BITS Spark Hyd Coffee Meetup

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BITS Spark Hyd Coffee Meetup was a successful one with around 45 people turning out for the event. It was a good mix of attendees and spanned from Senior and experienced people, young entrepreneurs who are running their companies, people planning to start up and also current students. The venue was splendid.

The event was led by Mr. Satish Gupta ( 1961-66 ) , co-founder of TIE Angels and Sen Sen Networks and I assisted him. We introduced Spark and gave details about important dates and action items. There was enthusiasm among the audience to know more about Spark and the initiatives that are in store for them.  Few people offered to volunteer for organizing more such meetups. Continue reading →

Agam, the band, with BITSian roots

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You would have to make an effort to miss the increasingly popular BITSian Carnatic rock band Agam. If you are one of those that needs an introdution to the Music Clubbers who, years after graduating, became a successful act based in Bangalore, here’s a run up to how they became what they are.

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BITS Alumnus Vijay Bajaj (’80) donates to the Department of CCTV

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Realizing the need for more sophisticated video recording infrastructure in Pilani, BITS Alumnus Vijay Bajaj (1980-84) made a donation of $7000 to the Department of CCTV to purchase advance video cameras and other related equipment. The donation was made in memory of Mr. Rajendra Kumar Sahgal and this helped the Department of CCTV to purchase a technologically advanced camera which significantly eased the current process of recording videos in the Pilani campus and reduced delivery times.

Earlier, the CCTV department had to digitize and convert each video which was taken on borrowed cameras and the videos were of inferior quality. Thanks to Mr. Vijay Bajaj’s donation, this new investment greatly improved the efficiency of the CCTV department and the quality of the videos is a visual treat.

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BITS Kolaveri

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Venu Palaparthi

Venu Palaparthi

BITS Kolaveri – The song that premiered at BITSAA East Coast Gala. Written by Venu Palaparthi (’87). Sung by Tirthankar Das (86), Sandeep Nalgundwar (87), Simu Thomas (87) and a whole bunch of others.

 

 

THE video:

LYRICS:
Yo boys
I am singing song
Haloo song, flop song

Why in BITS courses, all I ever got is a D!
Graphics, mod-phy, CDCs (music).. a D

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BITS2BSCHOOL e-interview: Abhilash Ravishankar (Berkeley-Haas)

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Abhilash Ravishankar is an MBA candidate 2013 at University of California, Berkeley-Haas School of Business and has BE (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani (2003-2007).

 

Q. How did you know you were ready for an MBA?

A. Two reasons:

(a) I spent almost a year managing a team of engineers, and as a general manager, I was exposed to a number of business challenges. These challenges taught me new things and exposed gaps in my skill set.

(b) I felt that I was pigeonholing myself into oilfield operations and I wanted to work in a different capacity. B-School was a great transition platform. Continue reading →