Archive for September 10th, 2005

mInfosys 10th Anniversary celebrations

Yesterday was the big day for Mangalore Infosys. We had our 10th anniversary celebrations. The venue : Dr. TMA Pai International Convention center.

The program started at around 4 - 4.30 PM. Lot of dignitaries had come down for this special occasion. We had S. Gopalakrishnan (Kris) - Director, K. Dinesh - Director, N S Raghavan (ex-infoscion, emp# 1 of Infosys), R G Bhandi (ex-infoscion, the first DC head of Mangalore), M M Mohan (ex-infoscion), Binod H R, Bikramjit Maitra, V P Kochikar, Shivshankar, Capt. Sinha and couple of other folks.

The entrance was strictly for Infoscions and their family members.

Banner at the Entrance (Click to Zoom)

Entrance of the Convention Centre (Click to Zoom)

Here is the stage setup :

Stage Setup (Click to Zoom)

The cake was damn beautiful. It was a replica of our Infosys Mangala office. Check out the pictures.

The mInfy 10 Cake - Front View (Click to Zoom)

The mInfy 10 Cake - Back View (Click to Zoom)

The mInfy 10 Cake - Side View (Click to Zoom)

The function started with a snapshot of the past 10 years. “Story So far” kind of thing. Was very nostalgic indeed. This was followed by a short movie on Mangalore Infosys.

After that the formal function began.

Sudhir, Bhandi, Kris, NSR, Dinesh, M M Mohan (Click to Zoom)

Then then there was cake cutting. Two young mInfoscions who share their birthday with mInfosys got to cut the cake along with other dignitaries!. But, it was kind of sad to cut such a beautiful cake!!

Cake Cutting (Click to Zoom)

Cake Cutting - Kris(Click to Zoom)

This is how the auditorium looks like… it can house around 1800 people.

Inside the Auditorium (Click to Zoom)

The cake cutting was followed by speeches by dignitaries.

Kris sharing his thoughts (Click to Zoom)

N S Raghavan - The first employee of Infosys!(Click to Zoom)

K Dinesh addressing the gathering (Click to Zoom)

Bhandi - The first DC head of Mangalore (Click to Zoom)

Bhandi and the second batch folks sang the Song “Zindagi Milke Bitayege” from Satte Pe Satta, bringing back some old memories!

Batch 2 folks (Click to Zoom)

M M Mohan sharing his thoughts (Click to Zoom)

After the stage event, we had a Inter-DC short film competition. It was a competition among various Development Centers of Infosys to come up with a short film on the topic “Social Consciousness and Community Empathy”. This program went on for about an hour. 12 films were played. In the mean time, cake was served. Mysore DC won the competition.

Next up was the Rock Show from a group called Aquaflow from Mumbai. They did a pretty neat job. One good thing that they did was, they did manage to sing some non-rock stuff too, although it disappointed some small set of rock fans. So, it was not a pure rock show as such! After a couple of numbers, mInfoscions were all set to rock and roll and didn’t want to stop! (as usual!)

Rock Show by AquaFlow (Click to Zoom)(Click to Zoom)