Lecture Series The Lecture Series section displays the various lectures series that are initiated at IIT Kanpur. Lectures are deliver to the Institute academic community, so that they can share the excitement of research with others. Majority of them have been initiated with the help of alumni.

INTRODUCTION TO KELKAR ALUMNI LECTURE SERIES

The Kelkar Alumni Lecture is formal recognition to a person known in short as P K K who has made distinct contribution to the technical education in the country through building and developing IITK. Furthermore, this occasion provides an opportunity to introduce our new students, staff and the faculty that person – Dr Purushottam Kashinath Kelkar.

Dr P K Kelkar was a great visionary, had the will to achieve his dreams and knew how to make dreams happen in reality. It is this combination of a dreamer, missionary and doer in him that led him to successfully plan for the kind of technical education that matured into IIT Kanpur precisely 41 years ago. Dr Kelkar started IIT Kanpur in December 1959 in a borrowed room in the Canteen Building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur. The beginning of the Institute was thus like a small stream which has now grown into a full river that is irrigating the whole world. This would not have been possible without the visionary leadership of Dr Kelkar.