Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and

a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way. Those were the days, oh yes those were the days.

Every couple of years the department of Personnel Management at XISS prepares fervently for Nostalgia, organized every 2 years as the alumni meet and felicitation event. Nostalgia is a confluence of corporate stars and ideas, as our alumni from across the globe come to their Alma Mater to rekindle the bond they share with the Institute and relive the moments they shared with their classmates. XISS has carved a niche for itself in the cutting edge areas of management education, rural development, social research, consultancy, training and development interventions in the past 55 years of its existence. As a premier management school today, XISS caters to the human resource requirements of the industries, information technology sector and non-governmental organizations. Moreover, the institute has grown as an important resource centre for development sector in this region. XISS is one of the oldest B-Schools that started preparing HR and IR professionals to address the problems pertaining to the people dimension of the industry. The institute is known in the corporate world for its MBA program in Personnel Management with leading multinationals and Indian companies coming for recruitment. Over the past fifty years XISS Personnel Management Department has been instrumental in developing managers with exceptional caliber and skill. Business leaders, entrepreneurs, change agent for society, and academicians wherever our alumni have gone, they have proved they are Professionals with a Difference . Every ten years, as November nears, An announcement arrives in the mail, "A reunion is planned; it'll be really grand; Make plans to attend without fail."