About the Princeton Club of India
The Princeton Club of India (PCI) is Princeton's gateway to India.
Join us to keep abreast of planned events, post thoughts, inquiries & suggestions, and help us to build the Princeton-India network for the future!
To join, please subscribe to the Princeton-India Discussion Group via Tigernet.You will need to register and login to Tigernet and follow the online instructions to subscribe to the group. The Princeton-India group can be found under the Regional groups header.
Did you know - PCI has the distinction of being the first of Princeton’s international regional associations, having been formed in 1915. After lying dormant for several years, it was re-started in 2006.
Indian Tigers
[profiles of recent alumni from India. Princeton's offical mascot is the tiger (and hence the University's colours are orange and black). By happy coincidence, India's national animal is also the tiger - Panthera Tigris!]
 Ritu Kamal, Class of 2007: Ritu was born in Ranchi and raised primarily in Bombay. She attended the Villa Theresa school in Bombay and graduated from the Notre Dame Academy in Patna. At Princeton, Ritu majored in Electrical Engineering, and also received Certificates in Bioengineering and Neuroscience. Post-graduation, Ritu will spend a year as a Princeton-in-Africa Fellow in Capetown, South Africa working with an NGO, and will then attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in the Bioengineering Program. Fun Fact: took a course with Zakir Hussain.
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 Jayson Paulose, Class of 2007: Jayson was born in Bombay and raised in Cochin, Kerala. He attended the Toc-H school in Cochin until standard 10 and, pursuant to winning the Singapore Airlines Youth Scholarship, graduated from Victoria Junior College in Singpaore . At Princeton, Jayson majored in Physics, and also completed certificates in Engineering Physics and the Program in Applications of Computing. In the Fall of 2007, Jayson will enter Harvard University, where he will begin work towards a Ph.D in Applied Physics. Fun Fact: played snare drums for the Princeton University Band, and also played drums for a campus jam/classic rock cover band, Spinglass.
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 Sashank Rishyasringa, Class of 2006: A native of Bombay, Sashank attended the Cathedral & John Connon School until the 10th grade, and completed high school at the United World College (UWC) Atlantic campus. An economics major, Sashank also served as President of the International Relations Council (IRC), a forum for students to study and discuss international issues, as well as host/attend Model UN and other similar conferences/simulations. After graduating from Princeton, Sashank joined McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. Fun Fact: Made a documentary film, "A Thousand Arms for the World," about Tibetan Buddhism in Ladakh, after being awarded a Martin Dale Fellowship, which allows undergraduates to pursue a creative project unrelated to their academic work over a summer.
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Princeton in Asia (PiA) - India Fellows
[PiA, affiliated with Princeton University and based on campus, has been providing talented young people with various opportunities to live and work in Asia for over 100 years. In 2007, PiA placed 125 fellows in 17 countries in Asia, working in teaching, journalism, international development/NGO and international business positions. India is the latest addition to the group of countries in which PiA fellows serve. Profiles of recent PiA India fellows are featured below]
 Jevon Harding '07. Originally from Slidell, Louisiana, Jevon graduated from Slidell High School. At Princeton, Jevon majored in geosciences with a certificate in environmental studies. She also served as a Residential College Advisor in Mathey College, and was a member of the Student Volunteers Council and the Princeton University Chapel Choir. She will be in India for a year after graduation as a PiA fellow working for the environmental NGO, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi. Fun Fact: She ran the knitting program Hats for the Homeless, earning herself the nickname of "Grandma".
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More Tiger Alums in India
 Alex Kobishyn '04. Alex joined the Centre for Micro Finance in the fall of 2008 as their Head of Knowledge Management and Dissemination. The mission of the Centre for Micro Finance is to improve the lives of the poor by maximizing both the access to financial services and their impact - through rigorous research, knowledge dissemination, and evidence-based policy outreach. To achieve these objectives, the Centre works in partnership with various MFIs in India, as well as banks, investors, and academic institutions in India and abroad ( including MIT, Yale, Harvard, NYU and the Indian School of Business (ISB). Alex graduated from Georgetown University's Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) program in 2008 with a concentration in International Development and International Business Diplomacy. At Princeton she graduated magna cum laude in Politics with certificates in Teacher Preparation and French Language and Civilization. Alex also captained the Princeton Varsity Tennis Team in 2003 and 2004.
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