Madhumita Satpathy's Marriage

Madhumita is my cousin and the youngest daughter in the Satpathy family (my generation). She married Sidharth Hotha on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at Rourkela, Orissa.

I attended her wedding along with my parents, grand parents and a host of other family members. This trip to Rourkela was rather arduous. I left Hyderabad on Tuesday afternoon by Faluknama Express and arrived at Bhubaneswar on Wednesday morning at about 11.20 am. Took the late night bus to Rourkela the same day. Attended the marriage and then caught the train back to Bhubaneswar the same night. Finally took Konark Express back to Hyderabad on Friday afternoon, arriving at 11.30 am on Saturday morning. Phew!

This marriage was overshadowed by the death of my youngest uncle (father's youngest brother). As a result none of the Satpathy family (of the same Gotra) could participate in the marriage itself. The bride was given away by her maternal uncle, Dr. Bharatendu Swain (Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad). My aunt (father's sister) did most of the work.

Anyway, I am back in Hyderabad now. Catching up on emails and have the boss breathing down my back...

I Found A School Chum Today

Or rather he found me :-)

I had this nice email from Praloy Roy a.k.a "Anda" (Egg in Hindi), in my Yahoo account this morning. We had a Kid's day at Oracle today & I took Padmaja and the kids to Oracle Campus in the morning. I didn't see my emails till after lunch and was pleasantly surprised to see Praloy's email.

Called him in the evening and spoke for a while. Praloy is married now and has a child. He works for Reliance Industries in Delhi. He got my email address from Sandip Mishra, who he got in touch with via Sudhir Prasad, another school chum.

Praloy is the 5th school friend I am in direct contact with. Sandip of course works for Oracle (HR), Sudhir is also in Hyderabad. The third person is Sanjay Kumar who is a Doctor in Mumbai. Last but not the least is Y Krishna, or as he prefers to call himself, "Why Krishna". Krishna is currently in London working for CitiGroup.

The others are scattered around the world. A couple I have contacted on Orkut. No idea where the others are.

Some names I remember (Class of 1988, Ispat E.M School, Rourkela):
Debashish Bhatacharya
Rakesh Shahay
Arindum Mukherjee
Vikas Singh
Arun Panda
Arnab
Vivek Pant
Jhilmil Mohanty
Supriya Roy

Will add more if I remember...

If you know anybody from this class, please drop me a line at gautam (AT) satpathy (dot) in, or leave a comment on this post.