There were some people with whom a bond was created almost instantly, and stayed a long time.
Alok Srivastava, friend from engineering college. Was responsible for my admission into Clemson, and advising me on negotiating the Ph.D. It helped.
Muthu, colleague at the marketing research company MBA. Remained friends since 1985.
Samrendra Singh, and his wife Annie. We met in 1989 in Greenwood. We met her again in Delhi in 2024.
T.K. Chatterjee - colleague at IMT Nagpur. We bonded over karaoke, and a drink or two.
Vijayakumar and Dhanapal. Both colleagues from Kirloskar Institute. 1995 onwards..
Students of IMT- too numerous to count.. Sheetal Garg, Shreyashi, Abhinav, Nikita Kumar/Ray, Gowri, Anshita, Ishita, Ishan, Tosha, Abha Kulkarni, Sirisha Adi, Pragya Singh (met her at Pagdandi Pune), Meghna Sinha, Meghana Khadilkar, Ananya Nandi De, Shraddha Nigdikar, Divya Singh, Shafique Gajdhar, Pallavi Bajpai, Swati Jain (met recently and bonded), Kedar Muley, Harshad Lunavat,
Kirlsokar students- Jogeswari, Padmapriya, Nidhi Kanungo, Nikhil Damle, Savitha, Anushka Mishra, Smita Mohan, Vidya TC, Swapna Gurijala, Aditi Sood, Sunil Kataria, Sharmistha Singh.
Shweta Kushal, Sanjana Rao, Anusha Soni, Akash Gupta, Prachi Jain, Akansh, Pratishtha Batra, Neeti Ingole, Shweta Jha, Vanshika at IIM Indore
My music group buddies and extended family in some cases- Geeta, Indira, Omprakash, Rajan, Sunil Kapoor, Umesh Jadhav, Poonam Bhatia, Rajni and Rimjhim Verma,
and many more- Frane Bhattacharya, sister of my colleague at XIMB. Yuvaraj, Pavan, Rajesh, Raghavendra, Mahboob and Karibasappa at Harihar.
Ekalavya and a few students of NMIMS Bangalore. Tanmeet, Prerona Baruah, and Alisha Thomas, faculty golfers,
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