Delhi Alumni Meet Pictures are up

Richa Malik has uploaded her pictures of the meet.

Her message and link to her pictures, follows:

The pics are finally here...Sorry for the delay...

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/richamalik85/XLRIAlumniMeet2009Delhi#

The pictures are uploaded in their original size so feel free to download them without worrying about the resolution. Do let me know if you want me to email you some pictures, just in case.

Thank you for coming for the alumni meet.

Hope everyone had a great time.

Regards,

Richa Malik

The Loveliest Smiles

Swarathma live at the Child Care Home for abandoned girls, children of sex workers, in Kolkata, India. These were the loveliest girls in the world. To see a smile, an unconditional smile on the face of a 6 year old... it is the most amazing feeling ever.

Jishnu Dasgupta (BMD 06)

XL London Get-Together Pics - thanks too!!

well, well... what a day/evening it was!!

thanks to Reena and Arun (please dont miss their pics - 1st and the last one:)... and to Garima, Saurabh, Sharky, Bpaditya... and to all who could make it to the get-together.

For those who missed (and also for those who were there), I have uploaded the pics (about 100+ of them - the "trigger-happy" me :) at:

http://xlers.blogspot.com/2009/03/xl-get-together-london-march-28th-09.html

or

http://xlers.blogspot.com/

pretty heady experience, really - came back quite rejuvenated... (ya, tired too! ;)

ciao

madhukar

Social Entrepreneurship Conference@XLRI - Day1 pics

Pictures and more details about the conference here:

http://social-entrepreneurship-at-xlri.blogspot.com/2009/01/social-entrepreneurship-conference-day.html

and here:
http://xlri.blogspot.com/2009/02/coverage-1st-national-social.html


Coverage in Financial Express

Coverage in The Telegraph

Pictures and Video of Singapore Edition of XLRI Alumni Dream Run

13/12

XLRI Dream Run
Singapore
Botanic Gardens

Yes a whole lot of xlers in Singapore ran around the botanic gardens and felt really good to be a part of the community...in just a few hours and few steps we were able to build a great camaraderie and friendships. thanks to everyone who turned up and showed their support to xl and to the cause.

as you all may be aware by now, we were running to raise $ 5k for the XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust

The run was super. The weather, thanks to the rain god - it rained in the afternoon: was nice and cool..

we started a bit late but still were able to make the full 5k( approx) and be back by 8 pm. Not bad eh...thanks everyone...

A special one goes to Deepak (97 batch) from Stan Chart. He promised that he will come with his family (wife and 2 sons) and all of them did the whole run. A real WOW !...

Super job Deepak. I really admired your enthusiasm and the spontaneity. You are truly an XL soul. I hope we meet again and I really felt very happy for your kids and wife - they took the time and made all of us feel really PROUD.

Another special thanks should go to SCAMPY the loving adorable doggie and Nans (1983) and Shubha ( 1984) who made that happen. Scampy is so so adorable and was the darling of the party..

Talking about a party - thanks to Abhilasha to have made it to SBG after a party - even that shows true support and spirit.

Pity that many people said they will come but did not show up and did not message...

Oh I should not forget to thank Lavanya Rajesh for the super collection mechanism and t shirt logistics - thank you so much...

The location worked out really well. It was nice and cozy and we could use all the facilities etc till late.

I had asked Prof.Madhukar about increasing participation etc and he had indicated to me once in an e-mail - "if it is to happen and if the wishes are positive and there is good energy - the UNIVERSE will provide"...yes so it is.

When I arrived at 6.30 pm, honestly, I had my doubts and trepidations about the turn out - but I brushed the negativity aside and sent out many positive wishes and it seems like it all turned out well. what a dream (run) come true ...

I think the t shirts sold well and many million thanks to the new batches who have arrived in Singapore who fully supported the cause and made the contributions.

Thanks Dr Shree for spreading the word around.

I do want to just dial back on the objective we set and the next steps:

We did promise that we would raise $5K. Many people have supported us in this cause. shyam, aditya and few others have already indicated their contributions and our thanks goes to all of you..

We have to support the xl social entrprenuer trust. Like Rajesh said in his speech - it is not a charity. it is a business and business with a cause and they need the help. they are doing good work and we should not let this slip between the cracks. so guys and gals - it is up to us - and here is a great opportunity to pay it forward or give back or how/whatever you want to think about...

So friends - a small favor - even if you were not able to make it today it does not matter - find some time do your own run or walk - and send to us your contributions either to me or Rajesh. I think many of the people have our numbers - so please call

Since many of you are on vacation or last minute business travel etc - we are extending the date to make your contributions to 25 January 2009. Yes a good 6 weeks.

We'd like to send the contributions over to Madhukar by that time .... So there is time.

But don't wait. Just do it NOW. ..The spirit is in the giving and sharing and the time is perfect.

Love and Peace.
Best Wishes
Ramesh



View the photo album: XL Dream Run, December 13, 2008

Watch the Video:

The Day XL Jamshedpur Ran

I've posted a lot of entries on the XLRI Jamshedpur Dream Run.

The event happened on the 16th and was hugely successful with 300+ runners.

Prof Shukla has taken some awesome pictures to capture the spirit of the run which can be viewed as a slide show on http://lifeatxl.blogspot.com/

More pictures are visible on The Official - XLRI Dream Run Website

Note & Clarification from Prof:
Thanks for the support...
...and hope that funds keep coming in for the XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust

Let me also clarify about the nomenclatures (Donning my hat as the Secy of the XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust ;0) ...

1. XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust does not support "charity"... we know that those will be non-sustainable in the long-run

2. We support and nurture "Entrepreneurs with a Social Cause" - ventures which are potentially sustainable, and can make a difference to the society - and these, at present, are ventures promoted by the current-batch (09) students/entrepreneurs, who have formed/registered partnership companies to take-off (Paricha, Swavalamban, & Dream4Others

3.- What we do try to do from the Trust is (before starting to support them) to vet their plans, give them some ideas, connect them to people who may help... and give them some funds (VCs would call it "incubation fund") to start with their ideas...

4. So far, I guess, our judgement has been right - At least not "wrong"

http://xlri.blogspot.com/2008/11/xlris-social-projects-sweep.html

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Sunday, November 09, 2008

XLRI's Social Projects sweep "Kalpavriksha"

Two Projects supported by XLRI Social Entrepreneurship Trust (*), Parichay and Swavalamban were judged 1st and 2nd respectively in the IIM Indore's Social Business Plan contest "Kalpavriksha" - a forum for self sustainable business plans with the potential to make a difference to society.

The two projects were selected from among 103 entries from across the B-Schools, and were judged by executives from Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund, IndianNGO.com and India Development Gateway

Besides the prize money, along with other finalists they will also receive mentorship by executives from IndianNGO.com and India Development Gateway, a capital market place for social ventures in India. They will also be able to put up their ideas on India Development Gateway.

As the winner of the event, Parichay will get a direct semi-final entry into the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) to be held at Foster School of Business in Seattle, USA (Feb 23-27, 2009)

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5. XL Students' 3rd Social Venture got online yesterday... please do check and register (if you have 5minutes):

http://www.dream4others.com/

ciao
madhukar

XLer's Photo Expo @ Singapore

Mahesh Nair (86batch) is putting up an exhibition of his photographs

"Let There Be Light"

at

2902 Gallery Mt Sophia Old School Campus

(Aug 4-21)

http://www.lettherebelight.sg/

Having gone through his book (by the same name), I must say his Photographs are a treat....

Have a Decko ;)

ciao

madhukar

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Virtual Tour Through XL

While much is written about XL culture, bonding, activities, achievements, placements, rankings, etc,... nothing much is available online about the XL Campus...

A BIG gap!! - since XL Campus has changed over last 10yrs... no! actually during last 5yrs.... well, actually even within last 1 year or so...

To fill up this gap, I have made "Virtual Tour through the XLRI Campus", and have put it here:

http://lifeatxl.blogspot.com/

(Note: you can manage the slide transition by taking the curser to the bottom of the photo)

have a look! :0)

madhukar

To actually know "HOW much" - across decades - one would need to look at this slideshow as well ;0)

http://tinyurl.com/64ds3c

ciao

madhukar

More Pictures of the Canada meet

Here are the photos of the picnic. It was really nice touching base with XLers, especially for me as I am hardly ever in Toronto. KNV - thanks for making it all the way from NJ.

http://picasaweb.google.com/lansnet/XLPicnic20080706?authkey=vA0KTahCS84


Enjoy,
Srini

XLRI Alumni Meet - Bay Area - a Report

This account of our alumni picnic on June 1st was a long time in coming, so without further ado:

The third day of May
My alma mater said to me
Call all my faithful
And come they will to me

Emails went & messages flew
Stones were turned & calls were made
And one by one our numbers grew
As our cyber stalking awoke the dead

And so on the first day of June
We gathered at the Park Ed Levin
In full flow by high noon
In nostalgia & networking heaven

Thusly on this warm summers day
Ye Olde XL smiled as its alumni
Gathered from far & away

20 XLers an-excelling
15 spouses an-espousing
11 children a-chilling
6 ‘Uncle Sam’ pizzas an-appeasing
4 packs of beer a-frothing

And with that rhymes & pun-ishment, I will crawl back to prose.

All photos taken (inexpertly) by me on Vivek’s camera. Many thanks to him for uploading them. I have since transferred them to an online photo album on Snapfish so that it is easier to get prints & see them all together on slideshow mode. You need a Snapfish account to view these photos. If you don’t have one, they are also available (but without thumbnails & slideshows) at Vivek’s site -http://www.marketfeat.com/services/xl_pics/. If there are any volunteers for uploading the photos to a free open site, I will be happy to send jpeg’s of the photos.

The picnic on June 1^st was the biggest in Bay Area in my 8 years here. Our numbers are growing, & by my estimate at the picnic we got approximately 40% of XLers who are here now. 60% of the attendees were at an XL alumni event for the first time. XLers from 4 decades were present. After a quite few years these are very encouraging statistics.

This email is cc-ed to many of you who I contacted via LinkedIn etc. If you aren’t a member of the XL California Yahoo Group, please sign up so that we can keep you abreast of what’s happening in our XL community. KP Naidu moderates this group. I have also created a short (12 question) survey for some feedback on the kind of interactions everyone would prefer. Please complete this when you have 10-15 minutes. Your help will be much appreciated. Some of you who attended the picnic have already completed a version of this. You don’t need to do it again.

Finally, here is the complete list of attendees on June 1st:

Name	Stream	Year
Pal Luthra	BME	1972
Anil J. Deora	BMD	1979
KP Naidu	PM & IR	1981
Sunil Erraballi	BMD	1982
Dinesh Bahal	BMD	1983
Vivek	BMD	1986
Sandra Mahadwar	PM & IR	1986
Meghna Virick	PM & IR	1989
Sandeep Harpalani	BMD	1992
Ranu Gupta	PM & IR	1996
Tipu Purkayastha	PM & IR	1996
Reema Vijay	PM & IR	1997
Asmita Katdare	PM & IR	1998
Karthik Sarma	PM & IR	1998
Guneet Paintal	BMD	1999
Herambh Athavale	BMD	2000
Charu Madan	PM & IR	2000
Vinod K Gupta	BMD	2003
Elizabeth Aries	PM & IR	2005
Sarath Gonugunta	PGCBM	2006

A big round of thanks is due to all of them for making the time to attend the picnic, & in many cases getting their spouses & children with them. A collage of faces is linked for easy identification. We all left with fond memories & new friends. Watch this space for the announcement of the next event.

Regards,

Tipu Purkayastha

PS: If you know of an XL alumni lurker in the Bay Area, please send the message to them.

Minesotta Meet Pictures

http://picasaweb.google.com/pal.luthra/2008_MINNESOTA_EXCELLORS_FIRST_PICNIC/photo#5210121996079265394

Pictures uploaded by Pal Luthra.

Photos - Xlri Alumni Meet @ Pune on 31st May 2008

Take a look at the pictures uploaded by Deepesh of the Pune Alumni meet.

It's time 2 share the glimpse of yet another most SPECIAL & MEMORABLE XL-Nite..
I am sure that xlers would cherish the moments & continue with the XL Alumni "SPIRIT"..

3 cheers for one & all .. Hip Hip Hurray ! with many many thanks to Pradipji-Madhuji & GANG !


With Best Wishes & Regards,
Deepesh Goyal (GMP 06-07)
Manager - ITPO, Volkswagen

XL Alumni Meet 2008 - Switzerland

Photos of the XL Alumni Meet 2008 in Switzerland @

http://picasaweb.google.co.in/amit711/XLRIAlumniMeet2008Switzerland

Cheers,
Amit Bhave
BMD 99

XL Alumni Meet in Delhi - 17th May

Hello all,

finally returned last night, was able to download and upload the pics of the 17th evening (and early morning;0)

So thanks to all - to all those who could make it, inspite of the special effects provided by the delhi weather...

....and to the enthu team of the interning students' of 09 batch, who planned, slogged and rolled-out the evening for all... Kudos to them!!

I have created a slide-show of the photos which I managed to take (about 50 of them), which can be seen here:

http://xlers.blogspot.com/

Or else you can have look at the individual pics, which are uploaded here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/madhukar.shukla/AlumniMeetDelhiNCRMay17

(as you will appreciate, it is very difficult to click photographs, when one has to hold a glass full of liquid in one hand ;-)...

I also missed out some of the pics like the dance-floor in action, director's 3-minute speech inviting all alumni to the 5th Annual Alumni Homecoming '08 (November 15-16, 2008), with which we plan to kick-off the 60th Year of XLRI, etc...

in any case, these pics, will give a one a feel of the evening (and help create the sense of regret for those who missed the meet ;0))

ciao

madhukar

HongKong Alumni Meet - 16 May

HK Alumni Get-Together (May 16th) - some Pics

Courtesy Hemant Lodha (BMD 98)

Singapore meet pictures

Rajesh Soundarajan (Ciggy) of the 99 batch has put up some pictures of the Alumni Meet in Singapore on his facebook account

http://is.gd/irZ

Edited on 22 May to add:
More Pictures here -
http://picasaweb.google.com/chintan.agarwal/XLRIAlumniMeetSingapore
Photo Credits: Mayur Bhutani

and here
http://xlers.blogspot.com/2008/05/singapore-alumni-meet-may-16th-pics.html

Hyd XL Alumni meet - report and pics

It was a great meet with more than 60-70 XLers across batches and programs turning up and total number of people easily edging past 100.

Awesome arrangement by the summer trainees and the venue at Taj Banjara was perfect for those interested in keeping their spirits up, shaking a leg, catching up with friends or in making new ones :-)

Tonnes of thanks to the summer interns Harbir and co. for putting together a stupendous show. And of course to our lead sponsor Indu Projects, and co-sponsors Seagrams, Pepsi, SABMiller, Dell, Deloitte, Microsoft.

Have clicked some snaps which can be seen on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gautam/sets/72157604989853270/

5 snaps are also on facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13407050479

People on XLers Unlimited community can check the pictures here http://xlrialumni.ning.com/photo

Prof. Madhukar Shukla who came down for the meet has also clicked some pics and am sure he'll be uploading them as soon as he gets to campus tonight :-)

regards
GG
http://gautamghosh.net

Madhukar posted more pictures at http://xlers.blogspot.com/

Entirely agree with GG and Hari!

it was a great evening - very enjoyable, and very efficiently rolled out!!

Harbir, Neeharika, Siddhartha, Ajay, Satya (and all others, behind the scene, I may not be aware of)

As Hari mentioned/ implied... you guys have created benchmarks for which your juniors may - actually, will - curse you ;0)...

thanks on behalf of all of us... (and behalf of all those of us who refused to leave till 1:30am - so much to catch up, grax, reminiscence and conspire... and we kept you people - the gracious hosts - up at the venue ;0) - thanks and apologies ;)

Thanks to all who came and made the event a great success..., and to all who helped the team to organise the meet...

...and, of course, to the sponsors (I am not mentioning them by name again since GG's post has already done that, and it will look pretty artificial and redundant to repeat the same)... but must mention our own Xlers who helped us to get these sponsorships... and so guys, let's also thank

- Kumara Guru (05 GMP - ISB), who put us in touch with Indu Projects, and actully worked to get them to be the principal sponsors

- Ranjeev Lahkar (00PMIR), and Srinivasivas Prasad "Sugga" (97PMIR) , who I believe/ suspect - not sure ;0) - had some major role to play in the sponsorship from Microsoft ;0)

- SV Nathan (83PMIR) from Deloitte, who as usual supported (though we missed his company, as he was travelling)

- Anil Chilla (00BM) whose first sponsorship from Dell, did wonders to the tempo/morale of the team, who were organising the event

...and of course for the "liquid/spiritual" stuff, (and to get us the pan-India sponsorship for the alumni meets) thanks to:

- Bikram Basu (94PMIR) - yes, please "PMIR" ;) - Marketing Controller, Seagram

- Shantanu Das (96PMIR) Head Organisational Effectiveness, SAB-Miller

- Pavan Bhatia (90PMIR) and Vikas Joshi (99PMIR) for Pepsi/Frito-Lay...

Folks!

being trigger-happy with my camera, I have taken about 80+ pics... and have uploaded them (Entirely Unedited;0) at:

http://xlers.blogspot.com/

(as slide show)

and at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/madhukar.shukla/AlumniMeetHyderabad10MAY08

Pictures of XLRI Alumni Homecoming

More are available to view on the Xlers blogspot, Thanks to Mr. N Venkatesh!

Click on

http://xlers.blogspot.com/2008/01/pictures-of-xlri-alumni-homecoming.html

Maxi Fair (Nov 25, 07)

Maxi Fair (Nov 25, 07) Pics @ Picasaweb

http://picasaweb.google.com/madhukar.shukla/07MaxiFair/

XLRI Alumni Homecoming 2007 - Photos

folks...

just got back from the XL Alumni homecoming... totally awesome to go back after almost 7 years... those of you who've been back for recruitment etc will know how much the place has changed since we've been gone... but for the one's who haven't been back for a long time .. well...

the students live in the lap of luxury, at least compared to our time... ac classrooms... access controlled keypad locked doors in the hostels... indoor baddy court.. floodlit tennis... different canteens... wi-fi enabled campus.. 10 mbps internet conection... music and movie servers... the list goes on...

there are also almost 800 students on campus... how is that, you ask?.. well.. the 130+240 students of both years of the flagship PMIR and BM programmes... then there are the 1 year General Management Programme students... the 6 month Defence programme students.... the Accenture-XL programme students... the ICICI Pru-XL programme students...

it's a pity XL-IIMC is not happening anymore.. else we'd have whooped some serious joka a*ss.. by sheer weight of numbers alone... sportscomm ka wet dream and all that...

physically the place is pretty different.. new hostels for the men and women... swanky acads block... neat gym... ATM... library that's open 24 hours... no CC anymore... well-tended gardens and lawns..

anyway.. link to photos i took is below...

~nitin

http://picasaweb.google.com/nitin.bajaj/XLRI_Alumni_Homecoming?authkey=n5BtlbdGVds