Swarathma in the UK!

Dear Friends

Swarathma is off to the UK! This goes out from the flight minutes before take off.

We've been invited by the British Council to play at The Great Escape Festival, Brighton: one of Europe' largest new music festivals. We'll also be launching the Soundpad album, produced by acclaimed UK producer John Leckie (George Harrison, Radiohead, Hari prasad Chaurasia).

We then head off on a 4 city tour...
17 May Cardiff
18 May Oxford
19 May London
20 May Manchester

If you're in the UK please do come.


Peace
Jish

XLRI Alumni Meet 2009 - Delhi Chapter

Hi All,
It gives me great pleasure to announce the following details for the XLRI Delhi Alumni Meet 2009.

Date: 23rd May 2009
Time: 7:00 pm Onwards
Venue: The Grand Ball Room, Tivoli Gardens

More details for the event will be uploaded soon.
Watch this space!!

Regards,
The Delhi Alumni Meet Team

Richa Malik
PGDBM – XLRI (2010)

Nakul Jain
PGDBM – XLRI (2010)

Vignesh Kalyanaraman
PMIR – XLRI (2010)

The XL Alumni Meet 2009 - Chennai

Hi,

The XL Alumni Meet 2009 - Chennai has been scheduled for the 23rd of May (Saturday). The venue for the meet is not decided yet (subject to the sponsorship we can manage for the event) and will be communicated soon. We would be grateful if you could fit this event in your plans and it would be great to meet as many of you guys there as possible.

Regards,
XL Alumni Meet Team - Chennai

Krishnan S
Meesam Rizvi
Rajat Brar

PS - We would be grateful for all the help that we can get with respect to sponsorship. Please get in touch with one of us at the above mentioned phone numbers if you can help us in any way.

Hyderabad - Alumni Meet 2009

Hello,

Now that I'm back in Hyderabad (joining Deloitte Consulting), I feel nostalgic about the great time I had during summer internship last year. It was fun organizing the alumni meet under the able leadership of Prof Shukla and the constant guidance from Harinarayana S., Kumara Guru, Ranjeev Lahkar, Neti Srinivasan, S. Nandkumar, Kaushik Mitter, Siddhish Sriganesh, SV Nathan and all the XL seniors at Deloitte.

Its that time of the year again. We have summer interns of the 2010 batch in Hyderabad, it gives me great pleasure to introduce the organizing committee of Hyd Alumni Meet 2009 : Suvid Anand (who is also the Placecomm Secy),Archana Rao, Debayan Biswas, Siddharth Chatterjee and Hariharan R.

We had a meeting yesterday and hope to successfully organize the meet on 23^rd May at Taj Krishna.

We would be grateful if you could help out with suggestions, tips, sponsorships, good deals for venue, etc so that we can plan out a enjoyable evening for all.

Organizations that sponsor the XLRI Alumni Meet get high impact visibility in front of Hyderabad's elite and can choose to sponsor the meet in the following ways:

1. Rs. 20000: Mention in all email communication to alumni and mention in media ads of the alumni meet.

2. Rs. 30000: All of the above & 1 Banner (dimensions 6 X 3) placed at venue. Pamphlets in all the gift packs.

3. Rs. 50000: All of the above & one extra Banner (dimensions 6 X 3) placed at venue. Access to the database collected at Venue.

4. Rs. 1 Lakh: All of the above & stalls can be put up by company for showcasing their products. Literature and Samples/Gifts can be distributed. Exclusive rights to the alumni meet.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Regards

Harbir Singh Rissam

PGD PMIR – XLRI (2009)

Land of My Childhood: Stories from South Asia

A certain book titled "Land of My Childhood: Stories from South Asia" (Oxford University Press) has a dozen of stories.

http://www.eflbooks.co.uk/book.php?isbn=9780194792356

At least three of them - I think - are by Indian authors

one is by Ruskin Bond

another is by Anita Desai

and the third

well, not prizes for guessing!!

by Anu Kumar (aka Anuradha Chakravarty of 94PMIR)

Congrats, Anu!

ciao

madhukar

Anu's Earlier Published works were reported on this blog:
http://kimelody.blogspot.com/2008/04/atisa-and-seven-wonders-by-anu-kumar.html
http://kimelody.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-xler-authors-94-98-and-99batch.html
http://kimelody.blogspot.com/2006/08/its-raining-books-from-xlxlers-from-x.html
http://kimelody.blogspot.com/2006/05/launch-of-anus-94pmir-book.html

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,

Bangalore - Annual Dinner 2009! - Sat, May 30

Hey Everyone,

IT'S HERE AGAIN!! The Annual Alumni Dinner bash for this year is being organised on the 30th of May at the Hotel Jayamahal Palace.

The Alumni Committee along with the summer trainees for the 2010 batch are working hard to make it a fun filled event for all.

• Please plan your calendar and make sure you are in Bangalore and at the bash on the 30th, along with your families
• Pour in with you suggestions on what we can do to make the experience better!

More details will follow.

See you all!

Regards

Pratik Bhartia
Seceretary, Bangalore Chapter, XL ALumni