I’m not a person with whom you’ll fall in love at 1st sight, and after talking to me, never. I’ve spent two important years of my life, I’m not saying that I’ve done a favour upon you but I’ve to say that the love you have given me by being my friend, guide, brothers and parents is and will remain in my heart forever. I’ve not remembered my parents as much as I’m going to miss you guys.
I probably would have never thought of speaking on stage but as I thought further (which I rarely do), I realized that if I don’t speak now I’ll never get a chance of speaking in public in front of such a lovely and encouraging crowd (my friends).
So, here I’m taking few precious minutes from your lives and evaluating mine for the time being.
I just want to share my experience of past 2 years in this resort called AICAR which includes humour, anger, love affairs (unfortunately not mine), and a bit of studies. I just don’t know why I came to AICAR and when our seniors and colleagues asked me, I was clueless. Sometimes, I thought that we were fooled by showing the vast campus and canteen food (which was ok initially) and inspired by our X-director Dr. Nilesh.
Anyways, every story has its good and bad moments and so does mine.
To talk about my friends I think I should talk about every 1 except a few to whom I rarely met in the course of time.
The first two persons are my roomies, who were among the few people who started doing activities on behalf of our college. Manish is active and R. K. (aka Vkey) is a bit lazy. Both of them try to wake up as late as possible but occasionally they get up before me.
The next guy is Mr. Amandeep. I guess every batch must have a surd. Without them there isn’t any fun or liveliness. He is an exception to his other community members in a different way. I had only one experience of Daman but my other friends experienced it a couple of times. And Aman’s accent is a bit different. When he speaks in his US accent for a presentation, I doubt where he was born, India or Canada.
Amit, the second person I’m going to talk about, is a member of SPAN or NPAS, whichever way you like to call them. He and Aman were born on the same date but their nature is different in many ways. They both are genius but Amit was a bit shy initially, unlike Aman who was part of almost every extra-curricular activity. Today, Amit is a changed guy, not completely but changed. Another thing about him is the projects and assignments he used to do before the whole class can even start. Other members of SPAN are Sooraj, Pankaj and Nihar. All of them are studious but except studies they are specialised in something different. Sooraj will probably have most of the answers you want from him. He is a fun loving poet, who has written many poems about our batch, AICAR, recession and unemployment. Pankaj is a tech geek and most of the comp problems were solved by him, be it intel inside or mental inside. Nihar is well known for his massage and infamous for his wake-up calls, Naveen might be remembering(feeling) it very well. Another curiosity about Nihar was his Diwali vacations which he spent in college and never thought of meeting his parents in Orissa. This group is also well-known (infamously) about something else which can’t be put here.
There are two special kinds of persons in our batch and I would like to call them sleeping beauties. I don’t know why I counted only two because there are more than only two, but I felt they will take it as an insult and so only two would do. Suveera in spite of being a finance student rarely attended morning lectures where the reason is obviously sleeping till 12 or 1 in the afternoon. Sanchari is a master in day sleeping where she used to go to bed early morning and wake up at the time of evening snacks. I think she chatted with her friends living in western countries and to adjust according to the time zone she adjusted her sleep.
Our batch has an excellent story teller and an excellent story maker, both belonging to U. P. directly or indirectly, by destiny or fault. Don’t try to guess there names it’ll be injurious to your health. Whenever Himanshu starts telling a story, everybody prays that he should complete it as early as possible. But inclusion of every minute detail in the story, which is a part of his past life (god knows), makes the story more lengthy for us and interesting for him. Anuj, by his mere talent can make a story, untold and unwritten by anyone, for every another person around him. I can tell that because I’m the hero (?) in one of his imaginary stories (may be more).I bet he will create a story from my speech as well. He is master in convincing people of his rightness whenever and wherever he is wrong.
Our batch has the irritating Rahul (I don’t know why he acts like an idiot most of the time), wicked Dishang (wickedness can be seen in his eyes), silent Nishith and Kavita, the bad boy good boy group of Sachin, Deepak, Ganesh, Girish. It’s not because some of them are good and some of them are bad but it’s the thinking of my other mates, some of whom think that they are good and others think that they are bad. For me they all are good at heart and I’m sure about it. We also have the visiting students like Mohit, Ronak, Jeetu and the extreme cases of Rakesh Lalwani and Kumar Malani.
Some of the sincere students like Rohit (aka Bichu... sorry Bittu), Kumar Panjwani, Anuja, Neeta (she is also a nice dancer, artist and I call her miss Hitler), Jigna (I call her Jignes, the Hunterwali), Neha (poetess), Pooja (Poojipaji, the CR of our batch), Shilpi (a dog lover), Preeti (another dog lover), Soma, and Darshana (these three and Suveera becomes Gossip queens in night, thats what they are called by us), Parul and Priyanka are also credited for their contribution in my past two years.
I will also like to talk about the Ghatkopar Bombshells, who, if you say anything wrong about Ghatkopar, will look at you like they are going to kill you at instance, but not. These are Shubhangi and Manisha, don't cross them or they will make you cry by crying themselves. We also have some out of the world cases like Yash (Ghapochu, Bosssss) and Nitin. Some antiques like Sunil (his poses for photographs ... ummm makes me laugh), some of my mates in every sport I played like Darshit, Naveen (the CC from Chennai), Prakash, Hardik, (of course Manish, Aman, Sachin, Deepak and Anuj are also part of it).
We also have an encyclopaedia called Anupam aka Junior Guru who talks a lot and I sometime doubt his facts he puts during debates. We also have some day-scholars like Vishal(my movie watching partner), Sameer and Bhavin (the Gujju bros) and Vivek (sab ladkiyon ka bhai), who are seen more often than the visitors.
Here I learnt a new concept which I can tell no Business School will teach in their course. It is JAT, Just After Time. We rarely came to classes on time and that’s why the schedule of classes has been changed from 9.30 am to 10 am. We hardly submitted our assignments and projects on time and gave our presentations without preparing well. The profs also knew about it well and couldn’t do anything which will help us (or them). The other thing I’ll remember is our unity and dedication for the work we took as a responsibility, viz., the Culturals, Convocation 07, and of course the Farewell.
At the end I’ll just request you all to forgive me for all the mischief I did with you and also to forget all those miss-happening of the last two years and cherish and remember only the good ones.
Din ke baad din dhalte chale gaye, Raat ke baad raat beet gayi,
In do salon ki baatein mulakaatein yaad banke man mein bas gayi.
Kabhi jhagde, Kabhi takraar, ek baar- baar baar
Lekin un jhagdon mein dhundte rehte the doston ka pyar
Ve kisse, ve kahaniyan, ve banti bigadti baatein,
Woh gaana-bajaana, aur convo culturals ki raatein.
Woh bina jaankari ke mails aur messages bhejna
Baad mein rona, ruthna, samjhana aur hasaana.
Woh students club mein Guru Sir ka interruption
Aur Exams ke alava sab cheezon ki tension
Yeh do saal mein fir dohrana chahunga
Agar waqt mile aapko to main yaad aana chahunga....
