TAA TALK by Subroto Bagchi on 5th Nov, 7PM @ Hotel Royal Orchid
October 29, 2011 in Events
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by Ramjee
TAA TALK: Subroto Bagchi: Platform & Purpose: Your Life in 2 Dimensions
October 20, 2011 in Events, Guest Speaker, TAA TALK
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Dear Alumnus, We have had three great sessions of TAA-TALK so far this year. The talk by Ashish Khokar on “Three Classical Dances of India: Bharatanatyam, Kathak and Odissi”, the panel discussions on “Career Management Aligned to Organizational Goals and Personal Fulfillment” and “Entrepreneurship: The Highs and The Lows” have all been very stimulating and thoroughly engaging. For the next session we have the eminent management thinker and writer Subroto Bagchi, Vice Chairman and Gardener, MindTree, delivering a talk titled: Platform & Purpose: Your Life in 2 Dimensions. Subroto Bagchi is among the most insightful and inspirational speakers today and his talk is expected to be a milestone in our calendar this year. The talk will be followed by a Q& A session and dinner. Alumni Spoitlight: In this event of TAA TALK, Mr. Soumajit Bhowmik, Founder, Adwize, will be our Alumni Spotlight speaker who will share his experiences in advertising and desig. It is an evening all of us are looking forward to and we hope to see you there with your family and friends. Sam Venkatesam
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PROGRAM: 7.00pm: Registration 7.15pm: Talk by Subroto Bagchi Registration Fees are non-refundable. We also do not issue any certificates to participate in our events. Therefore, we request you to register judiciously. |
by Ramjee
Career Management Aligned to Organizational Goals and Personal Fulfillment
October 7, 2011 in Panel Discussion, TAA TALK
After the roaring success of TAA-TALK on 30th April’11 with noted dance critique, Shri Ashish Mohan Khokar, we at TAA set out to organize something even bigger and better. We wanted to do something that promised to be of utmost importance to the whole alumni community, from a fresh entrant to a person at the top rung of an organization. On 23rd July’11, we organized a panel discussion on Career Management Aligned to Organizational Goals and Personal Fulfillment at Hotel Royal Orchid. Read the rest of this entry →
by Ramjee
Entrepreneurship: The Highs and The Lows
October 6, 2011 in Events, Panel Discussion, TAA TALK
by Ramjee
History and Evolution of Indian Classical Dances: Bharatnatyam, Kathak and Odissi
July 4, 2011 in Events, Guest Speaker, Meet Report, TAA TALK
TAA TALK – 30th April 2011:
History and Evolution of Indian Classical Dances: Bharatnatyam, Kathak and Odissi
The new Technology Alumni Association (TAA) Executive Committee 2011-13, arranged their first event on Apr 30. History and Evolution of Indian Classical Dances : Bharatnatyam, Kathak and Odissi presented by eminent Dance Critic and Scholar Mr. Ashish Mohan Khokar through his troop.
There couldn’t have been a better start. On this summer evening in the idyllic Indiranagar Club, 75 people had gathered – IIT-ians and their family members. The hall was packed, the spectators were spell-bound for a full two hours and the programme ended with tremendous standing ovation to the performers. The members wanted more and more variety in the future programmes of TAA TALK.
About 30th April 2011 Event:
Mr. Ashish Mohan Khokar is a St Stephanian, a former dance critic of Times of India, founder-publisher of the dance magazine ‘Attendance’ and writer of many treasured volumes on Indian dance. Dance DISCourse, his monthly presentation on dance, accompanied by video at Alliance Francaise draws houseful audiences. He is among the most articulate, knowledgeable and audience-friendly speakers on dance.
The artistes demonstrating the finer points of the three dance forms are three young and very talented dancers, Mr. Sathyanarayan Raju (Bharatnatyam), Mr. K Murali Mohan (Kathak) and Mrs. Madhulita Mohapatra (Odissi).
Ashish went about describing the three original Indian dance forms, our ‘dharohar’, explaining with finesse the concept of the ‘hasta’, ‘pataka’ and ‘chari’ – the words, phrases and grammar which create the full language of Dance. The expressive element is called the ‘abhinaya’. He also brought out the subtle nuances of the various forms and their evolutionary paths.
This basic exposition was followed by three short but complete performances by the three artistes
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Kathak (Ram, Sita, Lakshman crossing the river in Kewat’s boat)
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Odissi (Radha waiting for Krishna one day)
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BharataNatyam (Shiva nrityam)
Dance is a complete art form existing only in time and space. It cannot be captured to its true essence unlike other forms like paintings, music and sculpture. Greater awareness amongst general public will be the only way by which these ancient and yet delicate heritages can be kept alive for posterity. In return we get the enrichment of feeling, rhythm, aesthetics, and balance in our lives like we did in that one hour on that evening.
We hope our audience also enjoyed it as much as we enjoyed arranging for it. The standing ovation that the performers received stands testimony to that.
Some of the moments of this event are produced below:
Alumni Spotlight:
It is a well known fact that alumni from IITs have excelled not just in the corporate and the research world but they have chartered many diverse territories such as journalism, movie direction, politics etc. We at TAA (Technology Alumni Association) recognize and admire the IITians who have taken the unconventional route. With our first 2010 event, we started a new segment that we call “alumni spotlight” through which we give platform to such distinguished alumnus to talk about 5-10 minutes on what they are doing and how it is impacting the world. In our first event, we had a very interesting talk by Mr. Shashikant Joshi, author of the famous book “Attitude Shift””, a collection of Sanskrit maxims for contemporary life and leadership. He captivated the audience with his extensive knowledge of Sanskrit shlokas and explained how the seemingly old wisdom is still very relevant in today’s corporate world. It was a great start to our alumni spotlight section and we promise to bring you many such unconventional talks in future.
Feedback/ Catching up with TAA Executive Committee:
If you would like to send your feedback, appreciation, scope for improvement or general catch up related queries to us at the following e-mail id: kgp-taa-cc-blr@googlegroups.com
A Request to all the Alumni Members from President Sam
Dear members, remember the old adage to spread the membership, i.e. “Each One – Bring One”. The Alumni Association is as good as the membership profile. Hence, please do bring in your alumni fiends (who are not yet members) to join our rejuvenated Alumni Association.
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