I joined IITM in 1960 and left IITM in 2008 after 48 years. I was lucky to be selected in 1960, owing to my good performance in PUC. I was offered a seat...
The Fall semester of 1988 turned out to be quite something at my hostel, Alakananda (fondly referred to as Alak) - dozens of my classmates fell sick at the same time.
In 2022, for the Summer Solstice, I decided to go solo, by road, from Galveston, TX, on the warm Gulf of Mexico, to the Land of the Midnight Sun, viz.,
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I earned my M.Tech (Mechanical) degree between January 1984 and June 1985. Earlier I did my B.E (Mech) from VNIT, Nagpur and Management at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune. Before joining M.Tech I worked with Bajaj Auto Ltd., Pune for eighteen months.
There are two experiences from my time at IIT Madras that had a profound impact on my entrepreneurial journey.