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The Heritage Centre would be grateful to receive more information regarding this photograph. This section will be updated when we receive more details.

The Heritage Centre would be grateful to receive more information regarding this photograph. This section will be updated when we receive more details.

The Heritage Centre would be grateful to receive more information regarding this photograph. This section will be updated when we receive more details.

The Heritage Centre would be grateful to receive more information regarding this photograph. This section will be updated when we receive more details.

Alakananda was the ninth hostel to be constructed in IIT Madras. The hostel was inaugurated by Sardarni Sant Sev Ujjal Singh, the wife of Governor Singh. The April 1966 issue of Campastimes gives an account of the inauguration of the hostel and mentions that tea was served after the Director’s speech.  In the image, from left, Prof. B. Sengupto (Director), Mr. S. S. Mani (Alakananda Warden and Workshop Superintendent) and Sardar Ujjal Singh (Governor of Madras and chief guest).   An identical photograph can be found in the Central Photographic Section Collection in Album 0201…

This photograph was taken during the inauguration of Alakananda Hostel in 1966. The photograph was also published in the April 1966 edition of Campastimes. The article, referring to the river-inspired names of IIT Madras hostels, humorously pointed out, “Yet another river has been added to the road map of our Institute.” The ninth Hostel in the Campus, Alakananda, was inaugurated by Sardarni Sant Sev Ujjal Singh, wife of chief guest Sardar Ujjal Singh (Governor of Madras).  The building seen in the background is Jamuna Hostel.   Standing, from the left, Mr. V. C. Jacob (…

The photograph shows, from left, (standing), Prof. R. K. Gupta (Humanities Department), two gentlemen (yet to be identified), chief guest Sardar Ujjal Singh (Governor of Madras), Sardarni Sant Sev Ujjal Singh, Mr. S. S. Mani (Workshop Superintendent and Warden of Alakananda Hostel), Mr. Y. S. Ramaswamy (Superintending Engineer) and Mr. T. N. Venkataraman (Chief Security Officer). The Governor and his wife looked around Alakananda Hostel after the inauguration. This picture shows them in the dining hall.

This is a photograph with the chief guest Sardar Ujjal Singh, his wife Sardarni Sant Sev Ujjal Singh and faculty and staff members of IIT Madras, at the Alakananda Hostel inauguration, 1966. The building seen behind the group is probably the Building Sciences Block (BSB). Prior to the construction of the Administration Block in 1968, BSB was the main administrative building on campus. The first hostels on campus were Krishna and Cauvery in 1961-62. Following this, Narmada Hostel was built in 1962. In the year 1963-64, Saraswathi Hostel was built. Godavari and Tapti were also commissioned…

The newly inaugurated hostel, Alakananda, was, in the IIT Madras tradition, named after an Indian river. Workshop Superintendent Mr. S. S. Mani (first Warden of Alakananda) is seen standing next to the chief guest Sardar Ujjal Singh (Governor of Madras) who is seen interacting with students at the entrance of the hostel.  The interaction with students took place after the Governor’s speech, according to the April 1966 edition of Campastimes. According to the Annual Report of 1966-1967, 166 students were lodged in the newly inaugurated hostel. Mr. S. S. Mani was the Warden, while Mr. A…

The coveted President’s Prize (best academic record) was secured by Mr. V. Srinivasan (B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering – 5 years), at that time there was also a 3 year B. Tech programme available to students. V. Srinivasan also received an Institute Merit Prize during the ceremony. He went on to work briefly for Larsen & Tourbo, Mumbai, after which he studied for M.S. and Ph. D. degrees in industrial administration at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pennsylvania. His area of expertise is Market Research and is most known for his research in conjoint analysis. He has been a consultant for a…

The speech delivered by Sir C. V. Raman had nuances of nostalgia to it as he recalled his own college days. He said, “Fully sixty years ago, I came out of College in this very city. I find to my astonishment, that my experiences of those four years have left an indelible impression on my mind and what is more remarkable is that all that I have done in the last sixty years was determined for me with mathematical precision by what I did in those four years”. His speech took an interesting turn when he revealed that he had been at the very birth of IIT Madras, 10 years back, when he happened to…

Dr. A. L. Mudaliar presided over the third convocation ceremony at IIT Madras. Dr. A. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar (1887-1974) was a multi-faceted personality: doctor, educationist and a renowned statesman. He made a number of significant contributions to society in each of these roles. He was the longest serving Vice-Chancellor of Madras University (27 years) and the first Indian Principal of the Madras Medical College. He was knighted in the 1945 New Year Honours and awarded both the Padma Bhushan (1954) and the Padma Vibhushan (1963). He served as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT,…

Seen in the image from the left: Mr. C. V. Sethunathan (Registrar, IITM), Sir C. V. Raman (chief guest), Prof. B. Sengupto (Director, IITM). The third convocation of IIT Madras was held on the 30th of July, 1966. The convocation took place on a Saturday evening at the Institute’s Open Air Theatre. The chief guest and speaker at IIT Madras’s third convocation was Sir C. V. Raman, the Indian physicist, Nobel laureate and Bharat Ratna recipient.