Hi there
Its almost one month since our first post, and as of today we have only 2 confirmed registrations.
Well, I am again writing to you because I feel many of you would have not seen the mailer and the blog.
And now that I have written about it in Facebook, lots of you might be signing in
So, why waste time??? Write to neelanjandevbharadwaj@gmail.com and i will send you the application/registration form
~Neelanjan
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Transition from a student to an ALUMNUS.....some ruminations
Opposite values are complementary ........
Every person undergoes the subjected transformation... and we see how opposite values are complementary.
When I was in school, there were a lot of such occassions which made me dread coming to school the next day. Sundays were worse, i would wake up with the dread of monday arriving at another dumb victim, rubbing its hands in glee, and it would be time to sleep......
There was so much on stake, you do not study properly, you dont get to play in PT hour, dont get to perform/participate in cultural activities and worst, you end up standing outside THE ROOM to meet the principal and get a sound thrashing from her !!!!!
And there would be PTA meetings...... my parents would see my paper (particularly HINDI !!) and would see that I had managed to scrape through.....on one such meeting my mother asked the teacher, why is that there are two different inks in all the answer sheets....... and she got the reply i dreaded the most...." your kid writes for the first 15 minutes, sleeps for the next 21/2 hours (in the exam hall) ;wakes up writes for the last 15 minutes and then goes out!!!! thats why the difference in the inks. Apparently i was stupid enough to write using different pens on each occassion...........
This then cascaded to a sound,,,,repeat sound thrashing from my parents and whosoever came home.......and this led to such a hatred on the national language of India .....a hatred which made every cell of my body to want to master the language and bring it in my control...well I topped the class in that very subject in the public exams.....(thats another story)
But now...almost a decade later (it is actually 10 years since i graduated from DAV, hard to believe), when i look back at those really hard and dreaded moments in school i realise the fact that these have moulded me to the person i am today..... in every way possible....... And i actually begin to enjoy reliving those dreaded moments... Truly - OPPOSITE VALUES ARE COMPLEMENTARY......
Every person undergoes the subjected transformation... and we see how opposite values are complementary.
When I was in school, there were a lot of such occassions which made me dread coming to school the next day. Sundays were worse, i would wake up with the dread of monday arriving at another dumb victim, rubbing its hands in glee, and it would be time to sleep......
There was so much on stake, you do not study properly, you dont get to play in PT hour, dont get to perform/participate in cultural activities and worst, you end up standing outside THE ROOM to meet the principal and get a sound thrashing from her !!!!!
And there would be PTA meetings...... my parents would see my paper (particularly HINDI !!) and would see that I had managed to scrape through.....on one such meeting my mother asked the teacher, why is that there are two different inks in all the answer sheets....... and she got the reply i dreaded the most...." your kid writes for the first 15 minutes, sleeps for the next 21/2 hours (in the exam hall) ;wakes up writes for the last 15 minutes and then goes out!!!! thats why the difference in the inks. Apparently i was stupid enough to write using different pens on each occassion...........
This then cascaded to a sound,,,,repeat sound thrashing from my parents and whosoever came home.......and this led to such a hatred on the national language of India .....a hatred which made every cell of my body to want to master the language and bring it in my control...well I topped the class in that very subject in the public exams.....(thats another story)
But now...almost a decade later (it is actually 10 years since i graduated from DAV, hard to believe), when i look back at those really hard and dreaded moments in school i realise the fact that these have moulded me to the person i am today..... in every way possible....... And i actually begin to enjoy reliving those dreaded moments... Truly - OPPOSITE VALUES ARE COMPLEMENTARY......
Sunday, January 17, 2010
a new author.......
So here we are, after four days of lazing around.....
Lets welcome Navin Kumar, an old-gold friend of mine who is also an alumni of DAV , he will be a co-author of this blog.
Lets hope now navin accepts my invitation and starts posting..
Bye
Neelanjan
Lets welcome Navin Kumar, an old-gold friend of mine who is also an alumni of DAV , he will be a co-author of this blog.
Lets hope now navin accepts my invitation and starts posting..
Bye
Neelanjan
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Mailer
This is the mailer sent to my contacts through email,.
Hi there,
Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year!! For those of you who do not know me, I have given a small introduction about me at the end of this letter.
Well at the outset, a lot of people have at different point of time taken charge of starting this DAV Alumni Group. But effectively we have not been able to do much in this regard. I recently got an opportunity to visit school and spend some time with our teachers after quite a long time. During the course of meeting, I could see that this school has come a long way from the one on cenotaph road.
During my meeting with the teachers too, I saw a lot of new faces. Only 2/3 teachers from the old batch remain. They were reliving the moments of joy that we’ve had in the old school… and then they started telling me that now all facilities are available here, but that camaraderie, that x-factor that was there between the students and the teachers, is now missing and asked me to do something about it.
I delved deeper and came to know that very less no of students are taking part in Co-Curricular and Extra –Curricular activities and also there is little or no support from the parents.
Well this is the schools opinion; ask the students and the parents they’ll tell us their version of the story. Still this needs to be addressed and as Alumni of this school, it becomes of us to do so. Well, of course our tenure as students in DAV was not entirely rosy; we have had our share of bad /worse moments as well, but now, when every one of us is on a high in his /her career, the moment we think of DAV, we feel warm at heart. This needs to percolate down and the “ALUMNI CLUB” is one of the ways this is possible.
So, when a lot of people have already been through this what new am I suggesting? You may ask. This is not an oft-repeated general mailer about getting your contacts, making a database and stuff like that. The DAV Alumni Club is going to be a family, with a difference.
No Alumni parties, no activities , no get togethers……then what ???
We will be Mentoring the kids in DAV in whatever way possible. I am sure the people this letter reaches to are currently on the way to achieving excellence in their Career and it is time for us to share and teach this to our young friends in DAV so that it may help them and in the process help us as we grow only by sharing our knowledge .
We have formulated an action plan for this. And enclosed is a format which you are required to fill up and send by email to neelanjandevbharadwaj@gmail.com
Yes. It is a detailed process and will require some of your time, but keep in mind, you are going to be a guide and a mentor to a kid who may go on to win (maybe the Nobel Prize!!) and many such laurels to his/her school, his/her family , his/her nation and more importantly his/her mentor, YOU !!
Please do fill up the enclosed format and send it across to me asap. (ppl viewing it on the blog , please send me an email with your name, phone no and batch details, will mail the format to you !)
We will update you of our first exclusive meetup on our blog – davparivar.blogspot.com
Thanks & Advance wishes for a prosperous Pongal,
Neelanjan Dev Bharadwaj
neelanjandevbharadwaj@gmail.com
AN INTRODUCTION ABOUT MYSELF –
Neelanjan Dev Bharadwaj, a 1999 batch student of DAVPS, graduated from Anna University (Sri Sai Ram Engg College) in 2005. He’s currently with Terex Corporation in their Indian Operations @ Hosur and is pursuing his Masters in Supply Chain Mgmt from AU/IIT-Mumbai.He is a performing Harikatha Artiste and an avid reader.
Hi there,
Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year!! For those of you who do not know me, I have given a small introduction about me at the end of this letter.
Well at the outset, a lot of people have at different point of time taken charge of starting this DAV Alumni Group. But effectively we have not been able to do much in this regard. I recently got an opportunity to visit school and spend some time with our teachers after quite a long time. During the course of meeting, I could see that this school has come a long way from the one on cenotaph road.
During my meeting with the teachers too, I saw a lot of new faces. Only 2/3 teachers from the old batch remain. They were reliving the moments of joy that we’ve had in the old school… and then they started telling me that now all facilities are available here, but that camaraderie, that x-factor that was there between the students and the teachers, is now missing and asked me to do something about it.
I delved deeper and came to know that very less no of students are taking part in Co-Curricular and Extra –Curricular activities and also there is little or no support from the parents.
Well this is the schools opinion; ask the students and the parents they’ll tell us their version of the story. Still this needs to be addressed and as Alumni of this school, it becomes of us to do so. Well, of course our tenure as students in DAV was not entirely rosy; we have had our share of bad /worse moments as well, but now, when every one of us is on a high in his /her career, the moment we think of DAV, we feel warm at heart. This needs to percolate down and the “ALUMNI CLUB” is one of the ways this is possible.
So, when a lot of people have already been through this what new am I suggesting? You may ask. This is not an oft-repeated general mailer about getting your contacts, making a database and stuff like that. The DAV Alumni Club is going to be a family, with a difference.
No Alumni parties, no activities , no get togethers……then what ???
We will be Mentoring the kids in DAV in whatever way possible. I am sure the people this letter reaches to are currently on the way to achieving excellence in their Career and it is time for us to share and teach this to our young friends in DAV so that it may help them and in the process help us as we grow only by sharing our knowledge .
We have formulated an action plan for this. And enclosed is a format which you are required to fill up and send by email to neelanjandevbharadwaj@gmail.com
Yes. It is a detailed process and will require some of your time, but keep in mind, you are going to be a guide and a mentor to a kid who may go on to win (maybe the Nobel Prize!!) and many such laurels to his/her school, his/her family , his/her nation and more importantly his/her mentor, YOU !!
Please do fill up the enclosed format and send it across to me asap. (ppl viewing it on the blog , please send me an email with your name, phone no and batch details, will mail the format to you !)
We will update you of our first exclusive meetup on our blog – davparivar.blogspot.com
Thanks & Advance wishes for a prosperous Pongal,
Neelanjan Dev Bharadwaj
neelanjandevbharadwaj@gmail.com
AN INTRODUCTION ABOUT MYSELF –
Neelanjan Dev Bharadwaj, a 1999 batch student of DAVPS, graduated from Anna University (Sri Sai Ram Engg College) in 2005. He’s currently with Terex Corporation in their Indian Operations @ Hosur and is pursuing his Masters in Supply Chain Mgmt from AU/IIT-Mumbai.He is a performing Harikatha Artiste and an avid reader.
Welcome
Welcome...... a single word that brings with it a breeze of such warmth that has the miraculous power to change strangers to friends, change "places" to "home".
Welcome to the family. the DAV Parivar. Please find below the mailer that has been circulated to all my available contacts from DAVPS (Erstwhile Cenatoph Road), Now Velachery (Am sorry but i cannot forget the Cenatoph road school)
If you have chanced upon this blog and you have not recieved the mailer, please comment with your contact details, I will send you the registration form.
See you soon with more updates
Neelanjan
Batch-1999
Welcome to the family. the DAV Parivar. Please find below the mailer that has been circulated to all my available contacts from DAVPS (Erstwhile Cenatoph Road), Now Velachery (Am sorry but i cannot forget the Cenatoph road school)
If you have chanced upon this blog and you have not recieved the mailer, please comment with your contact details, I will send you the registration form.
See you soon with more updates
Neelanjan
Batch-1999
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