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Sandpaper [2.0] Fall 2003 Issue Volume 2 Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Magazine PEOPLE OF THE MONTH: ADITI PANY ¦ DILIP D’SOUZA WHAT’S HAPPENING AT BITS ! ¦ BITSAA RAISES $650,000 The BITSAA Edition Sandpaper [2.0] Fall 2003 Issue Volume 2 Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Magazine VIJAY CHANDRU When Academicians become Entrepreneurs Top 10 Grad School Experiences BITS Entrepreneurship Center named top five in India BITSConnect Thank You The State of the Vidya Vihar Campus The Top 20 BITSian CEOs in India Scenes from a Pakistani (And their companies) Restaurant A conversation with My thoughts on LEADERSHIP Lt. General M. By Vivek Paul Rajgopal, AVSM Sandpaper [2.0] Fall 2003 Issue CONTENTS 3 EDITORIAL GENERAL INTEREST 4 LETTERS 38 Skydiving...Of fear and fun 40 Alfa Alfa By Dilip D’Souza FEATURES 6 Sandpaper Online 41 NOSTALGIC NOTES 7 2003: The year that’s been 10 Business News EDUCATION & ACADEMICS 11 Masala & Spice 44 KM Dholakia – BITS Faculty Dean (1961-84) 45 Profiling Dr. Vijay Chandru COVER STORY Part 2 of series: When academicians become entrepreneurs 12 Top 20 BITSIAN CEOs in India 19 Thoughts on Leadership by Vivek Paul PERSON OF THE MONTH 47 July/Aug: Aditi Pany BITSCONNECT 49 Sept/Oct: Dilip D’Souza 21 Thank You Letter 23 BITSConnexion ALUMNI CORNER 51 BITSAA International Initiatives NOTES FROM PILANI 24 The State of the Vidya Vihar Campus MERA BHARAT MAHAAN 26 Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership 52 A conversation with Lt. Gen Rajgopal IMMIGRANT SONG 54 SELECTED CLASS NOTES (1946-98) 28 Scenes from a Pakistani Restaurant 61 GIVING TO BITS – BITSConnect Pledge Form CREATIVE & HUMOR 30 Poetry by Anuradha and Vivek 32 Top 10 Grad Experiences 34 Writings from another time 36 The Date 53 Cartoons By Nikhil Adnani _____________________________________________________________________________________________ FALL 2003 SANDPAPER 2 From the Editor Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Magazine juniors to reach for that vast greatness that lies beyond most We all stand on the of us. I believe we all have it within us to achieve that greatness. To rise to and to reach, to experience the extraordinary. edge of a vast But if it hasn’t happened yet, if there is no light at the end of the tunnel yet, have patience. Spend time with leaders. greatness. Read about them. Talk to them. Learn what Vivek Paul says in his thoughts on leadership about that we must do. For the success that eludes us may be just round the corner. When I was applying to Harvard Business School eight years ago, I remember an essay question that genuinely got But if we achieve no greatness, leave no legacy beyond our me thinking: “Are you an ordinary person in extraordinary children, are not remembered by more than two generations circumstances? Or an extraordinary person in ordinary of our family members, we’ll all still be able to answer the circumstances?” HBS essay that stumped me eight years ago. All 30,000 BITSians could fill pages and pages of that essay . We That question stumped me. I was 26, living in London, would all write about being ordinary mortals yet having an hanging out at fancy watering holes, traveling to exotic extraordinary experience in a small village 200 kms from destinations within Europe. It was all amazing to me. But Delhi. That experience lasted for years. And we didn’t for most Londoners, my circumstances would be even know it then. considered ordinary. I don’t know what I wrote, but I must have made something up. HBS saw through it. I got dinged. During those years, we ate ordinary food in ordinary surroundings. Had ordinary GPAs (me anyway). Talked I have talked, met, read about leaders in all spheres during about ordinary things. Learnt from ordinary people (most the last ten years. Entrepreneurs. CEOs. Founders of anyway). Yet all those ordinary evenings, with an ordinary Charities. Millionaires. Even a billionaire. Most of them bunch turned out to be a pretty damn extraordinary started out quite ordinary. No child prodigies. Maybe a few experience. flashes that indicated they were destined for greatness. But, slowly, gradually, or sometimes suddenly, something So while you go about striving for the greatness, don’t struck. They succeeded. forget, that you’ve lived through the extraordinary. Stop for a moment and think about it. Better, pick up the phone I’m sure we can all relate similar experiences, where we and call someone. Re-live those moments. Remind met ordinary people living out extraordinary lives. And yourself. once in a while, we’ve even met the truly extraordinary person. Leading an extraordinary life. I’ve been fortunate Kya din thé woh. Those were the days. to have met a number of them this year. A number of Anupendra Sharma (’87) extraordinary BITSians. Chief Editor At the CEVC events this year, Chatter, Nesamoney and Hukku told their amazing stories. In each instance we came away marveling at their humbleness, their lack of egos, their gratefulness for having had one big idea that succeeded, their incredible sense of humor. However, none of them had illusions of this being their destiny, that they would do it one day. They all did have one thing in common. An unparalleled focus. A huge appetite for risk. The lack of pretensions about their achievements. But if you ask them, they won’t think it was a particularly amazing idea or a particularly outstanding quality they possessed that made things happen. I heard Deepak Chopra speak in Boston six months ago. He said that successful leaders all had one thing in common. These leaders called it Luck. Coincidence. Right Anupendra (left) with Prasad Thammineni (’86), place. Right time. Deepak calls this synchronicity. In his CEO of jPeople and CTO of BITSAA International at inimitable style he related this to quantum physics, the the East Coast USA Annual Event in October 2003. human body and ultimately, the soul. He talks about the greatness lying within all of us. This Sandpaper talks about 20 brilliant BITSians who run huge companies in India. All have achieved a measurable degree of greatness. The Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership hopes to sow some of those seeds within our _____________________________________________________________________________________________ FALL 2003 SANDPAPER 3 Letters & Opinions Birla Institute of Technology & Science Alumni Magazine Chitthi Aye Hai Excellent material!! Please keep I read the Sandpaper online edition On the launch of up the good work. literally uninterrupted! Brought back loads of memories and made Sandpaper 2.0 Umesh Bhatia, '84 my day. I am urging as many people Only now did I read the final I know to get to read this. I can see the immense efforts that would have version of sandp. it is phenomenal. I am really blown away. great job. gone to produce such a slick magazine. Congratulations! Suraj Srinivasan, '86 Raja (Dr. K R V Subramanian), Congratulations to your team CEO, AnswerPal for publishing the Sandpaper magazine I really like what you guys are doing. I know first hand how Deepak, Sydney difficult it is to put together a Please accept my congratulations magazine. I used to publish a in bringing out the Sandpaper issue. It is great to see a revival of the campus magazine by name "Vahini" It is very exciting to see the names Sandpaper masthead! Brings back in Telugu, all by handwriting. some of my best memories. The of BITS alumuni doing so well. Krishna Vavilala, (1956-60) Many names are very fresh in my broken down letter press -- working memory. Wishing you and all other late nights -- NC chais ... alumni very best. Congratulations on a great job. This is very neat. Thanks to all the editorial staff to put this fabulous Abani, Editor Sandpaper '86-87 Professor L K Maheshwari, Deputy magazine together. Its a nice trip. Director, BITS Thank you for your mail on the Arun Lakhotia, University of It was nice to see a nicely "Sandpaper". The Inaugural issue Lousiana at Lafayette organized copy of the Sandpaper. has come up well and very The (e) SandP (2.0) seems to be Great work Team! Please keep the informative. I am sure BITSians and the best idea BITSAA has come up good work up! Whatever little help others will appreciate the way it has with ever since I graduated in 1999. can come from my end shall be come. Congratulation to you and to there. your team for this effort. It is inspiring to see folks putting in efforts to get us all connected Professor Rahul Banerjee, BITS, Dr. Motilal Dash, Chief, despite your personal / professional Center for Software Development Community Welfare Unit, BITS schedules. Pilani Kudos to the SandP team! Truly It was fun going through the wonderful job with the webzine. I I just came across the inaugural sandpaper edition. To be frank, I read it all in one go. Thanks so issue of Sandpaper 2.0. I greatly read it non stop (online) for 3 hrs much for bringing back memorable enjoyed reading the issue. It brought and really am down with a severe vignettes of those glory days back many memories I did not even bout of nostalgia. It was nice to through the various articles. I have know I had ! Congratulations on a read through the achievements of longed to go back there for a visit job well done, and thanks to the BITSians and the class notes are a but somehow it has not been editorial team for their efforts in good way to keep track of people. possible in all these years. Nice to putting the issue together. I remember vividly the changes that have a bit (actually a lot) of BITS PS: It might be useful to include the i had seen during my 5 yrs of stay brought to us instead, through the there, right from the changing of magazine.
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