Recently I noted with quiet pleasure that I finally have a gardener’s hands. Coarse and calloused, with stubborn dirt underneath my chipped, uneven fingernails. A steady reminder of my 62 companions at home clustered together in the balcony and in the three-wide window enclosures that IIT has so thoughtfully provided.
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Damayanti Bhattacharya

Damayanti Bhattacharya
Damayanti is the Chief Executive Officer of IIT Bombay Alumni Association. Her career spans over 15 year in the Non Profit sector of which the last eight plus years has been associated with IIT Bombay. Her academic work specializes on Gender Studies and she has a number of books, journal publications to her credit. She has been involved in the production of two award winning publications till date including Fundamatics. Many of you know her as Queenbee. When not herding alumni, she can be found pottering in her garden or messing around with all kinds of waste products recycling, repurposing D-I-Ying to her hearts content.