Pictures of IIT

Some of the most fun years of my life were spent at IIT, Bombay. IIT was filled with all kinds of interesting people. The proffessors were "unique" and each had some kind of interesting story or characteristic attached to them, sometime not quite true. This was also true for most students. Most of them had some famous eccentricity. The place itself was incredible. Full of all kinds of wild trees and surrounded by two beautiful lakes. well, somewhat beautiful anyway. The climate was horrible though and I mostly remember it as a sort of hot, humid, cowdungy place.
Aaah! memories...
Heres some cartoons about IIT which have emerged over the last year:

Proffessors:

U N Gaitonde Gaitonde in marathi means "face of a cow". I never could quite understand why maharashtrians managed to give themselves all kind of unsettling surnames. Fortunately it makes cartooning a lot easier for amateur cartoonists like myself. Gaitonde used to teach us heat transfer in a sort of soft, melodious voice which managed to put quite a few of us into sweet slumber.
S S Chinchalkar Chinch (as he was called) was my guide for the B Tech project. Since I didnt run and he did, we never managed to strike any sort of rapport. Chinchalkar ran quite well and infact usually managed to come at the very top of the annual student marathon. Featured here is another famous visitor to IITB. Every few years, a few panthers from the nearby reservation manage to break loose and enter IIT where they make meals of a few cows, dogs, etc.
G K Sharma This is an unkind cartoon. G K Sharma had this habit of stressing the trailing 's' which made him sound like he was leaking something. We used to call him "Jhakassss".

People:
I met some very interesting people at IIT. Something to be said about everyone. The Mechies of H5 formed what we called Hostel 5 Mechanical Engineering Students Parivaar or 5HOLMESP for short. The first 3 cartoons here are of all of us in groups of two according to the vehicle which we shared.

Kakkar (and me)
Neeraj and Khare I recently made another version of the same cartoon.
Sathyan and Randhawa
Bhakar Now at Microsoft, Bhakru spent the last year at IIT mainly reading voluminous letters from his fiance and dreaming about money and stock options. Bhakar and I did a lot of programming together and ruined a semester together.
Aithala (and me) Aithala is the most enthu punter I know. He along with some people actually biked all the way from IIT, Bombay to Kanyakumari. Read about this and other travels at his web-page. This cartoon was from when we went trekking together. I could barely move and he could barely stop. It was hard.
Pai There is an interesting little story behind this cartoon. The whole wing was sitting in pai's room. Pai had asked me to wire a switch to his tubelight. I did it and asked him to apply insulation around the two live wires which came out. pai actually took the two lines, wrapped them tightly together and then taped them together!!! This ofcourse blew the fuse of our entire wing. The funny thing was, when I asked him later why he had done it, he replied perfectly straightforwardly, "I wanted to save on the tape"!!!

Miscellaneous Stuff:

Attending classes at IIT Drawn above each head is the most probable grade they will get. For non-IITians, "XX" is the infamous "detained due to inadequate attendance" grade. Its also used by some proffessors to express displeasure.
BTech Magazine Cover Drawn in a huge hurry for the cover of our batch magazine. Some say that it was an excuse to make another magazine about the 5 HOLMESP people. It will most probably sound like an excuse, but I was really really out of practice when I drew this. The person is walking along the corridoor which connects all the departments.