Meeting People in Person

 You could say, it's a great feeling. Say that again. Even if you have met online for years. I have been meeting many people recently who I mostly met online before. Past students, or colleagues. Met a few recently at IIM Kozhikode and IIM Raipur, where I had been on a scouting trip to recruit faculty tow ork with us at Prestige University. Also met some who gave me an endorsement for my Marketing Research book- even non-marketing faculty. Anyway, we hope to meet again, somewhere.. a while ago, in Bangalore, I met Divya Sisodiya and Meenu Mynam, and in Mumbai, met Swati Jain, after a decade or more, and it was fabulous catching up.

Some old and new friends from academia, Calicut airport.

Calicut Beach with Ravi, above, and with Payal Anand, IIMK.

Former colleagues, and current doctoral students (below), IIMK.

Indira, a colleague at a sister institution at Gwalior

Above, IIM Raipur faculty in marketing. Below, Saumya, my former teaching assistant at IIMI.

Ishita and Anurag, in Indore recently.

Divya Sisodiya, at Bangalore. With her creation she gifted me.

Pratima Gaikwad in Hyderabad, above, and Meenu Mynam in Bangalore, below.

Below- Swati Jain, of IMT N and BoB, in Mumbai

Meeting Meenu

 I had mentioned her earlier as having a unique-sounding name- musical too. Meenu Mynam. Now we met, after connecting over social media. She is now in the Gulf, and was visiting Bangalore-an IMT Nagpur MBA. We last met at a Hyderabad alumni get-together, and had a lot to catch up on. It's great fun catching up with old students who are now more like friends. Recommended!