It was good to go home. The release at XLRI was on 4th Aug 2005. The venue was the small audi. Seated left to right: Fr Casimir Raj, Director of XLRI, Dr Jittu Singh, Bushen Raina – MD Tinplate Co of India and Rana Sinha, President of the Jamshedpur Chapter of XL Alumni.Having food at the XL mess was a great idea and Madhukar Shukla’s brain child. That was followed by the XL band Bodhi Tree, playing some terrific XL songs that have been composed over the years. I finally got to hear “XL di Kudiyan” (composer Rohit Munjal – who I finally met at Hyderabad).Had chai and samosas at Niranjan’s dhaba and then had a serious OMAXI meeting with Madhukar Shukla for the rest of the evening.
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