IBM India Event in the windy city

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Radhika Chintalapalli - Nature at its best in Fall season

SivaPrashanth - Red - the fall special

Pooja Rikhi - Fall colors

Abhishek Dutta - Last color before the winter

Nagaraju - Fall Color and Colors of Rainbow

Arjun_Priceless Pearls

Arjun_Priceless Pearls

Atul_Saihgal - Nature at its best

Dwijen_Bhadra - Fall color and reflections

Sameer Sharma - Brightness of the Darkness

Avra Banerjee - Fall Art


This photograph narrates the vibrance in nature during the Fall.  I took this photograph in Moline, IL.
The maple leaves form a beautiful pattern on the wall of a restaurant.

Mano M George - Fall Color in Downtown

Mano M George - Fall Color in Downtown, This is taken on Oct 10th at Grant Park, Chicago downtown, just opposite to my office (HCSC). I captured this fall color in my Nikon D5000 DSLR.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

IBM Cultural event update

Hi,
We have received the following responses so far. Kindly encourage your friends and family to participate

Mithun C Narisetty Navistar Mono-act/Mimicry 7 min
Jagmohan Chawla Kraft Poetry/parody act 7 min

Monday, October 11, 2010

Indranarayan Chatterjee - First Post - Fall Color


Indranarayan Chatterjee took this photo by his iPhone on last year Fall season. This is taken in the back yard of Kraft office at Glenview.
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Photography Contest Theme - Fall Colors

Hello everyone,


 Hope everyone had a great summer in Illinois and enjoyed it. Autumn is on the door and officially FALL started today. We have decided "Fall Color" as theme of our photography contest for our IBM India event 2010. I have posted couple of pics of last Fall in Illinois (these pics will not be considered for the contest). Please start sending your pictures capturing the kaleidoscopic nature of Fall.

The theme is – Kaleidoscopic colors of fall.


Some Rules of Photography contest


1) Organizers can not participate - Pijush and Pramit
2) The photo has to be taken by you only
3) Post processing is allowed - Photoshop/Picasa etc
4) The Photo can be a digital painting or picture of a painting done by you
5) Photos has to be sent before 16th October 2010
6) The winner will be decided by reputed jury and organizers  
7) There will be additional winner for the most popular photo - which will be decided by a poll in this blog, we will also consider the comments against the photograph
8) People, Cityscape, Houses, Nature can be a part of the shot along with the main theme
9) Please do not copy any photograph from Internet or any other sources. Keep it clean and sporting.
10) Send a Caption for your Photo - which will be the title of the post



Please send your photos to pijush.ranjan.ghosh@in.ibm.com OR pramit.roy@in.ibm.com

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

First Meeting in Oak Brook - ACE

                                                         Alok,  Pramit,   Sameer and Siva



Alok, Pijush, Pramit and Siva

The first meeting took place at ACE hardware office in Oak Brook, IL on 21st September. The core team has been formed. As of now we have divide the responsibility to the existing  members.
·         Siva  –      Organize Cultural events
·         Sameer – Organize the Cultural event. Kraft communications
·         Pramit – Blog maintenance and Event Registration
·         Pijush – Primary Communication, Approvals, Blog, Event Photography, Guest
·         Sanjay – Food and snacks, Take Away gifts, Event gifts

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

IBM India Event - 2010 - Illinois

We are going to organize IBM India event in Illinois, Chicago area on 24th October Sunday. We are inviting all colleagues from Navistar, Walgreen, Kraft, Saralee, Ace, Abbott and all accounts of Illinois where we have GBS - GD landed resources. This is a family event and you are cordially invited with your family. Caterpillar will have seperate event in Peoria.

The basic objective is to have a corporate get-together with minimal business and mainly fun. To know each other from different account, spend good time with family and kids and enjoy the event.

Please contact the following group for any questions.

1) Pijush Ghosh - General Communication (pijush.ranjan.ghosh@in.ibm.com,  Mobile: 1 -773-332-3665)
2) Sanjay Kabra - Location Communication (sankabra@in.ibm.com, Mobile: 1-773-410-3197)
3) Pramit Roy (pramit.roy@in.ibm.com) / SivaPrashanth V Danturthy (Siva.Danturthy@saralee.com - Mobile: 1-314-486-6565) - Saralee Communication
4) Dwijen Bhadra - Abbott Communication (dwbhadra@in.ibm.com, Mobile: 1-614-624-5670)
6) Sameer Sharma - Kraft Communication (sameer.sharma@kraft.com, Mobile: 1-847-648-1311)
7) Karanam Venkat Ramana- Navistar Account  ( karamana@in.ibm.com, Mobile: 1-630 220 8805)