Mandi... Once upon a time :)

So I’m back again with a novel experience which I can assure that no one of you ever had. Actually, I’m talking about MANDI which is a yearly event of NITIE in which all students are given bag full of toys from an NGO and they are suppose to be sell by the students on Mumbai streets. There were teams of two and each member was given a mandi t-shirt. We all felt great since this was the first t-shirt we wore on which NITIE was written.
So, in the morning we had our breakfast and we were told to have unlimited breakfast. But there were chhola-bhatura and that too of worst quality and in that case how can you hope to have unlimited breakfast. So somehow I managed to eat 1 and ½ bhatura and moved towards badminton court where opening ceremony was planned. We sat in one of the front rows so that we can have a good view of Preeti Jhangiani, the celebrity and one of the chief guests. While waiting, we clicked some of the pics in different poses. After waiting for ½ hour, the ceremony started and preeti came. We were stunned to see her since she looked bit fat and less beautiful than in the movies. After all the speeches, there was an oath taking ceremony. After this we walked towards the bus by which we were supposed to reach our destination or market. So somehow we managed to fit into the bus but the driver took too much time in starting the journey. We were all pissed off and some of the guys even walked down and took auto. Well, after waiting for about ½ an hour, the bus started and took approximately 1 hour to reach andheri (w) station. So after getting off the bus, we decided to get segregated and then sell the toys.
There were people walking around but all of them were in hurry. So we tried to approach some of the people but were unsuccessful to convince them. Finally I approached a middle aged man who was waiting for someone and I said “sir, can I have your 2minutes please”. He replied positively. Then we said “we are the students of NITIE which is one of the top ten B-schools of India. We are selling toys made by an NGO called navnirmiti”. After that we gave him all the features of the toys and finally , since he was in hurry, he said “achha jaldi batao kitne mei dena hai.120/- theek hai”. But then we explained him that we can’t bargain and finally he agreed to pay the marked price of the product.
Like this we got some motivation that yes we can sell them. Our next customer was a couple where husband took the toys just because he also worked for an NGO. Since we were not able to click a picture with our first customer, so we clicked a nice pic with this couple. After roaming for about 1 and a ½ hour, we realised that this is not the right market to sell and we moved to Juhu beach where many of our batch mates were really trying hard to sell. Here we also joined the race and successfully were able to sell all of the toys till 7.30 pm. At juhu, we met some of our alumni and they gave certain tips on how to sell the toys. I kept one of the units for my nephews. After this, we had our dinner and catched a local to NITIE.
It was a inexplicable experience. I must say that it was a lifetime experience. We are never going to step in the market like this if we opt for marketing but the knowledge about market and customers we got from this exercise is fabulous. I personally realised how tough it is to earn money and even to spend each extra penny. We, at home or any other place, don’t treat sales people in a gentle way. But I realised how it feels when somebody says “NO” to you. We understood how tough it is for a roadside salesman to sell each extra unit of his product. Suddenly we all have gained respect for sales people. All in all, it was a great experience....

Dating with Nature :)

Few days back, we had a photo shoot @ NITIE for placement brochure and also for the individual photo for the NITIE website. It was suppose to be in full formals. So all of us nicely dressed in blazer, tie etc. went to the NITIE lawns. It was real fun because before the main photo shoot all of us started posing for our personal photos. So I was also not behind in the race and asked my roommate to click some of my poses. At last, we were made to stand in rows according to our height in which I tried to stand in one of the front rows. But unfortunately I was pushed back as people said “yeh lamba hai, isko peeche bhejo” and like this I was pushed in the second last row. As soon as photo shoot ended, it started raining (By the way, while I’m writing this post it is still raining:P) since you can’t trust Mumbai’s rain.
After 5-10 minutes, rain stopped and we went back to our hostel. Then in the noon, we had our individual photo shoot. After that, I and my friends Am, D, S and Ab planned to click some of the photos in NITIE campus which is one of the greenest campuses of India. On our way what we found was really beautiful. Since there was no sun, so weather was pleasant and cool breeze was blowing making us feel good. We clicked at every niche of the campus. Actually behind NITIE campus we have Vihar lake which is really huge and is a part of Sanjay Gandhi national park and it is said that in recent times leopards have approached NITIE campus from there. Well I think leopards also wanted to have some management gyaan and some technical knowledge too since they also encroached in IITB recently.
Vihar Lake gives a real picture of scenery since there are no urban areas behind it. There are sahyadri ranges around the lake and on some of the ranges clouds were seemed to be sitting. You really can’t say that we were in Mumbai by looking those photos. We found beautiful butterflies sitting on flowers and we caught them in our camera. They were of different colours mainly blue, red, yellow etc. The environment reminded us as if we were on a hill station. It seemed that budding managers were inspecting Nature. But trust me, this time managers were not looking for some profit but to laud Nature’s beauty. It was awesome. By looking at photos you can easily imagine what our experience was. It was really a nice date with nature. Felt great!!!!!

Pyar, Ishq aur Mohabbat !!!!

From past few days I was observing some of the people around me and their love life. And after much thought process I derived some of the astonishing conclusions which might not be true according to you. To begin with I have a friend called A and he is with me in Mumbai. He had various girl friends before and presently also he has one. But when I asked him about marriage his reply was “shaadi to mom ki marzi se hi hogi”. And that forced me to think is love a game of enjoyment played before marriage? I mean how can you spend your time, energy and emotions with a person who you think is not going to stay with you for a long time. Here I want to quote a dialogue from KANK in which SRK says to rani “Mohabbat ke zamane guzar gaye janab, ab chhote mote pyar se hi kaam chala lijiye aap”. So love is time pass or mere enjoyment. Another friend A in Delhi is in love, as he says, with P. But he is always fascinated by his old female friends and even goes to meet them. As I asked him why you do that, his answer was really interesting. He said “Deepesh, there is always a girl in your life for whom you want to avoid your true love, may be for few moments”. On this firstly I was stunned but later on agreed as I too have done this once or twice. After all men are dogs. They are never satisfied with one true love. They are always fascinated by passing by fancies.
Next comes my friend K who did love marriage by going against her parents. But today after 3 years of marriage, she says there is no compatibility between them. On this my persuasions asks me that is love so fickle that it can’t last for whole life? If you are not able to tolerate each other even in initial phase of marriage then how would you be united when more responsibilities will be there. In such cases it’s better to finish it off. But still it’s not easy to face that trauma of divorce and break up.
At last, the finger turns to me since I’m in a relationship from past four years. On this I want to say that you have no right to destroy someone’s life and also you should not give this right to others to do the same for you. I personally feel that love demands commitment and it’s all about care. The more you care more the bond will get stronger. And if still nothing works well, then trust the words “marriages are made in heaven” and “someone, somewhere is made for you”. You will have that lucky one with you may be today or tomorrow. I think I’m sounding much filmy so I should shut my mouth....

"Hum khush hai" says SRK in KANK :)

By looking at the title you must have guessed that I'm happy now days. And I'm glad that I'm happy at the time of writing this post, otherwise you would have again encountered a gloomy post. The reasons for my happiness are:

1. Firstly, it's a weekend and we don't have any hectic schedule today and can plan for some outing. But it might not be feasible because people have committee interviews in the evening and me too.

2. Secondly, my mom is going Gujarat to my dad's place and no more she will be living alone. As my dad works in BOB and he is posted there so mom was living alone at our home. After all there's no point of living alone as now I'm in Mumbai and my sisters are also married.

3. Thirdly, everything is quite chill here in Nitie. Pressure of studies is less as compared to other B-schools. So, I always get time to rest. You may call it just like FMS.

4. At last but not at least, I'm always in touch with my old friends. Initially I thought that my all college friends will be left back and there may not be any contact as all will get busy in jobs, higher education etc. But now days, I always talk to my old friends through gtalk, phone etc. Few days back N, P and Panks called me. It felt so good as I also have people who misses me. I also talked to V1 and also chatted with V2. H and B are always online. So the feeling of missing NSIT friends has gone. But I still miss NSIT :(. Whenever I'm in the gloomy mood of missing NSIT, I always sing the song from Yaadein " nagme hai, shikve hai, kisse hai, baatein hai.Baatein bhool jati hai, yaadein yaad aati hai.Yeh yaadein kisi dilo janam ke chale jane ke baad aati hai. yaadein...yaadein"

Enjoying Extreme...

I am inspired to write this post from the weather around me in Mumbai. As we all know that there are lot of rains in Mumbai as usual. This is june going on, the month in which I use to sweat like hell with all coolers, ACs and what not.This is the month which is not only hated by me but by the entire north India. It is the hottest month of the year. But this time I'm enjoying it-thanks to Mumbai. Monsoon has arrived here on time and it's raining here since last 1 week. I haven't seen Mr. Sun since then. Now it has become my habit to keep umbrella in my bag when i leave for the classes daily. Another good thing is that when if it's not raining then it's cool breeze which is always there and soothes you.

On the other hand, most of the regions in India are facing scarcity of rainfall. Regions like UP, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi are facing summers in its extreme face where it's declared that only 93% rains will be there as compared to last year. I heard from my friends and loved ones that there are 8-10 hrs power cut and no rains. Certain state governments have urged to their citizens to not to use ACs in the workplace and at home so that power can be made available to all. I'm not interested in telling you any weather forecast for entire India. But the same conditions i faced till last year when i was vigorously gearing up for CAT.

So i want to pray to God for rains in entire India since my friends and loved ones stay in those rainfall deficit regions. And above all, many homes are dependent on monsoon in thousands of villages of India. On this ocassion, i want to recall the song from Lagaan which all of us should sing "kale megha kale megha paani to barsao.bijuri ki talwar nahin boondo ke baan chalao". And for Mumbaikars there's a song from The Weather Girls "It's raining men , Hallejulah". Enjoy !!!!

:)

Fun is in getting tired....

So i'm back after a long time.but not with a bang but with a tired face.Finally i reached one of the happening B-schools of India.Really i'm not boasting just because i'm the part of it but because it's true.
So i reached Nitie on 18th morning after a tiring journey and as soon as i reached i got accomodation in the hostel room. After that i got my documents verified and came back to room because it was stated that all 1st years have to report at sports complex sharp @ 6pm for formal induction programme. I was sure that this is going to be really gruelling so i slept before that to get prepared.At 6pm we reached the venue where there were faculty and seniors.Firstly faculty members gave a nice speech which was really inspiring and motivating.After that faculty members left and then started the real fun.Seniors called some of the juniors one by one and asked them to introduce themselves and also give their USP and if they were not able to give then they were asked to do pole dance with real pole made to stand in between.It was fun. After that we played a game again which was in various groups. And finally we got free @12.30am with a assingnment to be submitted till 7am.So we as a group did the job and completed it @ 2.45am and slept @ 3.30am. In all these chain of events i was too tired but was enjoying also.
The next day we were supposed to gather at ppo road @ 7.30am. PPO road has its own story behind this name but for the time being ppo is pre placement offer.Then we had attendance and we were taken for a campus tour which was again fun.After that we gathered @ 10am in sports complex and where faculty members had planned a whole day schedule for us.It was like we were suppose to present a skit,play,song etc. anything on managerial traits.We were divided into groups of 30 and it went till the evening. First time i too participated in a skit though forcefully.But i enjoyed each moment.After all the performances best performance was declared by the faculty and was awarded perk chocolates.And we got shocked when our group was declared the winner.Don't know how it happened.But finally "jo jeeta wohi hi sikandar".Then we had a break and we came back @ 6pm for another round of gruelling fun process.
This time there were seniors who asked us to present a play or skit depending upon the topics given which contained bit double meanings.So here also each group showed their extent of thinking in deriving double meanings.But here i was not in winning team :(
At around 10pm we were asked to play another game which again lasted for around 2 hours.Finally we left @ 12am from whole day of fun and frolic with a case study assignment and till now i'm free thats why i got time for blogging .But whole agenda behind this induction programme is to know each other in the batch.So i should leave now for next gruelling session in the afternoon.But i'm sure that these 2 years of mba @ NITIE are going to be big fun.........

Silsila and KANK

On last official day of our college Panks gifted me two movies KANK which is my favourite and silsila which is also a nice movie. I watched them again at home with my family since they were gifted by best friend :).

KANK and silsila share the same story with different base. In KANK, a post marital affair happens between dev(srk) and maya(rani m) due to some misunderstanding with thier respective partners. When rhea(priety z) and rishi(abhishek B) come to know about their affair, they just break the marriage and then dev and maya unknowingly live apart. But in the end they both get reunited by the help of rhea and rishi.

Well, in silsila Amit(AB) marries shobha(jaya B) after his brother's(shashi kapoor) death. This happens because shobha gets pregnant due to his brother and to save her's name in the society. But after marriage, Amit encounters his early love chandni(rekha) and then starts their post marital relationship.

KANK is mainly about the non tolerance of victims of post marital affair and how they leave the culprits to solitude as their punishment. But in silsila, a silent and charming wife shobha tolerates betrayal of his husband thinking his true love will return back to her.

KANK also gives a message "Love doesn't care about any barriers" as AB in the movie says "maut aur mohabbat dono bin bulaye mehmaan hai, wo kisi ka saath nahi chhodte". And also AB's another dialogue in which he says "waqt ka matlab hota hai ab.pyar karna hai to ab.mafi maangna hai to ab.haath pakadna hai to ab.varna barso baad tum meri tarah hi kisi party mei apne khoye hue pyar se maafi mangte nazar aaonge". I really love these two dialogues.

I really love KANK all because of its story, music, dialogues and above all my favourite star SRK. But I can't Figure out why people don't like KANK. But i Love it and panks too :).