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Apr

09

2020

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Alumni Innovate COVID-19 Health Technologies

Storiesalumni, covid, Covid-19, e-health, e-Healthcare, ehealth, eHealthcare, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, health startup, Healthcare, healthcare app, innovator, preventive healthcare, start-ups, startup, Startups, World Health Organization

Economic Times Deccan Herald India Today Hindustan Times Outlook Business Insider NDTV The cases of infections and deaths related to COVID-19 in India are increasing by leaps and bounds. While it took about 2 months to reach the first 1000 cases, it increased to 2000 just within 5 days, then with every 3 days the count has been increasing by 1000, and now the frequency of that occurrence has reduced to a…

Feb

24

2020

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

The Cop from Kgp

Storiesalumni, alumnus, kgpian

Ashish Tiwari, IPS, Senior Superintendent of Police, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh and IIT Kharagpur alumnus has been conferred the Director General of Police (DGP), UttarPradesh (UP), Commendation Disc (Gold), 2020 and gfiles Awards 2019 for good governance and Smart e-Police innovation. Ashish graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 2007 with B.Tech. and M.Tech. Dual Degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He pursued the career of an investment banker with Lehman Brothers and Nomura before joining Indian Revenue Service as Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax and then opting for Indian Police Service (2012 batch). Ashish was in-charge of maintenance of law and order…

Jan

31

2020

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By Poulami Mondal

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown

Storiesalumni, alumnus, book, Book Review, kgpian

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,…

Jan

28

2020

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By Sreeparna

The Incredible 1970s and Spring Fest

Storiesadda, Alumni Affairs, Alumni Clock Tower, alumni gift, Golden 2020 Reunion, IIT Kharagpur, MHRD, Spring Fest

Colourful festoons, huge sponsor banners and flags decked up the entire campus last weekend. Makeshift ‘pandals’ popped up and an air of festivity hung around. Students scurried across different venues. They had spent sleepless nights for weeks. It was that time of the year when students from all over India flocked to the campus for one of the most outstanding college fests in south Asia – the Spring Fest. This year, Spring Fest saw a mini galaxy descend on campus. Around 150 alumni from the Batch of 1970 came back to their alma mater to celebrate their 50th graduation anniversary.…

Jan

17

2020

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By Chirosree Basu

The many ways of ‘giving’

Stories17th Annual Alumni Meet, adda, alumni, Ambulance, Be the Change-maker, Bhatnagar Auditorium, connectivity, Giving back, IIT Kharagpur, Kwality

A warm smile playing on her lips, Sushmita Sur of the 1980 batch made an unusual disclosure at the interactive session, “Be the change-maker”, at the 17th Annual Alumni Meet. Her daughter had just joined the faculty at the Institute’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering. “There are different ways of giving back and having your children continue your legacy and contribute to the Institute is just another way,” said the proud mother. Her statement was greeted with thunderous applause and outside the Bhatnagar auditorium, she was thronged by her batchmates who took their turns to congratulate her. Some hours…

Jan

14

2020

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By Sreeparna

Yeh Papa ka college hai…

Stories17th Annual Alumni Meet, Alumni Affairs, Annual Alumni Meet, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT KGP, IIT Kharagpur, memory, Toddlers

“Papa yahan khelta thha?” lisped a 3-year-old Ghrishneshvar, as he pointed out to the Tata Steel sports ground, just opposite to the Ramanujan Complex. He, along with his elder sister, Ujjavalaa, both toddlers, were at IIT Kharagpur campus for the first time with their parents and elder brother Aayush, who is in IIT-BHU. Their father, Mr Ajit Kumar Alok, a 1995 alumnus of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Institute, was here to attend the 17th Annual Alumni Meet held at the campus from 10th to 12th January 2020. It was a sunny Saturday afternoon when The KGP Chronicle caught…

Jan

14

2020

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By Poulami Mondal

Book Review: The Telecom Man

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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…

Jan

02

2020

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By Chirosree Basu

His story

StoriesBihar, Delhi government, Diwali, IIT Kharagpur, laser show, Naveen Sharma, Patna Sahib, Prachin Bharat, Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Tata Steel

For the Diwali of 2019, the Delhi government held a laser show event for four days to keep people away from bursting crackers. For some years now, laser technology has quietly made its way into the hi-tech sound and light shows at several forts of Delhi, Rajasthan and Andhra and has even become a feature at permanent theme park installations. Indoor and outdoor laser multimedia shows are part of popular entertainment at sporting events, trade shows, corporate events, concerts, product launches and family parties that range from birthdays to stylized weddings. In other words, laser multimedia shows have arrived and…

Nov

13

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Back in time

Storiesalcohol, Bright Star University of Technology, Chemical Engineering, FIITJEE, Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur's Young Innovators Program 2019, K.S.N. Raju, Panjab University, YIP 2019

It was a homecoming of sorts. As Arjun Varma Kalidindi stood in front of the Chemical Engineering Department in the falling light, his mother, Usha, quickly clicked a few pictures. They had stolen these moments away from their visit to the Nehru Museum of Science and Technology with the members of the 32 teams who had come to participate in the IIT Kharapgur’s Young Innovator’s Program 2019. They just had to make this detour. Many aeons ago, Arjun’s grandfather - K. Satyanarayana Raju on our rolls, and later Dr. K.S.N Raju – would have walked those stretches many a time…

Nov

05

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Dream Catcher

StoriesDistinguished Alumnus, Georgia Tech, IIT Kharagpur, Professor Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

“Farrokh’s passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams.” That is how University of Oklahoma’s Gallogly College of Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, introduces the incumbent of its L.A. Comp Chair - Professor Farrokh Mistree. When I ask him about this rather unusual passion during his recent visit to IIT Kharagpur, Professor Mistree (1967/BTech/NA/AZ) tells me his life story. That is, his journey from being a student of naval architecture at IIT Kharagpur to holding the prestigious L.A. Comp Chair at the University of…