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Some of the highlights of Pichai's friendly interaction with IIT students at the campus It was homecoming for India-born Google CEO   Sundar Pichai   as he visited his alma mater IIT Kharagpur on Thursday. The tech giant's CEO gave a sneak peak into his college days when he met his wife Anjali and the romance blossomed. He also shared the story how he unintentionally led to shutting down of the college mess for a while as the audience burst into laughter. Pichai returned to the IIT Kharagpur campus after 23 years. He studied Metallurgical Engineering at IIT and spent his spare time writing codes. Here are some of the highlights of Pichai's friendly interaction with IIT students at the campus: Romancing in 80's "Someone would stand outside and very loudly say, 'Anjali, Sundar is here for you'," the Google CEO said speaking on how difficult it was for him to meet his then future wife while they were dating at IIT Kharagpur. Sunder told th...

Moved by the tragic case of a 17-year- old   IIT   aspirant who committed suicide a day after clearing her exam, the Kota district collector has written an emotional letter to parents of over 1.50 lakh students in coaching institutes, asking them not to force their expectations on the children. The five-page letter by Collector Ravi Kumar Surpur has been dispatched to the coaching institutes in the city and will be forwarded to the parents after translation into Hindi and other regional languages. Referring to suicides by young students, the district collector wrote that for all of them death was a much peaceful and effortless action than going through the dilemma of artificially doing what their parents wanted them to do. "Your solacing words of comfort, asking them to give their best and forget the results could have been the blade of grass" that would have saved precious lives, he wrote, adding, instead, what they got were threats to perform even better. ...