No prizes for S Balaji, Prasanth Prasad, VP Rajkumar, Satish Sholapur, Shyamala Natarajan, DK Upadhyay and MS Venkatakrishnan for getting it right.
Kaushik Viswanathan wins the first L&T Valves Blog Sherlock Holmes Award.

by Jairam Menon
Corporate Communications Department, Larsen & Toubro Limited
Vignettes from the remarkable life of our co-founder Mr. Henning Holck-Larsen, whose birth centenary falls on 4 July 2007.
 
Henning and Karen Holck-Larsen on their wedding day
A young chemical engineer travels east from Denmark and makes India his adopted homeland. He sets up a company that is [...]

Many people read “Wo shi shei?” as “Who is she?”. This could be because, when we read, it deosnt mttaer in waht oredr  the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can [...]

Motorcycle Diaries Follow-up.
In Kerala, pillion riders are exempted from the helmet rule…
Photo contributed by T. Sajeev Menon, Baroda

Today morning, we received a flash message that a kid undergoing treatment in a city hospital required blood urgently. Immediately Girish Natarajan and T. Suresh of L&T Valves, Chennai, rushed to the hospital and donated blood.
We salute the heroes and hope their timely act, which enhanced the chances of the child’s recovery, would be emulated [...]

Right from getting hit on her head as a child, to her remarkable volleyball skills, her achievements, fears and passions…
We present Padmaja Vema uncut (of course, except for that cut on her head)
My full name: Padmaja Vema
Nickname: Paddu – Thats what my dad calls me.
Family: My dad, Mr. V. Ravindranath is a businessman and my [...]

Crack the caption, crack the puzzle…

Prithviraj S Chavan
Date of Birth
14.05.82
Education
B.E Mechanical, 2003
College of Engineering, Rajaramnagar, Sangli District, Maharastra.
Work Experience
1. Diffusion Engineering Limited, Nagpur
Engineer – Sales
2. Carl Bechem, Bangalore
Application Engineer
3. FAG Bearings India Ltd, Vadodara
Marketing Executive
Hobbies
Sports
Current Assignment
VBG – Domestic Sales, Powai
Contact Info
chavanps@larsentoubro.com
+91 022 67053690
We wish him all the very best for a successful and rewarding career in L&T.

Zhouhongmei (Erin) wed Cai Shu Yong (Eric) on 11 June 2007.
The bride works with L&T Jiangsu Valve Co., in the Accounts Department.
Let us wish the couple a long and prosperous married life!
Contributed by: B. Nithin, LTJ China

Leena Mathur and Vishal Mathur, Head – Business Development, L&T Valves, Jiangsu, China
Chinese scholars are foxed by new evidence which shows that the city of Yancheng was ruled by a Bombay Dynasty in ancient times…
Click here to read more about Vishal & Leena (Archives 2005), and here to read about Yancheng.