A friend, classmate and P-in-C from IIMB, who is also IPS and a Ph.D. (aise dost hain hamare), wrote a book. I am conversing with him about it. Since a pic is worth a thousand words, here are the pics worth two thousand ..
If you like books, him, or me, and live in Kolkata, do make it on Sept 1st.
I rarely use digital tools or apps, but I got interested in Canva after someone mentioned it, and I saw what it could do, fairly easily. Some of my output-
Maybe they are better off for it. I mean, the students who were there in institutes I was in, but who I never taught. Either because I was there at a different time or because I was in an admin. role. Not knowing how lucky they had been, they sought me out on FB and befriended me. And even met me (and often, treated me or called me home!)
Out of many such, the ones I have met in the last few years include Pallavi Bajpai and Shafique Gajdhar (BOTH are my twins, fb says), Sheetal Garg, Ishita Modi, Anurag Sikaria, Swati Jain, Anshita Abhishek Chetty, Abha Anagha Kulkarni, Anushka Mishra, Sirisha Adi, Ananya Nandi De, Anupriya P., Vrinda Khanna, Meghana Khadilkar, Harshad Lunavat, Shatakshi Tripathi, Varun, ....
Some I met at alumni meets, which we did regularly when I was at IMT Nagpur, Ghaziabad, or at NMIMS Bangalore. Some NMIMS students I met only in my office or at Placement parties (Tanya Sardana, is one I remember and Manuja Seth, Divya Anand and Sreelekha Bannerjee too) and the Golf course. Avanii, Rakshita, Muskan, Mahek are some of them.
Near Indore, this viewing spot is quite a sight during the season-monsoon. Great views of the surrounding valley and lakes. You can feast on bhutta (corn), bhajiya, and so on while enjoying the atmosphere.
Some more of a different category- Ok, those from M.P. -Bhopal or elsewhere. They are in a different category- Shraddha, Pallavi and Pooja Shukla too, in addition to Anusha Soni (below), Alisha Thomas (only a Golf student-she teaches Law), Manuja Seth and Tosha Dubey.
Pallavi and Shafique.
I have forgotten the number of trips I have made to Goa. Most were to Colva beach, and two to other beaches. One was to Panjim, in 1983-my ...
