Newsdigest for the IITD Alumni Association

The meeting of all IIT alumni to form the Pan-IIT chapter at Chennai is scheduled for 23rd November, 2007. The following is the tentative agenda:

6.30 P.M. Networking in the lobby
7.00 P.M. Pan IIT meeting - introduction by Mr. B. Santhanam about
the event followed by each committee chair.
7.30 P.M Formation of Chennai chapter of Pan-IIT.
7.45 P.M Break for networking and dinner.

Venue: Seminar Hall, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras.
See the google hybrid map link.
http://maps.google.com/?
ie=UTF8&ll=12.992306,80.234925&spn=0.00277,0.004828&t=h&z=17&om=1

All Chennai based IIT alumni and those transiting through Chennai that day are requested to attend, participate, network...

Also, spread the word to friends, colleagues, acquaintances from other batches, IITs.

In order to make the necessary arrangements, please do let me know about your participation on my mobile (+91) 98 418 13 944 by Wednesday, the 21st November, 2007.

An introduction to Pan-IIT 2008 is pasted below for those of you who may not be aware of the context.

Regards,

S. Kannan

2. Dhamaka Tees Saal Baad...#3

IITD batch of 1977 is celebrating Dhamaka Tees Sall Baad…..#3

Dear all,

below is the updated list of attendees for the get together on Saturday 15th December. Please call around and get other class mates to participate. On the last get together a few of the participants had paid an advance towards a joint holiday (Seychelles..). As that did not eventuate, the stated amount is outstanding to them. Please let me know if you'd like this to be adjusted against this get together or returned to you

1	Praveen	Agarwal	2
2	Sunil	Batra	2
3	TS	Batra	2
4	Gautam	Braham	2
5	Arvind	Bugga	2
6	Yadav	Chandna	2
7	Narendra	Dalmia	1	Stated that he will attend if he gets his wife's permission
8	Viresh	Dayal	2
9	Chittaranjan	Dhar	2
10	MV	Dixit	2
11	Nitin	Goel	2
12	Naveen	Gupta	2
13	Hirendra	Gupta	2
14	Anil	Gupta	2
15	Rohit	Hans	4
16	Dinesh	Jain	1
17	Pradeep	Jolly	2
18	Ravi	Kapoor	2	Actively looking for posts for building a fence to sit on
19	Pradeep	Khanna	1
20	Rajiv	Kumar	2
21	Lalit	Kumar	1
22	Krishan	Lal	2
23	Sunil	Mangla	2
24	Bikram	Mehta	2
25	Vikas	Mittal	3
26	Dhruv	Nath	2
27	Ravi	Rishi	2
28	Kushal	Sen	2
29	Paramjit	Singh	4
30	JK	Subramanian	2
31	Jagdish	Vaswani	2
Total			63
		Money outstanding to them
		Naveen Gupta	1000
		RKR	2000
		Yadav	1000
		Ratish Jain	3000
		Kushal	1000
		Lalit	1000
		Nitin Goel	1000
		Total	10000

Please do call around and get other classmates to join...Other news: the advance was paid a few days back and the program stands confirmed for the evening of Saturday 15th Dec at the Trafalgar Bar at Tivoli Gardens...The agreed per head cost is 1200/=

Kindly send your confirmation @ Rohit, rhans2001@yahoo.com or Pradeep Jolly pradeepjolly@hotmail.com

3. Get-together class of 1976

Dear Alumni,

Annual Get together & Dinner of 1976 Batch has been fixed for the evening of 15^th December 2007. Venue will be Friends Club, New Delhi. All 1976 Batch Alumni are requested to note this.

Further details from the Organizing team will follow soon.

for further information contact : email: office@iitdalumni.com Website:http://www.iitdalumni.com

4. ENTREPRENEURS FORUM, PAN - IIT, IIM EVENT at BANGALORE on 15-December-07

PAN-IIT/IIM Entrepreneurs Forum

15^th December 2007

Dear All,

We are pleased to inform you that Bangalore Chapter of IIT Delhi Alumni Associations is organizing a full day event - Entrepreneurs Forum - on 15th December, 2007 at Bangalore.

Entrepreneurs Forum event of the year 2006 was a huge success and this event is a follow-up.

Many of us want to start on our own today, given the tremendous opportunities unleashed around the globe that we can take advantage of while being in India. The stimulating business climate, technology advancement and success stories of our alumni and Indian entrepreneurs are added charms. The motivation for this event is to harness support from varied corners and build an ecosystem which caters to budding entrepreneurs throughout their ventures – inception, getting funding, and execution till exit.

Idea is to build a long sustaining forum with frequent interactions where entrepreneurs, to-be-entrepreneurs, accomplished business people and venture capitalists can come and share their ideas, experience and leverage resources with a singular focus – SUCCESS.

This event is open to all the entrepreneurs, or to-be-entrepreneurs - any IIT or IIM or even beyond. We are bringing together very successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to personally talk to you, and discuss their vision and insights about how to make successful companies in India in today's scenario. We shall conduct very focused, relevant, interactive and involved sessions and workshops concentrating on the issues that are "here and now" issues. Learning shall focus on the "The Art of Start". Of course, business networking will be an added advantage.

On behalf of Alumni Associations of IIT Delhi and on our own behalf, we are writing to cordially invite you to participate in this event.

Entry is by invitation only. We shall be catering to maximum of 100 participants for this event due to space constraints.

Registration Fee: Rs 500/-

How to participate?

In order to attend this event, please send the following information to

entrepreneurs.forum.2007@gmail.com

1. Why do you want to participate in this event and what are your expectations from it?

2. Brief profile of the business you are already running or planning to start

3. Brief profile of the founding team members

4. Any questions or challenges that you are facing related to your venture today

5. Contact details

Key Highlights of the Event

 Interactive sessions and workshops on various aspects of entrepreneurship by high profile speakers (entrepreneurs and VCs)

 Showcasing of select startups

 Awards & Recognitions for excellence in entrepreneurship

Stay connected for various updates on http://entrepreneurs-forum-bangalore-2007.blogspot.com/ .

Shortly, we would provide you details on exact program, venue etc.

Please pass on this message to your IIT, IIM or other friends or colleagues who are entrepreneurs or sincerely thinking of becoming entrepreneurs.

Thanks and regards,

Naresh Agarwal,

Ph. 9342545904

On behalf of IIT Delhi Alumni Association, Bangalore Chapter

5. Class of 1983 Reunion

Sanjay Sangal has done an excellent job in creating your very own website www.iitd83.com . Your entry no. is your user id and your hostel name is your password. Start registering .Special gifts for early registrants. Those having difficulty write to Sanjay at sanjay.sangal@microwarecorp.com .

Also, pls immediately fill up the form available at http://www.iitd83.com/downloads/IIT%20Prog_Conf_Sheet.xls and email to him.

A Silver Jubilee Reunion comes once in a lifetime, and for the batch of '83, this is the year when we will come together again. This will be the opportunity to relive the five years of our youth - our formative years - our glorious past. We will not get another chance to meet so many of our batch-mates who were once an indivisible part of our lives. We hope to meet again the many friends of yesteryears and hope to recognize them after 25 years have gone by.

As communicated earlier, the Silver Jubilee Event is being held from the 22-25 December this year, 2007. All 1983 graduates, PGs (BTech, MS, MTech, PhDs, etc) are invited along with their families.

Families are an integral part of this event - they have to see what we have been talking to them about - with their own eyes. You can get your children and spouse to walk the corridors of your hostel and meet with the profs - specially the ones from whom you once kept a long distance. You can take time out to explore the examination halls where you once spent time looking at the ceiling or sideways since the answers to confounding questions were almost always found on other people's scribble sheets. You can do almost whatever you want back at IITD

Please pull in all those with whom you are in touch, help them make up their minds. We need to make the best of this opportunity. The earlier batches enjoyed every bit of their bash and wanted more. Come and let's make this the best bash of our lives.

Most of the details have already been worked out and the program is already sent to you. However, suggestions/ ideas are welcome for any minor changes in the schedule/ events.

For more details contact to:

Shashi Munjal
Symphony International
T 4/3 DLF Phase III
Gurgaon-122002
INDIA
Tel +91-124-4060699
Fax +91-124-4060799
Mobile +91-9818679079
Email1 shashi@symphony-international.com
Email2 symphonyinternational@airtelbroadbnd.in

6. Get together of IITD 1966 & 1967 batches

X’clusive ’66 / ’67 batch (VINDYACHALs & SHIVALIKs) get together

We are now planning to have a get together (with families-all generations included) exclusively of those who have lived & blossomed together at the two hostels of the period – SHIVALIK & VINDHYACHAL during the years 1961 – 1967.

We will try to locate & invite the faculty of those years. Any one in touch with them (Prof Moore, Indrasen, Jha, Gulati, Subhash etc), please inform their contact details.

As during x-mas period (25 Dec-1^st Jan) most of us can travel to Delhi, the day/date proposed is Saturday 29^th Dec’07.

If you are in touch with any alumnus of 66 & 67 batches. Please forward this mail (with cc to IITDAA) to inform us their contact details.

Please respond confirming your participation or offering a suggestion to

S.K.BHATIA (’66 Mech) at

skbhatia.indconsult@hotmail.com

mob: +919810076070

7. Pearl Jubilee Get-together - Batch of 1973

Dear All,

Today the following alumni of 1973 batch met to get the activities for the Pearl Jubilee Get Together rolling. (Please see the trailing mail).

The following things were discussed and tentatively decided. These will to be firmed up by end of week after getting inputs from other batch mates.

1. Absolutely clear thumbs up to the give full momentum with target to get about 70 alumni and total of 100 participants (including families). Just to give you an idea of the confidence behind this figure:

a. 73 Chem had a get together last month and 19 alumni attended – all from Delhi. 4 more have been added to the list since then. Add to this the outstation batch mates.

b. Target for Mech and Elec is 20 each with at least 15 each.

c. Target for Civil and Textile is 15 each with at least 10 each

d. Not B. Tech batch mates – target of 25 with at least 15

2. Time Window – 28^th Nov to 30^th Dec with following options:

a. Rooms available for outstation alumnus from Dec 28 at Nalanda; Kick off with brunch at 11.00 on 29^th Dec and finish with dinner on the 30^th Dec

b. Rooms available for outstation Alumnus from Dec 28 at Nalanda; Kick off with brunch at 11.00 on 19^th Dec and conclusion after lunch on the 30^th Dec

c. Rooms available for outstation Alumnus from Dec 28 at Nalanda; Kick off with brunch at 11.00 on 19^th Dec and conclusion after long late dinner on the 29^th night / 30^th early morning. Accommodation will, of course, be available on the 29^th Dec night.

Common to all the options:

· Brunch on the 29^th 11.00 am to 2.00 pm in the cricket field lawns

· Some games and lazing around in the sun from 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm – cricket field

· Samosas/ Snack and final round of tea/coffee 4.30 – 5.30 – Cricket field

· Dinner + Dance & Music + bon fire from 7.30 onwards at RCA

For the options 2a and 2b, various suggestions are being analysed.

It will be greatly appreciated if we get inputs from all of you on:

1. You preference among 2a, 2b and 2c

2. Suggestion for any modifications in Common Point listed above.

3. Suggestions for 29^th for 2a and 2b

3. For further detailing the following offered to take the responsibility till more people join in organising the event – Rajinder Singh, Sanjeev Narain, Neeraj Gupta and Anil Gupta were counted in for their active involvement.

a. Souvenir - Vivek Luther

b. Catering related – Peeyush Srivastava

c. Event detailing – Sudarshan Chawla

d. Communication and sponsorship - Rakesh Malhotra

e. Communication and support – Raj Nakra

f. Vivek has agreed to be the overall coordinator for this event

4. Nothing above is cast in stone and un-changeable!! Please send your inputs and suggestion to any of the following, but please do mark a copy always to Vivek Luther.

organising committee batch of 1973

Vivek Luther

9312500944

vivek.luther@gmail.com

Sudarshan Chawla

9810071069

sudarshan_chawla@rediffmail.com

Rakesh Malhotra

9811402615

rakeshmalhotra2002@hotmail.com

Peeyush Srivastava

9810272992

alkatech@bol.net.in

Rajendra Nakra

98 990 70000

rajnakra@vsnl.com

Anil Bhargava

98-103-22899,