India, Feb. 12 -- What can Mysureans learn?

By Bhamy V. Shenoy

On December 27, 2024, I had an opportunity to participate in the first-ever diamond jubilee celebration of IITM (Indian Institute of Technology Madras). Only in 1964 there were two batches who graduated - the first batch of 1959 and the second batch of 1960. This was because of the Chinese aggression of 1962. India wanted to produce engineers quickly. Most of them went abroad is a different story.

I belonged to the second batch. All our holidays were cancelled and we graduated six months earlier. Ours was the first batch to start occupying the campus.

We were told that our first Director Dr. Sengupto had given the strict orders to architects that buildings should be constr...