A blunder and a Teerth Yatra-all paaps washed away!!

14th December, 2007 was a big day for IBS, Hyderabad. Our campus was blessed with the presence of Mr. Arun Choudhary. Wondering who the hell is he??? I don’t blame you. It was actually Mr.Arun Shourie who had enlightened us. The host for the afternoon introduced him as Mr.Arun Choudhary!!! That has to be the mother of all blunders. I guess the poor guy lost it and was a nervous wreck thereafter. Anyways, the victim to the whole thing very coolly ignored the blunder. Must say, Mr. Shourie was AWESOME. He got his point across to us with a good dose of sense of humor thrown in. The whole speech was just too good. It was a damn good experience and we figured we need more of these sort of guest lectures. The session gave me access to a whole new point of view about our society which I never thought existed.

After the session and during lunch, I was TOLD that we are going to the temple of Chilkur Balajee( I hope I have spelt that write!!). The temple is quite famous in Hyderabad and has a big fan following. We were contemplating ways to reach the temple which is around 15-16 km. from the campus and takes around an hour and a half to reach. But as Shahruk Khan said, “jab tum kuchh sachhe dil se chahte ho, to poorie kaynath tumhe us se milane mein jut jatee hai”. :-) We saw an Indica standing on our campus gates. The driver, ever willing to make a quick buck approached us. After a bit of bargaining we convinced him to take us to the temple and back again to civilization for a very nominal amount. He told us that his was a private cab and he was idle because his hirer had gone off with someone else. I got the impression, God was with us. In an Indica, with sexy roads we covered good ground and lo and behold we were at the temple in 20 min.!!! The road was good and reminded us of rural India with all its fields and small towns and villages.

Even at the temple we were LUCKY. The normally crowded temple was empty and we were in and out in 15-20 min. Of this time the major time was taken up by us trying to break the coconuts!!! After our darshan, we noticed that the crowd was warming up and there was a line. GOD IS GREAT. We returned to civilization with a brief amrood break. The driver was kind enough to drop us at the army temple. GOD BLESS HIS KIDS. We had a wonderful time at the beautiful, well maintained and serene temple. By now I was starting to feel both thirsty and hungry and was belching with the taste of amrood still in my mouth (Surd & Tamasha made me eat their portion also!!). Now, we were again contemplating how to return to the campus when lady luck smiled on us again and we saw the college bus returning to the campus. To top off our Teerth Yatra we got off at the temple near our campus and had darshan there too. You must be wondering the reason for our teerth yatra. Well, it so happens that all of us are FINALLY placed. Happy days are here again.

In the evening I got the shock of my life when I started watching the movie-“The Inside Man”. The movie’s casting had the background score as Chaiyya Chaiyya(Remember Mallaika in it!!). After ages I heard that track. I also got a call from two of my closest friends, Coffee and Topi. Felt nice catching up with them. All in all I had one of my better days at the B-school.

Right now me sitting in a FRM lecture. It is very FRUSTRATING. The cartoon students are eating the poor professor’s head with really DUMB & STUPID questions. They are asking him how to solve the algebraic equation instead of trying to understand the concept of Binomial Options pricing. IDIOTS of the highest order!!
Chow guys….