[Reader-list] Bombay Meeting - Every Month Now!

[kaiwan mehta]

Hi
We met yesterday, that was Saturday the 9th of April, 2005. The succes
of it? We decided to meet the first Saturday of every month.

There were 13 of us.
There was Smriti, Prashant, Madhavi, Pankaj, Lakshmi, Mario, Shai,
Ankur, Zainab, Ninad, Ateya and myself oh yes and a visitor, Zack.

The session went on for nearly 2-1/2 hrs people kept strolling in continuously.

After the initial chill and thaw we got discussing many things, from
your project and mine to many other things and finally bitching too!!
It was best to put faces to projects and postings.

Well it took a short time for all of us to get comfortable, but we
were soon identifying interests and talking personally with each
other. There was a nice mix of general conversation and project
specific discussions. At one level we were all introducing our
projects and then more details were discussed between couples or trios
specifically interested in each others works. So it was interesting
and worth it sharing experiences. Often the experiences discussed
methodologies of operating in the field – past and present experiences
and obviously sharing resources.

All in all it was great, all of us were happy and satisfied at the end
of it and we on the spot decided to meet every month – the first
Saturday (which Prashant prefers to call the Sarai Satsang!).

It will be good if others add in their experiences and observations
too, to my mail.

Well thanks all for being there!

Best Regards,
Kaiwan

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Kaiwan Mehta
Architect and Urban Reseracher

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