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Celebrating the ‘Festival of Colours’ ‘Famina’ Club at
Birlasoft Hyderabad
B
irlasoft Hyderabad Office launched a
ladies club, called ‘Famina’ on the occasion
of Women’s Day. The multiple objectives
of the club are to add fun at work and provide
a platform to the women folk at Hyderabad to
share their experiences, problems at workplace
and associate to resolve these problems. To
achieve these objectives, a meeting, led by HR
would be held every quarter.
To celebrate Women’s day and the
commencement of the club, a medical specialist
T
o bring a feeling of festive happiness were supposed to reach out to them (on the was invited to deliver a lecture on cervical cancer
in the employees, Synapse team basis of the clues provided) and wish them on March 8th, 2011. The lecture was followed
celebrated Holi on March 17th, 2011. ‘Happy Holi’. This way, the game gave Synapse by the discussions on the modus operandi of the
The celebrations commenced with awarding team an opportunity to interact and bond with club and the cake cutting ceremony. Besides this,
funny titles to the team members, followed by the employees working in other functions. there were exciting games, scrumptious food and
the ‘Treasure Hunt’ game. In this game, the To add sweetness to the celebrations, lots of prizes.
treasures that the participants were supposed delectable Gujjiya and Thandai were served. The The celebration was a complete package of fun,
to hunt for, were kept with the employees of celebration concluded with colouring each other frolic and learning...
different functions/teams and the participants in shades of Gulal, love and happiness. -Nisha Mathur, Manager – HR
‘Essay Writing Competition’
T
he Young Leaders Professional
Development Group organized an ‘Essay
Writing Competition’ in all the three
Noida offices on March 29th, 2011.
The competition was aimed to create
awareness on the contemporary issues, to test
and improve the writing skills of the participants
which are the prerequisites for professional
excellence.
The group extends its heartiest congratulations to
all the participants, winners and gives special thanks
to the organizers and judges for their commendable
efforts and support!
Centre Winners Runners up Organizers Judges
Corporate Office, Sector 63 Astha Tyagi Ebha Agarwal & Khirabdhi Bhol Ankit Gupta & Vaishali Amar Singh, Head M & A
GDC Office, Sector 63 Uddalak Banerjee Alok Kaushik Ajay Gupta & Pruthvi Kalari Preeti Agarwal, Senior Project Manager
Sector 59 Office Sameer Anand Shwetank Arya Akhil Gupta & Amrita Kohli Sanjay Bajaj, General Manager - Insurance
Birlasoftians ‘Bleeding Blue’
S
pecial screening of India V/s Pakistan Cricket
World Cup 2011 was organized on March
30th, 2011 at all the Birlasoft centres across
India. All the Birlasoftians were dressed in blue and
came together to cheer the Indian team. By 2 p.m.,
the employees had assembled at the Breakout area.
The tattoos of Indian flag added color and vibrancy
to the thrilling atmosphere. Furthermore, snacks
and coolers were served to rejuvenate the employees.
As the match progressed, the break out areas echoed
the sounds of "Go India Go".
The Indian team finally did not leave our
Birlasoftians disappointed!
-Manasa HB, Executive – HR
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