JAGRITI YATRA 2012 : PHASE 1

          As I call it the first phase of the great trip of transformation and the awakening of the entrepreneurial spirit ,this involves how I came to know about this programme , the application part and the day I heard that I was short listed and my mixed feelings regarding the trip. I was just browsing the facebook group on which I first found the link to the JAGRITI YATRA and then I prolly should start writing about this trip totally from the scratch.

         Somewhere around mid-October was when one of my friends posted about the JAGRITI YATRA and then I just went through the website.In the start after I read the entire thing also I did not understand much so I just registered and left the account like that! And only after I started reading this book 'WHAT YOUNG INDIA WANTS' by Chetan Bhagat I began to analyse the stuff , and the need to visualize the changes which would only result from a bunch of like minded youth' discussion .Be it an idea , or a solution it would only result from a fruitful discussion. Of course the back ground work should also involve a lot of sincerity and commitment though. Like I said I badly wanted to interact with people, and when I say this I mean like - minded people.And trust me , you could call it fate, cause when this was going on , in my mind , I received a message on my phone saying that the deadline is approaching soon.But I was not sure whether I could get in but I thought I would fill in the application form .But I kept on postponing the work of filling the form.

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

My final year odd semester exams were just going to start the next day.And , again I received  the same message. Admist the tension I had to randomly fill the form.But I had to write essays.And everybody knows that it is time consuming.And he first essay was to write about a role model , since I had less time I started thinking to write about somebody different and not about who everyone tries to idealize and write.first I thought to write about woman entrepreneurship , names like Chanda Kochhar , Indranooyi started popping up in my mind.But those are the ladies who have studied so much in their life and came up gradually .Now suddenly the hindi daily soap which I just saw a day before came into my mind.That set, guess who I wrote about.Yes, when it comes to hindi TV serials , it is the only one, the BALAJI TELEFILMS.And then the little girl who at the early age of nineteen started writiing stories of the saas bahu drama.She is Ekta Kapoor. So I wrote about her.About how determined she was about her work, keeping aside the fact that most men hate the work .Everybody should accept the fact that she indeed is one of the youngest woman entrepreneurs in India.

   I still think that this is the essay which might have won a seat for me in the prestigious trip.Yes , so I filled in the answers for the other questions and then submitted the form.Then I got busy with my exams.

NOVEMBER 28 ,2012

This is the day when i received the good news that I have been selected for the yatra. And now I was worried about the expenses.Then I filled the sponsorship form and sent it.

 NOVEMBER 29 ,2012

I received a mail saying that they are willing to pay the entire expenses .So I just jumped with excitement.A whole lot of 450 strangers with whom I am going to spend a fortnight on board. Ofcourse that sounds thrilling.

                 And then I joined the facebook group , the watsapp group which has some hundreds of messages to read all the time.I must say the watsapp group is just awesome , we have all kinds of talk there ranging from fun talk to guys flirting to the English tv series to what not.Its just everything there.

                        So still a week to go and I am pretty excited to meet people.And the worst thing is I just did not start packing anything.There is a lot of shopping to do, so much to buy and so many things to pack.I am going to blog live from on board hopefully.

                     And all the yatris pull up your socks and get ready for one of the most exciting trips in your lifetime.

College Days : As a first year , second year and a third year....!

                   Just a couple of days back ,  my sixth semester engineering results were released . I knew i wrote well and i was not worried about the result .And as expected my result was good .But there was something  else which I realised . Oh yes ! I realised that i completed three years of my engineering very late .In fact , very very late. I felt the need to write this when one of my friends was uploading the pictures of the three years engineering life we spent together .
               
                  To begin with , i was a part of those flamboyant competitive institutions and struggled for IIT-JEE but could not get through . Unfortunately , I could not make it to the NIT's as well and I joined my college with a grin on my face.I was not too excited on the first day as I know i could not live upto my parents hopes and screwed up big time. As a first year , the first day when i went to college I had to sign a form that i will abide by all the rules of the college for the next four years . And then , all the first years had to go on 'CAMPUS TOUR'.  The professors accompanied us and showed us the entire campus . I guess that was the only day I visited most of the places in my campus .After that till date I have never visited any of them again ,something  which I regret the most , now. There are 4 tennis courts , gymnasiums , a big ground , football ,throw ball ,basket ball courts .And , the list goes on. Coming , to ragging , our management calls the campus proudly, as a ragging free campus.So we never hesitated much to roam in the campus. Getting through first year was an arduous task.But then , new friends , new gangs and with the all new atmosphere days passed on soon.Slowly , big gangs started decomposing into smaller ones . People shifted gangs , old friends began making new friends and with all small fights , big cherishing moments like FRESHERS the first year came to an end.

                    Then entering into the second year all the students of our department were shifted to the CHANDRAHAAS IT BHAVAN which is known to be the most palatial of all the buildings.Now we had the brand of 'seniors'.By this time there were so many bonds and intimate relations formed.And then , prolly i have to say that this was the best year for the entire class.With good faculty teaching , marks were easier to score than in the first year and third year .And the best thing in the second year is the industrial tour . It was a tour which nobody can forget even if they travel miles and miles by air in the future.And for people who missed it ,they just missed it .The tour was stupendously fantastic. Neither the accommodation nor the food was great.But it is only the people who made it that successful.'Friends' and 'friendship' made the tour awesome.There were new interactions , new friends and new bonds which formed in the tour and continued till now.The tour was followed by FRESHERS we organised for the juniors which is again a cherish-able moment.

                     And , then the third year where there was pressure again.There was pressure to score a better CGPA ,prepare for GRE /CAT /GMAT /campus recruitment and for those with backlogs ,this was the last chance to clear all of them.And more essentially the extra curriculars and profile based improvement for those who required it.In the third year a student body started forming which is more popularly known as GUSAC and had more criticisers than those who worked for it. It is a place for over all development , sharing of ideas and to learn management skills .And more importantly , it is a place for all  the ostentatious natured people , like me who could sit there for hours and show off that they are doing some important work, in there .Taking the academics into consideration I did not fare well in the three one semester but got an average GPA. Then , the semester followed by the most exciting GOA tour for most of my classmates and me. The enjoyment we had here , was greater than anything else in the entire engineering life .It was very exciting.The year came to an end with the third years bidding FAREWELL to the seniors.That was the time when most of my classmates started realising that we are just an year away to carry all the big burdens of life.And, there is just one last and beautiful year left ahead for all of us.

                     I dedicate this post to my class and all the classmates who made three years of my engineering a cake walk for me.I urge all of them to put aside their egos , personal fights ,give up group-ism and enjoy the year ahead .As it is the last year we are going to be together.Last but not the least three cheers ,







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