I am a Rightist???? Am I

I do almost all the most important and auspicious things and acts of my life with my Right hand, I think most of the time with my right brain, I like to take Right decisions more than wrong ones, I always wonder am I using my fundamental Rights and other social and national Rights without any problem.

I am not writing this to talk about myself, but to talk about people in my left and right all over the country. People who say they are leftist, people who say they are rightist and people who don’t know who they are. For some time now since I have become a bit more mature, a bit more childish, a bit more stupid, I have been thinking about a lot of things and those lot of things always end up me thinking about the Indian Politics and Politicians, and the reason for this is, every situation has either arisen due to politics or has been influenced due to a politician. I will give you a few examples of how and why I end up thinking so.

Since I said I am a rightist let me start with instances about the leftist first.

Till date since I have grown up I haven’t understood the motto and the sense behind the ideologies of the leftist. They say they want equal opportunities, they say they want job guarantee, cheaper food and other products and services; they want everything to be under public/government corporations, they dislike any private corporation to do anything in the country and they have many other different versions of their demands and ideologies, I am not sure of any of their ideologies and basically because I haven’t understood their motto at all till date. I just know one thing; they almost always are the reason for cold in the central government (this is something all of us see and hear everyday).

- They say they are against privatization and they have 1000 reasons to justify their stand. But I think I am not looking at their stand, I am looking at common sense and I believe what I am thinking is acceptable to some extent keeping their ideologies apart. If they say privatization is ill, then let me ask them, who made it possible to make air travel as cheap as it is today, who made it possible to have telecommunication facilities all over the country, who made it possible for technology to be the in thing in the country, and many such endless areas to explain in detail.
- They say they are against foreign goods and people going abroad to work etc., but who is going to remind them that the state which they run the government for so many years now is one of the biggest consumer for Foreign Liquor, that state sees the most number of people leaving the country for job opportunities abroad including Saudi and Dubai. That state has the most literate but uneducated people (would love to explain the difference between literate and Educated some other time). And that state also leads the chart in many other social and economic injustices happening. Yes I am talking about Kerala.
- Don’t we know about Nandigram, it is again in a state where the leftist have been ruling for long time now and if I can remember well and if I am right and conscious, the initial problems in this place started only because of the state government not treating the farmers well i.e. not paying the farmers market price of the land.
- At one end they say cut taxes, reduce prices and so on and at the other end they want loan waivers, social spending and so on, so some one ask them where will the money for this come from. I don’t say they are completely wrong, but being rational and logical is more important that just being adamant and old fashioned.
- I still think that India needs a mindset change, a mindset for the global environment we are living in, a mindset for the challenges and competitions we are facing day in and day out in the international arena, a mind set to grow and involve everyone in the growth, a mindset to have a competitive world and most importantly a mindset to grow by oneself and not by being dependent on others or others help, support or resources (not even the government).

Now coming to the party which is running the Central Government of the country.

- I haven’t yet understood how any reservation can bring social justice and uplift people and castes, what I feel is it creates more divisions, more differences, more problems. Think about this with a rational mind set
- And we see every other day some new caste or religion or section of people hitting the road for their reservation, I believe it has become a pride to be called backward in our country. My appeal to such people and section of the country is to stop fighting to get reservation and be daring enough to stand on its own instead of depending on the government, which can just give promises and nothing more.
- I haven’t also understood how many loan waivers the government will be able to give to help the poor farmer come up in life. Can such short sighted, vote bank oriented, ill planned policy ever bring our farmers up in life, can they ever have a positive mark or change in their life or are is this just another way to please as in case of a child.

Now coming to an overall general overview of the system and of politics.

- I haven’t understood yet how can political attacking and clashes make any political party or politician feel that they are serving the country and its citizens. Will just pinpointing and accusing each other for their mistakes ever help the country actually develop.
- One government does something wrong, then the other government does some other thing wrong and then accuse each other for every other problem. Can this ever lead to something right for the country?
- I know power is very important for everyone in this world, but using the power in appropriate ways is more important than the power itself. So why don’t these political parties take an oath to do what is right for the country instead of doing what is right for their party and for the election.
Can the party in power and the opposition ever work together for the cause of the nation, does just being in power mean serving the people, and does working with the government to do social welfare not mean power. So why fight for power? If your intention is to serve the citizens of the country stop fighting for power and start fighting for good, and by the by if you want good, I don’t think you need to fight, you just need to do it.

I have never liked Indian Politics and Politicians, I can mention other hundred, thousand instances and thoughts but what’s the use if again tomorrow morning I have to read headlines of one party criticizing other and concentrating on what the other party did than what actually is the problem. God please help my country. I am just 21 and I am not able to see the kind of politics and politicians India has grown, I believe the British would have been far better, because at least their motto was clear to the people that they want to rule and not do any good, unlike Indian politicians who show one face before elections and another after elections and the 5 years they are in power end up identifying what they actually are elected for and making policies ready for winning the next election instead of using this opportunity for doing Good.

I am not for or against any particular institution or school of thought but what I just live for is Common Sense. I have very well understood so far in my life that the definition for common sense is quite different for every one, but I don’t think common sense is so complicated. I also know and agree that different people see things differently and have different ways to do the same things but I just don’t understand, is it that difficult in this world of God to have a common “Common Sense”.

If this would remain the situation of politics in the country, as I see in every forum today, god save me, I never would like to be a part of any political outfit, I am happy the way I am. I am happy with my thoughts and my Life, I neither have time for the rat race and nor energy for the bull fight going on in the country.

And yes I am not a leftist, so neither am I a rightist. I am who I am!!!!!!!

My Experience at my First Job – Part 1

I joined with a lot of enthusiasm and hope and here I am still with the same enthusiasm and hope but hope for a great future. I have been thinking all through my life, how will I like doing a job, how will I feel, will I be able to face the heat and so on, but here I am, with just one more month for my summer internship to get over, I am excited and happy for what ever I have got and what ever I have done and now I have only one major goal for the coming month, i.e. to finish the internship program in style by proving my skills and capability and to leave a positive mark. But yea I must tell ya I am enjoying my job but I have certainly known this to myself for all my life now that I cannot and will not do a job for long, coz I don’t have it in me to subordinate for long, yea I know I will work and infact I will have to work as in, in a job but I certainly know not for long, coz I see entrepreneurship for myself and I see only that, I don’t know when but I am waiting for the right time and the right idea to pop in and then there I will be, if not on the top at least some where, where u can see a difference, feel a difference and can proudly say hey its Yogesh its Yogesh Chordia !!!!!.
The project so far has been worth it and I think I have learnt a lot in these 45 approx days which have passed by and most of the credit for what ever I have learnt and done goes only to one person who is my immediate boss, will share more about him and about the job under him sometime later, coz it has been an amazing experience and as one of our faculty says with hands on approach. So do stay tuned, I just came in just to quickly share my experience so far and yea I cannot forget to mention this here and now, I have earned my first salary in life from this job and to be honest and frank I was not very excited or as people say ‘on top of the world’, it was just another moment for me, rather it was just another event in my life and as I know and u know as well, I got to go a long long way yet, so keeping my fingers crossed and hoping to complete this internship program in style and making a mark for myself, will be back soon and yes this time with a bang.
Keep watching this space for Part 2 soon

P.S - I am doing my Summer Intership at a Company called Siva Ventures Ltd, which is a subsidiary or Flagship company of Sterling Infotech Group(A Conglomerate of 33 different businessees and revenue to the tune of $2 billion/year) - just for your information in case u r'nt aware of the place of my first job and just knowing my experience :-) ;-)

RESERVATION – A NEW PROPOSAL TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIA

When the country and its top bureaucrats are so much fond of doing social justice to a good majority of Indian population. I and a lot of like minded people like me in the country have a proposal to make to such great thought leaders at the top of the country. Thanks to them to have come up with such an excellent idea of dividing the nation in the most innovative way.
Now let me make my propositions for a socially equitable society but mind you I am trying to follow not my own ideology, I am trying to use my brain and the Ideology of great thought leaders of the country who have come up with such a great policy of reservation for OBCs at higher education level. Hats off to them for such ill motivated thought and policy.
Proposal for further reservations for OBCs or any other castes/communities as the government or such great thought leaders seem to be fit and important for.

27% reservation in judiciary as desired by certain sect of people as it was highlighted in the media a couple of days back.
Reason – if education is the birth right of every Indian, even judiciary is something very important, because if they cannot get equal rights in judicial matters they may not be treated properly and they may be behind and it would be unjust to them.(same argument as for the one made for higher education).

27% reservation in all posts (top posts i.e. at the top 2 layers of these organizations) of police, army, military, navy and all such organizations/bodies of government.
Reason – as per certain study or comment a figure of 52% was mentioned to be the approximate population of OBCs, so if that is the case they need fair amount of participation in all such institutions of the country where they are not being given social justice for such a long time since independence.

27% reservation in the parliament and all state assemblies including the municipalities and corporations.
Reason – they need to be given at least this many seats and place in all these bodies, now come on you talk about social justice and if you cannot give them place in the most important bodies of the country then where is justice.

27% reservation in all trains, buses, airlines, ships and any other kind of public transport or utility run by the government.(including the right to walk on the road)
Reason – all the general category people always benefit from all these facilities leaving out OBCs, so let’s do justice to them. We already have so many quotas in all other public transport like railways so adding another will not be a problem. Let’s do it. Even OBCs travel and because of general category people their seat is always waitlisted, so let’s give them this reservation and help them.

27% reservation in all government jobs including schools and hospitals, they need to get their due even in these organizations
Reason – if they can be given reservation to study, then they also need reservation in work if not how will they get employed; it would be injustice to them. Let’s do some social justice and bring them up.

27% reservation in every other thing you can think of, because I can go on and on and on with ideas and more avenues, so I leave it for you to think and make your own proposals keeping in mind social justice and equality.

More over dare not to play with this 27%, it will be the same, even the most respected Supreme Court of India has played safe and not even touched it even by half a percent. So better be careful (no need to mention but just for your memory and confirmation all the above plans will not go against the proposed creamy layer concept as well, so everything is proposed to be done as prescribed and ordered by the Supreme body).

And you must be thinking I have gone mad and that’s why I came up with the above list, now come on be practical and try to follow the ideology of the great souls in the country who have come up with this plan and the souls who have approved it and given an honorable judgment in the same lines. It’s very simple if this is the way to bring social justice in education (mark my words “education” and I don’t mean higher education) then it can also be the way to bring equality and social justice in every other field in the country so lets try and get it implemented, if not you shall have to curse yourself all your life, that you were a part of such social injustice happening.
I am still shocked and surprised that the honorable supreme court of India completely reversed its decision in the course of a year or so and that too with an explanation with which at least I am not satisfied being a citizen. (I know I am no one to be satisfied but I just wanted to say that I am not satisfied, irrespective of whether it makes a difference or not) Now come on guys lets celebrate this great proposal by me and lets work and fight to get it approved and implemented as soon as possible, because after all its about social justice and equality and we must not be late in this front, we have already done a lot of injustice to so many people of the country, and don’t forget we have all those people and institutions behind us for this proposal as well as for the educational reservation thing. (if they supported for reservation in education that too at higher education level, will they not support such a great idea of social justice) JAI HIND

P.S – there is no intention to hurt any individual/caste/religion/organization or supreme body. These are my thoughts and I stand by them and I stand by my sarcasm, because that’s the only thing I am left with every other thing is going to fall under the reservation policy. So Cheers….

I am Sick!!!!

Of Ill motivated policies, of poor thoughts, of cheap politics and there is no medicine for any of these, not even Reservation!!!!!

Just a minute, I am not able to stop laughing….. yes not able to stop laughing,,, but why, because I cannot cry nor can I complain….. I am helpless….. Our country is helpless but why... ?? Yes most of us in our country are helpless. It has taken me more than a week to just settle down and have the courage and the motivation to pen down my feelings after such a historic judgment by the Honorable Supreme Court of India.

I am talking about the judgment on reservation for OBC’s in the elite institutes of the country. Why did it take more than a week for me to settle down and digest this verdict?
The following points may be the reasons I can explain to be some of the reasons why it took me such long time to accept the decision and do nothing more than that.

1) Only 1.5 out of every hundred in India go for higher education, and without any doubt more than 90% of these must be people from General Category. (The figure of 1.5 out of 100 is based on a report from a leading magazine and the 90% thing is my assumption, if u think for yourself I think u would agree with this number, just think about your peers)

2) 50 per cent of the IIT seats for the SCs and STs remain vacant, and for the remaining 50 per cent, 25 per cent are the candidates who even after six years fail to get their degrees. (Are reservations really working, where ever they are existing now - Source: IIT research, Blog of my friend Mahesh)

3) In Delhi University, between 1995 and 2000, just half the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Castes level and just one-third of the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Tribes level were filled. All the others went empty, unfilled. (So, again, are reservations working? - Source: Parliamentary Committee on the welfare for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Blog of my friend Mahesh)

4) Overall in India, only 16 per cent of the places in higher education are occupied by SCs and STs. The quota is 22.5 per cent, which means that only two-thirds of the quota is occupied. One-third is going waste, it is being denied to other people (- Source: The Hindustan Times, Blog of my friend Mahesh)

5) No study in the country is available to prove or justify the population of OBCs, I know this point is irrelevant when we want to be in a reservation free society, but just wanted to highlight the fact that why and how has the government and the Supreme Court had a consensus on the figure of 27% reservation.

6) Dr. Ambedkar who started the policy of reservation during his times clearly mentioned and highlighted the fact that reservation is just a short term tool to bring equality in the country, so his insisted that the reservation for SCs and STs which he proposed need to be slowly removed after a certain period of time. But god help us it has been 60+ years after our independence and none of us have either seen any change in the life of SCs or STs due to the reservation and neither the policy has been reviewed or removed as per the direction of Dr. Ambedkar.

7) Now coming again to Dr. Ambedkar’s line of thought, he initiated this reservation program thinking that it would work wonders for the country, but unfortunately it has not at least for the past 60 years, so I pity on our country and the bureaucrats at the top who even after seeing such a big failure haven’t reviewed or removed the existing reservation policy and in fact they have come up with another topping on the Ice as another reservation policy thinking that at least this will work. Now god please tell me who in the world will explain these people that when you have played with a policy for 60 years and it has not worked does it make any sense to come up with another such ill motivated policy to play with the lives of the people of the country.

8) Does any political party in this country think beyond VOTES, I haven’t encountered any yet. In my life from when I have come to senses I have not seen any move by a single political party which was not politically motivated. The verdict on reservation is a rare incident where no political party has dared or even dreamt of speaking up against the verdict even if they have opposite feelings. You know why??? Because if they dare to raise their voice against this they will straight away lose the votes of the so called OBCs and to bring you to the ground reality – More SC’s, ST’s and OBC’s go to vote than the general category people. So don’t you think these political parties would do anything to keep them happy, irrespective of what is good for the nation. For the brotherhood of everyone in the nation. No they are bothered only about YOUR VOTE, you promise them a vote, they will do any thing for u, yes anything means ANYTHING, trust me!!!!!

9) According to different reports including the census data (also the Mandal commission and other committees which were working on this) and other studies, the total number of castes which fall into the OBC category is not yet clear to anyone and also the basis on which they are being classified as OBC. So please explain me these things before you talk about welfare and equality.

10) If you know a bit of constitution or even if you have read your civics well in class IX, try to recollect the class when your social science teacher was talking about things like Unity in Diversity, No caste, creed or religion, brotherhood, equality and Fundamental Rights. If you can recollect something about all these issues you can remember that our constitution says there must not be any kind of differentiation based on caste, creed, religion or region in the country. So are policies like this one respecting the Constitution of the country which was formed with utmost care and good objective and intention for the NATION.

11) The Supreme Court of India itself rejected the case for reservation exactly one year back saying there is lack of information and valid studies or reports to implement any such kind of reservation, I am still surprised/ shocked what substantial it got in this one year to give a completely contradictory Judgment. May be I am not aware of the exact reasons and justifications behind it because I do not understand law, but I am still not convinced (with complete respect to the Supreme body, this is just my view).

12) The HRD minister Mr. X (I don’t want to use his name here, does not make any difference) in an interview with Karan Thapar was not able to answer a single question regarding the reservation policy one year back, my question is – when the person who is lobbying for a cause in the Parliament of the country does not even know a single thing about the issue why is he a minister at all at first place and why do we need such minister’s who don’t know what they are doing and what they need to do. I am damn sure that even after the judgment has been passed he is not sure even about a single fact regarding the issue and is just celebrating that something which he lobbied for is finally successful. I pity on him and on the country, we are heading towards a great future.

13) The population of the country which is not able to even complete schooling, if u reserve seats for them in post graduate level institutes what sense does it make. If you are seriously concerned about equality and stuff like that, first try to ensure that they are able to at least complete schooling and under graduation. And then you can think about other things.

14) They say General category students will not be affected by the reservation thing because they will increase the number of seats accordingly. Now who will tell these people that “BOSS, wake up, the nation does not have enough faculty to even fulfill the current strength and needs, IITs haven’t paid salary to their employees, quality of education is deteriorating at top institutes, there is no infrastructure in place at the moment, please don’t do this for the sake of it to make the general category voters feel that their interests have been taken care of, we (Indian citizens) don’t need your sympathy and concern, we would love to get our rights with merit and not from cheap political moves”.

15) Our country has almost one school on an average in every one kilometers distance except a few places in Bihar and Rajasthan, but do these schools have teachers, buildings, black boards, books, walls, and other infrastructure to even make it eligible to be called a SCHOOL. When you have problems at the ground floor and you are making policies to do something at the terrace, what does it speak about you and your senses? I don’t think some sane person will do this(I don’t mean that those who are making such policies are insane but what do I do, what ever they have done does not prove that they are using their senses, at least in the right direction for the right cause and problem)

16) I believe every citizen of this country respects Mr. Jawaharlal Nehru irrespective of their caste, religion, state, political party or any other mode of division. He was very particular in his statement and he very clearly said that he was against any kind of reservation in the country. So lets at least respect some ones words whom we all respect as a person, at least because he is a Chacha for all of us irrespective of any division you can create.

17) Now such sick policies and ideas will create even more sicker and crazier ideas in minds of people of the country, to start with minority status and reservation for Muslims, then for Christians then for parsi’s, sindhi’s, jain’s, and every other caste or religion. My god please save our country and the crazy ideas of people till they reach heaven to meet you, let them explain their crazy ideas to you directly in spite of wasting them here on earth and spoiling lives of innocent people around.

18) Assume yourself in a restaurant, theatre, school, hospital, court, stadium, your own office, your apartment or colony, street, temple, and any place which you visit regularly and try to fit this reservation policy there (22.5% for SCs and STs and 27% for OBCs, other reservations depending upon your state or locality), now start asking yourself how would you feel in these places and in different situations. I think there cannot be a better way to imagine the impact of any kind of reservation in the country.

19) Now as the reservation thing is implemented don’t you think a rift between these castes would have already started due to all the war of words going on for such a long time now, did we require this for such a ill thought policy.

I can keep on going with many other reasons like the few which I have stated above, but will it make any sense. The verdict has already been given by the most respectable Supreme Court of India. I would just say and in fact request all politically motivated souls of the country to GET A LIFE and stop playing with the lives and emotions of 110 crore people of the country. Please spare us for the sake of peace, harmony and brotherhood in the country. You want votes, I will give you my vote, in fact I will lobby for you irrespective of who you are, which state you are from, which religion you belong to, which caste you belong to, which sex you are of, and any such kind of questions. I just will look for good intention, practical orientation, good knowledge about the country and the people, do’s and don’ts of your job, and genuine hard working capability, that’s it you will get the vote of the whole nation, but please don’t play cheap politics and spoil lives of people in fighting with each other for material and immaterial things. We have a big and beautiful country, lets live with brotherhood and harmony. Please for GOD SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!

Now do you think I could have digested this fact yet, No, but this is the way life is, and finally I am here to share my thoughts wit everyone irrespective of your caste!!!

One year back I had made a well studied report on my thoughts about Reservation with a possible solution. You can have a look at it HERE.

P.S- (I did not want to mention I, me or name of any caste or there was no intention to prove good any particular caste or category, what ever I have used was just to help explain my point easily. I don’t have any problem with any particular individual or institution, if any name or reference is used above its just for illustration and ease of understanding. I completely respect and honor the Supreme Court of India, Dr. Ambedkar and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, there names were just used to make a point relating to them and not to offend any ones feelings. The above content is just to pour down my feelings and there is no intention to hurt or offend any individual or institution. I still am proud to be a Citizen of India and would live throughout my life as one and would always like to be called as known as a Citizen of India and not as a member of any caste/creed/religion/state/community/any other type of division you want to create. I am Indian and I am not bothered what other ways you want to see me or call me in. Jai Hind!!!!! )

. To see the text and the video of Karan Thapar’s interview with Arjun Singh click HERE

In The Name of WATER - Unity in Diversity!!!!!! – Where

The water war between Karnataka and Tamilnadu never seems to end and no idea why this comes up only when the hot summer is around. If you could well remember last year during February the war of words and actions was on between the 2 states for the Kaveri River and had created a lot of ill feelings between the people of the states. This year rather it is for Hongenakkal. The politicians of Karnataka are blaming Karunanidhi and are claiming that Tamilnadu is wrong in its project. I do not understand that why is everything politicized in this country, I agree that politicians do it for some community or the other but can they not speak and sort out things. Why do they go to the extent of blaming each other, cursing each others culture and background, ill treating people of each others state, damaging transport amenities and disrupting peace and harmony in both the states and creating some kind of hatred and chaos in the country?
Are we true Indians who talk about unity in diversity and things like that, if that is the case where is our unity now. Where is our integrity now? I am sometimes surprised over such incidents and I feel really bad about them.
Last year when this problem between Tamilnadu and Karnataka was going on, I was traveling to Karnataka via Train for an interview, my family members were all worried for me. As any one coming from Tamilnadu was not being treated well at Karnataka, was the perception that was built through what ever news we came to know from the TV and newspapers. So it was a really sad thing. (But I did not face any problems.)
What I feel is, if there is a problem between two governments why do they disrupt the lives of common man, they can sort it out via what ever way they feel they will get the justice, but making people sensitive about it and motivating them to have rival feelings for the neighbor state is not good. Even if they want to fight against some thing wrong, I don’t think such kind of damaging property and disrupting normal life helps in any way. I am very upset today after reading the news and seeing the news channels which show grey pictures of the way people of both states are reacting to the situation and the way they are making things political instead of trying to work out a solution for the same.

My only request and prayer to the people of this country is to remember that integrity, unity in diversity and all these words are not just words for our country, they truly mean the spirit of the nation. So at least for the sake of the country’s principles stop all these political dramas and let peace prevail and let the public live fear free and continue their normal life normally. And about kaveri and Hongenakkal let the best for the people of the country happen instead of fighting as two separate states.

Live to Love Life My Way!!!!

Every thing has to stop or come to an end some day, but why I am talking about end. I am just half way my journey. By end I mean an end of the first academic year of my MBA life. A year full of hard work, fun, learning’s, mistakes, enthusiasm, and lot more such adjectives (I am sorry I know only these many adjectives, in short only this much English).

I started this journey with lots of hope and desires, wanted to do everything possible under the sun, as far as possible in this first year, but being a human, a typical human I was just able to do only quite a few things which I planned. But also did quite a few things which I never planned. I took life as it came in this one year, it does not mean I was careless or easy going, I had targets set for myself, but nothing happens as someone plans it’s always the opposite of what u desire happens. I would not say everything went against my desires. It was just that I was not hard enough to myself to do a lot of things I actually wanted to do. Spent a lot of time gazing, talking crap, nonsense, networking, and all such related stuff and I am not sure whether all that is good or bad, all that was required or not. I just kept doing what ever my heart asked me to do; I stopped listening to my mind. But its ok, in the journey called life, you never end up doing things u planned.

But why I am talking about all this, what do I feel, do I feel happy for the past 9 months, or do I feel sad and dejected. I am not sad for sure and I am neither too happy, but I would say I am just satisfied to an extent that, yes the past 9 months have added some value to me, to my life. Even now I have a lots of plans in my mind for the short term and I am very sure I would be able to achieve only 20% of what ever I have planned, but I feel it’s necessary for me to plan this 100% to at least reach to the 20% level. I would try and work to the best of my abilities, but I know at times I would get diverted, then I need some one to ask me “Boss, hello, where r u, what r u doing”, and then I will be back on track.
I thought I would share my overall experience of the past 9 months this time, but as I am typing it I am not able to think about my experience, but I am only able to think about what went wrong and what went right and so on.
The first year of MBA @ IFMR was a really good year, with lots of learning’s. I think I shall enlist here the things which instantaneously come to my mind as soon as I think of 1st year @ IFMR and I am sure these things will remain in my mind any day in my life as soon as I think of it. So let me begin with it, be it good or bad.

-The first and the Happiest thing to be able recollect is Abhyudaya 2008, the dream event of my life, I would say again that it was my ultimate focus for 3-4 months and it was one major part of 1st year @ IFMR.
-Appeared on T.V twice and was live on Radio once, on TV for program related to budget and on radio to promote Abhyudaya.
-My first presentation at IFMR, on Dun and Bradstreet was appreciated by everyone present there and was one of the motivating factors for me to give away my shyness and stage fear, and the results are evident. Be it any presentation in class, any group or subject it be, the introduction i.e. the start of all the presentations used to be by me. Ironically this was because I never knew what the rest of the presentation was all about. LoL. But believe me I gained confidence and I still have it, just after my first presentation in life with a PPT.
-Winning a couple of prizes at LIBA in their b-school fest is another moment I recollect as it happened very recently, I registered for a lot of events at different b-schools, but took part only in a couple of them, due to a lot of factors including my team mates(3 cheers to u my CEO’s ). This one at LIBA was really special indeed.
-Organizing the Farewell for seniors is another event in which I was completely involved, and I enjoyed being a part of it, irrespective of the time I had to spend on it, while avoiding other important things.
-Mr. Ram Kumar’s (Head HR, ICICI Bank) lecture was another thing which I can never forget in my life, I don’t know why but I felt something about this lecture was too cool. We keep listening to a lot of people and often when ever someone speaks, he/she speaks about good things and that to in a very good way and appreciating way. But this person was some one who spoke badly about things, who criticized people, systems and raised his voice against a lot of things fearlessly amidst a good mix of people. I truly loved his perspective. I actually like to listen to and know different perspectives of people on certain issues.
-One more thing worth a mention here is the nature and the support of our senior Anand; truly he was one person who was a great inspiration to me and a few more at the campus. I truly started doing things seriously after seeing him. I used to contradict his views a lot of times, but I admire and respect his deeds and work which I saw in the past 9 months. He is a true champion for me.
-Learnt quite a few lessons after the 1st and 2nd term and tried to change my self appropriately, not fully but to some extent.

I believe the list for happy things has gone a long long way, lets see what are the things which I am not happy with, or concerned about and I need to try and analyze for myself.

-I lost focus on academics in the process of working on a lot of other things including Abhyudaya.
-Did not spend time on things which were crucial enough for me, to be done in the first year (I know what they r, so don’t feel like listing them here).
-Spent a lot of time in communicating with people, sometimes for important things and otherwise for some nonsense which proved to be a waste of time very often.
-Did not spend much time with family, which was possible, but I did not make too much effort on this front.
-My basics on many subjects learnt in the first year are not strong and which makes me worry now and then, and gives me a guilty feeling.
-The perception I have created for myself in the minds of my batch mates. I am not very much satisfied for the impression I created in their minds. Though I have not done anything wrong, but I have not made a mark, a really good mark in all aspects in people’s mind. (this is what I feel, I am not sure if I am right or wrong)
-There are various other things which upset me, things like not participating in a lot of events which I could have.
-One most important aspect of this review for myself is the concern for me not putting my efforts in the right direction, which could mean, me spending much time on some things less important and spending less time on some things which were more important.

I think the list can go on and on, but I need to stop some where and start working on these areas of concern. So that next time when I write a self review I would have a smaller list than this one. So till then keep watching…. JJ

You must be wondering why I titled this Blog as “Live to Love Life My Way”. You must see my review of the First Term @ IFMR I have titled it “Love to Live life My Way”. Then my review of second term was titled “What am I doing”. So after trying to live life my way, and after trying to figure out what I was doing, I thought experience and time has taught me a lot of things, which now makes me to live my life and love it as it comes and as I make it. I know what I have said doesn’t make much sense but trust me nothing in this world makes sense, normally.

So let me stop here and start working on both my strengths and weaknesses and yes most importantly I need to get set for the Summer Internship @ SIVA VENTURES, which is just a few days away from now. So till then have fun and yea stay tuned!!!!!!!!

BUDGET 2008 - MY TAKE

Finance Budget 2008 was the one to watch out for; I was very enthusiastically waiting for the FM to present the budget. All this enthusiasm was not because I wanted to see the FM presenting a budget, but it was to see what good is he planning to do for the common man and how is he going to do the same, if at all he does some.
In the words of Mr. Ramachandar, advisor to the central government (I am not very sure whose advisor is he exactly (PM or some other top Minister), so I have mentioned to the centre) “this was a typical Chidambaram’s budget, a Managers Budget”. He calls this budget as a Managers budget, for the way Chidambaram has taken care of each and every aspect of the economy according to him.
Before I take I stand on this budget’s issues, I think it would be fair enough to express my thoughts of what I expected from this budget.
1. Most important agenda on an average Indians mind – Farmer. Yes I wished that in this budget our FM creates policies and measures for the betterment of our farmers as a long term solution or at least an initiative in terms of their well being or should I say addressing areas which are creating most of the problems for the farmers.
2. Infrastructure, yes that’s the second thing which I feel requires a lot of attention at this point of time in Indian economy. Everything is doing good, industries, services, etc, but if we are lagging behind in other areas it is just because we do not have appropriate infrastructure in place to support or develop those areas for example agriculture, it requires good infrastructure to actually make sense for the agrarian population of the country.
3. Medical and health related aspects – in India even now there are thousands of districts which do not have a regular doctor/hospital, which is something very basic for every district to have. So I expect I good amount of resources are allocated for health purposes in different ways and initiatives through the Budget.
4. Last on my list but the most important one – Education. India has almost one school in everyone Kilometer on average except a few areas in Bihar and Rajasthan, which is something to be applauded. But the sad story is that we do not have teachers in these schools, we do not have these schools in proper conditions. The point is we do not have the appropriate infrastructure in place; we do not have appropriate skilled people for the job. So if the FM could allocate good amount of money to eradicate these deficiencies, it would take our country a long way.

Before I go on to comment of the final verdict of the budget, I would like to mention that I was very much involved in to discussions before and after the budget with lot of people officially and unofficially for instance I was live on CNBC for a survey which they were running to know about what people feel the budget would be like, and I was also live on TV for a show aired by NDTV Profit called India’s Budget, where I was one among the audience discussing the budget with the top businessmen of the country. I have mentioned the above facts just to assure you that I was really very serious about this budget and the expectations which I have mentioned above are not just things which I fancy, but those are the most important issues our country needs to get addressed as soon as possible. And these are not things which are not possible, or to say not possible for this budget. If that is the case it is not possible for any other budget as well.
My verdict on CNBC TV was that “this is going to be a populist budget, keeping in mind the framers deaths at Vidharbha and other places, and the elections coming up at the centre and state level”. My comment was basically assuming it to be an election year budget, but still I had hopes that the FM will do some thing much higher than my expectations.

The budget was presented with a lot of enthusiasm and pride by the FM, as he has given the opportunity to the people to spend more and consume more; he says according to economics it is very important to increase consumption to keep the economy healthy. He has given the farmers (rich) a bumper offer to get a life time chance to get their loans waived with certain conditions applied. He has increased the tax slabs; he has reduced the duties etc, for several products. And he has also done a lot of good things here and there. He has also allocated funds for education, health and infrastructure but how much and in what way is that going to be spent. Is it done with a long term vision, with plans for long term sustainability?
I would say he could have given a budget which was lot better, even if he was concerned about votes for the elections coming soon. He is an elected representative of people in the Parliament and he needs to have done things which could have made life of people better on a long term basis and not just with the eyes on the soon coming elections.

At first I felt it was an excellent budget, but as I tried to analyze it and discuss it I started finding issues which haven’t been addressed, but could have been addressed. Mr. Chidambaram has presented 5 consecutive budgets and I would say good budgets but what I felt was lacking in all his budget’s was an outlook for long term sustainability. Policies for developing the areas which need high attention and priority. For instance our FM must be feeling proud enough to have provided a loan waiver of 60000 crores, but I don’t understand how a loan waiver of such a huge amount help any farmer, either for short term or long term. This is a loss which the farmer has already faced and which he is trying to cope up with or come out of. But does giving a loan waiver of such a huge amount make any sense for him to even continue his livelihood; he is still concerned and worried about his livelihood, his occupation and other things. Not to comment on how the waiver will be disbursed, while farmers from the worst hit place in the country like Vidharbha feel that almost none of them is getting even a single paisa benefit from such a huge amount of waiver. Then my question is where is all this money going to, and mind you I have not yet asked where this money is going to come from.

The maximum loans a farmer takes comes from the local money lender and not from banks, the maximum trouble faced with regard to all sects of farmers is by the farmers with lesser land (this is my assumption, I know its bad enough). But the benefits of the loan waiver is going to those farmers who have land more than certain specifications (I am not going into the details), and to those farmers who have loans from banks (I need not mention, but a huge amount of data is available for the characteristics of farmers loan and where does it mostly come from i.e. banks or money lenders). No one is able to understand this policy of loan waiver; I think it is clear only to our FM and his team. And talking about long term initiatives, there are various ways in which he could have spent this huge chunk of 60000 crores to actually help the farmer, if not for today at least for a better tomorrow (by today and tomorrow I mean, if not short term at least in the long term). And when I hear people saying that he did it just because he wanted to help the farmers over come the current liquidity crunch and suicidal tendencies, I think I need not repeat the comments and feelings of Farmers of the worst hit place and with highest number of suicides – Vidharbha. More over if such a liquidity crunch is to be addressed by a policy like this one, I believe tomorrow if some other industry fails, our FM would also give them a huge waiver to help them come over their losses, and to help stop suicides if any. I sometimes laugh at things, because I am not able to understand the implications and ideologies behind such great policies.
One question which I would also like to ask here is – what is the incentive for the farmer who paid his loan installments in spite of all the troubles he also faced which his counterparts faced but did not pay the loans. Will they again like to pay any other installment after all what did he/she get, just hopes and nothing more. He could have also abstained from paying the loan installment thinking that the government will be so nice to him and waive his loan. I think this would become one issue in this process of loan waivers.
I have read a lot of other alternative uses of this amount and I personally also had a few good suggestions for the amount which was “wasted” as loan waivers, but what’s the use, our FM feels that waving loans is the best alternative available.
I had dreamt of a budget which would make an AAM AADMI actually smile with pride that his brothers in the villages will also be able to develop as others, but thanks to such great policies and schemes which thankfully help the Aam Aadmi to have such dreams as dreams and not take them away from him.
I pray to the almighty that at least the government succeeds in its objective to win the elections and again provide such great policies which hampers development and creates negative feeling about the whole system of lending and borrowing. I think at least the farmers who are getting the waiver would be happy as they are able to get a good deal for not paying up their loans.
Anyways I am planning to shift to a badly hurt village and also to become a farmer there. My plan of action is to buy a piece of land (according to the specification of the present loan waiver) with money borrowed from a bank near by and would wait for the government to waive it off!!!!!. Then lets meet once the waiver is declared, till then see ya and yes don’t forget to consume more, because that is what our FM wants you to do.

(P.S – These are my thoughts and you can always beg to differ on the same. I have used a lot of Data’s and Facts based on my own assumptions and discretion as an AAM AADMI. I am sorry if some particular point or issue is wrong as a fact or judgment, please do let me know if u find any such instance in the whole article. And I would definitely appreciate your comments and feelings on the above issues, as only ideas and discussions help to understand things better. Jai Hind. )

My Venture to Siva Ventures

The first interview for summer training while almost more than half of my batch mates were placed for summers, as the process of summer placements had begun almost more than a month back. And this one also was probably one of the last interviews for summers as I had actually applied only for a couple of more companies. The reason for all this was me being too much choosy in the matter of company and profile/project. If I did not get through this interview I probably would have had to take up a project under faculty. The projects under faculty were good enough but the motivation to do your summer internship in a company is far higher than under the same person whom you have been knowing for and listening to for almost a year and also to do the same in the 4 walls where you have spent the past 1 year.

I was not well prepared for the interview, in the sense that I did not do any additional preparation as I planned earlier. I was very cool, as I never had to attend an interview for such a long time while other batch mates were appearing for interviews almost every week. The desire and the spirit to get into this company were high enough due to a lot of reasons. Reasons like
The company has diversified businesses which would give me great exposure and insight in what ever limited time I am there.
The company was family owned and was a venture capitalist kind of firm, which gave me a feeling of adding to the entrepreneurial skills.
The company came to the campus for first time, and an alumnus was already working there very happily.
The company was offering a profile in Finance as such.
And many other reasons…..
We reached the company (8 of us were appearing for the interview) and had to wait for quite some time for the process to start, but I was completely relaxed. There was a lot at stake for me, but I was not much concerned, I don’t know why but I was a bit relaxed than I am usually before an interview. And as usual I being last in the list for the interview as it was alphabetic order wise, I had to wait until everyone else is done and got to listen to how their interviews were like etc… But meanwhile we were talking to the HR person of the company, about the company, its activities and so on. The HR person was a really cool guy, was very casual and spoke very openly and in a friendly way to all of us to remove tension if any from all of us.

The first person came back after an interview of about 30 minutes and she said that it was an HR interview and not a technical one, while all of us were expecting a technical interview. So this piece of first hand information again helped all of us to get a bit more relaxed as there was nothing much to be worried about for a HR interview, so we went on speaking to the HR person. While in my mind the thought that my turn would come after a few hours started as every other interview went on for about 20 minutes, but I knew what ever it is I have to wait how much ever time it takes and this was making me a little impatient as I was hungry and tired (Cos I had already waited for almost 3 hours).

And finally it was my turn after waiting for such a long time, I headed towards the interview room, entered and greeted the interviewer, who was 50+ in age and was even more tired than me. As I took my seat he asked me about myself and started talking on the phone, which made me stop myself until he stopped talking on the phone. Finally after he disconnected the phone I started telling things about myself and I was out of points just after 2-3 points as I could clearly see the level of interest of the interviewer (he was continuously yawning). Then I got silent for the next question to be thrown at me, the next question was “What is the prayer song of D.G Vaishnav College” (It’s the college of my graduation and also of the interviewer, coincidentally), I told him upfront that I did not know the same as I was an evening college student and there wasn’t any prayer for evening college students as such. He nodded his head and asked me a couple more questions to make me feel that I was actually being interviewed, as I answered them and remained silent, this person who was already tired and bored told me thank you, this is enough and you may go. I was shocked by the fact that the interview did not even last for 5 minutes, while others interview lasted at least for 20 minutes. I was not able to decide how to react to this, but then being a pessimistic person I told everyone that my interview was screwed due to my name, as the interviewer was least interested. But the only one motivating factor was the talks with the HR person, who from the start told all 8 of us that, all of you are selected, we are just doing this to know u better. So all of us were pretty confident and were taken by his words. But the mind never was ready to accept this fact, as HR managers are always very sweet in their speech, so never trust a HR manager.

I believe our faith was partially right, as the results came out the next morning 4 of us were short listed for summer internship and of course I was one among the 4. You will not believe me it was as sad a moment as happier it was, as the rest 4 were left out and our suspicion on the HR managers as such proved to be right, he filled us with a lot of faith, but at the end only 50% of it was true, so reacting to this situation became very difficult, as this was not some thing which we people who got selected had proved to achieve, it was an HR interview and it was just how we portrayed ourselves in the interview, so at the end of the day, it was a Win-Win for me, but a sad moment for my friends.

One important thing after the summer placements I would like to share here is the way I describe the company to all my friends and relatives who don’t know the company but know its neighborhood. It is this way “Do you know Kamaraj Memorial (Congress Grounds), opposite to that have you seen a tall building called Sterling Tower (which everyone who has been to congress grounds must have seen for sure), that is where I am placed for summers and it is a $2Billion revenue worth company with 33 different diversified businesses and so on”. This is the way my description goes to show that I am placed in a really good and big company. LoL.

Anyways I am into Ventures, and what about U??????? U there??????

Abhyudaya 2008 - Down the memory lane

The real enthusiasm and passion towards this most coveted event started in October 2007 with the designing of the theme for the event and was initiated with designing the brochure for the same to get sponsorship. The process involved discussions, meetings, debates and much more activity than expected. At the initial stage I never knew that I will be involved in such a major part of it by pushing away every other activity behind for it. It became the ultimate goal and focus of mine, it almost became breathe, I don’t think I even used to breathe air, even in the oxygen I inhaled I had some energy for Abhyudaya flowing in together with it. Every conversation I got in it either started or probably ended with some or the other issue concerning it, with who ever it shall be. Everything in my life took backseat even academics was taken lightly and only importance and priority went to Abhyudaya. Abhyudaya was an event of such importance to me that I almost forgot everything else and had only it in my mind most of the times.

The key areas of learning or shall I say the making of Abhyudaya’08 and insights from the whole process are as follows.

Brochure
The brochure was designed for sponsors with many sleepless nights and a lot of editing and rework done after a lot of suggestions, recommendations and gyan by different people. And yes when it comes to designing it was none other than our one and only great bharat, who spent a lot of time and energy with a lot of criticism and acclaim for the same.

Sponsorship
Once the brochure was ready now we needed the contacts of the prospective sponsors to go ahead for the sponsorship calls. Talking to people, getting contacts, dividing groups, making excel sheets and updating them were all just one part of the complete story. In fact if one would ask I would say they were just not even a part of the sponsorship run at all, as the over all sponsorship efforts were so deep and continuous that every day we had some 10-15 companies to follow up. Different kind of responses from each company, umpteen numbers of calls were made, numerous visits to their offices and mails to update them were another part of the story. But sponsorship was a big challenge, in fact the only biggest challenge of Abhyudaya, till at least 15 days before the event, we were short of at least 50% of the required funds. The days were getting tougher and tougher, when you have committed yourself to so many people regarding the fest and when you don’t have the funds to make it happen, you are in a terrible situation. The 3 months of continuous journey for getting the funds to run the show was the major learning from the whole process.

One basic value which this event added was it gave me a great platform to test my marketing skills and to build up contact and rapport with different corporates. Being in the sponsorship initiative I was almost in regular contact with various top managers of reputed companies of the country, in fact I would say there have been a few contacts which have gone just beyond the identity of the event but have become a relationship as such. So I would say it was worth the amount of tension and fear which was being faced day in and day out during the sponsorship stint. I know I was not able to convert many sponsorship calls which I was handling, I am not sure which ones were due to my poor skills and which ones were due to other known or unknown reasons. I tried to give my best and the person at the other end mostly responded quite well when I approached them but at the end of the day they had some or the other excuse to reject our proposal which gave sad moments.

The first moment of joy was the sponsorship given by our alumnus from batch 5 Mr. Gagan Patnaik, which gave the motivation to proceed further. The best moment in the process was when ICICI Bank gave its sponsorship cheque which came after around 75 calls from me personally and a few calls from others and that too at the time when no other company had supported even after an effort of more than 1 month or so. That moment was probably even more satisfying than the moment when we received the cheque from the main sponsors of the event.

If I had to take an account of where did I spend the major part of my time in the whole process of what ever I was involved into, I would have only one thing coming to my mind and yes that certainly is sponsorship. We had a few of us specifically concentrating on sponsorship and I remember the anxious moments which we had spent, and the detailed meetings which we had had to make and change plans as and when required. To try all the possible ways and all the possible companies just to get the best deal for the event.

To mention the people involved I should start with the name of the backbone of Abhyudaya ‘ 08 yes you have guessed it right none other than Anand, from giving the contacts for the sponsors to helping us in knowing the ways to approach, the people to approach, the mails to be sent and much more just on the sponsorship part. It would be inappropriate if I forget to mention his efforts of personally going to sponsors when ever it was required. The other pillar or should I say the base of Abhyudaya ‘08 was none other than our Ganesh the great, god this guy has the contacts which I believe even an industrialist would not have, but boss the point in not that you have a contact and the story does not get over there, you need to know how and when to use your contacts without spoiling your relationship for the sake of some other initiative. This guy was truly brilliant, I must say he was the only hope behind the complete show; he did not stop his efforts any where, even after a couple of major disappointments, he made it a point to carry on and get the thing done. I don’t remember a moment when he was not busy wit h sponsorship calls or something related to it. in fact at times I was the one who used to torture him like anything asking for updates even before there could have been one. And yes regarding the Crisis management which he and I went under I can never forget those moments. The kind of requirements and issues of the sponsors post the sponsorship deal were another issue which this chap brilliantly handled. Hats off buddy!!!!

I know I have not mentioned the names of other important people involved in the sponsorship process of course it would start from Ganapathy who made it a point to keep everything updated to avoid any kind of confusion and yes Raaj he was the one who used to come to my rescue when ever I was fed up with any company or official, apart from a lot of other companies he handled he was very much active and involved with what’s happening at others end. Raj I remember the number of times we called up professional couriers and how professionally that person avoided us with great statements. Do I need to mention the name of our coordinator Swapnil who was also obviously involved in sponsorship. And yes many others were also involved in this whole process of sponsorship including our great bharat, Uttam, and others. I remember the way sponsorship process started, it started with 5 of us spending the complete holiday period staying up at college while others were enjoying at their homes. People at our homes were forced to ask us whether we had holidays or not actually.

Events
The most daunting task concerning the events was to come up with names for the events which would go well both with the theme and the event and it required lot of brain storming, debate and discussion. But none of these gave us any decent names as we did not have the best names coming to our heads. It was too worse a situation as we were not getting the best names and a lot of other things were on hold just due to it. then finally we managed to come up with the set of names with a lot of help from lot of people and yes we were running short of time, so going ahead was more important than anything else.

Event names decided, now was the time to decide who will take care of which event, what will be the rules of the event, what will be the connect of the event to the theme, how will it be different and the one to look up to. I remember the initial ideas which came up regarding each and every event and how it took again a hell lot of meetings to finally come on consensus with one idea which definitely had modifications later, but then we needed some point to start. I would say the event which was worked on the most was the X% stake and yes full credit for it goes to one and only person Saurabh, he truly spent his time to formulate the event and the base of the event which was the core event of Abhyudaya’08. The model he built was truly brilliant and flawless, participants were amazed with the model and the way the event was organized and conducted. Other events also went under a lot of discussions and changes and dedicated work by many of them till the end to add spice and value to Abhyudaya. The compeering done by Rashmi in the event X% stake definitely was one thing which added zing to the event, if not it would have lost some of its charm and attention which it actually got. The amount of time and effort spent by Ashvin the unsung hero if not mentioned would make it completely unfair and inappropriate for me, truly he without raising an issue did a major part of the job of X% stake to his best and was really brilliant.
Sowmya.S was very much dedicated and organized with her event and gave her best in spite of the difficulties she had to face with the help of Uttam and Bismi. Amitanshu and nikhil came up with an excellent concept for their event which was the most awaited events in Abhyudaya. Venkat and Sumit ended their event very professionally. The online quiz team of Sainath, Tarun and Ganapathy again came up with good questions and ended it up nicely. Treasure hunt was the result of efforts of Anand, raj and a few others which went off well. 1st LAN party was the most speculative event but was conducted extremely well by Pramod and Sowmya.L. Corporate Quiz was another event which was really well organized by Uma, Shishir and Jatin irrespective of the hiccups during the event it was a great effort by the CQ team.
Did I forgot to mention the efforts of Manoj for rock show which did not come up due to a lot of reasons known to everyone, but yes it was a great experience to have worked for it simultaneously for it and no one in their life time could forget the conversation of Manoj with one of our alumnus which was one of the best experience of the whole show. Nitesh worked closely with Rakesh to pull of the panel discussion which had a few big names in the industry to be a part of Abhyudaya. Over all the events went on very well, just that formulating them took a lot of time and effort but execution was one thing which every event had as its USP. The events were minimal but were tailor made and well organized for the theme.

Website
Only one name would come up when you talk about the website and yes it is raaj, never ending conversations, changes, and a lot of other operational issues raising day in and day out but efficiently planned and executed even after so many issues. Brilliant job would be an understatement.

Finance
Nandini and Satya, the coordinators of the finance committee, hardcore job involving a lot of risk and tension, but done with complete care and integrity with no confusion or chaos, everything organized and transparent. These 2 girls never let any one even feel that there was even a committee for finance, such was their job silent but extremely efficient. No one was even aware when where and how money came in and how, when and where it appropriately was given to the right persons. It involved such level of secrecy and silence, as in this world of greed and haste the last thing you could expect is safety of money and accounts, which both of them handled in a way which I could say was par excellence.

Decoration
All the people involved in decoration were so passionate about it that, I would say made the campus look really unlike it used to look on a normal day, the campus was bright and beautiful, it felt that how good it would be if we can continue with the same set up for ever. Excellent work by every individual involved in it. Almost everyone one was involved in this aspect of Abhyudaya.

Hospitality
Do a get a chance to praise the awesome work done by Gaurav and Aditya, it was clearly described and acclaimed by the participants. To add a zing to it was the work done by Ganapathy and raj’s team of people who worked on the pick up of participants which even after receiving complete opposition was truly the major factor in supporting the hospitality’s efforts and to get it the praise which it actually got. It again truly was the USP of Abhyudaya’ 08 without any doubt.

It would be unfair if I don’t mention the names of Hetal, Bhargavi and Kanu who took care of the registration desk, they were the ones who actually were responsible for the free flow of everything at time and place.
Over all this dream journey was something great for me to have traveled and I truly cherish each and every moment of it, good or bad I lived it truly with all the passion and fire in me. I honestly thank everyone for bearing me during the course of all this and for the top of my heart apologize if intentionally or unintentionally I hurt them in any point of time for any issue.
At last I would like you to enjoy the theme song of Abhyudaya ’08 here it goes (music and lyrics of madhuri dixit’s song) – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ….. Abhyudaya 2008 ….. its all about numbers.

Abhyudaya 2008 Rocked Big Time!!!!! I am there for it FOREVER!!!!!

Abhyudaya 2008

To Describe Abhyudaya 2008 - Natioanl Level Business School Fest of IFMR, My Alma Mater i just need to show one pic and the rest u can assume automatically followed.
Two Important or should i say most important guys are missing in this PIC , Should i call them camera shy or modest or best of all, they were not available for the photo session. and yes they are ANAND & GANESH

In the Pic from left Ganapathy(Public Relations), Saurabh (X% stake), Bharat (Our Designer), ME (Good for nothing), Swapnil (Mr. Coordinator), Raj (IT.... etc.,)

The above description along their names is just to give a hint of their smallest roles in the complete event. But honestly speaking they were all into the event completely no title or description can appropriately describe the roles played by these true champions(including the two who are not in the Pic).

Truly Guys Hats Off to all of U , Abhyudaya '08 was not possible had it not been you guys taking the plunge and getting it done.

Salute to all of you once again !!!!!

I would like to congragulate and thank each and every individual involved in this whole process!!