The former students and faculty members of IIT KGP will enjoy reading the story below on Prof. Sanyal. Prof. Sanyal's link with Assam - He was born in Dhubri town.
Way way back - I met Prof. Sanyal on the day of my IIT KGP interview and I was impressed. When I took his 4th year course on wave propagation, I was even more impressed, especially with the preciseness of his words. During my final year viva I got into an argument with Dr. Faruqi who kept leading me away from my area of thesis into his area of expertise. Department chairman Prof. Sanyal not only steered us back, he gave me an "A" despite my rough encounter with Dr. Faruqi - that is how fair he was to his students.
I am so happy to hear that he is still active on the campus at 85. Last time I talked to him was when he was visiting USA to raise alumni money for the institute - yes, IIT KGP.
Dilip
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FROM TOI
KOLKATA: For 52 years IIT-Kharagpur has been his home, and it will continue to be so. Forty-nine of the 50 teachers whom the government chose to build the country's first IIT have departed, but at 85, G S Sanyal shows no sign of aging. He is not even tired, he wakes up every morning to help take the institute to a newer heights.
Right from the director of the institute to the guard, Sanyal is 'sir' to everyone. And whatever the official teachers' day programme at the institute may be, the campus community unfailingly drops by to wish him on September 5.
Sanyal graduated from the department of applied physics of the Calcutta University (CU) in 1943.
He then joined the All India Radio and worked for it in Kolkata,Delhi Dhaka .
Thereafter, he got selected by the government for a scholarship to study electronics, radars and radios in UK
However, he never wanted to settle abroad and returned to join CU as a lecturer in itsInstitute of Radio Physics
It was from here that he was picked up by the Jawaharlal Nehru government to join the newly-formed IIT-Kharagpur, from where he retired in 1987 as its director.
But the institute was in no mood to let him go because by then Sanyal had helped his department of electronics and electrical communication engineering attain global acclaim. The institute wanted him to stay on in an advisory capacity...
Right from the director of the institute to the guard, Sanyal is 'sir' to everyone. And whatever the official teachers' day programme at the institute may be, the campus community unfailingly drops by to wish him on September 5.
Sanyal graduated from the department of applied physics of the Calcutta University (CU) in 1943.
He then joined the All India Radio and worked for it in Kolkata,
However, he never wanted to settle abroad and returned to join CU as a lecturer in its
It was from here that he was picked up by the Jawaharlal Nehru government to join the newly-formed IIT-Kharagpur, from where he retired in 1987 as its director.
But the institute was in no mood to let him go because by then Sanyal had helped his department of electronics and electrical communication engineering attain global acclaim. The institute wanted him to stay on in an advisory capacity...
So from helping the institute with its new initiatives Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park (STEP) and the Vinod Gupta School of Management, to designing the vision document of the institute and taking 'technology to the villages' Sanyal is the key.
Moreover, he is considered to be the best teacher of electro magnetics and wireless communications in the country and has won the highest awards in the world in his subject.
Ever since he retired, universities abroad have been requesting him to join them University of Florida, University of Stanford, University of California, University of San Francisco and Concordia University of Montreal, to name a few. But his affair with IIT-Kgp is far from over.
"Let alone joining another institute, I even refused to join my son who lives abroad. There's much to be done at the institute here and I cannot imagine a life outside," Sanyal says, choosing to ignore his chronic pulmonary disease.
Among those who will call Sanyal to wish him a happy teacher's day is S K Dube, director of the institute, who says, "Whenever there's a problem, we look up to him for a solution and believe me, he always has one.
He remains students' favourite even till date, because of his wealth of knowledge. You will see a steady train of students surrounding him with their problems after classes."
Most of the senior faculty members, who have been his students, agree. R V Rajakumar, who was Sanyal's student about two-and-a-half-decades back, and is now dean of the institute's academic affairs, says, "Sanyal is a wizard with his subject. I had the option of going to any IIT, I wanted to, but I chose IIT-Kgp just to be his student and to this day I am one."
Another student Madhusudan Chakraborty, now deputy director of the institute, says, "His very presence is a source of comfort to all of us. He is aptly called the grand old man of IIT-Kgp
Moreover, he is considered to be the best teacher of electro magnetics and wireless communications in the country and has won the highest awards in the world in his subject.
Ever since he retired, universities abroad have been requesting him to join them University of Florida, University of Stanford, University of California, University of San Francisco and Concordia University of Montreal, to name a few. But his affair with IIT-Kgp is far from over.
"Let alone joining another institute, I even refused to join my son who lives abroad. There's much to be done at the institute here and I cannot imagine a life outside," Sanyal says, choosing to ignore his chronic pulmonary disease.
Among those who will call Sanyal to wish him a happy teacher's day is S K Dube, director of the institute, who says, "Whenever there's a problem, we look up to him for a solution and believe me, he always has one.
He remains students' favourite even till date, because of his wealth of knowledge. You will see a steady train of students surrounding him with their problems after classes."
Most of the senior faculty members, who have been his students, agree. R V Rajakumar, who was Sanyal's student about two-and-a-half-decades back, and is now dean of the institute's academic affairs, says, "Sanyal is a wizard with his subject. I had the option of going to any IIT, I wanted to, but I chose IIT-Kgp just to be his student and to this day I am one."
Another student Madhusudan Chakraborty, now deputy director of the institute, says, "His very presence is a source of comfort to all of us. He is aptly called the grand old man of IIT-Kgp
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