bodhiTree Reunion Gig - on Campus

bodhiTree 06 reunites (again!) at XL for a gig at the Independence Day PARTY !!!

Members of the band who showed remarkable foresight in writing the lyrics which went 'gaon mein sabun bech raha hai' are currently doing time in corporate prisons in places like Ratlam, Mandsaur, Jabalpur and Agartala.

Aug 14 PARTY nite at XL also marks the launch of the bodhiTree teeshirt.

Peace,

Jish
bodhiTree 06

XLers in News…

Vikram Rao (75BMD)

joined the Board of AV Birla Group. Vikram heads the garment business of the group.

Vikas Gupta(88BMD)

took over as the President, Business World magazine, and the Chief Marketing Officer of the ABP group. Vikas was earlier the Marketing chief of Coca Cola India.

Shebu Raphael (92PMIR)

took over as the Global HR Head of Marlabs India

Ravi Mehrotra (85BMD)

moved from Franklin Templeton (where he was the managing director) to take over as the Regional Head of AIG Asia Asset Management Companies.

Rajan Krishnan (85BMD)

was appointed the head of Principal Mutual Fund. He was earlier the VP (Sales & Marketing) of PrincipalPNB Asset Management Company.

George Zacharias (82BMD)

moved from Sify, where he was the President & COO, to take over as the Managing Director of Yahoo! India

Bijou Kurien (81BMD),

moved from Titan, where he was the COO, to take up as the CEO of the Reliance Retail’s Life Style division

Amar Babu (89BMD)

Intel India’s Managing Director, Sales & Marketing, is moving to Santa Clara for a larger corporate role

The Bangalore party isn't over... hic

Nope, though we had a great time this evening, the party isn't over.

We're meeting at Opus on Saturday night (5th) for some retro music and dancing. Madhukar will be there again, so come down and shake a leg.

Address - Vasanth Nagar, go from Mount Carmel's down near the Palace Gate towards Windsor Manor, it's on the road before you reach Sankey Road.

For help with directions, call me

David

…and the New Faculty, who joined us…

Dr D Israel PhD (Pondicherry), FDPM (IIM Ahmedabad) & 12 yrs of teaching experience Marketing
Prof DP Sinha PGDIR (XLRI, 1968) & 35+yrs of industry experience PM&IR
	DR DS Broca MBA (KU Leuven, Belgium) M A Cs. (Waterloo, Canada), Ph.D. (TIET Patiala) Production & Operations Management
	Prof Debasis Pradhan PGDRM (XIMB), *Doctoral Candidate (IRMA) Marketing
	Prof Manish Singhal BE (Mech.l); PGDM (Finance), XIMB; FPM (Behavioral Sciences)*, IIM Calcutta Organisational Behaviour
	S Jayapandian M.A., CAIIB (Mumbai) & 35+ years of experience in Banking, Industry & consulting Finance
	Dr R Parameswan Chief Librarian

Long Awaited Chennai Meet - 6th Aug

The long awaited meet for the Xlers in Chennai is being planned this Sunday, 6th August 2006. We plan to meet over lunch .In case you are in Chennai happen to be in Chennai during this weekend on the 6th please do join us and catch up with other XLers. All our seniors across the batches are welcome to join this event.

Time : 12.30 pm Sunday, 6th August 2006.
Venue (tentative) : The Residency Towers
Sir Thyagaraya Road, T. Nagar, Chennai - 600 017.Telephones : 044 - 28156363 (near GRT Grand)

Depending on the number of people turning up we will book a hall or tables at the venue. Send in any further suggestions you have.

Deepti Voleti
Samrat Biswas

Happy Hours with Madhukar Shukla & Meet the 2006 Batch-This Friday, 4th August

Hi Everyone,

Bangalore will be graced with a visit form Madhukar Shukla this weekend, so what better reason is there to have a XLBang Happy Hours?

We also look forward to using this opportunity to meet the 2006 batch XLers who are working in Bangalore.

So do come and have a great time.

Usual Happy Hours Protocol:
Starts: 7:30 PM,
Friday, Aug 4
Gate: Rs 100 & Drinks: Rs 50 each

Venue: The pool side at the KGA, Airport Road

Kuru

It’s Raining Books from XL/XLers… : From X Factor

It’s Raining Books from XL/XLers…

It seems that suddenly many Xlers decided to branch out into an altogether new territory – writing books. There are two schools of thought about this sudden avalanche. According to one, this is a way of compensating for not reading them while at XL, while other claims that they finally discovered that writing a book is easier than reading it J. In any case, last couple of months saw launch of as many as four books by Xlers:

Letters for Paul (Mapin Books), a novel by Anu Kumar (94PMIR) was formally released by Shyam Benegal at Crossword, Mumbai, and has received rave reviews. This is her second book, the first being a collection short stories, In Search of a Raja. Anu works with Economic & Political Weekly

20 short stories. All around women.

And therefore, the name of the book Unequal Equations (Pragya Prakashan), by Ministhy Dileep (98PMIR). Ministhy is now an IAS officer in UP cadre, and as one can see, also sketches (which are part of the book)

The G-Sec of the batch, MK Ajay (99PMIR), finally published his book of 17 short stories Drizzle of Yesteryears & Other Stories ((Frog Books). When not writing books, Ajay manages HR for an MNC in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia. Check also:

http://drizzleofyesteryears.blogspot.com/

Vijay Nair (87PMIR) published his first novel Master of Life Skills (Harper Collins) in May. His earlier book was a collection of plays The Gloomy Rabbit and other plays (Drone Quill), published in 2003. Vijay is an organizational consultant.

And lest one thinks that this book-publishing phenomenon was limited only to the alumni, here is another update. During the same period, XL faculty published 3 books.

Managerial Economics

(Oxford University Press)

by

Dr Suma Damodaran

Economics Prof @ XL

Investments

(McGraw-Hill)

by

Dr Pitabas Mohanty

Finance Prof @ XL

(co-authored with, Zvi Body, Alex Kane, and Alan J Marcus)

Managing Your Sales Force

(Response Books, Sage Publication)

by

Dr P Venugopal

Marketing Prof & Dean @ XL