IIT Roorkee campus
IIT Roorkee, once University of Roorkee, and before that Thomason College is perhaps the prettiest campus in India, something like Cornell University campus in Ithaca for North America. It is a quiet, green oasis that is about 150 years old. Its history spans training engineers for canal building in India, sappers for Indian military for many wars (British India and later independent India), for huge dam making projects immediately after the independence, and now with India's economy opening up.
Posted on Sunday, March 9, 2008 at 08:54PM
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Kush Tandon
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Response: This, Too, Is IndiaLong-time reader Kush Tandon was in India a couple of months ago, and since then he’s been slowly putting up the photos he took on his blog and on his Flickr account. As I was perusing them the other day, one photo stood out to me: (click on the image to ...
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I lived here for 21 years, also graduated from IITR in 2006. Thanks a lot for bringing back the great memories!
Thanks Ritwik.
You are invited to join IIT, Roorkee photo group on flickr.