10 things we want to change in the school

I started off with the '10 things we want to change & 10 things we want to strengthen in the school' thread today on orkut. I hope to draw some great ideas from there andgive it to the school. I am sure all of us want the school to reach great heights!

Wishlist: 10 Things we would want new/ improved

• Sports facilities
• Encourage English speaking at nursery/primary level
• Discipline
• House System to be formalised- prefects/ head boy & girl to be made a prestigious office
• Canteen
  

Kudos List: 10 Things we would want strengthened

• Library
• Active participation of students in extra-curricular activities
• Better equipped computer labs

Discussion on orkut- how our school is unique

There is a good discussion going on in the Orkut PDPS community as to how PDPS is unqiue. So, I though that it would be good to list down the points that have come up in the discussion.

Neeti Sinha thinks that the library was super... and I surely agree with her! Naren thinks the same too.
I think that the teachers are great - very hard working, sincere and result oriented!
Manoj appreciates that computer lab that was started way back in 1984-85.
Atul wants everyone to know that the fact we all studied there makes PDPS really unique:)
And of course the diwali celebrations:) (which unfortunately are not as 'magnanimous' as they used to be in our times!)

Bangalore Alumni Meet

This one comes from Naren... alumni meet in Bangalore- thats a fantastic idea!
Well, so, here's the lsit:

2001 Sanesh Vig
1996 Narender Mehra
Govind Kaushal

People unable to attend alumni meet

I thought that since a lot of people are taking pains to write back saying that they would not be able to attend the alumni meet, it would be only fair to mention their names here too! So, here goes:

1993 Manoj Singla (out of station-US)
1994 Me of course:) Anshu Bhardwaj (out of station-US)
1997 Deepika Bhardwaj (out of station-Shanghai)
1998 Reena Mehrotra Kapoor (out of station- Singapore)
2000 Sudeep Arya (out of station- Pune)
2001 Sanesh Vig
2001 Pankaj Gupta
2002 Rahul Jain (out of station- Indore)
2005 Mayank Anand Singh (out of station- join the Bangalore meet Mayank)

Ruchika Chug

News (about the school) you could use

PDPS had an active archery team. It even participated in the Asiad games (as support to the main competitors). Sanjay Mcgee shared with us the sportsmanship spirit of Mr. Prabhu Dayal Bhatia (yes, he-Sanjay- had the honor of meeting him! So did I, but I was too young to actually remember any of our conversations:) ). It so happened that his team-mates were using bamboo bows & arrows (I guess the kinds that are available during Ramleela;-)) to practice their shooting skills in school - which I am sure was more to enjoy themselves rather than to seriously compete in competitions. But Mr. Bhatia actually got them a set of carbon bows and arrows (the kinds used in competitions I guess) and they then had a formal team! Kudos! I knew that the man was a visionary and quick to spot talent and opportunity, but it is simply great to see a real life example!

Well, the school music & dance team has always done well. I remember that Rohit Mehra and I used to compete in a lot of debate competitions and win too:)

This storyboard would be filled with a lot of unique stories before we know it!
Cheers!
Anshu

First Alumni meet in School 15th July '06

Hi All

Alumni Meet Date: 15th July '06
Time: 3:45 p.m. onwards
Venue: School Auditorium

Confirmations till date for the Alumni Meet (If your name is not in the list below or does not have (R)-reconfirmed in front of it in the following list, doesn't matter - ALL ALUMNI ARE WELCOME...JUST WALK IN TO THE SCHOOL AT THE RIGHT TIME AND ON THE RIGHT DATE).

1992 Batch (1)
(R) 1992 Kapil Singhania

1994 Batch (2+1 Guest)
(R) 1994 Abhishek
(R) 1994 Mohit Bhardwaj (+1)

1998 Batch (13+4+7 Guests)
(R) 1998 Addyty n Bashobi
(R) 1998 Aseem Dange (through Rahul Ahuja)
1998 Ashish Singh
(R) 1998 Deewakar Talwar (through Rahul Ahuja)
(R) 1998 Disha Gupta
(R) 1998 Gaurav Agarwal
(R) 1998 Gaurav Aggarwal (through Rahul Ahuja)
(R) 1998 Gaurav Jain (through Rahul Ahuja)
1998 Kunal Chopra (+5 more-way to go!!)
(R) 1998 Nitin Jain (+2)
(R) 1998 Rahul Ahuja (+7 more as below)
(R) 1998 Saurabh Verma
(R) 1998 Saurabh Munjal (through Rahul Ahuja)
1998 Vivek Gupta
1998 Varun Jain
(R) 1998 Vaibhav Munjal (through Rahul Ahuja)
(R) 1998 Vineet Chadha (through Rahul Ahuja)

1999 Batch (1+8 guests)
(R) 1999 Jyoti Garg (will bring 8 more alumni!!! GREAT WORK Jyoti!!)

2000 Batch (13+4+9 Guests)
(R) 2000 Abhinav Prakash Dahiya
(R) 2000 Aman Sareen
(R) 2000 Deepak Keswani
(R) 2000 Himanshu Makhijiani (with Infy)
2000 Manish Gupta
(R) 2000 Mohit Soni
(R) 2000 Niket Goel
(R) 2000 Nidhi Aggarwal (+7)
2000 Sandhya Chawla
(R) 2000 Saurabh Ailawadi
(R) 2000 Sharad Jain
(R) 2000 Dr. Shashank Chauhan (2 more people tagging along with him! Thanks shashank!!)
(R) 2000 Sumit Bansal
2000 Sumit Metani
(R) 2000 Udit Gupta
(R) 2000 Varun Kapoor
2000 Vinay Khatiwala

2001 Batch (9+12)
(R) 2001 Akash Gupta
2001 Anjali Arora
(R) 2001 Anjani Kumar Sharma
(R) 2001 Gautam Saluja
2001 Geetika Anand
2001 Garima Sarda
(R) 2001 Monika Puri
2001 Mukesh Jain
(R) 2001 Nikhil Jain
(R) 2001 Pawan Gulani
2001 Praveen Goel
2001 Priyanka Aggarwal
(R) 2001 Priyanka Sharma
2001 Reema Goel
(R) 2001 Shilpi Chauhan
2001 Shruti Chawla
2001 Tarun Garg
2001 Timsy Nagpal
2001 Usha Chauhan
2001 Vipin Goel
(R) 2001 Vidhata Jain

2002 Batch (18+8)
(R) 2002 Abhas Mittal
(R) 2002 Ajay Nagpal
(R) 2002 Amit Basia
2002 Ankur Sethi
2002 Ashish Singhal
(R) 2002 Ashutosh Arora
(R) 2002 Bharti Gaur
(R) 2002 Dipen Mehta
2002 Kartik Prakash
(R) 2002 Kirti Behl
(R) 2002 Gaurav Gupta
(R) 2002 Ghaghu Tudu
(R) 2002 Manish Basia
(R) 2002 Neha Malhotra
(R) 2002 Nidhi Bansal
2002 Prashant Dhiman
(R) 2002 Piyush
(R) 2002 Rachna Jain
(R) 2002 Rahul Agrawal
(R) 2002 Ritika Taneja
(R) 2002 Sachin Gupta
(R) 2002 Sanjeev Saluja
2002 Saurabh Soni
2002 Shaily Goel
2002 Shimona Khandelwal
2002 Tarun Sharma

2003 Batch (5+3+5 Guests)
(R) 2003 Amit Verma (+Amit, Anuj, Ashish, Rahul, Sidharth)
(R) 2003 Ashish Johar
2003 Nidhi Rajbindra
(R) Nidhi Gupta
2003 Rahul Khanna
(R) 2003 Rubeena Syed
(R) 2003 Sumit Agarwal
2003 Varun Sahai

2004 Batch (29+3)
(R) 2004 Akash Raha
2004 Ankit Bharadwaj
(R) 2004 AnkurJohar
(R) 2004 Archana Dhamija
(R) 2004 Arjun
(R) 2004 Ashish Goyal
(R) 2004 Chinmay Jagga
(R) 2004 Chirag Kocchar
(R) 2004 Dhawal Sehgal (+1)
(R) 2004 Ginni Ahluwalia
(R) 2004 Hitakshi Arora
(R) 2004 Jatin Malhotra
(R) 2004 Komal Aggarwal
(R) 2004 Manas Katya
(R) 2004 Manish Chopral
(R) 2004 Mukul
(R) 2004 Namita Gupta
(R) 2004 Neeraj Gupta
(R) 2004 Neha Bablani
(R) 2004 Neha Bansal
(R) 2004 Neha Buddhiraja
(R) 2004 Nitesh bhasin
(R) 2004 Nishant Narang
(R) 2004 Nitika Gupta
(R) 2004 Riddhi Sharma
2004 Ritika Behl
(R) 2004 Rubal Jain
(R) 2004 Rohin Kharbanda
(R) 2004 Sagar Lekhwani
(R) 2004 Shashank Soni
(R) 2004 Shivani Thakur
2004 Vaishali Aggarwal

2005 Batch (3+2)
(R) 2005 Abhishek Rathi
2005 Gaurav
2005 Mayur Chadha
(R) 2005 Manika Pandey
(R) 2005 Tarun Chawla

Batch unknown (4):
Ankur Malhotra
(R) Deepak Jain (+5)
Mohit Khajanchi (+2)
Mukesh Bothra
(R) Saurabh Ailawadi (+Udit, Sumit, Sharad-All (R))

The Maybe's
1994 Abhishesk
1998 Harsh Wadhwani

...Have fun everyone - this is really happening!!

Cheers!
Anshu

Our seniormost member & first science batch

Hear Hear! We are now in touch with one of our seniormost members- Sanjay Mcgee. He is from the first batch of the science program and completed high school in 1984! Welcome Sanjay, and thanks for replying to the invitation.

I hope other alums take a cue here and enroll pronto:)

Cheers!

Orkut nearing the magic figure

Hey Hey Hey!

Orkut is just about to reach the magical 100 mark. We already have 95 members there. Not to forget yahoo groups, another 35 members there. I sent out invitations to 10 more people from namesdatabase today, and one has already written back- Kapil Singhania.

Good going people!

Keep joining the bandwagon!

Cheers!

Date for Alumni Meet

A lot of poeple are enthusiastic about coming to the Alumni meet... so I floated 8th or 15th July (both Saturdays) for a get-together at the school.

I hope quite a few people turn up. This is going to be the first event of its kind...for the alumni, by the alumni:) Thats cool! At least people will get a chance to meet each other and we would get many more people into our fold! In addition, the school kids will get a chance to interact with the alumni! So this should be a good thing. Lets see what the school authorities have to say to this plan. Hopefully everything should work out fine!

Cheers!
- Anshu

Our little game

Our little game has drawn many people out of their shells! I had been thinking earlier that guys would win hands down...but I was quite wrong.... We are almost a week into the game, and although the tally has not gone below 50, it is still at 50. and this is really remarkable because a lot of girls are coming forward to contribute! Which means that many of the 85 members read the scraps/messages but dont really reply regularly.

As long as we have a vibrant community going, its fine!
Cheers!
Anshu

Giving back to the school

A handful of alumni are quite enthu about going back to school for a visit. I am sure these very people would also love to step forward to offer some career counselling advice to the X & XII std. students at school. I floated the proposal of contributing to the school on the orkut group today.

The idea is to form a core team of members who will co-ordinate various activities (e.g. career counselling), and ensure we have enough volunteers to carry through this for the years to come. Considering that we have over 100 members on both groups combined, even if 4-5 people volunteer every month, we should be in a good position.

Specifically for the career counselling idea, we can begin by listing our experiences after school. How we chose the under-grad course, when did we plan for the current career we are in, how did we plan that, what all guidance is available for pursuing your area of interests, what resources are there...etc etc etc.

Other than career counselling, we can offer reading sessions to kids in the elementary grade. Spoken english of kids in our school is hardly anything to write home about. Again, some of us can volunteer (But this would be on a weekly basis) to read out stories to these kids so that they can catch the pronunciations.

Once above ideas take good shape, we can have summer camps for taking this forward.

More ideas/ suggestions etc are welcome!
Cheers!
Anshu

Nice game by Manish

I thought the regular stats on the number of members going skywards (just to mention again now that I brought up the topic-orkut-81, yahoo-31), I should blog some activities that are going on on both groups.

Manish has started a numbers game on orkut... starting with 50, add 2 pts for every boy who logs in and subtract 2 for every girl. Well, no guesses for that one on who would win... there are far many boys on the blog than girls... BUT...hang on.. i'll play the slip of the spider as much as possible. I'll do my '2 bit' of pulling down. No sadistic pleasure there...just to show the might of girls! Hail girls!!

Yahoo groups is a little bit dormant. I guess unless one gives a strong nudge to people to come forward and write something, they are, well, dormant. Nonetheless, the sheer numbers are good enough, considering that we've been active only a couple of months.

So long then... until I get something more substantial to write, I would continue the regular small update blog!

And of course, all you blog readers, please do come forward to contribute... think of this blog like the school magazine-our very own Bandwagon

Cheers!

School Tour

The school tour (kids went to Manali this time) would have been great fun. I never went on a school tour, but I am sure a lot of you did. I remember one time when I went with family to Manali when the school kids also happened to be there. It was quite fun. I am sure some people from our groups would have been there as well.

It would be nice to hear from those of you who went to the school tours... how were the experiences like? What all did you do? The tours were normally called educational tours - though I know (and so did everyone else in school) that they were nowhere remotley near being educational. The only thing I remember from my Manali tour was the snow hill near Rohtang Pass and the Hidimba devi temple, which of course had nothing to do with any of what we studied except that Hidimba Devi was Bhima's wife (in Mahabharata) and that Rohtang Pass is one of the few passes that gave us access to China in remote times.

So long then!

Special mention of Rahul Khanna

We have a complaint from Rahul Khanna of the 2003 batch... that no one from his batch his listed on this blog. Well Rahul, my apologies for the same. It just so happens that nobody from your batch responded to the invites I sent out through namesdatabase or register on orkut/yahoogroup and give complete information.

So, you do us the honours of being the first one on the list. I have updated your info in the Class Notes post.

Cheers!

70 and going strong!!!

Hey hey hey! All ye guys and gals out there... Hear hear hear... We have 70 members on orkut... got 111 on the database... all in just about a month. This is really cool! All members deserve a bharat ratna for this great effort!

OK... got to hit the sack now... more updates later

Alumni Meet

Kirti (Yaaran da dashan on orkut) has floated the idea of holding their very own alumni meet in Delhi. This is a great initiative. Thats the way to go people... come up with ideas to get the group running at full steam. For those of us who are in Delhi, and I am sure most of the junta is, this alumni meet would be a good idea to put faces to names and increase your network of friends. Since we are in this (the group I mean) together, we should make every effort to make the best of it!

Hope some of you guys can make it to the Delhi meet. Have a blast!

Dhoom 2!

This is awesome... 63 members on orkut and 22 on yahoo at the last count, though of course, a few of them, and i share the honor too, are members of both groups! Well well.. the databse has over 80 members now, but of course, the contact details of a few are missing. Have been sending invites through yahoogroups to all those whose mail ids we have...essentially mail ids given by current members of the group who are in touch with these people. So, may our numbers rise!!

Uploading a photo from Ankur's album: Thanks
to him, and my apologies in advance for not having asked his permission to use the
pic... but I am sure he wouldn't mind!
You can see Ankur here with his 8th standard
buddies enjoying the winter sunshine in the
school grounds.


Till next time,
Cheers!
Anshu

New life!

Hey....funny as it seemed earlier when I out together the list of alumni from the orkut and yahoo groups, it has infused new life into the group! We have had a spate of mails on the yahoo group, and a couple of people have put up photographs as well. This is really awesome. I hope this continues.

Class Notes Update

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1965 (1)

• Colonel Kuldeep S Chaudhry (Retd.)
  

1984 (1)

• Sanjay McGee (1984-Science) is the seniormost member of our group currently:) He is in Mumbai, working with CNBC's tech department, and doing really well for himself there.
  

1988 (1)

• Praveen Gupta (1988) is currently with Parsh in Delhi.

1990 (1)

• Manmohan Singh (1990-Commerce) - No idea on what/ where he is! Any help on this is appreciated:)
  

1993 (3)

• Manoj Singla (1993-Medical) is with Distribution Control Systems in Saint Louis, MO, USA. He is married and has a son.

• Nitin (1993)

• Puneet (1993)

1991 (1)

• Kapil Singhania (1991-Commerce) is currently in Delhi. More news on Kapil is welcome:)
  

1994 (10)

• Anshu Bhardwaj (1994-Medical) completed Mathematics (H) from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, Masters in Fashion Management from NIFT in '99. and MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business in '08. She is currently working with Target Corp in Minneapolis, USA, where she is also settled after marriage.

• Abhishek (1994-Medical) is into the real estate business and his office is in Chittranjan Park, Delhi. Get in touch with him for all your real estate needs J

• Dushyant Nayak (1994-Medical) completed his bachelors in Law, is married, has a baby daughter, and practices law at Tis Hazari Courts.

• Deepesh Somani (1994-Commerce) completed his bachelors from Delhi Univeristy and currently runs his own business in Delhi. He is married, and has a daughter.

• Jeevan Pal Singh (1994-Medical), too is a lawyer, is married (dont knwo about kids), and practices at Tis Hazari.

• Mohit Bhardwaj (1994-Commerce) completed his masters in Garment Manufacturing Technology course from NIFT and is currently with ITC, Delhi. He too is happily married.

• Neeraj Gupta (1994-Medical) is just about to finish his MD in Biochemistry from MAMC and plans to do his PhD in nuerosciences from New Zealand soon. He is still on the lookout for a match! Eligible candidates may contact him:).

• Piyush Gupta (1994-Medical) did his B.Tech in Computers from IIT-Delhi. He was with Daewoo Telecom for a while.

• Praveen Gupta (1994-Medical) finished college from KMC, is married, has two kids, and manages his businesses. He is in Pitam Pura too.

• Vikram Somani (1994-Arts) completed his bachelors from Delhi Univeristy and currently runs his own business in Delhi. He too has tied the knot!

1995 (9)

• Pooja Gulani (1995), now Mrs. Pooja Puri, did her B.EL. (Ed) from JMC, taught for a while, worked with scholastic, and is right now a home maker. She is happily married and has a 5 year old son, lives in Pitampura.
• Gaurav Sarda (1995) is working with IndusLogic as Tech lead, and is currently in SF, USA
• Nitin Gupta (1995) too is with Indus Logic
• Rohit Gupta (1995) is working with Microsoft USA
• Anant Vijay Dimri (1995) too is with Microsoft, US
• Sunil Gupta (1995) is working as a software developer in Arizona, US
• Amit Gupts (1995) is working with Lucent Technologies, Bangalore
• Prashant Mangla (1995) is with Alcatel, Gurgaon
  

• Yamini Vij (1995) completed her graduation from Laxmi Bai College and now teaches at DAV Rohini. She is also happily married and has a son.

1996 (8)

• Narinder Mehra (1996-Non Medical) is with EMC currently.

• Tanu Malhotra (1996) is in IT
• Nitin Rastogi (1996) from Shalimar Bagh, is also in IT
• Himani Sharma (1996) is doing her PhD
• Hitesh Lath (1996) is a CA working with Price Waterhouse Coopers in California, USA
  
• Puneet Chug (1996) is in Real Estate
• Anurag Oberoi (1996) is in the textile industry and is based in Gurgaon. He is happily married!
• Reena Kapoor Mehrotra (1996) is happily married is in currently in Singapore.

1997 (2)

• Atul Singh (1997-Medical) is pursuing his masters in law from Delhi
  
• Deepika Bhardwaj (1997-Medical) completed her BAMS from Tibiya College, and after working as a consultant to various firms has set up her own chain of health and wellness clinics (http://www.vivacity.in/index.html) a few years ago. She is settled in Gurgaon after marriage.
  
• Gaurav Sadana (1997) is with Max New York Life

1998 (26)

• Ashish Singh (1998-Medical) is- no idea!
  
• Aseem Dange (1998) - again no idea!
  
• Deepti Sinha (1998) is working with Infosys in Bangalore
• Disha Gupta (1998) is a sales & marketing exec and is working with JCB
• Gaurav Jain (1998) is in the BPO & SME Consulting industry and is working with Mosiac Technology.
  
• Gaurav Aggarwal (1998) is a CA and runs his own company in Delhi
  
• Harsh wadhwani (1998) no idea!

• Kunal Chopra (1998-Non Medical) is working as an Engineer with Punj Lloyd in Delhi
• Lokesh Singhal (1998-Non Medical) completed his BIS in 2002 and is currently working with Hewitt Associates, Gurgaon.
  
• Nitin Jain (1998-Commerce) no idea!
• Manish Malik was in PDPS till class 8th, after which he shifted to Montfort (Ashok Vihar), where he completed his XII in 1998. Currently he is working with Adobe, Noida.

• Pratik Adatia (1998) did his CA and then graduated from IIM-Indore this year. He is with PwC.
• Prabhat Gupta (1998- Non Medical) is with TCS, Delhi
  

• Paras Arora (1998-Non-medical) is with Accenture's Software Services, and is based in Bangalore
  
• Rashmi Srivastava (1998) again no idea!
• Rahul Ahuja (1998-Commerce) is in the IT Networking field and currently works with Convergys
  
• Rohit Bhardwaj (1998-Non Medical) completed his Apparel Marketing & Merchandising from NIFT and is currently with the Lifestyle Retail Group in Dubai
• Saurabh Munjal (1998) no idea!

• Saurabh Verma (1998- Non Medical) again no idea!
• Sumit Bazari (1998-Commerce) started looking after his business in Assam after completing graduation
• Vaibhav Munjal (1998) someone give me some info on him pls.)
• Varun Jain (1998-Commerce) is with Price Waterhouse Coopers and is a CA
• Vineet Chadha (1998) no idea!
• Vivek Gupta (1998-Non Medical) has joined the booming telecon industry, and is currently with Orange Business Services in Gurgaon

1999 (4)

• Gagandeep Kaur (1999-Humanities) completed Secretarial Practice from Y.W.C.A/B.A from DU/ PGDin Public Realations - Y.W.C.A/MBA (Marketing) SCDL and is currently employed with Coral Vacations Pvt. Ltd. in Delhi.
  
• Seema Bhardwaj (1999-Commerce) completed her bachelors in Economics from Miranda House, Masters in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and currently works with Fidelity in Gurgaon.
• Neeti Sinha (1999-Medical) is working with Xansa in Noida
• Nitin Bahl (1999-Non Medical) is in the networking industry
  

• Jyoti Garg (1999) is currently in the banking industry in Delhi.
• Tarun Goswami (1999-Medical) is currntly in California, US and is pursuing his PhD in Pharmaceutics from the University of the Pacific Stockton

2000 (18)

• Abhinav Prakash (2000-Medical) is presently interning at Bara Hindu Rao, Delhi, after having taken his MBBS final year exams at MIMER, Pune.
• Aman Sareen (2000-Non Medical) is a BCA graduate and owns a successful mobile phone showroom in Model Town, Delhi.
• Amit Dhingra was with PDPS till Class VIII. He is working with a telecom major in Gurgaon.
  
• Deepak Keswani (2000-Non Medical) is with Mahindra British Telecom and is posted in Noida.
  
• Deshdeep Saxena is 2000 passout and currently works with Infosys.
• Gaurav Gupta (2000-Commerce) is a practising CA.
  

• Manish Gupta (2000) completed his B. Tech from IIT Delhi in 2004 and is now working as Sr. Associate in Techspan (or Headstrong as it is also known abroad), Noida
• Mohit Soni (2000-Non Medical) is happily married and is running his own business.
• Niket Goel (2000) no idea!

• Ruchi Gera (2000-Medical) is a practising Physiotherapist in Delhi.
• Sachin Chowdhary (2000-Medical) is just about to graduate from Sybmiosis ITM and will be taking up a job with Idea Cellular in Pune
  

• Sandhya Chawla (2000-Commerce) is an MBA and a fashion designer too. She is getting married soon.
• Saurabh Dhall (2000-Commerce) is working as Development Consultant with Microsoft
  
• Shashank Chauhan (2000-Medical) completed his MBBS from AIIMS, New Delhi in Dec 2005. He is doing Residency in department of Emergency Medicine and trauma services in AIIMS, and is simultaneously preparing for his PG entrance.

• Sudeep Arya (2000-Non Medical) went to IIT-Guwhati for his B.Tech and at present is working with MSC Software as a software engineer in Pune.
• Sumit Metani (2000) no idea!
• Varun Kapoor (2000-Commerce) ... surprise surprise.... is pursuing a career as a businessman but is also trying his hand at modelling.
  
• Vinay Khatiwala (2000) is pursuing his Masters degree in Chemical Eng. from University School of Studies (G.G.S.I.P.U.).

2001 (28)

• Ankur Gupta (2001) left the school in 1999 after completing X. He is currently doing his masters in Computer Science from The George Washington Univ., in DC, USA.
• Anjali Arora (2001) no idea!

• Deepika Makhijani (2001) completed her under-grad from Daulat Ram and is right now happily married.

• Gagan Narang (2001) completed his graduation and now works full time with his Dad in their business in Azadpur sabzi mandi.
• Garima Sarda (2001) completed her MBA from Fore School of Management and is presently working with ICICI Bank in Mumbai as Assistant Manager
• Gautam Saluja (2001-Non Medical) is working with EMTEX as a Sales & Design professional
• Geetika Anand (2001) no idea again!

• Monika Puri (2001) is currently in her final year of MBBS from Lady Harding Medical College, Delhi.
• Mukesh Jain no idea again!

• Pawan Gulani (2001) completed his BBS and then went on to graduate from IIM Indore. He is joining Reliance in their retail venture this summer. He is me…just me… on orkut!
• Priyanka Sharma (2001) completed her BBA from Delhi, and then Masters in (??). She is now working as an analyst in investment banking.
  

• Rahul Bhateja (2001) did his graduation and now runs his own business in Mukherjee Nagar.
• Rinky Gupta (2001-Non Medical) is pursuing her MCA from Delhi University
  

• Sanesh Vig (2001) is with Hewlett Packard in Bangalore.
• Shilpy Chauhan (2001-Medical) is doing her MBBS from MAMC, Delhi, and is scheduled to finsih her course very soon- now that her intership has started. All the best Shilpy.
• Shveta Lukhmana (2001-Medical) is doing her MBBS from LHMC, Delhi, and is scheduled to finsih her course very soon.

• Sunny Jain (2001) did his Math (H) from Hansraj College and then went on to join his family business. He recently got married.

• Tarun Garg (2001) was in the commerce section and is currently doing his MBA from FORE School in Delhi.

• Timsy Nagpal (2001), after completing her BBE in 2004, graduated from ICFAI Gurgaon and now works with ICICI bank.

• Vaibhav Goel (2001) was from the Non Medical (computer) section. He completed his B.E. from NSIT, Delhi and is currently working with Adobe (Noida).
• Vidhata Jain (2001-Non Medical CS) is currently doing his BE Mechinal from Delhi College of Engineering
  
• Pankaj Gupta, Praveen Goel, Priyanka Aggarwal, Reema Goel, Shruti Chawla - Medical (2001) no idea about any of them!

2002 (21)

• Ajay Nagpal (2002) completed his graduation and now works full time along with his Dad in their business of surgical products.
• Ankur Sethi (2002) completed his B.Com (H) from DU and is currently with Wipro in their BPO group
• Amit Basia (2002) completed his B.Com (H) from Hans Raj College and is now running his own steel business
  
• Ashish Singhal (2002) is doing his engineering from JSS
• Bharti Gaur (2002- Non Medical) is working with IBM Global Services
• Dhawal Shah (2002-Commerce), Dipen Mehta (2002- Commerce), Kartik Prakash (2002), Shaily Goel (2002) & Tarun Sharma (2002) are yet to give more updates on their whereabouts
  

• Gaurav Gupta (2002) completed his graduation from Ramjas College and is now into his own diamond business. we all join him in wishing a very happy married life
  
• Ghaghu Prasad Tudu (2002) is doing Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College Of Engineering.

• Iti Agarwal left PDPS to join Presentation Convent, but is from the 2002 batch. She will soon be joining HCL Technologies at NOIDA.

• Kirti Behl (a.k.a. Yaaran da tashan on orkut) matriculated out of PDPS in 2002 from the Non Medical section. He is currently doing MCA frm IP University(campus).
• Manish Basia (2002) completed his MBA from IIPM and is into his steel business currently
  
• Prashant Dhiman (2002- Non Medical ED) is working as an Electrical Engineer with L & T after completing his B.Tech from KIET
  
• Rachna Jain (2002-Non Medical) has completed her B.Tech from IGIT and is pursuing an MBA from IIT -D now
• Rahul Jain (2002) has completed his MBA from IIM Indore
• Sachin Gupta (2002) also completed his MBA from IIPM and is into the steel business
• Sanjeev Saluja (2002) completed his graduation from Hans Raj College and is currently working with GE
  
• Shimona Khandelwal (2002-Non Medical)
• Tarun Sharma (2002)is a hotel management graduate from IHM-Goa, and is currently working with IBM-Daksh.
  

2003 (6)

• Aman Gulati (2003-Medical), & Nidhi Rajbindra (2003) are yet to give us any updates
  
• Amit Verma (2003- Non Medical) is studying at the IP University
  
• Nidhi (2003-Non Medical) is in the final year of her B.Sc Physics Hons course at Hans Raj College
  
• Rahul Khanna (2003) is working with Hewitt Associates as a software tester after graduating from IP University. He has just completed his BBA.
• Varun Sahai (2003) is doing her B.Tech from NSIT

2004 (9)

• Ankit Bhardwaj (2004-Medical) is in the BPO Sector (Corporate Services) and is working with Vertex India in Delhi
  
• Dhawal sehgal (2004) is pursuing his B.E (IT) from BVP, Delhi.
• Hitakshi Arora (2004-Commerce) is doing her BCA from GGSIPU
  
• Neeraj Gupta (2004) is doing Hotel Management from the Pusa Institute in Delhi
• Neha Bablani (2004-Commerce) is doing her MBA from JIMS
• Neha Bansal (2004-Non Medical) - need some updates

• Ritika Behl (2004) is doing her Mass Comm from IP University
• Shashank Soni (2004) is doing his BE (IT) from Institute of Technology & Management in Gurgaon
  
• Vaishali Agarwal (2004) is earning her bachelors in Technology in Chemical Engineering from I.I.T. Roorkee.

2005 (15)

• Abhisek Rathi (2005) is studying chemical engineering from BITS - Pilani.
• Akanksha Garg (2005-Commerce) is doing her bachelors from DU (c'mon people- more info please)
  

• Garima Bhatnagar (2005-Commerce) is studying journalism at Kalindi College - Hey, thats a new field... kudos to Garima!
• Gaurav Aggarwal (2005) is at the Amity Business School
  
• Jyotika Bansal (2005-Non Medical) is doing ECE from DCE
• Krati Khandelwal is a 2005 pass out and is currently pursuing bachelors from DU with CS from ICSI.
• Mayank Anand Singh (2005-Non Medical) is doing his Electrical Engineering from BMS College
• Mayur Chadha (2005) is doing his Electrical Engineering from GL Bajaj Institute of Technology (Greater NOIDA)
  
• Mansi Sachdeva (2005-Non Medical) is pursuing the B.Tech course at GGSIPU
• Nikhil Sahai (2005-Non Medical) is at USIT , and is in the, you guessed it - IT industry!

• Ravi Bondia (2005-Non Medical) is appearing for his engineering exams this year.
• Sagar Trehan (2005-Non Medical) is at NIT Suratkal
• Tarun Chawla (2005) is studying his B.Tech at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University (SMVDU)
• Mayur Chadha & Swati Taluka - no information!
  

Yahoo Group & Orkut Community Updates

Both yahoo group and the orkut community seem to have taken off like a rocket in the past 2-3 weeks. While we have over 50 members on orkut, the yahoo group has more than 20, and many more who are not yet members.

So, yesterday I did a foolish (but good in the long term) thing- i made a database of all people on orkut and yahoo and mailed it to everyone in the yahoo group. Unfortunately, orkut does not allow one to post attachments (as i came to know from people who use orkut regularly). This got Pawan Gulani rocking and he sent out a list of his batchmates/friends with whom he is in touch with. I'm gonna add his details to the class ntoes chapter so that we know whats happening there!

Well! This is really great! So, while i still have a couple of months at hand before starting with my MBA, I can actually work on some more ideas on the alumni database and site!

Till next time,
Cheers!
Anshu

Alumni Database & School Tour

Alumni database is going pretty strong on the yahoo group - 7 people enrolled on the same day! Thats cool!

Anyways, school is quite deserted at the moment since holidays started last week. Also, the school tour has gone to Kullu Manali this year. For all those who remember, we guys have this annual trip to a hill station beginning of the holidays. So, these guys get back on 5th!

Ah! I remember the one and only tour with which I went - and co-incidentally, that one was to Manali as well;-) comfy co-incident, aint that one?

Other PDPS Groups on the web

Hi All,

Just to post the group names once again:

a) The yahoo group is : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pdpsean
You can send messages there by mailing to pdpsean@yahoogroups.com

b) The one on orkut is a community called Prabhu Dayal Public School. It has more than 50 members already.

c) You can also check out the wikipedia link at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhu_dayal_public_school
and contribute additional information about the school. (By the way, PDPS, pdpsean and all other variants will lead you to the above site.)

Additionally, we've started a database on yahoo groups, so, please register yourself there for sure. This is gonna be a good thing in the long run!

Cheers!
Anshu