Life is beautiful

The friends re-unite

It all started with just one thought of wanting to talk to my school friends. Sachin Rao and I were in touch but we knew nothing about anyone else. So, I made some searches on the net and found Padmanabhan, Anand, Ronald, Jatin, Sudarshan, Sanjiv and Murtuza. Thanks to linkedin.com and facebook.com. I started connecting with them, as and when I found some time.

Anand suggested that I create a mailing list of all the people I was in touch with and send out an email. That was a terribly clever idea, I thought but with each passing day the priority of doing it shifted southwards. Early morning on the 23rd, as I was planning my visit to Plymouth, Ajay connected with me on the facebook chat. The intensity of the feeling of wanting to connect with the rest of the class of '87was mutual. So, while being on the call with Ajay, I dropped everything that I was doing and searched my address book for all the contacts that I had.

The email with the subject line "Re-uniting the class of '87" was sent out. Anand immediately responded by creating a yahoo group, Murtuza created the facebook group. Paddu created the mailing list and Makarand enhanced its format.

The last few days have been very memorable for me and I hope they have been for the re-united class of '87, as well. I will try and keep these connection alive as I don’t want to lose these friends. These are friends for life.

The first email that was sent out to 10 people was as follows

To the class of '87 (My fellow batch mates):

We walked together for some time and then the ways were different. We took different routes in our lives but there is an umbilical cord that binds us all to our Alma mater.

This is a very humble attempt to reunite the class of '87. I am cognizant that each of us are busy writing a success story but request you to please find some time to connect and share our views on different things.

We could start this by doing the following and let this forum grow organically.

1. Add emails address to the mailing list. Also suggest your preferred email address.

2. Introduce yourself to rest of the members on the mailing list.

More as we go along. I would be waiting to hear from each one of you.

Regards,
Mahendra Jape

posted by Mahendra @ 7:17 PM