Shades of Grey...

Last few days have been quite eventful - travelled Indian Airlines, Jet and Kingfisher for the first time being the least of them :)

Got a job offer from a PE firm - rather surprising given current conditions in the financial market. Visited a couple of villages in the poverty-ridden areas of Maharashtra. Met quite senior officials in the state bureaucracy - saw a start contrast in policy making objectives and implementation when it comes to government initiatives.

Traveled for 3 continuous days. Fell asleep during a high profile meeting with government officials. Had a Taste of India - the farmers in the fields we visited prepared tea for us using the traditional cow dung as fuel and shakkar as a sweetener.

And so many more things, probably will write about them individually in detail later.

Coming Around...

Funny feeling one sometimes get...

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Student life is almost coming to an end for me, filling to brim a reservoir of cherishable memories. So have been the years lit up by the 25 candles that were supposed to be there on my last b'day cake (it's a pity they don't celebrate it the old fashioned way any more, ain't it). And what a journey it has been so far...
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Visited so many places, made innumerable friends (and enemies), worked with and around people giving yet another reason to smile. So many nights spent awake, many of them with friends debating on how to make this world a better place to live :P
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Drawing the first salary, buying your first car, renting a smal room all for yourself, making small talk to idle away time, indulging in the hostel water fights, aloo parantha at 3 in the morning, biking away as if there is no tomorrow, quarelling with people you really care about, hurting people who really care about you...and so much more - moments you know you won't ever forget.
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One might wish to see everything, but then, what would be left to see after that...As someone put it in a rather comical tone in a students' meet at the start of the 2nd year here in IIMB , 'Picture abhi baki hai mere dost..."

Let's Wish...

Birthday alarms seem to be the craze right now in the campus, what with only a couple of months left for graduation and all. I have received several emails in the past couple of weeks requesting my birthday details so that I can be assured of birthday greetings from the sender year-after-year.

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Pretty convenient, I must say :). All that the sender has to do is just mass-email the request to all his contacts, and I have to fill up his b'day for him to remember! It takes the personal touch out of the equation though - I mean, one might would have appreciated better if the person have had taken slight trouble in finding the b'day details from any of the dozens of social networking sites out there. Huge contact list - no problem, weed out the majority of the contacts whom you are just acquainted with, or maybe send the mass mail only to them :)

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But then, who has time for this in the fast lane pseudo-corporate world out here in the campus...