus wish, I sent his worksheets of the algorithm to a few of our classmates named by Linus, most of whom replied that it was too technical for them to understand.For the last few decades, Linus was in touch with me, initially on my landline and later on my mobile. Ganesh enjoyed explaining the complicity of the Haldi crop. Pune. Till date, I cannot eat chikkiwithout thinking of Kesav. He spent much of his career in the Information Management and Corporate IT departments; over his tenure, he achieved distinction as a leading engineer and technical specialist. There are very few people who effortlessly amalgamate science, engineering, art and business. We got dinner on the house that evening! He was a competent and jovial guy. The Centre for Studies in Resources Engineering owes its existence to that Committees report. Apart from her political activities, Prof. Dutta took out time to teach underprivileged children in the Sundar Bagiya area of Varanasi. He fought the good fight to the very end and ran the race to its finishing line. I have wished him a happy birthday every year right on time. He had a passion for the outdoors and took pleasure in organizing group hiking and biking activities, as well as vacations with friends and family. His zeal for 100 % indigenization of his developed products will be remembered by colleagues and those in the industry. He would quote from the Bible while describing some incident. May his soul rest in peace. Its very saddening to know about Nayampally passing away. 15 years ago, following an intensive Internet search, I re-established contact with Didi through the good offices of Jyotirmoy Sarkar, Webmaster at BHU. Like, in Urbana, trudging happily together (Kapil and you), hauling the laundry basket by foot, to the laundromat, some feet of snow all around, in the dead of winter! One of his friends in SIES college gave him JEE application form and made him apply. He, along with three other IITian friends was the founder of Pune based Technofour Group, a company of high repute in India and abroad. He left for the US in 1971 and just as I was thinking everything was hunky dory with him, his life fell apart. From Kiran ParanjpeThe outstanding quality about Rajan Modi was his brilliant mind. According to the police, the deceased, was a 26-year-old master's student in his second year of the programme. I pray that the God gives courage to his family to bear the loss and that his atma attainsmukti. It takes a little from all of us when one of us dies. S. Ganesh - my neighbour during the first year, and wing mate for all 5 years. Very soon friendship consolidated among us including Sunil Navare, Ajit Tipnis, Kedar Diwan, Telang, Joglekar, and myself. The monsoons brought waters cascading into the Powailaketempting us to swim in the muddy waters and Sid was there on the Hostel 7 walkway cheering on fellow hostelites, messworkers . Kesavs deep knowledge of how to construct software, transform it, preserve its intermediate States, prove correctness, software reliability, formalism of programming languages, the concept of a machine behind an application was a vast canvas on which one could walk any path to anywhere starting from anywhere and learn. He was dignity personified. Let us pray for his atma to attain sadgati and may GOD give sufficient strength to the family to face this loss. All that's gold doesn't glitter. and the buffaloes, before climbing over the water pipelines behind Hostel 4 to swim with the crocodiles in picturesque Vihar Lake. His history and entry to IIT is amazing. Six months before he died, he went swimming in an Indian river with a band of water buffalo. In his career, Kandy was passionate about construction, and a visionary in state-of-the-art pre-engineered buildings and pre-coated steel sheets. His only son had settled in USA and they were frequently visiting him. After working as a post-doctoral fellow for a few years in England, he came back to India in 1955. We have lost our friend, but looking at the bright side, he went away without suffering. We lost a very rare gem and my heart sinks with gloom and my eyes filled with tears while writing this piece. I learned that his birthday was December 12 and that he was born in 1944. He ensured that the Academy belonging to Ustad Abdul Halim Jafar Khan celebrated the Annual function every year , in fact in one year he managed to get GaanSaraswatiGangubaiHangal and her daughter Krishna Hangal to sing for the Academy. Until the very end, he remained optimistic about beating the virus, vehemently nodding his head when asked about meeting his grandkids when speaking got to be difficult. He was in 4th year when as the GS of our Metallurgical Association I had led a group of students to Goa to study Chowgule's Pelletization Plant. Then on to the Brookline Bridge Club, coming home at 10 PM famished. She joined the Department of Physics in the Mahila Mahavidyalaya in Banaras Hindi University, where she taught for more than 30 years. 3 t J yvWi, Wue.f . His wife Sulabha was by his side. Fifty years' gap has not dimmed my memories of Linus. 3) He used to pull my legs innocently and mischievously enough for me to realize that one need not browbeat through actions, but can do so even better through pranks. He worked with BARC until he decided to pursue Ph.D. and was extremely happy to have completed Ph.D. in his late 40s. Obituaries customarily include the following: (1) date and place of death; (2) a brief summary of career; (3) interests, passions, hobbies, publications, honours and other distinctions the alum would have liked to see mentioned; (4) the names of surviving family members. He will truly be missed. His downfall from his heart bypass on April 18 was almost continuous. But his smiling handsome face is etched in my mind. To his friends, he was the go-to man to steal away to the movies, to confide in or to discuss anything under the sun, to go to Goa for a spontaneous vacation, and, in at least one case, to quickly be taught a programming language under the shadow of a deadline. He is survived by his wife Anu, son Vishaak, parents, and brother. The 'Institute Gold Medal (2020-21)' was awarded to Koustav Jana, a (dual degree) student from the Department of Electrical Engineering, the 'Institute Gold Medal (2021-22)' was awarded to Aryaman Maithani, a (BS) student from the Department of Mathematics, and the 'Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal' was conferred on Shreya Pathak, a (BTech) IITR Convocation 2019 | Medals Medals, Awards and Prizes Home - List UG 1 President Gold Medal 2 Director Gold Medal 3 The President of India Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma Gold Medal 4 Dr. Jai Krishna Gold Medal 5 Institute Silver Medal 6 Institute Bronze Medal 7 Department Gold Medals 8 Best Project Awards 9 Excellence in Doctoral Research Awards Ltd. (Engg. Incidentally he accompanied us, namely Pradip, Kalyan and Ashim, on percussion in H4 Annual. I don't know, the kind of response he got. The apartment at 54 Western Ave near Central Square was legendary as a dharamshala for almost every Indian and definitely every IIT Bombayite, to live in, however briefly. On the second day of the Reunion, we all were staying at the Resort Hotel in Madh Island, we got close to each other and since then for the last 4 years, we have remained close. He just loved the art (and science) of politics and reported it irreverently. I will always remember Mohan as a person of humble background and behaviour, multiple talents and high intelligence. He was a down to earth, simpleton with rustic Maharashtrian culture. When Anand Deshpande visited TRDDC and gave a talk on nested relational databases, lots of conversations started on the history of databases, Coads relational algebra, what RDBMS were doing to application areas, normalization and de-normalizations, complex data objects, object databases that were beginning to show up, structures compilers deal with, etc. He also took us to the workshop of his elder brother Jana who was a Metallurgist with modern views. So he had a very distinguished career which continued almost to the end. Kesav Vithal Nori left for his heavenly abode on May 29, 2021. Neelesh Wagle was born in Dadar, Mumbai on 7th Sep. 1970 to Vivekananda and Aparna Wagle, in a simple Maharashtrian middle-class family. He made a name for himself for his brilliant grasp of politics and policies, a wide network of sources across sectors and, above all, his objectivity and fearlessness. Let us work for the same client was his most frequent advice.On two occasions he practically convinced me into accepting the CEOs position of social enterprises that he was associated with. In all, Nanda authored 22Marathibooks, and additionally, translated 6 English books into Marathi. Bhambhani 1964 Shri M.C. Rest in peace, Shocked and saddened at the news of your departure! Previous Themes; Technical Sessions; eYIC 2022-23; Register. Robotics. He was a Member of Parliament from 1990-1996. IITBAA lost its unsung hero. His death at the height of his powers takes the wind out of his family and friends. D. Thesis Awards : It is given to Ph.D. Thru the IITBAA Newsletter, I would like to convey my condolences to Nayampally's family and wish them the strength to overcome their grief. Though I came to the US after graduation and lost touch with him, I often remembered him and so looked him up online and read that he had become the CM of Goa and Defense Minister of India, while remaining truly down to earth, like a common man. He had a keen eye for detail related to the sport and during his Elphinstone College years had trained to be an Umpire. He would take out his wallet and show the set of currency notes and ask Gary, what will I do with this much cash? I also had unwritten responsibility to be the glue between TCS (the business) and TRDDC (the research). Kesav not only accepted but embraced databases, meta data, persistent data models and rule-based engines (that pretty much defined AI in those times) at TRDDC. Vivek Pavaskar also made valuable contributions to the Indian Institute of Welding, a body of 4000 plus practicing welding engineers, research scientists and academicians, working towards enhancement of welding knowledge. Also great sense of humor. I am unable to get out of the shock. Finally, it was by chance that when I called his number on " The Friendship Day" in August 19, I was told by his cousin that he is no more.
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