All our gang was back and we spent 3 great days together. Friends, parties, booze, Indian Ocean live, paintball and, of course, gyaan sessions (with anyone who’s company name had the word “consulting” the most sought after!) It was amazing stuff. And since a picture says more than a thousand words, here’s some snaps from Solstice…

All my Solstice pictures here.

I’m pretty excited about being back to campus with all my friends around! 3 days of fun!!!!!!!!

Look out for a ton of photos next week

And there are some biggies landing up for the event:

• Mr. Analjit Singh, Chairman, Max Healthcare
• Dr. Kushagra Katariya, CEO, Artemis Health Sciences
• Dr. K. Ravindranath, CEO, Global Hospitals
• Brig. Joe Curian, COO, Global Hospitals
• Dr. Nayan Shah, President, Hospital Management Services, Ambani Life Sciences Centre
• Daljit Singh, President, Strategy & Organizational Development, Fortis Healthcare
• Dr. Ram Kumar Narain, Reliance Health
• Dr. K. Hariprasad, CEO, Apollo Hyderabad

Its amazing to see such a lot of corporate biggies heading down to ISB for the healthcare summit. I guess it just shows that corporate healthcare in India is coming of age. And that should, hopefully, bring along a ton of opportunities for people focusing on the business side of healthcare like us doctors with MBAs.

This should be a great opportunity for this batch’s group of docs to showcase their talents in front of all these potential recruiters. Look out for some updates on the Summit this week.

Here’s a nice photo I clicked during a recent sunset. I am beginning to use more features of my D50 now. Just being able to experiment and see the results instantly is the most awesome thing.

For this photo I used spot metering to get the orange sky just right and post-processed the RAW in Adobe Lightroom. Lightroom too is an amazing piece of software and, since it is in Beta, totally free! Give it a shot.

ISB’s lush green campus is full of wonders of nature (both of the human and non-human kind! ;-))

I’ve been clicking away and have quite a collection of peacocks, butterflies, birds and flowers.

Here’s my Flickr set of Flora and Fauna @ ISB.

Check it out and please do give me your feedback on the pics!

See the picture on Flickr - Campus

Lots of people here at ISB keep joking that I take my camera to the loo too

But my reply to that - See this pic which won the “Wildlife on Campus” photo contest!!!

This was a great shot I got while returning from class one day. This bird kept posing for me as tried composing this from a couple of angles.

The sky here is usually quite blue and clear so I’ve been getting great shots.

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See the picture on Flickr - SV at sunset

A nice sunset casting its glow on our Student Village tower.

ISB has 3 student villages which house all the students (418 of us in my batch!) The villages have quads (shared accomodation for 4 students) and studio apartments (not what the Americans call a studio - it has a bedroom, a living room and a kitchen, for married students.)

Each SV has a slightly different layout. SV 2 & 3 have mirror pools (which are rarely filled!) and SV1 has a rock garden. SV1 (built the latest - don’t ask why the reverse numbering) also houses the most students.

Overall, the amenities are great. House-keeping comes over daily, so even the messiest of us have clean rooms! Hyderabad has great weather and its nice sitting outside near the mirror pool on in a balcony working on your assignments or surfing the Net (the ubiquitious Wi-Fi network ensures you are always connected!)

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Cloudy day

Here’s another nice day on the campus and gives a feel of the nature all around.

(I was trying to get some sunray’s that were there a moment ago…but by the time I clicked they were gone )

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EH mirror pool

Originally uploaded by docrahul.

One of the first pictures I took after landing up at ISB (Indian School of Business, Hyderabad) in April this year. It is by far also the best.

ISB has an excellent campus - open & lush green. Its been nearly three months here and I haven’t explored the whole campus yet!