Join Meghdut for a candid fireside chat with Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri, the visionary figure who transitioned from leading IIT Bombay as its Director to chairing the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), sharing the remarkable story of his journey from a small Bengali-medium school to the highest echelons of Indian academia and finance, and dissecting the fundamental connection between his two roles: technology, revealing that the BSE is essentially a high-tech company focused on its matching engine and cybersecurity; he advises students against the temptation of instant gratification (the "local minima") by stressing the importance of aiming for the "bigger hill" (the Global Maxima) in life, issues a stern warning against letting AI replace your thinking, arguing that a student's prime responsibility is to build character, learning capability, and a skill set to avoid becoming "obsolete," and confesses his biggest academic regret was not studying mathematics more deeply, asserting that it is the indispensable "mother of all science.