XXI convocation!

So finally the day came which I was eagerly waiting for. 24th February 2011 was the date when I officially became a graduate. So people don’t treat me as a kid as I am a grown up now. :P


There were many things that drew me again to BIT Mesra. This is the place where I would say I have spent most memorable years of my life. Wish I could get these years back again. I loved everything about this place starting from mess food to playing office office. I loved sleeping on late nights, pranking, waking up till 12 to make sure I didn’t miss birthday’s celebrations, going to temple right before exam starts, queueing up in the morning to use bathrooms, falling just short of 75% attendance and pleading to professors, imitating every girl’s walking style that passes by, being toady to good students at the time of exams to get their notes, wrapping up whole book in one night, endless talks on politics and cricket, to save every penny that needs to be saved to make the phone talk longer but still the obedient kid to the parents eyes..

The moment came when people were getting gold medals and I being a bystander was clapping for them. I wished that if I too would have worked hard I could have got the gold medal but seriously I didn’t want to trade my four years of adventurous life with a gold medal, the unadulterated fun we have had, the indelible memories we have made.

Here are the inspiring words from the most respected man Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam who every wannabe scientist aspires to be.

The pillars of Indian development profile 2020 are as follows. Distinctive Profile of India by 2020

1. A Nation where the rural and urban divide has reduced to a thin line.
2. A Nation where there is an equitable distribution and adequate access to energy and quality water.
3. A Nation where agriculture, industry and service sector work together in symphony.
4. A Nation where education with value system is not denied to any meritorious candidates because of societal or economic discrimination.
5. A Nation, which is the best destination for the most talented scholars, scientists, and investors.
6. A Nation where the best of health care is available to all.
7. A Nation where the governance is responsive, transparent and corruption free.
8. A Nation where poverty has been totally eradicated, illiteracy removed and crimes against women and children are absent and none in the society feels alienated.
9. A Nation that is prosperous, healthy, secure, devoid of terrorism, peaceful and happy and continues with a sustainable growth path.
10. A Nation that is one of the best places to live in and is proud of its leadership.

Before much writing, here are some snaps that I clicked on the graduation day.

Happy seeing!!

                                                                      The man!!

                                          Sole beta jitna sona hai, IIM pahunchne ke baad
                                         saari  need ud jayegi                                                                                       

                                                                    The building!

                                    Most fortunate son to get degree infront of his parents
                                           
Prepare as hard as you can rather than hope for a lean opponent,
because learning is more important winning.         ---- Anil Anuragi 
 
Signing Off
Anil Anuragi
Good Night Sweet Dreamzzz ;)
Happy Week!!

Faded love story part-2

Again I am here after a short hiatus, so endure the pain if you get bored but I am sure that you all are waiting for the second part of this (faded) love story and to cognize where Pritam and Sheila find out themselves as the time passes by.


Pritam drinks all night. He gets home in wee hours on Sunday and sleeps all the day. He tries to sequester himself from Sheila but her hotness (Oops sorry, cuteness) doesn’t let go away from his mind. In the twilight hours while he was walking aimlessly with his friends, his cell vibrates and finds a New Year wishes message from her. His friends empathize him that at least she remembered him. He remains absent minded for the whole night and can’t sleep properly.

He gets a sabbatical to recover himself. He keeps on getting calls from her side but he didn’t respond. Whenever he tried to answer the calls the entire scene runs through his mind and also the Facebook pictures which she had posted of her trip makes him every time to snub her call. He thought that he too has some respect and she can’t overdo him.

When he again resumes office on Wednesday and opens his mailbox, he sees a chain of messages from Sheila to make him understand in every possible way that she tried not to leave him on New Year but she had to because of the circumstances that had been arisen in there. He thought of to forgive her this time in spite of knowing that girls are most capricious and rapacious( Please dont take it negatively, if any point of time you feel that i am going little acrimonious on girls then think that this a faded love story not the blossoming one :D :P) creature in this earth(It aint his fault, he just could not resist the temptation to meet her again.) as he can’t make her feel guilty and also the fact that she was refurbishing and becoming perkier on each passing day. So he didnt want anyone else to make a move on her.

And slowly again a love starts springing up from their friendship what Pritam had not thought of. Now he makes every tiny step to meet her. His appetite to meet her was growing day by day. He used to work without respite and even if he is famished while working he didn’t go out, and waits for her till 7 PM. Whenever he gets a call to meet up he starts feeling butterflies in his stomach. Whenever they meet they recall the time they had spent together since they were sophomores in college. Now he was becoming more considerate to get her.

At one fine day while he was descending to meet her, his manager calls up. A rain of despair runs through his mind. He tried to fend off the call because he was going to meet the beautiful creature made by God on this earth but at the same time he thought that life is more important that love at this time. So he answers the call and heads towards manager’s cabin as instructed by him. He could not believe on his ear what hears. He is being sent to Paris for 2 months for the project requirement.

He is the happiest man and thanks God to see his dream come true. He is not a diminutive figure in her eyes now.

He started planning the things accordingly and started buying stuffs for his trip while she did some window shopping like every girls (They have the habit of touching everything, dont take in other way round :P). She accompanied him on every situation he needed. Now they were spending more time with each other.

The D day comes when he is going to get the experience of his first flight and that too in his dream land. He wished to fly with his girl but he was incapacitated. He had a dream of to propose his girl at Eiffel Tower like the dream of the author who is writing this. :P

As she raises her arms to hug him before he leaves for two months, he awakes up from his dream and finds himself in the bar doused in McDowells celebration.

Continued……..

Stay tuned to find some more lochas in their love story.

Happy week for all the working professionals!

Ageing in number is inevitable but ageing in character is optional.

Signing Off

Anil Anuragi

Faded love story!

I am making my foray into this world. So please bare with me if it takes different dimension.

The characters that are going to be used here are purely based on my imagination and does not relate to any living or dead. Resemblance to any of them would be purely coincidental.

They started their career as an SAP consultant with a small firm from Karnataka. Pritam and Sheila had graduated from the same college before joining the IT world. They had maintained a beneficial rapport and good understanding while working together away from their home. They used to walk together after working hours and used to chat about happening things around the world. Pritam had become quite popular in the company of Shiela. She was an adorable girl. People used to walk up to her to exchange Hi’s. She was an intelligible and perceivable girl, not Sheila of modern era. She knows the world and how to behave with the people but Pritam used to hate when he sees her talking to any other guy but she was not bothered about it. For her that was a normal thing that happens with every girl. They had both thin and thick times in their journey. After working 18 months together, both hit the jackpot and joined IBM, they both excelled in the interview but fate was not with them as Sheila had to join in Bangalore while Pritam was deployed to Kolkata but they were still connected via same time or phone calls. He used to tell his colleagues about her. Though he had talked everything from love to …… before moving to IBM, but he still had a soft corner for her.

Suddenly one fine day Pritam gets a call from Sheila and becomes overjoyed when he heard that she is also coming to Kolkata for a month because of project requirement. He tells his colleagues that he would not be available for lunch with the fellow mates till she is here as he will take lunch with her.

They nod in unison and allow him to go with her.

But after that what happened, one cant imagine. The day when she arrives, he gets a call and goes to receive her. Next day he asks for lunch and gets a reply that she has to go with their colleagues. He didn’t mind because he knew her. But after that what he sees, he simply could not believe. Pritam goes cafeteria for the lunch with the friends, he sees Sheila there with some guy whom Pritam didn’t know. He waves for a Hi but she didn’t respond then he calls her name, their eyes meet. They exchange few words and she zooms off with that guy. Now his friends start making fun of him. He could not eat properly that day and looked depressed.

He gets some consolation when he comes to know that the guy was her lead. The days pass by but he could not take lunch with her even a single day. Their timings were different but whenever both get some free time, they used to walk away from office for some little conversation mostly in night time. So he was still attached with her though he knows the things that were happening around.

That comes the New Year when he gets an opportunity to celebrate the New Year with her as he had missed the last New Year because she flew to Singapore with her family. Two days away from the first January, he gets a call from her to tell him that she is going to Goa with their project mates to celebrate the New Year. He becomes pale to listen this.

Sheila enjoys New Year’s bash with the utmost beautiful place in India while Pritam cant get more than a glass of wine.

Continued………


Signing Off

Anil Anuragi

Good Night ;)

HaPpY nEw YeAr 2011!

Wishing a very happy, safe and prosperous new year to all you lovely people. Make each day count in this coming year. Grab what you want and snatch what you don’t have. Don’t make any resolution because they are meant to be broken.


I am a bit sad because one more year has gone from my life. As every year passing by, more responsibility lies on us. We cant do those childish things what we could one year before. So enjoy as much as you can within the boundary of your space.

All the best to all the singles and wish a healthy and harmonic relation to all the duos.

And don’t forget to pray for them who have made your life so comfortable and worth living because believe me everyone aint so lucky as you are!. Cheers! ;)

Signing off
Anil Anuragi
Take care!

Happy Birthday Rajnikanth!!!

Today is Rajnikant’s birthday. So I am dedicating this one to all Rajni’s fans out here.
Enjoy!!! I am sure you would like to read it more than once.

• Rajnikanth ka 1 rupya balcony se gir gaya. Rajnikanth neeche pahuncha to rupya nahi mila. Kyun? Kyunki Rajnikanth rupaye se pahle neeche pahunch gaya.

• Once Rajnikanth was practicing for a spelling test and rough sheet he used is now known as Oxford dictionary.

• Do you have any idea why in Japan there are frequent earthquakes? Because Rajnikanth lost his mobile in Japan in vibrate mode.

• Once a photo of Rajnikanth was given for xerox and guess what we got two xerox machines.

• Once a guy inserted a c.d. named rajnikanth and guess what, C.P.U. starts rotating around c.d. rom.

• Rajnikanth participated in 100 meters race, obliviously he came first but Einstein died after watching this. Light came second.

• Once Spider man, Superman, Batman, James bond, Ironman Shakitman and Krish all visited Rajnikanth. Do you know which day it was: Teacher’s day.

• Ek baar Rajnikanth and John Abraham ne race lagai. John on his Hybussa and Rajnikant on his bycycle. Do you know who won the race. It is John because slow and steady wins the race.

• Once Rajnikanth was sleeping in a pipe connected to river. He was breathing softly. The whole river water was sucked and discharged to the other end of pipe. Then the concept of pressure running pump invented.

• Rajnikanth went for morning walk and in afternoon police arrests him, why?? Because he reached USA without visa.

• Ek baar Rajnikanth aise hi neend me kuch numbers badbada rahe the. It is now called “Log table”.

• When Rajnikanth switches on his AC without closing the door,winter starts in India.

• Breaking news by NDTV… Hanuman was caught reading Rajnikanth Calisa.

• Galileo used lamp to study, Grahm bell used candle to study, Shakespeare studied in street light, but do you know about Rajnikanth, Only agarbatti.

• Official id of Rajnikanth: gmail@rajnikanth.com

• Khaufnak andheri raat me ek bhoot dusre bhoot ko samjha raha tha, ghabra mat ye sab tere dimaag ka waham hai koi Rajnikanth vajnikanth nahi hota.

• Unbelievable love of Rajnikant for his GF. GF: mera koi peccha karte rahta hai. Rajni: ok. Next day, GF: where is my shadow?

• Ronaldo: I can spin a football for 2 hours on my fingers, can u do it? Rajnikanth: How do you think this earth rotate?

• Rajnikanth never wet his bed in childhood, bed itself wept in fear.

• Newton: How to write 4 in between 5. China: joke, Japan: impossible, America: question is wrong, Pakistan: If you ask foolish question, I will kill you, UN: Not found in internet, Rajnikanth: F(IV)E.



Yours additions are welcome.

Questionnaire

Q: If you ask to take one person’s name randomly then who would that be?
A: After my dad, the name would be Sachin Tendulkar.

Q: A celebrity you want to have dinner with?
A: J.K. Rowling.

Q: Who do you think would be the trump card for CWC 2011?
A: Apart from Sachin, Indian performance would highly depend on Sehwag and Zaheer Khan.

Q: How do you find Bengali people?
A: Don’t be racist yaar, they are Indian first. But yes they are honest people.

Q: How was the weekend?
A: Boring, had to go to office on Saturday too. :@

Q: How is your job going?
A: Better donk ask, seriously if there is work in IT world it is hell (literally)!!

Q: Which book are you reading currently?
A: An epic: India after Gandhi by Ramchandra Guha.

Q: What are you doing right now?
A: I am remembering my old college days, feeling nostalgic.

Q: Why do you want to live?
A: Serious question, hmmm….. to make others life easy as much as possible for me.

Q: Is there any absolute truth?
A: I think no. it is all relative.

Q: what is the biggest threat on mankind?
A: I think terrorism is gonna be a very big problem if it is not addressed very soon.

Q: How was the day?
A: Good, feeling nice, talked to many college friends!


Q: Is it possible to live without love?
A: No, now it is up to you to think about family love or your lover’s love.

Q: Do you feel dejected if you don’t get something?
A: No, you only get what is ordained for you. So if I don’t get it I assume that it is not the right time.

Q: What is the New Year’s plan?
A: Planning for a Puri trip. Havent stamped it yet though.

Q: what are the pre-requisite of a happy life?
A: If your actions are not influenced by others then you are a happy man. But it is also true that we feel sad because of others happiness.

Raise your standard but don’t try to raise your identity.

Signing off
Anil Anuragi
Ready for the test match!! :(  (Ohh no this time Saturday too)

The inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur

It’s a fiction written with full humor and is quiet palpable. I fully enjoyed till the end.

He has written so impeccably and with so much grace that you wunt stop reading it till the end.

I happened to choose this book because its first page was so enthralling and started with the line “Beloved younger brother”.

The book start with an Indian student named Gopal a small town boy from Madhya Pradesh going USA to study Chemical Engineering, a one year course so that he can make his oil company flourish. As he is a hardcore vegetarian, teetotaler a devout Brahmin and comes from high strata, he encounters many petty problems as he lands in America. His accent is jocular. He had his own conviction to see Americans from a different angle. He misunderstands many things American says like “Watch your ass” or “Take it easy dude”.

Once he was offered orange juice or milk, he preferred orange juice because of the religious status of American cows. This made me laugh till the core. It is written really mirthfully.

There he meets a stupefying character Randy who was his guide in USA. He showed Gopal a different America which he hasn’t seen before. Randy was his motivator, he used to accompany Gopal wherever he went. There are sometimes uproarious moments in Gopal and Randy’s conversations.

He never missed writing letter to his brother and family while his stay in USA to tell them how is doing, what are the problems he is facing, whether he is abiding by all the things told by mother. In a letter he talks about his studies in America where he mentions that Americans are having all facilities but standard is not as high as in India.

He is very skeptical about American girls. Randy’s main attention is to make Gopal fiddle with girls which he always refrained because he thought that his family would not like it. Till the end Gopal doesn’t abdicate and remains a virgin and feels himself as a wise but with sad face.

The book unfolds with change in Gopal’s beviour as he learns things about US.

The one thing that it lacked that writer didn’t depict his study part for which he has flown to USA.

Overall it is entertaining book. You would not feel bored as the story line is witty and capricious.

P.S.: it is a fun book but without any learning. :D

Signing off
Anil Anuragi
Good night X

My travelogue: Two faced Indians.

After CWG and Delhi bhraman, I was leaving for home. My train that was scheduled to departure from Delhi to Kanpur at 7:15 AM arrived at 6:40 PM delayed by 11:30 hours. And a normal train that takes around 6 hours from Delhi to Kanpur took more than 9 hours. Bhartiya rail apni apechhao par ek baar fir khari utarti hui! :P :D


As I left from Delhi, after two stations again it stopped for some signal clearance problem. As it started again I dialed my dad’s no to tell him that I have left for Kanpur. A guy who was standing on the platform barged in his hand from the window and snatched my phone away from my hands. It was so filmy that I could not believe it for a moment that my phone has gone. I could not do anything as the train had already started and there was all dark on the platform. But I was happy because I was safe. Sad thing was that before leaving I had recharged it with INR 333.00 + INR 43.00 which was deplorable.

Let me introspect something from this incident.

People like Indian culture, tradition, the way we live, scenic beauty, Indian food and many other things but what make them not to like us in spite of that that we are born in the same soil. I think this is the very thing that leaves a bad impression that we Indians are not liked by the white people.

Here first chapter is closed. Now in the second episode which happened when I was travelling from Kanpur to Kolkata. After much juggling I booked ticket by Rajdhani on 19th. This time luck was with me I think because there was a thing to take my entire attention throught the journey. Ohhhh Let me stop myself to waste time in falderal things and come to the original topic.

So when I woke up in the morning, I went to the washroom. I unclipped my watch to wash hands and forgot to pick up while returning. After 10 minutes or so I somehow remembered that watch is not in my hands (My body is very sensitive to phone, wallet and watch). I went to the same toilet and asked the lady which was just coming out and I got a negative reply. I waited for a guy who was in. After another 5 minutes he came out and I asked the same. He handed over the watch to me. I respected him saying Thank you from the bottom of my heart and left the place.

So these are the two incidents that came upon in “My Journey” (here the content do some Justice on my blog title). Same people but different behavior/ attitutude.

Unity in diversity or diversity in unity?? !!!

P.S. 1. Ohh i forgot to tell that I have got the same no again. please forward your nos in the same no that you have already with you as I have lost all the contacts.

P.S. 2. I have got some work in office so I might not be frequent in here for some time. :D

       *** Sometimes words are more powerful than stones***

Signing Off

Anil Anuragi

Crook

I watched this movie for the sake of just watching it. I didn’t have anything to do so I went for it.

There is nothing in the movie to tell except Neha Sharma. She looked stunning. She beautifully portrayed her part. I don’t like Imraan Hashmi in angry role. He should better stick to his kind of roles. For me there should be some good songs in the movie, but there wasn’t any.

The movie starts with an Indian student (Imraan Hashmi: Suraj) going to Australia to study on a fake visa. He meets with a Punjabi family there. They tell him two ways of getting an Australian passport: Either by working as a taxi driver which was a long term thing or to get a white girl. He tries to work on the second option. The girl he likes is Indian whose brother has an orthodox kind of behavior. In the past he (the girl’s brother: Arjan Bajwa) had allowed his other sister to kill herself because she was pregnant with a white man. Suraj doesn’t want to go into complex Indian Australian matter. He just wants to settle in there with a white girl. Suraj becomes aggravated when Arjan wants to kill that girl (because her brother was the cause of his sister’s death) who had saved Arjan from his cruel brother in the past and Arjan was unaware of that and in that scene an Indian kills Arjan because he has now understood the things that who is good and who is bad.

I think they were supposed to show the racial attacks on Indian students in Australia but it was like the honor killing in India. If you are not going to watch it you are not going to miss anything important. If you have a choice better watch Robot.

PS: Sad part of the movie is that Suraj didn’t get any kiss from his girl.

Signing Off
Anil Anuragi

Good Night ;)

Emotional Atyaachaar....

A discussion among Piyush Prashant , Abhijeet Dey and me.


This was the time when we were in college. We had all the free time for gossiping, chit chatting, reprimanding and nitpicking. Sometimes these were fruitful discussions but most of the time these used to go sterile.

I correctly remember that we were in Piyush’s room after playing a tough cricket match. We all were quiet when Dey started talking about something emotionally. I used to be a sensitive chap in these matters then. Now I am trying to overcome it gradually.

Why don’t people express or share their feelings when they need someone to understand them.

These are some of the things people are reluctant to share it with others….

1. When a little kid gets less mark in school, he doesn’t tell his parents because he knows that rather than being empathized he would be spanked. I think it happens too.

2. When a friend asks about your wife then before getting an answer he might get a hard slap right on to his cheeks. (He might just want to know about her well being but you take it in different way)

3. When you lose your luggage in a journey you don’t tell this to your friend because you know that before getting any help you will first become the center of mockery (no pun intended). So you try to hide things.

4. When your love departs then instead of sharing your feelings with closed ones you start boozing and you feel alone. You try to put yourself aloof. Mate there are lots of things to worry about.

5. In college days, when we are insulted in a class (which happens most of the time) then instead of learning things that might save us next time we lock ourselves in a room and start playing with the computers (In a positive sense :D) . That sometimes makes one lunatic and we start blaming teachers.

6. When you put something emotional in Facebook, following comments would be, “Abe sahi hai na tu”, “Kya ho gaya hai tumko aajkal” or “chaat diya yaar” something like this. No. of comments here is proportional to the no. of F’s you use.

This is not our fault though. It all depends on the environment we are living in. people just don’t feel comfortable to share their hearts out. They always feel that they might be betrayed. This grows slowly on you and then sickness starts visiting you regularly and when it burst it makes huge sound.

I don’t know how you people out here find this post. I feel like posting it so I did. Now it is your choice…..

Signing off
Anil Anuragi

Have a nice day!