Mumbai - Annual Meet - 23 May 2009

Dear XLers,

The preparations for the Alumni Meet 2009 are underway. We have finalized tentatively the date and venue as follows:
Date: 23rd May, 2009
Venue: Mayfair Banquets, Worli

Time: 7:00pm onwards

At this stage, we are facing severe issues as regards sponsorship is concerned.

This being a period of recession, there are very few avenues to raise sponsorship and we have not received favourable responses from any of the avenues we have explored so far. After 3 weeks of efforts towards raising funds for the meet, we realize that this year is going to be a tougher nut to crack than we had earlier expected.

We request you to lend us your support towards this end, and help us in giving you the best Alumni Meet yet.

We seek your direction and support in this regard. Please feel free to contact any one of us for any queries / suggestions etc.

Thanks and Regards,

Gayathri Krishnan

Secretary, External Linkages,

Swarathma Album Launch Tour

The Swarathma Album is here!

With all of your best wishes, we've done it. Eight songs, our best, on one album produced by Amit Kilam (Indian Ocean) releasing on Virgin Records, as part of RC Live. It's been a hard day's night, but every second has been worth it.

Swarathma Launch Tour will feature a live performance, and you can pick up the CD at a discounted rate. Really hope to see you there.

Bangalore :: Jan 5, 8.30pm
Opus: 4, 1st Cross Main, Off Palace Road, Bangalore ENTRY FREE!

Pune :: Jan 7, 8.30pm
Club One: 1 - Lounge ,Koregaoon park,Mundwa road opp Satelite Towers, Pune

Mumbai :: Jan 8, 8.30pm
Bonobo: 3rd flr, Kenilworth, Linking Road, Bandra (W), Mumbai ENTRY FREE!

New Delhi :: Jan 10, 8.30pm
Q-Bar: 42/43, Connaught Circus, Connaught Place, New Delhi

Keeping the faith, hoping for your best wishes and love, as always.

Peace

Jishnu Dasgupta

Praying for safety of Xlers in Mumbai

Terrible news on the terror attacks in Mumbai. Most of it was centered around the Colaba area where a lot of XLers have their offices.

A lot of our alumni were working late in office, some live in the area and some were catching up with friends in the nearby joints, eateries and restaurants. We pray for the safety of those who were in the area.

Words are useless in situations like this. All we can do is hope and pray for now.

Mahesh Nair (86batch)'s Photo Exhibition @ Mumbai (Sept 16-24)

Mahesh Nair (86batch) is putting up an exhibition of his photographs "Let There Be Light"
at
Piramal Gallery, NCPA, Nariman Point
Sept 16-24, 2008

Having gone through his book (by the same name), they are really worth the visit

ciao
madhukar

Invitation Mumbai Meet 24th May

Dear all,

You are cordially invited for the XLRI Annual Alumni Meet to be held from May 24th, 8 pm at the Hyatt Regency, Sahar Road, Mumbai. The cover charges are Rs. 800/- per head. I am enclosing a copy of the invitation. Please accept our most sincere apologies for the delay.

Please forward it to every XLer you know.

Thanks and hope to see you there,


Akshay Sinha

Pan-India Alumni Meets - Schedule

Hello folks!

this is just an advance warning about the Annual XL Alumni Meets being planned this month - so please book your dates.

Due to either my lack of knowledge - or because the venue is still being finalised - I have not been able to mention the venue in this mail (though this is only "Version1.1" - next spam/update will contain more info )

Meanwhile the contact details of the summer interns who are part of the team organising the meets are mentioned.

But do book your date!!

ciao

madhukar

ps: and any of you who can help them out with sponsorships, etc., will get thousands of blessings from fellow xlers ;0)... though seriously, folks! they would be happy with any kind of help from you.

Hyderabad: May 10th
Contacts:
Harbir Singh Rissam
Neeharika Bhupati

Siddhartha Parida

New Delhi/NCR: May 17th
Contacts:
Devika Rajeev

Manish Bhagat
Ankit Goyal

Chennai: May 24th
Contacts:
Mulpuri Raja Rajeswari
Abhiseg Elijah

Krishanu Bhattacharya

Mumbai: May 24th
Contacts:
Akshay Sinha

Ritesh Agrawal

Bangalore: May 30th or 31st
Contacts:
Sharath N

Sugandha Agnani

Kolkata: May 31st
Contacts:
Sudipto Dey

Bharath S

Rohit Parmanandka

XL's 1-yr Exec-MBA Placement (Mumbai Feb 9th-16th) work-ex: 7.5yrs average

Note:
For more information for the following, please contact:
gmpplacement[at]xlri[.]ac[.]in
Srinidhi Vavle

================
As many of you may be knowing, since 1997, XLRI has a full-time 1 year Executive MBA program (1000 contact class hours).

Since last year, XLRI is also providing the placement facilities to them (given the difference in profile and coursework, this process is separate from the placement process of the 2 year course). Last year’s placement got an average number of offers per candidate equaling 2.16 and average salary for domestic offers being 15 Lakhs INR.

This year's placement will be taking place in Mumbai during Feb 9th-16th at

Renaissance Mumbai Hotel & Convention Centre
2 & 3B, Near Chinmayanand Ashram; Powai,
Mumbai - 400 087
(list of companies participating in the recruitment process is pasted below)

The current batch consists of 55 self-sponsored students

Minimum Work-Ex: 5 yrs
Average Work-Ex: 7.5 yrs

Experience in diverse sectors such as Airline, Energy, FMCG, Banking, Government Services, IT & ITES, Management Consultancy, Manufacturing, Shipping and Telecom.

Functions handled: Operations (30%), IT/Consulting (25%), Marketing (17%), Engineering (15%), Finance (10%), R&D (3%)

Average age: 29yrs

Detail Profiles can be downloaded from:
http://www.xlri.ac.in/downloads/GMP-Profiles-2007-08.pdf

If you know someone who would be interested, please pass on this information

Companies Participating in the Placement (Feb 9th-16th, 2008):

Accenture Consulting
Ashok Leyland
Barclays Tech Centre
Cairn Energy
CTS
DLF Ltd
ENIL(Times Group)
Frost & Sullivan
Genpact
Hexaware
HP
IBM
ICRA
IMACS
Inautix
ITC Infotech
Jindal (JSW)
Jindal Stainless
Jindal Steel & Power
L&T
L&T Infotech
Meghraj Finance
Mindtree
O3 Capital
Patni
Photon Infotech
Reliance ADAG
RPG
Satyam
SBI Caps
SKS Microfinance
Tata Motors
Tata Power
Tata Steel
Tata Trent
TCS
TechMahindra
VSNL

BT Acumen - XL team in finals

To all quiz enthusiasts!

The BT Acumen National Finals are being held on the 15th December in Mumbai, and have quizzes and debates. The part that should be a draw for you folk is the National B-School Quiz Finals at 1800 hrs - Shrikant Narasimhan and Raghu Reddy, BM 2006-2008, are finalists.

Be there, to cheer, and quiz!

Open to all, no entry fee or passes required. Just show up at the ITC Grand Central, Parel :-)


Details:
NATIONAL FINALS
Date: December 15th , 2007.
Venue: The Ballroom, ITC Grand Central Sheraton & Towers,
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Road, Mumbai-400012.

Business Today – Aditya Birla Group Acumen 2007 Event Flow

Reporting by all Teams	11.30 am
National Debate Semi Final 1	12.00 noon - 12.45 pm
Audience Quiz / Draw of Lots (Audience Prizes)	12.45 pm - 1.00 pm
Lunch Break	1.00 pm - 2.00 pm
Audience Quiz / Draw of Lots (Audience Prizes)	2.00 pm - 2.15 pm
National Debate Semi Final 2	2.15 pm - 3.00 pm
Audience Quiz / Draw of Lots (Audience Prizes)	3.00 pm - 3.15 pm
Debate Finalist / Topic Announcement	3.15 pm - 3:20 pm
National B School Alumni Quiz Finals	3.20 pm - 4.20 pm
Audience Quiz / Draw of Lots (Audience Prizes)	4.20 pm - 4:30 pm
Tea Break	4:30 pm - 5.00 pm
Audience Quiz / Draw of Lots (Audience Prizes)	5.00 pm - 5.15 pm
Debate National Finals	5.15 pm - 6.00 pm
National B School Quiz Finals	6.00 pm - 7.15 pm
Presentation Ceremony	7.15 pm - 7.30 pm
Cocktails & Dinner	8.00 pm onwards

Dean Joe Philip visiting Mumbai : Meetup

Hi Folks!

I am delighted to inform you that Prof. Joe Philip will be in Mumbai on 26 - 27 November 2007. As many of you know, he was our Dean in the 1970's, and he is currently President, X I M E (Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship), Bangalore.

Prof. Philip would very much like to meet you, especially if you are from one of the early batches. He also intends to call on some of the major recruiters in Mumbai - it would be great if you can help set up some of the appointments. Can you suggest any company where you can use your good offices and do the needful?

A dinner meeting is being organized in South Mumbai on Monday, 26 November. The details will be communicated as soon as they are finalized. Please do contact me if it will be convenient for you to join us.

Look forward to meeting you!

M.Balachandran BM 1972

Prof Fenn in Bombay on 5th eve.

From: Dr. Mathai Baker Fenn

Hi,

I am in Bombay Aug 3-5 for a program I am doing. http://www.training.thetalkshop.in. If you are available in Bombay,
lets meet up on 5th Evening? If you are available please send an email to mohit kishore with your name, and mobile number?

There have been two suggestions, one is to make it a "Learning Evening" where I can share with you some of my current interests as we used to do in the class. The second is to make it more informal, meet up, maybe a drink, maybe dinner. Either way we need to organize things a bit. I am fine with either. Please send an email to Mohit along with your preference and details.

Mathai

PS. If you have read my blogs you will know I am in Armenia at the moment and am coming in only on 3rd from Armenia to Bombay.

Feel free to email me, but remember to update the list with MOHIT!

Mumbai Meet

The evening of May 19th at Mayfair Rooms in Mumbai, had all the ingredients of a superb bash - XL Style! But more important than all, was the huge, vibrant XL crowd, which ensured that the evening was lively - way after all the timing limitations :)

We, the batch of 2008, wish to thank each and every member of our very own alumni network, who flew down, cancelled appointments, encouraged us, cheered for the band, had a blast of a time, gave us a glimpse of XL of their days and made us feel very much a part of this huge family.

We also extend our sincere thanks to the following sponsors without whom this meet wouldn't have been successful:

Hindustan Lever Limited
Pepsi
Seagrams
Mercer Human Resource Consulting
Tech Mahindra
Tata AIG Life Insurance
Tata AIG General Insurance
AIG

We at External Linkages, the Media Cell of XLRI, take on the responsibility of building the brand of XLRI through various activities and nurturing our strong alumni network is one of our prime responsibilities. As such, we would be very interested in knowing the grievances / suggestions for improvement from all of you who graced the occasion, and we would also welcome any suggestions about how we can improve publicity for XLRI, especially in Mumbai.

Lastly, we would also like to thank the following enterprising souls who made this alumni meet a grand success:

Team External Linkages:
Jesal Doshi, Krishna Chaitanya B, Divya Gawri, Harsh Gupta, Prian S.

Alumni Meet Co-ordinators:
Krishna Chaitanya, Gauravi Dubey, Tushar Kataria, Shivkumar Rohira, Shashank Avadhani, Bharat Rao.

Thanking you all once again

--
Regards,
Jesal Doshi
Secretary,
External Linkages,
XLRI Jamshedpur.

XL Alumni Meet @ Mumbai (May 19th, 2007)

Hello Folks!

pl book your dates, inform the friends/batchmates, and join the xlers from across generations with families

on

May 19th 7pm onwards

at:

The Mayfair Rooms

254 - C, Dr Annie Besant Marg

Worli

Mumbai 400 030

Thanks too to the sponsors... AIG/Tata-AIG, HLL and Mercer - and of course to Pepsi and Seagram for the "liquid stuff" - who have been very supportive...

But yeh meet mange more! :)... at least another 25k

Efforts are also on to get the good old XL Band, Bodhi Tree to be there with "XL Ki Kudiyan", "XL Meri Jaan" "GMD" etc.. to be part of the evening... and that will cost about 25K

Any Samaritan soul who can help out, provide contacts, etc. please contact the organising team:

Jesal -

Harsh -

Abhishek Bhattad

Jaichandar

Prium Modi

Priya Parul

Saurav Chaudhary

Shreyas

Vineet Jain

(it is a big team in Mumbai... so have missed out on some names)

have fun:0)

ciao

madhukar

Summer Alumni Meets in India... Curtain Raiser :0)

well, nothing concrete as yet :(

(unless one makes this kind of announcement as a "curtain raiser" ;)

:0))... but just to update junta.

The Summer Interns of the 08 batch are settling down and planning to organise meets at:

Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, NCR...

...hopefully elsewhere also.

Am sending this mail to seek your help and support to make the alumni meets a memorable event for all of us... (after all, it is "Alumni" Meet after all - not "Summer Intern"'s meet for alumni)

Sitting on this side of Bistupur, I have connected them to some of the alumni in these cities who have helped/ supported them earlier..

as of now, to the best of my knowledge:

- in Mumbai, they are meeting some alumni on Saturday at at Cafe CoffeeDay at Carter Road at 6pm on Saturday April 21st

- in Blore, they are meeting the Blore Chapter team on Monday April 24th (venue and time to be decided soon)

- in Chennai, most likely a meeting will happen next week (my interpretation of PNS' mail to them)

so folks!.. let's get going... if you are a game to help them to do a good job (with organising, sponsorship, ideas, ... or whatever).. these are the people in your place you can contact (Alphbetically) - there are more of them, I am only pasting the numbers of those which I have:

Bangalore:

Kuruvilla Kurian (96BMD):

Mansij Majumdar (08PMIR):

Dushyant Goyal (08PMIR):

Chennai:

Birud Shah 08BMD - CTS

Jhumur 08PMIR - CTS

Prayrita 08BMD - Standard Chartered

Hyderabad:

Kshitij Verma (08BMD) - at Delloitte

Rashmi Bajoria (08PMIR) - at Microsoft

Kolkata:

08BMD, Piyush Chamria
08BMD, Shivi Gupta
08BMD, Vibhor Mittal
08PMIR, Ram Prasanna
08PMIR, Iqbal Ahmed

Mumbai:

Jesal Doshi (08BM):

(there are 20+of them in Mumbai, and are meeting on Saturday with Anurag Srivastava 92PMIR, Akshaya Soni 99BM, and Alvin Raskina 07PMIR - at Cafe Coffee Day on Carter Road... join them,if you can)

NCR:

Anuj Khanna @ Hay Group
Anumeha Sinha @ Nokia
Bineet Singh @ Amex
Neha Ramchandani @ HSBC
Ruchi Kohli @ Reckitt
Shamit Gandhi @ Coca Cola
Tanya Naik @ Citibank
Richa Bakshi @ E&Y
Rohit Manucha @ E&Y
Divya Garg @ Hewitt

DISCLAIMER: some of the BM interns fall into "Gaon Mein Sabun Bech Raha Tha" category, so may not be able to acces your call or respond)

[The recent batches would be aware of this, but for those who are not aware of "Gaon Mein Sabun Bech Raha Tha" context - please download the Bodhi Tree GMD song from here:

http://www.jammag.com/rock/show_rock.php?article_id=66

ciao

madhukar