Newsdigest for the IITD Alumni Association

An audience of more than 300 comprising of the alumni and their families had a gala time full of music and masti on Saturday, 17.11.2007 when they attended NAGME 07 held in Dogra Hall. Some of the responses immediately after the show were – ‘mind blowing performance’, ‘enjoyed thoroughly’, ‘great show by you guys’.

The alumni association musical evening on show this time had 25 performers from different batches thereby representing singers practically from every era right from the 60s to the 21^st millennium. The songs ranged from melodies of 60s and 70s to the rocking music of 2007. There were singers of all ages from 6 years to 60 years. A couple of performance on instruments such as mouth organ and synthesizer added variety to the show.

The pick of the evening among the new performers were songs by Jaspreet Jassal (d/o T.P.S. Jassal) who was rightfully described by Alok Sahdev as ‘Voice of India’ and Rajeev Kamal who performed like a rock star. The audience were simply spell-bound when Jaspreet sang ‘Aji rooth kar ab kahan jaaiyega’ and ‘Kabhi neem neem kabhi shahad shahad’ while Rajeev Kamal rendered ‘Kya mujhe pyaar hai’. The other sensational debut was that of Amol Sahdev, s/o Alok Sahdev who delighted the audience with two contemporary numbers – ‘Firta hai kyun darbadar’ and ‘Aankhon mein teri ajab si’.

Of course,super-performer of the evening was Alok Sahdev who captivated the audience with beautiful rendering of one new and one old song – ‘Kabhi raat din hum door the’ and ‘In dino dil meraa’. The icing on the cake was provided by a melodious performance of ‘Jiya dhadhak dhadhak’ by 10-year old Vasvi Bajaj, d/o Arun Bajaj which brought the curtains down on the show.

A new flavour was added to the musical evening this time by including two duets. So while we had Kanika and Rajesh crooning to a naughty ‘O hasina zulfon wali jaane jahan’, a peppy and melodious ‘Itna na mujhse tu pyaar badha ki main ek baadal awaara’ was presented by Ashok Gaur and Jaspreet. Notable performance also came from J.K. Khanna, Somnath Bharti, Sourav Banerjee, Kushal Sen and Vijay Parashar. Kaushik Mukherjee was unparalleled on mouth organ with ‘Bekarar karke hamen’ while Anish and Atish (sons of Ashit Majumdar) thrilled the audience with songs on synthesizer.

Mementoes were given away to the performers by Dr. Anurag Sharma, Dean of Students and Sh. V. Sethuraman, President, IITDAA. Dinner and Raffle, last events of the day, were enjoyed to the hilt by the gathering in Zanskar Hostel.

Career counseling has become an Annual feature. This year’s Career Counseling Session, “Career After IIT, was held on 5^th November at Seminar Hall, IIT Delhi, in association with the Training and Placement Department, IIT Delhi. Prof. Kushal Sen took active interest in making this event a success.

Speakers for this event included:

Mr. Pravin K. Purang - B.Tech – 1971 – Mechanical & M.Tech. – 1973, IITD

President and CEO of Global Consulting Associates

Previously

- Managing Director of Royal Enfield Motors

- Member, Eicher Group Board of Management

- Director, Eicher Consultancy Services Ltd.

Active participant of CII, SIAM, Indian Institute of Materials Management, EC member of IITDAA.

“Outstanding Contribution to National Development” awardee 2005”

Prof. Anurag Sharma – MSc – 1974 & Ph.D. – 1979 – Physics, IIT Delhi

Dean of Students, IITD & Professor of Physics

Visited: Technical University Karlsruhe, Germany, Telecom Research Centre (CSELT), Turin, Italy and the Jean Monnet University, Saint-Etienne, France

Recipient of Bhatnagar Prize, National Science Academy's Medal for Young Scientists, Homi Bhabha Fellowship

A fellow of all the three science academies in India and a fellow of the Optical Society of America (USA).

Mr. Sandeep Tyagi – B.Tech. - 1990 –

Computer Science, IIT Delhi,

VP & Head of Transformation Services, EXL Service.

Previously

- Founder and Managing Principal of management consulting and outsourcing firm – Inductis – which is now a part of EXL Service.

- Partner at the Mitchell Madison Group (MMG), an eminent global strategy consulting firm.

- Charter Member of TiE,

- Member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).

Active Participant of IITDEF, IITDAA

Established Major Dr. Nityananda Tyagi Scholarship and Mitchell Madison Group Gyan Scholarship at IIT Delhi.

- Recipient of 2006 Under 40 Award.

- Distinguished Alumni Service Award 2

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Mr. Kapil Bardeja - MBA – 2003 – Management Studies, IIT Delhi

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, KritiKal SecureScan Pvt. Ltd

Previously

Sales and marketing team of a French multinational, Aventis Pasteur

McKinsey & Co.

The Subsidiary is Venture funded and developing products in the vehicle security domain.

Gautam Brahma - M.S. – 1977 – Phy

sics, IIT Delhi

Vice President – Quality Procurement & Facilities at Aricent.

Previously

Working for the last 28 years in different areas like software & hardware development, industrial engineering, training, product support, quality management, HR & consulting.

Member of the Advisory Committee of NASSCOM on quality matters.

He has a deep interest in HR and has been writing a monthly column for the last 9 years in 'Human Capital'.

Prof. Ashok Gupta, Dean AA & IP, welcomed the panelists at IITD to share their views to students.

Introduction to Career Counseling by Prof. Kushal Sen, Professor-In-Charge, T & P

Vote of thanks by student and Students talking to panelists after the session

# posted by IIT Delhi Alumni Association @ 5:35 PM