While I was watching Mr Ratan Tata on NDTV unveiling his dream christened as "Nano" in front of world, it was this phrase that caught my imagination. I was feeling cold and stiff and was realising the power of phrase: "Promise is a promise". And thought took me to recently concluded event Convergenz-08. I could sense similar resolve in the eyes of Karthik and his team. Behind those unshaven faces, tired legs and wrinkled eyes I could sense the joy of transforming a dream into the reality!
Till yesterday what was a far fetched dream, rather a fancy, just got concluded into a reality. When many ignored the words of Karthik as mere dreams, people like Veeru, Oscar, Pawan, Abhinav Modi, Ashutosh, Swapnil & Ajith bought into his dream and gave it a shape of reality. They had been tirelessly working for it for more than a month now and the Atlas(never) Shrugged. Till yesterday there was no sign of sponsorship, not many were convinced, but they didn't give up. Suddenly there were some big names like Cisco, SAP Labs, ABB & Freescale who were there to partner with us.
Gitesh, Manish Mehta, Manish Moorjani in pen striped suit, Aneesh, Anil, Goutham Saab, Raghavendra, Harish, Nitesh (will have an estate), Vinod Bhai, Kartik Chidambaram, Jagdish with flash bulb, Hemant with cam, Jayanand (CTO), Tony J, Tanzil Bhai, Gopal sir Oracle wale, Archana, Vidhi, Swapna, Narayan, Akshat, Somesh, Narayan, Raghu, Niren were there Sunday morning to do all the leg work and then double up as much wanted audience.
While the entire audience was coming out I ran into a familiar face and recognised that it was Manikanda from Chennai 2006 batch. He was also there since morning and when I asked him to stay back for dinner he said he had train to catch in one and half hours. I couldn't resist saluting him and it made me feel that my cross is much lighter to lift. There were couple of more people from Chennai 2007 batch(Raghuraman V, Rengarajan S, Sivasundaram CU & Arun S) and we sincerely thank them from braving wintry morning, the distance to be here and be counted when it was required the most. When they could even localities could...
I would also like to thank all the alumni & seniors who turned up despite their busy schedules and encouraged us in keep doing such activities. Our sincere thanks are due to all the current students who sacrificed the only off day in the week and stayed there till the end. Thanks to Amit Agarwal for suggesting many leads for sponsorships...Tussee great ho!!!
Our sincere gratitude to all the participants, esteemed panellists & judges for making this event a huge success.
Your whole hearted support has given us a belief that yes it is good to dream big and even possible to realise those dream. All it requires is a will to succeed. While many of us would have genuine reasons, there were many who would have woven reasons around the inertia within.
My call is to all those doubting thomases that even if you keep doubting our every intention and actions....Atlas will never Shrug...
Rok sake to rok lo...
Cause promise is a promise...And we promise to do even better...next time!!!
So come and join us...
PGSEM Student Affairs Council
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
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