During the past few years,my interaction with our Institute gave me an opportunity to see the various works and initiatives being undertaken to make IITMadras a truly world class Institute of learning and research. The dedicated march forward in this direction was the main motivating factor that made me voluntarily contribute to help in a small way towards growing the corpus that the Institute needs to realize its vision and at the same time repaying a very long overdue debt to the Institute for making me what I am today.