Category: Phres IITian

Dobaal’s story is interesting. After screwing up the IIT-JEE, he still managed to get Elec B. Tech at IIT Madras. For four years he learnt Electrical engineering and when it was all over, he could never get to use it anywhere. After passing out in 2005, he joined CapOne in US which marked his entry into the world of finance.  After one and a half years he shifted to HSBC as an (assistant) Vice President of the Credit Card Department. And then he did something that many don’t do. He came back to India to start his own company IndiaKhelo, which shall soon be launched (November 2008). But something happened between the last job and this would-be launch. Read this story to find what.

Uday Grover, better known as Gabbar in IIT Madras passed out in 2003 with a B. Tech in Metallurgical and Material Sciences. After graduating from IIT, he worked for two years in a Management Consulting firm in Mumbai. Incidentally, the company had bumped most of the MBAs from his batch to end up taking him. Gabbar finally quit the job to begin his own entrepreneurship adventure. He runs his business in Chennai. In the Phres IITians series, he talks about the things he liked about IIT and gives gyaan from all he learnt and saw after stepping outside IIT.

Before becoming a proud MITian, Galagali was a prouder IITian. Nikhil Galagali passed out of IIT Madras in 2007 with a B. Tech in Civil Engineering. Currently, he is doing his Masters in Computation for Design and Optimization at MIT, USA. In the Phres IITian series, he describes his experiences at the amazing place that MIT is, talks about the amazinger chicks that MIT has, and compares MIT with IIT on various fronts (except the chick front 😛 ).

Sandeep Reddy Chillakuri, popularly known as Indra at IIT Madras passed out in 2006 with a B. Tech in Civil Engineering. Indra, or myndfcukd as he calls himself, is single and works in his home town of Hyderabad for Deloitte Consulting as a management consultant. In the Phres IITian series, Indra remembers his IIT days, reflects on his job and explains how an MBA is going to help him.

Nakul Laad graduated from IIT Madras in 2007 with a B. Tech in metallurgical and material science engineering. He took up a core job and makes loads of money working in Dubai. Back in IIT, he served as a core group member of IIT Madras’ technical festival Shaastra. In the Phres IITian series, Laad talks about his new job, Dubai, IIT days, his department and most importantly, his marriage plans.

Aravind, popularly known as Mallu in IIT Madras, is a final year dual degree student pursuing Chemical Engineering. He is a wonderful football player and is the present institute sports secretory. He got placed in Shell on day zero of placements, which he believes is the best thing that ever happened to him in his entire IIT life. Here, in the Phres IITian series, Mallu talks about elections, sports, chemical engineering department and of course about cracking a sexy job on day zero.

How do you like the idea of peeking into the life of a random IITian? This is exactly what you get to do through my Phres IITian series. The aim is to let my readers get a flavour of different kinds of IITians; those who haven’t yet passed out; those who have been working since the day they passed out; those who cracked CAT and left for IIM; those who flew to US; those who quit a regular lifestyle to follow their own passion.

There never is an end to phres shit, is it?

PS: Any IITian/ex-IITian who wants to do community service by giving gyaan on this blog, do drop a comment and I shall get back to you.