I visited Mumbai in August, on work, and had been to C-DAC Juhu, still fondly referred to nostalgically as NCST by people who've been part of the organization prior to its change of name.  C-DAC Mumbai is NCST, even to several students who studied there and picked up the NCST name from the faculty members out there.  The rebranding of the organization is a topic which rakes up a lot of issues, and memories, both pleasant and unpleasant, both in the past and in the present and deserves a post in itself, but suffice to say that there are people who still proudly refer to the organization by its former name. 

Back when I was a student at NCST (or C-DAC Kharghar, if you prefer it that way), we even designed a T-shirt which carried both logos, the new and official C-DAC logo on the front and the NCST logo and the words 'Proud to be an NCSTian' on the back.  On this trip,  I was looking forward to catching up with a whiff of the NCST air after a long time, and was also looking forward to catching up with 
After a quick 'hi' to Peeyush and tending to the work at hand, I slipped out for a chai with my colleague Rishi, and this was the only visible sign of NCST that had survived the transition, that I could find in the vicinity.





The swank, newly remodeled face of the building now sported the 'official corporate logo' of C-DAC.


 The work got over the same day and I had to head back to Pune, but not before grabbing some great coffee with Peeyush.    Needless to say,  meeting Peeyush was the best part of the trip.