Mech71

The Golden Jubilee moment has now become a year of celebrations Congratulations to all members of Mech71 for their Golden Jubilee Year 2016 Mech71 Association is an association of friendship between 1971 Mechanical engineering graduates of IIT Delhi. All of the members complete fifty, 50, years of their introduction to each other during this year. They first met in 1966. During this year, 2016, any meeting between any members by chance or design initiated by any member or groups of members is a celebration of this Golden Jubilee 2016 or GJ16 enshrined in letters of gold that emerge from the heart. Note 1:  The Background image for the artwork is Nainital, a destination many expressed a desire to visit in company of each other, time and circumstances permitting, aside most certainly from New Delhi where they first met Note 2:  The word Jubilee coming to us from English has the following origin as per Wikipedia: “The year of Jubi...

T his blog post is written while  a Mech71 reunion is on in USA. It shall be reported here if and when details arrive. In the meantime Dinesh Gupta one of the most beloved and most  kindly human of our group (aside from being a Dr. in engineering and a highly respected Professor in his field) has sent this photo of a lunch that is underway at Niagra falls. He is a small dot in the photo on left last. The front cheerful photos on left and right are two of the bed rocks of mech71 KC and Johri on left and right and one in the middle with a cap is the Mech71 tycoon, Julka who shall be playing a collaborative role with this blogger for the Golden Jubilee next year in Nainital along with the Delhi stalwarts of Mech71 - Manchanda and Marwaha - hopefully. The event was organized by Sir Bittoo Gill, the Mech71 stalwart across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans depending on the direction one takes from Delhi. He has been organizing and taking the lead in most of the these annual ev...

E arlier in the day, I had sent this letter to a mech71 friend but it has useful content for others of the world and therefore it is published here in the public domain too (with slight editing to make it more suitable and useful for public view) A view of the home from where this letter was composed D ear Vijay A fter our discussion last night and a pleasant nap and bath, my mind reviewed our exchange of yesterday. They were spontaneous responses, well thrashed out there and nothing needs repeating but my mind went to one statement of yours to the effect – these are hard economic times and those who work for a living have to manage day to day – or something to that effect, and these were my thoughts on that Vijay, even I do not have much money, but feel comfortable primarily because if one has one’s home to live in, it does not cost much to live in India in simplicity which is the happiest and most graceful way to live in a world where many suffer from ...

Vinod Marwaha Of all Mech71 members, one who stands out and shines is Vinod Marwaha. While the participation of many of us has waxed and waned, it has not been so with Vinod. From day one his generous hospitality has been available to all mech71 members who arrive at the central point of Delhi from all corners of the globe from time to time. He is invariably the person everyone contacts first. Not only this, he reminds members of the group when a birthday of a member happens and maintains a directory of members with their addresses and contact numbers that is regularly updated and circulated once a year. One can say without hesitation that the group would not have been what it is without all this. It is hoped that in future any member who visits Delhi shall bring a nice little gift for Vinod or Vinoo as he is called whenever they visit Delhi. In case the gift contains C2H5OH it will be accepted too ( Hope that makes up for one of the members stealing a peg from his wine cabin...

Dr. Sudheer Pimputkar Recently a prominent Mech71er was in Delhi. Every one wondered why he arrived in the worst, hottest and dustiest month of the year. Nevertheless, because he is perceived as the most successful mech71er, successful not because he attained the most fame or wealth but because he braved the most serious of personal tragedies in his personal life, yet bounced back to great happiness that is now enshrined in his face. After all, the purpose of all those other things  in life is for happiness (except perhaps for those into stuff like spiritual bliss or  Nirvana). Therefore, a quick get together was arranged as described by Sudheer himself:- Mini Get-Together May 19, 2013: Delhi --------------------------------------------------- "From my vantage point – an idiosyncratic view of the evening… First, well-deserved thanks are due to Co-Host Marwaha (VKM) for organizing the show and to Co-Host Gulla for arranging the venue.  ...

JULY 2011 This chronicle begins on Saturday afternoon when I drove from Columbus to 13 Glen Eagle Ct under sunny skies and among light traffic. A mere 4.5 h compared to 7.5 for Ravi/Sonu/Nirmal and 10.0 for Gang (nothing for a guy who laugh at moguls. When I asked about the scheduled Bazooka's outing the previous light (which I was loathe to miss but could not manage), I got averted eyes and mumbles - deciphered to mean that the event did not happen because of people being (mumble) late, and (mumble) tired. Not sure whether the debauchery was so great that it could not be uttered in the light of day, or whether (I doubt it) - it was really cancelled. So, Gill met me at the door with Merani and handshaking and shoulder patting and hugs followed. Nirmal joined us and we went to gaze in awe at Gill's new bar (better stocked than many restaurants) with curving granite countertop (I am sorry that words are going to substitute for pictures because I did not take any that eveni...