When Google’s Sundar Pichai Greeted His Friend with ‘Abbey Saale’
This is Pichai’s first visit to the Kharagpur campus, where he studied 23 years ago.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is one of IIT Kharagpur’s best known alumni. Students of the varsity were in for a treat on Thursday when Pichai visited the campus and interacted with them.
Pichai, who hails from Chennai, looked right at home at the fireside chat at the Tagore Open Air Auditorium, with over 3,000 students thronging to catch a glimpse of him.
The institute organised the screening of an archival montage of Pichai’s days at the IIT and the Google CEO reminisced fondly about his college days.
Pichai, who returned to the campus after 23 years, got candid about struggling to learn Hindi and let students in on one of his mischievous adventures during his time at the college.
Pichai confessed that he would often score Cs at IIT Kharagpur. When asked about his aspirations, he said:
He also shared his experiences at Google, and encouraged the students to look past their failures.
Talking about India’s tremendous smartphone potential, he said that he hoped cheaper smartphones would soon be a reality. Entry-level smartphones should be priced around $30, he said.
“India is a great place to be in the next 20 years,” he said.
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