Wow.
What a fun day! I am just blown away by the fabulous response from this community, nay family for the Discover India 2015 event. It was a sheer joy to see everyone huddle together and come up with answers for everything I could throw at them. The camaraderie was remarkable. And that alone was worth the effort. Before I go on and on, a whole lot of thanks are in order.
- To BB Travel Experts and Bomi Patel for being a wonderful sponsor of the event. We hope to work with BBTES for future events and also work with them on our travel needs.
- To the brain trust at CIC for guiding me through this event. For all the time I am spotted at CIC events, this was my first real shot at organizing one for the community. And I learnt a lot along the way. To that I am thankful to Latha, Sonal, Krithika, Anjana, Sachin, and Manish. So much more to learn from you before Diwali.
- To Rosy Singh for helping out with the snacks and for helping teams with answers when they needed them. Thank you so much. Look forward to seeing you participate next year.
- To Praneetha for taking fantastic pictures that tell the whole story. The images captured not just the event but the emotion- the rapt attentiveness to the question, the bonhomie, the joys, the disappointments, the works. Loved the pictures.
- To Chandana for rushing home and bringing the all important speaker. I promise the sound will be better managed next time. maybe with a better laptop and much better recording.
- To Venki, Shriram and many more who helped me get the place set up in the first place before the event.
- To Amit N, Amit D, Latha, Santhosh, Venkata, and Eshwari for helping clean up the hall afterwards.
- To Team Panditji who bore not just the best name but took the effort to dress up for the occasion. My Nehru cap off to you.
- To Sanketh for keeping score during the game. You kept everyone honest. Good job.
- To my wonderful wife and son who gave me the time to work on this by taking on everything I was supposed to be doing instead of this. And for helping me manage the event.
- And to all of you participants and audience. Young and old, you rock. It was not a short event. It was 4 hours long. And you stayed enthusiastic all that time. It was so much fun putting questions together and then seeing them get knocked out of the park.
- My congrats to not just the winners but every one of you who participated and made this an event to remember. For some of you it took a lot to overcome your hesitation and jump in. And that was so awesome.
