Hi Everyone...
Finally got some time to breathe .. and I took this opportunity to blog as well... sahi kiya na ??
Anyway , we have started with our course... as of now classes of 3 subjects are goin on viz. Philosophy, MacroEconomics & Stats... We crusaders feel lucky enough to have the best of Faculty to teach us these three subjects.. Philosophy is being taught by Prof. VenkatKrishnan , frm XLRI , also he is our Director - PGPM ; Eco by Prof. Rakesh Singh, frm NMIMS ; Stats by Prof. P.K. Vishwanath, a legend in himself.....

Under our Philosophy course, we have to do a Karma - Yoga project, guys dont misinterpret it with Instant Karma... (kidding)... but srsly it is no joke ...Initially when this course was started I was really confused as what is this gotta do with MBA proggrame or We as managers, trust me guys, now I have started to realise that the said things do hold good for becoming an effective Leader. Bact to Karma - Yoga, in this we (group of 5 students decided by college) have to help the powerless people and try to improvise their situation, for this atleast 3 hours we are required to spend per week. When done with this part we have to document it and submit a report.

2 days back , we started our activities, I and Gokul ... (hmm my other team mates are Gokul, Sachin, Roshik & Lakshana... ) went to Mr. Felix Ryan, more bout Mr. Ryan.. I found his reference on Google... he was the only guy available doing some kind of social service in the closest vicinity of college and was so obviously my first target... He seemed to be very learned man, probably in his late sixties (www.felixryanh20.com), he was very impressed with our concept & offered us an opportunity to help him, he was of the opinion that the people living in slums around should be educated about the impure water that they are consuming and install a water purification plant, for which he will arrange the funds, our responsiblity was to educate people about advantages of drinking pure water & facilitate the installation of water purification plant, so that our ultimate purpose is achieved. we decided to explore 1 more option and then choose the best

Today again I and Gokul decided to visit an orphanage, details of which were found by Gokul, it was some 8 - 10 kms. away frm our college, so we decided to go on Gokul's bike... I hesitated a bit as I didnt have Helmet , but then realised that I am not in Delhi (where even a pillion needs to hav Helmet) , I am in Chennai da... here even the Rider doesnt wear a Hemet .. forget bout Pillion wearing the same... now this is what India is famous for.. Unity in Diversity.. :-). We reached the place , It seemed like a big house descently maintained frm outside, we were welcomed by Mr. Natarajan, the man behind this noble cause, he seemed to be in his early sixties, we told him about our purpose of being here, he was happy hearing the same... in the discussion he got to know that I am Mech Engineer and I could see a smile on his face, as he also happened to be the same. Immediately our tuning further progressed towards fine tuning.. he told us about his ashram, how he strated it and so on ... off late he also managed to get a land for a new building, and is waiting for certain formalities to get over, so that he start with construction work over there, as of now 25 children are being taken care by him, he has a seperate facility for thim built on first floor of the same house... all of them are of different age group ranging frm 3 yrs. to say 20 yrs. ...a fixed schedule is being followed by these children, they get up at 5.45, do their regular yoga excercises for half an hour, then chant further for half an hour and then start on with routine. Evening after returning from school , by 7 they have to assemble for evening prayer, then have their dinner by 8 & then call off the day... We got the opportunity to meet 5 guys over there, interaction with them made me realise that yes, definately even I can learn many things from them, they were like living with just required facilities but then too they did hav the vision for their life set, it was a real strange feeling to me when MOhan, one among them said, that he wanted to be an AeroNautical engineer, his confidence level was amazing, another guy wanted to be a Doctor, and rest all engineers, and had very desire to do something gr8 for the Ashram who gave them the power to think big.
When we were about to leave, just then a we were told that some guest has come here to visit this place and Mr. Natarajan wanted us to meet them, The Guests were Mr. Lobhanathan who had come there alongwith his son to distribute sweets to the children there on occasion of his son's birthday, the moment was really heart touching, read about this same scene many times & had seen it in movies, but was witnessing it for first time, the happiness distinctly visible on faces of children assembled there to wish Mr. Lobhanthan's son Birthday wishes & the content on the son's face while distributing sweets could melt any normal being's heart ... after wishing the birthday boy, we discussed with Mr. Natarjan about our next visit and left back to college...


I know its a lengthy blog, but yaar baar baar time thodi milta hai.. mauka milte hi chauka maar liya... in simple words .. u can call it Chance pe Dance......