10th year reunion

The 50th Annual Convocation also coincided with a 25th batch reunion & a 10th batch reunion.

This is a report on the 10th batch reunion from a student of that batch. Anyone want to contribute to the 25th batch reunion details....

The Tatanagar Times
April 1 2006

Unconfirmed reports from XLRI, that famous center of management education in Eastern India, indicated that a mixed group of middle-aged balding persons were seen in its vicinity. They are said to have been seen swaying to the beat of long forgotten filmi tunes dating at least a decade back, staring at various parts of the campus & asking bystanders if the construction was recent, & gulping water every half hour or so as the sun took its toll.

Y K Rajasekar, a second year, posted on his blog that a pot-bellied, blackberry-wielding "corpo-type"(he wouldn't specify if it was corpolent or corporate) pointed to the men's hostel & demanded where the ladies hostel "was being hidden". He became violent on being told that the structure has been standing there since Y K could remember, & "in a scene reminiscent of the ending of 'Planet Of The
Apes' went down on his knees & cried incoherently".

While the search for the LH may have been a dampner, a quest into the MH seems to have been less disappointing. Apparently the motley crew, most in a state of inebriation, ran down the corridors, sqeualing & shrieking with apparent delight, & banging on doors till the occupants were forced to open up.

Raghuveer 'Rocky' Patnaik, a first year student, is quoted in the same blog describing the incident. "It was about 1am, & my friend Sun.. er... Sushmita & I
were discussing some our upcoming presentation on SADMAN, when there was an unearthly pounding on the door. Sunshmita jumped out of her skin & most of her clothes, so unexpected was this intrusion. After a few moments I opened the door, & a person I have never seen before (but for his clothes, I would have thought he was a visiting prof.) stared sternly at Su... slinking away & then barged into the room with another similarly unknown person. They pointed excitedly at the walls, pulled open my cupboard, looked under my bed, opened the window, & took a lot of photos. I was too stunned & a little scared to say anything about this despicable invasion of privacy, leave alone protest. As they left, I heard one telling the other, how '... their room still looks the same...' whatever that means."
School officials could not be reached for comments. Student representatives did not return calls. Sources said that they did not want to jeopardize their placement chances by commenting on this incident.

Also, Reuters reports, various persons of Indian origin, in their mid-30s & living in North America, complained to the local constabulary that they received prank calls in the early hours of the day from persons claiming to be their batchmates & calling from the Eastern Indian town of Jamshedpur. Reuters quoted a Mr. JT, who said he was enjoying a quite conversation with a lady friend at a coffee shop in downtown Toronto, when a person, identifying himself as "Harami" reportedly cursed him in Hindi (a language Mr. T is not very familiar with) & ordered him to "come down to Jampot where the babes are hot". Mr. T recalls hearing drunken shouts & loud music from Bryan Adams's (a Canadian artist popular in India in the 90s) "Summer of 69" in the background. He promptly hung up.

Prof. Madhukar Shukla has posted the pictures at http://returnof96.blogspot.com/