Jipsudih......

A small weavers' village on the Chhotanagpur plateau of the new state of Jharkhand in India......Jipsudih....... near village Torankel, six kms from Khunti in the district of Ranchi......

During the first three years of petroleum engineering education, one of the friends I made was Jipsu..... never knew him by that name until it was too late. He was studying Mineral Engineering but had the traits of a CEO! I am sure he would have done lots more in life..... if fate had allowed him to.
Mr. Abhas Chatterjee was an IAS topper of the 60's...... joined the Bihar cadre...... left it when he couldn't stand Laloo tactics..... one of the handful of IAS guys who had the courage to do so! He dedicated his life after IAS to helping the Sawansis, the endogamous weaver clan of the Munda society, in developing their villages and society.
That evening I was roaming the college campus, as usual, with my pals when the dean stopped his two-wheeler to inform us that two students were missing from a mineral engg excursion.... "swept away"..... the students wanted to stop near the damodar river to take a dip....... it was the post-monsoon season...... water levels were high..... We spent days at the lodge nearest to the site where this incident took place. Jipsu and the younger student were never to be found.

Jipsudih was a tribute by the weaver clan to the efforts of Mr. Chatterjee..... Jipsu or Pathikrit, as he was formally known as, was his and Mrs. Milicent Chatterjee's only child.......