Prestige University

 Completing 2 years at Prestige University, so a throwback is in order.. 

Top of the world. With Parth and Maria Gokhale.

Jayanta, Ilika, Nandini and Roshni..

Savitha visits for OB..and below, Anet shows her dancing skills.

Lunch outing with Riyaz, Juhee, Divya, Ayushi, Snehal.

Pratima visits from Hyderabad..

Students.. 2nd batch and first.. 

Mr. Vikram Gulia, chief guest, inauguration of Batch 2

Gurgaon mein chat and chaat. Bhavna, Silky, Dheeraj.

Women Golfers. Ayushi and Snehal.

Natasha Kothari guest lecture.. and a group assignment (below)

Promotional tour..

Veronica Thavonat.. my only Argentinian friend, golfing and with Prashanth Bharadwaj

Lunch at Charpai with Vedika Palod, Aditi Jain, and others

Silky above, and Sajal Mukherjee, Deloitte USA, below..

Golfers- students, and faculty- Juhee below.

Visiting students.. and we visit minister Temjen Imna Along in Kohima.

A lake on way to Shillong.

Inaguration batch 1.. with Aravind and Chandrakant

Gwalior.. Case Workshop.

Prachi Jain and Akansh Khandelwal of IIMI visit.

CNBC Studio, Worli

Faculty joining, with Amandeep, HR.

CNBC studio, there and before.

Ayushi's first day.. 

Amrita, Ashima and Tarika.. Spice Girls of Prestige.

Pratishtha Batra, Neeti Ingole and Sohni Roy .. at a staging of Knives Out.

Visiting IIMI with Sohni Roy.

A range in Indore? A female Tiger too?

Wonders of My World

 I don't buy the fact that there are just 7 Wonders of the World, and that too, just monuments. My list would include people I am grateful to- just for being in my life. And that's going to run into hundreds, obviously. I have had a long life...

1. Parents, aunts, uncles, cousins. We were a large family, with my mother having several sisters and a brother, and my father with two brothers and some cousins. So we had a ball, meeting in vacations or get-togethers, weddings and so on. At Nagpur a few years ago, we celebrated the 75th birthday of our seniormost maternal cousin. A great event.

2. Teachers- starting from the nuns in class 1, to high school teachers at Hyderabad, or profs. at IIM Bangalore in India, and at Clemson University, USA, they played an important role in shaping me.

3. Colleagues at work in companies, or academic institutes. They have been a source of joy, and learning. Including my non-teaching staff, teaching assistants and almost everyone who worked in various offices- even accounts!

4. Classmates in school, college (we have a group called Hum Nahi Sudhrenge), IIM Bangalore buddies, and a couple of Ph.D. seniors and mates at Clemson-Ron Green being one, Masoud Abessi another

5. Students and ex-students..mostly the second, as I have graduated to admin. roles these last two-three years again. I am amazed at having so many wonderful people just a facebook post or WhatsApp message away. We also meet when we can. You guys are amazing!

6. Food and Drink.. with people you like. You can never have enough.. just like Lays says in its ad.. so much to explore. Just having Moong bhajiya in today's rain, or a Biryani at Hyderabad (with Pratima, my biryani friend), or sipping a cocktail- Ravi and I made a few in Calicut when I lived there. Had a coffee with Prabhakar at UB city recently, and shared many stories.

7. Fun and Games- Karaoke, Golf or Antakshari ..music in any form, actually.

Ok, managed to classify them into 7, after all.. am I forgetting something?

Glimpses of Birthday Celebrations 2022

 I had my birthday, and we also celebrated a friend's birthday (Pratima Gaikwad from IIMI) and a niece's too, during the week gone by. Glimpses through pics, of various things we did- ate, mostly.

First, mine- with IIMB classmates.

and NM colleagues.

It was Anjali's birthday on 2nd Oct.

So we bought books, and went to Sodabottle Openerwala

and read funny stuff on their walls.

Had an Irani chai, and again, celebrated with Pratima her birthday which was on 5th

with some Kandahari chicken (and great chai at her place).