I am talking precisely about 3rd December, Gateway of India, the mass protest against 26/11 Mumbai attacks...The whole Mumbai was on streets or you can say the elitist of the city were on the streets to protest against terrorism..I being a contender of a future elitist was there as well..For me it happened in the morning when bhushan told me about the protest and i decided to join it without giving a second thought....
So there I was on the choked streets of South Mumbai leading to the Gateway to be a part of the biggest protest in Mumbai...
Estimating the crowd on the streets would be very difficult but you can make a wild guess by the fact that the networks of Vodafone and Airtel succumbed to the demands of people out there. So why blame our semi-socialist,semi-capitalist government for poor management of traffic and crowd at the spot, where ever our private giants failed to estimate the crowd over there..
Reaching the place i discovered that i wasnt sure of my purpose of being there, walking through the streets swamped with people several questions were haunting me...How will we protest? How will we create an impact? Will it solve any purpose? What i was trying to achieve through it? How is shouting of these slogans against Pakistan helping us?
And somewhere from inside i knew i had no answer to these questions of mine and in fact most people around had no answer to all these..I could feel that people were there for being there..It was turning out to be the biggest Page3 party which was covered on Page1 and Page 3 simultaneously....Just seeing around i remembered the song from the movie Page 3...'kitne ajeeb rishte hai yahan pe'. You could see immaculately dressed men and women, more cautious about fashion then terrorism, young couples caressing each other on the sidelines of the event,the media style greeting and kissing, people hobbling around media reporters to give there comments on terrorism and then trying to call there dear one's to tell them that they are on air. And slowly people started to move on to fill the pubs around for their evening beer. N i was one among all these excited that i got a topic for my blog....
Our insatiable hunger for publicity ruled over the tears of terror...
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
A dream remembered!!
Its 1:30 in night I am here again n I have to reach at 9:00 in the office tommorrow…seems pretty easy but those who know me, knows how difficult its going to be for me……frankly, I am writing this partly by choice n partly coz of my overfilled stomach with the delicious punjabi delicacies from dalmakhni to jalebi with rabri which is could not resist overeating, which is now stopping me from sleeping….
So today was the D day, the day much awaited n now it has brought with itself one more awaited day, the day of final cutoffs, the day which will decide my love affair with CAT or unsuccessful attempts to seduce CAT….But I am keeping all my fingers crossed hoping for the best n who knows what can happen……..
I finally remembered one of my dream completely, I was so happy that I have retained each detail of my dream completely…..from my school days I always use to get these horrible, scary dreams about my exams something would happen in those dreams that showed me that I screwd up the exam….. but finaaly after remembering this complete dream I was pretty happy n I laughed a lot at myself…the story goes like this….It is the day of my CAT exam n I somehow got up early n set from home early on my old Bajaj Chetak for the school….I had a Chetak in Panipat and the school I went to was the place I did my schoolin from BalVikas School Panipat…there was some function goin on in the school n I attended it( smhw I am not able to remember the details of the function but I remember some of my friends were also there; Rishabh n vipul maybe becoz both of them are also writing CAT this year) n suddenly in between all this fun I received a call surprisingly from principal of one of the schools of Mumbai for enquiring about one of the education services which my company provides to school….ironically in past 6 months of my experience of selling our services to schools no school has ever called me back n no principal has talked with me for more than 10 minutes but after keeping the phone and elucidating him/her(don’t rem exactly) about all the services in detail, I realized that we had talked for 30 minutes and it was already 10:00 last time to reach the CAT centre which was another school in Panipat at a 1 min drive from my place….I was broken, frightened n frustrated but I picked up my Bajaj Chetak in a desperate attempt to reach the centre…I was driving desperately and my mind was hunting for some excuses to buy examination head sympathy.....while I was driving my phone rang and somehow I picked up the phone which I usually does not do and on the other side of my phone was my friend that his mom has deliberately made watch an hour faster as she knew that we are careless so it was 9:00 in reality not 10:00…yippee I can write the CAT today were the last things I remember of this dream n than I was up in my bed wondering about the time and telling myself please make sure these things are restricted to these examination phobia dreams only….
So I had all in my dreams my city, my school, my office and I am still wondering how and why were they connected in such a fine knit??? If anybody can interpret this for me I will be highly obliged….please friends try your hand at it……
But finally I wrote CAT and now will wait for the results hoping that these dreams doesn’t haunt me for CAT again in my life……….
Shrey
So today was the D day, the day much awaited n now it has brought with itself one more awaited day, the day of final cutoffs, the day which will decide my love affair with CAT or unsuccessful attempts to seduce CAT….But I am keeping all my fingers crossed hoping for the best n who knows what can happen……..
I finally remembered one of my dream completely, I was so happy that I have retained each detail of my dream completely…..from my school days I always use to get these horrible, scary dreams about my exams something would happen in those dreams that showed me that I screwd up the exam….. but finaaly after remembering this complete dream I was pretty happy n I laughed a lot at myself…the story goes like this….It is the day of my CAT exam n I somehow got up early n set from home early on my old Bajaj Chetak for the school….I had a Chetak in Panipat and the school I went to was the place I did my schoolin from BalVikas School Panipat…there was some function goin on in the school n I attended it( smhw I am not able to remember the details of the function but I remember some of my friends were also there; Rishabh n vipul maybe becoz both of them are also writing CAT this year) n suddenly in between all this fun I received a call surprisingly from principal of one of the schools of Mumbai for enquiring about one of the education services which my company provides to school….ironically in past 6 months of my experience of selling our services to schools no school has ever called me back n no principal has talked with me for more than 10 minutes but after keeping the phone and elucidating him/her(don’t rem exactly) about all the services in detail, I realized that we had talked for 30 minutes and it was already 10:00 last time to reach the CAT centre which was another school in Panipat at a 1 min drive from my place….I was broken, frightened n frustrated but I picked up my Bajaj Chetak in a desperate attempt to reach the centre…I was driving desperately and my mind was hunting for some excuses to buy examination head sympathy.....while I was driving my phone rang and somehow I picked up the phone which I usually does not do and on the other side of my phone was my friend that his mom has deliberately made watch an hour faster as she knew that we are careless so it was 9:00 in reality not 10:00…yippee I can write the CAT today were the last things I remember of this dream n than I was up in my bed wondering about the time and telling myself please make sure these things are restricted to these examination phobia dreams only….
So I had all in my dreams my city, my school, my office and I am still wondering how and why were they connected in such a fine knit??? If anybody can interpret this for me I will be highly obliged….please friends try your hand at it……
But finally I wrote CAT and now will wait for the results hoping that these dreams doesn’t haunt me for CAT again in my life……….
Shrey
Friday, November 7, 2008
Titleless
So much has happened in the world n I wanted to write about most of them, even stared to write a tribute to Ganguly after declaration of his retirement but could not complete it n after Kumble putting a stop to his career it would be unfair that I write one for Dada ignoring Jumbo….
Now meltdown , Raj Thackrey n Obama are also encumbering my thinking but lets see when I make them part of my memories….. As of now only Cat has taken all prerogatives, even that is dependent on chance …In spite of the some preparation I am not able to take out all the environmental factors out of my preparation n thus I am left to the mercy of luck….Its a week away n I have to defeat the superstitions and astrology of stars to prove that I can write my own future…..So rather than repairing my dented spirit I have to go for a brand new car altogether…..Some tough challenges are awaiting me after the CAt so I have to make it work, to go there in a great flow which is unstoppable by the barriers to success laid by the conservatism of my own thinking and the society……
N finally when I prepared myself to Mumbai, Mumbai has thrown a new challenge of survival to me…telling me again not to make some elaborate plans for the future…but again planning is what makes us human, when our plans get successful we are humans as we have the brains to think and foresee and when they fail we are humans for the emotions and the tears we can shed on them and above all we are homosapiens for our spirit to move on with life. N Mumbai I have taken this challenge of survival of the fittest, for lively spirit with which you celebrate all the festivals from Ganpati to Chaat Puja, for the sense of Indianess I get in this city, for the strenuous journey’s of all local trains, for invigorating beer at Totos, for rejuvenating ice candy of Chowpati n Juhu, for mesmerizing sunset at sea face, for all my chimerical plans of Surfing, for fire of my team and mostly for gratification of my soul……
Now meltdown , Raj Thackrey n Obama are also encumbering my thinking but lets see when I make them part of my memories….. As of now only Cat has taken all prerogatives, even that is dependent on chance …In spite of the some preparation I am not able to take out all the environmental factors out of my preparation n thus I am left to the mercy of luck….Its a week away n I have to defeat the superstitions and astrology of stars to prove that I can write my own future…..So rather than repairing my dented spirit I have to go for a brand new car altogether…..Some tough challenges are awaiting me after the CAt so I have to make it work, to go there in a great flow which is unstoppable by the barriers to success laid by the conservatism of my own thinking and the society……
N finally when I prepared myself to Mumbai, Mumbai has thrown a new challenge of survival to me…telling me again not to make some elaborate plans for the future…but again planning is what makes us human, when our plans get successful we are humans as we have the brains to think and foresee and when they fail we are humans for the emotions and the tears we can shed on them and above all we are homosapiens for our spirit to move on with life. N Mumbai I have taken this challenge of survival of the fittest, for lively spirit with which you celebrate all the festivals from Ganpati to Chaat Puja, for the sense of Indianess I get in this city, for the strenuous journey’s of all local trains, for invigorating beer at Totos, for rejuvenating ice candy of Chowpati n Juhu, for mesmerizing sunset at sea face, for all my chimerical plans of Surfing, for fire of my team and mostly for gratification of my soul……
Monday, September 22, 2008
IIM gives a jolt to Entrepreneurship
The decision by IIM Ahemdabad to hike its fees by 300% to 11.5 lakhs, have had resistance from most quarters questioning its affordability and IIM A standing to its reputation of being the best management institute in the country came up with a solution where they have made the fee affordable for the lower middle class. But what about the impact of this fee hike on IIMA's Go-It-Alone brigade, which it had been flaunting off. This decision will have a great impact on the entrepreneurship which had somehow started to bloom in the campus. The students who are looking to start of their own now will pass out with heavy loans on their shoulders. In a country in which entrepreneurship is considered as madness where one's status in society is still judged by a white collared job one has, how will the IIM's now produce the first generation entrepreneurs it slowly has started to produce? What is the use of all the entrepreneurship programmes it is running and boasting off?
Working in a small entrepreneurial organization by IIMA alumni’s started with the money they earned in their summers, I am sceptical this initiative would have started if they would have passed out with loans of 11.5 lakhs each hovering in their minds. Entrepreneurship is the need of this hour for our economy, as a country if we have to achieve a goal of being a developed nation by 2020 we should help nurture new business, support the individuals who want to follow this difficult path , create atmosphere facilitating new business ideas to flourish.
I leave it open to evaluate this untouched impact of fee hike on entrepreneurship? Hope IIM’s have a way out n the people remain motivated to choose the alternative career and challenges of the entrepreneur.
- Shrey
Working in a small entrepreneurial organization by IIMA alumni’s started with the money they earned in their summers, I am sceptical this initiative would have started if they would have passed out with loans of 11.5 lakhs each hovering in their minds. Entrepreneurship is the need of this hour for our economy, as a country if we have to achieve a goal of being a developed nation by 2020 we should help nurture new business, support the individuals who want to follow this difficult path , create atmosphere facilitating new business ideas to flourish.
I leave it open to evaluate this untouched impact of fee hike on entrepreneurship? Hope IIM’s have a way out n the people remain motivated to choose the alternative career and challenges of the entrepreneur.
- Shrey
Last Local..
This is an experience which i have written on 25th july but some hw forgot to share....
I saw dark knight last night.....
here is my voyage.....
movie was to begin at 8:00...
so we decided to take the most reliable source of transportation Local Train at 7:00..
n then we were in the train waiting for it to reach Sion....
thanks to mumbai rain railway signals were gone and we managed to reach the theatre by 9:00 :)
abe kya karein....
someone suggested lets go to some other multiplex.....kyonki movie to dekhni he hai....
n we were own our way to wadala......bought new tickets had our dinner,,,waiting the movie to begin at 10:45.....we had an assumption ,english movies our meant to be 2 hours....which means 10:45 + 2 = 12:45 n last local is at 1:15 so we will catch it......but the producers had thought other way this time..by the time we were out it was already 1:45...
to last local chootie.....
missed my last local for 2nd time......
ye hai amchi mumbai......aur last local chootnee ke baad koi neha dupiya bhi nahi mille:(
I saw dark knight last night.....
here is my voyage.....
movie was to begin at 8:00...
so we decided to take the most reliable source of transportation Local Train at 7:00..
n then we were in the train waiting for it to reach Sion....
thanks to mumbai rain railway signals were gone and we managed to reach the theatre by 9:00 :)
abe kya karein....
someone suggested lets go to some other multiplex.....kyonki movie to dekhni he hai....
n we were own our way to wadala......bought new tickets had our dinner,,,waiting the movie to begin at 10:45.....we had an assumption ,english movies our meant to be 2 hours....which means 10:45 + 2 = 12:45 n last local is at 1:15 so we will catch it......but the producers had thought other way this time..by the time we were out it was already 1:45...
to last local chootie.....
missed my last local for 2nd time......
ye hai amchi mumbai......aur last local chootnee ke baad koi neha dupiya bhi nahi mille:(
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Stressed!!!
I read these words again 'Stay Hungry Stay Foolish' n i was back in my college dayz when i heard this speech of Steve Jobs n my Toast Masters speech but sadly i dont carry copy of that speech.I have always had this hunger n foolishness to succeed n learn but yesterday when i was reading one of the articles in India Today abut stress, i realised that i have some of the symptoms of stress.. Damn it! How can i have the symptoms of stress? I am living the way as i always wanted to, enjoying the work n the work culture, learning at the pace at which i wanted to drive.Then from where comes this stress.The stress of the knowing that i am having stress made me to ponder that do i actually has this stress or this is just an misinterpretation of the stress symptoms. N finally i realised that i have build a fort of a stress around myself. The fort of the expectations to beat everyone's expectations. So wat shuld be done to tackle this new kind of stress...Hmmmmm..i guess i need to build some windows in my fort...The windows which can allow the enemy of failure to come in....These failures can teach me that i was expected to learn n cherish the war..The forts are shading me from all the challenges that lie ahead.
So lets bring this fort of stress down after all I cannot afford to loose hair due to stress.
Shrey
So lets bring this fort of stress down after all I cannot afford to loose hair due to stress.
Shrey
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