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

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.

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 1^st to the 3^rd 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 1^st of February, is a rock pronite featuring Motherjane and Zero. On the 2^nd 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.asp?MovieID=716

2. http://www.iticket.in/MovieDet.asp?MovieID=715

3. www.unmaad.com

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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Warm Regards

Jidesh Haridas

Cultural Secretary

Students Cultural Committee

IIM Bangalore

+91 9916540134

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Why its dangerous to be from our batch and visit Manhattan...

You might end up getting shot, or clicked, in various stages of partying... G&V (Gayatri and Vishesh) were in New york for a week, and we dragged them onto our bacchhanalian nights in New york's dive bars - People in attendance - G&V, Pallo & Samcho, Ranga & Purni, Subbu & hema, vikrant & his iPhone, and a nameless bangalore guy who dropped us home -

(l-r:Ranga, samcho, subbu, vishesh, pallavi, vikrant, G)

(clockwise from top left:Pallavi, Purni, Samcho's friend, Subbu, Hema, vikrant, G, Samcho, Ranga)

Vijaysimha and his wife (Neha) also had come down to NYC, as part of their globetrotting (they r gonna be someplace sufficiently snobbish in Europe next year) -

(clockwise from top left: Pramod (our mutual NYC friend), Simha, Subbu, Vikrant, Neha)

(I sent an innocent mail to Alam, and wound up (forcibly) getting volunteered to post these pics...note to myself...never trust a 'nai' with no hair...)

Baby Girl for Geetika and Mahindru

A few days back got a SMS from Mahindru ... Said that he and Geetika had become parents ... they had a baby girl ... am waiting to hear more ... name ... first photos ... etc etc

Congratulations to Geetika , Mahindru and lots of love to the little new member of the IIMB Class of 2004 family.

Nabar's taking the plung

Yet another one bites the dust. This was Nabar's mail (honestly I haven't added the arrow marks) -

> Dear All,
>
> I am getting married on 5th December in Mumbai.
>
> People in Mumbai do make an effort to come.
>
> People not in Mumbai if planning to travel to Mumbai
> around that time do call me so that I can make stay
> arrangements (98677 41929)
>
> Venue:
>
> ISKCON Mandapam, Ground Floor, New Bldg, Hare
> Krishna
> Land, Juhu, Mumbai 400 049.
> Muhurat: 5:30 p.m. followed by reception
> Dinner: 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
>
> Chalo, hope everything hunky dory with everyone!
>
> Cheers!
> Kaustubh

Sound's good - New Music Room on Campus

News for anthony, cheetah, usha, akg and all music fans from our batch.
This was caught flashing on the (largely defunct) alumni website -

After a long wait, the endeavor to completely revamp the music facilities on campus has been successfully completed. IIM Bangalore now has a soundproofed music room (in L base) completely equipped with state of the art musical instruments. No more dilapidated instruments and ad-hoc practice venues, we now boast the best music facilities across all the IIM’s in the country. This should give a huge fillip to the immense musical talent that we have on campus.