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SAM CLUB DAY ‘16

Jamalpur Newsletter

- Kuldeep Singh '2001

'The more this place changes, the more it remains the same'….These were the exact thoughts in mind
when I landed up in Gymkhana a er 10 years, a er alma ma er had called me to pay my dues. With the
departure of Mr. Utkarsh '98 in July last year, for Indian Ins tute of Technology, Kharagpur to pursue a
Ph.D., yours truly has only recently taken over his charge of Prof. (WMT).

To begin, I would like to update everyone with the strength of Gymkhana. Last year in August, the 14
members of 2010 batch completed their appren ceship and have entered into the proba onary period.
2k11 & 2k12 (37) are the final year batches, moving to last phase of gym life and are honing their skills for
IR. 2k13 (15) are the Secretary batch for Gym this year and would have hosted Club Day 2016 by the me
you will be reading this edi on. 23 SCAs of 2k14 batch are making gym more colourful with their strength in
numbers. All the six SCAs of 2015 batch are worthy ex-IITians.

Gymkhana has seen many physical changes too this past year. The en re upper western lobby is being
renovated, with plans to provide all rooms with a ached bathrooms. Thanks to Club Day 2015's Golden
Jubilee 1965 batch, Gymkhanites now have a Pool Table for their recrea on. Dining hall is being fully air-
condi oned. The bushes and shrubs around the sports field, which were the nightmare of a firstee
searching for a lost football, have been cleared, and the field adorns a completely new look. The Lounge
and Nishant have been refurbished. Thanks to the efforts of Mr. Swapnil Garg '87 & Mr. Samir Lohani '90,
Gymkhana is on Informa on Highway, will be ge ng connected to the Na onal Knowledge Network.
The past year, Gymkhana hosted Mr. B. M. Shyam Singh '60, Mr. S.C. Sengupta '61, Mr. V. Anand '62 , Mrs.
Indira Swaminathan daughter of the first Indian Principal Mr. R. V. Sitaraman (1949-1953), Mr. N. K.
Bhandari '90, Mr. A. K. Chandan '96 and Mr. Swayambhu Arya '94.

Among the changes in SAMs at IRIMEE, the most notable ones are the farewell of Mr. M. S. Mathur '73,
with Mr. A. K. Gupta '76 coming in as the new Director. Mr. Deepak Nigam '88 joined us as Senior Prof. (RST)
and yours truly at the end of the year.

Amidst the vast changes in Gymkhana, the spirit to have remained constant is that of SAPIENTIA ET LABOR.
I hope the spirit con nues forever. However, now is the call for rowing against the de as the 'Powers That
Be' have taken up the cudgels against SCRA. Now is the me for the experienced to guide and the youth to
fight. No be er service may be done to this place than making efforts to raise it from ashes.

Let the Gymkhana flag fly high. Let the enthusiasm and energy of SCAs con nue endlessly. Let the SAMs
and SIMIs keep showering Gym with their affec on. Let the words reverberate in the darkest hour to guide
this ship forever -
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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