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

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

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.

Thanks & Regards,
Suseel Kumar
+91 98407 91642

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?

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!!

A new Dawn for Pranjal and Meetu

Meetu and Pranjal became proud parents yesterday (26 Feb 08).

They have named their little girl "Sehar".

brand new bloGGGGer

Folks check out the newest blogger amongst us

G at http://theicon-o-blast.blogspot.com

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

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.