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Sunday, May 18, 2003

IIMB batch get-together

Last night, we had Y2K batch's (IIMB '98-'00) Bangalore get-together at my room. The usual crowd showed up: Vivek Khemani, MG(Munish Gautam), Anubhav Gera, Ajay, Sujoyjeet Mondal, Upendra. Mainly missing from action were Prasan and Deki as they are in US/Canada these days. And a major exception was Raja Roy showing up, 'cause for the last 20 months he was in the US. MG told us thats Srikanth couldn't come cause he's off to Harvard for one month, sent by ICICI Ventures. Apparently , 30 people have been sent to Harvard by ICICI Ventures. I am wondering how many employees they have anyway! I guess, with all their investments in dotcom/biotech bombing, they got nothing else to do than squandering the investor's money! Now, some further insightful observations :-) ICICI Ventures is MG's ex-ex company and Webtek, MG's ex company. Webtek, which used to send employees for a one year master's at a UK univ (Cambridge, I think ?), had to shut down shop (I am not suggesting relationship here!). MG has a reputation and expertise in making the firms he works for, shut down fast and quick. Rumor has it that MG gets paid much more from firm's competitiors than from firm, to apply his learnings at other companies and make the current one shut shop! Going by MG-and-webtek saga and his similar experiences at other firms, methinks ICICI Ventures is gonna be closing down soon. Come back for more 'insightful' industry information later :)

Went for dinner at Guru Gardens but it was too crowded, so moved to Aishwarya Parkland. Had dinner, came back to hostel. And, then we got some NEWS: Anubhav is marrying Monika! Whoa!! He did get bumps for this news, of course! (MG got bumps too for 'mere yaar ki shaadi hai' :-). We called up Monica and passed cellphone amongst ourselves with everyone of us congratulating her! That was a long call, alright!

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