A Touch of Class

It took three months of meticulous planning, numerous meetings, unearthing and contacting alumni from across the decades... and, in the process, a core team of XL alumni (see the team in action at the end of this page) formed and came together at Kolkata.

XLRI Regional Alumni Meet, held at Nalbon, Kolkata on September 10th '05, was a different event than what many had experienced previously...

It was a regional meet, with participation not just from Kolkata, but also from Bhubneshwar, Jamshedpur... and even alumni dropping in from Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Singapore!

It had participation from 3 XLRI directors. Fr Ed McGrath, specifically, came from Bhubneshwar to grace the occasion:

 
(L to R): Fr E Abraham, Fr Ed McGrath & Fr N Casimir Raj

It had the ambience of Nalbon, numbers performed by Carlton Kitto, 100 Pipers and Kingfisher (and of course, Pepsi), culliniary delight from Bhajohori Manna... and a gathering of around 150 alumni (& spouses), ranging from 1964 to 2005 batches... from Day batches, BME, GMP, Exec-PGP, Satellite programs

There was a touch of class - and inclusiveness - to the event!!!!

Here are some snapshots, as covered by an amateur photographer:

Fr McGrath arrives...

.... guess what? on a Shikara....


 

 

 

...he addressed the alumni and reminiscenced the days at XL

 

 
[NOTE: Such innovative "special effects" in some photographs were created to hide poor quality of photography :0)]

 

XLRI Quiz - by Vijay Tankha

 
...it was a tough quiz, but still many were able to 'crack' it!

...the party started

 

 

Welcome, Introductions... and...

 

..and Invitation

 
Invitation by Fr Casimir Raj, Director & Bushen Raina, President, Alumni Association
to all for
Homecoming 2005
November 19-20, 2005 @ XLRI

Our Own Homegrown Talent - Himanshu

 

gradual warming up to music & rythm

 

 

...the young and the old joined

 

 

 

 

...and had a blast of a time!

 

 

The Team that Made This Happen

But for this core team - Surajit Sanyal, Hari Mohan Jha, DP Ghosh, Partho Mukhopadhyay, Ranjeev Lahkar, Vikash Pasad, Himanshu Raj, Priya Chandna, Chandrakant Pai... and many others, of whom I know, I may not be aware of - this event would not have been possible. They also represented a unique XL feature, where people ranging from 69-to-05 batch can gell as a team, and deliver.

Kudos to these planners, organisers, implementers!!!

Here are some of the snapshots of some of this team working "behind the scene" on 10th afternoon (I wish I also had some pix of the almost daily meetings that they used to have to plan the event):


 

 

 

AND LAST (BUT NOT THE LEAST):
There is much one owes to the alumni - and their organisations - for magnaniously sponsoring this event:

Balmer Lawrie

Bhojohori Manna

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Ernst & Young

Fortuna Consultants

Glaxo SmithKline

Goodricke

ITC Ltd

Pepsi

UTI Bank

Seagram

United Breweries
...and forgive (and inform) me, if I have missed out a name