Bay Area Winter Alumni Potluck

For some reason, this report slipped though the cracks.

Alumni in the Bay area met for a Potluck on the 27th of December at Tipu (IR 96)'s home.

Here is Tipu's write up on the meet:

Warm & sunny new year greetings to all US XLers from the Bay Area. We had a well-attended potluck last Saturday. 30 XLers & their spouses attended, many with kids in tow (list below). Much beer was drunk (imported only, like the XLers) & anecdotes & emails exchanged. Everyone brought wonderful food which magically worked well together, with the piece-de-resistance for me being the chocolate fountain that Kieran Gonsalves so carefully set up. This was the first alumni get together for some of the folks since leaving XL. That & the look of happy surprise on faces of batchmates meeting after many years (like the final reels of a familiar Manmohan Desai saga), was well-worth the time to organize this. Shailley & Sheela took some photos, which are available here and at http://shailleysingh.posterous.com/. Feel free to leave comments. I have also been asked to put a disclaimer that due to the image cropping & similar technical constraints some people may look wider than they actually are. Unfortunately, camera batteries drained out & so not everyone who attended had their pictures taken. But that is a good reason to have another one of these & count everyone in for a group photo. We had a summer picnic & a winter potluck last year & hope to continue the tradition this year too.

Name	Batch	Name	Batch
Aashish Bhargava	BM89	KP Naidu	IR81
Amita Shekhar	XP05	Mahesh Singh	BM86
Indu Unnamatla (Chachra)	IR96	Pal Luthra	BME72
Kieran Gonsalves	BM87	Pooja Arora	IR01

Name	Batch	Name	Batch
Purnima Srivastava	IR96	Shailley	IR98
Ravi Narayanan	BM86	Sheela Sukumaran	IR95
Reema Vijay	IR97	Tipu Purkayastha	IR96
Sandeep Harpalani	BM92	Vivek	BM86

Best regards,

Tipu Purkayastha, SPHR

IR96

Saratoga, CA

PS: Post-millenials, please show enthu – we would love to have more of you. We know you are out there somewhere…