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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
The author grew up in a poor but loving rural family. Under adverse circumstances, with one-in-a-million impossible odds, he comes from behind—wins a scholarship to study at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM) set in the beautiful woodlands, during the early 1970s. He meets his true love, a rich but innocent city girl, Kamala, on the very first day of the maths class. A wonderful love story unfolds. It was a time when the genders were strictly segregated and the practice of falling in love before marriage was completely forbidden in India. The author invites us to share the beauty of his first experience of true love and the social obstacles created by a conservative society. With insights into his childhood through storytelling, he takes us on a remarkable journey.
The author’s recounting of his falling in love is—interesting, hilarious, and touching. It is a textbook case of how to fall in love and earn a spouse, which can be more important than earning a degree itself at a university! Although it is set in the Indian context, the book has a universal appeal across all genders and races. The memoir will enthral us and linger in our hearts long after closing the book, probably for years.
Remembrance, is a reciprocal gift by the author to Kamala, his first and the true love of his life. The author compares the gift as equivalent to “Taj Mahal,” a monument to love.
Will his true love succeed? Will Kamala receive the gift?
Dr Krishna Boyapati
Dr Krishna Murthy Boyapati, BE (REC), MTech (IITM), PhD (Monash University, Australia), is an Australian citizen of Indian origin. He worked for the Australian Department of Defence, and retired as Director (Engineering).
He secured many firsts in his career. He was the first Asian to be appointed to the post of sub-warden in Deakin Hall, Monash University, a position that came with self-contained accommodation within the Hall. The Deakin Hall students were so grateful for his services that he was given life membership of Deakin Hall Society, a rare honour.
He was awarded the prestigious “JM Juran Medal (1997)” for his outstanding contribution in the field of Defence quality and engineering by the Australian Organisation for Quality (AOQ). He is the only person from Asia to have received this award. He is a member of the AOQ College of Juran Medallists. He was an invited Professor, at the Faculty of Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, during the academic year 2003, on deputation from Australia.
In 1997, he published a book titled “My Land—My People’, with a foreword by the Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. A copy of this book is in the National Library of Australia, and most Australian regional libraries also received a copy when it was published (ISBN: 978-0-646-36818-4).
The current story, “Remembrance—A love story set in the woods of IIT Madras”, is based on events that happened during the early 1970s when the author was a master’s student at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Chennai).
