I SPEAK TO KALLOL ROY OF BARC

I used to serve in Mumbai in 1999  in the area of  Enterprise solutions and my office being behind the Star TV Network in Andheri East and staying at a hotel in Juhu. I was conducting an interview to make some recruitments when a gentleman with some affiliation with BARC the Bhaba Atomic Research Center happenned to be on the list.I remembered that Kallol Roy who used to be my senior at college was at BARC and enquired if he knew Kallol and to my surprise knew him very well and got the residence number of Kallol.

I had forgotten about the matter but one Sunday afternoon decided to call him on the number from my office and lo Kallol was on the other side. Kallol never knew me all too well and I had some difficulty in permeating myself. Kallol Roy was in the Seventh Semester when I joined the Regional Engineering College Calicut.He used to be a person with a wide spectrum of academic interests and used to take part in debating and person with high motivation.

None the less we got talking for nearly an hour on the phone transcending many events during his and my stay at college and he had the gift of giving almost accurate dates of events.It was a very nice experience  talking to him at length..thereafter I have not had a chat with Kallol but came to know from some quarters he had risen to very high posts in BARC..May be he is headed to become a distinguished alumni of REC  NIT  Calicut.

VEENA MAESTRO CHITTI BABU AND MYSELF

I have no direct connection between this legend called  Chitti Babu but for his son who was my room mate for one night at Hotel Citizen in Juhu Mumbai.

Perhaps it is in March of 1997, I was Regional Co-ordinator of  Zed Points at Aptech Computer Education in Bangalore and was called to Mumbai and checked into the hotel at around 6pm and was relaxing in my room overlooking the Juhu beach and suddenly the door bell rang and in came a Gentleman who was the Regional Co-ordinator of Zed Points in Chennai region who also told me is the son of  Chitti Babu.It was a nice experience meeting him and later a band of all of us had  a stroll on Juhu beach.

The next day was the conference Chaired by Ganesh Natarajan , Uma Ganesh and Pramod Khera. (Pramod is a first class gentleman in his conduct.).

A portrait of Pramod Khera

After the conference this room mate of mine (The son of Shri Chitti Babu) left that evening and I the next morning. I spent two nights in the hotel and he one.

Some how I happenned to remember him.I think his name is Sayee Chikapally. Contact me Sayee if you can.