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An officer and a gentleman
 An AVSM winner, with 34 years in the Indian Army, Major General
Balasubrahmanian is today best remembered for being the founding secretary of
the Computer Society of India in 1965. During his tenure as president of CSI
from 1969 to 1972, he charted the future course of action for the association.
His tryst with IT had started even earlier when after the Chinese War in 1962,
Balasubrahmanian was picked as a young major from ASC to head the computer
center set up by the Defense Ministry. His subsequent roles included being the
technical secretary of the Advisory Group on Computers in Defense as well as the
EDP Director at DRDO HQ. In recognition of his services, he won the 'Silver
Core' from the International Federation of Information Processing. Page(s) 1
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