A retired squadron leader, a food truck, and hungry IIT-M students
Business new tamfitronics How did a retired IAF squadron leader end up running a food truck at IIT Madras? Hemanth Sudev, an electronics engineer from Thiruvananthapuram, joined Tata Elxsi and worked for a year in 2010. An MTech dream took him to a coaching institute in Hyderabad, where he came across various options to write entrance exams including those for armed forces.From his childhood he had heard stories of valour from a MIG 21 pilot who was his neighbour. He took the SSD exams and got selected as a short service commission (SSC) officer in 2011. He joined IAF’s helicopter stream at Leh, and later served in Ghaziabad, Delhi and Tambaram.“I always loved good food and my days in IAF took me to different places. I spent my free time searching for good food and...