Guest guest Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 You are sure lucky, Kishore, I have not received a single MGIMS bulletin since God knows when! Ravin '82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 19, 2006 Report Share Posted February 19, 2006 Ravin, I presume that there must be some mechanism to restart your receiving these bulletins. However, in the present format, I don't think that it is worth the effort. Of course, the obit written by Anshu about Prabha's mother is a well written piece. A nice poem followed by flowery prose. However, it is like a fragrant flower blooming in the desert. No-one there to appreciate its beauty. What could be done by the powers that be would be to revamp the entire bulletin. Its tilt should be corrected from what has been to what will be. So, we could have an article about the planned alumni guest house. We could have a regular annual feature about the batch which returns for the Jubilee. There could be interviews with staff and the students. I can understand that due to budgetary constraints this would be restricted to a four page sheet. Everything could be kept short and sweet. Obits have to be limited to a paragraph. With cheap digital cameras and electronic printing, we could have more pictures of recent additions to the college infrastructure. The present annual frequency definitely needs to be changed if this bulletin wants to be relevant. With emails at the speed of light, print media can never dream of competing with the immediacy of e-communications. However, a quarterly report would be much better. A small list of children of Alumni, who have succeeded in getting admission to MGIMS would be liked by old members. Maybe, you could invite guest letters from NRI MGIMSites. They can guide the present interested students on how to go abroad and what the pitfalls are. Relevant letters from this email group could be reprinted there. Some comedy could also be added. For example, recently, there were some visiting dignitaries to Sevagram. As is usual at MGIMS, the students were told to put up a variety program, which per force included a dance. As soon as a staff member made the announcement that so and so would now perform the dance, a student member from the back rows shouted in a Dharam like garam voice, " Basanti! In kutton ke saamne mat naach. " This was followed by much laughter among the back benchers and scurrying by the senior staff members trying to locate the culprit. Of course, this is only an irreverent example, but you get the drift. I'm sure all of you must be having some opinion about how the bulletin should be. If you write in this email space, maybe some one may notice and respond to the criticism and just possibly correct the deficiencies. And if someone is awake out there, please see that Ravin's name is added to the posting list. Kishore Shah 1974 Re: MGIMS bulletins > You are sure lucky, Kishore, I have not received a single MGIMS bulletin > since God knows when! > > Ravin '82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Having said that, I received 2 synopsis bulletins for the last two years on Saturday! Ravin '82 Re: MGIMS bulletins > You are sure lucky, Kishore, I have not received a single MGIMS bulletin > since God knows when! > > Ravin '82 > > > > ------------------------------ > Website: www.mgims.org > ------------------------------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Nice suggestions, Kishore, I agree with you, hopefully someone will notice and act. And yes, images do make anything attractive. Ravin '82 Re: MGIMS bulletins > > > > You are sure lucky, Kishore, I have not received a single MGIMS bulletin > > since God knows when! > > > > Ravin '82 > > > > ------------------------------ > Website: www.mgims.org > ------------------------------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Good points there Kishoreda. Believe me, when the News Bulletin was the only source of getting News about MGIMS,I would read about 80% of the contents,while on way back from Postoffice to home,here in Riyadh and Seema would then immediately snatch it and read the whole 4pgs. Thanks to this site,we both behave like civilised people,now. Yes,we could have the e-Bulletin instead and since it would have the staff editing it,maybe we would get to read some serious news out of MGIMS,from a different perspective. The photographs of new additional structures,of some functions chaired by our teachers and staff ,would surely be a valuable set of collections. BTW,THE BASANTI,MAT....dialogue incident,must have been a classic scene.Wish I was there,then in that auditorium,to enjoy that bit. Shyam(84) Re: MGIMS bulletins > You are sure lucky, Kishore, I have not received a single MGIMS bulletin > since God knows when! > > Ravin '82 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Dear Kishore, Ravin and Shyam, Your comments, criticism and suggestions for the MGIMS Bulletin are well taken. I'll make every possible attempt to improve the quality of the Bulletin. For starters, I would appreciate it if the alumni contribute actively to the Bulletin in the form of news items and articles. I have a special request for the 81 batch alumni to write in with their experiences of their silver jubilee celebrations at dr_anshu@.... Also those of you who haven't received the copies of the Bulletins may please write to me directly with their correct postal addresses so that the alumni address database can be updated. Thank you for your valuable suggestions. Anshu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Dear Anshu, I just recieved the bulletins. Congratulations for a job very well done.My mother's obit was beautifully written. Kishoreda has a lot of constructive criticism to give you. While I understand Kishoreda's point of view, I realise that there must have been a tremendous amount of spadework that you would have had to do to bring out the bulletin. Congratulations - and thank you - for the effort. Even though print cannot keep pace with e-communications, there is something very personal about actually recieving a letter / bulletin. It gives a sense of belonging because someone actually put in the effort to send it to you. So, Ravin, it is worth the effort to get your name on the mailing list. BTW, you may not have recieved the bulletins in a long while because I think it wasn't being published at all. Thanks to Anshu, it is back in existence. Prabha'84 Shah wrote: Ravin, I presume that there must be some mechanism to restart your receiving these bulletins. However, in the present format, I don't think that it is worth the effort. Of course, the obit written by Anshu about Prabha's mother is a well written piece. A nice poem followed by flowery prose. However, it is like a fragrant flower blooming in the desert. No-one there to appreciate its beauty. What could be done by the powers that be would be to revamp the entire bulletin. Its tilt should be corrected from what has been to what will be. So, we could have an article about the planned alumni guest house. We could have a regular annual feature about the batch which returns for the Jubilee. There could be interviews with staff and the students. I can understand that due to budgetary constraints this would be restricted to a four page sheet. Everything could be kept short and sweet. Obits have to be limited to a paragraph. With cheap digital cameras and electronic printing, we could have more pictures of recent additions to the college infrastructure. The present annual frequency definitely needs to be changed if this bulletin wants to be relevant. With emails at the speed of light, print media can never dream of competing with the immediacy of e-communications. However, a quarterly report would be much better. A small list of children of Alumni, who have succeeded in getting admission to MGIMS would be liked by old members. Maybe, you could invite guest letters from NRI MGIMSites. They can guide the present interested students on how to go abroad and what the pitfalls are. Relevant letters from this email group could be reprinted there. Some comedy could also be added. For example, recently, there were some visiting dignitaries to Sevagram. As is usual at MGIMS, the students were told to put up a variety program, which per force included a dance. As soon as a staff member made the announcement that so and so would now perform the dance, a student member from the back rows shouted in a Dharam like garam voice, " Basanti! In kutton ke saamne mat naach. " This was followed by much laughter among the back benchers and scurrying by the senior staff members trying to locate the culprit. Of course, this is only an irreverent example, but you get the drift. I'm sure all of you must be having some opinion about how the bulletin should be. If you write in this email space, maybe some one may notice and respond to the criticism and just possibly correct the deficiencies. And if someone is awake out there, please see that Ravin's name is added to the posting list. Kishore Shah 1974 Re: MGIMS bulletins > You are sure lucky, Kishore, I have not received a single MGIMS bulletin > since God knows when! > > Ravin '82 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Kishore Da, I have a bad habit of clicking on the mail and reading it before knowing who has sent it. But now i know who is it coming from. I just scroll down to confirm your name. i must appreciate that you really write very well, extremely well. Seriously i need training to write well, tell me the right place. Whenever i have to write a project, i seek internet's help, but you seem to be having it as an inherited gift Nishi 84 > > Today I received by post 2 years worth of MGIMS bulletins. I have a friend > in the army who says that the rations in the army work similarly. Each > family is allotted 2 litres of milk per day. However, milk is available on > one day of the month. Hence, on each occasion, they get their allotted 60 > litres of milk in one go. I wonder if they believe in the old Hindi > saying, > " Dudho nahavo, etc. " > > However, it pains me to say that as compared to the email group that we > have, these bulletins are terribly lack lustre. I presume, it may be > useful > to some dinosaurs who do not have the internet. Otherwise, the news, > according to the bulletin, is mostly obituaries. > > People who had breathed their last and were sleeping quietly in their > graves, probably heaving sighs of relief at never having to see human > beings > again ever more, were rudely woken up to feature in these bulletins as an > encore. > > My suggestion is that we should rename these Bulletins as " Be-late-ins " . > That will clearly summarize the publishing speed as well as the contents. > > The one thing that was missing in these bulletins were the shocking > headlines like, " F* Kamasutra pictures " and " Arab Sex Videos " . I have got > so > used to these mails (or females) that I cannot begin my day without seeing > a > dozen or so of these, not to forget the hearty chuckle or two at the > mental > picture of poor Feroze frantically clicking the mouse with bated breath > and > hot and sweaty anticipation. > > Kishore Shah 1974 > (With due apologies to all concerned, including Feroze.) > > > > ------------------------------ > Website: www.mgims.org > ------------------------------ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Thanks Nishi, And yes! Prabha, I did appreciate Anshu's article on your mother. Great stuff there. However, my crticism stands, though I think Prabha means to say that we should be thankful that we are at least getting the bulletin. Kishore Shah 1974 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Dear Prabha and Anshu, If I have somehow conveyed the impression that I did not appreciate Anshu's hard word in bringing out the bulletin, I most sincerely apologize. I never suggested nor meant anything remotely like that. What I suggested were some points to make the Bulletin more lively. A Bulletin is a chronology of all that happened and is planned. I just thought that the emphasis should be shifted from obits to future plans. I am sure that Anshu and her team has put in a lot of hard work and precious time in producing this journal. People who are not connected on the internet would be definitely more appreciative than any of us could possibly be. Again, my heartfelt regrets, if I have hurt anyone (Anshu / Prabha). Kishore Shah 1974 Re: MGIMS bulletins > Dear Anshu, > > I just recieved the bulletins. Congratulations for a job very well > done.My mother's obit was beautifully written. > > Kishoreda has a lot of constructive criticism to give you. While I > understand Kishoreda's point of view, I realise that there must have been > a tremendous amount of spadework that you would have had to do to bring > out the bulletin. Congratulations - and thank you - for the effort. Even > though print cannot keep pace with e-communications, there is something > very personal about actually recieving a letter / bulletin. It gives a > sense of belonging because someone actually put in the effort to send it > to you. > > So, Ravin, it is worth the effort to get your name on the mailing list. > BTW, you may not have recieved the bulletins in a long while because I > think it wasn't being published at all. Thanks to Anshu, it is back in > existence. > > Prabha'84 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 I had no reason to get hurt, Kishoreda. The apology was not required ! Prabha'84 Shah wrote: Dear Prabha and Anshu, If I have somehow conveyed the impression that I did not appreciate Anshu's hard word in bringing out the bulletin, I most sincerely apologize. I never suggested nor meant anything remotely like that. What I suggested were some points to make the Bulletin more lively. A Bulletin is a chronology of all that happened and is planned. I just thought that the emphasis should be shifted from obits to future plans. I am sure that Anshu and her team has put in a lot of hard work and precious time in producing this journal. People who are not connected on the internet would be definitely more appreciative than any of us could possibly be. Again, my heartfelt regrets, if I have hurt anyone (Anshu / Prabha). Kishore Shah 1974 Re: MGIMS bulletins > Dear Anshu, > > I just recieved the bulletins. Congratulations for a job very well > done.My mother's obit was beautifully written. > > Kishoreda has a lot of constructive criticism to give you. While I > understand Kishoreda's point of view, I realise that there must have been > a tremendous amount of spadework that you would have had to do to bring > out the bulletin. Congratulations - and thank you - for the effort. Even > though print cannot keep pace with e-communications, there is something > very personal about actually recieving a letter / bulletin. It gives a > sense of belonging because someone actually put in the effort to send it > to you. > > So, Ravin, it is worth the effort to get your name on the mailing list. > BTW, you may not have recieved the bulletins in a long while because I > think it wasn't being published at all. Thanks to Anshu, it is back in > existence. > > Prabha'84 ------------------------------ Website: www.mgims.org ------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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