My mom completed 88 years of an accomplished life on the
planet, and we celebrated that in August, around her birth date. Quite a good
gathering of cousins and aunts/uncles and kids, of course. Lots of old pics
were flashing on the screen, reminding us all of the golden years (hers and ours).
Meeting friends and old students was another highlight.
Visited Bangalore for a conference, and went to have a home-cooked dinner at
Pallavi’s new home with her husband. Also met Shafique and Zargar Basharat, two
likely authors of digital marketing cases for a forthcoming book. On the same
lines, caught up with Supriya Jain, another student of IMT Nagpur who is into
Content Writing/Digital Marketing at Delhi. Met Garima Shah, an ex-student who
played Golf with me at IMT Nagpur. That is always special! And re-discovered Divya Singh and Shraddha Nigdikar, both in Mumbai.
Had a get-together with the IIM Indore student team (Kalaivani, et. al.) that won
the Google Online Marketing Challenge, with karaoke skills being tested in
various languages. It was great fun. Taught a batch of PGP-MX (our weekend
MBA program) in which the women (Kamayani, Lalita, and others) were clear toppers in participation- and one of
these women also topped the batch later on, at their Convocation.
There was a conference visit to Sri Lanka, where a
multi-cultural crowd of Tourism researchers was a highlight-they were from all
over-U.K., Australia, U.S., Africa and Asia-Vietnam, Japan. This was my second
trip to Lanka, and I fell in love with the Emerald Isle all over again- and especially
its easy visa process.
Meeting new and old friends in Chennai brought up the end of
the year, during a visit to Great Lakes Institute. Dheeraj is an alum of
Kirloskar Institute, and Indira, a friend from my music group. Radha was an old
Hyderabad neighbour when I worked at Vignana Jyoti (VJIM) and lived in Habsiguda.
Connected with a couple of VJIM alums on Facebook, too- Ranjana and Rashmi.
An eventful year!
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