And I second Kalyan's comment on his looks. When he recovered and was discharged, he had difficulty in walking. Phone: 022 2576 7771. in Chemical Engineering in 1972. He also invited me to visit them before I departed for the U.S.A. Gold Medal Vishal Agarwal . Despite his past medical history, Vrajlal Vyas decided to undertake the Amarnath Yatra and registered with the Amarnath Shrine Board. I got my first shock when our dear Rusi Patel expired some years ago. A thorough gentleman, who had no enemies, would be an apt description of him. Just to name a few, he was the Chairman of the Electronics Commission. The emotions that have been coming in waves since the 16th, and more as a flood as I write this today, can be summed up in the following words of an anonymous poet. Engg. He left all of us on 15th October 2020 with short notice after a brief illness! A stint with Indian corporates convinced Sid that he could not play someone elses hand. 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. With humble beginnings and no solid educational background, he went on to be the first graduate, the first engineer and also the first IITian in the entire family.His family shifted to Pune in his early childhood, where he studied in Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya and later in S.P College until Pre-University. His nature was such that many of his contacts had not realized the depth of his literary talents. IIT Delhi's 51st Convocation- List of Medal Awardees: Medal Awardee's Name 1. He was always ready and willing to give help to those in need and went out of his way to any person or organisation for social service or organising events. Engg. It was very difficult to tell our minds that he is no more. Enjoyed treasure hunts, crosswords, quizzes. Noorjehan Desai [ne Kheraj] breathed her last on Thursday 20 September 2018 in Lawrenceville, Georgia, USA, from complications related to Alzheimer's disease. He was always smiling and very mixing and helpful also. Last I met in Sudheer's house at Juhu he was pretty weak I couldnt bear it, yet he was cracking jokes at his own cost. Vivek battled lung cancer for six years, finally succumbing to the dreaded disease on April 13, 2017. Prof Kesav Nori has left for his heavenly abode and it has created a big vacuum in the lives many of us he touched. He visited me once in Melbourne many years ago. His honesty, dedication and hard work were unbeatable. He grew up in Kalyan and completed his primary schooling at the renowned Subhedarwada school in Kalyan. Even a couple of times I had invited him for lunch at my Thane home while he was working with me. I pray for his eternal peace. This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. However, throughout the entire ordeal, Manohar remained calm and guided us through multiple difficult situations. I feel really sad. While many patients struggle with the slur and the shuffle to hide their symptoms, Rebecca stood like a rock beside Sid and confronted the big P head on. Knowing him, I am not surprised by this action. 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As late as just the day we met over dinner on 28th April 2019 at Hotel Central Peninsula at Sion, he remembered my mother.That is Ajit Tipnis.May God give his wife Sulabha, son Satyajit, daughter Sujata, son-in-law Mayuresh, grand-daughter Ariana and all members of his family the strength to overcome this irreparable loss and the courage to move on.May his soul find eternal peace. His career took him across the world to help support the companys global operations and made him many lifelong friends in the U.S. and around the globe. Prakash Raghunath Joshi; (popularly known as Anna Joshi to his batchmates) joined IIT Bombay in 1971 for B.Tech in Aeronautical Engineering. Biju got friendly with him. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Powai, Mumbai 400076. I had met Percy in Mangalore around a year or so prior to his sudden demise. I remember his first Summer Training was for New Consolidated Construction-NCC for short, at the Overseas Communications Services (OCS) Tower - now known as Videsh Sanchar Bhavan. ~~Written by Shubroto Bhattacharjee, IIT-Bombay EE 1971, in Melbourne, Australia. Other Medals are given as per the donors conditions. He worked with BARC until he decided to pursue Ph.D. and was extremely happy to have completed Ph.D. in his late 40s. I lost contact when he returned to India, and I really regret not having made the effort to establish contact with him in spite of Ranjus efforts. He allegedly killed himself at 4.30 am. Meanwhile, Brian managed to convince the love of his life, Maria Sodders, to fly across the oceans and they got married at the chapel at Notre Dame on 29th January 1972. Lawn fr ' Mowers For where you are is what matters most to us. Brian also visited the hockey field occasionally to join in the sports fun. Kesav Vithal Nori left for his heavenly abode on May 29, 2021. In the summer of 1990, a young man who had just finished his second year of college visited his old coaching school, the Multi-Purpose Academy of Mumbai. I was devastated to learn of his kidney problem, but his family closed ranks and saved him, with his elder sister donating one of her kidneys. Shrikant leaves behind his wife Mrunalini, daughter Shilpa and son Srinivas. Classical Music, hikes to Matheran or elsewhere, travelling out of town on various occasions, someone you took for granted as one of the group.There were times we met every day, I remember dissecting the Bofors scam based on daily developments coming on TV or Evening News . Apart from excelling at academics, he had a number of hobbies, one of which was singing popular songs of the time. I kept him abreast of Alumni matters by gifting him a subscription to Fundamatics. His only son had settled in USA and they were frequently visiting him. Also great sense of humor. HIs room-partner in Powai was Jayprakash Shastry (Chem E, 1968) who passed away a few years earlier. licenses in Pennsylvania in the category of Environmental Engineering. Nandita and I were very glad to have spent those few hours with our dear friend, even though he did not exchange a word with us.Val George Mathews. This was a big deal at that time as he jumped into the fray, especially when both the government and private corporations were progressing at a snails pace in offering relief to the COVID impacted. She had just turned 70 on 29 July. George Varghese, Indian-American computer scientist. Biju had been hospitalized few days earlier, was in the ICU, and had been drifting in and out of a coma. Sushil Bijawargi (Biju) visited us regularly when I was working with Lloyds Steel Ind. and the buffaloes, before climbing over the water pipelines behind Hostel 4 to swim with the crocodiles in picturesque Vihar Lake. What I remember of him is a very lighthearted jovial and an individual who had a good sense of humour. He used to actively participate in organising our get-togethers and was always connecting the batch with some friends, who nobody else was in touch with. He worked extensively on forestry programs to reduce carbon dioxide and alleviate poverty in developing countries for 25 years. After a few years in the land of milk and honey and the addition of bouncing baby Vikram to the family, Sid and Rebecca decided to return to India. He used to regale us with his singing of old songs. I heard about his movie venture, but don't know in detail. In the last few years, I started to appreciate the sound of Pt. During weekends and vacations, when most students went home and the hostel was mostly empty, Manohar was around (since he was from out of town) so we ran into each other in the hostel and in the cafeteria (mess) often.Manohar was truly a down-to-earth man and he often had a nice friendly smile. Ghanshyam Soman, B. Ganesh had two enterprises going, but both out of his love for enterprise, not necessarily for making money. We got to be good friends since our first Gujarati lecture in June 1965. In all, Nanda authored 22Marathibooks, and additionally, translated 6 English books into Marathi. Its been a long 50 years after we graduated; time does fly! All of you have proven yourself as great graduates. He is mourned by a large number of welding professional he was associated with over his career span, friends and relatives. He tutored 10th and 12th standard students as a social service and mentored anyone who looked up to him, including many JEE and MBA aspirants.He was active in IITB Alumni Association affairs during its formative years in the late eighties until recently and actively participated in most of its functions. Krish was a wonderful person loved by all. We had offered to host him and Anuradha for some treatment on 'High sugar' quite near our home at Pune, in the last quarter of 2018. D. Thesis Awards : It is given to Ph.D. You two come out laughing and mock shouting, till the entire thing one big laugh fest! He has personally tutored many poor children in the area as a social service. I was in H6 and he was in H8. After retirement he had undertaken the work of helping injured armed force personnel to settle down in life. He strongly believed in doing enough rehearsals to give a good performance. But he was adamant in not registering, nor attending. But even before that, it used to be a competition for who would get to tear out the crossword from the daily TOI; if someone had beaten Sid to it in Hostel 3 then there was Hostel 5 or hostel 7 on the way to Main and Department Buildings which provided fertile hunting grounds for the coveted crossword! A large group of IIT guys of 64J, 65J, etc and a whole lot of others would land up for a cup of tea and good old Hindi songs. Linus used to know my grandkids by their names. I remember him very well. We were all seated on the terrace floor with our backs to the wall. He left full-time scientific work to enable him to spend more time with humanitarian causes. He was from the Class of 1971, and I am from the Class of 1974, EE. Mohan used to be a non-fussy, easy to get along persons on all our trips. Noor spared no effort in calling us in Melbourne every week for long hours, holding our hand long-distance, with inspirational words of encouragement, hope, motivation and prayer. Here is mine! Tech (1971) and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgy from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay offer President of India Gold Medal to one of the candidate every year. There was something about Dilip that each person, not just me, recognized as Godly. 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. I can understand it was not always possible for Urban to do this and tried to explain to Linus but his calls continued with the same request which I conveyed to Urban. Prof N B Ballal, now retired, remembers Tiwaris remarkable sense of purpose. This meant that he returned to the IIT campus at Powai some 35 kms away, well after 1.00 a.m. What surprised everyone was that he turned up in class each morning at 8.00 a.m. showing his absolute commitment, discipline and respect for his academic responsibilities at IITB. Engg. Kesav shifted gears from academics to serious TCS style proposal writing effortlessly. I felt thrilled because I was able to drive them from Buffalo airport to Niagara Falls one afternoon and back to Buffalo airport the next day. An absolutely uncomplicated and utterly lovable man. He went through a tragic and painful experience in the US. I urge you to think of PPM not as Parts Per Million but as Purpose, People and Machines. I promised to get back to him and before I could, he left us. 'GENIUS' is a word doing justice, but still falls short!!! Yes, he indeed did it his way and I pray for eternal peace for his soul. I remember chatting with him after dinner on the Wing C balcony, he was always jovial and fun to be with. Tech., ME. His endearing smile will forever be etched in our memory. Answer (1 of 7): I came across this question on Quora recently. Bajrang Punia: He won a bronze medal in the 65kg category in wrestling. 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