First impressions are often amplified and romanticised, but my life experience tells me that they are unreliable, fragile, ephemeral, and often flat-out wrong. My first memory of walking into the Azad Hall of residence in July 1990 is feeling a little letdown. What I saw was very different from the…

Once a Nehruite — always a Nehruite. This is etched on one of the walls of Nehru Hall. Even though I was from Kharagpur town, I chose to stay on the campus and was allotted the Nehru Hall of Residence. What a wonderful 4 years I spent there. Having secured…

Dear Friends, As you may or may not be aware, I am a graduate (electrical engineering ) of the first batch of the very first IIT, IIT Kharagpur. The IITs were the vision and brainchild of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s very first Prime Minister. Establishing institutes of higher learning was one of his…

When I came to IIT Kharagpur from Bangalore in 1964 as a sixteen-year-old boy, I was still an unlicked cub. I hardly knew anything about anything, leave alone knowing about life or the ways of the world. I knew a little (and understood less still) of even Physics, Chemistry, and…

When I entered Azad Hall 55 years back, wondering what was in store for me there were a lot of apprehensions. Having never left Hyderabad alone since childhood, I was getting mentally prepared for new challenges. The moment I entered the dining hall, seniors started the ragging process by giving…

Leadership Summit 2020 organized by Students’ Alumni Cell brought to you by Moglix, ended on a successful note with some of the big names of the country as guest appearances for the summit. The panel actively participated and interacted with the lovely audience of IIT Kharagpur and participants from some…

“KGP built me, my character, life-long friends, capacity to think in a certain way, to enjoy life. In short, KGP was paradise on earth! KGP ka tempo high hai!” My 4 years in IITKGP paved a way of thinking that has helped me carry through in my life. The analytical…

The year was 1964, a watershed year in my life. I was just 16, and had passed my Senior Cambridge Examination from St. Joseph’s European (now Boys’) High School, Bangalore in December of 1963. Following which I had cleared the JEE from the IISc, Bangalore in May 1964, and had…

On the occasion of the 70th foundation Day, IIT Kharagpur presented the prestigious Young Alumni Achiever Awards to felicitate and acknowledge the contribution of our alumni in their respective fields. Students’​ Alumni Cell, IIT Kharagpur congratulates them all! The awardees were as follows — RUTVIK DOSHI [1999/B Tech/IM/RK]- Rutvik Doshi…