IIT Kanpur - Desi News

Here you will find some of the latest news about Kanpur that I can get hold of and what is going on in its civic life. Maybe not many of us were bothered about the civic life, maybe IIT Kanpur never quite belonged to Kanpur, maybe not even to India. Maybe pursuing wealth, professional excellence, competitive wizardry built upon hard work were what we all essentially focussed on and built up our lives to pursue. IIT Kanpur was no more than a stepping stone for us. Remember Kalyanpur, Allen forest and IIT Kanpur ?
We welcome your feedback on the look and design of our poor unsophisticated HTML web page. But it may sometimes be certainly good to breathe a whiff of that priceless IIT Kanpur air of our youth, once in a while, no matter what part of the world you live in and what you are upto nowadays.
- Not just for the sake of old memories, but maybe because you feel that some part of Kanpur will never go out of your thoughts. Personally, maybe I am just reliving my old CounterPoint mag days - the cyclostyled pages outside the hall canteens you woke upto in the morning. And now that I am old enough so that nothing really matters as much as it used to, in a sense.
So gentlemen, this simple web page is to salute those Kanpur IITians whom I hear of as having done, in my humble opinion, genuine service to Kanpur, to India and Indians. ....its only words...and words are all I have....
Maybe that something more poignant than the corporate or government websites that carry the considerable weight of your bio data. After all who doesn't want to earn wealth, fame and success for them selves and their own families. I wanted a web page to salute those comrades of IIT Kanpur who have actually succeeded in giving back to India in a measure equal to their limitless potential.
Those eternal guys to whom I can proudly point my kids to - hey this chap studied in IIT Kanpur and it would be great if you could try to be a bit like him. Maybe some of these guys will not make it to the Distinguished Alumnus Award, but what the heck, there's more to life.
Please feel free to send in links to any related websites, it would be great to see some other websites that deal with nostalgia, memorabilia or whatever else it may be called.
I for one still remember the AC Library, the cooling fountains outside, the sweltering late nights in the summers, the canteens, the swimming pool, the loneliness of SAC, waiting at bus stops, the early morning quizzes and still remember the terror of it all.

Brief Stories

• Anil Agarwal
  Environment - CSE
  Anil Agarwal was Director, Centre for Environment, New Delhi. An eminent environmentalist. Born on November 23, 1947 in a business family of Kanpur, he graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1970. Anil spent most of his time and energy towards developing the awareness of environmental issues among people and set up the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi. CSE is a voluntary organization engaged in creating public opinion about the problems of environment.
• Satyendra Dubey
  Government servant - Public life
  Born in a village in Sewan, Bihar, Satyendra Kumar Dubey studied in a village school before successfully competing in the IIT joint entrance exam. He graduated from IIT Kanpur with a B Tech degree in Civil Engineering in 1994 with second position in his class. Fuelled by his desire of contributing to public welfare, Mr Dubey chose to join the Indian Engineering Services as opposed to pursuing a glittering corporate career or greener pastures abroad.
• Arvind Gupta
  Science teaching
  An Indian educational expert is making science learning fun in Pakistani schools by using his simple, inexpensive models made from everyday items that explain the fundamentals of science. Arvind Gupta from Pune has held training sessions for hundreds of teachers and students in several cities across Pakistan. Over the last 20 years, Gupta has developed a technique to make simple toys presenting fundamental scientific laws from junk. "This is a cheaper way of learning with no cost of laboratories, by using junk like matchboxes, thread etc," Daily Times quoted Gupta as saying. "You don't need sophisticated equipment to learn many of the fundamentals of science." Gupta, an electrical engineer from IIT, Kanpur, said his technique was about making learning fun. "This process goes beyond words. It helps students learn in an innovative manner."

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