Pioneers of Change

The_Shadow · BITSian - Moderator Status: Offline Posts: 4195

India Today had taken out a recent issue and talked about the 50 pioneers of change in India.
Its really great to know that 2 BITS Alumni figure on this list.

1)Dr. Vijay Chandru Pg 46

2)E. SarathBabu Pg 117

Check them out on the e-version of the magazine.
http://emagazine.digitaltoday.in/IndiaTodayEnglish/07072008/Home.aspx

ramuu balboa · Regular Status: Offline Posts: 68

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Notable_BITS_alumni go to this link

akaash.bits · Alumni Status: Offline Posts: 340

Ramuu
That is an old link.
Have a look here:

1. http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=whoswho

CEOs/CTOs/MDs/Directors/VPs of companies like:
Veritas, Credit Suisse, Yesbank, Sony Ericsson, Cisco, Intel, Mckinsey, Ford Motors, Sun Microsystems, Tanishq, Philips, Dell, Star Sports, L&T, Ranbaxy, Samsonite, Yahoo!, Lehman Bros, CitiGroup, Barclays, Dabur, Idea Cellular, Airtel, Xilinx, Magma, IDBI.

2. http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=bitsianacademic

Over 320 names of BITSians in Academia out of which 200 odd are in the US itself. In-fact the list contains over 50 Department Heads/Chancellors/Vice Chancellors/Directors at universities like MIT, Purdue, Georgia Tech, Ohio State, Imperial College etc. along with Indian universities like IIT- Delhi, IIT- Bombay, IIM- Ahemdabad, IIT- Kanpur, IIT Madras, Indian School of business et al.

3. http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=bitsianentrepreneurs

Over 230 names of companies founded by BITSian Entrepreneurs. The list includes names like Pennywise Solutions, Microtek, Hotmail, Onida, Bharat Forge, Mindtree, Amkette, LogicVision, Magma etc!

4. http://www.bitsaa.org/?page=booksbybitsians

Over 55 books published by BITSians.

We are in the process of compiling more names for these lists! It's kind of endless! Wink

Cheers!

ramuu balboa · Regular Status: Offline Posts: 68

thanx for the awsome links.
i read some where that sabeer bhatia was also a bitsian is tht true?

akaash.bits · Alumni Status: Offline Posts: 340

Yes, Sabeer Bhatia studied at BITS for two years and then transferred to Caltech. He considers himself a BITSian of-course and was one of the major contributors for BITSConnect too.

I like this video (The "Proud to be a BITSian" video!)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=618910779916501818