Obituary For a Great Friend

 He was a faculty member at Kirloskar Institute of Advanced Management Studies in Harihar, when I met him, in the late 90s. He taught Organisational Behaviour or O.B. I just spoke to Jogeswari, who was taught by him, and she spoke warmly about his course.

He was a serial entrepreneur, with numerous ventures- some successful, others learning opportunities. He runs a school in Coimbatore, and they also teach Shooting- his daughter in law Sindhu is a National level shooter and trainer.

His home was like a second home for me and my family. We visited whenever we could. Of course, he was a Golfer too, and we had visited Kodaikanal along with Vijayakumar a few times. Memorable times.

He had a great sense of humour, and we also travelled to Bali together a couple of times. Went Whitewater rafting in Ubud too!

He will be missed. He passed away on May 10th after a brief illness.

January 2024

 The month has ended, with a lot of happenings. Some I recounted earlier, but I also managed to travel for work to Coimbatore via Chennai, and met a couple of old friends and Golfers in both these places.

Below- the three of us on our last outing at Kodaikanal, in 2022 August.

I met both Dhanapal and Vijayakumar when working at Kirloskar Institute in Harihar. Along with a friend from Mysore Kirloskar company, YK Gaur, we formed a Golf team of sorts, and tried playing whenever we could- the Golf course was ours for the taking, just a 500 metre walk from our homes. 

We also had caddies who were part-time coaches, having lived and played there for many years. We also had Sadanand, a coach who visited us from Belgaum once in a while. We were there between 1995 and 2001, and played a lot of Golf.

Since then, we also played at Nagpur (Vijayakumar and I with Ravi Gadgil). And took a few Golf vacations to Kodaikanal and Wellington near Ooty, and once to Munnar.

Hope to get one more under the belt this year, maybe at Kodaikanal again.

Fantastic Golf Outing

 A great time was had, staying and playing Golf at the Kodaikanal Golf Club after a gap of 6 years. My first Hole-in-one was scored here. That did not happen again this time, but great fun it was. Playing with Dhanapal and Vijayakumar, golfer friends from my KIAMS days. The pics speak louder than words? Judge for yourself.. 

The Year 2021 in Photographs

 Well, that's one way to look at 2021.

IMTian Anshita organised this one above..

From the earlier IMT get-together at Orchid.

NMIMS Bangalore alumni.. at Salvatore's and Salt.

A student performs a dance for Independence Day, 2021, from home.

Anushka and I at 13th Floor.

Below, Chasha sent this pic of his family from NZ. He was my classmate at IIMB.

Some fun and games online, with first year MBA students (above)

Culinary art- mine (above) and not mine (below)

Summer delight!

Deepak and Neelima at an FDP-inhouse, NMIMS Bangalore.

Batchmate Zoom (Kusum) gets an award- she's a marketing prof.

Two beautiful ladies- Alums of PES and KIAMS.

NMIMS party (above) and Avinash and Medha (below)

Shailaja and IIMs alumni above, and Graduation Day honours at NM, below.

Birthday, wife's. Below, the Placement Team of 2020 at Deja Vu.

Musical minds, at Lalbagh (above)- an online event of HR Club, below.

Bangalore Club, above, and meeting Rajiv Krishnan from school, after 40 years

Events, above and below. Manuja compered for the Virtual convocation.

Nagendra shenoy saw through my mask (above), and a party for Christmas with Sangeeta.

Golf at NMIMS with students, and partying with Varun and Shatakshi of IIMI.

Grandmama's Cafe with Nishka and with Li and Lee and Lonavala.

Another li, Chaithu Gunapali, above, and Student of the Year 2021, getting her award -Manasa Bharathi

Dhanapal and I, and his son and DIL.

V for Vijayakumar.