Alumni in the news - May 14
The man who oversaw the introduction of the petrol version of the Mercedes Benz C-class with state-of-the-art CGI technology is Bharat Balasubramanian, an IIT Mumbai alumnus who is #2 in hierarchy at Mercedes Benz's global R&D set-up. | Mnemonicdictionary.com, a website started by IITB alumnus Amit Aggarwal helps people learn and remember words and their meaning easily by providing memory aids for each word. | The beleaguered environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, represents a new breed of politicians as the "human face" of the party ... factors that could save him from the fallout of his current "China" faux pas." | Manohar Parrikar, convener of the BJP’s newly formed governance cell, said that a code of conduct would be shortly evolved by the cell after discussions with other senior party leaders and chief ministers of party-ruled States. "The fulcrum of the code of conduct are these three principles, namely development of social, personal and financial character," said Mr. Parrikar.
The new petrol version of Mercedes Benz C-class model comes with an Indian touch. The man who oversaw the introduction of state-of-the-art CGI technology is Bharat Balasubramanian, a Chennai-born IIT Mumbai alumnus. He is number two in hierarchy at Mercedes Benz's global R&D set-up, currently designated VP, product innovations & process technologies in group research and advanced engineering.
"It is like coming back home. I vividly remember the train I used to take from Churchgate to Andheri during my college days," Balasubramanian said when quizzed about his roots here. In 1973, the Chennai lad graduated from IIT and then went on to earn a higher degree from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, in Germany.
... more.
Recondite, desultory, obsequious... Want to know the meaning of these words and remember them for future use? A website started by an IIT alumnus Amit Aggarwal can help you do just that and also let you flaunt your command over the English language. Mnemonicdictionary.com helps people learn and remember words and their meaning easily by providing memory aids (called mnemonics) for each word.
"The idea struck when I was preparing for my GRE in final year of college (IIT B). This technique worked for me, so I decided to reach out to all those people for whom vocabulary is a major roadblock," says Aggarwal.
... more.
Jairam: A minister with a mind of his own ... The beleaguered environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, represents the new breed of politicians projected by Congress crown prince Rahul Gandhi and the "human face" that party chief Sonia Gandhi wants for her party. These are probably the factors that could save him from the fallout of his current "China" faux pas.
Jairam, an IIT (Bombay) and Carnegie Mellon alumnus, was close to former PM Rajiv Gandhi and worked with the father of India's telecom revolution Sam Pitroda. He coined the slogan that got the Congress to power in 2004 - "Congress ka haath aam aadmi ke saath." ... more.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is formulating a code of conduct for party workers on tackling issues ranging from handling obstinate bureaucrats and time management to personal conduct while dealing with women, a senior party functionary said. Manohar Parrikar, convener of the BJP’s newly formed governance cell, told IANS that the code of conduct would be shortly evolved by the cell after discussions with other senior party leaders and chief ministers of party-ruled States.
"The fulcrum of the code of conduct are these three principles, namely development of social, personal and financial character," said Mr. Parrikar, an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay alumni and a former Chief Minister of Goa.
... more.
