Today, my better half Arti delighted me with a surprise gift - a 1 TB Seagate external hard disk!
"झुंबर" पुस्तक प्रकाशन
सौ. गीता गणेश सोमण (माझी आई) यांनी लिहिलेल्या "झुंबर" या पुस्तकाचे दहाव्या "गोमंतक महिला साहित्य संमेलना"त प्रकाशन झाले.
अम्रृता सुभाष आणि मुक्ता बर्वे यांच्यासोबत, सौ. गीता सोमण
पुष्पगुच्छ देऊन स्वागत करताना सौ. गीता सोमण
अम्रृता सुभाष आणि मुक्ता बर्वे यांच्यासोबत, सौ. गीता सोमण
Ganesh Utsav at Persistent
The Nagpur centre of Persistent Systems celebrated Ganesh Chaturthi utsav with a lot of fanfare. The two-day programme was packed with pooja, artis, traditional day contests, some games and visarjan with सन्दल.
Here are some glimpses...
Here are some glimpses...
Team Award!
Our project team (euphemistically titled as "PE 1 DU 10") won the Team Award last month.
In a small award function on 31-Aug, the Delivery Manager and the Project Manager congratulated the team via teleconferencing from Pune. The Program Manager at Nagpur centre distributed the certificates and gift vouchers. Anupama Kaple, the Project Lead expressed thoughts on behalf of the team.
An HR executive co-ordinated the function.
In a small award function on 31-Aug, the Delivery Manager and the Project Manager congratulated the team via teleconferencing from Pune. The Program Manager at Nagpur centre distributed the certificates and gift vouchers. Anupama Kaple, the Project Lead expressed thoughts on behalf of the team.
An HR executive co-ordinated the function.
The documentation team (Gautam Soman, Mihir Mishra and Namita Rao) with the certificates and gift vouchers.
The documentation team at team lunch
The project team celebrating a team member's birthday
The project team at team lunch
Team photo on traditional dress day during Ganesh Utsav
Team attending a client call
Akashmitra group at Persistent
At Persistent Systems, Nagpur, Akashmitra is a group of
astronomy enthusiasts, founded by my friend and colleague, Mihir Mishra. The
objective of our group is to organize events related to astronomy, astrophysics
and related fields and bring about some awareness about these subjects within
the organization.
The inaugural event of Akashmitra was held in May 2012. The
guests for the event were Rtd AVM Ulhas Deshpande, Arun Dolke, and Praveen
Jatt, the hobbyist astronomers who own a Nagpur-based amateur astronomy group
called Kutuhal.
The next event, held in August 2012, started with a quiz and
a tongue-in-cheek satirical skit of the TV coverage of scientific events. It
was followed by the main agenda of the evening: a talk by noted astrophysicist
from Nagpur, Dr Sanjay Wagh. Dr. Wagh talked about why the study of cosmos is
so important, the large scale structure of the universe and the possibility of
alternate theories about the origin of universe, apart from the currently
in-vogue Big Bang Theory. The talk was followed by wide ranging questions from
the audience, right from quarks to quasars.
Both the events received a very positive response from the crowd, in fact, much more than we had originally anticipated. This is an indication that no matter in which profession we are in, some of us still strive to maintain the cosmic connection with the stellar objects we wondered about during our childhood.
Both the events received a very positive response from the crowd, in fact, much more than we had originally anticipated. This is an indication that no matter in which profession we are in, some of us still strive to maintain the cosmic connection with the stellar objects we wondered about during our childhood.
OrangeByte Team Award
One of the organizational activities that I have always loved to be a part of is publishing the company newsletter. In Infospectrum, as part of the newsletter team for five years, we published more than 50 editions of Pulse, as the newsletter was aptly called.
When Infospectrum India was acquired by Persistent Systems in 2011, I was invited to join the newsletter team that publishes Orange Byte: the quarterly newsletter published from Nagpur centre. Of course, I agreed immediately.
We have published five-six editions so far, and have tried to deliver a good quality package. Each edition comes packed with a rich mix of articles, poems, interviews, book reviews, paintings, sketches and drawings. We have also kept pace with the technology and upgraded the backend infrastructure with almost every alternate edition.
One notable thing is that our team handles all the aspects of newsletter end-to-end, right from conceptualization, content collection, graphic design, reviews, as well as server and database setup, deployment, publication and maintenance; without any involvement of IT team or graphic designers. This sometimes means a crashed server due to traffic overload or browser compatibility issues; but the team works on the warfront to fix these issues on the runtime.
In recognition of these efforts, the newsletter team won the Team Award in 2012, for "consistent and quality releases of the newsletter".
We celebrated it with a grand lunch at one of the premier restaurants in Nagpur.
The journey has been exciting so far. The team enjoys freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom from any form of censorship. The way entire team gels together and works hard to put together a collage of contributions is an award in itself!
When Infospectrum India was acquired by Persistent Systems in 2011, I was invited to join the newsletter team that publishes Orange Byte: the quarterly newsletter published from Nagpur centre. Of course, I agreed immediately.
We have published five-six editions so far, and have tried to deliver a good quality package. Each edition comes packed with a rich mix of articles, poems, interviews, book reviews, paintings, sketches and drawings. We have also kept pace with the technology and upgraded the backend infrastructure with almost every alternate edition.
One notable thing is that our team handles all the aspects of newsletter end-to-end, right from conceptualization, content collection, graphic design, reviews, as well as server and database setup, deployment, publication and maintenance; without any involvement of IT team or graphic designers. This sometimes means a crashed server due to traffic overload or browser compatibility issues; but the team works on the warfront to fix these issues on the runtime.
In recognition of these efforts, the newsletter team won the Team Award in 2012, for "consistent and quality releases of the newsletter".
We celebrated it with a grand lunch at one of the premier restaurants in Nagpur.
The journey has been exciting so far. The team enjoys freedom of speech, freedom of expression and freedom from any form of censorship. The way entire team gels together and works hard to put together a collage of contributions is an award in itself!
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