Poulami Mondal

191 Posts
Jan
31
2020
1 Comment
By Poulami Mondal
The Good, The Bad and The Unknown

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown

Stories, , , ,
Another IITian turns author. And Raj Tilak Roushan is quite an unusual IITian. An award-winning police officer, RTR, as he is known, spent five years in the private sector, both in India and abroad, after graduating from IIT Kharagpur, then got tired of "working to make rich people richer", and joined the IPS. The story of his extraordinary work in Palghar, Maharashtra, in fighting child trafficking, involving both deep data analysis and sensitising his force ("think of every child missing as a child from your own family") is here The stories in RTR's book are police procedurals. Most of them,…
Read More
Jan
20
2020
0 Comments
By Poulami Mondal
Bringing Glory Home

Bringing Glory Home

Events
A team of five students, Madhav Krishna, Nishant Kumar, and Suraj Bhandare, students of the MBA program, and Anusha Rao and Arkajeet Santra, students of the EMBA program, at the Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur secured the Runner-up position in Stock-Trak Global Portfolio Simulation Competition organized by SMU Singapore for the best-managed portfolio. Watch Video: https://youtu.be/nR_859SRHp4 Sponsored by City-SMU Financial Literacy Program for Young Adults, the competition saw 50 teams from all over the globe participate in the portfolio optimization exercise which ran for 6 weeks from 7th Oct 2019 till 15th Nov 2019. The teams were required…
Read More
Jan
16
2020
0 Comments
By Poulami Mondal
Building Knowledge Portal of India

Building Knowledge Portal of India

In-Depth, , ,
For most people outside the country, India is a land of antiquity, of ancient wisdom and knowledge. The preservation of said antiquity and the wealth of cultural heritage, however, has proved to be a challenge in our country. Locating the original material is itself a task but by no means the largest hurdle. Worn, yellow and tattered pages need careful supervision and expert handling of the material. Apart from the expertise required in traditional preservation of antique documents, the digital age calls for the preserved material to not just be digitized, but also be accessible to users of all ages,…
Read More
Jan
14
2020
0 Comments
By Poulami Mondal
Book Review: The Telecom Man

Book Review: The Telecom Man

Stories, , , , , ,
Much to the surprise of friends and family, in 1991, Brijendra K. Syngal resigned from a plush, tax-free job with Inmarsat in London to head Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, an old-style, stodgy public sector company. Over the next seven years, Syngal transformed VSNL into a nimble new-generation telecom behemoth. By connecting India to the world through high-speed digital links, he was instrumental in the emergence of the Indian software sector as a global player. And in a move that would revolutionize the country and all our lives, he brought the internet to India in 1995. On Syngal’s watch, VSNL also…
Read More
Dec
12
2019
3 Comments
By Poulami Mondal
Placed!!

Placed!!

Events, , ,
Photo Credit: Suman Sutradhar Economic Times           Financial Express             Business Standard           Business Today          Live Mint            Millennium Post           NDTV        News18 The six month’s long preparation of the Career Development Centre (CDC), Placecom Team, Faculty members and students which was started in the month of July 2019 came to an end on December 11, 2019. The first phase of placement started on 1st December 2019 and continued till 11th December 2019. This year CDC has created…
Read More
Dec
02
2019
2 Comments
By Poulami Mondal
Day 1 Placement Report

Day 1 Placement Report

Events, , , ,
Economic Times        Business Insider       Business Standard        Live Mint        Times of India IIT Kharagpur has started its 2019-2020 placement journey with 469 offers including PPOs. This is a clear increase from last year's Day 1 figures. The first day started with 30 companies which is 25% more than last year and included 76 profiles from core, software, analytics, finance and consulting. The preplacement offers witnessed a 7% increase which is almost three times from last year in public sector offer. There is 50% increase in international offers that includes many pay…
Read More
Oct
18
2019
3 Comments
By Poulami Mondal
Evolution of Office Automation – A Personal Experience

Evolution of Office Automation – A Personal Experience

People, , , , , , , , ,
“I was a naïve, confused 21-year old when I joined IIT Kharagpur in 1982 through an open advertisement. Having appeared for a three-step test which included written, typing and interview, my first posting was at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. By 25, I graduated to the secretarial post from clerical cadre by clearing set of internal examinations. It was the time when predecessors of computers ruled office work. What am I talking of? Typewriters. Typewriters manufactured by companies like Remington, Godrej, Halda and Facit , were mostly used in this Institute for preparing a typed document. Carbon papers…
Read More
Sep
01
2019
0 Comments
By Poulami Mondal
Book Review: Chronotantra

Book Review: Chronotantra

Events, , , ,
A Unique Science Fiction Novel That Brilliantly Blends Hi-Tech With Vedanta ~ Sandipan Deb  The reviewer is a senior journalist and author, Former Editorial Director, Swarajya magazine, Founding Editor, Open, Former Editor, Financial Express and Outlook magazine. He is also an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, 1986 batch. He did his B.Tech. in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering. Book Review: Indian science fiction has a long but thin history, studded with illustrious names. Long, because the genre made its first appearance in the late 19th century, while H.G. Wells was just starting off (though Jules Verne had been writing for three decades).…
Read More
Aug
05
2019
0 Comments
By Poulami Mondal
Building Scalable Water Access for Rural Assam

Building Scalable Water Access for Rural Assam

Social Impact
This summer I had the incredible opportunity, to work with the Tata Trusts and their Tata Water Mission (TWM) initiative, exploring avenues to provide scalable water access to stakeholders in rural Assam. TWM is one of the Trusts’ flagship initiatives in India, at the forefront of ensuring Water Access, Sanitation and Health through multiple programs across the nation. I had the privilege of working with Mr. Divyang Waghela, National Head and Mr. Rajat Pati, Area Manager, North-East and a host of partner organizations across multiple project sites in Assam. I had been looking to spend my summer doing something that…
Read More
Jul
13
2019
0 Comments
By Poulami Mondal
Smart Sensors for Smarter India @SIH2019

Smart Sensors for Smarter India @SIH2019

In-Depth, , , ,
India Today    Millennium Post    The Week    Business Standard    Indian Express From life-saver to asset-tracker to theft-preventer, SIH 2019 Hardware edition at IIT Kharagpur witnessed prototype sensor development for a wide array of industrial challenges. 93 green horns from seven states participated in this week-long national competition where they were posed challenges by Ministry of Coal and Garden Reach Shipbuilding Yard to develop industry-scale hardware solutions ranging from Smart Communication to Smart Vehicles, from Security and Surveillance to Miscellaneous technological ideas related to tertiary sectors. This is the first time that public and private sector companies have…
Read More