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Mech 71 Golden Jubilee Celebrations

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2 016 marks fifty years of friendship of a group of some fifty 16-17 years old boys most of whom met for the first time in 1966 as students to a mechanical engineering program at IIT Delhi. Many first met outside the cabin of an aging Sikh Doctor who stripped them before pronouncing them fit for the program.  Over the next several years these boys not only became Mechanical Engineering graduates, some went on to become leading professionals, businessmen, professors etc. in India and around the world, some poets, thinkers, activists and spiritualists too after concluding successful professional careers, each exploring and moving through life in his own unique way similar to no other member of the group yet each an equally important component of a single beautiful tree. As an example the chief of the Indian IRS now retired, Vinod Khurana, has become a prolific poet. Much shall be found about the doings and lives of members in earlier posts of this blog. Through it all, thi