IITB Learnings: Purpose vs Incentives

One thing for which I'll forever be grateful to IIT Bombay is the opportunity it provided me to work with some excellent leaders. During my stay at IITB, I worked in NSS and the Student Satellite Team. Both have grown exponentially in the last 4-5 years, and helped me grow along. A big chunk of …

Institute Valedictory Function Speech

Here's the speech I delivered during the Institute Valedictory Function as a representative of the Undergraduate (UG) students: Tumul (the M.Tech representative), found it difficult to speak about his two years in just 6 minutes. I've been asked to speak about 5 years in the same time. So, without wasting any time, let me get …

The Making of OLI – NSS, IITB

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul - Dieter F. Uchtdorf A sand castle on a beach, a paper boat in a puddle, a doodle in a notebook, a random tune on a guitar, all have one thing in common. They represent a desire inherent to all humans: …

The Making of Pratham Satellite

"Live for moments you can't put into words" A couple of weeks after the launch of Pratham, the first student satellite of IIT Bombay, we were invited to a college for giving a talk on the project. The organizers quite nervously asked us, "We have reserved a two hour slot for your talk. Do you …

NSS and Nostalgia

How often do you encounter moments that can make you incredibly happy and terribly sad at the same time? Moments that you long to experience, that you strive to make possible through conscious and concentrated efforts, knowing well that they have nothing to offer in return but emptiness. Yet you strive. Like an ageing mother …

Internship at Unilever

"Don't treat this as just an internship. This is your two month orientation into the corporate world." - Anandi Shankar (Head, HR, Supply Chain, HUL) I was once having a chat over tea with my colleague. We were discussing about one of the devices whose launch in Indonesia was stuck and many members of the …

First Year at NSS IIT Bombay

"O Bhaiya, na karo taa-taa thaiyaa"  - A sixth-grader It all began with a post on the freshmen forum. I was at home. IITB it was!!! In the short period between the final seat allotment and the beginning of the first semester, I was browsing through the  freshmen forum, when I came across the post that was …