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I have always been fascinated by the intriguing world of chemistry right from my adolescent days. My father a chemical technologist himself has been instrumental

Names like Dupont, Dow Corning, Degussa have been integral part of my growing years. Being raised in a family with this background my most natural choice of career was in the field of Polymer Sciences.

At junior college my good grades permitted me to choose a curriculum focused on physics, chemistry, mathematics and electronics.

Right from my adolescent days, I have always been fascinated by the intriguing world of Organic Chemistry and its endless applications and possibilities. My father is the technical director of a small scale industry that manufactures specialty chemicals which find application in pharmaceutical and biological fields. R & D has always been the fundamental forte of all his commercial endeavors. Embracing a novel & different route of manufacturing some product, minimizing losses, introducing a more effective & environment friendly catalyst, reducing by-products & enhancing yields, getting more conversions – these formed the basis of my father’s day to day work. These are the ways of thinking that I have been a part of right from my childhood and these thus formed the basis of my lifelong passion for organic chemistry. Till today, it has never ceased to amaze me as to how a single change in the process, be it in a process parameter or in a substance used, can change the course of the reaction, and drastically improve results.

The desire to make Organic Chemistry a part of my life led me to seek admission in UICT (University Institute of Chemical Technology, formerly known as UDCT), for the B. Tech. degree. I chose Technology of Intermediates & Dyes as my area of specialization as I knew that the entire course work and the lab work under this program was structured around Organic Chemistry, with a very heavy emphasis on...