Prof. Vishnu Bhatt once said that most of the students who passed out of MCC did well in their careers. At that time, we however had our apprehensions about how life would treat us. But I guess it has treated us all quite fairly. A brief roundup - if there are any factual errors, pl. let me know:
Amos Miller found the love of his life while in his second year of MA. He and Grizilda had done their BA English together but it was only after she went away for a year to do her B.Ed that Miller realised her worth :0 When she came back to do her MA the next year, Miller proposed and Griz disposed. All was well since they belonged to the same community, so they happily deserted us in the gutters and found their own gutter havens for chitchat. We always wondered what they talked about. And Griz confided to us once that they talked about us! Can we call that romantic?
Anyway Miller found a job with PN Writer & Co. after his Mphil course, while Griz took up the teaching profession and they got married. They have a girl and a boy, Sheela and Samson, and they live happily ever after.
(Well, Miller now works in the UAE and his family joined him there recently.)
Sunita Gopalakrishnan became Sunita Jaykumar in 1993, when her parents decided that it was high time she tied the knot and made her stars happy. She now lives in the US with her engineer husband and 11-year-old son Kartick. She works as an HR manager with Nokia?
Usha Sarah patriotically married an IAF officer named Thomas Verghese in 1995, while she was teaching in a private college. Luckily for her, he was transferred from terrorist-infected Kashmir to Gwalior. They migrated to the US with their daughter Sharon (now 11 yrs) in 1999. Their 2nd daughter Sherin,5, and son Noel, 3, are natural-born US citizens. Usha is a stay-at-home mom while her hubby works with the Ford in Michigan.
Mahalakshmi and Prof. Arul had a whirlwind romance while we were doing our II MA, beginning with our Kodai trip. She became the Goddess Lakshmi of his life and helped achieve his ambition of studying/working in the Americas. Maha now works as a librarian at the Saskatoon Public Library in Canada. The Kumarans have a 5-yr-old son named James, also known as Magizhnan. Please read her blog and send her your comments.
Gladson has been a sports reporter for long, and went to the UK on a fellowship in the late 90s. He joined the Hindu as a sports reporter, and I used to see him occasionally then. He then found a job with the Time of India in Hyderabad, his hometown, to join his child and wife Vijaya Mary, who heads the Metro Plus desk there.
Murali is a big man in The Hindu, rising steadily up the career ladder to become an Assistant Editor. He has written some good articles, and went to the UK on a British Council-Chevening fellowship. He is yet to find the love of his life, and lives with his mother. His father passed away some time back.
Rajeevnath has been working as a teacher in Bangkok since 1995. He had earlier worked with the Indian Express. Some of us had attended his marriage a few years back in Chennai.
Prem and Venky are still inseparable like Laurel and Hardy. Prem works as a criminal lawyer in Nagercoil and his wife Babita is also a lawyer. They have two sons.
Venky practises as a lawyer in Chennai, and lives with his wife Subadra and daughter Reva (the electric car was named after her!) and son Magant.
Annie works as a lecturer in Guru Nanak college while her husband Sajan runs a business in plastics. She got married in 1999 and has a 4-year-old daughter called Riya.
Roshin works in the editorial department of Frontline. She married Vinod in 1999 and has a son named Ashwin and a daughter named Miriam alias Kripa aged 3 1/2 and 2 respectively.
This is a brief profile of the active blog/class mates. Will try to come up with a database of the rest, who have been living incommunicado.... Compiled by Rosh.
1 comment:
Hmm. Terribly sorry, Roshin. You deserve the compliments & the copyrights then! Could'nt identify the narrator! Good technique.
Got misled by Miller's fly pic below your posting.
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