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  • New Web Site

    Our new website has finally taken off. A project that has been going on for God alone knows how many days. We were looking for a good host and found Godaddy.com and then a tool that would simplify the management of the website content and finally settled for wordpress. While the content as on date is the same as the old web site, expect changes as and when they come along. After all change is the only constant in life:-) Thanks to Priya and Bhavesh for their ceaseless efforts in seeing this project through.

    Contributed by Manish Kamdar

  • Team Rincon – Our Next Generation

    No this in no way is to say that we are old or such but felt that we ought to highlight also what the next generation is upto. Khush Rathod, son of Bhavesh and Siddhi Rathod is featured in an advertisement for Kotak Mahindra Bank. Even if he is there for a few seconds, you can’t miss the happy go lucky Khush as the child in the clip. As a part of Team Rincon, it is a matter of pride that our next generation is on to achieve laurels that we never did 🙂

    Here is the link

  • Dassera Celebrations 2010

    Dassera is the festival of victory of good over evil. It is the day when Lord Rama killed the demon Ravana. It is considered a very auspicious day here in India and people worship their tools, tackle etc. on that day.

    As part of the Dassera festivities, Team Rincon had organised a small party on Friday, October 14, 2010 since Dassera was falling on a Sunday this year. While we had planned that all should be in traditional outfits, only few of us actually turned up that way as the sales team had meetings to attend to. We feasted on some traditional Gujarati savouries like dhokla and kachoris from Matunga and also had a yummy sweet dish, malai sandwich.

    We all wished each other with open hearts. I felt this was the time when the entire team actually met and truly opened their hearts. We enjoyed every moment to the fullest. The actual photographs are missing as our official photographer, Bhavesh forgot to get his DSLR camera (which otherwise is always stationed on his desk). Thankfully Kiran and Sunil stepped in with the cameras in their mobile phones. (God bless Nokia)

    Last but not the least my heartfelt thanks to all who participated in the joy of Dassera. There is more to come.

    Contributed by Shanti Devadiga

  • Our 12th Birthday Celebrations

    June 26, 2010 when Rincon completed 12 years and to celebrate our entry into teens we decided to do something different. Here is what some of the team members wrote:

    Bhavesh Rathod wrote:

    We often celebrate our birthdays with our dear and near ones. This time it was different with Team Rincon. On our 12th birthday we visited 3 orphanages. It was really nice to see the whole team together there and would like to thank the whole team for making it special by their presence.

    Sunday 27th June we visited a school at Matunga. I was stunned to see so many people waiting on the footpath (approx 150 people). Sunday friends made all the arrangements for food, packed nicely in a white box. With the help of them and some of us, food was distributed to all of them in a span of 10 minutes. I had never done this before.

    Sunday friends are doing a very nice job. Many thanks to them. A drive back home made me think … People who have every thing in life … if they could donate a little food or some essential things, the needy people would not require to beg around the streets of Mumbai rather any where in the world.

    Thanks Rincon for giving me the opportunity. Spare some time for people who require a little help.

    Ashish Baby wrote:

    Many of the Indians don’t know where their next meal is coming from or if they might even get one. On the occasion of Rincon’s 12th birthday, we decided to feed some one needy instead of ourselves. On Saturday June 26, 2010 the entire Rincon team along with our family members joined children from Shradhanand Mahilashram and BJ Home, two orphanages for lunch. We spent some quality time with the kids at Shradhanand Mahilashram. The person incharge at BJ home showed us the kitchen and explained their routine. It was a place where our spirit soared and our soul grounded. What touched our hearts tremendously was how these organisations had embraced these under privileged children of our community!

    Ruchir Sharma wrote:

    I had heard a lot about under privileged kids being taken care of at ashrams. For the first time experienced how they crave for love. Two incidents which I like to share:

    At Shraddhanand Mahilashram, I was standing on the side when the kids were being server with Lunch. I was as usual holding a folding umbrella in my hands. There was a boy aged around 5 years who came to me and said what is this? I actually thought have these children not seen this?

    After that, there was a boy who was sitting near one of the doors and I said hello to him. He said “Mama” (as usual what other kids there said) Then I touched him on his head and he was pleased. So even I went on my knees and touched his cheek. He did the same thing to me as well. He touched my head and my cheek, and when I got up to walk, he started crawling. He was an absolutely normal boy when he was sitting, never ever thought that he couldn’t walk. But God had not given him the power to stand. He had to crawl as monkeys do walk and move forward.

    Both the experiences makes me feel just one thing. “Value and Thank Every Bit What God Gives Us”

    Kiran Rao wrote:

    On the occasion of the twelfth anniversary of Rincon, Team Rincon sponsored through Sunday Friends food packets for the welfare of the down-trodden. Sunday Friends is established with a clear concept of genuine help and they believe in “We make a living by what we get, but we make a Life by what we give”

    We went to the venue and to our utter amazement we saw at least 100-150 men, women and children sitting on the footpath waiting for the food to be distributed. Sunday Friends had organised food packets and it was brought in a tempo. We were all given packets to be distributed and the volunteers of Sunday Friends clearly instructed the people to take only one packet and not to move from their place till the distribution was completed.

    During the distribution, a funny incident took place. One of the volunteers was giving a packet to one lady who requested for 2 packets viz one for her and one for her child. The volunteer told her that he could not see the child anywhere. She told him that she is pregnant and the baby is inside. Obviously her request was not entertained. Meanwhile they ran out of food packets as the number of people exceeded their expectations. The volunteers requested all the people who got the food packets to move on and the people who did not get were told to be seated. Immediately they called up their resources and
    arranged for some more packets. At this point of time Harshad joined us with his wife and son. The next consignment of packets was distributed by Kavya (Manish’s daughter) and Kshitij (Harshad’s son) and they were maha thrilled about it.

    It was an experience worth having, I mean about feeding the destitute and less fortunate.

    Priya More wrote:

    Had the privilege to visit Shradhanand Mahilashram run for the benefit of destitute women and children on June 26 at 11.30 am. The smiling faces of the little children before me filled me with happiness. The children there are bright may they their future also be bright. Thanks to Rincon… got to learn something from this visit never to waste food… I promise I will never waste my food no matter how bad it can taste and how full I may be.

    These include pictures of our lunch together at good old Anand Bhavan whose coffee is mind blowing and whose coffee and food shaped the early years of Team Rincon.

  • Hospitality World – Mumbai 2010

    With an aim to increase awareness in the hospitality sector, we participated in the Hospitality World – Mumbai 2010 exhibition which was held from Jan 21 – 23 at the MMRDA Grounds, Bandra Kurla complex, Mumbai. The hospitech seminar attended by IT professionals from various the hospitality segments also created some ripples in the other sectors making all aware about the importance of security, data mining and the need to have a disaster recovery solution. The infamous 26/11 terror attack (in which 2 iconic hotels of Mumbai were attacked) was an eye opener. Many hotels felt the need for better IT solutions which could be managed remotely (ie from outside the hotel premises). Many propsetcs and customers visited our stall and appreciated the solutions portrayed. We are working on getting them converted from prospects to customers. Seen in the picture Ashish Baby in the foreground, Sanal Nair, a visitor, Mr. Sreekumar Nair of Concept Hospitality, Harshad Thakkar.
    Contributed by Ashish Baby

  • Khichdi Party at 93.5 Red FM


    Today was the most memorable day for Manish and me. In one of our previous blogs, I had mentioned about the mid day meal project for children from Municipal and government aided schools funded by ISKCON. Red FM had in the past 3 weeks or so been promoting it on air and had collected INR 1.5 million with an expectation of INR 2 million. Today they were hosting the midday meal (Khichdi party) at their office at Lower Parel and Malishka from Red FM had invited us to join her as one of the donors.
    We reached there at 11.30 am and there was an air of festivity in the office. The children (around 20) were all sitting in the cafeteria waiting for the chief guest, Vivek Oberoi. As usual the celebrities never turn up on time. This gave us an opportunity to mingle with the children and few adults who had also donated for this worthy cause. To our surprise the children were smart and well dressed and more importantly they were able to converse in English without being embarrassed.

    The staff of ISKCON including the Director was also present and the children were discussing posers for the celebrity.
    Meanwhile we got talking to the staff from ISKCON and wanted to know whether these kids really deserved all this. She introduced us to the Principal of the school who told us that before they started this mid day meal the children used to come to school at 7 am and go at 1 pm without any food. Sometimes the children would not come or would not be able to concentrate because of the hunger. She would then buy vada pav and give the children. Fortunately for her she came to know about ISKCON through one of her contacts and was able to get her school enrolled for the programme. This has been going on for the past 1 year and there has been a marked improvement in the attendance and the ability of the child to grasp the knowledge imparted. This was also evident from the level of English they spoke. We also learnt about the challenges the Principal of the school faced in terms of infrastructure needs. They had few rooms for the 400+students and so the moment the next batch came, the class had to be vacated to accommodate the new batch. Then the usual challenge of books, uniforms etc.
    As soon as the celebrity interview got over, the children came over to display the autograph they got. Some children had it autographed on their arms as well. The most touching moment was when they asked us to give our autographs. This feeling cannot be expressed in words.

    All in all it was an experience that taught us more than what we could teach the children. They had simple pleasures in life and were making their best attempts to learn and show their skills too. Led us to believe that given an opportunity, these little minds can be channelized for the betterment of India.
    Contributed by Kiran Rao

  • Rincon supports ISKCON’s initiative

    As per an NGO report, 47% of children under the age of 6 are malnourished. It also states that India ranks below countries like Bangladesh and Nepal on the state of hunger. This tells a lot about India being a developing nation.

    ISKCON has taken the initiative to correct this anomaly. Since 1995, ISKCON has with the help of Government aid is providing midday meals to all the municipal and government aided primary schools in and around Mumbai.

    Fortunately I came to know about this through my wife. All you need to feed one child a meal for a year is just Rs. 700.00. Imagine the small amount – It is less than what we spend at a restaurant for ONE meal for two at an average Mumbai restaurant and here we had an opportunity to sponsor a child for an entire year in that amount. I decided to contribute and make life easier for these children in whatever little way I could. I called up the Project Manager of ISCKON, Mr. Harish Desai and told him of my interest in the project. Meanwhile Manish had also heard about this program on FM and shared the details with me. He too showed interest in it.

    Mr. Harish Desai came to our office and explained about the project and the scope of work being done. He also wanted us to visit the kitchens where the food is hygienically prepared. Just imagine how much we spend on useless things when the same can be better utilised and make India a truly developing nation. What a coincidence that today happens to be Children’s day.
    Having donated you also get an opportunity to go there, serve the children and have food with them on a special occasion like your birthday or wedding anniversary. This is truly for a good cause and we would urge all to do your bit for the society at large.

    As part of Team Rincon, Manish and I are already donating and Rincon as an organisation is also sponsoring students. I am sure a lot of other team members will also come forward for this noble cause.
    Contributed by Kiran Rao

  • October 2009 Birthday celebrations

    Every month with Cold Activity we celebrate birthdays of team members for the current month. Priya More (15th Oct) and Manish Kamdar (24th Oct) were on this month’s list. The day started with a lovely card from TEAM RINCON to Manish, we can say in specific from Priya to Manish… This was a hard hitting counter reply from Priya who was sent a nice greeting from Manish.

    Let me tell you, the whole TEAM enjoy a very healthy relationship… and small fun things like these strengthen our relationship even further. 3 cheers to TEAM RINCON. Hip hip hurray, hip hip hurray, hip hip hurray.





    Before cutting the cake … I wonder why are both of them looking up, nice work by Roopesh who captured this.






    Contributed by Bhavesh Rathod

  • Zetafax supports Windows 7

    Windows 7 is due to be launched on October 22, 2009. Equisys have now completed work on updating Zetafax to support Windows 7, after extensive testing with the release version from Microsoft. This support is now available free of charge for customers with Software Assurance, as a Platform Feature Pack for Zetafax 2009. The feature pack also includes support for Windows Server 2008 R2 – a major update for Windows Server which is being released at the same time by Microsoft.