IIT Gandhinagar | Foundation Programme

Program Sessions

It is difficult to highlight only a few of the most important sessions from this year’s Foundation Program. All of the sessions were carefully planned so as to ensure that each of the five themes would receive adequate exposure and exploration. The students appreciated almost every lecture, workshop and field trip, and the comprehensive list below evidences the range and depth of the programming.

RESOURCE PERSON	AFFILIATION	SESSION NAME
V.S. Raju	Former Director, IIT Delhi	Inaugural Address
Michel Danino	Visiting Professor, IIT Gandhinagar	Indus Civilization
		Science in Ancient India
Arup Lal Chakraborty	Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar	Music in Engineering
Shiladitya Sengupta	Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health	Entrepreneurship
	Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical
	School Brigham & Women's Hospital
Indira Chowdhury	Founder-Director of the Centre for Public	"Collective Memory and the
	History at the Srishti School of Art, Design and	Institutional Archives: Archives and
	Technology, Bengaluru.	Oral History"
Harshwardhan Gupta	Neubauplan Machine Design Studio, Pune	The Art of Engineering
Ravi Handa	Founder, www.handakafunda.com	General Knowledge Quiz
Rashmi Datt	Dialog Services Training and Development	Dialog Soft Skills Workshops
	Firm
Sandeep Pandey	Visiting Professor, IIT Gandhinagar	RTI Workshop
		Democracy Workshop
Jaideep Hardikar	Special Correspondent, The Telegraph,	Death Along the Famished Road:
	Nagpur	How the Other Half Dies
Suguresh Sultanpur	Uttarayan Art Foundation Jaspur, Vadodara	Painting Workshops
	and Visiting Lecturer, S.V.I.T. Architecture
	College, Vadodara
Shrankhla Narya	IITGN 2012, Sristhi School, Bengaluru	Visual Narratives
Devendra Purbiya	www.cam-dev.in	Photography Workshop
Dr. Kumbar	Librarian, IIT Gandhinagar	Know Your Library

Brian Brophy	Scholar in Residence, IIT Gandhinagar	Theater workshop
	Theater Arts Director, CalTech
Tannistha Samanta	Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar	Gender Socialization and
		Construction of Masculinity
Rajesh Mashruwala	Entrepreneur	I Am Jealous of You
Jayanti Naik	National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad	Learning to Sketch
Avni Varia	www.eternalnomad.com	Cloth Toys Workshop
Mahesh Vataliya	Independent	Pottery
Rajiv Bhatt	Ernst & Young, Ahmedabad	Tabla Workshop
Bhaskarjyoti Das	IITGN 2014	Photography: Prelim Session
Sarthak Jain	C.E.O. and Co-Founder, GridAnt Technologies,	Entreprenership
	IITGN 2012
Payel Mukherjee	IITGN HSS PhD Scholar	Medieval Gujarat
Pooja Thomas	IITGN HSS PhD Scholar	History of Ahmedabad
Rajni Bakshi	Freelance journalist and author	Gandhian Vision of Civilization
Parth Shah & CCS	The Centre for Civil Society.	Researching Reality and
		Public Policy
		Socratic Seminar
K. Subramanian	Operations Manager, Motorola India and Sri	Corporate Ethics
	Lanka.
Kiran Bir Sethi	Director, Riverside School, Ahmedabad	Passion and Compassion
Mona Mehta	Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar	Social Democracy
Harsh Mander	Director, Centre for Equity Studies, Special	Engaging with Unequal India
	Commissioner to Supreme Court of India
KJ Alphons	National Executive Member of Bharatiaya
	Janata Party, Advocate High Court and
	Supreme Court of India.
C S Sharma	Special Counselor, IIT Gandhinagar	Why and How of English
Arnapurna Rath	Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar	Let’s Talk Beyond Communication
Rahul Pardasani	www.yesiamthechange.org	Yes I Am The Change
Chrirag Shah	Amhedabad Municipal Corporation	Street Cleaning in Ahmedabad
Nupur Tandon	Founder, Pro Waste, Bangalore	Waste Management
Bireswar Das	Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar	Juggling
Gunwant Jain	Independent	Ethics in Education
Srinivas Reddy	Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar	Sitar & Tabla Workshop
Sudhir Jain	Director, IIT Gandhinagar	How to maximize your grades with
		minimum studies