God did the rest...

Hi All,

Long before about 7 yrs ago, there's was this little girl who wanted to make it big in the world. Her only aim was to get admitted into BITS Pilani. She dreamt and worked hard. But fate took a different turn and she failed to get an admit though by a narrow margin and went on to do her engineering from one of the lesser known colleges.

That crushed her confidence and she started setting lower targets for herself. She was scared to dream further and lose out on those precious dreams. She was scared that she will be failure to herself.

Then came the moment. The good people in her life gave her confidence to trudge upon the lesser known road. Even if the road ends in a dead end, the lessons along the road will be valuable. She started to dream again. The old nightmares haunted, but she didn't deter from dreaming on.

She tried her best and left God to do the rest. She took GMAT and got into Indian School of Business after few months of study, a fortnight of application completion, a week of interview preparation and a day of thanks to GOD.

It may not be a big thing to most people, but to her it was the return of her confidence, the triumph of her dreams and the shooing away of evil confidence-crushing shadows. She was able to overcome her fears at last and walk out to the world.

Thank you God for doing the rest. Thanks to all those who supported me. A big big thanks to few special people in my life who made this possible.

An emotional CIAO..

VIJAY's Neeya Naana

Hi All,

I have made it a point to avoid television (Though I do watch dance shows, Chutti TV). In fact I have even stopped viewing songs on TV. One reason being I hate to watch some XYZ person droning on and on and on about useless things. But I do download and watch episodes of Naruto (Japanese Animation) almost everyday.

But there's one show which is not overtly emotional like other talk shows in Tamil. I am of course talking about VIJAY's Neeya Naana. Though it is a debate the host, Gopinath ensures that the discussion doesn't up as a heated argument. (Probably the arguments are edited. But for a channel that seems to advocate controversy, editing sections to avoid conflicts of interest doesn’t sound true). This week the topic of discussion was - "People of the state of TN vs. People of other states" (continuation from last week's episode) It is a very touchy subject. Every person invariably roots for his home state. It is only natural that they do so especially when a person is questioned about ethics and integrity, it is highly unlikely that they will be entirely truthful.
I reserve my judgments and hopefully the blog readers too reserve their judgments as I don't want to change this post to turn into a political case.

What I felt while seeing the show was just this
1) Should a controversial topic such as this be discussed openly and be aired. Will it not hurt the sentiments of groups of people?

2) Few were hostile and admitted their distrust of people from other states. India's strength lies in its ability to embrace different culture. Aren't we weakening the foundations by advocating open hostility towards certain sections of people because of our own prejudices?

3) Personal experience doesn't warrant group behavior. I do agree that society moulds a person's belief, character and customs. But a person’s individual nature is far apart from these generalizations and shouldn't be used as a biasing factor.

In the end Gopinath wrapped the show saying that "hopefully this show breaks the barriers and have made people to be more forthright in their opinion". I hope this happens and my cynicism vaporizes into puffs of smoke. While I do agree that being open about one’s opinion is a good trait and is commendable when followed in nurturing interpersonal relations I fervently believe that generalizations such as "people from XYZ state are not trustworthy" ends up creating distrust and disrespect. (Let the cynic in me die)

To wind up the post, I agree with the statement made by Gopinath that all people as Indians must transcend the barriers and appreciate each others culture. We are striving hard to promote Italian, Spanish and other foreign cultures. We can take little time and effort to study our neighboring state and the rest of India. Let us learn to appreciate each other better.


CIAO.

After so long...

Hi All,


I am writing this post after so long. The credit goes to Deepak who wanted to revive the sleeping blog(ger).

Life's become very busy. Personal work takes too much time and I hardly get to sleep few hours a day. But I have never been this happy in my entire life. So many things are happening around me and affecting my course of life stream, the tides and tidings of my life has never been brimming with so varied activities. In this one year I feel I have evolved as a better person and the nights are no longer darker.

Coming to the point I took GMAT and have applied (still applying) to universities. Hopefully this time next year my blog will be from a Grad school. Hopefully the prayers love and blessings of the people will carry me through my dreams and desires.

I will be making another post in few minutes. This is just a Welcome home post!!!

CIAO.