The stalwart of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Professor T K Basu retired recently leaving behind a rich legacy from his time here at Kgp, first as a student and then as a professor. Professor Basu also taught at IIT Bombay and later served as the head of the Center of Educational Technology which [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Player of the bansuri, classicist who has gone out of his way to promote Indian classical music, awardee of the Padma Bhushan, the Konarak Samman and the Yash Bharati Samman, music composer for many Indian films, head of the World Music Department at the Rotterdam Music Conservatory, creator of a music style that [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Prahalad Kakkar India's very own Ad Guru came down to IIT KGP during Kshitij 2009. TSA brings you this exclusive interview, which, in his typical style, was short,sweet and hilarious. An Excerpt : TSA: Sir, how did you get started with advertising? Could you elaborate on the humble beginning? PK: It was a pleasant afternoon. I was walking past an office. People were lunching on the lawn outside this bungalow. Then, I notice these nice pair of legs in a mini-skirt, the best I have seen in a while. I walk inside, approach her and strike a conversation with 'I want to join this company'. Amused, she looks at me and says, 'Do you even know what we do?'. I replied, 'I don't care any longer'.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Krishna Kumar Kunnath grew up listening to Pink Floyd, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Deep Purple and Billy Joel. Spring Fest 2009 saw the DU Commerce graduate and a play-back genius, performing to a packed house, in the Tagore Open Air Theatre. The Scholars’ Avenue caught up with KK for a rendezvous, backstage. [...]
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
R.K. Misra is a B.Tech graduate of IIT Kanpur. He has an M.S. from Tokyo University. He has been an entrepreneur for most of his professional life, and has founded and acquired three technology businesses. More recently, he was declared the winner of TOI’s ‘Lead India’ campaign. In an interview with The Scholars’ Avenue, R.K. Misra [...]
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Sramana Mitra has been an entrepreneur and a strategy consultant in Silicon Valley since 1994. Her fields of experience span from hard core technology disciplines like semiconductors to sophisticated consumer marketing industries including fashion and education. Her current focus, however, is primarily in the realms of Web 3.0 and Enterprise 3.0, and related infrastructure. She [...]
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Ranbir (Ron) Singh Gupta, B.Arch 1970 IIT-Kharagpur and a top-notch architect in the US with his own company based in New York has given his alma-mater “Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management“, first such school of its kind in the world. His donation of $1 million is the second-highest endowment received [...]
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
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