November – December, 2017 This month, we’re unleashing the ‘fun’ element in Fundamatics. Life at IITB has always been enlivened with oodles of cultural activity and sporting events, with young …

June 2003 Day 0 Here in Taluka. Cool, windy, drizzly. The forest rest house is spacious, musty, British. Let’s trace the path up to here… From Delhi took a bus …

Photograph by Uroš Jovičić There is a brick wall between careers in the corporate and government worlds in India. Besides the IAS bridge, my peer group did not think of …

San Francisco. Sep 1, 2017: The alarm goes off at 5 am. I realize that I fell asleep while reading my son to bed again. I get up even though …

Engineers are changemakers. Whether we know it or not we have changed the world in ways that even we could not have imagined.  I arrived at IIT Bombay a naïve …

Photograph by Lyndsey Marie I sometimes wonder if the “father of western philosophy”, French philosopher, René Descartes had any gender complexities in mind, when he was talking about “Cogito Ergo …

Photograph by Aman Bhargava India’s rivers and aquifers are drying. ~70% of our food is produced from unsustainable groundwater irrigation, and groundwater is rapidly disappearing. This has serious implications for …

Photograph by Joanna Kosinska After a tepid release of ‘Diamonds are Forever’ in 1971, Sean Connery is reported to have vowed that he would ‘never again’ play ‘that’ role. Yet, …

Photograph by Kimberly Farmer GREAT Foundation was born in the classrooms of IIT Bombay. I had joined the HSS Department in 1974 to teach English. Aged 24, I was no …

October – November, 2017 Like the goddess Durga who stands out majestically during the nine days of Navaratri, this month we focus on women with an identity of their own, …

Photograph by Alysa Bajenaru I grew up in Bombay, and as all true Bombayites, always had aspirations to get into Bollywood – that glamorous movie business! I actually even performed …

Photograph by Dariusz Sankowski In most large companies, we barely know most of our colleagues – we see only the professional side of their personality (if we’re lucky) during the …

Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) teamed up with IEEE Smart Villages to electrify the centuries old Linghsed Monastery and the Lingshed School. The entire project was documented by National Geographic as …

Photograph by Tim Marshall Why do volunteers quit? Is it the lack of enthusiasm and commitment? Sometimes it is a poorly managed volunteering experience that leads to volunteers falling out. …

Photograph by Aaron Burden It is generally acknowledged that there are many things seriously wrong with our system of education. Otherwise we could not have become so corrupt or so …

Photograh by Aman Bhargava When I was in IIT, some of us had been interviewed for a documentary– “I am 20”[1]– in 1967.  I had then said, “Freedom in India …

(Image Source: Link ) It is estimated that less than a hundredth of the world’s built space is designed by architects. As members of the community, this limited contribution has …

Over the past 10 years I have been working with BIOME Environmental, an organization that looks at ways to promote sustainable living in a city – not only in theory …

September – October, 2017 The road of life is full of important choices which lead you to where you are right now. All of us, over the course of our …

Our vision is to get children to play! As simple as that. But it took us 14 years and multiple business models to finally develop an idea that worked. The …

Photograph by Alex Wong [The article below was originally an Institute lecture given by the author on August 3, 2017. Here’s the link to the video recording.] Thank you for giving …