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“I have always been lucky”, Says wheel chair bound 21 year old IIT grad, Naga Naresh
IITians have given back in different ways. Manvinder Singh Banga, an IIT graduate in
mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi has brought glory to the country by being a global
figure, rising to President of Unilever's foods, home and personal care business. He has
been in the running for the top post at Unilever to succeed Mr. Patrick Cecau who is
retiring next year. He returns to the country in form of well acclaimed reputation of his
entrepunaral skills, employed all across the globe. Mr. Naga Naresh Karuturi son of
unlettered parents, who lost his both the legs when he was 7 years old, sailed through IIT
Madras on 25 July 2008 and gave back a lesson of hope to thousands in despair. He beams
with joy in his electric wheel chair having laid hands on a job at Google R & D.
The three medals won at Beijing could help correct years of frustration at India's poor
sporting performance. An olympic's gold could catapult sport to the fore front of a
nation's imagination. It was Abhinav's return to the country when he said it was India's
gold.
India pays a tribute to Thomas Bata who died at the age of 94 in Toronto. Although Bata
operates in more than 50 countries, India remains its favored market with Batas being
steeped in Indian culture and history. No wonder most Indians think it is an Indian shoe
company !
J.K. Pandey
Girijesh Dubey
R.K. Goyal
Safdar Seraj
- Charles Osgood
Radio and television commentator
- Sam Ewing
Writer
-David T. Kearns
CEO Xerox Corporation
Q u o t e s of wise
I wish to share with you part of my life story which you may find interesting and motivating in some sense.
I did my basic schooling from a village nearly seventy kilometers away from Kota city. After completing my middle education, I rode 10 km daily
to Ramganj Mandi, a town better known for its stones, on cycle, to pursue my further education from Class IX onwards. I was totally ignorant about
what IIT was till then. I came to know about IIT, when I was in Class X, through my friend who gave me grandeur view of IIT.
From that point, I gathered more information about IIT, more books, more study material and previous years solved exam papers. I appeared in the
IIT-JEE, and in the very first attempt tasted success (in Hindi Medium) and entered IIT-Madras.
After passing out from IIT Madras in 1994, I joined B.H.E.L. While working in B.H.E.L. I was selected in IAS - Preliminary at first attempt. I left
B.H.E.L. to prepare for IAS- Mains and started teaching in order to have time for studies and also to raise a financial support. But teaching drew me
too close and with time, I discovered that I and teaching were made for each other. I abandoned the idea to join IAS ans instead, started working to
build educational set-up and sowed the seeds of my vision - Resonance.
I had nothing except self-confidence at that juncture. I had to face the challenges from the big-giants in the field of education with big
infrastructure. I had made up my mind that Resonance should be the leader in Education, particularly for IIT-JEE aspirants. This was the need of
the hour.
Today Resonance boasts of 3655 selections in the IIT-JEE in the last seven years (from its start in 2001 to 2008). The organization which started
with just three people today employs more than 500 persons. Resonance which made a very humble beginning from a three classroom building
now has ten buildings in Kota itself where it started operations. It has presence in the major cities of country in Delhi, Bhopal, Lucknow, Kolkata,
Nagpur, Jaipur as Study Centers and Chandigarh, Indore, Ranchi and Patna as Information Centers.
Diligence and discipline are two watch words I live by and these help me in fulfilling all my priorities and I expect all of you to essentially accept
them for you to be successful in life.
I will keep sharing with you on other important success parameters too.
R K Verma
Mohnish Pabrai's
serve of devotion, dakshana and duty.
M ohnish pabrai has such a great admiration for his guru,
Warren Buffett that he has bid for the last four years on
e-Bay for lunch with him. He missed each time but the
joint bid by pabrai and his partner Guyspier beat out others for the
much awaited lunch, held recently on 25 June 2008. It was like giving a
gift to his teacher on the Teachers' day as celebrated in India. He is the
founder and Managing Partner of the Pabrai Investment Funds, a group of
focused value funds in California. Since inception in 1999 with $1 Million
in assets, the Pabrai Funds has grown to over $625 Million in assets in 2007.
Pabrai invests primarily in smaller companies, those with a market cap in the
half billion dollar range, that are out of favor. The Pabrai Funds are a
close replica of the original 1950s Buffett Investment Partnerships. His
investment philosophy is comparable to that of Warren Buffett in the early
days of Buffett's investing career. He focuses on a company's intrinsic value.
Since inception, the Pabrai Investment Funds have consistently beaten all the
major indices and over 99% of mutual and hedge fund managers.
Mohnish Pabrai was born on 12 June, 1964 in Mumbai. After completing the
school education, Pabrai received a Bachelor's Degree in 1986, from
Clemson University in Computer Engineering, and graduated with senior
honors completing the 4-year degree in 3 years.
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Anunaad, October
July - September
- December
2008
2008 08
08
News & Views IIT SNIPPETS
Says IIT Bombay’s entrepreneurship cell MD Ankit Agarwal: “This is the first time
a ‘cleantech’ prize would be declared for the two best entries in the field of
clean/sustainable technology.” Cash awards of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 70,000 will be
given for the top two entries (return airfare travel to Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh), and winners will be chosen to compete in the sustainable technology
track of the McGinnis Venture Competition, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, USA for additional prizes.
Manoj Sharma
General Manager - Academics
Anunaad, October - December 2008 09
Setting New Business
Standards
A Mechanical Engineering graduate
from IIT-Delhi, Manvinder Singh Banga
is currently working as President
Home, Personal Care and Food of
Unilever PLC.
O ne may wonder
what is an IITan
doing at an FMCG
Company? But
Manvinder Singh
Banga has made it big even in a Food
School and did his B.Tech. in Mechanical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of
was Director for Detergents, Hindustan
Lever, as well as Category Leader for Soaps
Manufacturing & Consumer Goods
Technology, Delhi in 1975 with a gold and Detergents for Unilever’s Central Asia
company. He was in the race for the top post
medal. From Delhi he moved to and Middle East Region. He was Senior
at world's largest FMCG company to
Ahmedabad to study at the Indian Institute Vice President, Hair and Oral Care from
succeed Patrick Cecau, the Group Chief
of Management (IIM-A). Here too Vindi 1998 to 2000. In 2004 he was Business
Executive who is due to retire early next
earned a gold medal. Group President for Unilever’s Home and
year. He has been the former CEO of
After leaving IIM-A, Mr. Banga joined Personal Care business in Asia.
Hindustan Lever limited, India’s largest
consumer products company and one of its Hindustan Lever as a management trainee In April 2004, HLL (Hindustan Lever
most respected companies. in 1977, and got three out-of-turn Limited) announced that it would replicate
promotions which catapulted to top spot in Unilever's organizational structure by
Manvinder Singh Banga, commonly
the Hindustan Lever Board at a young age splitting into two separate divisions, Foods,
known as “VINDI”was born on October 31,
of 41. Up to 1992, he worked in a variety of and Home & Personal Care (HPC). As part
1954 in Shimla. His father Harbhajan Singh
Sales and Marketing assignments in the of this reorganization, Banga was made
Banga was a General in the Indian Army.
Detergents and Personal Care Categories in non-executive chairman of HLL, and also
Early childhood saw Manvinder Singh
India including a spell with Lever Brothers, given additional responsibility as business
crisscross the country, living in small
UK. From 1993 to 1995 he was the Head of group president of Unilever's Asia HPC
villages and larger towns, wherever his
Hindustan Lever Limited Personal business. In February 2005, he was
father was posted.
Products Business. From 1995 to 1998, he elevated to the newly formed Unilever
He completed his schooling in Delhi Public
Born to unlettered parents and into a family IITs, AIEEE, and other exams. I was lucky ges'kk izlUu jgus okys ukxk ujs'k d:rqjh ds fy, us 25
where no one had completed higher studies, to have studied in such an atmosphere,’’ he tqykbZ 2008 dk fnu dqN [kkl Fkk D;ksa fd mUgsa bl fnu
vkbZvkbZVh enzkl ls dEI;qVj foKku esa Lukrd dh fMxzh
this IIT graduate first heard of the premier adds.
izkIr gksus okyh FkhA vxys 3 fnu ckn gh mUgsa fo'o
institution when he was in Class VII. That izfl) xwxy esa crkSj dEI;qVj bathfu;j dk;Z Hkkj
Looking back at all those hours of hard
was when he heard that a school senior had laHkkyuk FkkA fof'k"Vrk xwxy esa dk;Z djus esa ugha
work that went into cracking the IIT vfirq ujs'k ds ldkjkRed n`f"Vdks.k esa gS ftlus mUgsa
made it to the reputed Gowtham Junior
entrance, Naresh says he couldn’t have thou esa lQyrk gkfly djus esa egRoiw.kZ ;ksxnku
College in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada
carried on without the help of his friends. “I fn;kA
which was popular for producing state
was blessed in having helpful roommates lkr o"kZ dh vYi vk;q esa ujs'k ds lkFk gqbZ nq?kZVuk ds
ranks and IIT entrants. Naresh,too, won an
like Sitarama Raju with whom I used to do dkj.k mUgsa vius nksuks iSj x¡okus iM+s] ijUrq bl ?kVuk us
entry into the same college. “It was an muds vUnj fdlh izdkj dk udkjkRed izHkko ugha
study.’’
expensive residential school and cost Rs MkykA mUgksus iwjh rUe;rk ls viuh i<+kbZ ij /;ku
50,000 per student per year. My father Naresh’s stay in halls and rooms of fn;kA
could have never afforded that but for Gowtham Junior College was his first fuj{kj ekrk &firk ds iq= ujs'k us dHkh Hkh ftUnxh ls
scholarships. I was lucky again there,’’ he outside home. “At home, I was very gkj ugha ekuh rFkk muds ekrk & firk us Hkh gj {k.k
says modestly. dependent on my folks. They even moved ujs'k dk lkFk fn;k ujs'k dh cM+h cgu Jh'kk ujs'k dks
Ldwy esa ys tk;k djrh FkhA d{kk 7 esa ujs'k us vkbZvkbZVh
to Vijayawada to be near me all the time,’’
From Class VII to XII, Naresh’s fees at the laLFkku ds ckjs esa lquk rFkk ogk¡ i<+us dk fu'p; fd;kA
says Naresh. Soon, his father, Prasad, viuh esgur rFkk dq'kkxz cqf) ds pyrs vkbZvkbZVh &
residential college were met through
taught him the importance of being enzkl esa viuh igpku cuk;hA
scholarships. Later, Naresh was glad for
independent. “Since then, I began to push
having earned a seat at Gowtham Junior vkt mu lHkh fo|kfFkZ;ksa esa tks Hkkjr ds bl mPpre
the wheelchair myself and crawled my way f'k{k.k laLFkku esa LFkku ikus ds fy, fnu jkr esgur dj
College. “The college segregated students
to the classroom,’’ he says. But sending him jgs gSa mu lHkh ds fy, ujs'k ,d felky ds :i esa mHkj
into those who would be trained for the dj lkeus vkrs gSaA viuh bl 'kkjhfjd deh ds gksrs gq,
to a new place and let him be on his own
Hkh mUgksus vkbZvkbZVh & enzkl ls viuh f'k{kk lEiUu dh
was difficult. Naresh’s father, a lorry driver,
gSA
Son Of says: “We were a bit scared but never let
that fear show. We always knew he could do ujs'k ds vkbZvkbZVh &enzkl esa izos'k ds ckn dkyst ds
Professor Pandurangan, under whose xwxy dEiuh esa feyh ukSdjh ls ujs'k csgn izlUu gSA
From The guidance Naresh works, says the latter ujs'k ds vuqlkj bl lekt esa vPNs yksxksa dh la[;k cqjs
yksxksa dh la[;k ds vuqikr esa cgqr vf/kd gSA rFkk ;fn
Finest Tech never expects special care and is always
pleasant. “He is the gem of our lab.”
vki esa ldkjkRed n`f"Vdks.k jgs vkSj thus dk tTck gks
rks lHkh yksx vkidh gj rjg ls enn djrs gSaA
Institute R K Sharma, Senior Manager SW&PR
Q. What is required to get into IIT? IIT-JEE? approach and apply the same in JPT and even
Ans. Firm determination and hard work is Ans. I used to cover the whole school in JEE.
required for execution of every task. I worked syllabus side by side which proved beneficial Q. How did you manage the final
sincerely and made a room for me in IIT with for me in boards. I would suggest my juniors revision of the whole syllabus of IIT JEE
flying colors. not to leave JEE preparation during Boards in last few days?
because it may kill your objective skills. Try to Ans. I used to make brief notes of all the
Q. W h a t w a s y o u r o r d e r o f
study both simultaneously. important formulas and concepts in one
preparation - class notes, personal notes
or DPPs? How did you utilize your study Q.How important is emotional quotient separate copy of all the 3 subjects and I used
hours to get maximum coverage of in preparation for IIT-JEE. Please to revise it before tests and JEE but
syllabus? explain? cumulative effect is most important u cant do
Ans. Emotional quotient is one of the factors much in last few days that's why one has to
Ans. The Reso teachers are better guides to
that can alter your performance at JEE. So make a habit of studying on daily basis.
answer this question. Proper and continuous
practice of DPPs & modules is the key to have faith in yourself because you have done Q. To whom you wish to give the
success in IIT-JEE, while revising the whole all the hard work in these 2/3 years and you credit of your success?
can't let it go in 6 hrs of JEE. Ans. My parents and family always had
syllabus in the last few days. As one can't go
through the whole of it, revision planner Q. How did you refresh yourself from the faith in me. They supported my decision of
really works in such situation. It helped me hectic schedule? choosing Resonance. Besides them my
also in choosing the questions which covered Ans. I used to play games in school for Resonance teachers, my school teachers and
most of my course. refreshing and cycling which I could afford my friends and last but not the least myself,
being a localite. listening music, watching hold the credit for this achievement.
Q. While preparing for IIT-JEE,
movies on test days can be a better option, Q. What is your Success mantra?
where one should emphasize more- on
BUT DO NOT GET ADDICTED TO Give some advice to your successors at
problem solving or on understanding the
THEM, and always do one work at a time Resonance who are preparing for IIT-
subject?
either studies or enjoyment. JEE?
Ans. This is a tricky question. If u want your
Q. While preparing at Resonance how Ans. I would like to advise my juniors to do
life to be a bit easy in IITs, then understanding
did you evaluate your performance after well. Keep balance in your studies and your
the subject is necessary. Even Olympiad
each CT, APT & JPT? social life. Please make most of your efforts
aspirants have to understand the subject. JEE and don't let things fly over your head at any
can be cleared by more and more practice but u Ans. CT was the major evaluator of my
performance at Resonance. I used to analyze point of time. Hard work, efficiency,
can maximize your result if u have done both intelligence and your love for IIT is your
my result and areas where I did maximum
the tasks sincerely. success mantra.
mistakes. Then I worked hard to improve on.
Q. How does one cope up with the These are the tests in which u can experiment
school syllabus and preparation for the your approach but try to get set with your
Rucha Kekre, Executive SW&PR
R.K. Goyal
WINNERS
(COURSE NAME :VIJETA)
BATCH: P Target IIT–JEE 2009
Olympiad Opulence
Olympiad Opulence
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) is a National Centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai.
Three decades after its inception, HBCSE has emerged as the premier institution in the country for research and development in science,
technology and mathematics education. It is India's nodal centre for Olympiad programs in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology and
Astronomy.
Stages of Examination : Following are the stages for aspirants of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Astronomy: National Standard Examination,
Indian National Olympiad Examination, Orientation cum scholarship Camp, International Olympiad
Following are the stages of Maths aspirants : RMO (Regional Mathematics Olympiad), Orientation cum scholarship Camp, International
Olympiad
Eligibility Criteria - For Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Biology : All students of Class XI and XII (Science stream) are eligible to appear. A student
may appear for more than one as per the examination schedule. Students who have passed class XII are not eligible. For Astronomy : Students
studying in VIII & IC classes, Age (13 to 14 years) qualifying for junior group whereas students in X & XI class, Age (15 & 16 years) qualifying for
senior group.
We must Build on
our Success at the
Beijing Olympics
Music strikes a chord with Reso teachers All honors for the teachers.
th
in the celebrations on 5 sept 2008. Happy Teachers' day!
TALENT HUNT PHYSICS FORCE
J.K. Pandey
(For Solution, please refer page 'Khul-Ja-Sim-Sim) Reso Faculty - Physics