Woman shares pic of her father with Sundar Pichai from IIT Kharagpur convocation

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, graduated from IIT Kharagpur with a BTech in metallurgical engineering. A picture of him taken during the convocation in 1993 has been making the rounds on the Internet. The picture also shows Sharmistha Dubey, former CEO of Match Group, an American IT company.
The picture was shared by an X user, Ananya Lohani, on the microblogging platform. Alongside, she wrote, “My dad just shared this picture of his IIT KGP convocation (1993) with him, Sundar Pichai and Sharmistha Dubey in the same frame.”
She added, “This is absolutely insane….”
The post, since being shared on May 6, has garnered over 4.4 lakh views and the numbers are still increasing. The post has also received a flurry of likes and comments.
An individual posted, “No way. You might have the most supreme referral Google has ever seen.”
“Damn!” wrote another.
A third commented, “This is absolutely epic.”
“That’s a powerful picture. Greatness frozen in time,” expressed a fourth.
A fifth said, “My father was in MTech in the same year at IIT KGP when Sundar Pichai was in his final year.”
Last year, a picture of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and American entrepreneur and investor Emmett Shear from college days went viral on social media.
“Photo of Emmett Shear (red) and Sam Altman (yellow) from when they were in the original 2005 Y Combinator class together,” read the caption written along with the picture shared on X. The picture shows both Sam Altman and Emmett Shear posing for a group photo.