India Unbound

Mr Gurcharan Das was here, and so were all his fans in the Symbi community, on 18th of March 2009. Our II Sem Final exams were starting from 20th, I am writing this post-haste, didn't have time to pen it down then. Me being classic me had put everything till the end and hence my course was all pending, every waking hour i spent in planning when to finish what but never actually got to it. Our entire batch was asked to attend Mr Gurcharan Das's lecture. I being a big fan was happy to but others were not so kind.
He has a magnanimous presence and after the usual Symbi ablutions when he took stage he reprimanded Diro and we all loved to see him panic in his usual flair :)
Anyways he started off, there was nothign new, he had prepared the presentation from his book only but with the facts depicted in a graphical form. Once his session was over I was just happy to see him but there was no takeaway from his ppt as such. Everyone realized that.
We only then got to know the real motive of inviting him then, he is on some advisory panel of UGC and we drew our inferences. Some faculty members were real glad to see him and opened their hearts out to him, he too was impressed no doubt.
All in all it was 2 hours well spent for me, i don't regret it, hope at least on this pretext i wud get to meet all such people whose works i have read and admired over the times.

'Holi' day

'Aya mahant Basant' - Holi augurs the arrival of the Spring Season in this part of the world. The season change hardly brings any cheer, its already hot as hell here and the winter was only pleasantly cool. I've had better Holis than this one, in happier times. Sounds ominous, as if we're at war or something, I just love melodrama!! Our seniours had a tough year God only knows what awaits us this December. We just got out of two admission processes, giving loads of promises to bright younglings, some o' them older than me. They all had dreams in their eyes exactly the way we had been last year, full of expectations raring to have a go at it, become the much acclaimed and famed managers (reminds me of "Yuri the manager who manages!!" Kali wud love that no doubt!!). I didn't know how address their queries, SIBM has done well no doubt but there are still a few who are not placed, what will happen when you leave the college without a job in hand. Jobs are downright hard to come by on campus, once outside the situation is far worse than under the institute's roof. It was so draining to just complete one admission process that when we were told we'll have to do another it was just too unnerving. The SNAP authorities chickened out under the pressure of FIRs and RTIs, revised the scores and lo!! we were left with another 900 students clearing the cutoffs. It hits you that these people are a deserving lot but the pain of another 4 days of carnage is overwhelming. The admissions process had been quite admired by candidates and the college alike. We all had a nice feeling of contentment in our hearts and were glad to be the center of attention all these days but when the monthly quizzes and vivas came along it was a nightmare. I aced by managing to get a zero in Ops. Its been my achilles heel thus far, I tend to mess up with fairly silly mistakes. They have been a fact if life here at Hogwarts (he he he how I wish).
The Summer internships are gonna start shortly I've been trying to arrange acco in Chennai but hasn't worked great till now. Hope we all have fun wherever we go