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From Left to Right: Mr. Sheikh Abdul Khader, Mr. B. Ramachandra Pai and Mr. Anand Singh Bawa.

In Action: Front to back or left to right are: Mr. Indrajit Ray (Bow), Mr. Umesh Dutta, Mr. MM Sanyal, Mr. JET Sargunar (Stroke) and Mr. Anag Chatterji (Cox)

In the photo, Sarvepalli S. Radhakrishnan is dressed up by Mr. T.K Shankararaman and assisted by Mr. C. Narayan Kutty for the first Convocation of IIT Madras in 1964. Jayachamaraja Wadayar is also present in the photograph. Mr. T.K. Shankararaman is the father of Mr. T.S. Kuppuswami, Retd. Secretary, Public Relations, IIT Madras.

A write-up of the days at Tharamani Hostel where we started

Adjusting: Front to back or left to right are: Mr. Indrajit Ray (Bow), Mr. Umesh Dutta, Mr. MM Sanyal, Mr. JET Sargunar (Stroke) and Mr. Anag Chatterji (Cox)

From Left to Right: Mrs Indumathi, Prof. C.V. Seshadri, Mr. Ramesh A. Vaswani, Mr. R. Venkateswaran “Venkoba”, Mr. Basu John Vetteth, Mr. K. Mahesh, Mr. Srinivas Nageshwar “Shiner”, Mr. K. Narayanan “Ghost”, Mr. Anand Singh Bawa (hidden behind Ghost), Mr. M. Vikram Rao, Mr. B. Ramachandra Pai and Mr. Pritam Lal Kapur.

A late-1970s photograph of Dr. N. Klein and Mr. Anand Singh Bawa. Dr. N. Klein had been on a visit to New Delhi. By then he was already based in Stuttgart with responsibilities at Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft.

This photograph was taken during the fourth convocation of IIT Madras. C. Rajagopalachari, former Chief Minister of Madras State (1952-1954) was the chief guest for the convocation.  A total of 321 students graduated in 1967. Out of 321, 259 were undergraduates, 50 postgraduates and 12 were Ph.D. scholars.   Also seen in the photograph is Prof. B. Sengupto (Director, Mr. Rajagopalachari’s right hand side), Dr. A. L. Mudaliar (Chairman, Board of Governors, second from right) and Prof. K. S. G. Doss (Member of Board of Governors of IIT Madras and Director, Central Electro-…

Prof B. Sengupto was the first Director of IIT Madras. He served his tenure from 1959 to 1967. This was the last convocation he would attend as Director of the Institute. A total of 321 students graduated in 1967. Out of 321, 259 were undergraduates, 50 postgraduates and 12 were Ph.D. scholars.

This photograph was taken during the fourth convocation of IIT Madras. C. Rajagopalachari, former Chief Minister of Madras State (1952-1954) was the chief guest for the convocation.  A total of 321 students graduated in 1967. Out of 321, 259 were undergraduates, 50 postgraduates and 12 were Ph.D. scholars.   Also seen in the photograph is Prof. B. Sengupto (Director, Mr. Rajagopalachari’s right hand side), Dr. A. L. Mudaliar (Chairman, Board of Governors, second from right) and Prof. K. S. G. Doss (Member of Board of Governors of IIT Madras and Director, Central Electro-…

V. Seshadri and B. Ramaswami both qualified for the award of the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering. They both completed their research in Automatic Control and Computation Systems. V. Seshadri represented the department with three papers at the I.T.E. Convention held in Delhi. He also delivered lectures on invitation at the APTI Summer School on Control Systems held in May-June 1967 at C.E.E.R.I., Pilani, besides contributing two papers to the Associated Seminar on Control Systems. A total of 12 Ph.D. scholars received their degrees in the year 1967. 

This photograph was taken during the fourth convocation of IIT Madras. C. Rajagopalachari, former Chief Minister of Madras State (1952-1954) was the chief guest for the convocation.  A total of 321 students graduated in 1967. Out of 321, 259 were undergraduates, 50 postgraduates and 12 were Ph.D. scholars.   Also seen in the photograph is Prof. B. Sengupto (Director, Mr. Rajagopalachari’s right hand side), Dr. A. L. Mudaliar (Chairman, Board of Governors, second from right) and Prof. K. S. G. Doss (Member of Board of Governors of IIT Madras and Director, Central Electro-…

Seen in the image, from left, Prof. Wolfgang Scheer (Mechanical Engineering Department), Prof. G. Stahl (Mechanical Engineering Department), an unidentified person, Prof. W. Koch (Physics Department), Prof. S. Sampath (Deputy Director), Prof. B. Sengupto (Director), Mr. C. Rajagopalachari (chief guest), Dr. A. L. Mudaliar (Chairman, Board of Governors), Prof. K. S. G. Doss (Member of Board of Governors of IIT Madras and Director, Central Electro-Chemical Research Institute, Karaikudi), Prof. P. C. Varghese (Head of Civil Engineering Department), Prof. G. S. Laddha (Member of Board of…

A total of 12 Ph.D. scholars received their degrees in the year 1967.  The person in the photograph is yet to be identified.

 B. Ramaswami and V. Seshadri both qualified for the award of the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering. They both completed their research in Automatic Control and Computation Systems. A total of 12 Ph.D. scholars received their degrees in the year 1967.