Friends, Romans,..

Did not add countrymen, because it's not kosher. Only speaks of men, and I want to address both women and men. Indigo also includes boys and girls..

I just felt like making a speech today. I want to remember a few people before I start forgetting things. Some beautiful people that I encountered (of course there are about a couple of thousand more, but it's a start)..

My Profs.- JD Singh, Gopal Valecha, SK Roy, Thirunarayana, AK Rao.

Colleagues- Bhagyalakshmi, Manasa Nagabhushanam, Shahida, Manoharan, Murali Mohan, SP Kumar, Smita Dabholkar, Anant Ram, Tk Chatterjee, Ravi Gadgil, Vijayakumar, Dhanapal, Rajesh, Raghavendra, Pavan (and Jamuna), Yuvaraj, BK Mohanty, Avinash Mulky, MG Korgaonker, Veena, Mehboob, Gururaj Khasnis, YK Gaur (golf partner too), Jeyavelu, Tripti Srivastava, Saumyaa Sharma, Karu, CK Sharma, Muthu (and family), Jayanti Ranjan, Lubna Nafees, Sandeep Puri, Bhavna Bhalla, Harsh Halve, Jitendra Sharma, Maheswaran,  Ekkirala, Milind Fadnavis, Indrajit Thakurata, Shweta Kushal, Bhuvanesh Pareek, Shinu Abhi, Vinod Jadhav, Snehal, Sanjay (my driver at IMT N),

Classmates- Avadhanulu, CS Murthy, K.S. Murthy, G. Sreenivas, Nagarjuna, Seshu, Alok, Basudeo, Daddy Krishnamurthy, MN Rao, Huma Kidwai,in college, and Ram Seshu, Praveen Gottipalli, Srinivasa Rao, Nadir, Kartik, Rajiv Krishnan, Vinu from school in Hyderabad

Childhood friends, Shashank, Sharat, Shalina, Shobhna, Manoj, Subodh, Anant, Milind, Chitrangi, Shubhangi, Avi, Ajit, Ashu, Kiran (and Neena), Prakash Kenjale, Tingu Sanjay Sinha

Cousins- Lots of them, and their kids too. Suhita-Miskil, Milind-Jui and saie, Mihir -Azam, Gauri-Malay and Kalpak, Jyotsna, Chitra-Varun, Meera-Shantanu and Medha, Bhavana -Aboli and Aparna, Sheela, Nirmala, Mrunal and Ragini, Rohini, Bhagyashree, Pratap, Pramila, Sheelu, Jayashree, Laxman, Chandraprabha, Lalita, and others,

Classmates- Prabhakar, Rajan (of India), Uday (Appu), Nanda Kumars, Harish Chaudhry, Sunil Gupta, BB Dash, Venky, Rajeev Bhagwat, Lingaraju, Smoke Smoke, Ramesh (Hassled) Srinivasan,

Students- Nishka and Vikram Rathi, Dheeraj Mohan, Praveen Kotta, Sidharth Agarwala, Pushpak Sengupta, Aditi Sood, Sunil Kataria, Nidhi Kanungo, Savitha, Achint Arora, Nikhil Damle, Navroze Sethna, Jogeswari, Sharmistha Singh, Vidya TC, Swapna Gurijala, Smita Mohan, Padmapriya, Divyaa Sharma, Ranjana Rudra, Rashmi Manchanda, Deepa, Deepthi, Zargar Basharat, Himanshu Shekhar, Shweta Jha, Sanket Vatavwala, Ankita Sahai, Aarushi Jain, Anjali Sharma, Anushka Mishra, Sandhya Sajeev, Pooja Daniel

Sonam Chirania, Sidhanta Patnaik, Aishwarya Omprakash, Isha Bhalla, Bharath Shenoy, Aashneet, Nagendra Shenoy, Chaitra Hegde, Shampa, Priyasmita, Roopsha, Mrunal, Arvind Joshi, Anusha Ramakrishnan from Finland, Manasa Bharadwaj, Shreya Sengupta, Viju Verghese, Veena Singh, Jensy, Akaksha Yadav,

Kalaivani, Swathika Selvam, Madhan Rehan, Sadhana Lakshmi, Neha Adiga, Shatakshi Tripathi, Kshitija Deshmukh, Sapna Patni, Akash Gupta, Sruthi Chandrasenan, Anam Nuhi, Sanjana Rao Yarram, Shrunga Hede, Shreya Surana, Aradhya Vats, Bhuvneet Raheja, Kritika Gupta, Shivangi Goel, Garima Sachdeva, Thoshitha (my Osmania junior), Rohit Kumar, Arshia Mulla, Komal Nagdavne, Shruti Suman,  Poonam Pawar, The Kaurs (Ruminder, Barleen, Harshdeep), Zenitha Das, Writabrita Ray, Tanya Jakhar, Ansh Kathpalia, Pooja Talapatra, Anusha Mahendrakar, Aishani Verma, Mihir Ghandat,

Shuchi Bhatnagar, Sampark Sachdeva, Shreyashi, Abhinav Kamal, Aditi Gupta, Garima Shah, Pradyumna Mohanty, Harshad Lunavat, Vivek Anant, Shubhangi Khare, Madhulika Gaur, Roshan Kanth, Merwin James, Nikita Kumar, Aditya Naag, Shruti Sharma, Shweta Sinha, Sheetal Garg, Abha Kulkarni, Tosha Dubey, Urvasi Anand, Siri Adi, Khyati Jha, Divya Singh, Supriya Jain, Surbhi Mehta Chaddha,  Kanika Mhendiratta, Akshita Garg, Anchal Sharma, Nandini  Saxena, Parul Kashyap, Animesh Jain, Ratnashree Tripathi, Phalguni Banerjee Basu, Twinkle Jain, Shraddha Nigdikar, Surbhi Tandon, Momi Saha, Arundhati Singh, Vaishali Bathla, Sreeram (and Gowri), Meghana Joshi, Meghna Sinha,  Anshita Chetty, Aashsish (and Anusha), Anumeha Saxena, Pavan Tarawade, Kedar Muley, Ravi Mittal, Adarsh Kamat, Palak Narang, Bhawana Moondra, Madhulika Gaur, Meenu Mynam, Aishwarya Iyer, Anjali Iyer, Ishan (and Ankita) Joshi, Keyur Bhalavat, Manjari Mundanad, Punyashlok Dwibedy, Rupam Verma, Neha Jha, Swati Sinha, Bhawana Sahay, Vrinda Khanna, Pallavi Sharma, Shafique Gajdhar, Bhayashree Agarwal,

Friends Made in Later Life- Indira, Poonam and Ashwani Bhatia, Subbu, Sunil Kapoor, Om Prakash and Geeta Chaudhary, Sandeep and Mamta Bansal, Rajni, Satish and Rimjhim Verma, Milind Chalisgaonkar, Rajan Mani, Virender Gupta, Naveen Sinha, Mohan Gopalratnam, Jyothi Gurumurthy and Nagendra Rao, Usha, Shiva and Lalita Chidambaram, Ratnamadhavi, Lakshmi Rajagopal, Vijji Ganesh, Yogesh Kale, Umesh Jadhav, Venkatesh Gopalan, Priya Mohandas and her hubby (she’s from Calicut), Suryakumar Khanai of Gogte Institute, Belgaum,

Some are still online- haven’t got around to meeting them. Like Pritu Shetty, Aiswarya Manazhy,..bosses are mostly not included because you have mixed feelings about them, though I had a few good ones at MBA the company- an IIMA alumni startup.