Met so many new people (old friends included) in the last one year, it was amazing. From Chaithu, an old IFIM student who sought me out and met over lunch, to my regular pal Savitha of KIAMS fame, my classmates from IIMB- Himanshu Agarwal, Gopal Mahapatra, SS Ramesh, Prabhakar, some half a dozen from the IMT Nagpur gang -Anshita, Ishita, Anusha and Gowri with hubbies and Rupam without, Anushka the bookie, Nishka-another booklover and ghostwriter-at Mumbai on the way to an offsite, old friend from Hyderabad, Vandana. Met some colleagues from NMIMS for the first time at Mumbai, and Lonavala- so far, it was all Zoom meets.
Many students of NMIMS Bangalore, I met for the first time, and trained a few in playing Golf. Divya and Sreelekha helped conduct the virtual Convocation, like Manuja had done earlier. We had gone out for dinner with last year's placement team, where I met lots of dynamic members. This year too, our placements have been good, thanks to Ekalavya and his student team, plus Shekar and Lily.
Ran into Nagendra Shenoy and Dipayan Dasgupta at different places in Bangalore, met Shailaja Gupta Kapoor and a bunch of Indore, Kozhikode and Bangalore alums at an exclusive get-together. Shatakshi and Varun also came back from hiding, and we met up, pronto.
Also, in a quick trip to Hyderabad after ages, I met, after 40 years, some schoolmates, and discovered one is a Golfer, full-time. Played Golf at Hyderabad Golf Association's Club, which wraps itself around the Golconda Fort. Thanks to Venugopal Reddy, a classmate and friend.
Also met Jayasimha during his visit here, and caught up with Manasa, an old colleague. Also S.P. Kumar, who worked with me at PESIT, and Nagaraj Shenoy, likewise. And Muthu and Vasanti, pals from a couple of decades- decadent? At Coimbatore, caught up with old colleagues Vijayakumar and Dhanapal, and his newly acquired samdhis and daughter-in-law who is a rifle-shooter and trainer
2021 has been bountiful, in terms of catching up. Oh yes, I also met Jogi of Golftripz, at Hyderabad. We go back a long way, to 1999-2001, when she topped her class at KIAMS.
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