Ghumakkar's Diary

“ Abe, CAT results are out, where are you ” “ Saale, fod diya! I just saw the results, am in Cyber café, Lanka. Scored 98! What’s your? ” “ I too checked, it’s 90! Chal, meet me at Dept, ask Vivert to be there too; we’ll celebrate. ” It was our final year of Graduation course at Banaras Hindu University, and most of us have given the Common Admission Test to IIMs or CAT. Few were sincere, most, including me, were testing there caliber. Prasoon was though the only person who was determined to get in to some good MBA college, and had prepared hard for the last two years. Vivert didn’t apply and Naveen was still weighing the MBA degree against the MSc-Geology degree. I was like let’s appear and see what aptitude (!) I carry :p Whatever and howsoever we prepared for the D-day, results were more or less as expected. Prasoon scored 98, I 90 and we never came to know what other guys had. It was 6th January, 2006; just another day of winters in Banaras. As the results were ou...

I started thinking about compiling the Year 2009, the way I saw it! The way I experienced it! But, couldn't! Just not because, I couldn't find good time to jot down all the events and happenings of the 2009; also cause I was not finding it easy to gather every moment of the Year of 365 days, x24 hours....;D On the very last day of the Year 2009, we, all the guys of M.Sc.-Geology Batch 2006-08 of BHU , received this mail from one of our classmate, who tried to express everything happened with the Batch people poetically ! He's not a learnt/proven/acclaimed poet, but he did touched our souls! It may not carry any value to anyone, but for our Batch....it did some magic! Magic of Nostalgia! So, I thought to share this precious poem with all my net-mates! With the due help of Google Transliteration, I converted the Hindi-poem scripted in roman, into Devanagari! खाली दिमाग की खुराफात जैसे ही कल का सूरज आसमान पर आएगा बादलों से कूद कर नया साल आ जाएगा, कुछ नयी कहानी हों...