Republic Day '07

This year, the 26th January Flag-Hoisting had a refreshingly different flavour....

We have 60 Defense Personnnel with us on campus - undergoing a 6-month course in management since Jan 14th... and so, naturally their presence was a major - even determining - factor in this difference.

er.. in case, you missed the "difference" in the flavour... here again (look at the right side of the pix:

The Republic Day address - traditionally given by one of the most recent faculty - was given by Rear-Admiral Prof Rakesh Chopra, who joined us in the Strategy Area last term (after all, who can be a better person to teach Strategy.. the term, "Stategy" itself derives from "strategos" - the art of the general)

Of course, amidst all these changes and transitions - that any institution will go through its evolution - there are certain features that do not change.

Just to highlight the presence of "Kalu" on the occasion - even if his/her colour belies his name

Pictures!

Here are the pictures to go with the previous posts

MAXI Fair Inauguration on 21st Jan 2007







The last one , of course is a little nest on the glass panel by the staircase, Acad Block.

The following pictures were taken at the Dubai XLRI Party.

All work and no play makes GANGO...

For those who believe that xlri is all about work and no play, here is proof that there are no dull Jacks at XLRI. (Remember the adage, " ...all work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy?"). When it comes to joining with our students XL profs are not all that cold hearted. Check this series of events that unfolded in Dubai in October.

Serious Folks at the High Table
Clear The floor guys....., let the faculty teach you how its done!! Its not just management we know, you know..

Cheers from the dean

What could be rarer than a picture of our dean saying cheers. This rare event was captured during a dinner at the MDP residence last week. The dinner was to mark the launch of the General Management Programme for Defence Personnel held on 14th of January 2007.

To quote from the Directors Mail:

"We will have the inaugural function on Sunday,January 14, 2007 at 6.30 pm in the SmallAuditorium. Maj. Gen. Harwant Krishan, DirectorGeneral, Dte. General Resettlement, New Delhiwill be the Chief Guest "

BTW, for those of you who don't believe in miracles, thats apple juice he is holding. ...Could have fooled me!

Well its cheers to XLCampus Blog once more.

Mathai

Maxi Fair Brings HOPE

Promises promises promises... so easy to make yet so hard to keep. But I think there is a hope for this blog once more. Thanks to Digital cameras on cell phones. The events that took place on campus when I was here included a bonfire and Lohri celebrations in front of the hostels. Unfortunately my K750i camera phone is not really good at capturing lowlight stuff. Here are some pictures of The Maxi fair that was inaugrated by Lft Gen. Mathew, whose two sons, Aneesh and Nishant are XL Products. (Technically Nishant is in process, but soon to be product when he graduates in 2007).

I hope we will see more action as we are able to upload pics and make this a photoblog instead of a boring text one. I have asked Prof. Madshuks to help out with the blog. Lets see. I suppose the key thing is "Never say DIE!"

Mathai

XLRI Fountain

XLRI fountain near the MDP. The new fountain. For some reason when I uploaded it it came upside down... but when you play the video its correct (strange are the ways of almighty google video). In the coming week I will upload some pics from around XLRI campus. So much has changed in the last year or so