Monday, July 27, 2009

C-DOT PDD

After the first 36 months, two main documents were made at C-DOT:

  • A Report to the Nation - it was a function held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi where the then Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi was the Chief Guest, and the status of C-DOT activities and accomplishments was presented to him. This was called 'A Report to the Nation'. A document with this name was also published. C-DOTians from Bangalore had travelled in a special train to be a part of this historic event.
  • PDD - This was another document that was published. PDD was the acronym for Process Design Document - no one wanted to make these, it had the detailed design as well as psuedo code - everyone wanted to just jump to coding! Such was the impact of PDDs on everyone, that we decided to make another one, but with some difference. PDD meant 'Personal Details Divulged'. It was an album which had pictures of everyone who had joined C-DOT in the first 36 months, and it had a write-up about them which as written by one of the employees.
The PDD was a massive effort - to capture nearly 600 C-DOTians was not easy. Many had already left. There was a big team working on it (see the sign off sheet). As we look back, PDD was perhaps the more important of the two documents that were released after 36 months :).

Well, PDD is available on the web now, and it will be like going down the memory lane. Many of the then C-DOTians have lost their copy (everyone got a copy). And the ones who joined later may not have seen it.

Just go ahead...check it out on http://www.cdotpdd.com/. For best results use Internet Explorer.


Enjoy......

Aadesh (1985 to 1992) & Vandna (1985 to 1988)

PS: As we all enjoy, let us thank two people who made this possible - Sanjeev Srivastava and Mohan Bhat, both volunteers of Art of Living.

20 comments:

  1. Great job.
    thanks to Aadesh, Vandana Sanjeev and Mohan.
    Cannot help point out , though, that Ashok Kumar S' page contains data related to Aashish Saigal and Aashish Saigal's contains a repeat of the person above him in the list.
    This does NOT in anyway reduce the pleasure of perusing the PDD , though !!

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  2. Thanks Vasudevan!! We have rectified the links.

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  3. good work and nice to see lot of information

    Kulasekaran

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  4. Aadesh, Vandna, Sanjeev, Mohan and everybody involved in PDD, Excellent effort - original and now. I lost my original copy long back. Thanks for bringing all the 500 odd great characters back alive - Venkat

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  5. Great Job in getting this online...I showed this to my children and first comment I got was ...Oh! you have gained lots of weight after leaving C-DOT..

    One thought if we could add our current picture and write comments on then & now...

    Lalit Dhingra

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  6. Thank you Aadesh, Vandana and PDD team! You both remain time-invariant awesome couple adding value and spreading joy all around you!

    with warm regards,
    - Ripu

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  7. greatjob vandana and sir ji and the entire team . You need to convey our sincere thanks to your art of living freinds.

    Is there any way we can have the report to nation also available , with snap shots?

    cheers
    kumar

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  8. Impressed with the original PDD and more impressed with the digitization effort. Pictures, Words captured a quarter century ago brought back fond memories.
    I had a grin on my face from page one to the last.
    Thank you all for making my day.

    Vinod Sajja

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  9. Excellent work. Thanks to AOL volunteers Sanjeev Srivastava and Mohan Bhat for this digital copy. And to Aadesh, Vandana & others for the hard copy.

    Murali.

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  10. Great job. I read through the description about many colleagues (S/Sh Meemamsi,Pitke,Lal, Venkat,Dixit Anurag,Matange,PKG,...),again. It was so accurate that a homeopath can prescribe constitutional medicine reading it. And also none of them have changed a bit. Compliments once again.

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  11. How to change the picture in the NOW profile?

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  12. Team - this is an amazing piece of work - Congratulations. Brings back vivid memories and actually is quite energizing - Saugat

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  13. Please send your Name and picture at info@cdotpdd.com. We will update your information.

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  14. Nice job !
    My daughter has hit this link when she googled me and asked me: Were you working for in c-dot ? you look like a kid.

    It is amazing to remember you all after 14 years of leaving c-dot.

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  15. Awesome work,

    Don't think any of the C-Dotians would remember me anymore. I am Mamta (Sharma) Bhattacharya who was the secretary to Mr. Vijay Dabas in the year 1987.

    Very grateful to all those who are bringing this to us, I have a small technical issue though.

    The profile I created for myself has somehow landed under Man Namrit Kaur's (Dolly) description. How do I sort this?

    Huggles,
    Mamta

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  16. Muthugopalakrishnan AJanuary 1, 2010 at 12:06 PM

    A work of art and words. Terrific.

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  17. You have a KN Srinath on your list. He is one of the biggest cheats and thieves that can be there in Bangalore. He is a pest and a Brahmin who eats meat and his ugly family does the same. He has corrupted people, stol;en from C Dot in huge amounts/qty., and he has blackmailed all the people around him including officers and others.

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  18. I came across this and it is awesome to see all the faces in PDD. I was in c-dot up to 1988 and left for my Masters to US.
    Ajith

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