C
Shivakumar
Chennai:
It
was a rare reunion after more than 60 years for the octogenerarians of College
of Engineering in Guindy as they celebrated the Genesis Day with the release of
‘Memoirs of Octogenarian Alumni’.
The
nostalgic octogenarians, who passed out of the college in the years 1943 to
1953, shared their youthful days after listening to the address by one of their
alumni Sakthi group chairman N Mahalingam.
Consulting
engineer and past president R Ramasamy, who was the brain behind this reunion,
said the present volume has memoirs of 105 octogenarian alumni, who graduated
in the years 143 to 1953. They also include the father of white revolution
Verghese Kurien, former under-secretary
General of United Nations (HABITAT) Arcot Ramachandran, educationist and
IIT Kanpur board of governors chairman Anand Krishnan and advisor to water
resources to Tamil Nadu government A Mohanakrishnan.
The
reminiscences and advice to posterity written by most alumni are worth reading,
he said.
Surprisngly,
the octogenarians have not only been making news in the field of engineering,
they are also in news for making a mark in activities which don’t relate to
engineering and the memoirs captures it all.
Among
those include B D Ardhanareeswaran, rechristened Swami Ishwarananda Giri, head
of Samvit Sadhanayana Mutt in Mount Abu. “He is unlike today’s Swamis and his
slate is clean,” says Ramaswamy jokingly. The aluni also has a film personality
in actor director producer M Balaiah, who won Telegu award for his
contributions to the field.
The others include K Thiagarajan, who is
president’s Tamara Pathra Awardee for self made industrialist, K shivaprasad
who got patent for a new technology for conversion of municipal waste to
energy.
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