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    TGIF: Holiday Caper!

    by Sandy May 13, 2022
    by Sandy May 13, 2022

    Who doesn’t like an unexpected holiday being declared, especially students pleasantly surprised when a  snow day or a rainy day is suddenly announced at a school or a college?

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    The Hike to Matheran

    by Foda and Doctor May 13, 2022
    by Foda and Doctor May 13, 2022

    “…those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end, we’d sing and dance forever and a day…” as sung by Mary Hopkin (1968). We easily recall this wonderful…

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    Six Memories of H6

    by Raj Nair May 13, 2022
    by Raj Nair May 13, 2022

    The first memory has to be of the first entry into the hostel in blinding rain. Since I had not yet studied engineering, I knew how to fix a bulb…

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    Community Living

    by Jyotsna Vijapurkar May 13, 2022
    by Jyotsna Vijapurkar May 13, 2022

    IITB was my first experience of community living. There was very little of ‘this is mine’.

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  • 2022Current IssueEvergreen hoss-tales

    Shape of Things That Were

    by Arun Kaul May 13, 2022
    by Arun Kaul May 13, 2022

    Arun Kaul H4, C76 Aero is famous for: Riding to classes on horseback and “parking” the horse in the cycle shed. Creating and singing brilliant parodies on the fly. Remember…

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    An Elegy on the Death of an Yellow Bike

    by Girish Nayak May 13, 2022
    by Girish Nayak May 13, 2022

    The yellow bike was an abomination. Its owner, who was named after the mating call of the Rana Tigrina, was contemplating the despicable act of making money from a hand…

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    Vintage Student Publications from IIT Bombay

    by Ashok Kamath May 13, 2022
    by Ashok Kamath May 13, 2022

    When I joined IIT Bombay in 1974 the first piece of “publication” that I got was an introduction to the Students’ Gymkhana. 

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    A Trip to Matheran on Bicycles and ‘Ghee’ Stories

    by Aliasgar Contractor May 13, 2022
    by Aliasgar Contractor May 13, 2022

    The first week of January 1972, we had returned to the Institute after the winter break.

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  • 2022Current IssueHos-tales

    Empowerment – Not Just a Pipe Dream!

    by Jyotsna Vijapurkar May 13, 2022
    by Jyotsna Vijapurkar May 13, 2022

    IITB was a very special place. H10 at IITB was an even more special place.

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    Metamor4sis! Planting Trees Under the Shade of Which We Would Never Sit

    by Beheruz Sethna May 13, 2022
    by Beheruz Sethna May 13, 2022

    As background, I had the honor of serving as General Secretary (GS) of Hostel 4 in 1968-69 1 . During my H4 GS term, we broke all norms for a hostel…

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    A Short History of Powai

    by Pradeep Anand May 13, 2022
    by Pradeep Anand May 13, 2022

    Long, long ago, in 1965, archeologists were scandalized to find a stoned student in the bed of Powai Lake (surname first), who pretended that it was routine matter.

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    The Great Indian Rope Trick

    by Nilesh Jain May 13, 2022
    by Nilesh Jain May 13, 2022

    Wings also invariably brought together students from different years, thus acting as the passing of the baton of stories and folklore.

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    Origin of the Ladies Hostel on the IITB Campus

    by Neela Mudgal May 13, 2022
    by Neela Mudgal May 13, 2022

    The first girl to join the B.Tech. program of IIT Bombay was Tejaswini Saraf (now Kanvinde).

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    A Casual Reminiscence of an NSS Trip

    by Surojit Saha May 13, 2022
    by Surojit Saha May 13, 2022

    Somewhere in the second semester, we were told that we need to have a field trip to gather the mandatory 100 hours needed for social service in the first two…

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  • 2022Current IssueHos-tales

    Hoss-tales: Evergreen Memories of a B&W Era

    by Bunkumbee May 13, 2022
    by Bunkumbee May 13, 2022

    I am Bankim Biswas and what I write is a lot of bunkum and wishwash. I write about “then” and “now” scenarios. I am from the “then” generation. Mercifully so.…

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  • 2022Current IssueHos-tales

    Despo-Nair

    by Noseybee May 13, 2022
    by Noseybee May 13, 2022

    Once upon a time, there was a magazine called the Debonair. It was famous for its nude centrespreads. Nobody knows what else there was in the magazine.

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  • 2022Current IssueHos-tales

    Start-up of Start-ups

    by Satish Hattiangadi May 13, 2022
    by Satish Hattiangadi May 13, 2022

    I don’t exactly know, but let me tell you about some start-ups that occurred in the late nineteen sixties.

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    Memorable Hostel Days

    by Anil Patil May 13, 2022
    by Anil Patil May 13, 2022

    It happened suddenly. Messmates started shouting and there was chaos. Demands were made as to who prepared aloo subzi for the dinner. 

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    Rites of Passage

    by Satish Joshi May 13, 2022
    by Satish Joshi May 13, 2022

    About a week or two after I became a resident of Hostel 4 on the campus, for some reason I was a bit late getting to the mess for dinner.…

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  • 2022Current IssueHos-tales

    Bitter and Sweet Memories of H11Mess

    by Rohini Karandikar May 13, 2022
    by Rohini Karandikar May 13, 2022

    There is a widespread belief among hostel inmates that you would not feel homesick if your hostel served good food. This belief is likely true as most of us enjoyed…

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  • 2022Current IssueHos-tales

    H5 Thirty Five Years On

    by Milind Yedkar May 13, 2022
    by Milind Yedkar May 13, 2022

    I was visiting H5 after over 35 years. My wife was accompanying me and I was keen to show her my room and relive memories of some of the best…

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  • 2022Current IssueHos-tales

    The Word is Grease

    by Harish Acharya May 13, 2022
    by Harish Acharya May 13, 2022

    This was our fifth year.  Knowing that we’d disperse the following year, we maximized the fun aspect of our hostel and wing life – in the silliest of ways (looking…

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    Literally Speaking

    by Ashok Sarath May 12, 2022
    by Ashok Sarath May 12, 2022

    When Ali sent a message via Ashok Kamath wanting a piece about the ‘literary life’ of IIT Bombay during my time there, I had to dig into rapidly dissipating memories,…

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    Looking Back with Mr. Sharad Saraf: IITB in the ’60s

    by Humblebee May 12, 2022
    by Humblebee May 12, 2022

    Interviewers: Adil Khan, Samyak Shah This interview was conducted as part of Department of Electrical Engineering’s “Alumni and Corporate Engagement” initiative. Check out the Department’s official student newsletter at this…

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  • 2021Current IssueHos-tales

    Nostalgia Nuggets

    by Tara Banerjee May 12, 2022
    by Tara Banerjee May 12, 2022

    I usually never bunked lectures but it so happened that I was down with fever and felt too delirious to attend that day.

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    Nostalgia Nugget: Making Faces

    by Arun Inamdar May 12, 2022
    by Arun Inamdar May 12, 2022

    We used to have a common Freshie’s night in LT for all hostels, in which freshers exhibited various skills .

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    Nostalgia Nugget: A Muddy Magazine

    by Stumblebee May 12, 2022
    by Stumblebee May 12, 2022

    Arun Kaul wrote, acted in, directed and produced plays, skits, entertainment programs. One of his outlandish media adventure was the production of a “magazine”.

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    Nostalgia Nuggets

    by Deepak Sabnis May 12, 2022
    by Deepak Sabnis May 12, 2022

    I had to miss my B.Tech convocation due to my stupidity on Janmashtami in 1973. 

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    Nostalgia Nugget

    by Rammohan Menon May 12, 2022
    by Rammohan Menon May 12, 2022

    This was in our third year. We had just won the Institute Treasure Hunt. Our joy knew no bounds. Jitna daru ka stock tha pee liye. But yeh Dil Mange…

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    Nostalgia Nugget: Look Before You Leap

    by Ezbee May 12, 2022
    by Ezbee May 12, 2022

    One night, four students were playing till late night and could not study for the test which was scheduled for the next day.

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    Nostalgia Nuggets

    by Sandeep Kasargod May 12, 2022
    by Sandeep Kasargod May 12, 2022

    The MI rock show took place in the SAC amphitheater, and the sound check would go on for what felt like hours (especially for the headlining bands). 

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    Nostalgia Nugget: War Piece

    by Vijay Desai May 12, 2022
    by Vijay Desai May 12, 2022

    There used to be, and maybe there still is, a quota for foreign students. The IITs used to attract students from all over the global south.

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    Nostalgia Nuggets

    by Niranjan Bhat May 12, 2022
    by Niranjan Bhat May 12, 2022

    Jimy Uranwala and Sapnon Ki Rani I could hardly believe my ears when I heard someone in my hostel wing strumming his guitar and practising singing “Mere Sapnon ki Rani,…

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    Nostalgia Nuggets

    by Vintage Batches May 12, 2022
    by Vintage Batches May 12, 2022

    I always recall the eclectic collection of professors from all over India who taught us various subjects during our years at IITB.

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  • 2022Current IssueEditorialHos-tales

    Evergreen Hoss-tales

    by Bakul Desai May 13, 2022
    by Bakul Desai May 13, 2022

    Nostalgia time! For some fundoo hostel memories. Pondies. Gaalis. Water fights. EPs/PAFs. Cult trophy. Sports trophy. Inter wing tourneys. Bridge. Carom. TT. Footer. Basketball. Volleyball. Chess. Antakshari. Chayageet. Dumb Charades.…

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  • 2022Current IssueHos-tales

    H5 Enhancement Project – the Seed for Project Evergreen

    by Dhananjay Saheba May 13, 2022
    by Dhananjay Saheba May 13, 2022

    In mid-2019, one of our classmates (C’77) posted pictures of our hostel 5 on WhatsApp. There was an uproar. 

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    Timeless Memories of H10

    by Nirupama Kenkare May 13, 2022
    by Nirupama Kenkare May 13, 2022

    It has been 30 years since we graduated, and yet the thought of my wing brings an instant lifting of the spirit and a bubble of laughter in my throat.

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