To everyone in the IIMB Batch of '96:
I know that the newsgroups is an effective medium for everyone in the batch to communicate on specific issues and events. Over the reunion, it was quite clear though that a blog would complete the experience....of the reunion, of events, of issues, of personal lives, of the moments that every person feels like sharing with the rest of the batch - A means of announcing something and not having to engage in a dialogue, a means of staying in touch though one hasn't seen the other for 10 years (...and counting, in some cases).
As Kapil pointed out and as Smiley and I discussed, there were many questions on persons missing at the event, many spouses and children absent amongst several attendees and I would encourage everyone in the batch to share these details with the rest of the batch. It would bring a sense of completeness to this past 10-year reunion and people could keep posting on every event around themselves or a batchmate (e.g. Hitesh's success with Naukri going public - which only validated an already successful personal journey for him).
This would've been a perfect momentum-builder for the reunion. There was an attempt as well I think. Someone created the blog - but it was followed by silence. As for me doing this, my excuse was that I was between jobs, just 6 months after relocating to India...let's say things were a little crazy. As you can see, I have some spare time now before it gets crazy with the new job in Jan.
Blog authors are restricted to the batch and the blog can be viewed by the public - for now. Blog access can be restricted to authors but that makes it cumbersome for spouses etc. to sign on everytime. Obviously, everyone will exercise restraint while posting and stick to relevance and decency.
At the least, I would encourage a photo of each person's little family - whether you're single (yes - still 10 bachelors or so in the batch!!) or a family of 4 (most recent one pls.) - and some details of what one's done with their last 10 years. While some of this was achieved on 24th evening, there are obviously gaps with guys and gals who didn't attend.
I'll probably start the thread, by example, and I hope to see 150 entries in a few days. That would be fascinating, won't it! I would invite Ramballs (for much required humor) and some of the more eloquent and passionate reunion attendees to start penning their 2-day experiences - the rest of the batch is dying to know what we 70+ batchmates did (and THOUGHT!)
Cheers
Karthik
4 comments:
This is a great thought, Karthik. Thanks for doing it... there are so many thoughts to share after such an amazing 2 days back on campus.
Some of us were talking about it later.. in some ways all of us have changed (physically, some, a hell of a lot... i am NOT going to mention names)... but in many ways we havent changed much at all.
it was quite cool to take up the loose strings from where we had left them more than 10 years back... many moments during the 2 days were quite surreal and unbelievable, it was almost like nothing had changed.
I hope to meet all of you, and definitely those in Bombay, more often...
till then...
Fantastic effort Karthik; whether you have free time or not, you join the ranks of Kapil, Smiley, and others who have given us the chance of meeting again in person or via egroups and blogs.
A great thanks to Kapil, and all of you !
And yes, I guess I will put up a family photo soon. And time permiting, some more info that I think I can add.
Hope we can still keep meeting each other often...
Atul / Ninan,
Thanks for the kind words....
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Now, get on it and post ur stories, for crying out loud!!!!!
Cheers
K
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