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.