Sundar Pichai Full Speech at IIT Kharagpur | Sundar Pichai at KGP | Latest Speech

so I guess you guys have been waiting patiently for a long time let me call on stage Sund [Applause] Pai thank you so welcome Sund to I kakur as you can see you don't need much of an introduction here you're a rock star on campus we have over 3,500 students here in the amphitheater and outside hopefully they're not too warm hot there so so tell us I mean how does it feel to be back at it kakur after 23 years I mean it is uh you know last time I left you know I was making my way to the train station I was pretty sad to be leaving College uh it was an amazing four years uh I haven't been back since then so it's uh you know it's extremely nostalgic I had a chance to come and uh go back and see the uh hostel and the wing beat up West in neru Hall where I where I stayed and uh I can see there are nites out there um but uh you know it's it's been phenomenal to come back uh it's did you ever imagine did you ever imagine that you would be here 23 years later sitting in an Amphitheater like this in front of 3,500 students no you know uh definitely not you know I was uh you know I think uh as most people here know uh getting into I is hard work and so when I came to college uh you know was just looking to have a good time uh and uh you know it was a great four years so I didn't thought thought that further along uh but it's definitely great to be back here okay we have a few pictures of yours from the time you were at kakur can we have can we play those pictur yeah I guess that's my wingmates from uh btop West you know we literally didn't have cameras or phones back then so uh you know it was a pretty uh we have very very few photos from them so yeah yeah and uh the second photograph please do you remember this uh I I I'm not fully sure which is it haris or har yeah there you go it's a place where we all used to get together and eat and so that that's a picture from there what was a mess food like at that time you know one of the one of the favorite questions uh you know when the M was great but you know when I when I used to join you know people would ask us to guess whether it was SAR or D is that still the case so that was quite an experience and uh you know but they were great folks and I'm glad they fed us for four years yeah yeah can we have the third picture please so can you identify Sund B in this picture yeah this is at the this is at this Amphitheater yeah I was sitting here that was probably 25 years ago yeah you wanted to ask a question ah I don't know what what was happening at the time so I think we were just having fun do you remember the event no I don't we probably here for some performance here yeah yeah so you know you come across as this really humble down to earth nice guy I'm sure you were a good student at kakur but I'm sure there was another side to you as well right yeah yeah I there is to every Ian there is to every Ian did you ever bunk classes the morning classes I mean of course uh you know I think I think I think it's a it's the right of passage of going through college uh you know I had uh you know I I have to say I worked hard but but we did have a share of fun as well did you get ragged uh you know it was uh it was pretty mellow uh I definitely remember you know when I when I started uh you know hopefully it has gotten better by now uh but you know we had uh a few things I don't know whether you still have you know at the time you used to have something called a CG change I don't know whether you guys do still do uh it stands for center of gravity change so you know you as a freshman you lock your room and you go out and you come back and the room doors aren't open but everything inside your room has been rearranged wow and uh and they do it by putting sticks in and you know all your clothes they rearranged even the furniture so it's quite a shock when you open the uh when you open your room door and you walk back in to see your entire room is being uh rearranged so we had must been crazy mean you as a freshman yeah it was uh quite an experience I don't think that was uh as bad as you know maybe a couple weeks into being here you know I I came from South you I came from Chennai I learned Hindi in school but I never spoke it much um you know just listening to how people were speaking I just thought you address people this way so one day there was someone in the mass and I had to call him I called him AB that yeah that's that's how that's all you know in my first couple weeks I thought you call people that way quite you know and and uh next thing I know the the the folks in the mess were quite upset and I think they temporarily closed down the mess oh W so I wasn't very popular for uh for that day so so you were responsible for the mess shutting down at just just for a moment here just for a moment you met Angeli at I kakur yeah Angelie is my wife and Y yeah she uh she was my classmate uh you know she lived in uh do you do you still have I I hope you still have SN Hall uh and uh you know it was the only uh you know uh girls hostel then and I hope there are few more now and uh you know it wasn't always easy to if you had to go get someone at the girls hostel you had to walk walk in the front and request someone there to go call them and so they would go in and loudly say you know Angelie Sund is here for you so so it wasn't exactly a pleasant experience but you know does it still work like that or you guys use technology I guess it's mov on by now yeah yeah so you when we were on campus I mean there was no Google and there was no internet so how have things changed you've come here after a long time do you see a difference between then and now you know of course you know I come to India uh regularly and uh you know the rate that Rajan spoke about it uh you know the the the rate at which things are progressing at least digitally uh has been phenomenal and and you see it uh you see it in every way um you know of course we didn't have phones there you know I remember waiting for a long time to get the first rotary phone in our home and it was a long way to get that uh you know didn't have access to computers growing up uh you know saw the first computer here for a little we had to book time with the computer center book time carry floppy discs and disc it's a very different world so you know clearly the progress has been phenomenal mobile is an amazing Revolution for India you know you have over 300 million smartphones so you see the change you know palpably you across everything everything I interact with though I have to say walking into neru Hall you know looking at my dorm it still looks exactly the same 25 years ago so so some things don't change which is for the good I guess right right you know as you know we have so many students here and we asked them to send their questions and we got about 1200 of them so we've chosen a few okay for you to answer so if we can move to the first student shik Muhammad Samir can we have your question please sir yeah over there in that corner sh Muhammad Samir you must just sit here so you know how glad we all are about you every student is anxious about your replies and professors are happy that a student of there is in such a position I want to ask like every student aspires to be in a resp respectable position so when did you feel that you reached a checkpoint like when did you feel yeah I'm going to change from alumnus to a distinguished alness you know I don't get to make that decision I think it's it's a decision by the you know faculty here uh you know I think uh you know I always approached it as uh you know I look look to do something I really like doing you know I always wanted to build build products and you know in my life getting access to Computing Made a big difference and you know so I've always wanted to work on Computing uh you know build uh build Computing products which could reach many many users and so and so you know and that's what I've been focused on and so I think you know it's it's an it's an end result of that so okay uh can we have another question from chanji Singh rator yeah over there hi sir uh sir my question was uh like we are students and you you are very humble but there must be some crazy things you've done when you were in campus so any of those memories uh what are the craziest thing you did you mean crazier than calling somebody a in the G uh you know I I mean look I mean I you know I think I had my share of all the experiences which all of you go through uh you know uh staying late in the nights and missing classes in the morning uh but you know overall you know we had a very very good group of uh folks I you know still you know you know in a living in a campus like this you come away from home far away for the first time uh and you know my best memories are with my wingmates you know you you develop close friendships and uh and uh you know visiting the strip in Bangalore I got to see a few of my old Kor classmates uh so good memories oh wow so shifting GE a bit I mean 10 years after you left IIT you joined Google it was 2004 or five 2004 and 10 years later you were running Google the world's most Innovative technology company right the Google products just grow on you you know Google search YouTube Android maps what is it that drives Innovation at Google you know I you know I think we've always uh you know we've always had a ambitious approach to it uh you know we we call it internally as uh you know 10x or moonshots we try to work on things which uh you know the criteria we think is we want to work on things which people will use every day M it will apply to billions of people and it solves a real problem for them so that's the bar so anything we try to do we we think of it that way and so we aim high we try to use deep computer science to anything we approach so that we can make uh have a differentiated approach to solving it and you know and you want to aim high enough that you fail uh you know a few times I think that's the natural part of the process uh in fact you know Larry used to say if you aim if you work on really difficult things you're better off because you have no competition others aren't working on that difficult problem and even if you fail you end up doing something great and so think that's the philosophy has guided us all through these years so you don't tou anything which is less which is which is not relevant for at least a billion users we we think you know if the product is successful uh you know that everyone should be able to use it it applies to everyone and you know Maps is a good example of it if you think about it you know understanding the world around you is a real human need you know it applies to uh everyone so we tend to focus on those kinds of problems and you know that's what this uh yeah you know yeah you've been talking lately a lot about machine learning in AI you know uh AI was talked about even 25 years ago when I was at I and when you were at I what has changed in the last two or three years uh why has AI become suddenly and machine learning suddenly become the new Buzzard I mean I think the biggest advances you're seeing uh is is largely due to uh you know two things the techniques which we use in deep learning uh deep neural networks have been around for many years but early on you know they weren't that effective because you just didn't have the computational power to run run these algorithms uh you know just for the past many years uh the computational power has dramatically increased so when you run uh deep learning on the latest computation and with access to better data you get dramatic breakthroughs so for example we recently launched uh Google translate and you know this is machine translation and and and using our deep Learning Systems the translation quality improvements just in the last year is bigger than what we've seen in the past 10 years cumulatively wow wow so it tells us that you know the ability for computers to do these kinds of tasks be it image recognition speech recognition voice recognition it's really hitting a Tipping Point so I think you know we are definitely in a point of inflection and we are investing a lot as a company here and you know I can't wait to get these benefits to as many users as possible I think it'll really drive the next wave of computing excellent you know uh you were in Bangalore uh you met startups in Bangalore and I heard you say that there's nothing really missing as far as startups in India go they're as good as startups elsewhere in the world but there's one thing which sort of uh you know we also invest in startups and we face this problem as well ourselves as a company that the Indian market is not large enough to invest a lot in technology so you know so how do you in a situation like this compete with mnc's which have large investments in technology I think it's a good question uh I think part of the problem is uh in India you know the the potential is there and the market is developing I think it'll take a few more years for it to fully realize the potential you know for all its potential we get excited about smartphones but we are talking a number of 300 million in a country of 1.3 billion people yeah and and and not all of them have good connectivity as well so I think the market the digital Market is still developing and so that's the problem you run into and so as companies getting built here it's difficult to scale across India and reach that full potential which gives you the resources to go compete internationally but I think it's just a moment in time uh you know I uh you know hopefully Indian companies are more thoughtful about you know when they build stuff also targeting similar areas like Vietnam and Indonesia and Thailand I think those markets are developed and you know and the same products would would work in those markets as well so I think they need to set their sights a bit bigger uh but it's a good question uh but I think the trend lines are strongly in the favor I think every year I can see the the rate at which things are changing so in about 3 to four years you know I wouldn't you know I'm pretty convinced at least in a 5 to 10 year time frame that there will be big Global uh you know software companies coming out of India and we will be very used to it so when these guys graduate and when they want to build the next Google they should build for the international market as well and not just for the Indian market yeah I mean I would I would aim big and you know I definitely think you can build from India and and we we see that at Google increasingly there are things which we think about building for the Indian market but we which we think will apply globally yeah yeah so we we are here sitting at it kakur and you know technology as we know is disrupting everything it's disrupting education as well right Elementary education even higher education today can you can get access to the best courses offered by the best universities in the world online right at the it's you know you can get access to courses from Stanford MIT everywhere on your desktop right so in a situation and there are 5,000 engineering colleges in India and many other institutions so what is your sitting where you are mean what would you recommend to them how should they be looking at education how should they be thinking about education going forward you know I think you know it's you know one of the great things about India is this tremendous interest in education you know people talk about it all the time you know most parents Aspire for this for their uh children and so I think it's a great Foundation we have as a country I think education needs to evolve and and change just just like with everything else uh you know in my experience growing up here I think there's a lot of emphasis on you know spending time on the books and you know learning things academically I think you know working in the real world I would say you know it is important to be well-rounded it's important to uh you know try different things I you know take some risks uh you know I would encourage people to uh you know follow their passions a little bit more I think one of the you know for for all the great things about the Indian educational system I think there's a lot of pressure to follow set Lanes uh throughout your uh career you know you're in high school you're thinking about college you know I get very surprised people come to IAT and immediately they are thinking about IMS and so on you know I think I think it's important to get real world experience and if you take the US for example at a place like Stanford most students don't choose their Majors till their uh you know final year so people explore different things and and find what they really passionate about so I think those are all you know good things to Aspire to uh I think you know I would like to see uh people you know people value creativity value experience of doing things uh taking risks and uh you know um academics is important but it is not as important as it also made made out to be so you would want people and you know institutes to focus a lot more on experiential learning project work internships stuff like that to get real life experience yeah I I think that matter a lot I think people should be encouraged to take risks a little bit more and and try different things till they find what they like doing yeah and things have changed it's okay to fail even in India now oh I I absolutely think you know look it's remarkable to be at uh IIT uh there are many many great people who don't make it in and you will see this later in life people do well from all walks of life uh I think it's important to remember uh you know uh getting into an elite institution doesn't guarantee success uh it matters a lot but it doesn't guarantee success and uh you know I think I think it's important to keep that perspective in life and uh you know life is a long road and you know so you want to you want to take it at the right pace and enjoy what you're doing you know I just met a I interviewed a guy recently for our company and he was all of 26 27 years old and he had done a startup after graduating and uh he was very excited and he wanted to do new things so I asked him what happened I mean why did you give up on the startup you've already done one or two things and you want to try a third thing he said I these friends of mine who graduated with me they're doing such exciting stuff overseas and in India that I went through a quarter life crisis so I want to do new things there's so much happening outside there's so much opportunity today that there is no end to what you can do yeah I think it's great I definitely a lot more options I mean it doesn't need to be even in engineering I I I think it's important to remember uh there are many many different ways uh you know you can approach things and what matters most is you know loving what you're doing and uh and trying to do well at it so sure so tell me uh I'm sure there are lots of great technologists at Google and you you're a great technologist yourself but what is Sund Pai like as a leader you know I think what your leadership style you know when you're when you're trying to run something uh at the scale of Google uh you know we have now over 60,000 people and uh you know I you rely on other strong leaders I think you know a lot of what I do is you know I have an outstanding leadership team it's learning to let go and really empowering people you know at all levels of the organization and you know trusting them to do doing the right thing and as a leader a lot of your job is to make those people successful it's Le less less about trying to be successful and more about making sure you have good people and your your work is to remove barriers remove roadblocks for them uh so that they can be successful in what they do and so that's how I've always thought about it you know also valued uh you know teamwork quite a bit and you know I think it's really important uh to build or organizations where people actually want to work together uh you know everything comes out of that so setting up collaborative uh cultures is another big big thing I try to focus on so it's not about one person it's about the team that's right and if your team succeeds you also succeed with them absolutely AB great so let's get let's get some questions from the students U arund Banner uh Google is having an impact all over the world and as you mentioned you use principles of computer science in most of your products so we would like to know what is the next big thing going to be in R&D at Google uh you know I think it's a good question uh you know it probably be I can't quite tell it exactly um but you know I would say you know I spoke about machine learning and AI you know we are making a big bet on that you know advances in machine learning I think will make a big difference in many many fields uh you know we recently published a paper on you know using machine learning uh to help diagnose uh diabetic retinopathy it's a condition which causes blindness but if you can deduct it earlier you can completely cure it otherwise it causes blindness it's the fastest growing cause of blindness in the world you know today you need Advanced opthalmologist to deduct these conditions but using machine learning we can dedu it pretty accurately so that a a regular doctor can dedu these conditions I'm saying this is an early example of the kind of changes that will happen when you apply machine learning to all kinds of fields you know Google alone won't do this but you know to me I'm the thing I'm most excited about is bringing advances from machine learning and AI to as many people in as many fields as possible yeah uh can we take one more question from nishel ker hi Sund okay here he is hey my question is uh how much power you have as a CEO of Google can you change the Google doodle to it kgp building for a [Laughter] day I'm going to send a message to the team uh no before you get too excited I mean the good news is Google is set up in a way I think even if I send that email they wouldn't do it and here's the reason why you know I think we have you know we we bu build an organization with strong ideals and values on when we show Doodles for what occasions and it's less about what I want to happen as much as you know we have a set of rules to go by uh but you know uh I mean uh kgp definitely deserves celebration and you know look forward to doing it in the most thoughtful way possible that we are a client of Google can you put us on the homepage of go there you go that's why we are thoughtful about these things great so okay uh can we go to sankalp please oh sankalp is there right behind us yeah hello sir hell what is the role of Google in the digitization of India uh you know I think you know it's very much with our you know Cote to our mission statement uh you know as I said earlier we really try hard to build products that work for everyone in the world uh search works that way you know and and so you know when we look at India the main areas where we have really focused on is uh a few things you know to really make a difference in India you need to get Google working in as many languages as possible you know English is only spoken by a small segment of the overall population so just getting Google to work in other languages is a big Focus we've made progress uh today in Android with search you know we support uh you know many languages but we want to do all that better so that it works even in rural uh situations with the right dialects and so on the second is improving you know getting access for people so you know I would love to see cheaper smartphones entry-level smartphones I think to really you know we we need to bring the price prices down even more maybe at a $30 us level uh for India for uh entry-level smartphones and connectivity is extraordinarily important uh this is why uh you know we've been working on the Wi-Fi project you know we have connected 100 uh Railway stations I heard the kakur railway station as Wi-Fi uh you know that though though my memories of kpur railway station you asked about ragging I was made to carry luggages uh for incoming uh incoming seniors it's a long platform uh but you know we are focused on bringing connectivity too and we do programs like uh you know internet Sati where we are uh training rural Indian women uh you know on using the internet still you know there's a massive gender gap in between women and and men in terms of using the internet especially in rural areas so we are targeting a lot of these programs you know yesterday I talked a lot about bringing small medium businesses the local Merchants Online which will make a big difference as well so are you working very closely with the government also on the startup India initiative I mean you know one of the exciting things I found about India is you can actually do uh very effective public private Partnerships you know that model doesn't always exist in uh every country we go we work with uh but I think you know we are big supporters of the digital India program and uh and you know we've done very successful Partnerships uh the railways project uh this is in Partnership between Google and Rael and that's why we've been able to bring Wi-Fi access to many many places and you know we are always looking to partner if you look at AAR and UPI and how you know we partner with the npci uh and you know we are working on digitizing payments uh and so we we tend to form these public private Partnerships and I think they they work very well yeah great so you know uh when do you think India will catch up with China on the digital front forget about everything else you know I I you know I I think the goal should be a bit different uh I think I'm absolutely you know with uh you know full certainty convinced that India will be a global player in the digital economy and it'll be competitive with any country in the world uh so I've always felt that and I think you have all the foundations when I you know I've said this before when I interact with uh startups in India I find them world class in terms of how they approach things the entrepreneurs I run into their how they build products and so I'm absolutely confident of it I think there's a timing issue but I think you know we are growing well as a country I I think we need to stay at it continue doing all these things and it will take a few more years and we'll get there great so you know for a lot of the students here you are their role model they idolize you right A lot of them would give a lot to be in your shoes so you know I'm sure growing up you had to work hard in school you prepared for I then you got into I you spent four years here you went overseas a lot of people in I Dream of going overseas for an education so what are some of the tips that you would like to share with students out here oh you know I I I think I kind of answered it uh earlier um you know I would you know I would really encourage people to uh you know I think there's a lot of pressure in today's system uh you know I I I get surprised people start preparing for IIT in their eighth grades and you know that's that's a bit shocking to me uh you know I I I hope you know I hope uh you know you know as people are approaching things they are really taking the time to doing things you know in a deeper way you know understanding things deeper uh learning by doing things and uh you know I think it's important to remember it's a long road setbacks actually don't matter uh you know I think a lot of times when I was younger you know people would say you know this person didn't get into this college or something and that's the end of the road I mean life is so different from that and so I think it's important to you know uh keep your hopes keep keep your dreams and try to follow them and you know I think I think most of how life plays out is up to you not up to uh up to what happens outside of you and I think it's important to keep that in mind and take the long-term view so you can still you can get a lot of seas at it and still make it big in life you can get a lot of C grades at it and still make it big I I don't know what the grading system now is like but uh I think you have to ask uh Professor PPC on that uh but you know for what it's worth I I I do think I've gotten a c at IIT so and it's okay if you're not in I also you can still make it big absolutely you know I think uh there are you know I think there are several successful people at Google uh who have come from all over the world including in India from other institutions as well uh I think there are world-class institutions outside too uh definitely iits are the premier I mean they they are respected not just in India but globally uh you know but I I think there are many paths to success for sure yeah so you know the done thing when we were sort of at it and if you wanted to pursue a career in high-tech you went abroad because there weren't too many options in India there weren't too many things you could do in India do you think that has changed oh absolutely uh you know I I spend every every year I come I travel to Bangalore and Delhi and I meet startups there are many many entrepreneurs who have just you know gone to schools in India and decided to Startup companies right here and and they're doing very very well and even at Google we are able to recruit uh you know some of the best and talented people uh straight straight into Google in India and so I think things have definitely changed uh you know if especially if you take a look at the next for me when I look at how much things have changed and things change a lot in a 20-year time frame right you know I you know when I when I left for the US that was the first time I actually got on a plane right you know so going to the US was the first time I got on a plane you know this week I met with uh you know the CEO of indigo and he was saying you know roughly 100 million people fly in India every year and you look at how the market has changed and so things changed remarkably in 20 years so if you keep that perspective in mind I think India is a great place to be looking ahead at the next 20 years yeah I mean for the first time I'm seeing actually two-way flow in terms of traffic there are people coming back and there are people going overseas as well great um I think we'll take a few questions now uh can we go to abna roru roru yeah on that side hello my question is like Mr hes said you are in a position many of us aspire to be in so say 10 15 years ago where did you think you would be here today and uh 10 years from now where do you see yourself in the [Laughter] future uh you know you know 10e shifts are really big uh you know just so just so you understand in the 80s mid 80s you know the personal computers came into being 10 years later the internet came into play 10 years later smartphones came into play so in 10 years things shift around so much uh you know I'm not sure what I'll be doing in 10 years but you know the which still keeps me going is the desire to build products which will be used by uh you know billions of users and makes a difference for them hopefully I still have a chance to do that 10 years from now yeah great uh Naman Gupta can we take a question from Nam Gupta please hi Sund uh what's your advice for a student of mathematics like me who is not studying core computer science how can I get a job at Google how can we how can we work at the dream company Google so how many people here want to work for Google yeah wow we maybe we should open a campus in kpur you know I uh you know the good news I would have for you is uh you know mathematics is foundational uh you know earlier I talked about machine learning if you look at what machine learning is a lot of it is just you know most of the two real improvements in machine learning algorithms it's all mathematics in in fact I think it's easier to train a good mathematician uh you know you know train them on the computer science needed to become a machine learning expert than the other way about so you know I I actually think you're on a good path so keep doing it thank you okay I have a question from Shia Kumar who could not be here today yeah can you tell us what you remember from your job interview at Google way back in 2004 you know I interviewed uh I interviewed at Google on uh April 1st 2014 for which is April Fool's Day and uh Google had just announced Gmail and uh you know it was invite only and so you know but people weren't exactly sure whether it was a April Fool's joke and you know so I remember doing my interviews during the day and people kept asking me what do you think of Gmail but you know I hadn't had a chance to use it I thought they were uh you know it was a April Fool's joke uh so my first three interviews I couldn't answer it well because I didn't use the product it was only in the fourth interview when someone asked me have you seen Gmail I said no and so he actually showed it to me and then the fifth interviewer asked what do you think of Gmail and I was able to start answering it then so the final four interviews I actually told them about you know what I think of Gmail and how to improve Gmail and uh that's that's my interview experience like somebody in the middle also took me to have ice cream in the middle which showed me Google was a very very different place as well so that was how my interview process went but is it true that everyone at that time was interviewed by Larry p said you know I was one of the first people I think you know I joined Google when we were over a thousand people and Larry just at that point was the first time he had stopped interviewing people so I still joke around that I got into Google cuz Larry didn't interview me so great U Can we have a question from Bina Kumari hi Sunda uh my question for you is having a major in metalogical engineering how did you end up follow your passion for computer science uh you know it's a part which I was you know telling you know it's it's a long road you know I always enjoyed programming uh you know I still remember learning Fortran uh you know for for those of you who who know that language uh you know at at kgp here uh and you know I always enjoyed programming so I did that on the side and you know that that became uh something which I pursued uh you know because I really enjoyed doing it yeah yeah uh can we have a question from Ashish Dian please Ashish dman okay there at the back hello sir uh my question to you is uh during your stay in uh kgp or Stanford did you ever get that feeling of future insecurity like uh will I be able to make it uh will I be able to stand out and make a place of my own basically will I get a job uh or what did you do to cope up then uh you know look I mean this is It's you know when you work with really good people what you just described is a you know it's a natural feeling to have you know that there are definitely at times I've worked with amazing people at Google I've been in a room where I felt you know look I mean these people are better than me at what you know what they're doing and you know in fact at Google we talk about this for many many new people sometimes they come into Google and we we have a phrase for this we call this the Imposter syndrome people commonly say well I don't belong here because you know people around me seem uh very very good and I think any any Elite institution I'm sure it's true at IIT here uh you know you're always surrounded by very good people and I think there are moments when you feel what you just describe I think it's natural if anything I would say you almost always want to feel that all through your life because that means you're working with people who are very very good and uh you know and that's really important so you always if you feel very comfortable in what you're doing you know I don't think you're pushing yourself enough and so I think it's you always want to strive to be in environments where you feel the people around you are a little bit better than you are [Applause] thanks uh is Sama Paul here yeah okay hello sir sir my question was uh being a first year student this question is always troubled me that uh how can we make the most of the four five years uh we we spend in the campus because there are so many activities and avenues we can actually engage ourselves in um you know hopefully uh you know I remember having a lot of free time at least when I was at I I guess things have changed uh you know but you know uh you know I wouldn't I wouldn't overthink it you know you know the way I would answer these things is I would do what feels something like you like spending time on and you know I would use that as a yard stick and not feel the pressure to do uh to do what others are telling you to do right and so I think at least you know my my solution the way I dealt with these things was try and uh feel what I really enjoy doing and pursued that so hopefully hopefully that's a way to do it you know the it is a greater imparting technical skills to students uh but when you go outside you know you need some soft skills as well so I mean and and I remember during my time at I you know we had to do a few courses in Humanities as well to graduate yeah but they were sort of look down upon in some sense like you know this is not the hardcore match of stuff so what what what is your feeling I mean what do you think should students be developing themselves holistically should they be spending on stuff time on stuff outside the core technical stuff to get a wider perspective I think so I I think it's good you know I I regret not having done it more uh when I was here but you know when you look at the cultural festivals which chapen IIT or uh you know I'm not sure whether you still do the DIA Festival uh during Diwali and uh you know yeah and so things like that are great to get involved in I think anything like that I mean doing more things and just getting a more well-rounded experience I think actually makes a real difference and to your point around even courses in Humanities writing is an important skill in life you know spending time learning how to write better you know all those things end up mattering great uh we'll now move on to what is called a rapid fire round ah have you seen coffee with Karen ever ah here and there on YouTube okay well uh we won't put you in a hot in the we'll put you in the hot speet but we won't ask you very tough questions okay great thank you okay but in the interest of time these many of these questions are from students but I'll sort of take them so the first one is from Vishal Sharma uh how do you spend your free time free time do you have free time uh definitely you know I I have young kids so I try to spend it uh spend it with them uh I love watching cricket and soccer uh if I get a chance I do that too so I try to stay in touch with friends and family how how old are the kids uh 13 and N 13 and N yeah okay this one is a tricky one from amol Sak what was your GP at [Laughter] I uh you know I I would say uh you know too embarrassed to admitted after my first year uh but really good the next three years to make up for it so that's so I would say so there's hope year one students if your GPS low there's still hope okay this one is from surit mura Sing who was your idol during your btech days uh you know many you know I uh you know I would say many many people uh you know I admired people from all walks of life uh you know this week I met Mr Nar morti had a chance to have uh breakfast with them uh admired people like that who put India really on the map uh globally um you know I love watching Cricket uh love watching tender play Tender started playing when I joined IIT so you know so things like that um the next one is from me okay the next one is from me who's your favorite Bollywood actress [Applause] ah wow uh you know at uh you know at Google you know I had a chance to host and interview uh Deepa paron and shuk Khan so maybe deaon I used to enjoy watching prash Pon play badminton as well so combination of the two and who was your favorite actors when you were growing up oh uh you know I favorite actors actress actress growing up there were many I you have a poster in your room you know I'm I'm you know I don't want to comment on posters what happens in college D stays there right so great okay this one is from anit Kumar who was your favorite professor at it kakur you know uh there were quite a few I think uh you know Professor Roy from my department Professor indranil Mana who is now at ID khur uh you know they were two of my favorite professors so yeah great this one is from gorov Malik do you still get calls from your college friends uh you know I do uh you know today it's much easier to stay in touch through many different ways but uh you know I definitely as I said you know a few of us uh met up in Bangalore and so it was good to meet with a few few friends from kgp uh in Bangalore so I still you have a group which which you are on with all these friends yeah I mean we follow them on Facebook WhatsApp everything just like everyone else does he great right and this one is from Fahad Shaheen how can I replace you at [Laughter] Google I would tell him be careful what you wish for uh but happy to discuss this with him over a couple of chai so right right and of course you know you've been I heard you say that gasar was your favorite cricketer while you were growing up and listen to you used to listen to the commentary on radio you know India versus West Indies to score hundreds yeah in the wy's against those fast Bowers and of course you mentioned Tendulkar as well right but who's your favorite cricketer today do you follow Cricket I mean h yeah you know I follow Cricket uh you know and I don't get as much time as I used to but they keep making the game shorter and shorter so it gets it gets easier to follow I definitely follow Cricket uh you know like like with everyone here I think watching Ki through the last year has been terrible you know I I didn't think somebody could have an average about 50 in all forms of the game test Cricket one days in T20 so it's been phenomenal to see and were you a cricketer yourself do you play while you and not very good you know I I couldn't even make it to the kgp team so sorry okay great I think Sund has been awesome talking to you thank you for taking the time out to be here with all these students I'm sure they'll go back a lot more inspired right one last request can we have a selfie with everyone oh absolutely well thank you so much for taking the time and waiting here and uh it's been a great day thank you okay okay is okay all right I'll just click a few all right thank you so much thank you thank thank you oh one one one with these [Applause] guys I could not sir all right thank you guys thank you so

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Length: 45min 45sec (2745 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 10 2017