Friday, October 31, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
K2 in the news
As I opened the Mint edition and saw a headline on a microbrewery in Gurgaon, my first thought was, wish it was Suketu whose brewery they were talking about.
Suketu is however featured in the following article from the Mint
http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/11003643/The-microbrew-march.html
Suketu's brewery is still 'WIP' (work-in-progress) even though he was India's first to get a licence.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Kiran and Deepak's wedding party
Kiran and Deepak celebrated their 3rd year of officially living together. The event was held in Delhi’s prestigious IHC last Sunday evening.
Kiran and Deepak were gracious hosts and the party was very unlike a typical Delhi wedding party where you barely get to meet the bride and groom. Both mingled well with all guests. There was pleasant piped music (no Himesh bhai blaring from speakers). In true American style, both cut a wedding cake (that 3 story types) after which a delicious dinner was served.
Alam, Kholu (and wife, kid), Sailor (and wife, kid), Vivek Gupta, Vishesh and I attended the event. Lack of enthusiasm on part of our batch mates to participate in this event was quite sad. After all, here is someone organizing a get together, giving you free booze and food and a platform to meet other batch mates that too at a central location. And yet people don’t turn up!
Curiously, I was told by unnamed sources (you can guess who was source of such juicy news) that Gullu and Keku , both cancelled their plan to attend this event and instead go off to some place in Gurgaon– just the two of them.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Guptaji's become a Dad (again)
mail received on 17 Sept 2008
Amit Gupta
Shruti and myself were blessed with a baby girl on September 5.
Shruti, Vaani and (Vardaan and myself) are all doing fine.
Sharing few snaps.
Amit Gupta
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Dhanno's blog
Titled 'The Reluctant Blogger' when he started off last September, I guess its time to change that title (he has 11 posts in July as compared to all of 3 posts since last September!!) - the latest is a post on his cake baking skills!!
http://a-reluctantbloggers-blog.blogspot.com/
http://a-reluctantbloggers-blog.blogspot.com/
Monday, July 28, 2008
Vid's blog
Link to Vidya's blog http://mostlygibberish.blogspot.com/
And while reading that I stumbled upon Maddy's blog as well http://definitelyrandom.blogspot.com/
And while reading that I stumbled upon Maddy's blog as well http://definitelyrandom.blogspot.com/
2002-04 blog population continues to grow..........
Dear All,
I have started a blog to share my views on different dimensions of life. The first entry is taken from one of the chapters of my yet to be published book, Be The CEO of Your life.
This is a five minute read so do take out time and share your feedback ( Good or BAD, all would be appreciated).
http://vivekgupta1977.blogspot.com/
I shall be sharing my views across various subjects from Online marketing, Business Anaytics to CAT/GMAT cracking techniques in coming days.
Regards
Vivek Gupta
I have started a blog to share my views on different dimensions of life. The first entry is taken from one of the chapters of my yet to be published book, Be The CEO of Your life.
This is a five minute read so do take out time and share your feedback ( Good or BAD, all would be appreciated).
http://vivekgupta1977.blogspot.com/
I shall be sharing my views across various subjects from Online marketing, Business Anaytics to CAT/GMAT cracking techniques in coming days.
Regards
Vivek Gupta
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Dabby's Blog
Folks Dabby has joined the blogging population of our batch
his blog is called Stargazer and can be accessed at the ULR
http://onceuponatimeonablog.blogspot.com/
his blog is called Stargazer and can be accessed at the ULR
http://onceuponatimeonablog.blogspot.com/
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Thyags - Proud father of a Baby Girl
This was the mail from Thyags
dear all....
both durga and myself are very excited and happy to share the news of our little girl's arrival in this world.... she was born on mon, 23 jun, at around 5 in the evening.... hope all's well with everyone of you and your families....
regards
thyags
dear all....
both durga and myself are very excited and happy to share the news of our little girl's arrival in this world.... she was born on mon, 23 jun, at around 5 in the evening.... hope all's well with everyone of you and your families....
regards
thyags
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Nava is a dad now
this was Nava's message
Hi all,
My son was born yesterday (29 May) afternoon. Both mom and son are doing fine.
http://picasaweb.google.com/shanmugapriya.viswanathan/MySon has some snaps taken during the initial hours.
Regards,
Nava
Hi all,
My son was born yesterday (29 May) afternoon. Both mom and son are doing fine.
http://picasaweb.google.com
Regards,
Nava
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Forthcoming activities - Mail from the SAC
Dear all,
Greetings from IIMB!
First: Oreintation week for incoming batch of 2009
As part of the orientation week for the incoming batch of 2009 we have a panel discussion scheduled on 28th of June (saturday, Morning) on "Choice of career and career development". The panel discussion is expected to have anywhere between 3 to 10 year senior alumni of IIMB.
The incoming batch, though a mix of people with prior experience and freshers shall immensly benefit if you could spare some time to share your experience and thought process in decision making towards your career. The discussion shall revolve around how best a student can utilise his time on campus towards taking the right decisions in chosing the right path.
The interactive session is expected to last for an hour and a half at the maximum. We shall be obliged if you could forward your details and travel plans so that necessary arrangements can be made in advance.
Second: Ten year alumni re-union at IIMB
We had the '97 batch alumni re-union last year at IIMB during second week of June 2007.
This year we can schedule the re-union on 21st or 28th of June as per convenience of the alumni.
Kindly send in your suggestions on the same and also the confirmation of your participation.
Third: Seminar on Leadership at IIMB on 15th of August
We intend to hold a seminar on leadership on 15th of August at IIMB. For this we shall be inviting alumni of IIMB who are country head or business heads or enterprenuers or social activists- essentially leaders in their respective choice of careers. On the same day perhaps we could have the re-union of '94 batch alumni as well. We are still in the process of giving shape to the event so kindly offer your suggestions on whom we could invite, his/her contact details. extent and scope of the seminar.
An event of such a magnitude would require large scale sponsorhips so please provide us with contact details of people whom we could approach for sponsorship either within our alumni network or outside.
Kindly forward this mail to your batchmates of IIMB and other IIMB alumni you are in contact with.
Thank you.
Best Regards,Student Alumni Committee
"Building bridges across times..."
Greetings from IIMB!
First: Oreintation week for incoming batch of 2009
As part of the orientation week for the incoming batch of 2009 we have a panel discussion scheduled on 28th of June (saturday, Morning) on "Choice of career and career development". The panel discussion is expected to have anywhere between 3 to 10 year senior alumni of IIMB.
The incoming batch, though a mix of people with prior experience and freshers shall immensly benefit if you could spare some time to share your experience and thought process in decision making towards your career. The discussion shall revolve around how best a student can utilise his time on campus towards taking the right decisions in chosing the right path.
The interactive session is expected to last for an hour and a half at the maximum. We shall be obliged if you could forward your details and travel plans so that necessary arrangements can be made in advance.
Second: Ten year alumni re-union at IIMB
We had the '97 batch alumni re-union last year at IIMB during second week of June 2007.
This year we can schedule the re-union on 21st or 28th of June as per convenience of the alumni.
Kindly send in your suggestions on the same and also the confirmation of your participation.
Third: Seminar on Leadership at IIMB on 15th of August
We intend to hold a seminar on leadership on 15th of August at IIMB. For this we shall be inviting alumni of IIMB who are country head or business heads or enterprenuers or social activists- essentially leaders in their respective choice of careers. On the same day perhaps we could have the re-union of '94 batch alumni as well. We are still in the process of giving shape to the event so kindly offer your suggestions on whom we could invite, his/her contact details. extent and scope of the seminar.
An event of such a magnitude would require large scale sponsorhips so please provide us with contact details of people whom we could approach for sponsorship either within our alumni network or outside.
Kindly forward this mail to your batchmates of IIMB and other IIMB alumni you are in contact with.
Thank you.
Best Regards,Student Alumni Committee
"Building bridges across times..."
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Anusmaran 2008 (Mumbai)
PATHETIC ....
Organized in some unheard of Peninsula Grand Hotel in 'Saki Naka' ... I have attended better birthday parties! The steep entry charges, unenthusiatic organization and zero follow up ensured that this alumni meet goes down in history as one of the worst Mumbai will get to see...couldn't believe that the 'organizational abilities' of the new stock of MBAs could hit these nadirs.
Attendance was primarily from 2004 and 2005 batches. Could see a lot of familiar faces around (and embarrasingly couldn't put a name to those faces when they came and wished hello...getting early symptoms of Alzheimers I guess) The hall was low roofed, small and shady...music was too loud for conversation, and pathetic. The dance floor was a poor apology of a dance floor and anyway there were not too many people enthu to dance...Choice of drinks was very 'restrictive' with no room for breezer and wine drinkers. You had to hit the Vodka circuit, Beer belly circuit or the scotch brigade. I tried hitting the vodka with orange juice topped up with two tequila shots (generously sponsored by Vibhor)...and had a great time throwing up in the next morning Kingfisher flight to Delhi...just reminded that 30 is not 25. Vodka is not beer. Tequila is Tequila. And Aukat mein rehna chahiye...
Great to see Kotler after ages...and also good to have the annual catching up with Daby, Vishal, Nitin and gang. Newly marrieds Pirbhu was seen with his wife and Doley with Hubby. Padam Chabra had also joined in...
I am sure other reporters would have more to say...I think that the guys who returned from the gate did do an intelligent thing...
Organized in some unheard of Peninsula Grand Hotel in 'Saki Naka' ... I have attended better birthday parties! The steep entry charges, unenthusiatic organization and zero follow up ensured that this alumni meet goes down in history as one of the worst Mumbai will get to see...couldn't believe that the 'organizational abilities' of the new stock of MBAs could hit these nadirs.
Attendance was primarily from 2004 and 2005 batches. Could see a lot of familiar faces around (and embarrasingly couldn't put a name to those faces when they came and wished hello...getting early symptoms of Alzheimers I guess) The hall was low roofed, small and shady...music was too loud for conversation, and pathetic. The dance floor was a poor apology of a dance floor and anyway there were not too many people enthu to dance...Choice of drinks was very 'restrictive' with no room for breezer and wine drinkers. You had to hit the Vodka circuit, Beer belly circuit or the scotch brigade. I tried hitting the vodka with orange juice topped up with two tequila shots (generously sponsored by Vibhor)...and had a great time throwing up in the next morning Kingfisher flight to Delhi...just reminded that 30 is not 25. Vodka is not beer. Tequila is Tequila. And Aukat mein rehna chahiye...
Great to see Kotler after ages...and also good to have the annual catching up with Daby, Vishal, Nitin and gang. Newly marrieds Pirbhu was seen with his wife and Doley with Hubby. Padam Chabra had also joined in...
I am sure other reporters would have more to say...I think that the guys who returned from the gate did do an intelligent thing...
Monday, May 19, 2008
God's wedding
Hi:
It gives me great pleasure in inviting you and your family to my wedding with Harini. The marriage ceremony is in Tirupati, my home town, followed by a Reception in Mumbai. Brief program details are as follows:
5th June: Reception at Tirupati
6th June: 7AM -8 AM: Marriage Ceremony
13th June: Reception at Mumbai
Looking forward to sharing our joy with you on this auspicious and happy occasion. Please do call me with your travel plans so that I can make arrangements for your stay at Tirupati.
Have uploaded the invite in Picasa and here is the link.
http://picasaweb. google.com/ srinivas. puni/WeddingInvi te/photo? authkey=uSNQw- fPJUI#5201343729 960828018
Regards Srinivas
It gives me great pleasure in inviting you and your family to my wedding with Harini. The marriage ceremony is in Tirupati, my home town, followed by a Reception in Mumbai. Brief program details are as follows:
5th June: Reception at Tirupati
6th June: 7AM -8 AM: Marriage Ceremony
13th June: Reception at Mumbai
Looking forward to sharing our joy with you on this auspicious and happy occasion. Please do call me with your travel plans so that I can make arrangements for your stay at Tirupati.
Have uploaded the invite in Picasa and here is the link.
http://picasaweb. google.com/ srinivas. puni/WeddingInvi te/photo? authkey=uSNQw- fPJUI#5201343729 960828018
Regards Srinivas
Anusmaran 2008 (Delhi)
This time Anusmaran was nothing much to write about. As far as I know, there were only some 25 people by the time the drinks started flowing (and there were not too any additions after that). The high entry fee, so-so choice of location combined with heavy downpour in the capital city made it a small get-together. Looks like the new Director is a footage king and he ensured that a video of him in different poses and dresses was played. The usual guys -Gika (& Samah), Gullu, Mayank (& family), Nishant, Presi, Uncle (& Garima), Vishesh, Vivek Gupta (& family) from 2004 batch turned up. Alam was conspicuous by his absence given that he comes for every social event. All in all it appeared that probably 2004 batch had maximum attendance amongst all batches!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Wondering...
A few months back when I was reading in ET about the entry level salaries offered to the young grads from IIMB and the dozens that were recruited on Day Zero, I was left wondering..."kaaash MBA do - chaar saal baad kiye hota, to aise kadkey to nahi hotey"
Of late, with the fee hike to 9 lacs and the reservations to some 49.5% ... I was wondering "Accha hua saala 4 saal pehle padh liya, nahi to abhi bhee Assam mein Tel nikaal raha hota..."
btw..since I've posted after a long time, must give some interesting update on Mumbai. Rahul Das, Charsi, Karthik and Rishi have all decided to move into Mumbai in the same housing society. How cool is that....
Alam: Lothlorien aur Body's Box Office yaad hai aur Hotline and Shanky's bhool gaya!!!
Of late, with the fee hike to 9 lacs and the reservations to some 49.5% ... I was wondering "Accha hua saala 4 saal pehle padh liya, nahi to abhi bhee Assam mein Tel nikaal raha hota..."
btw..since I've posted after a long time, must give some interesting update on Mumbai. Rahul Das, Charsi, Karthik and Rishi have all decided to move into Mumbai in the same housing society. How cool is that....
Alam: Lothlorien aur Body's Box Office yaad hai aur Hotline and Shanky's bhool gaya!!!
Anusmaran 2008 - your help needed
Anusmaran 2008 is round the corner ... We need our smart reporters to hit the venues and get all the juicy gossip and info ... calling Volunteers ... hope Vishesh and Gokhale will continue the brilliant coverage of their cities (we can have new reporters if others are interested in their cities ... just talk to Vishesh and Gokhale) ... Interested folks please write a comment claiming your city ... first come first take ...
Below is the latest update on Anusmaran 2008 from -
Dear IIM Bangalore Alumnus,
The Student Alumni Committee, IIM Bangalore in association with the Executive Committee, IIMBAA, takes immense pleasure in announcing that the Global Alumni Meet - Anusmaran 2008 is being held this year on May 17, Saturday. We invite you to be a part of Anusmaran 2008 and refresh the memories of the wonderful days you spent at IIM Bangalore.
As a part of the event, in addition to the Food, Party, Dance and Masti, we shall be screening a Special Video showcasing the latest happening on campus. Be it Unmaad - The Cultural Festival, Vista - The Business Festival, or the Inter-IIM Sports Meets - all 3 of which we won against IIMA, IIMC and IIMK this year, we have news about all of them and a lot more in store for you at Anusmaran 2008. You for sure would not want to miss this unique opportunity and a chance to relive the days at IIM Bangalore which you have cherished ever since.
The event this year is being organized at 10 Cities World-wide. The City Coordinators for the various cities will be getting in touch with you soon. However, we request you to please drop an e-mail to your respective City Coordinators confirming your availability for the event. In case you are not in your home city on May 17, you are free to attend the event at any other location where it is being organized. Please contact the respective coordinators to make appropriate arrangements for the same.
The Student City Coordinators for the event at the various cities are:
New Delhi
Anirudh Roy Popli: ani.pops@gmail.com
Parvathi L Nair: anlepago@yahoo.com
Mumbai
Abhinav Sharma: next.neo@gmail.com
Gaurav Jain: jains.gaurav@yahoo.com
Bangalore
Debabrata Ghosh: debughosh16@yahoo.co.in
Hyderabad
Radhika Tandon: radhs.17@gmail.com
Tokyo
Hardeep Singh Guru: hardeepguru@gmail.com
London
Reema Mahajan: reema.mahajan@gmail.com
Aastha Sachdeva: aastha150886@gmail.com
New York
Manaw Mohan: manaw.mohan@gmail.com
Hong Kong
Abhay Golecha: abhay_golecha@yahoo.com
Singapore
Arup Halder: aruphalder@gmail.com
Our alumnus, Jhelum Chowdhury shall be coordinating the event at Calcutta. You may contact him at jhelum_c@hotmail.com in case you are in Calcutta. The event at Calcutta will happen on May 10, 2008.
We have been fortunate to receive your cooperation and assistance and we are hopeful that you will help us this year as well in making Anusmaran 2008 a memorable one. We would greatly appreciate if you could help us ensure maximal participation by letting your batch-mates, who are not registered with IIMBAA, know about Anusmaran 2008 and invite them to be a part of the event.
See you at Anusmaran 2008. Together lets make it a success!
Regards,
Student Alumni Committee, IIMB
"Building bridges across times..."
PS: You are requested to login on http://www.iimbaa.org and update your latest contact information
Below is the latest update on Anusmaran 2008 from -
Dear IIM Bangalore Alumnus,
The Student Alumni Committee, IIM Bangalore in association with the Executive Committee, IIMBAA, takes immense pleasure in announcing that the Global Alumni Meet - Anusmaran 2008 is being held this year on May 17, Saturday. We invite you to be a part of Anusmaran 2008 and refresh the memories of the wonderful days you spent at IIM Bangalore.
As a part of the event, in addition to the Food, Party, Dance and Masti, we shall be screening a Special Video showcasing the latest happening on campus. Be it Unmaad - The Cultural Festival, Vista - The Business Festival, or the Inter-IIM Sports Meets - all 3 of which we won against IIMA, IIMC and IIMK this year, we have news about all of them and a lot more in store for you at Anusmaran 2008. You for sure would not want to miss this unique opportunity and a chance to relive the days at IIM Bangalore which you have cherished ever since.
The event this year is being organized at 10 Cities World-wide. The City Coordinators for the various cities will be getting in touch with you soon. However, we request you to please drop an e-mail to your respective City Coordinators confirming your availability for the event. In case you are not in your home city on May 17, you are free to attend the event at any other location where it is being organized. Please contact the respective coordinators to make appropriate arrangements for the same.
The Student City Coordinators for the event at the various cities are:
New Delhi
Anirudh Roy Popli: ani.pops@gmail.com
Parvathi L Nair: anlepago@yahoo.com
Mumbai
Abhinav Sharma: next.neo@gmail.com
Gaurav Jain: jains.gaurav@yahoo.com
Bangalore
Debabrata Ghosh: debughosh16@yahoo.co.in
Hyderabad
Radhika Tandon: radhs.17@gmail.com
Tokyo
Hardeep Singh Guru: hardeepguru@gmail.com
London
Reema Mahajan: reema.mahajan@gmail.com
Aastha Sachdeva: aastha150886@gmail.com
New York
Manaw Mohan: manaw.mohan@gmail.com
Hong Kong
Abhay Golecha: abhay_golecha@yahoo.com
Singapore
Arup Halder: aruphalder@gmail.com
Our alumnus, Jhelum Chowdhury shall be coordinating the event at Calcutta. You may contact him at jhelum_c@hotmail.com in case you are in Calcutta. The event at Calcutta will happen on May 10, 2008.
We have been fortunate to receive your cooperation and assistance and we are hopeful that you will help us this year as well in making Anusmaran 2008 a memorable one. We would greatly appreciate if you could help us ensure maximal participation by letting your batch-mates, who are not registered with IIMBAA, know about Anusmaran 2008 and invite them to be a part of the event.
See you at Anusmaran 2008. Together lets make it a success!
Regards,
Student Alumni Committee, IIMB
"Building bridges across times..."
PS: You are requested to login on http://www.iimbaa.org and update your latest contact information
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Getting a proper "Education"
Being totally vela, I paid a visit to Spidi .. which, by the way , has acquired a new logo for it self .. here are the new and the original logo (Thanks to Samcho for digging out the old logo)
On the new look Spidi 3.14 ... I found some interesting stuff on tools currently popular on campus network. One of the tool's description said -
DC++ is the campus per-to-peer file sharing mechanism. Junta share their documents, photos, songs, movies, "educational material" and any other files worthy of sharing through it.
(emphasis are mine)
Educational material ... hmm ...
some things don't change ...
I bet that sharing "educational material" is the most dominant use of DC++ and is even more popular than sharing music ... brings back memories of "body's box office" and "lothlorien" ...
:-)
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Vishnu weds Ahalya
Hi All:
Ahalya and I take the pleasure in inviting you to our wedding cermony on 11th April. The wedding and the reception is being held in Chennai.
The wedding program on the 11th of April is as follows:
Muhurtham: 9AM to 10.15 AM
Reception: 7PM to 9 PM
Address:
Hotel Savera, Samavesh Hall,
146, Dr Radhakrishnan Salai,
Mylapore, Chennai.
In order to reduce the email size, I have hosted the invite at the following link.
http://picasaweb.google.com/vardhanv/MarraigeInvitation
Do let me know if you need any help in reaching the venue. We look forward to sharing our joy with you on this auspicious and happy occasion.
Thanks and Best Regards
Vishnu Vardhan
+91-98XXXX6868
Ahalya and I take the pleasure in inviting you to our wedding cermony on 11th April. The wedding and the reception is being held in Chennai.
The wedding program on the 11th of April is as follows:
Muhurtham: 9AM to 10.15 AM
Reception: 7PM to 9 PM
Address:
Hotel Savera, Samavesh Hall,
146, Dr Radhakrishnan Salai,
Mylapore, Chennai.
In order to reduce the email size, I have hosted the invite at the following link.
http://picasaweb.google.com
Do let me know if you need any help in reaching the venue. We look forward to sharing our joy with you on this auspicious and happy occasion.
Thanks and Best Regards
Vishnu Vardhan
+91-98XXXX6868
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
And the Marriage season continues - Suseel
It gives me great pleasure to invite you and your family for my wedding with Manju on Saturday, 22nd March 2008
Please consider this a personal invite from me. Your esteemed presence and gracious blessings will bring in lots of happiness to us and our family.Muhurtham: 7:33 AM to 9:00 AM,
(Meshalagna Pushkaramsham)
Venue: Chittoor Vari Sri Venkatesa Ratha Saptamy Arya Vyshya Thadiyaradana Samgam
N0.9, Medara Metta, Tirumala
Suseel Kumar
+91 98407 91642
Monday, March 17, 2008
Why does our network sucks?
I have been wondering this for a very long time now. One of the things that a person expects from a B-school is to build an excellent network - something which helps you when you are looking for that right job or hoping to start something on our own. But I have realized that when I compare B with other two schools (A and C) - our network is really down in dumps - there is only very little inter-batch communication and of course alumni site ( which seems to change every year ) has hardly any traffic or content. First of all why is this happening? My take is that alumni secretary is a defunct position where it is assumed that only activity they need to carry out is the alumni meet - which of course hardly ever has any agenda - it is no better than a class reunion party. I have not seen any other activity being carried out by the alumni secy. Pls correct me if I am wrong in my criticism and yes this is not directed against any individual.
Of course by now all of you are thinking that it is easy to lambast someone else (in this case the successive alumni secys) but what next? Well guys lets create a unified platform to bring all IIMB alumni together - let us not depend on alumni secy. For starters do we have an alumni union? At least I am not aware of one - if yes then lets revive it and if not, then lets create one with chapters across the world. Let us also try and bring out an alum directory on an annual basis through this union and a biannual or (if possible a quartely) news letter - though I think a blog would be a better idea but then not all members may be so blog savvy. Any views on this?
Of course by now all of you are thinking that it is easy to lambast someone else (in this case the successive alumni secys) but what next? Well guys lets create a unified platform to bring all IIMB alumni together - let us not depend on alumni secy. For starters do we have an alumni union? At least I am not aware of one - if yes then lets revive it and if not, then lets create one with chapters across the world. Let us also try and bring out an alum directory on an annual basis through this union and a biannual or (if possible a quartely) news letter - though I think a blog would be a better idea but then not all members may be so blog savvy. Any views on this?
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Hans and Leena blessed with a baby boy
Well this may be a little late in the day but the lovely couple was blessed with a baby boy -"Kabeer" on 31st Jan. Congrats guys!!
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
A new Dawn for Pranjal and Meetu
Meetu and Pranjal became proud parents yesterday (26 Feb 08).
They have named their little girl "Sehar".
They have named their little girl "Sehar".
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Hey Pirbhu - Tum bhi
Here's a cut and paste of Pirbhu's mail
Dear Friends,
All good things come to an end...for best of the things to get started.
Similar is the case with my bachelorhood days. It has outlived its usefulness. Yours truely is now ready to tie the knot.
Sushma and I are getting married this month.
The marriage details are as follows :
Date : 26th February' 2008
Day : Tuesday
Venue : Sri Kripa Hall, Plot no. 1, Sector no. 6, Khanda Colony, New Panvel, Mumbai
Baraat Start : 6.00 pm
Reception Party Start : 7.30 pm
It's going to be momentous occassion in our lives, as life will never be the same again. Having said that, we would like to enter this new phase in life with friends, fun and laughter all around. Kindly make it convenient to attend the wedding to bless us with your good wishes.
Please free to contact me for any details related to your travel or stay.
Looking forward to meet you,
Prabhakar Tiwari
99201 99XXX
PS: Wedding card soft copy
Dear Friends,
All good things come to an end...for best of the things to get started.
Similar is the case with my bachelorhood days. It has outlived its usefulness. Yours truely is now ready to tie the knot.
Sushma and I are getting married this month.
The marriage details are as follows :
Date : 26th February' 2008
Day : Tuesday
Venue : Sri Kripa Hall, Plot no. 1, Sector no. 6, Khanda Colony, New Panvel, Mumbai
Baraat Start : 6.00 pm
Reception Party Start : 7.30 pm
It's going to be momentous occassion in our lives, as life will never be the same again. Having said that, we would like to enter this new phase in life with friends, fun and laughter all around. Kindly make it convenient to attend the wedding to bless us with your good wishes.
Please free to contact me for any details related to your travel or stay.
Looking forward to meet you,
Prabhakar Tiwari
99201 99XXX
PS: Wedding card soft copy
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Mringi is a dad now!!
Its 12.49 am on 3rd feb, just happened to ping Mringi and it turns out that the dude is in the hospital, as the couple has just been blessed(about 9 hrs ago) with a baby girl - a 3.25 Kg bundle of joy.The baby, mom and dad are all doing fine. The name of the baby is yet to be decided - Mringi is yet to decide between two names - an offer for online poll to help him come to a decision was politely ignored...:(.
Congrats to Mringi and Nikki - pls keep watching this space for pics of the baby.
Congrats to Mringi and Nikki - pls keep watching this space for pics of the baby.
Friday, February 1, 2008
A day of fun and frolic at the Mud-Fort - Kuchesar
Bored of meeting in coffee houses and Malls, we ( Alam and Afshan, Little Alam, Anushman and some cousins, Vishesh and I ) decided to instead combine a nice long drive to a historic place with some good sight seeing. We wanted to go to a place that was close enough to Delhi, yet far away from the crowds.Neemrana was too snooty with advance reservations and payments. Other places, were either too far off or were in our ‘been there’ and ‘not again’ list. Finally, we all voted for the Mud-Fort at Kuchesar.
After a rather rough ride on the roads of UP, we arrived at the 18-th century Jat Fort cum hotel. Per various web-sites, the fort had seven turrets as a defense against possible cannon attack and a wide moat was dug to form the ramparts (you can see the empty moat in the picture below) .
There were tons of activities to do. Alam and Vishesh immediately pounced upon the TT table in one of the verandahs. Afshan and Anshuman were playing badminton with Junior Alam in the patio while I went off to explore the fort and take pictures.
The rooms of the hotel reminded me of old British houses, with high ceiling, ventilators on top and large sweeping fans (a lot of Hotel reviews seem to euphemistically call this the ‘colonial charm’). Cane armchairs (the variety from our grandparents times) offered a comfortable perch. In fact, the hotel gave me an impression of living quarters in a government guesthouse with concomitant pricing of a civilian hotel. There was not much to see around the Fort per se as a large section of the fort has been cordoned off by the owners as their private residence (refer adjacent picture). However, even with the limited space, one can enjoy a balmy evening on one of the rooftops of the fort, which offer a picturesque view of the sugarcane fields in the surrounding area. A serene quiet place without the bustle of typical touristy resorts.
An old-fashioned buttermilk-churning machine made out of wood caught the attention of everyone in the Dining room as we waited our turn. Lunch looked very homemade, however, it was a low value for money. Even in the dimly lit dining room I could make out that the cutlery and dining tables had not been cleaned for quite sometime.
Bored of having explored the Fort in a few hours, we proceeded to laze in the gardens adjoining the Fort. Sitting in the Jhoolas made of Jute under a Banyan tree, we ordered ‘ganna’. Soon there was a competition as to who could eat maximum ‘gannas’. Before we realized, it was dusk and time to go home. Over tea, I could already hear chatter about plans of our next visit to another historic place.
(Note: for the next article, people pictures will be taken specifically for this blog.)
Sunday, January 20, 2008
My Cricket Blog !!!
Guys...
have been writing a blog on cricket (dont most people do ?? ;-)
Here is the link:
http://mycricketview.blogspot.com/
Hope to get some good feedback on it...
PS: Alam, can you put the link at the side ? I cannot change the layout with my login.
Cheers
Amit
have been writing a blog on cricket (dont most people do ?? ;-)
Here is the link:
http://mycricketview.blogspot.com/
Hope to get some good feedback on it...
PS: Alam, can you put the link at the side ? I cannot change the layout with my login.
Cheers
Amit
Saturday, January 19, 2008
After winning over east-coast B conquers west-coast
Here's the story from MBAuniverse
http://www.mbauniverse.com/innerPage.php?id=ne&pageId=886
If you thought that management students at India's prestigious institutes were the proverbial bookworms, think again!
Students from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad recently battled it out over not the usual case-studies and quizzes, but thirteen games like cricket, tennis and swimming. IIM Bangalore played host to the sports contingent from IIM Ahmedabad for Sangharsh'08, the second edition of the Annual IIMA-IIMB Sports Meet between January 11-13, 2008.
In an action packed weekend that saw the two teams battle over 13 events that included Badminton, Tennis, Table-Tennis, Volleyball, Throwball, Basketball, Football, Cricket, Chess, and Swimming, IIM Bangalore won 9 events to the 4 won by IIM Ahmedabad, and are now the title holders of Sangharsh.
Earlier, Prof. Pankaj Chandra, Director IIM Bangalore, inaugurated the event.
The outstanding players at Sangharsh'08 were: Badminton - Sagar Thakar, Saumya Krishna (IIMB), and Amreen Sodhi (IIMA); Football - Nishant Gupta, Francis Haokip (IIMB), and Adrian D'Souza (IIMA); Tennis - Sriram Venkiteswaran, Nishant Gupta (IIMB), and Arjun Shetty (IIMA); Cricket - Devender Kumar, Chintan Valia (IIMB); Volleyball - Aditya Gurunath Systla (IIMA); Throwball - Saumya Krishna (IIMB); Snooker - Praneet Chawla (IIMB), and Anubhav Kaul (IIMA); Basketball - Pranay Shetty, Hardeep Singh Guru, Anupam Anurag Kerketta (IIMB); Swimming - Mathew Abraham (IIMB); Chess- Narayana Bhanu Prasad (IIMB), and Anita Kishore (IIMA); and Table-Tennis - Sahan Ray, Lipsa Nayak (IIMA).
IIM Ahmedabad will host the next edition of Sangharsh in January 2008-09.
http://www.mbauniverse.com/innerPage.php?id=ne&pageId=886
If you thought that management students at India's prestigious institutes were the proverbial bookworms, think again!
Students from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad recently battled it out over not the usual case-studies and quizzes, but thirteen games like cricket, tennis and swimming. IIM Bangalore played host to the sports contingent from IIM Ahmedabad for Sangharsh'08, the second edition of the Annual IIMA-IIMB Sports Meet between January 11-13, 2008.
In an action packed weekend that saw the two teams battle over 13 events that included Badminton, Tennis, Table-Tennis, Volleyball, Throwball, Basketball, Football, Cricket, Chess, and Swimming, IIM Bangalore won 9 events to the 4 won by IIM Ahmedabad, and are now the title holders of Sangharsh.
Earlier, Prof. Pankaj Chandra, Director IIM Bangalore, inaugurated the event.
The outstanding players at Sangharsh'08 were: Badminton - Sagar Thakar, Saumya Krishna (IIMB), and Amreen Sodhi (IIMA); Football - Nishant Gupta, Francis Haokip (IIMB), and Adrian D'Souza (IIMA); Tennis - Sriram Venkiteswaran, Nishant Gupta (IIMB), and Arjun Shetty (IIMA); Cricket - Devender Kumar, Chintan Valia (IIMB); Volleyball - Aditya Gurunath Systla (IIMA); Throwball - Saumya Krishna (IIMB); Snooker - Praneet Chawla (IIMB), and Anubhav Kaul (IIMA); Basketball - Pranay Shetty, Hardeep Singh Guru, Anupam Anurag Kerketta (IIMB); Swimming - Mathew Abraham (IIMB); Chess- Narayana Bhanu Prasad (IIMB), and Anita Kishore (IIMA); and Table-Tennis - Sahan Ray, Lipsa Nayak (IIMA).
IIM Ahmedabad will host the next edition of Sangharsh in January 2008-09.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Unmaad 2008 - Invite
here's the invite from the cultsec
Dear All,
It gives me immense pleasure to extend my personal invitation to all of you for Unmaad 2008. This year Unmaad is being held from the 1st to the 3rd of February and I sincerely hope that it will be convenient for all of you to come down to campus and be part of the fest. Our endeavor has been to make Unmaad bigger in terms of quality of competitions and participation and it is only with the participation and support of all of you that we can achieve this
We are conducting 2 pronites this time. The first one, on the 1st of February, is a rock pronite featuring Motherjane and Zero. On the 2nd of February we have the Unity Concert featuring Strings and Mrigya. This time tickets can be purchased online too at the following links
1. http://www.iticket.in/MovieDet
2. http://www.iticket.in/MovieDet
Hoping to see most of you here for what promises to be 3 days of fun and mayhem. It would also help if all of you could give publicity for the pronites and the online ticketing links in your offices and friend circles.
Regards
Jidesh Haridas
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