First the family ....

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Nov 30th, 2002. From left to right:My elder brother (a Major in the Indian Army), my mother (the most amazing person I know ... ), my father (my point of reference when it comes to anything near integrity and taking a stand) and the most loved (and feared) member of the family: my sister (she's in her final year of school, 12th Std.) ... actually our pet doggie and cat are missing. When this photograph was taken, the family was all dressed to go to a wedding; so I guess they didnt want to have dog /cat hair all over their clothes :)

... and hey !! no !! I am not behind the camera !! I was half way across the world when this photo was taken :(

Our research team ....

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From Left to Right : Nakhleh Hussary (finishing up his PhD thesis), Dietmar bendix (Post doc, now back in Germany), Prof. Pfender , Prof. Mentell (from Univ. of Bochum, Germany, was on a visit then), Kay Dausendschoen (visiting student from Germany), Prof. Heberlein (the boss :) ), Min Hur (Post Doc), Nicole Wagner (Grad student, finishin up her MS thesis), Jami McLaren (grad student beginning his PhD from Fall 02), Patrick (Undergrad), Martin Vysohlid (finishing up his MS thesis), Toru Iwao (Post Doc), John Peters (starting off on his PhD, after completing his MS), Rajesh Mukherjee (starting off on his PhD, changed over from MS), Eric Runde (almost through with his MS) ... as usual, yours' truly is behind the camera !! :)

Some of my friends here in the U of M ....

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Sept 14th, 2002. This was after a soccer game with some students who started off this semester (Fall 2002). We (AID-MN) had a program, LitFest (to get them into the gang sort off :) ) and in the evening we went out for a few games. While we played soccer, a few others played american football (have a pic of that too, will upload it sometime soon) ... and for a change, I am in front of the camera ... second from the extreme right

Twin Cities Marathon 2002

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One of my senior friends, Ashok Gidwani ran the Twin Cities marathon and I least I could do was photograph him and discourage him in his efforts at wearing himself out :)

With Nicholas and friends before he left for St. Louis

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From left to right: Veena Choudhary, her hubby Brahmaji, Kanan Puntambekar, Pramila Vasudevan, Nicholas Iyadurai, Vijay Rajamani, Shekhar (?) [Nicholas' friend from St. Louis, who had come down to escort him to the land of the red necks :)] and your's truely :) [na, thats not a golden tooth, its just that my teeth are so clean that the flash reflects off it ;) ]