Y-Point Spring 1998 Issue

Spring 1998

Volume II Number 1

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Editor-in-Chief
Ram V. Kelkar
B. Tech. (EE) 80 / H2

Managing Editors

Hemendra Godbole
(B. Tech. 86)

Dushyant Pandya
(B. Tech. 87)

Madan Mohan Rao
B. Tech. (CS) 85 / H4

Madhavan Thirumalai
B. Tech. 86 / H4

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In this issue ...

A Letter from the Director
Prof. S.P. Sukhatme writes about the School of Management and other new initiatives

Editorial
From the desk of Ram V. Kelkar (B. Tech. 80) ... The State of the IITs

Class Notes
Who, what, where ... updates about the whereabouts and new achievements of your classmates

Newsletter from IIT Bombay
Aruna Thosar-Dixit and Suranga Date write about the Distinguished Alumnus Awards for 1998 presented on Foundation Day in April 1998 Newsletter ... and about Gabbar Singh's retirement in the June 1998 Newsletter ...

OKBaba's Ashram
Hemendra Godbole (B. Tech. 86) ... Ruminations of an IITian in mid-life crisis

Confessions of a Vagrant Engineer : A short story
"Mad" Thirumalai (B. Tech. 86) on a sabbatical in Italy

IITs : Will they swim or sink ?
An article by Vijay Jung Thapa on the resource crunch facing the IITs from a recent issue of India Today (© Living Media India Ltd.)

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