Non-teaching Staff

 Made a lot of friends and had great assistants in many places.

At Harihar, we partied a lot with the staff. A pic of an outing for a wedding.. Rajshekhar, Rajesh , Yuvaraj, Nagaraj, Sreenath, Veena are some in the pic..

At IIM Indore, lots of staff were very helpful and reported to me during my 7 years. We also attended a wedding party of Neha. Manas, Hemendra, Pradeep etc. were some others.. 

IMT Nagpur, y secretary Archana, and placement team and the PGP office team (Snehal, Elizabth) I remember even today. Kamal the accounts guy and Vinod Jadhav, were also very competent. Sridhar Rao in IT too.

And academic associates, Tripti Srivastav was very good. At IIM Indore, Saumyaa Sharma and I became good friends and keep meeting on and off even till 2024.

Archana again was a secretary at NMIMS. Cool and efficient. Vishnu and the academic team of Baklavati, Tarannum and others also worked well. 

Divya and Ayushi at Prestige University literally carried the admin load dual-handedly.

Sankranti Outing

 With Prestige University colleagues at Shreemaya. Celebrated with great food and conversation- 

2024 - A Recap

 Starting with December 2023, on 30th I attended a wedding - and met Natasha Kothari, who runs Studio Ungap. Dhruv, her fiance, was the groom's brother. Anyway, we met again at her office, and I also wrote a case and invited her for a guest lecture on Entrepreneurship to Prestige University. Went off well, with a video recording too.

Natasha at Indore, with students Bhavna and Silky, below.

It was also a year of weddings- attending them. Sanjana's (she was a student from IIM Indore), another one in Coimbatore where I ran into students from IIM Indore among guests, and so on..

Meetups with long lost friends- Jaya Dulani, Pushpinder Singh, Venkata Rama Subramaniam, and not lost but found Nikita Ray, Ananya Nandi Dey, Shalini Sinha, Abha Anagha Kulkarni, Sheetal Garg also happened in Delhi and Mumbai, and Pune. Prachi Jain also met up before migrating from IMT G to IIT Roorkee. 

Jaya Dulani, market researcher, and below, Shalini, a photographer and Abha, HR in a law firm

The Halves too. 

My ex-student-friends from IMT, Ananya and Nikita.

Golfing also happened, with students, and guests, and Prestige employees.

Ayushi learns .. so does Veronica, my friend from Argentina.

Pretty golfers from Prestige. Vedika Palod, below.

Silky and Sakshi, above.

Adithya Padala from school (now in California), and Annie Singh and Ajay from Greenwood, caught up after long, in Pune and Delhi. So did Madhu and hubby, my wife's colleague from Bangalore.

Adithya, above. Madhu and Mr. Mathur in Gurgaon.

Annie Singh and Ajay, from USA.

Also, went to XLRI for a doctoral consortium (met Vijjy, prof. and classmate, and a couple of lovely young Ph.D. scholars), and on a holiday to Goa (and enjoyed dry days with hoarded whisky), and in MP, to Orchha and Khajuraho via Jhansi.

Events at Prestige University

 We recently invited members of our Board of Studies and a couple of other committees to the campus for deliberations on current curricula and future directions.

We had some stalwarts from companies such as Ernst and Young, KPMG, and some academic heavyweights who came from IIT Delhi, IIM Bangalore, IIM Indore and so on. 

We got a few good ideas, and intend to work on them. Our 5-month internship for MBA students was roundly applauded. Also our emphasis on industry interaction at all levels, and our innovative pedagogy.

Some pics from the event. 

Some members also enjoyed a visit to Mandu.

Dinner at a rooftop restaurant, and 

below, a photo op in a classroom.

Some of the deliberations that went on...

Year end Musings- 6

 A year is an artificial division of time. But it helps consolidate our life into compartments. Of course, it gets confusing with the financial year thrown in for calculations, and others-academic year in my profession.

This year, September -November were eventful. Some pics..

Apple orchard, and other delights, Kashmir

Guwahati and Shillong, or nearby (above and below)

Nagaland, with Education Minister at Kohima, above, and with Tetso College bosses, Dimapur

Chai bagaan, at Jorhat and nearby.

Abhishek above, and Kanika Mhendiratta, below

At IIMB with friends.. Bhuvanesh, and Jayadev

Akshat Surana visits Prestige.

Nagarjuna and Venugopal Reddy, Hyderabad Golf Club

Bhagyalakshmi and Venkat, Mumbai BKC.

2023 Year end Musings- 3

 I did an invited program on Case study Teaching at Prestige Institute, Gwalior in July sometime for faculty. Also had a school (Hyderabad Public School) batch get-together in Hyderabad, where around 15 students (all boys- back then it was a Boy's School) turned up, and we had a great time reminiscing about our school days.

Gwalior, faculty at work.. at Prestige University campus.

Below, with Director Nishant Joshi, Tarika Singh and Chanda Gulati of PIMR, Gwalior

Below, glimpses of our batchmates from school.. meet happened at Hyderabad, in July 2023.

We finished school in 1977.