Dr Y N Sinha is no more

 

It is very sad news that Dr Y N Sinha is no more. He passed away on 18th Nov. 2012. 

 

He was an excellent human being in addition to being  a great doctor. He was a very popular figure in Sindri. Always forward in charity and social welfare.Sindri market was closed for a day to honour this great person. 

May his soul rest in peace.

February 5, 2011 Alumini Meet - III

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?, Shankar Sharan, Shailesh Singh, Dinesh Garg, Manuraj Kaushal

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?, ?, Akhauri Prashant, Shankar Sharan, Shailesh Singh, Dinesh Garg

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Shankar Sharan, Shailesh Singh, Dinesh Garg, Manuraj Kaushal

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?, ?, ?, Akhauri Prashant, Shankar Sharan

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Shankar Sharan, Shailesh Singh, Dinesh Garg, Manuraj Kaushal

February 5, 2011 Alumini Meet - II

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?, Anubha, ?

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?, Deepak Kumar, Rakesh Hazaribagh, Binod Srivastava

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Anant Ranjan, Vivek Srivastava, ?

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Sanjay Sinha, Dilkeshwar Pandey, Saurabh Kumar, Binay Singh, Deepak Kumar

February 5, 2011 Alumini Meet

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?, Ajay Singh, Jaideep Prasad

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Ajay Singh, Saurabh Kumar, Rakesh Hazaribagh

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?,Jaideep Prasad, Saurabh Kumar,?

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Kulanad Choudhary(?), Ajay Singh, Deepak Kumar

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Arpana Anand, Anubha (?), Anant Ranjan, ?

Prof. M.S.P.Sinha (Elect.) passed away ( 1945 - 2010)

I regret to inform that Prof. M.S.P.Sinha of Electrical Engg. passed away this weekend in Delhi. His son Manish is married to Richa (Rama Karan's sister and also a BITian of '95 pass out perhaps) live near our place and we came to know yesterday.

May God bless his soul and, provide strength to the grieved family to get through ...

संजय
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This is sad news। Our hearfelt condolences for the bereaved family.

प्रीतम
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Very sad। May God give courage to his family and bless his soul with peace.
-प्रदीप
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This is very sad indeed. I still remember his face. He was my project guide.

-सुभासिश
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We are in our early to mid 40's and the time has come when our teachers and relatives will start leaving for the heavenly abode.

We all feel sad and express our condolences but there is not much to grief about. Remember, the soul never dies. It just changes body, the same way that we change our clothes.

The best tribute to the departed soul would be that we try to excel in our professional lives.

Regards,

सोनम
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This is indeed sad news ! No one in Electrical branch can forget him.
-शर्मिष्ठ
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Yes it pains, if somebody who taught us left for hevenly abode, but it is an eternal truth.

My deepest condolence to his family. May his soul rest in peace and may God give strength to all his family members to overcome this moment of grief.

रंजय
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Prof. Shree Maya Shanker Prasad was very close to my family in the
campus. It is very sad to hear about his death.
प्रणव
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Sad news। May his soul rest in peace. Very recently, Nalanjana Banerjee of 86 Electrical was asking about him. I still remember his soft voice and round face.
माधबी
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Very Sad news for all of us.
May God bless his soul with peace.

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Nice to find exerts from geeta। Everybody do not change their body and take rebirth. People with good deeds get absorbs in almighty and never come to earth again. As a human being we have got a chance to achieve this. While being busy in our professional acheivements we should also concentrate on these lines.

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Sad news indeed। May his soul rest in peace. I still remember his "Control Systems" classes.
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Sorry to know about sudden demise of Prof MSP Sinha। We pray to god for peace of his soul as well as courage and strength to his family. I know Manish, however I am not touch with him for a long time.
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He was the consummate professor and loss for engineering faculty। May his soul rest in peace. He was 65, not too old.
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Sad to hear. We had gone to his home few times during the final project. He had always been very courteous. May his soul rest in peace.

Thanks

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Saurabh's article in Hindustan Times - New Delhi Edition 01-08-2010

What BIT Means to Me

What BIT Means to Me:
This is Piku, Civil 86. I was mostly seen on my off-white LML Vespa scooter busy in extracurricular activities in the campus. Reena, Rana and Priyaranjan were my group mates, who used to give me all possible help to successfully complete the sessionals and somehow clear the examination. Shailesh, Shanker, Rathoresir were source of distraction. I don’t know what happened to me in third and fourth year, I also started studying occasionally. Anyway, before taking the final degree, I was in U.S. – The FIRST EXPATRIATE OF OUR BATCH on 2nd December, 1990.
On 4th , I was sitting at Penn State University waiting for my turn to meet student advisor, not knowing where to stay in the chilly winter night. America was different those days; having very less Asian population. Very limited and expensive communication mediums (India $ 4 a minute). Yes, we could feel the distance at that time. At 6 p.m. in the evening, I could see the professor. I knew nobody in Philadelphia. I was scared, didn’t know where to go. Good hotels might cost dearly – cheap hotels may be dangerous. I did not know about America those days, which had negligible presence of Indians compared to present. I had a torn piece of paper where Dr. Vinay Prasad, our English professor, has written –few names and numbers of BIT alumni. I was trying to feel remaining currency of 1800 (USD) given by my father. I had already spent 200 dollars in commuting. Suddenly, I realized my stomach is upset due to acidity – could not eat anything during the day. Forgetting other vexing issues, I rushed to Ruby Tuesday and had something vegetarian (could not make out what dish it was). Then, took a bus and came back to New York. I reached Manhattan at 3 a.m. , waited till 7 a.m. and called up my only known person with whom I had a talk from India. His telephone was out of order. I tried to locate the address – address was incomplete. I had another interview at Columbia University in the evening. Dragging my big desi bag full of outdated clothes and books, I reached Columbia University at 11 a.m.. I saw few Asian faces there and tried to be friendly with them. They understood my problem and preferred not to come close. My reserve was depleting fast and was left with $1600, a chit containing name and telephone numbers of few alumni of BIT and one soft bag weighing 20 kg containing my junk clothes and old books. I was wearing a sweater which was not enough – wind chill factor was in negatives. I came to the Engineering school – sat inside a building and started thinking about family, friends and BIT. I felt like crying loud and I did cry my hearts out for almost an hour remembering faces very close to me. My turn to see the professor was over - I was sitting at wrong place. Dejected, tired and hungry, I was all alone. I saw a public telephone nearby – without even thinking twice, I took out numbers of BIT alumni. My four quarters got wasted – numbers were changed. Finally, I could talk to one Mr. Ravindra Kumar of 79 batch. Our conversation was very short. He just asked me to remain there. Within 1 hour, Ravindraji was in front of me with his wife. I hugged him tight and felt the warmth, very much needed at that time. He took me home. We had aloo paratha together. He was curious like a kid to know about my father, BIT Sindri, India... and I discovered home in America.
I did my masters from Brooklyn –Poly, NYU and later did Comp Sc. From Columbia and CUNY. I worked for different companies in different countries, held high posts .... Earned little money. First thing I did; took a four bed room large home equipped with all luxurious fixtures. My wife was studying medicine in India, I was alone. I was a fully satisfied person, when I started calling students from India to stay with me, when they first arrive at USA. I use to put flyers in Universities, in case a new student needs help. It was ultimate eternal pleasure to help many of the newcomers from BIT, Sindri. I consider it as one of the biggest achievement in my life.
Now, things has been changed, world has become a global village. Surprisingly, yesterday, I got a call from one of my senior, Mr. Rajesh, who got a guest from India. The guy, looking for a place to stay, is also from BIT Sindri (probably 2005-2009 batch) and is trying to get into Stanford University this Fall. Rajeshji is also from BIT and I am sure that guest from BIT Sindri has found a new home in USA.
THIS IS WHAT BIT MEANS TO US

Posted by Naresh on Behalf of Pikku

संजय के कलम से

Team,

I am sure ever since Aameer Khan sang the song "Papa Kate The Bada Naam Karega, Beta Hamara..." with particular reference to "Koi Engineer Ka Kaam Karega.." many budding parents pre-conceived about the would be child to become an Engineer and as a result we have less B.Com or B.A. now and more B.Tech. in India.

Well, engineering may have been commoditized now, but in our generation we were probably the last few who took pride and ride out the high flying Engineering process. Even during our days, it had started losing its charm, if you recall that saying - "When joining the Engineering College it used to have a Chief Engineer mentality, then next year Superintendent Engineer's and in 3rd year it would become just of an Engineer and on the way out after completing the final year we doubted whether we were Engineer at all !!"

I wondered during my early days as "Engineer", after working like a person who would arrange labors and resources at the work place which constituted mainly as a job of "engineer" (and soon depend on "jugaad" management of old timers in labor force to get things done) that why someone would put "Er." much like "Dr." prefix in their name plate. Well, there is nothing wrong in demonstrating your whole list of qualification in your name but there got to be a purpose to it else no one stops you to do something similar to the south India's film directors, do you recall the captions like these -

Produced and Directed by:

Mr. B.D.E.L.M.B. Dasari Rao,
B.Com, L.L.B.,W.C.E.E.,
R.D.F.Z.X., A.K.L.O.E......"

and it used to take the whole screen and in few seconds, I am pretty sure that no one could read them and even if you attempted to read, half of the degrees were never heard of but it used to be nice to see that there were some during those days who took pride in letting the world know that what all "paapads" they have "bellowed" before the final stay in movie world. It was much like a syndrome, since it did not stop only to the film directors but it used to be a spread out phenomenon to all, so even director of Photography and others would have something similar...

Anyway, coming back to main discussion... our generation had listened to that song many times and the next line used to have alternative option tan just become engineer of " koi business me apna naam karega..", may be many of us felt that it was too late for us to explore the second option since were already into Engineering line but many of us indeed changed the profession.

What I wanted to explore with our group was that how many of us have really gone in which profession? If you can answer yourself, it will be much better since it proves that your "Play button is functional and you have your own speakers in built in your music system", else if you can proxy for those who prefer to be silent - been on the "Mute mode" or prefer "amplifiers" to send sound to the external speaker, it works even then since we just want to hear the music!

We all started with a vague teaching on "how to fish" and some of us chose conventional route of fishing, I mean many of us have remained in hardcore engineering, where we all should have belonged to, to begin with..

Then many of us went with a new way of fishing which evolved during our time, I mean around 30-40% of us have migrated in newly found IT river/lake/ocean. Please do not go further in fishy topic of how much fishing technique taught to us are being used in IT since it is known to all that what all goes into IT :)

Some went to fish in other's territory (ours being Engineering) like Banking, Personnel Management, HR... not aware of who all are in that league (Reena perhaps I know of who is in HR...)

Then there are some who said that we will not depend on any external resources but have one of our own so I know some of us are entrepreneurs now - like construction business (Binny, Sudeep, M.P.Singh may be many more), management/engineering consulting or manufacturing/services (Todi,Saurabh, Shanti, Himanshu, Anant Ranjan, not sure about others), some went on to have "investments" like Sattu Pandey and may be many others...

Then we had some who went for teaching on how to fish or improve the fishing business, I mean they went into Research/Eduational kind of stuff such as Dr. Satyam Suraj Sahay became Research Scientist and some who became educationists (I heard of Dilkeshwar Pandey, Samrendra Chaoudhary that they have been in Engineering coachings or teaching in Engineering colleges etc.)

Then we have some who have gone for something like Discovery Channel's "deadliest catch" series...like one which we had never in our normal thought process imagined realistically of...like IAS/IPS, movies, politics, authors, media etc. I know of Jaydeep, Ajay Nand, not others in this "elite" category (elite because indeed it is not just effort but a lot other factors contribute towards it to make it happen...).

I deliberately would not like to bring in this discussion as who all have what designations (CEO,CIO,VP and what not), pay structure or which company they are working for, since that is not the aim but to see exactly which profession people ended up in.

So here is my proposal, please update with your name or some one you know of in the categories as below and we will compile it later:

1. Engineering:
2. IT:
3. Entrepreneur/Business Person:
4. Non IT (HR/Banking/Retail/Finance):
5. Teaching/Research/Scientist:
6. Off beat (Politics/Movies/Author/Media etc.):

It will be really great if Naresh or someone good in "developing" to come out with a way to capture the names and later generate a statistics to see how diversified our group has become. It will give all of us an immense satisfaction that 20 years back we used to reassure ourselves that we will get "one job one day..." and here we are...!! And more importantly I sincerely hope that it will also bring an awareness amongst us and help in shaping our next generation by not pushing for stereotype conventional route of education to be enforced on them...

Cheers,

Sanjay Jha
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That NMCT prof used to be Darogi Singh. We used to write the same program in FORTRAN 66, I guess, which used to be manually copy/pasted for years and some one later tried to run it and figured out that in manual copy/paste method many lines of code had been either distorted and/or missed, however, for years people got great grades who "reproduced" the codes in examination.

This was an extreme contradiction of storing the codes in our "mind hard disk or (which we used to erase just after exam)" and print out using the hand/pen "cartridge" on the examination paper while the program never got compiled in any system!

How about teaching Air Conditioner while we are seating in the class room (even fan was not working)?

Now, what really surprised me was that with that infrastructure and "expertise" level we had a new branch "Computer Science" started from very next year. Later, I found from one of the juniors of '88 batch that they were given some books to share and study together and also frame question and may be evaluate as well....now that was leaps ahead of even the most advanced education system in the world...

Cheers,

Sanjay Jha
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Good that you brought this up. And a big thanks to Saurabh for being so loyal to his alma mater (those who do the work, do not speak a lot and vice-verse barring Alok Varma). I know this is an ape-age problem of BIT and in general of that region. Communication is so vital in success of one's professional and even personal lives, yet it is sorely neglected in almost every professional institutions. We did have Technical English as a subject where we were exposed to a very limited aspects of communication, in our case we could not go past one term called "MOM - Minutes of Meeting" (If B section - are you listening 106?, recall we used to have a teacher who used to have an artificial Anglo accent and spent hours and hours on overemphasizing what "minute" means in this perspective).

Well, communication is not only accent or vocabulary but able to express effectively. However, depending on what job one needs to go to, accent and polished manners may be required. So, my question to Saurabh and Alok would be that, did they find it not suited for the profile, or ineffective or with some local accent that they rejected all of them? Often, we all have learned (I am still learning...) from our experiences and so most of these new graduates need opportunity. The wider question is that can we do something in that direction for our institute? Can we speak to Director and help them by starting some optional courses which can help them expose them to basics of communication and prepare them for interviews and job (resume writing, how to face interviews etc.)? We can have a web bridge of sort and present some PPT, now that institute has Internet connection?

On a lighter note, bare minimum distribute copies of Rapidex English speaking course (Rohit, are you listening?) to them (it seem to have worked for some of us, agree?). In that connection did you recall "Barunwa" ka guide (Barron's guide for GRE which used to indicate that whoever possessed that in his room, was kind of had visa application for America, it indicated that the "elite" member of would be Americawasi is serious)?

I recall we had similar issue when we realized that campus and also for other companies, after getting through the written we would need to get past the GD and GT (do you remember the difference? SAIL used to have Group Task and ONGC would have Group Discussion). Suddenly, people got serious and started speaking Angrezi everywhere. They realized that academics was just one part of ticket to success, the other part of clearing the interview, GD/GT did not have any notes...!!! So,whether it was mess or Kameswar ka Dhaba...all over only angrezi!

It spread out like Azadi ki Ladai, like Netaji, Azad, Bhagat Singh et al there was an undercurrent...swadheentha ki aag me kya ameer, kya gareeb, har varg ke log is aag me kud pade the, sabkee manzeel thee aazaad bharat ka sapna!! I can not be like Prabhat Singh!! If you guys did not know this trivia fact then listen to this- Prabhat Singh, Electrical '86, room mate of Baalu and Shailesh Singh (room no 24 in hostel 10), had memorized the whole samaj shastra bhag -7 so he could start from cover page like "sankalan - Dr. Rakesh Singh, Bihar Pustak Prakashan Kendra,Patna dwara mudrit....Adhyaya 1 ....." trust me he could recall cover to cover and speak out...Shailesh confirm this if you recall this incident when he started reciting the whole book on one evening during the power cut...!!! I have never come across anyone having such amazing talent of memorizing the entire book chapter by chapter, line by line....!!!

Anyway back to the topic...

Often people made their groups and made it mandatory to have a group discussion before or after dinner, much in line with CSR (Competition Success Review)'s pattern! I participated in some of them and I would not reveal their names but while it was a serious business, it used to be no less than any comedy movie! No, I till date did not laugh at their attempt, which was too little too late, but certainly a bold step in the right direction, but the approach! OK, get this:

Participant 1 (typically room owner where this show would be taking place) would invariably take the role of moderator, since CSR used to put remarks in bracket that the leader or moderator role is very crucial who can keep the whole discussion in command. Arguably that appeared to be the most sought after role since it appeared to be a sure success path to impress and exhibit "leadership" quality.

So, here is our participant 1 raising voice over others and at times thumping the chowki as well - "Mr. Singh, may I request you to give chance to others as well please..." or " We all will get 1 minute each to say something and get everyone to share their valuable viewpoint, please...so let us begin clockwise from me ...!" ( This apparently would establish him as a leader automatically...). If this worked out with the group then fine, discussion will start and Participant 1 would be mostly busy watching the clock and remind the speaker to let others speak....but there were occasions when same group has been meeting very often and say Participant 2 has been tired of not getting the coveted timekeeper (err... leader's) role so here he goes with, emotional tone- "Mr. Kumar, no...why always you...I will decide who all will speak and in what order...!"

Then we would have participant who would vomit the whole passage rattofied from CSR and it would sound so artificial and in between when his "mind to brain dumping network congestion" would take place, he will not let the opportunity go away so will kepp repeating -"I mean..." or "You know..." or "what is that called...." (sometimes I heard "Athee...", "Arey...", a long Bheemsen Joshi's alaap type -'Aaaaaa..aaaaa..." or a complete silence with eyes looking up to the roof and recalling all his points...). Some would give up very easily at that point and would either become complete silent (much like DD Sports which around the penultimate over would get signal completely lost) or there were some stalwarts who will ask for more time with loud, louder and louder phrase of -"One minute, wait, no wait...please...no it is my tuen,,let me complete...", as if this lifetime opportunity will never come back!

One good impact of CSR was that even after a lot of heated exchange, they used to remember that one needs to be polite to each other no matter how disagreed one may be with his point, so after a lot of such fights, much like fire and ice combination, the violent looking lion will become calm and cool like a deer and would start addressing everyone -"Thank you Mr. Pandey, very good point", even if Pandey had spoken something very stupid, but the lakshya was to impress the selectors by exhibiting that he is now in the ice-cool mode so he is appreciating...even dukhiya Shankar Jha, would start nodding to every point during such GD after a lot of heated argument,he was one who was hard to agree with anything under the sky but foir the sake of CSR's recommendation...!

There used to be insecurity as well and if someone even touched a point already covered, the "patent holder" of that point would reiterate and let the panel know that this point now and for the time eternal belonged to him because it was uttered by him first, so - "Mr. Prasad, I am sorry but I already had told about this.Please do not repeat "my" point"

Then there were spectator type participants who would not speak on their own and Gandhiwadee self imposed leaders used to try for some brownie points by targeting and enabling such participant to speak up. Group also used to generally agree since no one anticipated any fear from them. So here would be remarks from such silent ones, when given the opportunity to speak- "No, I agree with Mr. Kumar" or "I support you all, it is a very good discussion going on.." or some will just smile and will keep his mute button as is. There was a general suggestion by some one that "points" are important so there were few who would come out with a request -"If group agrees, can I speak in Hindi?" and you would expect that he had some good argument or point they had and for the limitation of language it did not come out but even in Hindi it used to turn out to be a damp squib!

What used to be another interesting observation was about the kind of topics being selected - Nuclear Arm Race, Cold War, How can poverty be eradicated, Right of Education, Religious Harmony in India and so on... and the participant used to speak like an authority who appeared to have "owned" the problems in their hands and desperately needed a solution out of the current discussion only! They used to be so concerned or stressed during the discussion, as if he was answerable to that problem!

The other problem was that one had to make early call on his stand (per CSR, one needed a "for" or "against" approach), so if one ended up on the wrong side, would later after the discussion often remarked -"Dutt sala...oo side me jada pointwa sab tha..."

I can't stop until I share with you guys the part which I have till date not forgotten - there used to be a room where on a regular basis such practice session used to carry on. They used to end their GD session with clapping !!!!!!!!!

Oh my old days of BIT!!! I am convinced that ours will be much superior version than 3 idiot if we could make a movie with all the experiences captured...!!!

Cheers,

Sanjay Jha
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U R Right about Sindri and BIT's current situation. BIT Sindri name itself has become khandhar... It used to stand for Bihar Institue of Technology and then there was a rumor tat it will become Birsa and now I hear that it is just BIT..

All good Professors are gone, no new drive or leadership to hire new ones...Jharkhand division has not helped the cause at all....not sure why they are not making it an autonomous institute and let it attract new sources of investments....same logic as for Sindri whole, this institute has one of the best infrastructures in India....why not introduce new courses, let it find its own way to generate revenue and let it survive on its own....

Sometimes, I feel that Jharkhand has the best from God but politicians and government officials have spoiled the whole progress and I feel that it is getting worse day by day...If things are planned better, Jharkhand alone can generate huge employment opportunities, so much so that Thakres would like to come and give a slogan that "Maratha Manus need to be employed in Jharkhand since we are Indians, Jai Bharat!!

Cheers,

Sanjay Jha
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How can you miss '"Huzur Dhaba"? There was one near Goshala gate, where the white haired old owner of dhaba used to carry a very dirty "gamcha" which he used to dust off the bench while saying loudly -"Aaieeen hazur....baitheee...." and then he used to almost shout in full authority -" Ayeee Sanaaatttan...labo panee da babu sab ke....". That person Sanatan would hardly show any sign of urgency but the owner used to be always in top gear and would ask us before even we could settle down -" Ka khaib hazur?" and we would say -"Kya kya hai khane mein?" and he would go like this -"Sab kuchh fresh banal ba hazur, meat ba, macch-aree ba, aalo gobi ke sabji ba, kautohar ka sabjee ba...bolee hazur ka khaib..." His way of speaking "khantee" Bojpuri and repetitive "Hazur" had made it a very popular dhaba.

There used to be another dhaba opposite Thacker's called "Tapan's dhaba" that also used to have very good food, particularly naan of that place used to be very popular. Another good point of that dhaba was that it used to have th tandoor and main kitchen in the front of it only, so it used to have a good "inviting" feeling.

Dubey's dhaba used to have a very good combination of truck drivers and BIT students together all the time. Also, that was the only dhaba used to have many "khaats"- a true dhaba feeling.

Oh...those old good days!! Now, a big question, can any of us eat again there?

Cheers,
Sanjay Jha

Balmukund Tiwari (1967-2010)

Naresh Sahu worte....

He died of illness in Ranchi on 20th April 2010 3:00AM. Left behind a son (15-16 Yrs Age). He was employed in Bokaro. Was close to Alok Verma. Binny (Binod) was with him durng his last time.
I don't know what to write. But my my condolences to his family.
May his soul rest in peace.
--Naresh
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Sanjay Jha wrote....

IT was rather a rude shock that I heard about this news 3 days back separately from Durga, Pritam and then on IM from Saurabh. I, honestly speaking, did not know how to react to this, I was in a state of denial for sometimes and hoped against hope that it turns out to be wrong news. But sadly, it is now for real that the golden voice of our batch has been silenced forever.

BMT, as we used to call him popularly was one of the first friends that I met at BIT. He was in our next room (#22) in Hostel 10 and we were very close since there used to be evening "adda" at the terrace, near Alok Varma's room in Hostel #10. We used to have a lot of great performances such as instant English translation of some of the popular Hindi songs (Ram Teri Ganga Maili's title song still stands out and fresh) by Avinash Sharma, jokes, some updates on happenings in campus and finally a soulful singing from BMT. He used to be a very enjoyable person who would participate in all the activities we used to do in our hostel whether it used to be dancing or running around and pour water on each other during summer time! I cannot forget his look with handkerchief folded and tied around his forehead, which Binod Singh (Mech.) aka Ried(wa), also used to do. And when it used to be time to go to mess, sometimes he would stop by in the room and would walk almost silently and suddenly say coming close to my ears, in a very deep voice which was his unique style. Later we had been in Art's club where we would go together and spend hours on singing practice sessions. I must say that he used to sing absolutely great and it used to be a real treat to be with him during those practice sessions. He used to be relaxed and so casual during his performance that once I remember during Swar-Sandhya perhaps, he was seating with us in DPA and when it was about 10-15 minutes before his turn, we went to have smoke and Paan at Goshala Gate. He was being searched meanwhile, by the organizers and as soon as he was spotted by them near the DPA, he was whisked away and next thing we saw that he was on the stage with microphone in his hand. Such was his relaxed and casual approach. The next 15-20 minutes while he would be on the stage used to be some great entertainment, rendering some great Kishore Kumar numbers. I remember that we used to pull his leg by imitating his unique vibrating style in singing; while talking to him and he would be teased by that and say in a deep throated sound –“Badtameez…” I had been to his house couple of times during our college days and I remember some good times we had together in around Ranchi; we had visited lot of our batch mates during those periods.

As it happened with most of us, it took almost 15 years when we realized the need to regroup and remember our batch mates and we had that get together at Sindri in 2006. During that visit to India, I had last spoken to him. Actually, I and Alok had played a small prank. Alok and BMT were together in IT Department and he asked me to call BMT projecting myself as “someone” who was working as a junior trainee under him. BMT had replied in his same old style! We had spoken for few minutes and that is the last I remember of him.

The other day I was talking to someone who had aptly summed up that we have come to that age bracket now, where we would be hearing most of the things from each other what we used to see and/or hear about happening with our previous generations- while we will keep on singing –

“उम्र कब की बरस के सफैद हो गयी
कारी बदरी जवानी की चाट टी नहीं
वल्ला ये धड़कन भादने लगी है
चेहरे की रंगत उड़ने लगी है
डर लगता है तनहा सोने में जी
दिल तो बच्चा है जी..”

However, we were discussing more in terms of sharing our current personal state of affairs in terms of aging medical problems but BMT’s news is a far stretching to what we had discussed! True, it is sad but an awakening call that time has come now when we need to start paying attention to our health and start taking the best care of it. Alas, BMT’s demise has been a saddening but an awakening call for all of us, as whatever I have heard about his cause of death leads me to believe that sadly he was not keeping well for sometime due to neglect to his body/medical problems. Let this be an eye-opener for all of us.

The sad part is that BMT may have chosen to continue his journey all alone, but the stark realities of his family who will need support and live without him has to continue facing day to day problems without him. There comes our BIT family who needs to step up and extend all help and support to them. I am sure we all want to do whatever possible for them, but someone needs to be in contact with them and convey and assure the same from all of us.

BMT’s favorite song sums up his whole life journey-

मंजिलो पे आ के लूटते है दिलों के कारवां
कश्तिय साहिल पे अक्सर डूबती है प्यार की
मंजिले अपनी जगह है रास्ते अपनी जगह
जब कदम ही साथ ना दे तो मुसाफिर क्या करे.

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On Apr 24, 2010, at 10:42 AM, Alok Verma wrote:


Dear friends
Their is a loss and it pains ..then their is some bigger loss and it hurts more..but loosing someone like BMT(..baba..balti..baalu...)will always leave a wound which will never heal...the loss is irrepairable.
Really god has been very cruel.
Baalu left us on 20th morning at 3.05 am..he was at ranchi and was suffering from jaundice.On 18th he had come to know abt his serious condition and had a discussion with binod (binny)who was at his house in the evening...but as usual his casual approach towards every thing stopped binod from admitting him to a hospital.On 19th his condition deteriorated and was taken to gurunanak hospital by binny at 12.30 pm where he breathed his last..binod was by his side.
At around 3.45 i got a call from binod and kept on wondering whether it was true or false..in a state of shock i dialled baalu's number only to be shocked again by the voice of his young son...
BMT drove to ranchi (two months back he got a new car)on the 14th and i had a discussion with him abt his health and a minor operation he was planning to undergo at BGH(bokaro gen hospital)..i always use to joke that "tum ko doctor nahi mochi se operaton karwana parega"..i even narrated his humurous replies to saurabh and binod on the 16th.
our better halves use to envy when we use to spend time together and laugh our hearts out..
I work inside the unit and he worked at the admin block in a deptt called business planning..whenever i had a meeting at the admin block i use to go to his office and never ever was he found tense or unhappy
or sad...something very typical of balmukund...
One day his air condition was not working and he had opened his shirt and was sitting bare body on his chair...i was surprised to which he replied.."Eak board laga dete hai office ke baahar..enter at ur own risk"
he was unique and priceless and loved and liked by all in his office rt from his typist to his seniors..i went to his room on 21st and all his office people where in tears.
His wife aarti is planning to stay at ranchi as his mother is alone and his son will be admitted to a school at ranchi after his 10th resuts are out..the boy is really innocent and his best friend was baalu...really feel very sad for him..
May god give all the sterngth to him and his mother and his grand mother pl god pl do
Alok Verma
From bokaro

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This is so sad...May God grant him peace, and his family the strength to bear this great loss.
I remember the touching songs that Balmukund used to sing...and reading the memoirs posted here, all the memories have flooded back in, and the heart is filled with deep sadness....I can't find the words to express it.
I agree with Sanjay… we have lost a good friend, but this should be a wakeup call for all of us. Like it or not...we have all aged and have to take better care of our health. Death is inevitable and creeps up on us silently and takes us by surprise. Let us be better prepared and value relationships and friends that we have..."Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain".


Hema

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It was a real shock when I got a SMS at 5 am from Mr Saurabh Kumar on the same day.
Can I have his photo if any one have?
I am not able to recollect his face.

Ajay Dave
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BRIJ MOHAN PRASAD
i am very disturbed since i read this shocking news. It is a great loss. let us be in touch and do whatever possible.
Brij Mohan
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Kumar, Sanjay
I don’t know how to communicate. May his soul rest in peach and God give his family much needed strength this needed time.
Let me know if anyway I can help.
Sanjay Kumar
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sushuma kumari
it really is very sad news. May his soul rest in peace and god give strength to his family members to bear this great loss and sail throgh this bad time .
Sushuma Kumari
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Pritam Jaipuriar

I heard about this through a separate mail thread but honestly speaking did not have the courage to reply. It is just hard to believe that this tragedy has struck one of our friends.
I'm deeply saddened and shocked to hear this news. My heartfelt condolences to Balmukund's family.
I can recall the times we spent together at college, we used to talk and chat in the usual manner in our hostel rooms. We would joke and poke fun and tease him to sing 'Manzilein Apni Jagah...' with some more 'vibration in the voice. He was a good singer - a vey joyous attitude and overall a sensitive person.

It is such a cruel reality - he's not with us today...It'd be good to convey to BMT's wife and kids our heartfelt condolences and deep thoughts.

Please feel free to reachout to me should you plan to do anything as a group. I'd say if someone close can talk to his family, keep in touch and update us that would be great.

With Deepest Thoughts,

Pritam
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Ujjwal Sinha

Very Sad . We will always remember him as a very lively singing person.
If we can do something for his son's education it would be a help to the family.
Ujjwal sinha
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Sonam Sinha

Dear All,

It was really shock of a life time when Saurabh Kumar gave the news of Balmukund's untimely demise at 06:00 AM in the morning on the 20th of April.
We can offer our condolences to his family and pray to God that his soul rests in peace.

I am also of the opinion that we should help his family in whatever best way possible.

My special thanks to Binny also for standing by the side of Balmukund's family and helping them in their hour of grief.

Thanks,

Sonam Sinha
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Rohit

All,
We are all saddened by Balmukund's sudden passing away. I am in touch with Binny (our batch mate) who is in Ranchi and helping Balmukund's family.
I can't go into details but let me state that Balmukund's family will definitely need our support.
I will try to get Balmukund's wife contact info...
Let's try to help (monetarily) as much as we can.
-Rohit
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rana ramesh

It's really shocking to know about Balmukund sad demise. This is time to give morale support to his family on behalf of BIT fraternity. I am sure someone, who is close to Balmukund's family and staying in Ranchi will take intitiative and do needful. Let us all together support his family whatever way we can do. Sometimes I do visit Ranchi. Grateful if someone can post Ranchi Address and Contact No.

Regards,

Rana Ramesh
Bangalore
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Basu, Mohua

It is such a rude shock.I will always remember Balmukund as a very jolly person and always with a smile.He is used to stay near my house in Ranchi .Let us all pray to the Almighty for his family.May God grant the strength they need to tide over this.

If anyone can get us the nos. of his family it would be very nice .Maybe we can all think of helping his son and wife cope with this crisis in some way.Where are his parents?

MS.MOHUA BASU
SENIOR ENGINEERING SERVICES MANAGER
MATHURA REFINERY
INDIAN OIL CORPORATION
MATHURA
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KUMAR, A. PRASANT

It was really a shocking news to all of us, the BIT fraternity. Only recently a grand re-union of 86 batch was done successfully at Delhi. And suddenly when the Sad news was received via SMS from Sourav I was really shocked and spell bound.

After passing out from College, and before getting a job, I had become very close to Balmukund. Every day we were meeting either at his house or Bhritendu Bagchi’s house or Prakash Tiwari’s house or Nilanjan Biswas’s (Jagan) house.

But as usual, after getting jobs we become too busy with our new assignments and remained out of touch. But recently, around two months back, one day, late at Night I got a surprise call from Balmukund and we talked quiet long.

Then this news, I am really shocked. May his soul rest in peace and may god give strength to his family to bear such a loss.


Akhoury Prasant Kumar
Senior Engineering Services Manager
Panipat Refinery
Indian Oil Corporation
Panipat; Haryana
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KUMAR, AWANISH

Indeed Sad news at so early stage of life, Deep condolence for the family. May his soul rest in peace

Regards
Awanish Kumar
Manager (PC-MO), Polymers, IOCL
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subodh Agarwal

May the god give strength to Balmukund's family to bear this loss .

Kind Regards

Subodh Agarwal
MAHLE Engine Components India Private Limited
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Shashi Bhushan Kumar
Really very sad news for us. My condolences to his family.
-Shashi
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Brijesh said...
This is a very very sad news. My heart goes out to Balmukund's family. My heartfelt condolences.

Brijesh
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avinash sharma

Dear all,

Life is fragile. Balu...Kishore Da of our time. Such vivid memories. Hope and Wish quick recovery to all.

If it gives any consolation...we all will join him! Let us make a pledge to be contend with what God has given us.
Let all angers vanish from our heart. Ye Dosti hum nahi chodenge...

Om Sai Ram
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pradip kumar barnwal
Dear Friends,
Heart-breaking loss. Only a mere jaundice should not be a reason to be lost from family. I'm unable to express anything, only feel condolence to his family. I got this sad news from Raja Uttam, Ajay Dave and then by Sweta Kulshreshtha.

Thanks to u all.
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Shweta Kulshrestha
Too shocking. A precious life tragically cut short. My heartfelt condolence to his family. I'm there in which ever way we decide to give our support.
Shweta
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Suprabha

This is very distressing. just last week I was going through pictures from
our college days. Balmukund was a very good singer. his rendition of Kishore
Kumar songs especially memorable. My deepest condolences to his son, wife
and mother.

I would like to be part of any effort to offer our support, or commemorate
his life.

Suprabha
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Anant Ranjan

DEAR ALL
Balmukund will be always with us within our hearts.
we all are shoked to hear the very veryyyyy sad news about bal mukund.
Let us meet at INDIA GATE, NEW DELHI. on saturday 1st May 2010 in the evening at 7 PM for the condolense.
MAY GOD HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.

ANANT RANJAN
NOIDA, UP
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satish sinha

i am deeply hurt and moved by this unexpected demise of our beloved friend "Balu".
I recall moments spent with him in Arts club and others all locations in Mess, Goshala, Shaherpura and hostel common rooms.
My sincere Condolences.
I am at Ranchi and trying Binni to reach out to his family members for lending any possible supporting finger for his son.
May his soul remain in peace.
satish sinha
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hema verma


This is so sad...May God grant him peace, and his family the strength to bear this great loss.
I remember the touching songs that Balmukund used to sing...and reading the memoirs posted here and at http://www.bits1990.blogspot.com/ … all the memories have flooded back in, and the heart is filled with deep sadness.
I agree with all of you that we should help the family. I also agree with what Sanjay Jha has said in his post… we have lost a good friend, but this should be a wakeup call for all of us. Like it or not...we have all aged and have to take better care of our health. Death is inevitable and creeps up on us silently and takes us by surprise. Let us be better prepared and value relationships and friends that we have..."Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain".
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Vivek Shrivastav

The demise of Bal Mukund is sad and disturbing news.
We pray to God that his soul may rest in peace and give strength to family to overcome the grief.

Vivek Shrivastava
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Very easy

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Sanjay Jha said...
Shankar Sharan, more popularly known as "Party", Mech '86. I have few good memories of him of his college days:
1. He used to provide akin "AAA" service for his "Bhoiya", no matter wherever the Bajaj would run out of gas.
2. He and Langat Singh(Rajeev Singh of Kumardhubi in Mech'86) used to go down to pennies while calculating and settling down the share of the money spent in any group activities.
3. He had a unique style of pressing his lower lip by his teeth whenever he used to "think" a lot! Also, when he was playing cards' game- "29" and was about to throw his last "patta" to claim the win and last hand point!!
4. By far he was the best mess manager BIT had ever found!!
5.It may not sound a believable thing now, but during those days we used to have competitive exams for companies too for the jobs. I strongly believe that many of our batch mates must attribute a great amount of success to party for his "organizing" abilities on reverse of cigarette case to pass on, you know what I mean!
6. If I am not mistaken, he was the football captain of our college, not sure if we had seen him playing ever!! :)
But above all Shankar had been one of the most reliable and easy going person and cool character of our Mech.'86 branch and probably batch as well! Last I heard about his achievement was that he had become President of ONGC Officers' union, is that true? If yes, I attribute success to a lot of our batch mates who are in ONGC and must have voted for party- I mean "party", in singular term!

Identify Both of them

• A Real Challange
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Sanjay Jha said...
Pradeep K. Barnwal, Mech '86 of Mahuda, Dhanbad.

April 14, 2010 3:47 AM
alok said...
anant ranjan ajay singh himanshu of course party(in red shirt)deepak ,arpana mallik ,studious looking saurabh...the ladies look gorgeous..i mean they look faar younger than all the gentlemen
alok

April 14, 2010 11:58 AM
Deepak said...
Rakesh Bihari Roy (Mining) and Prabhat Kumar with their family, i guess. Am I right?

April 14, 2010 11:03 PM

And Another

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Sanjay Jha said...
Ranjay P. Akhauri, Prod. or Elect. 86, from Lohardaga(?)

April 14, 2010 3:54 AM
Anonymous said...
Ranjay, sharing my surname.

Akhoury Prasant Kumar

April 14, 2010 9:45 PM

• I will update the details later

Do you remember this guy?

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Sanjay Jha said...
Anant Ranjan, Elect. 86, Ranchi, Hostel 10 Room No. 26, the corner one, used to live with Dipankar Dasgupta, Amresh Singh, Shankar Jha, Santanu (Elect from Ranchi?) :)

April 14, 2010 3:51 AM
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He has his own electrical parts factory in Noida. - A real entreprenuer

Again your chance to recognize this fine gentleman

• Click the photo to enlarge it ( 12 maga pixel )

Ramesh said...
Hi Every,
I guess it's Sanjay Verma (Civil)
It's was great to walk trhough more than 20 yrs. back and see you all guys with family. I misssed to see you on 3rd April at Delhi.
Thanks
With best wishes,
Rana Ramesh (Civil)
April 10, 2010 4:08 AM
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He is sanjay verma(civil).
Seema (Civil)
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Sanjay Verma and his family ….
Sanjay Kumar. (Electronics)
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Sanjay Verma, my buddy from Civil was a day scholar. He is happily married to a very nice Gujju girl. She is also a Civil Engineer. Probably, Sanjay is the first Professional Engineer (PE) in our batch. He is doing great professionally and otherwise.
Pranav Prakash
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14th Feb at India Habitat Centre

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As usual Identify and put your comments

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April 14, 2010 3:47 AM
alok said...
anant ranjan ajay singh himanshu of course party(in red shirt)deepak ,arpana mallik ,studious looking saurabh...the ladies look gorgeous..i mean they look faar younger than all the gentlemen
alok
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Sanjay Jha said...
Thanks for the posting. I feel relieved that it is not only me who gets shocked whenever I see the mirror, there are many more like me who are looking absolutely like young grandpas or old uncles! Let me identify the skycrappers based on their blueprints, I had seen around 20 years back! Deepak Kumar(Civil 86), Ajay K. Singh(Mech 86 and my 1st year roommate of Room No.- 23, Hostel10), Himanshu Shekhar Mishra(Mech 86),Sameer(Mech 86), Shankar Sharan(Mech 86), Rakesh P. Singh (civil 86) and one more person I am not able to recognize now, who is that with plate in his hand eating?

April 14, 2010 4:18 AM

Satyam Sahay

I will be receiving the "2008 Metallurgist of the Year Award" from Ministry of Steel, Govt of India during National Metallurgists Day Celebrations in New Delhi on November 14, 2008. Few months back I had received "Tata Group Promising Innovation Award 2008" from Mr. Ratan Tata.

- Satyam Sahay
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My heartfelt congratulations to you. Keep it up man! Now go and win the international one. Am really very happy for you and equally proud as well.

Cheers, Brijesh
( Why is it so difficult to please some people! - OK Satyam...give him one! - Hema)
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Hi satyam
A really grt achievement buddy..u have really made us (inmates of room no 12 hostel no 10,BIT Sindri)feel proud for many more years to come..no words can express my deep appeciation for the commitment u have towards ur work.
(For those who are not from the manufacturing industry:
This award is given to only one person in india for excellence the field of manufacturing and is really a grt honour it is like the Oscar award...So satyam now u are a superstar!!!.
Satyam has also been awarded "The Young metallurgist of the year award in 2005"
all the best keep it up.
Just wait till i catch u.

-Alok Verma
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Congratulations Satyam !

We are extremely pleased to hear this. It was this weekend that Sanjay Jha and I were talking about you - He insisted you were in TRL while I maintained that you're in TCS..

- Pritam

All:
Sanjay Jha and I are next door neighbours in GA. They say it's a small world , so very true :-)
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Just to inform you all that after spending 12.5 fulfilling years at TRDDC-TCS, I have recently joined John Deere Technology Center in Pune. The primary reason for this move was a wider domain (large gamut of materials eng) and better role, which is well connected to the company's core business. John Deere is a 170 years old company with business in agriculture, construction, forestry machinery and consumer products.

Best regards,
Satyam Sahay
9423015801


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Alok verma ....(from the trance)

Hi Satyam
Change is always good..I can say that as I have not changed...
and a very happy holi to u and ur family and to all of u..
go and have a drink..a glass of "bhang" and freak out ..and listen to some classic "jogira" songs ..it will transfer u to trans world..also it will give u a good start at john dereee....all the best..
happy holi
alok

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Good wishes to you for this new inning. I am sure you will win many more "Man of the Match" awards in future test, ODI and T20 matches with this new team as well.
Good Luck...

Sanjay Jha
703-389-4684
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What an accomplishment Satyam!!! Feeling so proud of the time we spent together back in BIT. Way to go!!! I will watch it on TV and savour the moment.

Regards
Raja
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Congrats!
We all are proud of tour achievments.
Atul kumar
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Hey this is great news. You have really made us all proud . Three cheers for Satyam Sahay !
Now we are waiting to see the pictures from the award ceremony.
-Hema
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Satyam
Congratulation !!This is indeed a great achievement.

Thanks
Subhasish
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Congratulation.....

I would like to know about details of your achievements which leads you to get this award.
Very nice to see your mail with such great acheivement.

Ajay Dave

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And Sanjay Jha....

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
It is a great pleasure to hear that 1986 batch was indeed a special batch during collage days and till date is rocking! The other day Hema was asking why we all are quiet so here comes a big knock!!
Great efforts SSS!!! Keep "entropy" of the group high and try to recall the answer to viva questions normally asked to Met guys - "If you come running for viva, what is the entropy change of your body system? and If you keep a refrigerator open inside a closed room what will be the temperature change eventually?" Can Amrit,Rajiv, Karam and other metal guys attempt these for revisiting old days? Dr. SSS is there to evaluate answers! BTW beside SSS and Aman did anyone else from '86 also got Dr. in front of his/her name? Probably time is nearing for us to get honorary ones :) Cheers, Sanjay

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Well there is a Dr. Dilkeshwar Pandey too....and I think Dr. Smriti Anand too!

Hema

BIT sindri can be seen in Wikimapia.org

Check this link http://www.wikimapia.org/#lat=23.654342&lon=86.473818&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2

This from USA

Guess this quickly

Check this out

Sep. Bonanza : Guess right and you will get a flight ticket

Ok this one is the toughest, But try to identify the boy........


Richa R said...
That seems to be my quiz partner, Rakesh Ranjan Sahay.
September 20, 2007 7:20 PM
Richa R said...
I think I win the kite flight ticket. Cracked it for sure. -Richa R.S.
September 20, 2007 8:36 PM
Pritam said...
I cannot believe this is Rakesh ! He has gained good weight :-)
September 22, 2007 4:14 PM

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If you guess it right, You will receive a Mega Gift Hamper of Colgate/Close-Up.

Legal Disclaimer: The Gift Hamper consists of Colgate/Close-Up smiles. You will receive the hamper if front of your mirror.

Even you cannot guess it right, It is for you to keep. Odds of winning is 1/1. There is 100% chance for every one to win. Keep it up and reply to this post. You dont have to login to reply

Pritam Guessed it right but he is Paresh Saha (not sahu) ;)

Quiz 45 : Keeping this blog alive

Clues:

1. He is in SAIL

2. He was kidnapped by militants while on duty.

3. Electrical

Congrats who got it right. The Gift Hamper is on your way.

September 5, 2007 7:20 PM

Prakash Gupta said...
That's Joydeep Dasgupta

September 11, 2007 7:58 PM

Anonymous said...
My lab patner(lanky!) Joydeep Dasgupta

September 12, 2007 5:33 AM

SAURABH KUMAR said...
Yes, certainly JOYDEEP. Can I have his whereabouts?

Sep 6

suchandra sinha
He is Joydeep Dasgupta of Electrical 86-90. Aaajpurani rahon se...........!!!

He was in C section in first year.Suchandra Sinha (Sarkar)

Here is Some more info:

Yes it is Joydeep Dasgupta with his wife Nandini , Son Jyotishka and Daughter Nakshatra.

He is in Megha ha tu Bu ru Iron Ore Mine.

his pho number is 094teen1teen9905aath.

email address jdgupta1975 [@gmail.com]