Alumni in the Bay area met for a Potluck on the 27th of December at Tipu (IR 96)'s home.
Here is Tipu's write up on the meet:
Warm & sunny new year greetings to all US XLers from the Bay Area. We had a well-attended potluck last Saturday. 30 XLers & their spouses attended, many with kids in tow (list below). Much beer was drunk (imported only, like the XLers) & anecdotes & emails exchanged. Everyone brought wonderful food which magically worked well together, with the piece-de-resistance for me being the chocolate fountain that Kieran Gonsalves so carefully set up. This was the first alumni get together for some of the folks since leaving XL. That & the look of happy surprise on faces of batchmates meeting after many years (like the final reels of a familiar Manmohan Desai saga), was well-worth the time to organize this. Shailley & Sheela took some photos, which are available here and at http://shailleysingh.posterous.com/. Feel free to leave comments. I have also been asked to put a disclaimer that due to the image cropping & similar technical constraints some people may look wider than they actually are. Unfortunately, camera batteries drained out & so not everyone who attended had their pictures taken. But that is a good reason to have another one of these & count everyone in for a group photo. We had a summer picnic & a winter potluck last year & hope to continue the tradition this year too.
| Name | Batch | Name | Batch |
| Aashish Bhargava | BM89 | KP Naidu | IR81 |
| Amita Shekhar | XP05 | Mahesh Singh | BM86 |
| Indu Unnamatla (Chachra) | IR96 | Pal Luthra | BME72 |
| Kieran Gonsalves | BM87 | Pooja Arora | IR01 |
| Name | Batch | Name | Batch |
| Purnima Srivastava | IR96 | Shailley | IR98 |
| Ravi Narayanan | BM86 | Sheela Sukumaran | IR95 |
| Reema Vijay | IR97 | Tipu Purkayastha | IR96 |
| Sandeep Harpalani | BM92 | Vivek | BM86 |
Best regards,
Tipu Purkayastha, SPHR
IR96
Saratoga, CA
No comments:
Post a Comment