Spandan 2007 - A Trip Down Memory Lane
December 15, 2007

Spandan 2007, the annual alumni reunion of SPJIMR was held at the SPJIMR auditorium on 15th December. It witnessed a huge turnout of 225 alumni along with their families. The event started off with the lighting of the auspicious lamp by Dr. Sesha Iyer, Director, SPJIMR, Prof. Kshirsagar, Mrs. Varsha Parab, Registrar, SPJIMR and an alumnus of the institute. It was followed by an invocation song by Nivedita Ramesh and Jyothsna Sekar, first year participants of thePGDMcourse.



Dr. Sesha Iyer addressed the gathering and stressed on the importance of a strong alumni network for an institution and suggested specific ways of fostering the same. Shreyas from AlCom '07 (Alumni Committee) then presented the tasks and future plans of the committee towards building a closeknit alumni network. It was followed by the felicitation of the batches of 1992, 1997 and 2002 by Dr. Sesha Iyer and Prof. Kshirsagar. It was a moment filled with nostalgia and brimming with pride when the alumni were called on the dais with their testimonials being read and nick names being called out. Mr. Akhil Chaturvedi (Batch of '88) from the Mumbai Alumni Chapter updated the proceedings of the Mumbai Chapter.Mr. Muralidharan and Ms. Purvi Shah spoke about their experiences at SPJIMR and thanked AlCom for organizing the event on such a grand scale. The felicitation ceremony concluded with Prof. Kshirsagar addressing the alumni and Vinay Trivedi from Alcom '07 delivering the vote of thanks.

Spandan 2007 also witnessed the launch of 'Future of the Past', a book authored by Mr. Alpesh Patel (Batch of 2000). It was launched by Prof. A.B.Kulkarni, Marketing Department SPJIMR. The event concluded over dinner with the alumni reminiscing their past and sharing their joys of the present. As Salonee, member, AlCom '07 aptly put it, “reunions are aimed at re-establishing old ties” and Spandan 2007 was successful in making that happen.