S1 E2

S1E2

Dear All,

Hope all of you are doing well, happy and healthy with your families.

As you all are, I am looking forward to tomorrow's video meet. Briefly, the details are: 

Time: Apr 9, 2022 08:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada) = 18:00 IST

https://nih.zoomgov.com/j/16141462900

I started out this post to give a brief intro on how we got here, to those that are new (I intend to send this link to those on the whatsapp groups). Way back in 2003 we thought having a group mail facility would keep us know of each other's whereabouts. And so

 

This was 6years before Brian and Jan came up with whatsapp (incidentally they worked at yahoo before that). Then later, our group transitioned to groups.io when yahoo abandoned groups. We had close to 100 members at one time. Most of us are  from the 70's and 80's, meaning we were at jipmer during that time span. Some of you at the other (whatsapp) groups are either from the 60's or from the next century!

Our mode of meetings initially was personal meetings (in addition to active email exchanges) - when someone from India visits the US or vice versa we used to gather in Philadelphia/DC/Chicago or Chennai/Bangalore and share all the news. And a few grand meetings were organized in Pondy itself, in Chennai, in Bangalore and I think those are the ones. I think the last few were also shared on the internet.

Fast forward to now, as the corona kept us mostly at home and zoom took over, we all got used to working, meeting, teaching, and what not ,everything online. We and other friends have been holding video meetings and these being very convenient to join and see and talk old buddies and classmates, became widely liked. From this group, we had one in January, although our Pharma and Micro friends have been holding such videocons more often. Following that enthusiasm we said let us have a meeting once every three or so months. So tomorrow's is the S1E2 (as they say in TV serials! Ha ha ha - guess who says that).

We would love to see all those seniors and juniors in the whatsapp groups too, to see and be seen. Even those in this group, some of us have met after 40 years in the last meet. It is like living in the past, some felt (although we all have now gray hair on bald heads)!

Please join us at the above link tomorrow - sorry for such a short notice again.

Yours truly,

NageswaraRao aka TNRao