Meeting Prachi in Kolkata

 My golf student, Ph.D. from IIM Indore, prof. at Roorkee IIT, and good friend Prachi Jain was in town for admission interviews. 

We went restaurant hopping on Park Street. Some pics. Her old colleague Umang, now teaching at IIMC, and new ones from IIT Roorkee were in the vicinity. Met some of them too. 

With her colleagues.

Umang, above, and Japanese tea, Macha, below. 

More hopping... and a kid.. colleagues again, the parents took a walk while we baby-sat.

An Evening to Remember- FPM Farewell

 A fun evening meeting friends who are about to turn into Docs - Ph.D.s in management-from IIM Indore. My being there was as a result of one of my Exec. FPM students graduating. 

Met him and a few former colleagues too. Some nice performances, including poetry and songs. Enjoyed the event, thanks to great company. Pics from the evening.

Geeti Mishra, Neeti Ingole, Prof. Rajhans Mishra, and Prachi Jain and Vanshika Chaudhary

Janardan joins in..

Knives Out- A Play

 Views of my blog have been 776668 till date. So I trust I have some regular (loyal?) readers, and some who browse and stop by.. so I want to share an experience of a live play performed by IIM Indore students starring some friends, and superbly directed by another friend Shweta Kushal. Knives Out, adapted from a film of the same name, was staged on Feb. 17th. Some of the excitement is captured in these pics-

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Some of the cast including Prachi and Aakansh. 

The private detective and the policemen.

The immigrant nurse with the detective

Other important characters - members of the family

Aakansh looking old- older than me, he joked.

Some more caught in the act!

The audience is important too.. Pratishtha and Neeti behind us- Sohni with me.

Before it all began.. Sleeping Beauty Prachi and a part of the set- well designed.

All in all, a great show! 

Friends Through Golf and IIM Indore

 Golf has given me a lot of new friends- teaching it, I mean. One of these I taught on request, was a talented actor from IIM Indore FPM program, Prachi Jain. She also brought in Akansh, another young actor who'd also acted with her in a play directed by Shweta Kushal- The Merchant of Venice, in Feb 2020. Through her, I got to meet and make friends with a few more Ph.D. students. These will all be stars of the academic firmament soon. Some pics from a recent get-together where we got to eat some good food, accompanied by banter- both very tasty :)

Geeti, me, Prachi, Akansh, Pratishtha, Minali, Vartika, Neeti, and Puloma, above.

Getting lovey-dovey, below- Puloma and Minali.

The eco warriors (from Economics area) pose -above,  and the whole jing-bang, below.

Next stop- a Golf Driving range.