Diwali Celebration: Year 2015

We received the above mail on 06.11.2015 at 03:40pm and as specified, in five minutes everyone rushed to Shraddha’s desk to pick the chit. Not only programmers but also the managers were equally enthusiast in this activity. We do celebrate Diwali at home with family and friends; but the feeling of celebrating the same with our System’s family is truly different. We had to do decorations as per the zones (NORTH, SOUTH, EAST and WEST) and come in traditional avatar. All these creative ideas, led by PS (Priyanka Salvi), come up just three to four days prior with no compromise on our work. House-keeping folks will help us with the floor decorations which go on till 9pm a day prior to the event. Finally, it was 10.11.2015 and we were greeted by this lovely rangoli at the entrance.

 

We were allotted time for Bay decorations till 10.30am. It reminded of the decorations we did during College festivals. Truly speaking, our workplace is like another college. Then we had photo shoot for an hour. It is difficult to fit the whole family into one frame. Deepak Sir randomly called up people who were around. “Ae Shyam, hum sabka ek family photo le naa” That person, whatever his name was, started acting like a professional photographer. He clicked once, and then checked it; he clicked again, checked it. We were wondering… At last he gave thumbs up! And we were done with the photo session. This is our Family Photo:

 Have a look at some of the bay decorations: 

Lucknow: Nawabi kebabs, Non-Veg, Kulfi, Lassi

Ayodhya: Full of Lights, Ravan-dahan

West Bengal: Durga Puja, no pic of Rasgulla (eaten!)

South India: Rice, Idli-chutni, Pongal, Banana, Vada, Coconut

Welcome to Goa: Beaches, Ship, Carnival

Jai Maharashtra: Ganpati Bappa Morya! Shivaji Maharaj, Diwali faral, Mumbai special Vada-pav, Jhunka-bhaakar, Puranpoli

Gujarat: Navratri, Kaipoche, Dhokla, Fafda

Rajasthan: Thali, Camels in desert

Not just this, we also have decorated desks:

Desk of Priyanka Tawde

As usual we have the Housie: fast five, first row, last row, middle row and full housie. This year we got a chance to tag our friends. For team activities we had “Guess the Jingle”. There were old advertisements played without music and we had to guess the lyrics and sing it. Credit goes to Chandu (Chandrashekhar Todur), Sayali Ranadive and team for this game. Those Ads were tough to guess; we couldn’t help Google-ing on our smart-phones. There was Diwali Word Game: crossword and word search puzzle.

The last session was Prize distribution by Mr. Manish Choksi. WEST and SOUTH zone won the best bay decorations. The best dress awards went to: Shraddha Patil, Vrushali Darade, Shailesh Malkar and Nikhil Deshmukh.