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This is the official website for the Princeton Club of India. Feel free to look around.


Profiles of Princeton Alumni from India. Go to the About section and scroll down to the Indian Tigers section for profiles of recent alumni.

Mint, the business focussed paper owned by the Hindustan Times group, is featuring an on-going series on the six members of Princeton's Class of 2011 from India (pictured below). Click here to read the most recent installment. You will find links to other articles in the series on the right-hand frame.

Announcements

2008
•September 2nd: A presentation at the IHC in Delhi, featuring Woody Woo alumna and current Assistant Dean for Graduate Education at WWS, Karen McGuinness. Go to the Events tab for more information.
•Princeton Wins Ivy Squash! The Tigers claimed the 2008 Ivy Championship in men's squash with clean 9-0 sweeps over every Ivy rival, including the Crimson (Harvard) and Bulldogs (Yale). The women's team also had a great year, winning the national title by defeating U Penn 6-3 in the finals. Nikhil Seth (C '11) of Bombay plays with the men's team, while Indo-Canadian Neha Kumar (C '10) of Oakville Ontario is the second seed on the women's team. Read more...

2007
• Princeton tops US News' college rankings for the 8th year in a row! Rounding out the top five were Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Cal Tech. Read more...
•Send-offs for the Class of 2011 and GS admittees were held in Bombay and Delhi in the summer. Visit the Events page for details.

Class of 2011 Admittees: Nikhil Seth, Tushar Gupta, Sukrit Silas, Rohan Malik, Shiv Dutt, & Jahnabi Barooah [at the Yankee Doodle Tap Room, Nassau Inn, Princeton - September 2007]

Tiger alum Namita Devidayal (Politics '91), a journalist in Bombay, recently published her first book, a non-fiction memoir about Indian classical music entitled "The Music Room", which Pandit Ravi Shankar has said is "a must for every musician and music lover!’. Visit Random House India for more information. Namita is currently working on her second book, a novel about an Indian business family.

•Princeton Club of India wins the John Maclean Award! This is awarded each year by the Alumni Council to the most improved regional association, and was presented to PCI at this year's Reunions. Since being resurrected in 2006, PCI has done much to build the Princeton-India network: establishing a website, hosting several events/talks, and working to increase visits by faculty and admissions office representatives to India.

PCI Secretary Ranjan Pal *84 receives the John Maclean award from Ed Ianni '78 at Reunions 2007

• Princeton's Class of 2011 will include 6 freshman from India. For more information about the Class of 2011, click here
• A unique opportunity in New Delhi on January 5, 2007 to hear Princeton Professor Gyan Prakash discuss India studies at Princeton. For details...

2006
• Princeton’s 2006-07 academic year commenced September 7th. The incoming class included two undergraduates and 26 graduate students from India. For more information about the undergraduate Class of 2010 click here, and for more information about the incoming graduate school class, click here.

Incoming freshmen Aman Kumar '10 and Arjun Arora '10 at the August 2006 Princeton Club of India reception

• Princeton Club of India inaugural reception held at the Delhi Gym on August 11th, 2006. Click here to view photos.
• Princeton tops US News college rankings for 7th year in a row! Read more...
• Networks of Princeton alumni span the globe: With the Princeton student body taking on an increasingly international flavor over the years, networks of Princeton alumni around the globe have expanded significantly. Read more...

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