Engineering college alumni walk down the memory lane

Gurvinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, December 27

Alumni of Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College celebrated 25th anniversary of their graduation on Saturday evening.

While welcoming his old batchmates, Harinder Singh Dhillon, former student of the college, said, “Tejwant has come all the way from Toronto. We used to call him ‘Teju bulletwala’ because of his spanking new shining bullet bike.”

The coordinator of the event thanked everyone for such a brilliant reunion. More than 83 alumni and their families came to the event and relived the old golden moments.

The 1990-batch gathered and cracked jokes, shared cherished memories and introduced their families.

They also honoured their teachers. Many teachers said they were proud to see their students having achieved great heights and becoming successful in lives.

Harinder Singh Bajwa, who had flown down from California, especially for the meet, was also elated to visit college. Managing global operations for an MNC, he said memories came rushing back after he met the old classmates.

Amarjit Singh Batra, CEO, OLX, South Asia, said it was great coming back to college after several years, and catching up with old buddies. “We went around checking out the campus, workshops and also the mess where we used to have rajma chawal. I was regular at tennis courts, and went there. Those were the good old days indeed,” he said smiling.

One of the organisers of the event, Ranjnishpal Singh Dhaliwal, a business man said, “Even though someone suggested a special lunch at the college, but we wanted to enjoy the same flavours and food, rajma chawal, the old menu we used to enjoy in those days in the same mess,” he said.

Dhaliwal said that it is no coincidence that most of the students of the batch were doing very well in life. “Those were still the turbulent times in the state, in ’86-’90, when we studied, but the credit goes to our teachers who made sure that we study hard. They even used to take classes on weekends. They were instrumental in building our confidence,” he said.