Walked to Pune station, Reached in under an hour – thanks to bag being light. DQ was on platform 4, so did not have to use the pedestrian overbridge. Metro was running at 0645 hrs. Vistadome experience was good. Spent an hour in the rear gallery watching the tracks and the scenery. Met with an … Read more

Growing Carrots with the Stick Srinivasa Sajja graduated from BITS Pilani  and stayed on for 4 years as a teaching assistant. He then joined IIM Calcutta for his fellow program. He had got married by them. Did not realise that his better half was also staying on the campus during the time we were there. … Read more

Srikrishna Karkare, an IIT Bombay alumnus, spent his formative years at Thermax. He quit in 1988 to start a small trading concern for the chemical and allied industry. His wife Alka, who is also his batchmate from IIT Bombay, continued working with Praj, and was the family financial pillar in the formative years of Enpro. … Read more

Shridhar’s dad used to work with the Posts and Telegraphs department. Dad was a family educationist of sorts. Shridhar’s grandfather was not well educated. His dad was the eldest of 10 kids. He took responsibility for getting all of them educated. And then there were dad’s own three kids: Shridhar and his two elder sisters. … Read more

Bombay lad. Got his first internship to computers in his uncle’s company – Applied Electromagnetics, a Delhi based company, which worked on rugged computers. Btw, the uncle’s partner was the current CM of Maharashtra, Prithwiraj Ghorpade, his uncle’s classmate at Berkeley. Liked computers –  went on to IIT Bombay 85-89 EE batch. Was the first … Read more

Shachin Bhardwaj was your typical IT engineer, a bachelor who stayed back late to enjoy dinner on company account. The atypicality was in applying his IT skills to structure the offerings of all the delivery and take-away joints in Pune. What started off as an Excel sheet which was shared on mail with colleagues morphed … Read more

Satish Magar grew up in a farmer’s family – in the city of Pune. Their village (now Magarpatta) was a very unique geographical island. Bounded on three sides by roads – and on the last by a railway line, the families have stayed together – and in harmony. Satish’s own family is a joint one … Read more

After his education at St Joseph’s, Khadki, Samuel Abraham went on to do his BSc in Chemistry at Nowrosjee Wadia College. Those days there was a one year PG course in petroleum which Sam enrolled for. Almost immediately after the completion of that course, Sam got a contract job with ONGC on their rig. If … Read more

TiE talk by Roby John, Tap 2 learn, Oct 2013 Roby John is a mechanical engineer from COEP, batch of 1999. He was the gold medalist in college – moved on to a higher education program, but did not like it and dropped out. He has a flair for teaching, and he has taught for … Read more

Ranga Bodavala was born into an agricultural family in Guntur. Wanted to be an engineer, but his farmer-dad, who is also a trained cost accountant, made the young Ranga do his B.Com. An MBA from Andhra University followed, where Ranga got both his naukri and chokri. He met his better half here. He joined Administrative … Read more