Kumara
Guru
DNV, XL’ 2005
,
took over as the
10th National Chair
of CII (Confederation
of Indian Industry)
Young Indians.
The HR
department of Tata-Singapore
Airlines, which recently bagged
the flying licence, will be headed
by
Varadarajan Srinivasan,
XL’ 83
. Srinivasan was part of the
founding team at Tata Teleservices
in 1996. He was the executive vice-
president for HR at Tata Teleservices
from 1996 to 2000, before moving
to business process outsourcing
firm Spectramind, where he spent
five years. Srinivasan moved back
to Tata Teleservices in 2011 to head its HR team.
Niraj Dawar,
XL’ 87
, professor at
the Ivey Business School (Canada and
Hong Kong), is a renowned marketing
strategy expert who has also been on the
faculty of leading business schools in
Europe and Asia. Dawar’s publications
have appeared in
Harvard Business
Review
, the
MIT Sloan Management
Review
and in other leading academic
journals. He works with senior leadership in global companies and has
executed assignments for BMW, HSBC, Microsoft, Cadbury, L’Oreal
and McCain on three continents, as well as with startups in the biotech
and information space. His interview in the leading business magazine
Forbes
is an addition to his long-list of achievements.
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may 2014
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magis
41
|
The universe
and its mag-
nificence is a mind-boggling
concept for young minds.
Jane D'Souza Gopal-
akrishnan’s, XL’93
,
book
The Big Little Want
tries
to simplify the complexity of
universe by drawing comparison with
things that children come across in their daily life.
Taking a cue from the endlessness of the cosmos,
Gopalakrishnan, weaves a story for children to
understand that wanting something has no end.
There is always something better out there.
Anuradha Vijayakrish-
nan’s, XL'98,
Seeing the
girl
, which was long listed
for the 2007 Man Asian
Literary Prize, was launched
in March. Her novel revolves
around the protagonist Janaki
and the relationship between the
women in her family. It is a take on
the toxicity of familial love.
In Gitanjali-
An Ode to Life
by
Vineet Ravichandran,
XL’ 2010
, brings together
the stories of three protago-
nists – a heartbroken young
man, an old Gandhian and a
terminally-ill youngster —
from different walks of life.
Radhika Sood Nayak
of
the 1994 batch gave career
and life a melodious turn.
Nayak, a classical vocalist,
forsake her lucrative corpo-
rate job to become a full-time
musician.
Reliance Communications
has
appointed
Vinod Sawhny,
XL’ 83
, as its CEO, making him
responsible for the Anil Ambani-
led company’s entire operations
spread across wireless, enter-
prise and Reliance Globalcom.
XLers on a
writing spree !!
Correction: Feb Issue
On P39: Janet Chowdhury's year of
graduation was '98 and not '88
