Hello All, It has been a while since we had a CWS interview show. Thanks to summer placements @ IIMB. Next post will be on my experiences et al here @ IIMB during the most talked about summers.. Today, we have a very special guest who is going to shed light on research from an [...]

Hey Guys, Hope you had a great diwali!! I was damn impressed with the fireworks here in IIMB. I certainly a had time here on diwali with a couple of classes and 1 extra class Anyways, today’s guest on Coffee With Sundar was the one who initiated a cracker of an event at NIT Trichy [...]

Hi All, It is my pleasure to host Mr. Chandrakanth B N today on CWS. Chandra is the cofounder and Managing Director India of Theorem. He has over 13 years of experience in the IT industry and a rich experience and knowledge of technical and management skills. He has a Master’s Degree in Industrial Management [...]

The moment has arrived. 50th interview on CWS! This is a huge moment for CWS, me & ofcourse for all the readers of CWS. Without your support all these wouldn’t have been possible. So, on this special occasion, I would like to interview a special person. And its my previledge to host Rama Bijapurkar. The [...]

Hi all, I am extremely happy to inform you all that Rohini Ramachandran a.k.a “Rora”, my NIT Trichy “Kandu” junior & IIM Batch mate has secured the prestigious Aditya Birla Scholarship. CWS had a quick chat with Rora [audio:http://coffeewithsundar.com/Rohini Ramachandran - final.mp3] She is circled in the photo below.. Ofcourse, you can also check out [...]

They say.. “Give it a shot!! You have nothing to lose.” And thats exactly what I did.. This is a moment I never believed or dreamt.. This is THE moment.. that I am sooo proud of.. This is a moment that I am pinching myself to believe that it is true…. Nayaran Moorthy Sir has [...]

Hi All, Its my pleasure to interview Ashish Agarwal, Chemical engineer turned ibanker. Ashish passed out of NIT Trichy in the year 1999. After 6 years in the industry, he went to pursue an MBA in INSEAD. Without further ado, Coffee With Ashish Agarwal – NIT Alumni from INSEAD AA: Ashish AgarwalMe: Sundar Rajan G [...]

“There will come a time when big opportunities will be presented to you, and you’ve got to be in a position to take advantage of them.” said Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart Inc. And Arjun Shetty & his team have precisely done that. They are trying to extract the huge potential in Banking segment. To [...]

Hi All, Its my pleasure to introduce my junior, Prakhar Mehrotra to talk about life at Caltech. Prakhar passed out NITT in 2007 with a mechanical engineer degree. He is a JNCASR scholar. Prakhar will answer some of the most frequently asked questions wrt to apping.. Coffee With Prakhar Mehrotra – Life @ Caltech * [...]

Hi Readers, Its time to get a flavour of some of the non-engineering roles in Coffee Profiles. And its my pleasure to start off with Kanishk Swarup, equity derivatives trader from Credit Suisse. Special thanks to Varun Bhandari, IIM Bangalore for introducing Kanishk. Coffee With Kanishk on Equity Derivatives Trading Me: Sundar Rajan G S [...]

CWS is now back in full action after 2 days of outage (especially for people who use airtel broadband) Its my pleasure to welcome Raghavan, alumni of NIT Trichy to share his thoughts about life @ Rice University Coffee With Raghavan * Brief Intro about yourself..I did my bachelors in Computer Science from REC, Trichy. [...]

Hi All, Its my great pleasure to have Chandra R Murthy, Assistant Professor at ECE department, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore to talk about “How to pursue research”. This is one of the best interviews at Coffee With Sundar undoubtedly. Professor has a been kind enough to spare a lot of time in answering these [...]

Hey All, Its time for a special episode on Coffee With Experts!! Today, We have a person, who has made it to Google inspite of all odds against him. Its my pleasure welcome Naga Naresh Karuturi from IIT Madras for a show on Coffee With Sundar!! You might wonder, what were the odds against him.. [...]

Hey All.. Today, we have a very special person on CWS!! The person I am talking about got a 1480 in GRE, which was a record in NIT Trichy for almost 8 months.. This walking dictionary was mechanical engineer @ NIT Trichy.. Its my pleasure to introduce Shriram Srinivasan.. was christened as GREram for heroics [...]

In today’s world when students are having so many options, they face a lot of stress. This is especially true when students with great aspirations, dont get the suitable rank to meet their dreams.. There is so much confusion.. Should they go for a good college with a “Ok-oK” course? or should they choose the [...]

Hi All, Continuing with our series of interview for better understanding of life at various universities, today we have a Venkatakrishnan from Purdue University. Venkat comes from NIT Trichy Electronics and Communication department. He completed his B Tech in 2007 and immediately went to Purdue. So without further ado, it is Coffee with Venkatakrishnan Coffee [...]

Today @ IIMB, we had a very nice talk by Subroto Bagchi.. Mr. Subroto Bagchi is the Co-founder of MindTree.. Two years back, Mr. Bagchi gave a talk to the class of 2006 (@ IIMB) on defining success.. He concluded the talk with the words “Go Kiss the World!”.. These were the same words which [...]

Hi All, Its time for one more interview on Product Management in IT Industry and this time, CWS is hosting a product manager from IBM’s Enterprise Content Management Group. Its my pleasure to welcome Jake Levirne from IBM. Coffee With Jake Levirne – Understanding Product Management in IT Me: Sundar Rajan G SJL: Jake Levirne [...]

Hi All, Todays guest is a very good friend of mine.. Vikhram Vilasur Swaminathan a.k.a Vikram studied with me in NIT Trichy in Mech department.. Vicky is the “Vikipedia” of the batch.. All rounder of all rounders.. and ofcourse, was rightly deserved the “Best out going student of NIT Trichy, 2006″.. Needless to say, Vikhram [...]

Dear Readers,The part one of the interview can be found here – Kutral Ramesh – Arjuna Awardee.Kutral, born and brought up in Tamil Nadu, went on to become a marathon swimmer. He swam across English Channel in 1994 when he was just 13 years old. That very same calendar year, he swam across 6 channels [...]

Hi all.. Its my pleasure to invite a magician to CWS.. Todays guest is Arvind Jayashankar.. A young magician and a student of NIT Trichy..I dont want to talk too much here .. I would like to say 2 things.. 1. His Magic is simply amazing… 2. NIT Trichy is seeing a superb set of [...]

Hi all, In an initiative to better understand life at various universities, I intend to interview a few graduate students about the situation there.. To start of this special series of Coffee With Experts, we have Chidambaram Muthu.. A student of 2004 batch from NIT Trichy.. Chidambaram aka Chithu, studied Computer Science and Engineering from [...]

Hi All, Its my proud priviledge to host Narendra Babu, Testing Team Manager @ Google Bangalore for a show in Coffee with Sundar. In this special episode, Narendra Babu clarifies some myths about what Software “Testing” Profile is all about. Narendra completed his B Tech Computer Science from PESIT College in Bangalore. He then worked [...]

Hi All… Its my pleasure to invite Mr. Ghatam Krishna, Ghatam Artist from Trichy for the show with Coffee With Sundar.. Krishna comes from the lineage of Vikku Vinayakram.. He has accompmanied many leading artists..  Born and brought up in Trichy, Krishna speaks about ghatam.. importance of guru.. value of practice etc.. on this exclusive [...]

Hey Guys.. Fellow Blogger, Prashant interviewed me on his PERFECT show.. It was quite a fun experience.. Do check it out here I also got a blog jewel for giving the interview.. Here it is.. Thanks a lot Prashant.. It feels great!!

Dr. Chetan Sankar was awarded “Distinguished Alumni Award – 2007-08″. I met Dr. Chetan @ NIT Trichy during the award function. Dr. Chetan Sankar received his BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from NITT (RECT) in 1971. He obtained his MBA from IIM Calcutta and Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania. He is Professor, Department of Management, [...]

Hi All.. Today I have a very close friend of mine – Santhosh to share his gyaan about MS Vs Phd & apping.. I wont give any formal introduction about Santhosh.. What I am going to tell will speak volumes of Santhosh.. While a lot of us yearn to make it to Stanford.. A prof [...]

Readers, Its my special previledge to invite one of my “Online” friend – Mr. Ranjan Varma for a special episode on Coffee with Experts. Ranjan Varma has over 17 years of work experience in Insurance, Housing Finance and Investment industry with LIC. He was a topper in Physics Hons. examination way back in 1990s.. Varma [...]

Hi Readers, In the last episode of CWS, we spoke to Amit Somani, Google India Product Management Head for Search, Consumer Apps and Infrastructure.. Today, We again have a very special guest – Mr. Sean Johnson, Product Manager @ IBM’s Content Discovery Group! to share his invaluable experience on Product Management. So, here we go, [...]

Hi All, Its my pleasure to invite Amit Somani, Product Management Head, Search, Consumer Applications and Infrastructure, Google India.. for a show on Coffee With Sundar! In this episode, We mainly talk about Product Management, typical day @ Work, product development cycle etc.. So, without further ado, its Coffee With Amit Somani!! Coffee With Amit [...]