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*An IIT Legacy....*
Flashback to 1954 - A gangly gangling young lecturer, Rama Sastri, with a precise marked Telugu lilt to his English, taught america Physics astatine IIT Kharagpur. He was an fantabulous teacher, contempt his accented English, and besides served arsenic the warden of Azad Hall.
A (hilarious) wide assemblage gathering of the hostel was held sometime late1954 to sermon burgeoning messiness bills, which had climbed from rupees 30 to an astronomical forty rupees per month. Rama Sastri had to pacify the irate students.
He patiently explained the reasons for the summation 'What to do, everythingu go costly, ricu, saltu, pepperu, vegetablesu each outgo more." The students were mesmerised by the accent'u and kept quiet. The gathering passed disconnected peacefully. The anecdote became portion of the aboriginal IIT pupil lore arsenic a memorable event'u!
Rama Sastri was deputed for a twelvemonth to MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, connected a station doctoral fellowship. He came backmost a changed man. He had wide shoulders (filled retired acknowledgment to nourishing US food) and sported a marked American accent. His bold visage was unrecognizable from the fig helium chopped a twelvemonth earlier.
He sounded wholly American until helium came to the deadly connection 'against' erstwhile helium reverted to his archetypal Telugu persona. He pronounced it arsenic 'againistu,' and we were relieved that our beloved Prof had go normal.
Rama Sastri near IIT Kharagpur successful the aboriginal sixties and joined the Physics Department of the recently acceptable up IIT Madras. He retired years aboriginal arsenic a overmuch loved Professor aft an fantabulous career. IIT Madras present runs a pupil grant successful his memory.
Rama Sastri's son, Krish graduated with a Mechanical Engineering grade from IIT Madras successful 1977 and later, successful the 1980s, migrated to the US and is present a lecturer successful the Department of Aerospace Engineering astatine San Diego State University.
One whitethorn wonderment the crushed for a agelong spiel astir a Physics teacher of agelong ago: His granddaughter Usha was calved successful USA, graduated from Yale, did a Master's grade astatine Cambridge and aboriginal attended the Law School astatine Yale wherever she met and joined a classmate. Usha Chilukuri is the woman of JD Vance, Trump's moving mate.
*Yes, the accomplished girl of a Mechanical Engineer from IIT Madras and the granddaughter of a Physics teacher astatine IIT Kharagpur and IIT Madras is acceptable to go the Second Lady of the USA!*
Flashback to 1954 - A gangly gangling young lecturer, Rama Sastri, with a precise marked Telugu lilt to his English, taught america Physics astatine IIT Kharagpur. He was an fantabulous teacher, contempt his accented English, and besides served arsenic the warden of Azad Hall.
A (hilarious) wide assemblage gathering of the hostel was held sometime late1954 to sermon burgeoning messiness bills, which had climbed from rupees 30 to an astronomical forty rupees per month. Rama Sastri had to pacify the irate students.
He patiently explained the reasons for the summation 'What to do, everythingu go costly, ricu, saltu, pepperu, vegetablesu each outgo more." The students were mesmerised by the accent'u and kept quiet. The gathering passed disconnected peacefully. The anecdote became portion of the aboriginal IIT pupil lore arsenic a memorable event'u!
Rama Sastri was deputed for a twelvemonth to MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, connected a station doctoral fellowship. He came backmost a changed man. He had wide shoulders (filled retired acknowledgment to nourishing US food) and sported a marked American accent. His bold visage was unrecognizable from the fig helium chopped a twelvemonth earlier.
He sounded wholly American until helium came to the deadly connection 'against' erstwhile helium reverted to his archetypal Telugu persona. He pronounced it arsenic 'againistu,' and we were relieved that our beloved Prof had go normal.
Rama Sastri near IIT Kharagpur successful the aboriginal sixties and joined the Physics Department of the recently acceptable up IIT Madras. He retired years aboriginal arsenic a overmuch loved Professor aft an fantabulous career. IIT Madras present runs a pupil grant successful his memory.
Rama Sastri's son, Krish graduated with a Mechanical Engineering grade from IIT Madras successful 1977 and later, successful the 1980s, migrated to the US and is present a lecturer successful the Department of Aerospace Engineering astatine San Diego State University.
One whitethorn wonderment the crushed for a agelong spiel astir a Physics teacher of agelong ago: His granddaughter Usha was calved successful USA, graduated from Yale, did a Master's grade astatine Cambridge and aboriginal attended the Law School astatine Yale wherever she met and joined a classmate. Usha Chilukuri is the woman of JD Vance, Trump's moving mate.
*Yes, the accomplished girl of a Mechanical Engineer from IIT Madras and the granddaughter of a Physics teacher astatine IIT Kharagpur and IIT Madras is acceptable to go the Second Lady of the USA!*
