Stanford India Association (SIA) has started the new academic year with a welcome function for the new comers at the Bachtel International Center. The current office bearers of SIA seem to be a highly motivated bunch. Their self-driven methods and dedicated efforts actually bore fruit with the success of their Welcome Party. In a first of its kind panel discussion - SIA hosted a panel of (desi) Venture Capitalists (VCs) living in the Bay Area, all of whom had spent time as students at Stanford, in a discussion moderated by Anand Rajaraman (who, btw I think is one of CS Departments star consulting professors and highly recommend his class cs345a in Winter). The discussions revolved around the role of Stanford, …

I want to share with you all our idea and motivation behind this project. Its simple really - we want to show people a dream - people who are like what we used to be not too far ago from now - we want to show students and young people a dream and show them a way to get there. Here is a quote from a book that has recently come out, which goes something like this: “You were created to dream, empowered to plan and blessed with the insight to accomplish”. Think of us as a train - which starts at your current location - wherever you are - and shows you where you can get - and takes …