Freshers' function, 1965.

Brig. S K Bose applauding the performance

Masti days.

Before you pinch my book, get a wet look

Many non-playing captains

Our eleven victorious in the tournament

Dedicated to the unknown graduate.

First issue of hostel magazine (1969–70)

Global recognition: featured in German magazine ‘fur dich’ in the 70s.

Asha Pandya, Achala Dalal, Kumari Koshy (Rahael Koshy), kamala @LH entrance

A rare sight: ties and shoes on campus...

And everyone opted for a bath on the same day

How IIT engineers assess a car’s payload...

c 1975, H8 A1L (mostly) residents at H8 entrance, including Bernie, Kirat, BD, Sikka, Sameer, Mally, and others

Two to solve the crossword, 10 to offer moral support....

C 1975

The sprawling H8 lawns... One cigarette, many smokers...

C 1975. JV has the smokes

Dabbing glycerine tears with borrowed handkerchiefs

bye bye 5th yearites -- C 1970

Hostel 8 - introducing our mascot “Bhupi”.

By summer of ‘76, her name was corrupted to “poopy”, and she had a son called fatso

Unfazed by the future, the unknown graduate marches forward

second issue of Anamika - h8 magazine (1970–71). Amidst academic tension, a life filled with laughter, ragging, studying, and bonding

A historic moment: 17 girl students captured together

a remarkable first for the era

A high valued asset, flanked by bouncers.

"saree jehan se achha"

2 to eat, 3 to share the experience...

Featuring Achala Chande, Anna Mathai, Yashodhara Pawar, Shalini Govil, Nina Kamat

Creative solutions to assignment constraints - - dark deeds require faces to be hidden….

You can't come in, so copy it here itself

The first batch of double-digit girl graduates, as lh evolves into H10 ...

Featuring Mukta Ghate, Indira Verma, Sanju Sawkar, Pranati Kapadia, Mrunal Bhide on the H10 lawns

The evening before the Sophia college social

how can we tell? All of them are clean-shaven. On campus, this is statistically impossible, except on the one day of the year...

Birthday bumps: a ritual religiously followed...

Quiz question – how many hostelites can you fit on a single bed without breaking it

in CH 102, they told us this was called HCP (Hexagonal Closest Pack)

Graduation day - four happy to get out, one content with the degree, one returning for MTech

Circa 1990: the floodgates slowly opening

today, they are a force of 2300 …. And counting

Kiran, Nimpha, Neera, Shubha, Bindu…

wondering why the girls didn't have crazy nicknames… c 1996 @ H7 – editor’s note: Nimpha is a guy

In the 70s & 80s, H10 inmates were never tagged. Things must have changed in the 90s.

C 1996 H10ites - Shubha, Shylaja, JSM, Priya Venky, ???, Aparna, Chamanti, Maya.

Ghost protocol

c 1996 H10ites clowning around in a wing

My daddy’s room: not my mama in the background.

What’s going on, daddy?

Fifteen of them in t-shirts

no wonder it is in front of the "baniyan" tree

And this is how we always looked,

except when parents visited

Hostel inmates on one of their better days

Too much happiness in one photo

some mischief has certainly happened

Placement day

before the interviews started

Take a bow, guys

real or virtual

Those Hawaii chappals bring some authenticity to this picture…..

C 95, H8 - Nikhil Pednekar, Gautam Kollu, Magoon, and others

One semester done… hang in there, guys

As usual, the back benchers are double the front benchers

On H7 terrace: quiz question, which one is Sudhir Nikam?

On H7 terrace: clowning despite casualty.

Some people never learn… Thank God

Doing general rowdygiri in some room…

Kiran Sithala, Manekar and others… at H7

This is how CS folks goof off – in a straight line

Where did those gowns of the 70s go?

At 1997 convocation, they had that Uttariya as dress code