Issue 1, 2016

CONTENTS PAGE NO.

1. Branch Updates
Ahmedabad 3
Bangalore 5
Chennai 10
Delhi 16
Hyderabad 21
ILP 24
Kochi 30
Kolkata 37
Lucknow 43
Pune 46
Mumbai 53

2– Sports Quiz 15

3- Tour Of Dragon 25

4– Sports Puzzle 42

5– Chess Boxing 58
 DIFFERENT STROKES OF TCS FOLKS

In India we usually say that “Cricket is not just a game, it is like a religion” this cli-
ché best describes what the game means to our country. This has been the mantra
in the hearts and minds of every youngster in India, be it in Mumbai or Chennai.
Every kid has grown up admiring cricket and its players. In TCS too cricket is
spreading its glazing aura every year and with lots of new comers. March 2016
came up with Cricketing fever among the Gandhinagar TCSer’s where 48 teams
took participate in the tournament and selection of teams has been done on the first
come and first serve basis. There are around 60 cricket teams in TCS Gandhinagar.
The tournament was a great success where 8 best teams were qualified in Quarterfi-
nals by their outstanding performances in 20-20 battle. Tournament is organized
by TCS and managed by TASC member.

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 THE GREAT JOURNEY BEGAN…
On 6th Nov 2015, For the first time the groups were divided as per international
standards by giving seeding’s to the top players. Each group had One Seeded
player and equal number of participants in order to provide fair chance to all.

We saw some thrilling matches in the all the rounds played. Practicing day and
night; waiting for the email to know their opponent, became a part of their daily
BAU. People witnessed some great matches in Group stages of the tournament.

The ultimate day came – Table Tennis FINALS. All the sweat and blood which
went into the weekend practice for long hours was now to be put into use. Crowd
emerged in huge numbers to support their favorites. Advait Bhatt being the favor-
ite and Number 1 Seeded, played like a champ to win 3-0 over Chirag Gandhi.
However when it came to Men’s doubles category, Anuj Tyagi and Chirag Gandhi
ensured that they are giving due respect to their Number 1 seeding in the tourna-
ment and played pretty solid to beat Advait Bhatt/Shivam Batra(who were seeded
2)by 3-1. Same happened in Mixed Doubles where Vrunjal Mehta/Radha Shah
tried to give competition to Anuj Tyagi/Priyanka Prasad but at the end the latter
won comfortably.

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 SHOOT THE CHAMPION TITLE!
On 13th and 14th of February 2016, TCS Bangalore Volleyball Team participated in "Front
Foot Volleyball Tournament" - The Inter Corporate Champions Cup. The tournament was
held at St. John's Medical College Sports Complex, Koramangala, Bangalore. TCS’s first
league match was against Wipro. All geared up for the game, TCS put up an awesome show
but, it was their day.

The defense of Wipro seemed stronger than TCS and we lost the game with narrow margin.
After losing the first match, TCS decided to change strategy and played with 2 boosters and
without libero in next match against UTC Goodrich. UTC Goodrich tried hard to get the
game, however; TCS attackers were in full form, and didn't even gave a chance for them to
stay on ground for long and we won against them very easily. Then was the deciding match
with Cisco, The first set started, the attackers from both teams showed their play. But in
front of TCS attack and defense Cisco couldn't stay long, Cisco lost their hold on the game
and we won the match. TCS stood second in our group to qualify for the Champions Cup.

On 14th of February, every player were geared to win the semifinals against Accenture. We
put in our fullest to win the battle, in which scoring every point had been a struggle. Finally,
TCS won the match and was into finals of inter corporate volleyball tournament

Now comes the tournament finals with Wipro. Boosted up with the confidence that they
gained after the win over us in league match, they started in an attacking mode. Wipro play-
ers were extremely good at attacking, but it was not enough for them in front of TCS players
who blocked every smashes and attacked from every possible angles. Audience was
awestruck. With huge ground support for TCS along with our friends from throw ball team
we took sweet revenge against Wipro in the deciding third set. "Yes we made it!" TCS Win-
ners of Champions Cup of Front foot inter corporate volleyball tournament.

- Kannan Sr, 322756

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 IT'S ALL THE WOMEN POWER !

TCS Bangalore Women’s Throwball team participated in Inter – Corporate Wom-

en Throw Ball Tournament, organized by Bangalore Events on February 27, 2016
at the St. John’s Medical college ground.

Participant teams: TCS, TAVANT Technologies, CISCO, TESCO, IBM, WIPRO,

CADENCE, and BOSCH.

TCS won all 3 league matches and qualified for the Champions Cup Semi Finals.

Following are the scores of Leagues matches.

First match against TAVANT Technologies - 15-3, 15-7
Second match against Cisco - 15-3, 15-12
Third match against Tesco - 15-11, 15-12

Then was the fight against the defending champions – the IBM, it was an easy
win for us.
Semi-finals - Against IBM - 25-18, 25-18
And, we qualified for the finals against the Wipro.
Finals - Against WIPRO - 23-25, 25-18, 15-12,
Winners – TCS

- Mayura R. Jain, 396837

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 HIT AND WIN FOR FOOTBALL
The Inter-Corporate football tournament conducted by VO2 sports was held at
Play Arena turf ground, in Bengaluru on 16,17 July 2016. This event comprised of
16 selected corporate teams including Wipro, Infosys, HCL, HP, Tesco, EY catego-
rized in 4 groups.
TCS team was placed in Group D with formidable opponents in Cognizant, Misys
and HCL .TCS won against Cognizant and HCL 2-0, 1-0 respectively and ended
up with 1-1 draw against Misys. TCS emerged as winners in this 'Group of Death'
moving into Quarter-finals.
Quarterfinal was against Group B runners up UTC. TCS didn't disappoint by ex-
hibiting their scoring skills and winning it by huge margin of 7-0. Defending
champs TESCO was waiting for TCS in semifinals.
The semifinals was tightly contested with both teams playing attacking football
much to the expectation. It ended in goal less draw leading to penalty shootouts.
Two brilliant saves by Goalkeeper Binu sealed the final berth for TCS.
Finals saw TCS locking horns with HP in an action packed match. Striker Murali
proved why he is considered one of the best corporate footballer in Bangalore
scoring 2 brilliant goals. Both the goals were bullet shots and opponent goalkeep-
er couldn't even react. The match ended in 2-1 in favour of TCS .
VO2 corporate Super Games tournament is considered the biggest and winning
this puts TCS as a force to reckon with in corporate football world.

Team members are :

Jineesh. T , Binu .N, Habeeb .MH, Danish Mohsin, Murali .D, Sanu Mandal,
Vasanth Kumar, Tarun H and Nikhil Gangadharan

- Jineesh.T, 491553

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 TOP SPINNERS AND SMASHERS OF TCS

TCS Participated in Table Tennis Corporate Tournament conducted by One

Dream held on 23rd and 24th April , 2016 at Mudaliar Seva Sangam TT Acade-
my (MSTTA), Rajajinagar, Bangalore. The events were sponsored by Tay-
yarah.com, Madhuloka, Aircel, Un-Cuffed Clothing, Four Fountain Spa, Top-
Spin, Dropkaffe & City Kemp .
26 Companies Participated in the tournament.

Team Events :
TCS A: Team comprising of Kangabam Probin Singh , Aditya and Aparmeya
lost to Audumbar in the Pre quarters after beating Oracle and HCL .
TCS B: Team comprising of Ganesh Haladi , Apurva Baxi , Praveen , Abhishek
Hallur qualified for the Diamond cup league and won the cup beating Ericson
in the final .

Individual Events :
Women's Singles :
Apurva Baxi (TCS) fought very well and maintained her composure through-
out the match against the spirited opponent , Anila from MU Sigma in a very
tensed Women’s Final and clinched the Women's singles Title .
Men's Singles :
Kangabam Probin Singh (TCS) was awarded with the Aircel Player of the
Tournament Award for Outstanding performance throughout the tournament.

- Kangabam Probin Singh ( 162682)

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 3 TITLES IN JUST 4 MONTHS...

The Football tournament as part of annual "Healthy Life Style Meet" by Ascendas
was held at ITPL Bengaluru ground, on February 8th and 9th. This event comprised
of 41 corporate companies working out of Ascendas ITPL Software Park.
Having won it last year, TCS started the tournament as the favorites and got a BYE in
first match to move into Round 2 directly. Second round saw TCS knocking out Bally
technologies by 5 - 0 and entering the third round. Since the opponent team, Slash
Support Limited, did not turn up on time, TCS was awarded a walk over to Quarter
final.
Quarter final saw one high intensity game with Xerox. The first minute goal by
Praveen helped TCS to win over Xerox and move into semi final. Semifinal was
against another strong team First Advantage and TCS prevailed with a 1-0 win set-
ting up a title clash with General Motors. TCS made this an exact repeat of 2015 final
by winning against GM by 3-0 to lift the HLSM 2016 trophy for the second time in a
row and possibly making it the only team having achieved this feat. It was yet anoth-
er clinical performance by the team which maintained a clean sheet, didn’t concede a
single goal, in entire tournament. This win makes it a 3rd title win in last 4 months
which should boost the team for upcoming tournaments in 2016.

The winning TCS team members are:

Jineesh. T (Captain), Binu. N, Praveen Murali, Danish Mohsin, Murali.D, Sanu Man-
dal and Nahas EK.

-Jineesh T, 491553

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 THAT'S A BRILLIANT KNOCK!

XS Real Corporate Premier League 2016 by Vivant Sporting Solutions con-

ducting a Inter-Corporate T20 cricket tournament in Chennai. 25 top Corpo-
rates from IT, ITES, Telecom, logistics and Banking sectors will participate in
the event to be played in league cum knockout format with 5 zones of 5
teams, each team getting to play four matches in the league phase. Top 2
teams from each pool will qualify for the knock out phase.
TCS has played their first league match against Wipro and won the match
by 3 runs.
Brief scores:
TCS – 137/8 in 20 Overs Prabhu M-52, Pravin S-41, Elan Chezhian-20
Wipro-134/8 in 20 Overs Rajaraman-2 wkts, Sri Krishna-2 wkts, Pravin -2
wkts

TCS Chennai Cricket Team List:

1) Mohanakrishnan 2) Venkat Vasan 3) Vijay anand 4) Subaanand 5) Pravin
S 6) Prabhu 7) Rajaraman 8) Fastin A 9) Sri Krishna 10) Gajendra pandian 11)
Elan cheziyan 12) Muhammad Unays 13) Venkat Kumar

- Pravin Srinivasan,566286

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 KNOCKED THE GAME!

Casa Grande a renowned property developer in Chennai conducted an Inter

Corporate 7-a Side football tournament at their first sports villas communi-
ty. The tournament was conducted in knockout format and 24-Teams partic-
ipated in the same. First Round: TCS beat RNTBCI 7-0, Second Round: TCS
beat Hospira 3-0, Quarter-Finals: TCS beat Sanmina 6-1. TCS’s dominant
display was eventually cut short in the Semi-Finals where they lost to Ama-
zon 1-2.

TCS Chennai Football Team-List:

Standing L to R: Vinothkumar V, Prem J, Harish Khanna, Anish K, Litto
Mathew
Sitting L to R: Vijayasarathy G, Sandeep A, Rakeshlal R, Devan

- Vinothkumar V, 758645

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 SOCCER FOR A CAUSE

Child Rights and You (CRY) a famous NGO in India conducted 7-a Side
football tournament at YMCA Grounds Nandanam. The tournament was
hosted for a Nobel cause of empowering Child Rights through soccer. 12
Corporate Teams attended the tournament.

First Round: TCS beat iNautix 4-0, in the 2nd match TCS fought valiantly
but eventually lost out to Apollo Tyres in the Quarter Finals 1-0. Apollo
Tyres scored early and defended henceforth, TCS fought hard but was
not able to break their opponent’s defense.

TCS Chennai Football Team-List:

Venkataraman V, Vinothkumar V, Prem J, Anish K, Litto Mathew, Vi-
jayasarathy G, Anandraj A, Vinoth Gopinath, Sarathkumar N, Supratik
Chakraborty, Shibily Kallada, Nitesh Kumar

- Venkataraman V, 239853

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 TRACK & FIELD EVENTS -PLAZA CORPORATE SPORTS
OLYMPIAD-2016

Associates from IT & BPS participated in the Plaza Group Corporate

Sports Olympiad track and field events (one of the leading inter corporate
events in Chennai) event held at Nehru Stadium on 10th Sept. 25 plus cor-
porates participated in the event. 16 TCSers participated and we bagged
11 medals in the event.
TCS Chennai team was the only team amongst all corporates who got the
maximum no. of individual and team participated in the events.

Please find below the achievements of our associates:

Name Emp ID Event Position

Shyamsundar S 1069588 High Jump Gold
Kathiravan E 564896 100 Mtr Gold
Kathiravan E 564896 4*100 Relay Gold
Manikka Raja 543048 4*100 Relay Gold
Vignesh Ravichan-
1082487 4*100 Relay Gold
dran
Ashok M 976487 4*100 Relay Gold
Surekha Pannu 165421 400 Silver
Surekha Pannu 165421 800 Silver
Mohammed
329840 Shotput Silver
Gowgh A
LakshmanaKumar 758718 800 Mtr Bronze
Banupriya 698549 Long Jump Bronze

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 THROWBALL -PLAZA CORPORATE SPORTS
OLYMPIAD-2016

TCS Throwball team has participated in PLAZA Group Corporate

Sports Olympiad .
Around 30 corporates has participated in the Throwball tournament
conducted on 23-Jul’16.
TCS Throwball team placed 3rd in this tournament and won the
Bronze medal.

Emp-Id Name
897214 Sakthipriya
909178 Sruthi
1076864 Jaishree
726245 Padma Suganya
1059319 Haripriya
1076791 Manimeghalai
1083617 Amudha
Kowsi
1063721 Priyanka
909107 Jaya Bharathi

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 SPORTS QUIZ
Q.1: Which Australian was selected by the Q.6: Which nation won Gold in women’s
Milwaukee Bucks with the first overall pick hockey at the 2012 London Olympics?
in the 2005 National Basketball Association 1. Netherlands
(NBA) Draft? 2. Great Britain
1. Mark Bradtke 3. New Zealand
2. Andrew Bogut 4. U.S.A
3. Patrick Mills
4. Luke Schenscher Q.7: Which golfer won the 2013 Masters
Tournament in Augusta, Georgia?
Q.2: With 15,921 runs, which international 1. Rory McIlroy
cricketer holds the record for the most Test 2. Phil Mickelson
runs? 3. Adam Scott
1. Sachin Tendulkar 4. Tiger Woods
2. Ricky Ponting
3. Brian Lara Q.8: Which 2 male tennis players have the
4. Viv Richards most Wimbledon singles titles, seven each?
1. Roger Federer and Andre Agassi
Q.3: How many players have won 3 2. Roger Federer and Raphael Nadal
Brownlow medal awards, the highest 3. Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi
individual honour in Australian Rules 4. Roger Federer and Pete Sampras
football?
1. One Q.9: Retired Australian thoroughbred
2. Two racehorse, Black Caviar, was undefeated in
3. Three how many races?
4. Four 1. 23
2. 24
Q.4: At 9.58 seconds, Usain Bolt holds the 3. 25
record for the fastest time in the 100 metre 4.26
sprint, but which sprinter holds the female
record with 10.49 seconds? Q.10: Which English Premier League football
1. Marion Jones club supporters traditionally sing the song
2. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ‘You'll Never Walk Alone’ before
3. Florence Griffith-Joyner commencement of the match?
4. Carmelita Jeter 1. Chelsea FC
2. Manchester United
Q.5: U.S Baseball star, Babe Ruth played for 3. Liverpool FC
the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and 4. Leeds United FC
which other baseball team?
1. Boston Braves
2. Los Angeles Dodgers
3. Philadelphia Phillies
4. Cincinnati Reds

Answers in the last

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 ITS ALL ABOUT WINNING THE GAME...
With great joy-de-vivre, Eventus Corporate Services India Pvt. Ltd concluded 15th Eventus
20Twenty Corporate Cricket Tournament held at New Era Cricket Ground , Bijwasan. Tour-
namnet saw participation from 12 corporate teams
TCS Maitree Delhi Cricket team won the Runner Up trophy in the Eventus Corporate Cricket
Tournament. The team had put in their best to play the game with enormous sportsman spirit.
The team gave a hard time to other 12 competent teams like Bajaj Capital, Canara HSBC, Ernst
& Young, Vodafone, Scoop Whoop Media, Hydraulic Forte and TWX etc.

Also, two of the team players backed the below awards in the final prize distribution ceremo-
ny:
Best Batsman of the Tournament - Maneesh Deshwal
Maneesh Deshwal from TCS-Delhi was recognized as the “Best Batsman of the Tournament”.
He scored 286 runs off 139 deliveries in 6 innings with batting average of 47.77 runs with an
amazing strike rate of 205.76%.

Best Bowler of the Tournament - Nitin Chadha

Nitin Chadha from TCS-Delhi was recognized as the “Best Bowler of the Tournament”. He
bowled 13-0-85-14 giving away 6.07 runs per wicket with a terrific economy rate of 5.31 runs
per over and a strike rate of 6.86 deliveries per wicket.
Audience were stunned to see Nitin tak-
ing a hat-trick in the final match be-
tween TCS Vs Ernst & Young.

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 BAGGED THE TOURNAMENT TITLE!

TCS Maitree Delhi Cricket team won the Winners Up trophy in the "1st HVM A team
of 7 from seven a side Corporate Cricket Tournament" after defeating strong teams
like Blue Stacks, Hydraulic Forte, TWX, and Accolite Software.
The event was held at IREO grounds, Gurgaon where 8 corporate teams had partici-
pated.

TCS Delhi comprised of Maneesh Deshwal (Captain),Ritesh Kumar,Nitin Chadha,

Himanshu Chhabra, Vikram Chhetry, Rohit Bajaj and Manish Arya.
The final match was held between TCS and ELI India where TCS won by 32 runs.
Maneesh Deshwal was awared “Man of the Match” and Ritesh Kumar bagging “The
best bowler” award.

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 UNBEATABLE DELHI BADMINTON CHAMPIONS

This is what TCS employees proved performed at Corporate Indoor Games, Sports Con-
sult Delhi, held at Thyagraj Stadium, Delhi. Overall, TCS was able to beat HCL (Runner
Up) with 10 points and Nike (2nd Runner Up) with approx. 200 points.
TCS Delhi team comprised of the following achievers:
Sharmimala (683109) - Women's Singles winner, Women's Doubles Winner & Mixed
Doubles Winner (200 Points)
Nilesh Anand (767706) - Men's 30+ Singles Winner (100 Points)
Amit Malik (521872) - Mixed Doubles Winner, Men's Singles Semifinalist (90 Points)
Harmandeep Kaur (582657) - Women's Doubles winner and Mixed Doubles Finalist
(87.5 Points)
Rahul Kumar (583411) - Mixed Doubles Finalist (37.5 Points)

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 LEGENDS OF “LEGENDS SOCCER CUP”@ TCS DELHI

The underlying victorious story of TCS Maitree Delhi Soccer Team is about teamwork
and dedication coupled with good planning. The boost for Soccer Team came in the
form of TCS Maitree Annual Sports Meet, 2016 that besides other sports included Soccer
as well.
TCS Delhi Soccer Team entered Legends Cup 2016 Tournament, biggest corporate soc-
cer tournament, with 2 teams viz. TCS Blue and TCS Red. The Delhi edition of the tour-
nament included a total of 48 corporate teams including two teams from TCS.
Both the teams qualified for Champions Cup. It is a matter of pride that TCS Blue team
progressed all the way to the Finals and emerged as the winners in the finals of
"Champions Cup“ beating HDFC team.
The notable contributors to TCS victory included Ashish Sharma(1001354) who was
awarded the Best Goalkeeper award while Digvijay Guleria(250723) was awarded the
Best Player-Champions Cup award.

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BRILLIANT SMASH – “T10 KHELO VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT”@
TCS DELHI

TCS competed in the T10Sports KHELO Volleyball Tournament held at Thyagraj Sta-
dium, Delhi. A total of eight teams participating from the corporate world.
TCS Maitree Team was represented by Amit Singh(838970), Mohit Bamania(519969),
Nikhil Mudgal(368062), Nitish Nair(756700), Anil Kumar(679134), Rahul Dhandha
(679107), Prashant Tiwari(838437), Abhishek Tyagi(749440), Ankit Bhutani(588689),
Nitish Solanki(756658)
TCS was provided Pool B consisting of MK Group, McGraw Hill Finance and Fore-
sight teams. TCS played its first match with Foresight and won in straight sets by 15-4,
15-7. Next was the clash with McGraw Hill Finance team. TCS won again in straight
sets with score of 15-5, 15-6. With this win, TCS was feeling confident and determined
to reach the finals. In semi-finals, TCS won the first set by 15-4 against MK Group. MK
Group was provided a reality check by TCS by winning the last set with 11-6. With this
TCS was placed in the grand finale.
The final was to be played between TCS and Jindal Steel. Unfortunately TCS lost to
Jindal Steels. TCS went down fighting and were applauded for the fight and energetic
performance. TCS were awarded the Runners Up.

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 ALL-ROUNDER OLYMPIC PERFORMANCE

Hyderabad Corporate Olympics (HCO) is an “Olympic-style” multi sport event

which draws participation from various corporates in Hyderabad. The employees
of the participating companies compete against each other in a variety of sporting
events.
TCS Hyderabad has been participating in HCO ever since it was launched in 2011.

In the FIFTH EDITION, over 5000 participants from over 100 corporates competed
against each other. This edition had 18 disciplines making it the largest corporate
sports event ever held in Hyderabad.
TCS Hyderabad participated in the following sporting events:
Volleyball, Basketball, Chess, Carrom, Throwball, Table Tennis, Badminton ,Lawn
Tennis

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 KICKED THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

In the recently concluded 44 All India Open National Finals members of the
TCS Hyderabad Maitree Karate Club won 1 gold and 2 silver medals:

Akhilesh Agnihotri won 1 Gold in Kumite

Ragavendra Raju won 2 silver Medals in Kata and Kumite

Noted Tollywood Actor Suman (who himself is a Black Belt in Karate) dis-
tributed the prizes.

- Devaraju, 396289

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 TCS WOMEN BRINGS LAURELS

TCS Hyderabad Women's Throwball team stood 3rd at the recently held
Corporate Pink Games (held on the occasion of International Women's
Day).

Delloitte, TCS, NGAHR, Capgemini were among the leading corporates

that participated in this tournament.

Archana, Sowjanya, Gowthami, Sirisha, Sailaja, Bindhu, Saraswathi,

Pravallika and Sneha were part of the TCS team.

- Archana, 519264

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 KICKS OFF THE GAME!
The most common question one comes across on a Monday morning when colleagues at
office meet is ”How was your weekend?”. Well, the answer usually is mundane but for
the associate trainees at ILP Chennai, it was all talk about fitness and sports in TCS !

On Saturday, 19th March 2016, the ILP trainee associates had all gathered early morning
for "TCS CHN ILP - Tiger 5'z Football Tournament" organised by the ILP HR team. A
unique condensed version of the world's favourite sport, Football. The teams had var-
ied attitudes, each one different from the other and distinguished by a unique name.
There was no dearth for creative expressions.

Event kick started as the first game started at 07:00 AM went on all day long and culmi-
nated to a finale at 05:00 PM. 272 associates including 12 women played with unbridled
enthusiasm with fun forming the corner stone of the entire event. Though the teams dis-
played their competitive team working skills on the ground, there was no denying that
the true leitmotif of the entire event was “Safety and Fun”.

Replicating the current day International T20 world cup, there was a women's football
Exhibition match which happened parallelly along with the men's game.

A Maitree and Fit4Life initiative true to its spirit, the day had ended with each trainee
being charged up, having spent a day worthy of mention !

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 TOUR OF DRAGON– An enchanting experience!!!
You never know when opportunities come
knocking in life ! A call from someone in your
company’s Human Resource department gen-
erally leads to anxiety and that’s what I went
through when I received a call from TCS’s HR
asking me to meet up with them at the earliest.
New assignment, new location, feedback, etc,
etc… I played out every scenario in my mind
and landed up in their office the next day. Af-
ter waiting in a conference room for a few
minutes, I was introduced to Head of HR for
the Mumbai region – thank God I had shaved
and worn my Monday best.
Our CEO, Mr. Chandra is extremely passionate
about endurance sports and since he is a mara-
thon runner himself, he does his best to en-
courage similar sports within TCS. Thanks to
him, I was going to get a chance to pursue my
cycling dream. After giving them an overview
of my modest achievements in the cycling
world, I was given the good news. TCS would
fund my participation in two bicycle races to
the extent of 1 Lakh rupees. My Heart wanted
more but this was a start so I thought hard
about the races I wanted to participate in.
I could have chosen differently but Choosing
the easiest path has never been my way so I
went for the toughest and most dangerous, one
day MTB races in the world called the Tour of
Dragon [TOD] ironically in the world’s happi-
est country i.e. Bhutan.
After getting the necessary approvals from
TCS, I realized that I would have to start from
scratch… to participate in an MTB race, I need-
ed to have an MTB bike you see. Thus began
the journey !
All through my life, I have been fortunate to
have friends who have gone out of their way to
help and support me. It was no different in this
situation and because Shamim Shaikh (owner
of Imperial Bike centre) introduced me to
Waqar Aahmed and his brother (from Unique
Innovations) who agreed to sponsor a bike
(Brand Java). So now that I had a bike (a mean
machine), it was game on !
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As I had mentioned earlier, the TOD is one of
the toughest races in the world where the com-
bination of non-existent roads and the climbs
scare the toughest riders. It was clear that I had
to practice climbing over long distances. So, it
was one month to go and many mountains to
climb !
My daily training comprised of riding in my
backyard – the deadly Yeoor hill at Thane and
over the weekend riding out to Ghoadbunder,
Matheran, Tungareswar, Kasara Ghats, etc. Bad
weather in the form of continuous rains, thun-
der storms and even dog bites did not interrupt
the training. While dog bites are painful, those
injections are a lot worse but such is life ! To
make matters worse, I fell sick thanks to all the
riding in the rain. As the situation became
worse I went to a doctor who diagnosed it as a
case of sinusitis and prescribed a ton of medica-
tion which unfortunately didn’t help at all. So
the choice was to give up or make an attempt
and as they say, the show must go on. I could-
n’t let down my employers and my friends so
rested and hoped for a quick recovery.
28th August, 2016… the date of my departure
finally arrived and I was rearing to go and give
it my best shot. Travelling with my bike and all
my cycling gear was not going to be easy so I
did my best to carry only the bare essentials
and pack as “light” as possible under the cir-
cumstances. I left for the Airport by 10pm. My
definition of light v/s Jet Airway’s definition of
light was obviously not the same and despite
my repeated requests, I had to pay Rs.3,000 for
excess luggage.
Finally bade goodbye to Mumbai at 2 am and
reached Delhi well in time for my connecting
flight. I was excited but tired so before I knew
it, I ended up dozing off while I was waiting to
board the flight. Thankfully I woke up just in
time to hear the boarding announcement for
my flight. The Drukair staff didn't create a
problem as the International luggage allowance
was 30kg. They permitted me an extra 2 kgs
and I was finally on my way.
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A two hour flight and we braced ourselves to
land in the most dangerous airport in the world
located at Paro, in Bhutan. It's not a big airport
and airplanes do not have long runways to take
off or land. I was so excited that after deplaning
I went on a picture clicking spree. After collect-
ing my baggage and completing the immigra-
tion formalities I arranged a taxi to take me to
Thimpu which was 60km from Paro airport. A
two hour ride through the most beautiful of
routes and I finally reached Wangchuk hotel
where I checked in and waited killed time by
riding around Thimpu and visiting the city’s
highest point, Buddha Point. Subsequently, I
was paid a visit by Karma Druksel who had got
a podium finish in previous editions of the
Tour of DRAGON.
I crashed early as I had to leave for Bumthang
in the official vehicle by 6.30 am the next day.
The night passed and next day we gathered at
Changlingmathang stadium before heading out
in the vehicle provided by BOC (Bhutan Olym-
pic committee).
The countdown had begun and I was all
charged up..
We were required to travel from Thimpu to
Bhumtang and I was getting a chance to meet
other riders. My new friend Karma Druskel in-
troduced me to riders from Nepal, Austria,
Bhutan itself and other parts of the world.
We finally headed towards Bumthang and
that’s when I faced the first roadblock literally.
To cross the Dochula pass you need a permit
and well, I didn’t have any. After a 2 hour back
-and-forth with the relevant authorities, I final-
ly managed to get the permit and we were on
our way once again. I was using this opportuni-
ty to get a feel of the terrain and the road condi-
tions and the verdict was not very good unfor-
tunately. Due to the road widening work, the
conditions were bad and I knew the ride was
going to be tougher than I had expected. After a
quick lunch, our vehicle slowly trudged for-
ward and we finally reached Bhumtang after a
16 hour bumpy journey. I was exhausted and
wondering what I had got myself into !

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 Karma and I had checked into hotel Kaila
which was just 1 km far from the start point.
The next day I got up bright and early and
quickly assembled my bike. I was excited to
finally hit the road with my friend karma. As I
pedaled my way through the streets of Bhutan,
the fear disappeared and I was all ready to dis-
cover new roads. We headed towards the race
route and decided to ride a mountain pass
called Kikila, which a 9 km climb with a stiff
gradient in some sections. After riding for a
few hours we came back to our hotel to take a
break after which we headed out again for a
ride with our new friends from Nepal. The
bike handling skill of these riders was amazing
because they were literally doing stunts while
riding at 30-40 Kmph.
While I was gaining new respect for my fellow
riders, horror stories of the race were slowly
bringing the fear factor back. Over dinner, par-
ticipants shared their harrowing experiences
and as I heard about their experiences, injuries
and achievements, my respect for them kept
increasing. I talked to the previous year’s win-
ner (Son of DRAGON Mr. Sonam) who was
not participating this year due to an injury.
Like a true cyclist, he had come to help the par-
ticipants during the race.
The very next day we all assembled at
Chamkar bus stand to ride with a special dig-
nitary – HRH the Prince of BHUTAN. We were
introduced to the Prince who in turn gave us a
wonderful introduction to all things Bhutan.
The site of this introduction was a famous tem-
ple so all of us went and prayed for a success-
ful race. I observed that the Bhutanese people
are a religious people … my friend Karma
would say a silent prayer before sleeping, eat-
ing and of course before pushing the pedal.
The next day we had to ride with prince to a
lovely spring located just 20 km from the
Chamkar bus stand. We gathered at the venue
well before the start time and waited for the
Prince to arrive. He arrived on time and we all
had a pleasant ride. After lunch at the hotel, we
rested for a while and then gathered at the Pal-
ace for the race details briefing.
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After the briefing, I got an opportunity to so-
cialize with the riders and it was a wonderful
evening that ended with a scrumptious din-
ner. I returned to the hotel home quite late and
slept well for a change.
The week had flown and I had just one more
day to go. This so called “rest day” was going
to be a day of high tension as far as I was con-
cerned. In the morning, Karma and I went with
a couple of riders to collect the race kit. After a
few anxious moments, I was finally handed the
kit and discovered that I had been allocated the
number 31. And then it hit me, I was finally an
“official” part of the toughest one day mountain
bike race in the world. I went through a host of
emotions at that one moment – excitement,
nervousness, fear, etc. My brain was flooded
with so many thoughts regarding road condi-
tions, altitude issues, climbs, down-hills, safe-
ty…. what if questions like an accident, health
issues, etc… all cropped into my mind at once.
Taking rest was proving impossible so I tried to
occupy myself by doing mundane things like
checking the bike for the umpteenth time, put-
ting my race number on my jersey and on my
bike, cleaning my bike, etc. I would have
checked the tyre pressure at least 4-5 times dur-
ing that day. The tension was palpable and I
soon began to feel feverish. That’s the last thing
I needed unfortunately!
I finally went down to grab some dinner and I
guess the look on my face said it all, because the
other riders started to pull my leg. They were
shocked that I had audacity to attempt this race
especially considering I had started riding an
MTB seriously just a month before. I guess a
few were placing bets on when I would give up
but all this talk didn’t discourage me. I knew
the odds but I was also clear that I had to give it
a shot. The mountains were no longer worrying
me because I had a new problem…. that damn
fever and cough was coming back.
It was soon time to retire for the day…. the flag
off was at 2 am and I had to try and conquer
many mountains the next day. Race day or
should I say Race night was finally here. It was
3rd September and we reached the start point at
Chamkar bus stand by 1 am.
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It was wonderful to see a large crowd who had
assembled to see the riders and cheer them on.
After many official photo shoots, we were
asked to lineup for the race according to the
serial number. I was placed on fourth line ac-
cording to my race number 31 and the flag off
was going to happen soon. As the countdown
started, I could not hear anything expect my
heart beat which obviously was in race mode.
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1… I could see the flag come
down and we were finally off. Before I knew it,
I saw other riders zoom past me. I kept clam
and finally my feet pushed the pedals and I
was off. Slowly and steadily, I increased my
pace and finally began to overtake many of the
riders as we made our way on the first moun-
tain pass (Kikila) which was almost 9km.
I went on climbing with steady speed and fi-
nally reached the top. I wasn’t wearing any
watch and hadn’t kept a speedometer which I
realized was a big mistake. After Kikila there
is 3 - 4km downhill with difficult turning and
after a bumpy ride I realized that my light
started giving me trouble. The rubber grip was
not proper for the bumpy road which meant
that the flash was zig-zagging all over except
on the road ahead.
I needed to see the damn road ahead of me so I
actually did something I have never done be-
fore – I took it out and put it in my mouth as I
needed my two hands to balance in such roads.
After a while I realized that I had made anoth-
er mistake because mud was splashing all over
me – I hadn’t put a mudguard because I need-
ed my bike to be as light as possible. My hands
continued to multi-task and I somehow man-
aged to complete Yutungla climb and when the
ride really became tougher. I cant tell you how
bad the road was… actually to call it a road
would be a mistake. There wasn’t any road…
just mud, slippery road ! I fell about 3 times
and even though I was hurting like hell, I had
no option but to continue.
Hoping that the road conditions would im-
prove was futile because it was only getting
worse.
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Kmph and frankly it would have been better to
walk. I would have been faster. Mistake number
3.. had put road pedals because I prefer getting
off the saddle on Climbs. So walking in those
road conditions was out of the question !
Despite the road or should I say mud conditions
I kept climbing Pelela when I was not able to pe-
dal, I would get off the bike and drag myself as
well as the bike. All these muddy conditions ob-
viously impacted my bike and it started giving
trouble. I frankly have never ridden as slow and
the road was never ending.
I soon started to feel hunger pangs and to my
dismay I realized that the organizers weren’t go-
ing to provide decent stuff like sandwiches, etc.
Another Mistake was not carrying sufficient
food. What I ended up having was a mixture of
energy bar and mud because by now every inch
of my body and my bike was covered in mud. I
was surviving on water and enerzal and that was
not a good idea especially when you are climb-
ing. This is when the first thoughts about quitting
crossed my mind !
I tried to put all negative thoughts away and con-
tinued riding… the terrain was slowly getting
worse and so was my condition. I slowly began
to cramp and that’s when the nightmare began.
The cramp was unbearable and I was worried
that I would have a serious injury. I kept trying
to focus on the finish line but those negative
thoughts kept coming back. After sometime I
saw group of children providing water and ener-
zal. They were like angles from heaven. They
gave me water, biscuits and most importantly
encouragement which kept me on the saddle for
another 6 hours. After a while I managed to get
back some of my rhythm and faced yet another
challenge. The bottle was completely covered in
mud and it was impossible to sip clean water
now. The sun had come up but now at the con-
ditions became worse .The temperature was such
that you could cook popcorn in it. I was thirsty,
cramped, hungry and that’s to my congestion I
had difficulty breathing and even in speak-
ing. There was point when I couldn't even ask for
water and this problem only got aggravated the
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After many hours of struggle, I finally came to
the 3rd mountain pass (Pelela). After taking a 5
minute break I took off again happy in the
thought that the next 50 Kms was downhill. But
what I didn’t realize is that the most dangerous
part of the race. The next 2 hours were scary like
hell and I really don’t know how I managed to
escape without a fall. Think of riding down Bhor
ghat with your hand clutching the brake continu-
ously and add 40 more Kms to that descent. To
say that my hands hurt would be an understate-
ment. I finally reached Dochula base and without
even checking time I continued climbing that
mountain pass. Aftert4 - 5km after climb, I
reached a checkpoint where they told me I had
2hr cutoff to reach the Dochula top and which is
35km more. I got on the bike and pedaled furi-
ously. The dragon inside me was already down
due to low energy but I didn’t care because I had
to make climb before the cutoff time. The next 30
minutes I covered almost 10kms of climb but was
completely drained. It seemed impossible now
and I stopped the bike and cried a little in des-
pair. This was a low point but I was not ready to
give up. I got back on the bike and gave it my all.
As I pedaled against the elements, I crossed so
many riders who had already given up and were
waiting for the vehicle to come and pick them
up. As the sun was going down, I realized that I
was not going to be able to continue and I had to
take the most difficult decision of my life. The
body was already in no position to stand so I
slept on the road for 15 minutes until a taxi
stopped by my side. I climbed into the taxi and
frankly I was too tired to even think. I slept for
next 45km . I reached Thimpu after 1-2 hr .I was
dead tired and after one hour I left for the hotel
to take rest. In my tiredness, I had forgotten that I
was to take the 7:30 am flight the next day so as
you can expect my last few hours in Bhutan were
chaotic and in a complete daze.
I obviously regret having to quit the race but
now this experience has made me wiser and I
know what it will take to complete such a race in
future. The TOD is not over for me by any
stretch of imagination. I am going to be bac with
greater hunger, stronger mind and body and of
course, much better prepared.
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 BONDING OVER A BEAUTIFUL GAME - O JOGO BONITO

’O Jogo Bonito’ translated as ‘The beautiful Game’ to bring together a

strong football community in Cochin. The players of each team include a
very interesting mix of people from diverse avenues like students, law-
yers, doctors, IT professionals and various high profile businessmen from
the city. The sixth edition of OJB held on April 2016 at Ambedkar Stadium,
Kochi and a total of 36 teams participated in an 8-a-side format. Around
500 players participated this season. TCS represented at the event and
came till prequaters.

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 CHAMPIONS - CRICHQ ALL KERALA CORPORATE T20

TCS Kochi emerged as the champions of the CricHQ All Kerala Corporate T20
organized by Kerala Corporate Cricket League. CRICHQ was the official
sponsor and technology partner of KCCL T20 Knockout tournament. 25 teams
across the state from diverse sectors including IT, Telecom, Real Estate, Bank-
ing/Finance, Media, Retail etc. took part in the event. The tournament was on
a Knockout basis. The venue for the event is the historic and prestigious Pal-
ace Oval in Tripunithura, Kochi, Kerala. KCCL awarded the winners with
Cash Prizes and mementos.

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 THE DUNK KING!
SLAMDUNK'16- CORPORATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
TCS Kochi emerged as the champions of the Slamdunk'16-Corporate Basket-
ball tournament organized by Kerala Fragomen India Ltd on July 10, 2016 at
Regional sports Center, RSC, Kochi, Kerala. TCS was the Champions in Men’s
category and came as runners up in the Women’s category.

TCS TAKE TOP SPOTS IN BADMINTON CHAMPIONSHIP

TCS Kochi emerged as the champions of Geojit-Rotary Corporate Badminton

Challenge held at Fitness Soul, Edachira, Kakkanad, Kochi on July 24, 2016.
TCS was the champions in Mixed doubles and came 2nd runners up in Mens
doubles category.

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 TCS KOCHI MAITREE SOCCER LEAGUE

TCS Maitree Kochi organized the most awaited Soccer league in August 2016.
14 Maitree teams competed each other to claim the title. Team NGM were the
winners in the Men’s category. Team Nielsen & GE emerged as the champions
in the Women’s category.
The event was held at Municipal ground, Kakkand from Aug 22-Sep 1 2016.
Jasir from BFS1 was the Top scorer in the event and Prajeesh from NGM was
the best player of the tournament,
Mr. Dinesh Thampi, VP & DCH Kerala distributed the prizes to the winners
and the runners up.

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 TCS KOCHI MAITREE VOLLEYBALL AND THROWBALL

TCS Maitree Kochi organized the Maitree Volleyball and Throwball tournament.
This was the first tournament conducted in the Volleyball court inside TCS Cam-
pus at Kochi.
14 Maitree teams competed each other to claim the title.
The event was held at Municipal ground, Kakkand from May 19 - June 2.
Prizes were distributed to the winners and the runners up.

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 TCS KOCHI MAITREE BADMINTON TOURNAMENT

TCS Maitree Kochi organized the Maitree Badminton Tournament which witness
more than 100 teams from 14 different Maitree groups. All of them competed
each other to claim the title.

The event was held at United sports Center, Expressway, Kakkanad Kochi from
July 24-28.
Mr Dinesh Thampi, VP & DCH Kerala distributed the prizes to the winners and
the runners up.
Dantis & Monis from Nielsen & GE were the winners and Arun Jacob & Ajay An-
tony from BFS1 came as runners up in the Men’s category.
Anna Jose & Manju Sasikumar from AMEX2 were the winners and Nisha A &
Subha V from Nielsen & GE came as runners up in the Women’s category.
Manikandan & Hamna M H from BFS1 were the winners and Arun Mohan &
Anitta Kuriaype from BFS2 came as runners up in the Mixed doubles category.

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 KOCHI HR BADMINTON LEAGUE

TCS Kochi HR organized an internal badminton tournament under the ban-

ner “Kochi HR Badminton League”. All members from various functions in-
cluding TAG, RMG, Talent Development, Regional HR & ISU HR participat-
ed in the event.
Mr Dinesh Thampi, VP & DCH Kerala distributed the prizes to the winners
and the runners up.

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 GAVE A TOUGH PLAY!
Cricket as you know, is a game which everyone plays from their childhood in
India and needs no introduction and TCS Kolkata is not an exception!
Corporate Cricket Tournament is a yearly affair for TCS Kolkata which starts
from December 2015. Players from all TCS locations participated in the event.
Till now in all the tournaments TCS had performed well and has been in the
top of the table. TCS Kolkata Cricket Team has earned a very good reputation
amongst the corporate which participates. TCS Played “365 Oranges Cup” but
unfortunately lost the match in semi final. Hope next time we can make and
bring home the trophy.

- Shashank Shekhar (688417)

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 SHOOTING THE BALL...
Basket Ball match was organized on 10-Mar-2016 celebrating the International Wom-
en’s Day. 2 teams were formed (7-a-side) comprising of all women associates. The
entire match was a great experience for the participants and also for the audience.

PASS ON THE PRIDE!

A Lawn Tennis Tournament was organized on 10-Mar-2016 celebrating the International
Women’s Day. The format of the tournament was mixed doubles with 1 set point match.
There were a total of 20 players playing the tournament divided into 12 groups. 6 groups
qualified for the second round.

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 GAME IS ON!

Soccer is most popular sport in Kolkata. ‘Momentum’, the yearly soccer event at
TCS, Kolkata, was organized in Dec 2015. Around 400 associates showed inter-
est to participate. 12 teams were formed based on building location. Every team
got a right combination of players, resulting in close fight in every match. High
voltage final day arrived on 24th January 2016. In perfect soccer environment the
final day started with the national anthem. 3rd position match was played be-
tween Oval and Sabina Park. After a close fight Oval secured the 3 rd position.
Much waited final started with huge cheers from supporters of both the finalists
(Infospace and Eden). Infospace started dominating at the beginning and got 1-0
lead in 1st half. Eden came back with tremendous momentum in 2nd half and
equalized the score. After a tough fight the final went to tie break and Infospace
won the final.
This was not the end. Another spirited match between Seniors and Juniors were
played. The Senior team took a lead initially, however the Juniors took over the
control and the match ended with a draw.

- Partha Sarkar, 145171 & Manpreet Dhir, 552491

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 GP LEAGUE
GP league was a week long event which incorporated various accounts / pro-
ject teams at Gitanjlai Park. The League included games like Table Tennis,
Lawn Tennis. Carrom and BasketBall. There were close to four hundred nomi-
nations and fifty matches to decide the final winner of the GP League - rise of
the champions !

The trophies were won by McGraw - for Carrom , Staples for - TT, Metlife for
Lawn Tennis , Kingfisher for Basketball. The overall League winner trophy was
given away by Mr. Suresh Menon, VP, GM - India East to Staples account from
Retail.

- Pallabi Dutta (499130)

BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
A Basketball Tournament was organized by TCS Maitree on 27th and 28th
Aug 2016 at Gitanjali Park. where 33 associates participated. The players were
divided into 4 teams and each team played in the qualifying round 2 matches.
2 teams with highest score moved to play the finals on 28th Aug 2016. The
tournament saw participation of seniors also.

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 'CORPORATE CUP TABLE TENNIS TOURNAMENT 2016

'Corporate Cup Table Tennis Tournament, 2016' is jointly organized by 'The

Telegraph' and 'Saturday Club'. TCS Kolkata was adjudged as the "Winner
(Gold Plate)" of the tournament. This is the second consecutive time TCS Kol-
kata has won this cup.
TCS Team defeated CTS, IMRB, The Telegraph, SREI and J Thomas in the
group league. In final match TCS defeated CTS.

Ankush Goyal was adjudged the 'Winner' of the Player of the tournament
event and one of our lady associates- Anindita Sarkar was adjudged as the
'Runners Up' of the Women singles.

Team members who participated in this event :

Ankush Goyal (State Level Player)

Anindita Sarkar (State Level Player)
Indrajit Mondal (Former National Level Player)
Kaustav Chattoraj (State Level Player)
Sayan Roy Chowdhury (Former Bengal Ranking Player and National Level
Player)
Sneham Mukherjee (Former National Level Player)
Soumik Dutta (State Level Player)
Soumyajit Karan (State Level Player)

- Soumyajit Karan (548113)

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 SEASON OF CRICKETING STARTS...
TCS Maitree cricket club organized the first CPL (Cricket Premier League) witnessing
participation of almost 50 TCS associates. Two groups with two teams each were formed
for the first round of matches. League matches with close competition, including a super
over match, were followed by the final match. Every cricket member enjoyed a lot and
eagerly look forward to the next season of CPL.

Following four teams were formed having 11 playing members eachon the basis of
selection done by the team captains, played at Integral University, Lucknow.
Terrific Fighters (Winner) – Captain - Sanjeev Singh
Super KINGS (Runner UP) – Captain – Ravi Singh
Ball Burners - Captain - Akash Tripathi
Royal Tigers – Captain -Dev Gautam

The match was played at Integral University, Lucknow and following emerged as the col-
ors of the tournament:
Best Batsman – Ravi Singh,
Best Bowler – Sanjeev Singh,
Man of the Series – Akash Tripathi,
Best Fielder – Ankit

- Prashant Malviya, & Sukriti Mishra

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 WINNER - CRICKET VRINDAVAN CUP 2016

The Cricket team at TCS Lucknow participated in the Vrindavan Cricket Cup 2016,
played at Parth Republic ground and emerged victorious by defeating Dental Striker
team in the Finals by 7 wickets. Akash Tripathi (835201) was the Man of the Series by
making 210 runs and taking 13 wickets. We were leading the tournament by beating all
the other five corporate teams and clubs in the league and knock out matches.
Following were the participants in the tournament:
Akash Tripathi (Captain)
Ravi Singh
Sumeet Dey
Prashant Malviya
Akshay Dubey
Abhilash Pandey
Ankit Kumar
Romil Pandey

In addition, the Cricket team has almost won all the friendly matches played against
clubs or corporate teams on the weekend.

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 FEATURING IN NEWS MEDIA...

TCS Lucknow cricket team participated in the REPL Corporate Cup Cricket Tournament
and reached the Semi Final. The tournament was organized at Parth Republic grounds in
Lucknow. In the Quarter Final match TCS scored 135 runs at a loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs
defeating Airtel by 20 runs and securing their place in the Semi Final. Prashant Malviya
(TCS) was awarded Man of the Match for securing 35 runs and providing 12 runs (4 overs)
taking 2 wickets.

- Sukriti Mishra

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 IT WAS A CLOSE MATCH!

The AELOBLISS Corporate Cricket League organized by Maharashtra Krida Mandal is

one of the prestigious corporate cricket tournament in Pune that has representation from
to 16 top corporate organizations like TCS, Wipro, Citi, Sungard, Harbinger etc. The
tournament was played in league cum knock-out format in the fiscal year of 2015-16
during the months of April 2015 on Varroc Vengsarkar Academy ground in Pune. TCS
displayed a dominant performance throughout the tournament but fell just short in the
finals and ended as runners-up in the tournament.
TCS Cricket Team - Sunil Babar(C), Rahul Garg, Vikram Randhawa, Mohammad
Saleem, Ashpak Kazi, Aniruddha Kelkar, Gaurav Singh, Abhay Paithane, Mayank
Jasore, Rohit Parmar, Siddharth Mukharya, Shashank Singh, Anvesh Gangasani, Ankit
Thakur, Sharath Kumar Shetty, Devadatt Kamalakar , Prathamesh Thorat, Soumya Mo-
hanty, Rohit Pathak, Gaurav Narang, Rahul Khandelwal, Saket Singh

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 VOLLEY THE GAME!
It’s a matter of great pride that recently, TCS Men's and Women's team won the Finals of
CAC Volleyball Inter-IT Tournament. TCS Women's Team played their semifinal against
TechM, which was a clean 2 set victory for them to be the finalist against Syntel
Women's. TCS Women's managed to win the match by 25-20 and 25-19.
Later Men's Team played their Semi-final match against Cognizant and made their way
to Final's in a 2set win by 25-22 and 25-17. Both Men's and Women's team had their
Final Match at the same time and both have found their way to top.
Women's team leading both the set and winning quite comfortably by 25-20 and 25-21.
Men's team had to work on everything they had in a neck to neck match with TechM
team in the finals. Men's team won in straight 2sets with a point difference of 28-26
and 25-23.
Player of the Tournament:
Akanksha Mishra - TCS Women's Team | Imran Malnas - TCS Men's Team

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 WINNING THE GAME WITH PRIDE!
The White Copper Twenty20 League organized by White Copper Entertainment Pvt Ltd
is one of most sought after cricket tournaments in Pune and has representation from to
32 IT organizations like TCS, Infosys, Cognizant, Tech Mahindra, KPIT, Sungard, Per-
sistant etc. The tournament was played in league cum knock-out format, during the
months of April 2015 to May 2015 on Deccan Gymkhana and Shinde Highschool
grounds in Pune. TCS with its leading performance throughout the tournament were
crowned the champions after defeating Sungard in the grand final by a margin of 35
runs.
Gaurav Singh was awarded as the Man of the Series with his exceptional performances
with both Bat and Ball.
Rahul Garg was the highest run scorer in the tournament and received the Best Bats-
man award.
TCS Cricket Team - Sunil Babar(C), Rahul Garg, Vikram Randhawa, Mohammad
Saleem, Ashpak Kazi, Aniruddha Kelkar, Gaurav Singh, Abhay Paithane, Mayank
Jasore, Rohit Parmar, Siddharth Mukharya, Shashank Singh, Anvesh Gangasani, Ankit
Thakur, Sharath Kumar Shetty, Devadatt Kamalakar , Prathamesh Thorat, Soumya Mo-
hanty, Rohit Pathak, Gaurav Narang, Rahul Khandelwal, Saket Singh

- Aniruddha Kelkar, 173246

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 CYCLE AWAY TO GLORY !

PELOTON 2016
The Nashik Cyclists organization orga-
nized a national-level cycle rally -- Pelo-
ton on 9th Jan'16, which included 140km
and 50km races on smooth and rough
terrains. Around 300 cyclists from
across the country participated in the
first of its kind cycle rally. TCSers
Aruneet Utkarsh stood 3rd in this race.

AI DUATHLON 2016
Cyclists Deepak Rathi and Ganesh Devkar both
from TCS Pune secured 3rd place in AI Duathlon.
10 km running - 40 km cycling -5 km running cate-
gory. The duathlon comprises of three stages, Run
-Cycle-Run. The Duathlon is open to athletes 18
years and older. There are 10 categories to choose
from.

BREVET
Cyclist Shivanand Jadhav from TCS
Pune participated and finished 600
KM category BRM (Brevet des Ran-
donneurs Mondiaux).

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 CORPORATE INDOOR GAMES 2016 – CHESS TOURNAMENT

60 players from 12 different IT companies participated in CIG 2016 held on 20th and 21st
Aug’16 . TCS along with Xoriant , BNY , Amdocs , Persistent A & B, John Deere , L & T ,
Maxxton, Wipro , UBS , Tera , Calsoft and many more companies took part in this inter IT
Corporate Chess Tournament.
Team Event: Each team comprised of 4 members & had matches against Persistent A, Xo-
riant, Amdocs , BNY & Persistent B. Total 5 Rounds were conducted.
TCS team was Lead by FIDE rated chess player Abhinav Baone from TCS Cerebrum IT
Park played at Board A accompanied with another FIDE rated player .
Saral Sonwane from TCS Hinjewadiat Board B. Germanjit Singh & Nilotpol Saha both un-
rated players from TCS Cerebrum IT Park played their debut tournament at Board C & D.
Time control : 20 min + 5 secs increment per move
TCS had a clean sweep of 4-0 against Persistent A in Round 1 . In Round 2 & 3 TCS had a
tough fight against Xoriant & BNY but secured 2-2 against both companies. Winner of
Tournament Amdocs beat TCS by 3-1 in Round 4 . In Round 5 TCS strongly fought back
and achieved descent score of 3-1 against Persistent B. At the end of Round 5 TCS Team
had a tie break score of 12 with Xoriant for 3rd position. But finally TCS was declared 4th
based on Buchholz system.
Result- TCS Stood 4th
Chess singles for Boys & Girls
Time control : 15 min + 5 secs increment per move
Abhinav Baone from TCS represented boys category & had a clash against top seed of the
tournament Shyam Sharma from Xoriant for the 1st position at Final Round but finally
Abhinav forfeit against the Veteran and TCS ranking drop down to 5th place.
Ravneet Kaur Munier FIDE rated player from TCS Quadra stood at 2nd position in Girls
category defeating L&T, BNY and Persistent.

-Abhinav Baone (839075)

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 CORPORATE INDOOR GAMES 2016 – TABLE TENNIS
6 Medals – Full House “
Fusion Sports has organized Corporate Indoor Games and TCS participated in Table Tennis
which was held on 20- 21 August. More than 30 corporate companies have participated in
the event. In the Team Event Finals, TCS beat Persistent 3-2 in the nail biting encounter.
TCS was down 1-2 losing the doubles match after giving a strong fight. In the reverse sin-
gles Amit showed his experience, keeping his calm won his match to equal the scores 2-2.
Now there was huge pressure on Devesh's shoulders to play his best and he played ex-
tremely well to knock down the opponent with game score of 3-2, to make TCS as the Win-
ner of the Team Event. Amit Dhekane won Gold medalin Men's singles 35+ category. Purva
Sohoni won Silver medalin Women’s singles.

- Amit Dhekane (1079679)

Event Name Result

TCS Team- Amit Dhekane, Devesh Maha-

Team Event jan,Navin Natu, Abhijit Pradhan, Sambit Pra- Gold Medal
Men's 35+ Singles Amit Dhekane Gold Medal
Women's Singles Purva Sohoni Silver Medal
Amit Dhekane, Devesh Mahajan,Abhijit Pra-
Men's Doubles dhan Bronze Medal
Women's Dou-
bles Purva Sohoni, Anwesha Saikia Bronze Medal
Mixed Doubles Amit Dhekane,Purva Sohoni, Anwesha Saikia Bronze Medal

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 CYBAGE TT CLASH - TABLE TENNIS

Cybage has organized Inter Corporate Table Tennis tournament on 16-Jul-16. Around 15
IT Companies have participated in this tournament in different categories viz Men's &
Women's Singles, Doubles, Mixed Doubles.
TCS has participated only in Men's Singles, Women's Singles and Mixed Doubles due to
less availability of key players. Freshers like Archit and Purva were representing TCS for
the first time in this tournament.
Being the first inter IT tournament, they were bit nervous but could manage to reach
Quarterfinal rounds in their respective categories. In Mixed doubles Semifinal, Amit and
Purva lost against HSBC after a tough fight of 5 games.

Name of the players – Amit Dhekane, Archit Kashyap, Purva Sohoni.

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 WINNING MOMENTS!

15 different teams from various Tata companies had come to Mumbai to play this tour-
nament.
TCS defeated Titan in a thrilling final. TCS won the toss and elected to bat first. With
50/4 in 10 overs , Rahul Amonkar steadied the innings with 26 ( 29) along with Ravi
Banda 27 (24). Pritam steadied the middle overs with 16 (18) but then came our demoli-
tion man Pinkesh 35 (18) supported by Ali 11 (07) helped us reach a defendable score of
149/7.
Titan started the innings very well and had good opening partnership 67 runs in 9 overs.
Then Ali spinned the opposition with figures of 4-1-12-3. All got down to the last over
which required 16 runs to win. Pritam was entrusted with the last over who finished
with figures of 4-0-29-1.
TCS won the match by 2 runs. This was a well fought but in the end team TCS was the
deserved winner. We played consistently and improved with every game. Each team
member contributed when it was needed and was great team performance. Pinkesh Tan-
del was awarded the Man of series trophy.

Our Journey to the final

Match 1 League : TCS 182/4 vs Trent 117/10 – TCS won by 65 runs
Match 2 League: TCS 143/8 vs Tata International 90/10 – TCS won by 53 runs
Match 3 League - TCS 149/4 vs Tata Motors Jamshedpur 122/10 – TCS won by 27
runs
Match 4 - Semi Final – TCS 205/3 vs TML Drive lines 135/7 – TCS won by 70 runs

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 3 TIMES CHAMPIONS IN A ROW....

The Corporate Sports Tournament was orgainsed by Ajmera i-Land Sports Acad-
emy during November. It hosts an array of tournaments comprising Badminton,
Chess, Carom, Cricket, Shooting, Tennis, and Football, with over 30 Corporates
(500 participants) competing for the coveted positions. TCS emerged as the win-
ner of the Team Championship with 1200 points! It makes us more proud as this
feat was repeated 3rd time in a row, which is commendable.
TCS delivered their master strokes, knocking out competing teams with a differ-
ence of minimum 40 points in every game! Keeping in good form, TCS has
bagged laurels in all corporate tournaments it has participated in the past three
years. We take great pride in being a witness to each milestone of success that
TCS teams have been achieving in the field of sports.

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 TCS FOOTBALL TEAM ON A WINNING SPREE...

During the 2015-16 financial year, TCS Mumbai Football team won 9 trophies
(7 – Men’s & 2 – Women’s). Below are the tournament results:

NSPORTZ SOCCER TOURNAMENT

Team TCS grabs Runners Up Trophy @ NSportz Soccer Tournament.
The tournament was scheduled Sunday, 07th February 2016 @ The Arena Football Turf,
Andheri East, Mumbai.
League Matches Results:
TCS vs. Citrus Pay: 3-0
TCS vs. Shoppers Stop: 7-0
TCS vs. Disney: 4-0
Semi Finals:
TCS vs. Kotak Life: 5-0
Finals:
TCS vs. Indigo: 1-1 (lost on penalties: 2-1)

BOMBAY GYMKHANA – MERCHANTS CUP

Team TCS grabs Runners Up Trophy @ Bombay Gymkhana 6-A-Side Merchants Cup Soccer
Tournament 2015-2016.
League Matches Results:
TCS vs. Maersk: 1-0
TCS vs. Bombay Gym: 0-0
TCS vs. HDFC Bank: 2-0
Quarter Finals:
TCS vs. Kotak Bank: 0-0
(Won on penalties: 2-1)
Semi Finals:
TCS vs. Maersk Global: 1-1
(Won on penalties: 2-1)
Finals:
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AJMERA ILAND SOCCER TOURNAMENT

TCS Mumbai Football team kick started their season by clinching 5-a-side - Football
tournament organized by Ajmera iland Sports academy on 23rd & 24th May 2015
@ Ajmera Ground, Wadala.
League Matches:
TCS vs. Marico: 3-0
TCS vs. Datamatics: 2-1
Quarter Finals:
TCS vs. KPMG: 2-1
Semi Finals:
TCS vs. DHL: 0-0 (won on penalties 1-0)
Finals:
TCS vs. Tech Mahindra: 1-1
(won on penalties 2-1)

INTER TATA 7-A-SIDE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT

TCS Mumbai Football Team emerged Runners Up of an esteemed 7th Inter Tata 7-a-side
Football Tournament.
The tournament was organized by Tata Sports Club on 7th & 8th Nov 2015 at Tata Power
Ground, Chembur
League Matches:
TCS vs. Tata Capital: 4-0
TCS vs. Tata AIG: 1-0
TCS vs. TATA Power: 2-1
TCS vs. TATA Chemicals: 4-0
TCS vs. Tata Motors Jamshedpur: 3-2
Semi Finals:
TCS vs. TATA Sons: 4-0
Finals:
TCS vs. Tata Motors (Pune) : 0-0
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SMAAASH CORPORATE SOCCER LEAGUE – INDUSTRY SPECIFIC 2016

TCS Mumbai Football Team emerged Runners Up @ SMAAASH Corporate Soccer League –
Industry Specific 2016. The tournament was organized by 5th & 6th Mar 2016 at Western
Railway Football Ground, Lower Parel, Mumbai.
League Matches:
TCS vs. Serco: 3-0
TCS vs. Capgemini: 2-1
TCS vs. WNS: 1-0
TCS vs. Eclerx: 0-1
Team TCS finished Runners Up with 9 points.

GAME ON CORPORATE CHAMPIONSHIP 2015

TCS Football team clinched GOLD & SILVER Medals in FOOTBALL event of GAME ON
Corporate Championship 2015 organized by The Sports Gurukul.
The tournament was scheduled on 24th Oct 2015 @ Ajmera iland Sports Academy, Football
Ground, Wadala, Mumbai.
League Matches Results:
TCS – A vs. UBM: 4-1
TCS – B vs. Repro B: 1-0
TCS – A vs. Repro A: 3-0
TCS – B vs. Dhruva: 2-1
Semi Finals:
TCS – A vs. Laxcess : 2-1
TCS – B vs. Barclays: 1-1
(Won on penalties 2-1)
Finals:
TCS – A vs. TCS – B: 2-1

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 HAVE YOU HEARD OF THIS SPORT? CHESS BOXING
Rubingh’s idea to create a new sport fusing the two
disciplines, chess and boxing, originates from the
1992 comic Froid Équateur—written by French
comic book artist Enki Bilal(born Enes Bilalović)—
that portrays a chessboxing world championship.
In the comic book version however, the opponents
fight an entire boxing match before they face each
other in a game of chess. Finding this to be imprac-
tical, Rubingh developed the idea further until it
turned into the competitive sport that chessboxing
is today with alternating rounds of chess and box-
ing and a detailed set of rules and regulations.
The first chessboxing competition took place in
Berlin in 2003. That same year, the first world
championship fight was held in Amsterdam in co-
operation with the Dutch Boxing Association as
well as the Dutch Chess Federation and under the
auspices of the World Chess Boxing Organisation
(WCBO) that was founded in Berlin shortly before.
Two years after the first world championship, the
first European Chess Boxing Championship took
place in Berlin on October 1, 2005. Present day
chessboxing commentator Andreas Dilschneider
was defeated by Tihomir Atanassov Dovramadjiev
when he resigned in the 7th round (chess), crown-
ing the latter the first European Chess Boxing
Champion. In 2006, more than 800
spectators filled the Gloria Theatre in Cologne for
the world championship qualification fight be-
tween Zoran Mijatovic and Frank Stoldt.
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Rules of the GAME
How a chessboxing fight works A chess oxing
fight consists of 11 rounds,6 rounds of chess
and 5 rounds of boxing.Chess and boxing
rounds alternate,beginning and ending with a
round of chess. Each round lasts three
minutes,regardless of whether it involves
chess orboxing. The total amount of chess
playing time is 18 minutes, making it 9
minutes each player. After each chess round,
the exact setup is digitally recorded and then
repositioned before the following chess
round. The breaks in between the chess and
boxing rounds usually last 60 seconds. The
duration of the rounds and overall fight time
in amateur chessboxing fights can change to
some degree, as in for example youth tourna-
ments and exhibition fights.
Decisions
In a chessboxing match, a competitor may
win in regulation time by any of the follow-
ing:
 Knockout (boxing rounds)
• Technical Knockout (boxing rounds)
• Checkmate (chess rounds)
• Exceeding of the time limit by the
opponent (chess rounds)
• Disqualification of his opponent by the
referee e.g. due to inactivity due to
overextended playing time (chess or
boxing rounds following multiple
warnings)
• Opponent resigns (chess or boxing
rounds)
In the case that neither of the chessboxers win
in regulation time and the chess game ends
in a draw, the fighter who is ahead on boxing
points wins the chessboxing bout. In case the
scoreboard is also tied, the fighter that used
the black chess pieces will be named the win-
ner. This has not yet occurred in practice.
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The 37-year-old Frank Stoldt, former UN-Peacekeeper in Kosovo and Afghanistan, won when his
opponent resigned in chess in the 7th round. After qualifying himself to fight for the title in 2006,
Frank Stoldt went up against the American David Depto in November 2007 in Berlin, to fight for the
first world championship title in the light heavyweight division. More than 800 tickets were sold for
the event at the Tape Club in Berlin and made it the biggest chessboxing title fights by then. Frank
Stoldt defeated Depto in the 7th round, and thereby cemented Berlin’s status as the leading city in the
chessboxing world becoming the first German world champion.

The Chessboxing Family Grows

Chessboxing first received credit from the international Chess Federation FIDE, in April 2008. At the
same time, the chessboxing community began to grow globally at an even faster rate. In 2008,
chessboxing clubs were founded in London and Krasnoyarsk. Created in 2009, the Los Angeles
Chessboxing Club was the first of its kind in the United States and was directly followed by the New
York Chessboxing Club in 2010. In 2011, the first international club matchup took place with Berlin
and London in the ring—London came out the winner with 2:1 won bouts.

Chessboxing a World Sport

In 2011, the WCBO and with it the global chessboxing community made the biggest leap forward in its
development to date with the foundation of the Chessboxing Organisation of India and its expansion
in Asia, including also Chessboxing China and the Chessboxing Organisation of Iran which were
founded in 2012. The Chess Boxing Global Marketing CBGM GmbH—called Chess Boxing Global, CBG
—was founded, that as of May 2013, is responsible for organising all of the professional chessboxing
fights worldwide and above all, for the organisation of the Chess Boxing World Championships.

Chessboxing in India
The Chess Boxing Organisation India was founded in 2011 by kickboxing official and former Indian
kickboxing and karate champion Montu Das.

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 Particular requirements and training
A chessboxer must have strong skills in both chess and boxing in order to be permitted to com-
pete in a professional chessboxing fight. The current minimum requirements to fight in a Chess
Boxing Global event include an Elo rating of 1600 and a record of at least 50 amateur bouts fought
in boxing or another similar martial arts. One deciding factor in chessboxing is that the fighters
have to mainly train in speed chess, seeing as the requirements in speed chess are different than
those in a classical game of chess. However, chessboxing is not only the ability to master both
sports but above all, being able to withstand the constant switch from a full contact sport to a
thinking sport, round after round. After three minutes of boxing, pulses are racing, yet the oppo-
nents have to face each other at the chessboard barely having taken a break, and have to then per-
form with calm and think tactically. This switch becomes increasingly hard for the athlete as the
fight goes on and he becomes tired.
In order to train these skills, a specialised chessboxing training is used, in which physical interval
training forms are combined with blitz or speed chess games. Thereby the fighters adapt the
rhythm of a chessboxing bout. For instance exercises like "track chess" and "stair chess" in which
training partners will play an 18-minute game of speed chess over six rounds with intensive run-
ning exercises in between e.g. 400m sprints or stair sprints. Other common methods of training
combine speed chess games with strength exercises such as push-ups. The classic chessboxing
training is a box sparring combined with a game of speed chess.

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