Past Events

Its Freshies Nite time again!

For those who came in late:

Freshie = anybody that has moved into Bangalore in the last 1 year ... and therefore qualifies to get ragged during Freshies Nite!

• Venue: Indijoes in Carlton Towers, opp Diamond District (in the same building as TGIF) on Old Airport Road. Same venue as last year.
• Time: 6:30 pm onwards
• Date: 26th June 2009 - Friday
• Deal: No entry fee. No free food. BYOB. Just great company.

Last 2 years, we have had nearly 65-70 iitb junta showing up and having a great time. This evening serves as a good time for folks to connect with other IIT B junta, share notes on schools, jobs, hanging out places, finding long lost hostelmates etc. ... and for the "seniors" to rag a bit!

Please do pass the word around to other IITB junta in town.

See you then!

Cheers!

Saumil Majmudar

On behalf of IITBAA Bangalore Chapter

+91-9886004133

Mood and Melodies

What an evening!! Over 300 people, alumni showing up with family, alumni playing some fantastic music and people enjoying in the audience – and all this for a great cause!

"Moods and Melodies", the Pan-IIT musical program towards raising funds for the Village Knowledge Center initiative of IIT Bombay Alumni Association, Bangalore Chapter was organized on Saturday, Nov 8 at the Royal Orchid Hotel in Bangalore.The event witnessed an attendance of around 300 including alumni from all IITs, their families, and friends. The chief guest for the evening was Prof.Deepak Phatak of IIT Bombay. Also present were Dr.Ashok Misra, ex-director of IIT Bombay and his wife Rashmi Misra.

This was the first time that all the local IIT alumni chapters in Bangalore worked together to support a social cause. There was terrific enthusiasm in the performers and the audience. The organizing team had successfully brought together the musical talent from all the IITs who practiced for a month for this event. The program started with a string of Hindi film songs covering the entire era from 1960s to the latest chart busters. This was followed by an Indian Music Inter-IIT competition where 1 singer from every IIT was chosen to represent their alma mater. How can any IITian forget the inter-IIT rivalry? This was a tribute to that age-old sacred tradition. Punit Mishra (2007) from IIT KGP bagged the first place followed by Puneet Joshi (1994) from IIT Bombay.

Now was the turn of Western Music lovers to let their hair down. The Inter-IIT western music bout was won by Shankar (1999) from IITK. IIT KGP , was declared the unofficial "event winner" because of their great all-round performance. The group went on and on playing the choicest numbers that kept the audience at their feet till everybody was literally asked to leave! (that's Bangalore)

Overall the event was a great success. Many connections were made and renewed. All expectations of the organizers were exceeded in terms of the turn-out and funds raised. A sum of Rs.3.2 Lacs was raised from the event with which we can start a new and exciting chapter in our journey to help bridge the information divide between the urban and rural areas.

The IIT Bombay Alumni Association Bangalore Chapter would like to thank all the sponsors, alumni, performers (from many IITs) for making this a great success!

To know more about the initiative, please visit www.iitbombay.org/VKC . For making donations, please visit http://www.iitbombay.org/VKC/donate.html

To view pictures of the event, please visit http://www.indiasportstickets.com/Inter_IIT_Music_Event_08.htm

IITB Inter-hostel cricket match

After a great Golden Jubilee Outreach program on 21st July (we had 125 people showing up!), we have our next IITBAA Bangalore chapter event coming up:

IITB Inter-hostel cricket match over Beer & Biryani! - on August 15th.

Golden Jubilee Outreach Program

On behalf of IITBAA (Bangalore Chapter), we would like to invite you to the Golden Jubilee Outreach Program on July 21st 2007 in Bangalore. The Golden Jubilee celebrations of IIT Bombay will be celebrated from September 2007 to March 2009. The formal inauguration is scheduled for 5th September 2007, the auspicious teachers' day. The concluding ceremony will be held on 10th March 2009, the 50th foundation day.
Venue: Hotel Royal Orchid Central (in Manipal Center on Dickenson Road )
Date: July 21st 2007 - 3 pm to 5 pm

Freshies Nite

A WARM THANKS!!

Hi Folks,
A warm thanks to all who could show up for the Freshies Nite. To inform the others, approx. 30 ex-IITBians appeared with a good representation from across the batches (1971-2006). ‘Bravo!’ for that!! We are sure you had a gala time – showed on the faces!

Alumni from companies like Google, Yahoo!, Ness, AOL, Citigroup, SAP, P&G, PwC , ON Semi, Proteans, Modelytics, Srishti, Think3, Arcot, Picsquare, Sycon, Kena Design and SportzVillage as well as the Lok Paritran folks (the political party started by IIT alumni) were present at the meeting.

We had some interesting conversations going across the group, some old pals catching up after *ages*, lots of networking and even discussions about how we could work with Lok Paritran.

We thank you again - and hope you had a good time! We enjoyed putting it together and meeting more alumni

Bangalore Chapter Meeting - September 10, 2005

Dear Alumnus,

Over the past two years, the IIT-B Alumni Association in Bangalore has been active, and apart from various fun activities - cricket matches, picnics, treks, etc. We have initiated and set-up a Village Knowledge Centre, a project of social relevance at Ittamadu, a village 40 km from Bangalore. This has been possible with the involvement of quite a few alumni and while there's still a lot to be done, our experience has been very encouraging.

The Bangalore Chapter of IITBAA had been meeting regularly every third Friday at the IAS Officers Association, but for the last couple of months, we've not been able to meet. However, a few of the alumni have been meeting to carry on the planned initiatives of the association, and we've seen fun activities courtesy Saumil and Sanjay Jain, and also made progress at Ittamadu.

We thought it's time to meet again, take stock of what's happening, and plan for future activities. November, the time of our Annual Get-together is also round the corner, and it's a good idea to start planning for that, too. While we realize the demand on your time, do make yourself free on Saturday, September 10th 2005, at 6.30 pm to meet at the IAS Officer's Association, Infantry Road (opposite Hotel Ashraya International).

Apart from planning for various future activities, let's also work towards creating stronger bonds among the alumni in Bangalore!!

We look forward to seeing you Saturday, 10th September 2005. Please confirm by return mail.

With regards

Ananth
Ashok
Samir

Sunday Cricket Match - May 1, 2005

We had a great set of cricket matches yesterday! Here's an update for all those who missed out on the fun! :) Started off with a double-wicket tournament that had some great displays of all-round cricket and lots of minus 5's being scored! Sanjay Jain (H2) and Chaitanya Rajguru (H7) ended up treating all of us to a round of nimbu-pani that gave everyone the energy required to play another match.....H7 v/s rest of the world....and no prizes for guessing who won that one! A few freshies (2002 batch) did come and liven up the show towards the end!

Due to some great bowling and impressive batting, Ashok Raman's son - Akshay - was awarded the man of the match. Attached are pictures of the game, Akshay receiving Man of the match as well as the group of enthu iitians after a great game of cricket and of course, lots and lots of fun and laughter!

IIT BOMBAY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
PROJECT- VILLAGE KNOWLEDGE CENTRE - ITTAMADU
Click here for a Powerpoint presentation on the project ...

IIT Bombay Alumni Association inaugurated its first village knowledge center on 16th April 2005 in a village called ITTAMADU, approx. 45 km. from Bangalore. The enthusiasm in the village was tremendous. The VKC was inaugurated by a school girl with tens of small children, hope in their eyes being present along with the local villagers and Panchayat members.

The center has a library with over 500 books and a reading facility to act as a source of learning and will empower the children and villagers with knowledge awareness. The center has been equipped with books and magazines for all ages and also has 2 computers, a printer, UPS, Web camera, scanner and other support facilities which should enable it to evolve into the nodal center for knowledge for the villagers.

The village Panchayat has provided a building to house the library and computers. Local village talent has been identified by the Panchayat to manage the library and also the village knowledge center while the cost of the infrastructure has been funded from internal resources of IITBAA, Bangalore Chapter.

Ittamadu VKC is the first among the four VKC’s that IITBAA is planning to establish. The architects of this initiative are Mr. PSV Ananthanarayana, Mr. Ashok Kamath, Mr. Samir Kumar, Mr. Srikant Rao, Mr. Paresh Vora, Mr. V.P. Baligar.

15 IITB alumni (including Mr. Sudhir Badami who flew in from Bombay) participated in the inauguration to reinforce their commitment on rural development projects and how such a center can bring about a change in villages.

The activities of these VKCs and their impact are limited only by the time alumni are willing to spend in this activity to bring in a significant difference in many lives.

IITBAA has plans to extend the success of this model to other villages in the state.

To participate in this noble cause, please contact : bangalore [at] iitbombay.org

June Meeting - June 18, 2004

The Bangalore Monthly Meet of the IITB-Alumni Association will be held on Friday, June 18 at 6.30 PM at the IAS Officer's Association Hall, Infantry Road (Opposite Hotel Ashraya International ). During the last alumni meeting, there were members who expressed their intension to be associated with rural development activities. Shri. V.P. Baligar,IAS, Secretary, Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj, Govt. of Karnataka would be happy to interact with the alumni in Bangalore to discuss on how to take the issue forward.

Dr.P.J. Dilip Kumar, IFS, Principal Chief Conservator of Forest, Government of karnataka will talk on "Into Nandadevi Sanctuary".

Chai and samosas on the house.

Look forward to seeing you.

Bangalore Team - IITB Alumni Association

Announcing "IIT Bombay Alumni CrickFest" in Bangalore on Feb 22nd 2004 (Sunday) !!

How about a Inter-hostel Cricket Match?! .....Like old times! Remember the great inter-hostel rivalries, cheering squads and the fantastic gali-fights? Here's your chance to do that again (well...atleast, some parts of it!)

IITBombay Alumni Association (Bangalore) is pleased to announce its inaugural inter-hostel cricket match - "IITBombay Alumni CrickFest" in Bangalore. Alumni from Hostels 1 to 5 will play against Alumni from Hostels 6 to 11 in a series of 10-over tennis-ball matches.

Venue: SportzVillage (#55/11B, 24th Main, 2nd Sector, HSR Layout, Bangalore 34 - near Koramangala). Please visit www.sportzvillage.com/contact.html for a map to the venue.

Time: 9:30 am to 2 pm.

So, come on over - and relive the old hostel rivalries! Come with your family! Throwball, basketball, mini-cricket for ladies and kids as well!" There will be Lunch & Refreshments included in the event. Nominal charges per person will be notified in our next mail. So folks, block your calendar for the cricket game on 22nd February 2004.

Please confirm your participation to Sanjay Jain (H3, 1983-87) (snjyjn [at] iitbombay.org) or Saumil Majmudar (H7, 89-93) (saumil [at] iitbombay.org). Volunteers interested in helping out with organising this event: Please contact Sanjay or Saumil. And do forward this invitation to other alumni you are in touch with.

Thanks!

IITB Alumni Association - Bangalore Team

March meeting - March 19, 2004

An update on our February meeting. It was at the SportzVillage cricket field ( thanks Saumil ), a cricket match between Hostel 1-5 and Hostel 6-10. There were 32 participants and we all had a good time. We hope to see increased participation by the alumni in the refreshingly unique events being planned by Saumil and Sanjay. Particulars will be circulated shortly.

Our meeting for March is fixed for Friday the 19th.

Time: 6. 30 PM

Venue: IAS Officers Association Hall, Infantry Road, Bangalore (Opposite to Hotel Ashreya International).

At this meeting we have the pleasure of having Prof. H. Narayanan of Ele. Engg. speak to the alumni. We need to have your confirmation so that arrangements for refreshments can be made.

Send your confirmations to :

Anantha Narayana : ananth [at] maruthi-it.com

Ashok Kamath : Ashok.kamath [at] analog.com

Samir Kumar : Samir_kumar [at] acervc.co.in