Its so refreshing to see this video! “Taste of street food in Mangalore” featured on the program “Zaika India Ka” on NDTV.
Link: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/videopod/default.aspx?id=22165
Special thanks to a friend of mine who forwarded this link to me!
2 comments | February 2nd, 2008 at 01:07pm
Well, after waiting for years, the new Infosys Mangalore development center is ready for business. Its named Nethra after the river Nethravathi which is the lifeline of mangalore (and its pretty close to the river too!!) .
Unofficially, the center started operations on 15th October, with 83 people on-board!
When phase 1 is fully ready - it would accommodate upto 3200 people. And since its in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ), it means that certain percent of the people working there must be freshly recruited! Which is a great news to the entire Dakshina Kannada region. Phase 2 and 3 would bring in more growth!
This has been a much awaited project. Have been hearing about it even before I joined Infosys in 2002!
Kudos to everyone involved. An official inauguration ceremony is planned sometime in the coming months!
Will try to post more pictures as soon as I get them!
Add comment | October 26th, 2007 at 03:23pm
Mangalore, my home town has been featured in Time Magazine! Came to know about this from Harsha’s blog a couple of days back.
Hampankatta. Mangalore - Photo Credit: Bharat Sikka for Time Magazine
The article talks about the recent growth-wave that’s hit Mangalore. Sure enough, Mangalore has changed a lot in the last 5 to 10 years, and I am sure that by the time I am back at Mangalore, it would look totally different!
Main Article:
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501060619/mangalore.html
Photo Essay :
http://www.time.com/time/asia/photoessays/2006/remaking_india/mangalore.html
10 comments | June 20th, 2006 at 04:11pm
Just checked Google earth.. and it looks like there has been a major data update. Lots of places are much clearer. Not very high resolution, but much better then before!. My home town, Mangalore now looks great, and I can see my house ! :)
Check out this picture of Infosys Mangalore - My office back at Mangalore…
Infosys Mangalore - Google Earth view - Click to Zoom
Infact, tons of places across the globe have new images!. Enjoy! I am off to side-seeing! :)
Try out Google Earth today!.
2 comments | June 10th, 2006 at 12:13am
Ya, I know. It’s been quite sometime since I posted out here. Like I had mentioned in my previous post, the race against time has begun, and it’s on. The past couple of days have been very very very hectic. Did lots of shopping and shopping and shopping. The checklist is almost clear, except for a couple of items, which are pending.
I also have to setup my computer, and make my parents computer literates in a couple of days, and the lessons have already begun :)… teaching them some basics… so that they can use skype, yahoo and gtalk so that they can communicate with me. And its not a easy task!
I also have to move/copy the data I need to carry along with me. What I am planning on doing is, taking my 160GB hard disk along with me with all the required data in it. I already have an IDE to USB converter and an external HDD case. So, I just need to plugin the hard disk to USB to use it! I felt that this would be a better option then carrying lots of CDs and DVDs. What say? I hope that carrying HDD in luggage is not a problem (didn’t have any problems when my wife bought the HDD from US!).
In the mean while, I hosted a couple of parties. One for the project team and the other for some friends and colleagues. The project party was at Kadal (at Nalapad residency). The food quality and service at Kadal was bad. I did not enjoy it. It was bad. Repented for hosting the party at Kadal. :( But the next party was fun. Hosted it at Cherry Square today. The food too was good, and it was fun! Enjoyed it.
The other aspect is travel papers and documentation…. and that’s almost done, but need to have a final look at it. …. But lots of small small jobs still pending.
Wish me luck! :)
16 comments | January 24th, 2006 at 12:53am
This weekend was work and fun. I was in office on Saturday to catch up with work. But Sunday was fun. It was the grand finale of Synergy 2005. As mentioned in one of my previous post, Synergy is the annual sports event of mInfosys. The finale is always held on the beach side. This year, the program was at the a place called called “Samudra Darshana Guest house” near Hosabettu. Hosabettu beach is around 10kms from mInfosys.
This year, the program started started in the afternoon, and finished with dinner at around 10 PM.
Various games were played………..started with Triathlon, followed by Lagori….
After Lagori, there was Sand Castle competition.
But the most interesting game was Beach volley ball. The finals between the Green Team and the Red team was really thrilling. Thought fight till the last minute. Finally green won the volley ball finals.
Beach Volley Ball - Click to Zoom
Beach Volley Ball - Smash - Click to Zoom
Beach Volley Ball - Click to Zoom
Beach Volley Ball - Smash - Click to Zoom
Beach Volley Ball - Red vs Green - Click to Zoom
After volley ball, there was tug-of-war. This year around, no major fight in tug-of-war, compared to the previous years when the rope itself used to give up!!
Tug of War - Zoor Lagake Haiyaa - Click to Zoom
Then there was the prize distribution ceremony…..
mInfoscions - Prize Distribution - Click to Zoom
This years overall champions were Red Bulls! (that’s the name of the Red team!).
Red Bulls - Winners of Synergy 2005 - Click to Zoom
My team, the black hawks had to be happy being in the third place.
Prize distribution was followed by small time dance party….but it was already 10 PM by then.. and we had to wind up.
Lets Dance baby - Click to Zoom
Overall, a great day and had a nice time.
2 comments | December 19th, 2005 at 01:38pm
Update (13-Apr-2007): Apparently, I heard recently that they have changed the design - due to the nature of the soil at the construction area. I think it won’t be a inverted pyramid as shown below.
OK. This one is for real, unlike the major HOAX forward mail that was floating around a couple of months back.
The real proposed Design of the new Infosys Campus at Mangalore looks as shown below:
Source : http://www.hafeezcontractor.com
Will post more pictures if I get a chance!
You can find designs of other proposed Infosys buildings at the Hafeez Contractor’s website.
11 comments | November 11th, 2005 at 12:41pm
Me going to Chennai tonight on official work. I am taking the West Coast express. Its a direct train from Mangalore to Chennai (Madras). Will reach Chennai at around 3 PM tomorrow. i.e., Sunday. Finish my work on Monday, and start back on Monday night itself. On the way back I would be taking the Mangalore Mail train, which leaves chennai at around 8 PM and reaches Mangalore the next day at around 1 PM. So, will be back in Mangalore on Tuesday.
While at chennai, I would be staying at The New Woodlands Hotel at Mylapore. Its kind of a very hectic trip, and I don’t think so I might get enough time to go around and see places. Lets see how it goes!
Add comment | November 5th, 2005 at 06:17pm
Apart from the normal project party, at Infosys, we also have a quarterly unit party. i.e, folks from the entire unit would present. We had this quarters party yesterday at ‘Pegasus’. We started at around 5.30 PM from office. Pegasus has a section with a disco floor. We had booked that place for the party. Initially the crowd was bit less, but as usual, quite a lot of people turned out as time passed by.
Started with fresher introduction. i.e, people who joined our unit in the last quarter. It was kind of ragging and fun :). Then there were the normal games, and then finally the floor was open to dance!.
One thing good was, the music!.. The DJ did a pretty decent job this time around. He did a good mix. The food was also decent. All of us had a great time.
Well, this was kind of my first official party. I had attended Unit parties before, but as a spouse! Got to attend one more party this Sunday, this time its for people who volunteered for the mInfy10 event.
1 comment | September 23rd, 2005 at 08:44pm
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 :
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 - 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 - 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)
Rock Show by AquaFlow (Click to Zoom)(Click to Zoom)
Rock Show by AquaFlow (Click to Zoom)(Click to Zoom)
mInfoscions on the stage (Click to Zoom)
The last part for the day was.. the dinner :). Taj Manjarun were the caterers for the day, and the food was good, specially the non-veg part!
All in all, a day to remember for all mInfoscions.
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2 comments | September 10th, 2005 at 08:40pm
