The 35th Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FST&TCS) conference will be held in Bangalore this year. This is the pan India theory conference, which has been around for the last 35 years and has gained reasonable repute in the theory community. As a graduate student from India, who started her PhD in 2003, I attended the conference almost every year from 2004 to 2009. Later on too, I have been trying to attend the conference every time possible. For me, this has always been a place to meet many Indian theorists, meet many theorists from Europe and a few from the USA, listen to beautiful talks, attend a grand banquet dinner and basically have a great time! After my many years of close connection with the conference as a researcher who has had many of her works accepted and many of her works rejected at the conference :), this year for the first time I am in the PC of the conference. It gives be a great delight to be an integral pa...