TIMELESS MEMORIES

Photo 1: In the 70's in Bombay, HS Srinivas and Myself with Mahim branch colleagues. Left to Right: HS Srinivasan, N.R Natarajan (behind HSS), Ram Prasad, Nair (behind Ram Prasad), B.S R Rao, Dalwani, Rajagopal.

Photo 2: 1970s – Mahim branch staff on a picnic organized by D'Cruz. Seated Left-Right: Nair, Ranganathan, Nagaraj, Balraj. 1st Row: Moiudeen, Chatterjee, Mandke, Rajaram. 2nd Row: Dalwani, Rajagopal, boy Krishnamoorthy. Last Row: Thakre, tbd, HSSrinivas, D'Cruz (with hat), BSR Rao, NR Natarajan. My Colleagues from Mahim Branch in Bombay, 1970s.

Photo 3: Top: Sri Rajiv Shetty, Bottom: Sri B.S.R Rao.

Photo 4: In 1970s in Bombay Son-n-Sand at Juhu with Sri Chandru Raheja, Sri Venkatraghavan, Spinner and Sri Prem Aranha. Mr Venkatraghavan had come to play in the Irani trophy.

Photo 5: Left to Right: JL Sharma (Kalpadevi branch), myself NRN, and Ganesh Pai (Worli Branch Manager) at my Bandra IOB Quarters Residence. Sharma was my classmate in Vivekananda College and son of J.V. Somayajulu, founder of a well-known stock exchange broker firm.

Photo 6: In the early 80's as Regional Manager in Bangalore with my colleagues in Dharwad Branch.

Photo 7: 1980's with Sri Veerendra Heggade from Dharmasthala – Opening of IOB Extension counter at Ayurveda hospital in Hassan.

Photo 8: In the early 1980's at Kukke Subramanya Branch.

Photo 9: With Executive Director Ramachandran in the early 80s.

Photo 10: With Chairman, S. Padmanabhan, 1980's in Bangalore Regional Office. To my left is Sri Vasantha Kumar, a very close colleague. We worked together in Bangalore and Bombay, where he was Regional Manager Metro and Manager Fort Branch. Standing behind me on my left is Sri Vallish Rao, Manager of Malleswaram Branch.

Photo 11: Early 1970's in Bandra with my colleagues at IOB Apartment, Bandra Residence. Left to Right: NRN, Selvaraj, Ramanathan and Venkatramani.

Photo 12: M.R. Srinivasan (MRS) and P.C. Rangarajan (PCR) in 1975, Mahabalipuram – My colleagues turned close friends from MLI Cell, Head Office, Chennai.

Photo 13: In Indonesia as part of loan recovery in the 1990s.

Left to Right: Sri B. Swaminathan (Manager of Singapore Branch), Sri Srinivasan (Manager of Hong Kong Branch), myself NRN — Visit to the Indonesian customer office.

Photo 14: In Indonesia during customer office discussions in the 1990s.

Photo 15: With my most trusted colleague and a dynamic personality, PP Swathi. Apart from official work, he was associated with IOB Sports divisions and closely connected with IOB Cricket team.

Photo 16: At Head Office in early 90s. Left to Right: Vasudev Bhat (Personnel dept), tbd, Rajashekar, Chandramouli, and A.D. Ramakrishnan.

Photo 17: With Sri A.D. Ramakrishnan (Right). A.D. Ramakrishnan was my fellow college mate at Vivekananda where he was in charge of College NCC and football team. He joined IOB before me and when he came to know that I had come for interview in Madras head office, he was thrilled. He insisted I shave, made sure I wore a tie, and personally helped me put it on. Later he became my close colleague.

Photo 18: 1980s in Bangalore while on a branch visit.

Photo 19: Executive meeting - Chairman Paneer Selvam, Executive Director Namasivayam with all the General Managers.

Seated Left to Right: M/S Ambrose, Vinayakam, Nirmala Raghavan, Paneer selvam, Namasivayam, K. Balasubramaniam (RBI Deputation Vigilance), Balagangadhar.
Standing Left to Right: Krishnan, KM Narayanan, B Swaminathan, Kutty, Madan, Kumarappan, tbd, Rajagopal, Giri, Sabharwal, Kallabiran, tbd (RM Karaikudi), Chaturvedi, Chandramouli, NR Natarajan, Tawker.

Photo 20: Year 1999: Vijaya Bank on recovery path and getting autonomy from RBI monitoring.

Photo 21: Write up about Vijaya bank in regional paper.

Photo 22: Year 1999 at Vijaya Bank Head Office in MG Road, Bangalore — With Chairman Sri Leeladhar and other General Managers and colleagues.