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Sunday, May 08, 2005

Posted 12:46 PM by Anurag

Yesterday's Bangalore Harcourtians Meet

"It was a small and nice HBTI alumni meet we had yesterday. Total turnout was a 'grand' three Harcourtians :-) (a la Three Musketeers!). The reason for low turnout was late confirmation of venue on the group.

In attendance:
# Anurag Jain (ChE '94)
# Pradeep Singh (Electrical, '04).
# Satyendra Sinha (CS, 1989)

Three of us met over some beverages at Cafe Coffee Day in Koramangala (near BPCL Petrol Pump and Raheja Arcade). Discussed various industries before discussing Kanpur, HBTI, and HBTI's students and faculty. After that we moved to Aangan, a north Indian restaurant, which reminded us of food in Kanpur! Thanks Satyen for treating us to such delicious food. (But seriously, I still think that, we sould always share the meet expenses. An individual shouldn't pick up the tab. So in future, we'd follow that policy.)

During dinner, one of the interesting discussion topic was Ex-Directors of HBTI. From Dr V K Jain to Dr Vashisht to current director Prof R P Singh, we discussed it all. One piece of trivia that Satyen threw at us: HBTI was the second organization in India to get the "MicroVax II" computer (after DoT, I think?)! And it was all due to efforts of Dr V K Jain and Dr Vashisht.

Next meet will be organized soon (most probably May-end or mid June) and will be planned better and notified well in advance, so that more people can join in.

Best wishes,

Anurag"

Now some group HBTI_Alumni group statistics.

Started: May 16, 2003
Members Currently: 909
Messages so far: 3161
New members in last 7 days: 9
New messages in last 7 days: 41
File Area Usage: 32% of 20MB
Photo Area Usage: 61% of 30MB
Total Polls organized: 6 (4 closed, 2 still open)

1 comments

Comments:

Balgalore is a dungeon of a huge Harcourtian family. It is surprising that only 3 of you could make it. I remember Satyen Sinha very well. He is one of my favourite seniors, I being from the 1991 CS batch. We are runnung a harcourtian yahoo could from the 1991 batch and of all I know, Surendra Shahi, Arurag Asthana and Manoj Agrawal are in bangalore.

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Anonymous : July 19, 2005 1:36 PM