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IIT-B Visit

I visited IIT Bombay campus today for some official work. I was in a meeting with Dr. D. B. Phatak in his office. In between the meeting, there was a continuous inflow of students with their queries for the Professor. One such group of 4 students came to meet him for a research proposal. While asking students about their projects, Dr. Phatak mentioned that "Sudarshan Sir" would give a challenging project to his students. After the students left, I asked him if Dr. Sudarshan he mentioned earlier, is the same person as from the "Korth, Silbreschatz, Sudarshan" trio of Database Management System Concepts book. When he affirmed that he is same person, I actually envied those kids. The person, whose book is read by majority of engineering students in Mumbai for DBMS course, is their teacher. It is still one of my favorite technical books apart from all books written by Andrew Tanenbaum. You cannot ask for any better teacher for learning Advanced DBMS, can you?

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