From an avid BFAXI member of 99 batch. Thought I would put it on here for others to enjoy.
-----Original Message-----
From: Vikas Joshi
Baap Ka Naam: Deenanath Chauhan
Gaaon: Mauritius!
Jai Bacchan! Hail BFAXI.....
After a wild bash at our place on his Budday.... had the most amazing opportunity! Met the man himself: Up, Close and Autographed!
AB is here. Saw him in a 2 hour shoot at the Port Louis Water Front for the movie "Dil Jo Bhi Kahe".
Dressed in a pin-striped suit, total KBC style, he stepped out of Hotel Labourdonnais for his shot. The magical moment of my life..... Amazing, Amazing......the look, the AB style, the AB smile, God Himself! Crowd to watch the shoot: 10 Indians.
It was a dream come true.... he was just 5 feet away during the shoot!!!!! and for 2 hours Swati, Raghav (now inducted into BFAXI-juniors), and I were watching him in his act! After his shot, approached him for an autograph! got two of them for the record....
Got some amazing snaps of him during the shoot.
Will give you the BFAXI link on my website on request!, don't wanna spam kafir's mailboxes with photos.
Contact me on joshibhai@gmail.com
AB is gonna be here for another 2 weeks..... !!! So we are gonna be really busy!
Everything that happens to us had a reason: We now know why we came to Mauritius!
Hail Bacchan!! Hail BFAXI!
23 October, 2004: From the BFAXI Correspondent in the Indian Ocean
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Note for those before the BFAXi days ---
BFAXI : Bacchan Fan Association at XlrI
There was also a GFAXI - Govinda Fan Association.
in 99 there was great rejoicing by both fan clubs which organised 2 buses to take the entire campus to Payal theatre for a the preview of "Bade Miya, Chote Miya"
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Pune chapter picnic. Saturday.30.Oct.Pik Nik
6 XLrs met on Sunday 24th Oktobre 2004 at Kofi House Moledina Road at 16:00 For reasons of shubhashya-sheeghram It was decided to go for Pik Nik on Saturday 30 Oktobre and plan further shindigs.
ALL are welcome including wife(s) / girlfrend(s / children(s) / friends / friends of friends and etcetras.
Copious Kwantities of natural water(s) are available at PikNik site. Dilip has been drinking this natural water for 18 years and is still alive and healthy. Those who prefer synthetic / sanitary / sanitized / customized water may kindly bring their own water(s).
Also, those who want to eat / drink / smoke (& etc.) may kindly bring their own eating / drinking / smoking materials.
Transport===your own or pile on. Distance==52 km (one way) from Deccan Gymkhana, Pune.
For the purpose, it was decided to meet at Dilip's house at 11:00 am on saturday 30.Oktobre, from where we shall proceed for PikNik. Dilip knows some dandy caves near Kamshet, which is located about 10 minutes klimb from where U park your car/bike.
Do not fear the klimb bcoz there are stairs right to the top. Topis & drak glasses are recommended.
Many Large Caves have been created by followers of Our ancestor==Lord Buddha thousands of years ago.
The caves are big enuff for fifty people to sleep in shade. So do not fear the Sun & heat.
We can eat+drink and make merry and plan further corpo shindigs.
all R welcome.
For locating Dilip's house, the address is
Dilip Bam
1-Sonali Apts. Ground floor
6th Lane, Prabhat Road
Pune 411 004
Landphone==25671790
Handphone==98903.44800
Location of house==There is a FOODWORLD on Bhandarkar Road.
Adjacent to Fooodworld there is a Lane perpendicular to Bhandarkar road going inside which joins Prabhat Road.
Enter this lane and go towards prabhat road, and take the FOURTH left turn (which is after the yellow YELLOW PMC Dustbin). After the fourth left turn, the second bldg on LHS is Sonali Apts. From the road You can see the name SONALI writtin in Devnagari skript.
As you enter staircase, Dilip's house is the first one on LHS on grd. flr.
Following are the partiQlars of the six people who met on 24/10 for kontaktos----------->
1>Krishnan--Now with Mahindra in Bombay but comes every weekend.
2>Ajay Namboodiri--Head Hunter
3>Raj Swaminathan --CEO Indus Software
4>Salil Raghavan--BPL Mobile
5>Dilip Bam
Unemployed=Doing MDPs on Communication / Leadership & Team Building (outbound) / Freelance teaching at MBA Insties.
6>Amit Garg -- Upside Learning
best wishes
Dilip Bam
ALL are welcome including wife(s) / girlfrend(s / children(s) / friends / friends of friends and etcetras.
Copious Kwantities of natural water(s) are available at PikNik site. Dilip has been drinking this natural water for 18 years and is still alive and healthy. Those who prefer synthetic / sanitary / sanitized / customized water may kindly bring their own water(s).
Also, those who want to eat / drink / smoke (& etc.) may kindly bring their own eating / drinking / smoking materials.
Transport===your own or pile on. Distance==52 km (one way) from Deccan Gymkhana, Pune.
For the purpose, it was decided to meet at Dilip's house at 11:00 am on saturday 30.Oktobre, from where we shall proceed for PikNik. Dilip knows some dandy caves near Kamshet, which is located about 10 minutes klimb from where U park your car/bike.
Do not fear the klimb bcoz there are stairs right to the top. Topis & drak glasses are recommended.
Many Large Caves have been created by followers of Our ancestor==Lord Buddha thousands of years ago.
The caves are big enuff for fifty people to sleep in shade. So do not fear the Sun & heat.
We can eat+drink and make merry and plan further corpo shindigs.
all R welcome.
For locating Dilip's house, the address is
Dilip Bam
1-Sonali Apts. Ground floor
6th Lane, Prabhat Road
Pune 411 004
Landphone==25671790
Handphone==98903.44800
Location of house==There is a FOODWORLD on Bhandarkar Road.
Adjacent to Fooodworld there is a Lane perpendicular to Bhandarkar road going inside which joins Prabhat Road.
Enter this lane and go towards prabhat road, and take the FOURTH left turn (which is after the yellow YELLOW PMC Dustbin). After the fourth left turn, the second bldg on LHS is Sonali Apts. From the road You can see the name SONALI writtin in Devnagari skript.
As you enter staircase, Dilip's house is the first one on LHS on grd. flr.
Following are the partiQlars of the six people who met on 24/10 for kontaktos----------->
1>Krishnan--Now with Mahindra in Bombay but comes every weekend.
2>Ajay Namboodiri--Head Hunter
3>Raj Swaminathan --CEO Indus Software
4>Salil Raghavan--BPL Mobile
5>Dilip Bam
Unemployed=Doing MDPs on Communication / Leadership & Team Building (outbound) / Freelance teaching at MBA Insties.
6>Amit Garg -- Upside Learning
best wishes
Dilip Bam
Excellent Xler
http://www.xlri.ac.in/alumni/excellent%20xler.htm
VOTE TODAY !
To mark the 100th birthday of J.R.D.Tata,
a citizen, a manager, and a gentleman, par excellence,
XLRI
whose motto is to "Strive for excellence" is calling all
its alumni to cast their vote for the
EXCELLENT XLER OF THE DECADE.
You choose one of the alumni to be the Excellent XLer of the Fifties or
the
Sixties or the Seventies or the Eighties or the Nineties and send
on-line
the five names of the persons, the year of their graduation and
your reason for nominating them.
The online polls close on Sunday, November 7 and the names of the
persons
honoured by their peers will be announced on Wednesday, November 10. The
Awards will be given on Saturday, November 20, 2004 during the First
International Homecoming of the XLRI Alumni.
Hey, I graduated in the 90's if u r stuck on whom to nominate in that
group
VOTE TODAY !
To mark the 100th birthday of J.R.D.Tata,
a citizen, a manager, and a gentleman, par excellence,
XLRI
whose motto is to "Strive for excellence" is calling all
its alumni to cast their vote for the
EXCELLENT XLER OF THE DECADE.
You choose one of the alumni to be the Excellent XLer of the Fifties or
the
Sixties or the Seventies or the Eighties or the Nineties and send
on-line
the five names of the persons, the year of their graduation and
your reason for nominating them.
The online polls close on Sunday, November 7 and the names of the
persons
honoured by their peers will be announced on Wednesday, November 10. The
Awards will be given on Saturday, November 20, 2004 during the First
International Homecoming of the XLRI Alumni.
Hey, I graduated in the 90's if u r stuck on whom to nominate in that
group
XL NITS in News
From: Madhukar Shukla
Corporate
XLRI to host seminar on IT verticals on November 6-7
our bureau
Jamshedpur, Oct 22 XLRI, the premier B-School, is to hold the 6th
annual convention on information technology on November 6-7.
Called the National IT Seminar 2004 (NITS) the two-day meet organised by
the B-School’s student body ‘SOCRATES’ has “IT in industry verticals” as
the theme of the convention.
According to Prof Ashis K Pani of XLRI, “Through the seminar NITS aims
to bring forward the latest developments in information technology,
their implications for business and the ways in which businesses can
leverage these technologies to achieve competitiveness”.
The verticals which would be addressed include banking and financial
services, organized retail, telecommunications, manufacturing and human
resources horizontal.
The two-day event shall witness the presence of Kiran Karnik, president,
NASSCOM, who is to preside over the inaugural ceremony. Industry
technical heads, users and consultants from Microsoft Corporation, Tata
Consultancy Services, IBM, Cognizant, ICICI Bank, Wipro, Ernst & Young,
Infosys, Verizon, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Patni Computer Systems,
Hindustan Petroleum, Tata Steel, Cummins India and TRAI would also be
part of the conference.
According to Gaurav Bhatnagar, secretary, SOCRATES, the unique selling
point (USP) this year is the face-off concept being adopted which, in a
problem-solution format would mean that speakers from both IT end-users
and IT solution-providers would collaborate to make it seamless
presentation.
URL:
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=72153
Corporate
XLRI to host seminar on IT verticals on November 6-7
our bureau
Jamshedpur, Oct 22 XLRI, the premier B-School, is to hold the 6th
annual convention on information technology on November 6-7.
Called the National IT Seminar 2004 (NITS) the two-day meet organised by
the B-School’s student body ‘SOCRATES’ has “IT in industry verticals” as
the theme of the convention.
According to Prof Ashis K Pani of XLRI, “Through the seminar NITS aims
to bring forward the latest developments in information technology,
their implications for business and the ways in which businesses can
leverage these technologies to achieve competitiveness”.
The verticals which would be addressed include banking and financial
services, organized retail, telecommunications, manufacturing and human
resources horizontal.
The two-day event shall witness the presence of Kiran Karnik, president,
NASSCOM, who is to preside over the inaugural ceremony. Industry
technical heads, users and consultants from Microsoft Corporation, Tata
Consultancy Services, IBM, Cognizant, ICICI Bank, Wipro, Ernst & Young,
Infosys, Verizon, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Patni Computer Systems,
Hindustan Petroleum, Tata Steel, Cummins India and TRAI would also be
part of the conference.
According to Gaurav Bhatnagar, secretary, SOCRATES, the unique selling
point (USP) this year is the face-off concept being adopted which, in a
problem-solution format would mean that speakers from both IT end-users
and IT solution-providers would collaborate to make it seamless
presentation.
URL:
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=72153
Reuniting India with Bharat, XL-style...
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Ebenezer Eric
From: Allen Ebenezer Eric
XLRI getting big heads together for `Conclave'
From The Hindu Business Line, Tuesday, October 26, 2004
| `The idea is to bring together a wide range of interests, each represented by persons who are stalwarts in their chosen fields.' |
Jamshedpur, Oct. 25: 'REUNITING India with Bharat' has been chosen as the theme for XLRI's latest initiative on connecting people, pithily called `Conclave' and billed as the first attempt of its kind by the Jamshedpur-based business school.
Opinion leaders of various hues, cutting across social and economic lines, have been invited to put their minds together with a view to creating what Fr Casimir Raj, Director of XLRI, thinks will emerge as `thinking planks' for policy-makers.
The target group includes such well-known personalities as Mr Anna Hazare, Mr M.S. Swaminathan, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Mr Deepak Parekh, Ms Amrita Patel and even the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram. Many others, including a few who are big names internationally, have been written to as well.
But why choose such a theme as a starting point? Why is there at all a need to fuse India with Bharat? The XLRI authorities respond to the question by simply referring to the divide that exists between the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, urbanites and rural folks.
"We wanted to focus on a theme that is all-pervading, one that affects each of us in some way or other. India and Bharat are concepts that often divide some of us from the rest of our countrymen," indicates Fr Raj, who has recently taken over as the director. XLRI has even thought of involving overseas organisations such as UNIDO in the Conclave, he added.
The idea is to bring together a wide range of interests, each represented by persons who are stalwarts in their chosen fields. While there had been efforts at bonding with diverse interests earlier, the canvas is larger this time.
The immediate plan, however, is the publication of something akin to a position paper. XLRI hopes to host a Conclave every year at its sprawling campus, building each around a distinct theme. Read Story On The Net
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