Journey of forty years, 2020

 A Journey of forty years of togetherness and sharing a life. Down the  memory lane on this special day from the day it began to the various milestones down the road.

Forty years of togetherness

 We celebrated out forty years of togetherness by attending the wedding reception of a friends son in Delhi. Three pictures of now, Five years back and then forty years, back.

Lectures at MANUU

 Delivered two lectures, From Development to Empowerment and Emergence of the grass root leadership in the Women's movement in India at the UGC Human Development Resource Centre in Maulana Azad National Urdu University(MANUU). There were about sixty eight participants  from different Universities and Colleges from Maharashtra, Telangana andAndhra Pradesh.

The Bangalore bash

 All of us, who had studied in school in 9th and 10 th class at Kendriya Vidyalala in Picket, Secunderabad, in the 1970's , 'The 72 Picketians', are in constant touch with each other and meet once in a while and the bonding continues to be strong though today we are in our sixty fourth and sixty fifth year and many have retired from very active service in the administration, Parliament,IT sectors, academics, airforce, railways, charter accounts etc.Thanks to internet we all could get together eleven years back and the  bonds continue. After school our journeys took us through different routes. Down the route we settled, finished our different College education, got jobs, got married,had children, got our children married and many became grandfathers and grandmothers but the friendship is something that never changed. Today we are spread all over India, in the US, in Canada and Australia. The friends from Bangalore organised a bash and, we came down to Bangalore for the Sunday get together. It was a weekend of fun and frolic of nostalgia and catching up with each other. Right from the time we collected at the station to boarding the train sharing the same bogie, checking into the resort  it was a fantastic experience. The spouses also  joined in and added to the  flavours of the evening. Thanks a lot Usha Archana, Frank, Skanda, Raghu for all the planning and Murthy Nsn for all the logistics. A great get together. May  we continue to bond for with you all time stands still and I continue to feel that I am only sixteen /seventeen years old and back to those carefree days of school.

A photo gallery of the International Conference at Berhampur

 A photo gallery of the International Conference at Berhampur and the beautiful Odhiya girls who looked very charming and beautiful in the different hues and colours of the sarees worn by them with a lot of elegance and comfort.

News paper Coverage

 Coverage about the International Conference in Behrampur University by different local news papers.

Key Note Address in Behrampur

 Delivered the key note address at the International Conference at Berhampur University. While I looked at reconstructed of Indian history in the pre modern period with a gender lens,Geraldine  Forbes in her special address did it for the modern period and hence there was a beautiful connectivity. It was a pleasure to listen to her.Congratulations to Sankarsan Malik and Sadananda Nayak  for  Organising this Conference so well and efficiently and bringing in participants from all over India and Nepal. A great effort and I can understand all the hard work that went in behind this. It was a pleasure to interact with many participants and learn so much about different facets of regional history.