Friends,
One
can't believe my sense of joy and pride when during a Management
Information
System presentation on RFID at IIM Lucknow, one of the groups told us
that the foundation
of commercial RFID industry is credited to Sri Sanjay Sarma from MIT,
when in 1999
Auto-ID center at MIT developed it. This is because I am privileged to
have
been a batch-mate of Sri Sanjay Sarma at IIT Kanpur.
Just imagine the kind of feeling one has when one realizes that one of
his old
friends has done something remarkable in the field of Science and
Technology.
The same happened when Mr Sanjay Sarma's name came in the class as
inventor of
commercial RFID. The entire class at IIML clapped with recognition when I
told
them with a proud voice that I was a batch-mate of Sarma at IITK. They
became
even more engrossed and clapped further when I told them that his wife
Geetanjali (again an IIT/K Alumnus) is no less talented and among the
most
good-looking girls IIT Kanpur ever had.
It was at this time that I also realized how much important and
long-lasting
the scientific contributions are compared to many of the short-term (and
often
shortsighted) achievements we in police and administration or such
fields seem to boast of. Again,
how much more is its reach? Just think, this person is suiting in
America. He
did something way back in 1999. But 11 years later students at IIM
Lucknow are
remembering his name with respect and awe.
Yes, I am feely really happy to have been a friend and acquaintance of
Sanjay.
Amitabh
Thakur
IPS,
IIM Lucknow
# 94155-34526
