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^{A history of} ^{in 2000 ...}

December 29, 2000

Vijay Anand's eyewitness report from Reunion 2000 - "The greatest reunion of all times" - which was held on December 24 in Mumbai.

December 19, 2000

Information about JEE 2001, DASA (Direct Admission for Students Abroad) and Mood Indigo plus a reminder that Reunion 2000 - "The greatest reunion of all times" is on December 24 in Mumbai.

December 13, 2000

"Headhunters are rushing to IIT" ... ET article on the 2nd of December highlights the feeding frenzy on campus with top firms like McKinsey and Price Waterhouse looking to hire IITians. "The students of the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, which had started its MTech in Information Technology last year, have been swamped with offers from the likes of Intel and Infosys."
Updated Class notes for the Class of 1989 and Class of 1980.

December 9, 2000

The IITBHF is running an advertisement campaign to reach out to alumni across North America - click here for a sneak preview. Please contact your friends and classmates from IIT to encourage them to visit this site and register in the IITBHF Alumni Database.
The Message Board has been relaunched - please give us your comments, thoughts and suggestions on all of IITBHF's activities.
December campus newsletter includes an update on the MoU signed between the School of Management and the Kellogg School.

December 4, 2000

"The TiE that binds" - IIT Bombay alumnus Kanwal Rekhi is featured in San Jose Mercury article on TiE on Nov 26 ... "India’s five IIT’s are the country’s top engineering schools—India’s version of MIT—but the admissions requirements are even stiffer. Each year, between 75,000 and 100,000 people take the nationwide entrance exam, competing for 2,000 seats."

In the October 2000 newsletter, read about the naming of the School of Management as the SJ Mehta SoM, and about the first meeting of the IIT Bombay Advisory Board which includes several alumni.

December 1, 2000

MMM in Mumbai on December 2 features Prof. Madhav Kulkarni speaking on Global Positioning Systems and Ms Bachi Karkaria of Midday Multimedia at the usual venue - Institute of Engineers, Haji Ali (across from Willingdon Club) at 4.30 pm ... click here for more information.

November 24, 2000

IIT Bombay's Entrepreneurship Cell announces Eureka! 2001, the annual business plan competition. Eureka! is intended to encourage a broad range of students across the country to flesh out their ideas in business terms and form teams that combine technology and business strengths ... please click here for more information.
A pictorial report on the Greater NY Chapter annual gala event on September 23, 2000.
The India New England News report on the Boston area Roadshow event which was held on October 14, 2000.
Pictorial report on the Chicago Chapter's Roadshow event held on October 7, 2000

November 19, 2000

The IIT Bombay Heritage Fund is pleased to announce the Fundraising 2000 Campaign. We have set some very ambitious goals for this campaign to help maintain IIT Bombay's "Tryst with Excellence" and we are counting on the extended family of IITians spread across the world for input and support in making a difference.
IITBHF's Alumni Directory now offers an exciting new feature - lifelong e-mail forwarding for all registered alumni. All mail sent to "UserId[!]alumni.iitbombay.org" will be forwarded to the primary e-mail address specified by you in your database entry ... click here for FAQs on this new service. As an example, e-mail sent to abcd[!]alumni.iitbombay.org will be automatically forwarded to the primary e-mail address of the registered member whose UserId in the IITBHF Alumni Directory is "abcd".
In the November Campus newsletter, read about the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management - which was funded with the assistance of the IIT Bombay Heritage Fund - being ranked amongst the top 25 schools in Asia Pacific.

November 4, 2000

Rediff on the Net - "IIT graduate is Goa chief minister".

October 26, 2000

IITian Manohar Parrikar (BTech '78 - Metallurgical) becomes Chief Minister of Goa, leading a 14 member council of ministers in a BJP-led coalition Government ... click here for the story in the Times of India. Parrikar joins other IITians in the political arena who have made it to center stage, including Sudheendra Kulkarni (BTech '81) who is an advisor to Prime Minister Vajpayee, and Jairam Ramesh (BTech '75), a former Secretary of the Congress Party and the author of the Kautilya column in India Today.

October 16, 2000

Updated news and information about Reunion 2000 - "The greatest reunion of all times".
Photographs from the San Francisco Roadshow 2000 event and the Distinguished Alumni Summit on September 30, 2000.

October 9, 2000

PMC Sierra acquires SwitchOn Networks, a company founded by an IITian - click here for the Times of India report.
HeyAnita, a company founded by IITians, is trying to turn phones into Net appliances and was recently featured in the Times of India and in the Wall Street Journal.
Update from Class of 1991.
MMM on October 14 in Mumbai features Sudheendra Kulkarni (BTech '80), advisor to PM Atal Behari Vajpayee ... click here for all the details.

October 7, 2000

"New economy NRIs flock to IIT Bombay Roadshow" - Times of India article about the San Francisco Bay Area event on October 4.
Washington DC event on October 12 featuring Prof. Suryanarayan and Prof. UN Gaitonde.
Update from Class of 1994.

October 4, 2000

"India reaps brain-drain dividend" - IITBHF's fundraising efforts for IIT Bombay were highlighted in an article by Pallava Bagla on National Geographic.com. "... the money coming to IIT Kanpur is chicken feed compared with what IIT Mumbai is raking in ... " ... click here for the article.
Houston Chapter Roadshow 2000 event on October 14, 2000 will feature Prof. SLN Murthy, Dean of Resource Development.
Dallas Chapter Roadshow 2000 event on October 15, 2000 will feature Prof. SLN Murthy, Dean of Resource Development, and Prof. U.N. Gaitonde, Professor in-charge of Alumni Affairs as well as a Keynote Address by Dr. Krish Prabhu, COO of Alcatel Worldwide.

October 2, 2000

News from the Pune chapter of IITBHF / IITBAA.
Update from Class of 1989.
Prof. Pradeep Mathur from IIT Bombay has won the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar award for Chemistry ... click here for the Times of India report. The Bhatnagar award is India's highest award for achievement in scientific research.
"IIT Bombay's alumni chapter meets in N.J." - Silicon India report on the Greater New York Chapter event.

September 28, 2000

The all new London Chapter of the IITBHF / IITBAA is to be established in London on October 18 as a part of Roadshow 2000 ... click here for information.
San Francisco Chapter event on September 30 is in Gates B 01, Hewlett-Packard Auditorium, Gates Building, Computer Science Dept., Stanford University ... click here for directions.
Seattle Chapter event on October 4, 2000 will feature Prof. U.N. Gaitonde, Professor in-charge of Alumni Affairs and Prof. S. Suryanarayana, Dean, Research and Development, IIT Bombay, as well as a Keynote Address by Vijay Vashee and Atul Kanagat.
Roadshow 2000 update ... Distinguished Alumni Summit 2000 was held in Rye, NY, and the Greater New York Chapter event was a grand success featuring Prof. MGK Menon, Director Ashok Misra, Hemant Kanakia, Founder of Torrent and Nandan Nilekani, COO/MD of Infosys.
Roadshow 2000 in Los Angeles on October 1 and Boston on October 14 ... click here for a day-by-day schedule.

September 22, 2000

The automated IIT Bombay Heritage Fund Alumni Database is now online ... please click here to visit. We will be sending you your UIDs and Passwords shortly to permit full access to the database.
Roadshow 2000 ... Chicago Chapter event on October 7.
San Francisco Chapter event on September 30 will have Prof. Misra, Director of IIT Bombay, Prof. MGK Menon, Chairman of the Board of Governors as a part of Roadshow 2000 and the Speaker Series features Raj Jaswa, President and CEO of Selectica.
Version 6 of Schedule for Roadshow 2000 - US visit of the Director of IIT Bombay.

September 17, 2000

Version 5 of Schedule for Roadshow 2000 - US visit of the Director of IIT Bombay.
"To dam or to not dam" - The Action Group for Water Management is arranging a day's visit to Khurd (an hour plus from Pune) on Sunday, October 1 to check out the " No-dam option" implemented here for rainwater conservation ... click here for details.

September 14, 2000

IIT Bombay alumni have set up the Arman Fazli Treatment Fund to assist an IITian from the Class of 1997 who has come to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland in the US to be treated for leukemia.

September 12, 2000

Surbahaar, a musical event with roots in IIT Bombay is now an annual event in New York City which raises funds for educational projects in India. Surbahaar 2000 will be held on Saturday, September 16, in New York City ... click here for more information, or visit http://www.surbahaar.org.

September 9, 2000

Updated schedule for Roadshow 2000 - Prof. Ashok Misra, Director of IIT Bombay, together with senior faculty will be visiting the US in September and October.
Indian Prime Minister, Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee, at the Asia Society Annual Dinner in New York City on September 7th spoke in the presence of Victor Menezes (BTech '70), who is a Trustee of the Asia Society. The PM also addressed the UN Millennium Summit on September 8.
A book on entrepreneurship by IIT alumnus Amar V. Bhidé, (BTech '77) has been described as "... the single most significant contribution to our understanding of entrepreneurship to date" by George Gendron, Editor in Chief, Inc. Magazine. The book has been reviewed in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and in Barron's in recent weeks.
The September 2000 newsletter updated with news about the naming of the School of Management, and the laying of a foundation stone for a new Hostel for IIT Bombay.

September 5, 2000

IITBHF / IITSINE announce Welcoming Luncheon for new IITians coming to the Boston area.
Economic Times article puts the spotlight on a new film - "Dollar Dreams" about the high rate of expatriation amongst Indians not just from the IITs and IIMs but also from all over states like Andhra Pradesh.
NY Chapter announces details about the annual gala event on September 23.
The September 2000 newsletter reports on the Convocation and lists all the Academic Award winners from the Class of 2000.

August 28, 2000

Roadshow 2000 : Prof. Ashok Misra, Director of IIT Bombay, together with Prof. M G K Menon, Chairman, Board of Governors, Prof. S L Narayanamurthy, Dean Resource Mobilisation, Prof. U N Gaitonde, Prof-in-Charge Alumni Affairs, Prof. S. Suryanarayana, Dean Research and Development and Prof U B Desai, Dean Student Affairs will be visiting the US in September-October 2000 ... click here for a preliminary schedule of the cities they will be visiting and watch this space for updates.
IIT Bombay held its 38th Convocation on Thursday, August 10, 2000. Shri Rajendra Pawar, Chairman, NIIT Ltd., was the Chief Guest at the function and delivered the Convocation Address. Times of India's report on the Convocation was titled "IIT Powai confers Doctorate on Kasturirangan".
Times of India on August 16, 2000, highlights IIT Bombay's plans to launch an Innovation Centre "... the Innovation Centre has broader aims ... says Raj Mashruwala, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, who hopes that it will one day rank alongside MIT's legendary Media Labs".
Boston Chapter picnic and Mumbai Monthly Meet on August 27 ... click here for Alumni chapter events in your area.
Class Notes from Class of 1991.

August 9, 2000

Letter from Prof. Ashok Misra, Director of IIT Bombay.
The August 2000 newsletter reports on the Excellence in Teaching award winners.
Articles about the IITs and their fundraising activities in the Economic Times ... "Back to school", "All for old school ties" and "Let's talk entrepreneurship".
Update from Class of 1989.
NY Chapter announces annual gala event on September 23.

July 28, 2000

Pyare Janata ... click here for all the information you need about Reunion 2000 - "The greatest reunion of all times".
IIT Bombay Student Body officials now have permanent e-mail addresses ... Hostel General Secretaries have e-mail addresses as follows - gsh1[!]ccs.iitb.ac.in for Hostel 1 and so on till gsh11[!]ccs.iitb.ac.in for Hostel 11.
General Secretary (Academic Affairs) : gsaa[!]ccs.iitb.ac.in
General Secretary (Cultural) : gscult[!]ccs.iitb.ac.in
General Secretary (Sports) : gssport[!]ccs.iitb.ac.in
General Secretary (Hostel Affairs) : gsha[!]ccs.iitb.ac.in
General Secretary (Alumni Secretary) : alsecy[!]ccs.iitb.ac.in
Victor Menezes, BTech Class of 1970, has been named to head Citigroup's Emerging Markets business which generates earnings of over $2 Billion. "Citi banks on Victor Menezes for Emerging Markets push." - Headline in Times of India on July 27.
Funds pour in for IIT drive - Times of India article on July 19, 2000.

July 23, 2000

The Annual Bay Area picnic was attended by over 350 people, making the event a smashing success and earning it the distinction of being the most attended IITBHF event to date ... click here for a write-up.
Update from Class of 1994.
Small-town India goes to big-time America - Indian Express article on July 24, 2000. "... achievers from rural or semi-urban backgrounds with modest education who do not fit the billing of IIT geniuses, but who are making as resounding a splash in the digital world. While IIT-ians are subject to rah-rah write-ups in the media, the non-IITians stack-up just as well in the digital sweepstakes." ... "What's the big deal about IIT? Aren't some of the regional engineering colleges are as good?'' -- Naveen Jain, Meerut born founder of Infospace, a high-profile wireless portal asked at a recent conference.

July 20, 2000

San Francisco chapter Speaker Event on August 8 features Raj Mashruwala on "Thriving in Chaos: A Case Study of a Successful Startup".

July 12, 2000

MMM in Mumbai on Saturday, July 15, features Dr. Sengupta and Dr Mehta of Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi speaking on “Safeguarding of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in Indian Scenario”.
Update from Class of 1988.

July 5, 2000

Urgent announcement : IITBHF San Francisco Bay Area Chapter picnic on July 8th at Blackberry Farm ... click here for details and RSVP to monashah[!]pacbell.net.
The July 2000 newsletter reports on visitors from the Kellogg School and from Malaysia.

July 4, 2000

India Today ranks IIT Bombay #1 amongst Engineering colleges in India - click here for the full story. "Forty years later, IIT Powai is among the best known addresses in the world of engineering".
AsiaWeek ranks IIT Bombay #3 in Asia behind Korea Advanced Institute of Technology and Pohang University, but first amongst all Indian universities.
Article in Economic Times headlines "Indian unveils world's fastest SRAM chip" and features Rajiv Joshi (IIT Bombay BTech (ME) 1977) from IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.
The June 2000 newsletter has news about the School of Management and about Dr. Sada Joshi, an IIT alumnus, who was named one of PetroleumCentury's top 100 technologists.
Faculty visiting the US : Prof. Tarun Kant, Head of Civil Engg. is in the US in July and September ... click here for details.
IIT Bombay alumni from the Pune chapter held its Vaishali Meet on June 24 featuring Dr. Sharangpani.
Class Notes updates from Classes of 1989 and 1990.

June 3, 2000

IIT Bombay alumni chapters are being formed on Pune and New Delhi - click here for details.
Class Notes updates from Classes of 1967, 1974 and 1989.
Article in Economic Times titled "A New IIT Every Year" questions whether all the money being raised should go to the IITs ... "The need of the hour is surely to expand the availability of IIT education, not to make a few ivory towers still more towering."
Faculty visiting the US : Prof. Naik from the Aerospace Dept. is in the US from June 4 to July 9 ... click here for details.

May 23, 2000

Headline article in Outlook Magazine titled "The Best And The Brightest" -- ' Near-complete autonomy and a fanatical focus on quality make the IITs the cradle of some of the world’s best talent'.
Class Notes updates from Classes of 1988 and 1990.
Full report on MMM debate held on April 30 in IIT Bombay on "Foundations of the Future Economy : Click or Brick" with participants including Sudheendra Kulkarni, Advisor in the Prime Minister's Office. It was headlined in the Indian Express as "IT must touch India's core concerns".
MMM on Saturday, May 27 at Institution of Engineer's Hall at Haji Ali features Rajendra Deshpande of NABARD who will speak on "Tackling Drought - Short Term and Long Term Perspectives".

May 12, 2000

Quota system leaves SC/ST students high and dry at IITs - Times of India story on May 7 highlights the situation faced by SC/ST students.

May 11, 2000

Fortune magazine features IITians in a five-segment article titled "The Indians of Silicon Valley". Referring to Kanwal Rekhi, the article says - "The hidden geniuses of the tech revolution are Indian engineers--here's how one bucked stereotypes, got rich, and has become a godfather to a generation of immigrant entrepreneurs".
Campus Diary for May 2000 has news on a DAAD grant from Germany and an exclusive MTNL Exchange for IIT Bombay. The main campus switchboard number is now (91-22) 572-2545.

May 2, 2000

New Director Announced for IIT Bombay - Prof. Ashok Misra, Dean of Alumni Affairs and International Programs at IIT Delhi has been appointed as the new Director of IIT Bombay. Prof. Misra, a PhD from the Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, previously worked at Monsanto in the US, and has authored two books in the field of Polymer Science.
Wall Street Journal article on May 2 highlights prominent IIT Bombay alumni in article titled "South Asian 'Angels' reap riches".
A debate was held in IIT Bombay on April 30 on "Foundations of the Future Economy : Click or Brick" with participants including Sudheendra Kulkarni, Advisor in the Prime Minister's Office. It was headlined in the Indian Express as "IT must touch India's core concerns".
Kanwal Rekhi calls for "DoT Hatao, Desh Bachao" in the Economic Times on April 25.
NJ/NY/CT Chapter of IITBHF announces Fourth Annual Picnic on June 10 in Duke Island Park, Bridgewater, NJ - click here for details.

April 18, 2000

Prof. Ashok Misra, Dean of Alumni Affairs and International Programs at IIT Delhi has been appointed as the new Director of IIT Bombay.
Economic Times headline on April 17th - "IIT's $1-Bn facelift set to take shape".
Singapore/HK chapter of IITBHF is being set up - click here for details.

April 10, 2000

Campus Diary for April 2000.
Houston Chapter event on Tuesday, April 25 at 5:30 pm features Nandan Nilekani, MD of Infosys, speaking on "Entrepreneurship in India", with Consul General Rinzing Wagdi as Chief Guest ... click here for details about the event which is to be held in the Westin Galleria - Monarch Room.
Hostel Alumni Day is on Saturday, April 8, 2000 ... contact your hostel Alumni Secretary at hostel#mitra.cse.iitb.ac.in for additional information.
IIT Bombay's Mumbai Monthly Meet on Saturday, 29 April 2000 features "Is IT Moksha-2K ?" with Deepak Phatak, Jairam Ramesh, N R Narayan Murthy, Parag Rele, S R Ganesh, Shailesh Gandhi, Sudheendra Kulkarni (IT Advisor to Shri A.B. Vajpayee).

March 23, 2000

NY/NJ Chapter event at 11 am on April 1 features Prof. Amarnath Bhide (Professor, Harvard Business School) and Prof. Deepak Phatak (Head, KReSIT, IIT Bombay) on "The Entrepreneurial Drive" at Raagini Restaurant, 1085 US Hwy 22, Mountainside, NJ.
IIT Bombay's Mumbai Monthly Meet on Saturday, 25 March 2000 features Saumil Trivedi taking stock of IT stocks in "Buoyant Bubbly Balloon - things to come in the New Economy", an update on "Department of Computer Science and Engineering" from Dr. D.M. Dhamdhere and "Cartoons and Caricatures " by Ashok Dongre and Arun Inamdar.

March 21, 2000

Victor Menezes (BTech EE 1970) has been appointed as Chairman and CEO of Citibank. The CNNfn website story highlighted that India-born "Menezes to chair Citibank".
The Class of 1975 and IITBHF have helped wire all the IIT Bombay Hostels and the Student Activity Center on a campus-wide intranet.

March 14, 2000

Times of India on March 12 ... "Yuppies give jobs and I for an I ...".
Times of India on March 5 ... "Indian entrepreneurs have money for charity, not politics".

March 13, 2000

Distinguished Alumnus Awards announced on March 10, Foundation Day.
Campus Diary for March 2000.

March 5, 2000

Times of India on March 2 ... "NRI Web moguls create "brain trust" back home".
Indian Express on March 2 ... "IIT to breed billionaires on campus".
Economic Times on March 1 ... "Personal interest the key factor in students' reaction".
Class of 1994 and Class of 1991 updated in Class Notes.

March 1, 2000

Boston Chapter event on March 10, 2000, featuring "Commercialization of New Technologies"
Class of 1997 Update in Class Notes

February 29, 2000

IIT Bombay Heritage Fund General Body Meeting has been scheduled for April 2 at 9 am.
New York Times on February 29 ... "Web Moguls' Return Passage to India".
Speaker series event in the San Francisco Bay Area by Prof. Amar Bhide is now scheduled for March 12th on "What's the secret of start-up success ?".

February 24, 2000

Cover stories in the Times of India and the Economic Times on February 23 - "Flashy big buck Americans ? Oh no !"
Economic Times on February 13 - "The USA gains".
POSTPONEMENT - the Speaker series event in the San Francisco Bay Area by Prof. Amar Bhide scheduled for February 26th on "What's the secret of start-up success ?" has been postponed. The new date will be announced by e-mail and on this website - please accept our apologies for the change due to unexpected scheduling difficulties.

February 17, 2000

A Jobs Bulletin Board plus a Soap Box for cack sessions is being introduced on the website. Write to with comments and suggestions on these new features.
E-Mail/URL Directory updated through February 2000.
Excerpts from The New, New Thing written by Michael Lewis which features the IITs. "... a ruthlessly efficient mechanism for finding and exploiting Indian technical talent ... the Indian Institute of Technology ... The definitive smell inside a Silicon Valley start-up was of curry."

February 16, 2000

January and February newsletters from IIT Bombay.
Professor Shankar of the EE Department passed away on February 2nd.

February 15, 2000

Speaker series event in the San Francisco Bay Area - Prof. Amar Bhide speaks on February 26th on "What's the secret of start-up success ?".
Cover story in BusinessWorld India's February 14th issue about the IITs highlights how alumni are paying back - "Alumni pay their dues".
"IIT alumni join hands to bring 'Asha' to the underprivileged", Times of India, Thursday, Feburary 10, highlights IITians who have taken up social service in India. "Asha is funding a number of voluntary agencies including VOICE ... working among children living on platforms at Bandra ...".
Prof. Biswajit Nag, former Director of IIT Bombay expired in Calcutta on February 6th. Prof. Nag was the Director of IIT Bombay from September 1984 for 10 years.
"The IITians pay it back" - Economic Times, Sunday, January 30, 2000.
Introducing "SWAMI", an IT comic strip written by Ashok Dongre (BTech '73, IDC DIIT '75, H8).

January 14, 2000

E-Mail/URL Directory updated through December 1999.

January 8, 2000

Mood Indigo 1999 was held from December 20-23 featuring Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia and Dr. L. Subramaniam and "Parikrama" ... click here for a report.
Alumni Day 1999 was a big success ... click here for an updated report with pictures.

January 5, 2000

Prof. Sukhatme appointed as Chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board ... read the report in the Times of India.

January 1, 2000

Report on Alumni Day 1999 ... and best wishes for a "Happy New Millennium".

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