He did all of this while working through a genetic heart condition and other serious maladies that eventually would claim his life, without ever seeking a break for himself.Satish is survived by his son Sachin, daughter-in-law Ankita, grandchildren Saya and Ellora, brother Ajit, mother Suvarna, and an extended circle of family and friends he was very close to and who also will miss him greatly. He developed global and country-specific models for the evaluation of costs and climate mitigation potential options in California, India, China, Brazil and other major developing countries. A wry sense of humour often broke up tense moments: In 2003, he managed to time a visit to New York City with a rare black-out; calmly climbing down forty floors in inky darkness, he joked about how that was no way to treat a guest. His most recent project was his structural design of a four-story steel-framed building turning the old Studebaker plant into a thriving commercial establishment at South Bend Ave and Corby. Biju, knowing how great the man was, promptly took out his wallet and handed over whatever cash was inside. DR. JNAN CHANDRA GHOSH MEMORIAL GOLD MEDAL** This Gold medal is awarded to the out going student of Dual Degree and 5-year Integrated M. Sc. After graduation in 1974, Suresh worked at VIP industries for two years following which he completed his Management studies from IIM Calcutta in 1978. Possessed with a sharp intellect, Dusy would always think much deeper than most of us about lifes problems big and small; yet he would participate in our typical college activities with amused indulgence. However, it was Kandy who was instrumental in developing these ties. It alarmed me and a few days later I wrote to Avinash. From July 1986 till December 1991, he worked as Technical Manager at the Welding Consumables Group at Advani-Oerlikon Ltd., providing technical support for business development by extending applications of current products and by defining, testing and launching new consumables for joining and surfacing. Pular para contedo principal LinkedIn. Travelled extensively carrying a briefcase holding one shirt, one pen and 2 notes of Rs 500. It is said that when Satish spoke everyone listened, no matter who. The immense respect he gained for his objective, irreverent journalism got reflected in the form of tributes and condolences. Harshad and I first met when we were about 11 or 12. I knew him as a Classmate in Chemical Engineering. And I second Kalyan's comment on his looks. This website follows the DNPA Code of Ethics Copyright NDTV Convergence Limited 2023. PRESIDENT'S GOLD MEDAL Past Recipients Year Name of the Students 2019 Someshwar Jain 2018 Saksham Sharma 2017 Sansit Patnaik 2016 Ayush Sekhari 2015 Karan Singh 2014 Nitish Kumar srivastava 2013 Shubham Tulsiani 2012 Shubhayu Chatterjee, Ankit Kumar & Ashish Gupta 2011 Mohit Mittal . There are very few people who effortlessly amalgamate science, engineering, art and business. And the hotel was celebrating American week and had pictures of the American eagle in the restaurant. 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. '74 MEMS H5). I would then printout Urbans reply and courier it to Linus. I am Shivam Patel, a second-year graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University pursuing the Master of Information Systems Management program. He would take out his wallet and show the set of currency notes and ask Gary, what will I do with this much cash? He also had a deep love for Hindustani Classical music, both vocal and instrumental. ~ Edited by Arvind Keerthi from reminiscences provided by Neelesh's friends and family. May his soul attain 'sadgati'. I am extremely sorry and shocked to hear about the passing away of our classmate Harshad Bhinde. You would have forgotten whether you were in the past or present. A brilliant Keralite student from a simple Jamnagar (Gujarat) family, Georgie had come through on an IIT Merit Scholarship. He told me not to spread the bad news. Nanda was a 1967 Civil Engineering graduate from IIT Bombay. We all had been in the same wing all 5 years (or was it 4 years) and all that has been stated about his nature is so well described by his persona. Now we have the mammoth task of keeping the memory of their loving grandfather alive in their minds. There is an interesting quirk of fate that landed Brian into the Class of 1970, and it is related to his birth date 15th of October 1948. It was very difficult to tell our minds that he is no more. Loved fish; loved traveling in autos, taxis and scooters. H4). Your enthusiasm, infectious positivity for all things you touched especially useful for the group travel some of us got to do with you. I just woke up (in Canada) to the sad news. The other was that he had found out Swami Chinmayananda's Ashram on the other side of Vihar Lake and went there at times. I was his room partner at the IIT hostel and there was a constant flow of classmates to visit him for notes and guidance. Have you heard about Jeff Bezos "Regret Minimization" Framework? While IIT-Bombay professor Rangan Banerjee has been appointed as the next director of IIT-Delhi, IIT-Madras professor V Kamakoti has been appointed as the director of the institute, they said. Like the time he came over all the way from India, and dragged aero-engineers Mahesh Morjaria 74 and me, to the EAA rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, helping rekindle our passion for planes, and flying them. 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. Sid once invited us to Beacon Hill for a "thirty-minute meal from the Julia Child cookbook". He told me, that his assistant is taking care of all the arrangements, then. Victor Menezes! We had intense arguments, different viewpoints and interesting debates. After getting his BE in Electrical engineering from IIT Bombay, Harsha Dabholkar completed his PhD in Computer Science from Northwestern University. Noor did not, however, join the family business. Sushil Bijawargi (Biju) visited us regularly when I was working with Lloyds Steel Ind. ~~Ramesh Kumar Punjabi. His memory will always remain. It is with a great deal of sadness that I compose these few lines to remember and celebrate the life of my classmate and friend Manguexa Wagle. Its his smile, his love to converse about matters simple or complex with a clear mind. 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. The President of India Medal was bestowed on BTech student. I am unable to get out of the shock. We also enhanced it with meta meta data. Sid had his priorities absolutely clear..Guys, marathons are meant for watching not for running. - Anil AggarwalSad. Always kind, patient and supportive, he was well loved by his students and colleagues.Krish also never forgot IITB, he had bequeathed a sum of $170,000 in his will to IITBHF to favor and help students at IIT Bombay. May God grant eternal peace to the departed soul. as well as a few issues of Caltech alumni magazine. In fact, there was never a dull moment when he was around. He was listed in the FastCompany list of 100 top business leaders in 2009. On returning home from a business trip to San Francisco, Georgie suffered a massive coronary incident that interrupted blood flow to his brain long enough to render him comatose.And thus he remained, for nearly 20 years, nursed at home with unswerving devotion and tender care by Helena, true to their marriage vows, until death parted them at 2:30 pm that terrible Friday a week before Valentines Day.While Ravi holds his own, Sruthi (who herself took a Ph.D. and is an academic at the University of Portland) married Michael Rosenfluth; they have a beautiful daughter.Nandita and I spent half a day with Helena and the recumbent Georgie last July in their lovely home in Portland, in the presence of the whole family. In his career, Kandy was passionate about construction, and a visionary in state-of-the-art pre-engineered buildings and pre-coated steel sheets. For some reason possibly because while Mohan could speak Marathi as good as any other but because he was still from Karnataka, speaking to him in Konkani came naturally. This consulting work allowed him the flexibility to visit his sons in the US and Australia for many months at a time. While visiting his sister in India, he had a fall and suffered an injury to the spine. Aishit Dharwal Expandir pesquisa. He took up writing Marathi books and novels tackling many worldwide societal issues. Neeraj Chopra: Finally, India's national record holder in Javelin Throw, Neeraj Chopra secured a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. Very sad to hear the news. Later I was told he had devoted himself to doing social work by helping a school. Tiwari/Bihari) took his last breath on 19th Feb, 2022 after battling cancer for 18 months. eYIC Technical Sessions. His work and also his health suffered significantly after passing away of his wife in 2011 and his elder son in an accident in 2015. CPT would bid for Air Compressor Packages for large projects across India which included Desiccant-based Air Drying Plants which was our speciality product. 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. It was on the top of his mind even when his dealing with subjects that were not even remotely connected to the world of politics, Prof Ajit Kulkarni recalls. He proudly adhered to the values he believed in until his last days. Linus did not have a mobile smart phone; hence I could not exchange day to day messages with him. The flat in Versova that she and Satish lived in after their marriage became a picnic spot for us, until they left for the US. He developed a habit of writing to me on postcards. IIT Bombay has awarded the Institute Gold Medal (2020-21)' 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. May Nandas soul find its way to the Moksha and Rest in Peace. His child-like quality is something rare we see these days. We were together in SIES College and also being from Sion (Shiv), a close friend. He was deeply involved with the Hindu Council of New Zealand and took a lead role in organising social services and functions to serve the community as well as strengthening bonds between communities. Probably, this is why neither a lung condition nor extreme weather in the north deterred him from the eternal journey he undertook. The local S.P. God Rest His Soul. Thats when the IIT kaamchors adapted to the use of disposable plates and plasticsthose were the years of PLASTICS and Dustin Hoffman and The Graduate, sailing and rowing on the Charles, pub crawling around Harvard Square, picnics to the arboretum. He never lost his temper and handled things quite well and we were able to overcome this problem, thanks in large part to his efforts. I was able to speak to him, though just for a few minutes. Both his parents had brought him up in the environment of Gandhian ideals of honesty, humility, humanity and compassion. 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. As worthy of mention, if not more so, Satish paired his career success with a dedication to both his immediate and extended family and his friends. Brian also visited the hockey field occasionally to join in the sports fun. He along with three others left AFCONS and started a company to do work for Konkan Railway. Whenever I came to India, we made it a point to meet. When I left for the USA for my educational and working career, he reconnected with me through his buddy Niranjan Bhat who was writing in between and enabled me to communicate with him. A thorough gentleman, who had no enemies, would be an apt description of him. employee, was very active on the Marathi Stage. His classmates at Elphinstone as well as IIT may care to remember this. and the buffaloes, before climbing over the water pipelines behind Hostel 4 to swim with the crocodiles in picturesque Vihar Lake. I urge you to think of PPM not as Parts Per Million but as Purpose, People and Machines. Yogesh Dalallived a healthy life until hesuddenly passed away due to aheart attack in August, 2017at theage of 69at his residence in Santacruz, Mumbai. She either didnt know the nature of his illness or wouldnt say. I contacted him several times in the months prior to our Golden Jubilee Reunion trying to persuade him to attend. 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. Knew him well at H8. Tech (1971) and Ph.D. degrees in Metallurgy from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. . He was one year senior to me in good counsel high school. Kesav spent time at ETH Zurich with Prof. Wirth. My last meeting with Dilip and Veena was in 2017, when he asked me to stay at his house one evening. Uday Patankar passed away peacefully on October 31, 2019 due to complications from acute myeloid leukemia. Acquired a 2 bedroom flat 5 years ago, for which, instalments are still being paid. Sid even had a rare surgical implant to augment his sensory systems making him our own Bionic Man. For a short while, he had a sense of persecution mania of 'Black Cats', trying to catch him. He had a keen eye for detail related to the sport and during his Elphinstone College years had trained to be an Umpire. He was a very positive person and encouraged me to ask questions in technical seminars. He had a very high competence of modelling and software development for technical problems, including problems in metabolic modelling. Those who loved him knew of his huge heart, his willingness to help and inspire confidence in others. He was a member of Saturday Club, which I believe, is an organisation of businessmen, from Pune. He, along with three other IITian friends was the founder of Pune based Technofour Group, a company of high repute in India and abroad. God rest her soul. The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB or IIT Bombay) is a public engineering and research institution located in Powai, Mumbai. He would quote from the Bible while describing some incident. Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to interact with him much all these years. On the one hand, he was associated with the group for sending up balloons having glass plates with emulsions to study cosmic ray interactions at high altitudes and on the other side, he also worked with the group which performed experiments in the Kolar Gold Field mines to study cosmic rays deep below the earths surface. When we recite multiplication tables in Marathi, we say "baram bare chavve chalase (i.e. In my career till then, I was yet to come across a student so certain about what he wants to do. S. Pancharatnam, Dilip Karandikar and I were admitted to Chem. He was to occupy the next room for next five years and my life thereafter. 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. Gold Medal Arnab Kumar Dey . As it happened, the real Nanda showed up only after he retired from Engineering. In many ways, this example epitomizes Manguexas simplicity and truthfulness, his core value system which he never compromised. 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. What was novel was an Avacado tree which we had not seen in India before. Though he was abundantly endowed with qualities of the mind, they did not define Manguexa. It is regretting to note that Mr.Harshad A. Bhinde had expired due to severe heart attack about 3 months back at Ahmedabad. Vaidyanadhan V. Krishnan (known as Krish) passed away on Nov. 17, 2016 in India. Since Avinash Kulkarni was my roommate during the first year, we became good friends pretty soon. Farewell dear Linus, till we meet again, someday somewhere. In some matters, Dilip was a very private and an unassuming person. The problem was ------who would do the dishes!!!!! Never uttered a bad word. College. He was 66. 2) Physical Chemistry - in the first year. He was an effortless achiever and had mastered the knack of commanding success with minimal effort. His death at the height of his powers takes the wind out of his family and friends. Since 1990, he was a Coordinating Lead author of twelve publications of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was among the recipients of the 2007 IPCC Nobel Peace Prize. Ajit kept me informed of all his activities at different places within India in those vintage blue, green Inland letters and I would write back to him on what is happening in Mumbai.His jobs took him to almost all major Jetty Ports in India - Mumbai, Vizag, Cochin, Haldia, Bangladesh, etc. His classmates remember Dusy as a brilliant student a crackoo whose notes benefitted many during exams. After graduating in 1967, Nanda joined Khare & Tarkunde Infrastructure Pvt. The person who walked amongst us was more than a gentleman. 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