Message from
the President

A few months later, we launched a weekly podcast to take the musical notes from our Mayo days into the lives of our alumni. It’s been appreciated a lot and we hope it will gain popularity in the coming months. We are proud of having created an intellectual property belonging to the Association.  

Come July, we delivered the largest ever edition of Igniting Minds, an event so unique that no other school in the country can boast of anything similar. We built upon the great work done by the past two teams and brought 30+ alumni from both residential schools to MCGS for interactions with current students. Law, photography, baking, psychology, entrepreneurship—you name it and we had built a session around the theme.

The School, under the stewardship of our Principal, laid out the red carpet for us and made us feel so very welcome into our former home. It put us up, fed us the food from our memories and made us feel a ton of nostalgia. So if you ever want a taste of Mayo again, offer to volunteer for this event.

There has been a general attitude of welcome in our interactions with the wider Mayo community, for which I’m grateful and I should give credit where its due. The Chairman of the MCGS Management Committee invited me to become a member, a first for the President of the Association; the General Council passed a resolution to invite six of our nominees to the boards of various Mayoor Schools across the world; and the Board encouraged me to speak my mind on various issues.

We have opted to partner with various chapters of Mayo Old Boys’ Society, such as Delhi chapter and Mumbai, to hold monthly events in these cities. We hope that this will help us connect with more alumni and tap into a larger network for professional opportunities. The annual event in Mumbai held on 4th February 2023 is an example of this spirit of collaboration–our girls were part of the organising committee of the event and many turned up in large numbers.

Another important initiative is the upcoming Marketplace initiative aimed at creating a platform for alumni to showcase their products and services. It starts with a one-day event in Delhi on March 4 but we hope to make it bigger and better with a follow-up event in Mumbai and Bangalore in the later part of the year.

In all of these, the idea is to create a sisterhood that will help the alumni get closer to their potential and their dreams. I ask only for your involvement. Don’t be indifferent. Make the effort to participate in what the Association is trying to do. Turn up for an event. Send an idea for another one. Offer to mentor a young graduate. Help another find a better job. Feed a young student living far away from home. 

As older alumnae, we know that the world does not make things easy for women. We spent our thirties balancing motherhood with professions, trying to hold on to both our jobs and babies. We know the fight is tough, and we know we need to support the new mothers and the young brides in their struggle to stay true to themselves in this new phase in their lives.

So come forward and help a fellow Mayoite become better at what she does.

Love and luck from all of us at the Association.

Pooja Kothari
President, Mayo Girls Alumni Association
Batch of 1992