We celebrated our third annual day this August 2011, at Splendour Country club. The full fury of the monsoon season had passed and made way for cool, bracing weather that still carried the fragrance of damp earth.

Like every year, the landscape in and around Pune city was magically transformed. Every hill and every patch of bare land sprung alive with every possible shade of green. And what a feast for the eyes. Even if we pulled together all our artists and designers and CSS-happy engineers, we would not be able to create a colour palette or find enough hex codes to match up to mother nature’s brilliance.

This was simply the best time to visit the countryside. And boy was it fun.

There was plenty of singing and joking around in the bus on the way. And snacks. Once there, some of the folks played gully-cricket and others had a splash in the pool (followed by snacks.) Some decided to soak up a short rain-shower and everybody had a go at a few rounds of tug-o-war (after some yummy lunch – followed by a siesta of course.)

Oh yes, and we also had a little photography contest running for the day, which naturally brought out all the photographers amongst us and… wait for it… even some aspiring models posing for Diesel B-).

Check out some of the pictures our folks shot during the visit.

(P.S. Also you will see Sandeep and Shashank smiling a lot in one of the pictures below… The annual day outing is Email-free Day for the company founders, you see )

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Last call for passengers travelling by flight number…
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A gift of the monsoon.
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Another gift of the monsoon.
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Don’t mess with the boyz!
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Finally! Some time away from emails
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Designers and Engineers can also be… Virtualized…
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This war was pretty one-sided
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As you are certainly certain by now, the monsoon season was *really* generous