Comments on: A TRYST WITH OUR ROOTS

By: Inderpal Sandhu

Inderpal Sandhu — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:11:08 +0000

A beautiful piece on roots and reminiscences, not to mention the touching incident of Shagun and Bahus.
Does the name, Maj. Sawinder Singh Pannu, ring a bell with any of the old timers of the years 1949?
Major Pannu was on the IMA staff when I visited him in 1949. I was a student at the engineering college, Roorkee, UP.

By: MAHAVIR JAGDEV

MAHAVIR JAGDEV — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:10:13 +0000

But that experience gained at the SGPC Kirpan factory …. paid off in the long run at IIT, KGP …. I would be the first one to make a chisel, hinge, T-square etc …… and guys used to wonder how come …. I was a born engineer…… even the supervisors were amazed ….. all that was peanuts for me …. and my Lab partner was a Bengali girl, whom no one was willing to take on as a partner …. I used to do her projects too….. including making single handily the Smithy jobs.

By: Om Sikka

Om Sikka — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:09:46 +0000

Lets have more of stuff like this—-memories are made to relive past
& ponder—those were the days,

By: MAHAVIR JAGDEV

MAHAVIR JAGDEV — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:09:05 +0000

I really chose them, this was an instant thought process and I replied. I find very few people, who pen down their personal experiences, now a days. Mostly what one gets on the emails are forwards.

By: Onkar pal Singh

Onkar pal Singh — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:08:04 +0000

great to c u in NDA crested blazer at IMA.
pics were really nice.

By: A.G. Bewoor

A.G. Bewoor — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:07:21 +0000

I think first person sitting extreme left is Capt PG Sapatnekar, Viveks father. I have never met Col Chandele.

By: Jasdev Singh

Jasdev Singh — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:06:30 +0000

Lovely Pictures – I most enjoyed seeing the old IMAofficer’s picture – Pitaji’s ramrod straight posture – with gritand determination showing steadfastly in his eyes!

He looks every bit a winner !

By: Sriram Jayasimha

Sriram Jayasimha — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:05:35 +0000

Perhaps, in addition to esprit de corps, the following story is illustrative.

Late in 1980, I listened to Arno Penzias, the 1978 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (for his confirmation of the big band residual cosmic background radiation) when he came to deliver a lecture at the graduate school I was then studying at. He said, “You can’t soar like the eagle if you mingle with the turkeys”. I wrote about this to my father and pat came the reply, “You can’t soar like the eagle if you mingle with the eagles either: the eagle is a solitary bird”.

More than the obvious message, his response at one stroke erased the stinging disdain of the former quotation.

I miss my father and often think of his attitudes to life. Many of his pursuits could be termed “elitist”, yet the thing I remember his most about was the respectful way he treated everyone.

By: Surindar Singh

Surindar Singh — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:04:58 +0000

Very nicely written Reminds me also of your dear parents They were
kind to host my parents and also my dear sister Simran , at the
time of our passing out . My father was then recovering from a road
accident and this trip proved to be good for his recovery

I came to know Nirmal’s father ,as his house in GK-1 was on lease
with my company Ranbaxy which i served for 25 years after leaving Army

I came know Col Nirmal and Mrs Mahajan when I was a BM in Nagaland .
As families were allowed only for two months , we came to know and
like Mahajans . . Subsequently when i was incharge of Ranbaxy project
at Paonta Sahib , I used to often meet the family and infect tried to
Nirmal get him job in my company

Please gie me his e mail id so that i can get in touch with him again

By: chinnappa kuppanda

chinnappa kuppanda — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:04:22 +0000

You look as fit as ever, and Mrs Surjit as young as ever…….coming to Bangalore anytime.. the weather is lovely