My Window Seat

Folks, Just came back after a 3 days (2.5 days to be precise) of IIMC-SMP programme  - campus sessions. This was my first visit to Kolkata and IIMC. Nice to meet with 127 other participants gathered in a huge auditorium within IIMC. The weather was fine with continuous drizzle. The campus itself has many lakes and hence felt water everywhere!!! Feels good to be back in classroom environment after many years. It also feels good to hear somebody else in the room talk - after getting used to the professional meetings and discussions in the corporate world.  Got glimpses of the Kolkata city, the taxi service, trams etc. We stayed at IITD, which is not within the campus. IIMC made arrangements to pick us from there to the campus everyday. The classes were 9:45 am to 7:30 pm. The food arrangements were done at Tata Hall  - the quality and variety were GOOD!!! Our batchmates are all set to roll-out a website and group-email already. Hoping to harness the power of networking in coming days, we...

Dear,  Living in the era of Web 2.0 it would be a sin to not use the power of web to initiate, involve and nurture professional relationships. Having spent a decade plus in Product Management, I thought I fully qualify for initiating a group that would bring together like-minded professionals in my domain. Hence my "ipmg" aka "India Product Management Group" !  If you are a product manager (ONLY), irrespective of the number of years you have spent in this field, click on the above name to knock the doors of my new world. I take pride in rejecting anyone else... The idea of forming this professional group via Linkedin is not just for fun or "me too" type activity. I am confident that I will be able to value-add to the members of the group by creating an interactive space that enables and empowers my community. Product Managers are creative, innovative and hence my motive should be fulfilled by the cooperation from every PM!

Guys, Gals Back in action. Summer trips, release schedules occupying my calendar completely and hence wasn't blogging for a while! Kids enjoyed their vacation thoroughly with trips to Tirupathi (for my birthday), Chennai (for a marriage), Coimbatore (staying with Grand parents), visit to Black Thunder (water theme park near Mettupalayam), Isha Yoga center, Kovai Kutralam etc.

Went to Murudeshwar last week and captured this sunset and sand...

Reached Seattle (13th January 2008) Visited Space Needle... Man made Vs God Created!

Got my Canon S5 IS last week and started playing around wtih it's powerful 12x zoom!!!!

Kids enjoying the Coooooooool Sunday...at Lalbagh! Welcome Yellow! Take it easy... Flower show @ Glass House! Taj Mahal...Made of Flowers! Kudos to those horticulturalists! Wow!

And finally I made it to the historical places I wanted to visit for a long time now :) Last 3 months, I have been traveling a lot - fortunately to the places I would like to go again and again :) This trip was through KSTDC package tour. Starting from Bangalore (KSTDC office near Corporation circle) at 7:30 am we reached the first destination of Shravanabelagola at 10:30 am. Climbing up the 650 steps looks herculean effort for the IT spoiled healthy (!) body! Huffing and puffing we reached the top of the hill in about 35 minutes. SHRAVANABELAGOLA The steps are not that steep... Picturesque view from the hill... The Bahubali statue... standing tall, for centuries now! Another view of the town from the top... BELUR

Visited Windsor Castle on Saturday (17th March)...up on reaching London from Miami!

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