After writing about college days, this is about the reunion that we had at our college. Though the turn out was small, meeting at the college and talking about vintage days was neverthless sweet.
After passing out of college, we were still in touch with each other through e-groups. We have got settled in various areas - IT, BPO, HR, Advertising, Media, Social service / NGO, Chartered Accountant, Bio-Medical research and few more. And in various places in India and abroad. Usually, we meet maximum twice a year when Vivek used to come down to Chennai from Delhi for a vacation. But we never tried to meet with all of us who are in India.
The idea of reunion at the college where we studied started when Vivek said he is planning to visit our college before he flies off to Syracuse University to pursue his Ph.D. Then we thought of how we can make the reunion a better one. Three of our gang members from Bangalore said they will also join. Then we thought of meeting up the students and share our experiences and provide them a sort of career guidance. We spoke to college management and they were very ready to have us there. The date was decided as July 9th, Saturday. Each one of us prepared PPT for the various areas and got PPT's from those who are not able to make it.
It was very good when me and Vivek landed at our college on 8th July. It gave a good feeling when lot of professors still remembered us and chatted about the old times. I should admit that we were taken by surprise by the onslaught J. It gave us an immense amount of satisfaction that our team had created such an impression that it is very difficult to erase from their memories. It took us almost one and half hours to come out.
July 9th - Myself, Vivek, Alan, Isaac, Prabhakar, Neville and John Suresh met up at college. The program started around 10.15 AM. The crowd was much more what we had expected and in fact more than what the college management thought. The venue was filled up to the last row and it would be definitely close to 350 students – from ours plus couple of adjacent colleges. It was equally well received. The program got winded up around 1.30 PM and then took few snaps to make meaning of the reunion and parted ways with fond memories.
Pic: Standing(L-R): Issac, Arumugam, Alan, Rajsekar, Vivek, Prof.Suryakumar and our beloved Prof.G.Balakrishnan. Sitting(L-R): Neville Smith, myself and John Suresh
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