December 2014
The blog has two unique things, which other blogs didn't have. One of course is the title (in Hindi) and the second is the blog is dated. Both with a purpose...as readers will know as they read on.
I left school in 1974. Schooling in Ranchi since my father was employed by SAIL in Ranchi and as he was about to retire within two years of my completing school, as a family a decision was taken to put me in college in Chennai. That's how I landed in South India for my higher studies. B.Sc in Chennai, BE in Bangalore and later PG in Chennai. Work postings were also predominantly in South but for brief periods in Delhi. So I imbibed a lot of knowledge of customs and traditions of Tamils while in South India - something which didn't happen during my school days.
As is the norm, unless the friends go to the same college, they drift apart, pick up new friends and at work colleagues who are bound by working for the same organisation and can discuss many things in common.
I had for the last forty years since leaving school back in June 1974 maintained continuous contact with two classmates - SP and Panda. Both in different organisation than mine. SP as an HR professional in a PSU and Panda a Medical specialist in Air Force. But one thing that bound us together irrespective of our profession and education was our schooling and the many hours spent together playing or chatting or just whiling away time.
Over the last few years though we happened to connect with a few other classmates - Lalit, Santosh, Amitava, and Rajnish. All different backgrounds and organisations they work for; most having lost all the childhood mannerisms and quirks that I remember of them. A few turned serious!
As recently as September of this year I touched base with another classmate and a neighbour in the township where I lived. Rajinder now lives in US and remains as bubbly as I remembered him from his school days. He insisted that we should connect in a better way than what we had been doing. The next logical step was a whatsapp group. Over the last three months since it was set up, we may have been exchanging about 100 messages a day (on average)! We are now 13 classmates who are connected through the media and what a group we have turned out to be. Guys in Shillong, Delhi, Kolkata, Ranchi, US, and Bhilai - united in a common purpose. BRINGING BACK OUR CHILDHOOD FUN! It has been fun throughout and looks like the 40 years have just melted away and we have never left our adoloscent years behind. Though some guys are serious and post messages which carry a moral lesson or a saying which touches our heart, others take away that seriousness by posting good jokes and lame ones too! Our motto for posting has always been, "Sab chalta hai" (except swear words!).
Our intention is to meet in October 2015 in Ranchi and get more friends into the group. That is what all are looking forward to now.
The blog has two unique things, which other blogs didn't have. One of course is the title (in Hindi) and the second is the blog is dated. Both with a purpose...as readers will know as they read on.
I left school in 1974. Schooling in Ranchi since my father was employed by SAIL in Ranchi and as he was about to retire within two years of my completing school, as a family a decision was taken to put me in college in Chennai. That's how I landed in South India for my higher studies. B.Sc in Chennai, BE in Bangalore and later PG in Chennai. Work postings were also predominantly in South but for brief periods in Delhi. So I imbibed a lot of knowledge of customs and traditions of Tamils while in South India - something which didn't happen during my school days.
As is the norm, unless the friends go to the same college, they drift apart, pick up new friends and at work colleagues who are bound by working for the same organisation and can discuss many things in common.
I had for the last forty years since leaving school back in June 1974 maintained continuous contact with two classmates - SP and Panda. Both in different organisation than mine. SP as an HR professional in a PSU and Panda a Medical specialist in Air Force. But one thing that bound us together irrespective of our profession and education was our schooling and the many hours spent together playing or chatting or just whiling away time.
Over the last few years though we happened to connect with a few other classmates - Lalit, Santosh, Amitava, and Rajnish. All different backgrounds and organisations they work for; most having lost all the childhood mannerisms and quirks that I remember of them. A few turned serious!
As recently as September of this year I touched base with another classmate and a neighbour in the township where I lived. Rajinder now lives in US and remains as bubbly as I remembered him from his school days. He insisted that we should connect in a better way than what we had been doing. The next logical step was a whatsapp group. Over the last three months since it was set up, we may have been exchanging about 100 messages a day (on average)! We are now 13 classmates who are connected through the media and what a group we have turned out to be. Guys in Shillong, Delhi, Kolkata, Ranchi, US, and Bhilai - united in a common purpose. BRINGING BACK OUR CHILDHOOD FUN! It has been fun throughout and looks like the 40 years have just melted away and we have never left our adoloscent years behind. Though some guys are serious and post messages which carry a moral lesson or a saying which touches our heart, others take away that seriousness by posting good jokes and lame ones too! Our motto for posting has always been, "Sab chalta hai" (except swear words!).
Our intention is to meet in October 2015 in Ranchi and get more friends into the group. That is what all are looking forward to now.
