Current Updates...

Year 2010

"Deepak Tyagi & Shalini blessed with a baby girl Aarna- Nov 29th.. Aarav gets a younger sister"

Year 2009

"Duresh Singh awarded the 'Prof Shyam K Parwani Award' by University of Mumbai - March 2009"
"Mandeep and Keertika blessed with baby boy- Ishaan on 19th March 2009"

Year 2008

"Satrajit and Aditi Gupta blessed with a baby boy - Nirvaan on 5th Dec 2008"
"Anand Savla - finally takes the plunge. To Wed Falguni Dave on 12 Dec 2008"
"Ying and Nipun Nair blessed with their second child - baby Tanya - July 3rd 2008"
"Sandipan and Rupa are blessed with a baby girl - Madhura - May 30th 2008 "
"Supratim and Dipanwita blessed with a baby boy Sourodeep - 14th May 2008 "
"Durgesh and Nilanjana have been visited by stork again. Disha gets a younger brother 'Devdarsh' - 6th April 2008"
"Neeraj and Deepa have been blessed with a baby boy , Vineet - 17th Jan 2008"
"Vikram and Preeti are blessed with a baby girl, Mrinalini - 4th Jan 2008"

Year 2007

"Rohit Pathak and Arti are blessed with son Arjun - 25th Nov 2007"
"Dinesh and Neetu blessed with son Aarush - 6th Nov 2007"
"Karthik Kuppuswamy moves from Infosys to SAP - May 2007"
"Nipun moves from Deloitte to a startup 'Tumri' - 28 Feb 2007"
"Deepak and Shalini blessed with a baby boy - Aarav -27 Jan 2007"
"Praful Mattoo moves to SAP from i2"

Year 2006

“Amit Kaul joins Cisco (Bangalore) - 11 Dec 2006"

"Sandipan Dutta relocates to Houston, TX for a Wipro client - Nov 2006"

"Karthik Kuppuswamy has moved back to Infosys Bangalore - from Florida"

"Amit and Meena Kaul blessed with a baby girl - Asheera - 31st July 2006"

"A mini-CBC get-together in Bangalore - 16th July 2006"

"CBCNET Blog launched"

"Amit Kaul has quit Intel – joined Continuous Computing (Bangalore) – 2^nd May 2006”

“Praful and Sonika blessed with a baby boy – (first boy in CBC) – Shikhar Mattoo – 16^th March 2006”

“Nipun and Ying blessed with a baby girl – Neena An Nair – 24^th Feb 2006”

”Vishal Gupta moves to Computer Associates, Hyderabad”

Year 2005

• “Supratim Deb married Dipanwita Dutta on 28^th Nov 2005”
• “Ashok Radhakrishnan leaves Mindtree (Germany) for Intel, Bangalore – July 2005”
• “Amit Kak and Priyanka are blessed with a Baby girl – Arsehya on 6^th Aug 2005”
• “Mandeep Singh has relocated to AMD - Sunnyvale, CA from Austin TX – Aug 2005”
• “Sambuddha and family has relocated to India – joining Synopsys at Bangalore – July 2005”
• “Karthik and Ranjani are blessed with a baby girl – Kavya – 3 March 2005”
• “Supratim Deb moves back to India – joins ATT Bell Research Lab in Bangalore – March 2005”
• “Nipun and Ying get married in China – Feb 2005”
• “Satrajit moves to San Jose Bay area – joins a hot startup. Watch out!!!”
• “Sidharth Bhan moves from HCL Cisco (Chennai) to Juniper (Bangalore) –finally after 7.5 long years –Jan 03 2005”

Year (2004)

• “Sambuddha and Ananya blessed with a baby girl - 'Arna' on 5th Nov 2004"
• "Kuldeep Parikh quits KPMG . Moved to head HP Blore - to head HP's BPO strategy team - 18th Oct 2004"
• "Vikram Kaul married Preeti Trisal on 18th April 2004"
• "Rahul Malik married Dr. Mona Kaul - 14th April 2004 "
• "Kuldeep and Mridula Parikh blessed with a baby girl 'Arundhati' on March 6th 2004 "
• "Sandipan Dutta married Rupa Basu on 6th May 2004"
• "Satrajit Gupta married Aditi Sengupta on 22nd Feb 2004"
• "Nipun Nair springs a surprise...Plans to break bachelorhood by marrying colleague Ying"
• "Pratap Arangil married Sonali Vasekar (BITS '95 batch) - Jan 2004"

Year (2003)

• "Mandeep Singh springs a surprise...Got married on Aug 7th, 2003 -(30June 2003) "
• "Rahul Malik got engaged to Dr. Mona Kaul on 26th March, 2003 in Jammu"
• "Rohit Pathak married Aarti on 20 Nov 2003 in Pune- 17th Feb 2003"
• "Amit Kak married Priyanka Kaul - April 2003"
• "Ashok Radhakrishnan married long time friend Lakshmi"

Year (2002)

• Durgesh Singh becomes a proud father of a little baby girl "Disha" on 29 Nov 2002
• Neeraj Nayak gets married to Deepa in Mumbai - December 2002
• Nilesh Pastagia becomes a proud father of a little baby girl "Khushi" - Aug 22 2002
• Karthik quits Accenture to join Infosys in Banglore -Aug 2002
• Dinesh P Singh relocates from Cyprus to Champaign, IL USA for Amdocs - Aug 2002"
• Praful Mattoo married Sonika Kachroo (95 batch) - April 2002
• Amit Kaul relocates to Intel, India from Los Angels - Apr 2002
• Durgesh married Nilanjana on Feb 15th in Jaunpur, UP India
• Amit Kaul married Meena Kaul ('95 batch) on Feb 16th in Jammu Tawi, J&K State, India
• Dinesh Singh married Neetu Singh on Feb17th in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India
• Deepak Tyagi married Shalini on Feb 21st in New Delhi, India
• Karthik married Ranjani on Feb 22nd in Chennai, T.N., India

Year (2001):

• Yours Truly, Sidharth Bhan - hooked. Wedding on 28th Nov 2001
• Mandeep Singh joins AMD in Austin,TX
• Kuldeep Parikh - married Mridula on 8 Dec 2001 in Ahmedabad
• Durgesh Singh (Thakur) got engaged to Nilanjana in May 2001. Marriage in Feb,2002
• Anand Savla quits Trigyn Technologies to join Wipro in Banglore-May 2001
• Nilesh has moved jobs - and is now in Pune - May 2001
• Amit Kak and Amit Kaul - relocate to USA - April 2001
• Rohit Pathak - secured a job with McKinsey and Co. from IIM-A
• Nilesh Pastagia got married on Feb 3rd, 2001 in Surat, India.

Congratulations to Amit and Meena Kaul...

Folks

Join me in congratulating Amit and Meena Kaul on an addition to their family. Meena delivered a baby girl this morning. Both Meena and baby are fine...


Baby - Asheera (Day 1)

[CBC] 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY...

Some open thinking by Matroo...


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Vikram KAUL
Date: May 19, 2006 9:00 PM
Subject: RE: [CBC] 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY...
To: CBCNET

Apologies, in advance, for a relatively long email

anand.>Yes, you could call it as one of the most memorable times of your life.

Come to think of it, there is hardly anyone I know who went to college
in India (and stayed in an on campus hostel, not a day-scholar, or
off-campus hosteler) and did not think as that period as one of the most
memorable of their life. I think it comes naturally. You are away from
home for the first time, you meet so many good friends for the first time,
and if you are lucky, get to not have compulsary attendance !! Man, I
wonder what would have happened if we had to attend 75% of the classes for
all 3.5 years.

I think the course structure in BITS offered some advantages to make it
more enjoyable for us. Who the hell wanted to make a friggin percentage.
All everyone wanted was a decent or semi-decent grade.

And the regular city-like distractions were not there. If our college
were in a decent city, I bet most evenings folks would have been missing
out in off campus. No curfews, no riots, no water shortages, no rolling
blackouts, no cineplexes, no 'happening-places', no pubs !! All that
augmented our friendships and whatever bonds we have amongst us now.

The only thing I wish is that all of us could have been on campus at the
same time in the 4th year. It would have been fun. Less courses, nothing
to do, and the last sem we would all be together.

anand.>Am sure everybody would have gained an immense experience that would
anand.>help us in facing and standing up to the life's ups and downs. Probably
anand.>we may not have realized then. I think, BITS also gave us some very good

Now, I will have to disagree here. Life's up and downs have nothing to do
with getting educated in a college. At least that is what I think. Having
an emotional response to a situation has nothing to do with whether you
studied at BITS or in a small relatively unknown college or had no college
education at all. Making 2 out of 15 in a EDIC test (I made that in the first
one) did not make me strong or weak. It just made me sad for some
time. Making an A in Linear Algebra after doing badly on two makeup tests
also did not make me weak or strong or better prepared in life. It just
made me happy for some time.

What helps me from my experience in BITS is a sense that I know good
people because I went to that particular college. I might have known other
good people if I went to some other school.. I know that I can tell Preeti
stories from our time in BITS and laugh with her. I can show her
photographs (the DOPY ones are getting discolored, and I need to scan them
BTW) and she knows quite a few names. I can remember the times at ANC, at
Khetri fort, cricket, elections, holi, c'not, sky, photocopying notes...
and I feel when I meet some of you and your families, I will be accepted
as family, as a brother, an uncle or even a distant relative... but as
someone who is part of your family !!!


anand.>quality when we look back and think of the commendable progress each one
anand.>of us made, brings a humble but proud smile on our faces ! On bonus, we

Progress is a relative term. A few of us did well after BITS, both
career wise and setting up a secure stable family. Some did OK and
others are still trying to get started. For sure, all of us have made
progress from where we were when we left school to come to BITS.

The one thing that is absolute is that all of us are trying to do decent
enough at our jobs (to either rise, or just to keep the job, if you look
at the entire spectrum), trying to take care of our families (young ones
as well as elders) and make sure all are healthy and happy. That in itself
is progress and should bring smiles to our faces !


anand.>gave made real good friends and a small world where you could share your
anand.>positives and frustrations ! I'm quite sure the BITS experience is
anand.>rewarding.

That we all agree. Well, at least I agree.
I am happy I left the counselling line at PEC Chandigarh after standing
in the line for hours, immediately took a bus from Chandigarh to Delhi,
and was barely able to catch the last night bus from ISBT to Pilani to
arrive early in the morning on 29th.

matroo

10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY...

Surprised at the subject line...

Well... I am sure few of you would be wondering what the subject line really means....

Most folks like...Tyagi, Nayak, Kak, Matru, Sambhu, Mandu, Pathak, Parikh, Thakur, Ash, Uddi wouldnt ever know ... for they dont read the CBC net mails anymore....

For others... its just a reminder....that it was probably some days back 10 years ago when all of us were together in one place as a group for the last time.
Yeah...sometime in end of 3rd year - just before half of us went off campus for the first sem PS2....sometime in May 1996...just went the 3rd year compre's were ending....

Its been 10 years...