Beats Music Troupe Performs on Jan 2nd, 2011 at CEG

The Beats Music Troupe welcomes you all to watch a live show of 32 cine songs. The songs will be a mix of peppy and melodious Tamil and Hindi tunes. This music program will be a tribute to the Late Eugene Xavier, keyboard player of Beats troupe and CEG alumni.

Beats Troupe: Formed by CEG alumni. The troupe has won lot of inter-college culturals in early 90's.
Location: Alumni Auditorium, Opposite to Ladies Hostel of College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University. The hall has AC.
Duration: 6-9 pm
Entry: FREE. All are welcome.
Landmark: Right gulley after new Anna Library(While coming via Kotturpuram bridge)

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College of Engineering, Guindy(CEG) - 95 Batch Reunion

It was great to meet classmates and batchmates after 15 years. Around 50+ alumni of the CEG 95 batch met at the Alumni auditorium inside Anna University. The batch donated 2 lakhs for an endowment fund. The amount will be put as a fixed deposit and the interest will benefit an economically backward but bright student.

It was great to see students working on Wi-Fi connections in benches near the roads. Classrooms are well-furnished, and the departments have a TV and mirror too. The Dean Dr.M. Sekar emotionally recalled that sometimes the wife of a late(no more) alumni attends the meetings. Dr. Shanmugavel, Registrar of AU, told that he was enlightened by one of his students about ATM networks. The initial inputs from this student kindled his interest for further research. Click here to view a video of Dr.Shanmugavel's speech.

Handing over the 2 lakh endowment to college

Anitha, actor Raghav, Sriram, and Suresh

The entire alumni who met on 27th Dec, 2010

ECE dept - Classroom

Musical Days@College - The Beats...

I was part of my college(Guindy Engineering) music troupe for around two years. Our troupe named the “Beats” was dominated by M.E students and quite a few talented B.E students.

Our practise sessions were more interesting than our on stage performance. We had a separate practise hall inside the college were we would assemble after college hours. We would practise with joy, pulling each others legs when possible. Our troupe was complete in the sense that we had a casio player, guitarists, drummers, and male and female singers. So, we did not hire or borrow talent from outside!!!

We performed at IIT (Madigras), MCC (Deepwoods), REC-Trichy, DalcemFes (Fest organized by Dalmia Cements), MIT, Stanley Medical College, Madras Medical College and few more colleges. Most of the time we won the first or second prize. Our constant competitor was Loyola College. If we won the first prize, Loyola would win second place and vice versa. But still we all were good friends of Loyola College music troupe members.

The hit song of our troupe was “Jhoom Jhoom Jhoom Baba” by Salma Agha. Whoever sang the song used to get best vocalist award. I also got one when I sang the song at Stanley medical college. Incidentally, my mother was a HOD at SMC when I won the award.

My personal hit song was “Chinna Chinna Aasai” from the Tamil movie Roja. As usual, when I was on stage I used to freeze and only my voice would flow fluently. Showmanship on stage while singing was a no no for me!!!

The music troupe was referred to as OB gang( time-wasting gang) in college. Obviously, because the college was filled with the most studious people in town.

I had sang so much in college that my autograph book was filled with just comments about my singing and voice. That may be because I was reserved and my classmates would have seen me as a singer than as a friend!!

I enjoyed healthy friendships with all my Beats teammates and I'm still in touch with them. One of the singers Murali, now runs a music troupe named “Mouna Raagam.”