I Remember ...

Nice to know about your social aspect Shri. Great work.

I know you will keep that good spirit always up. It would be my pleasure to join your team too.
Yes your ideas are good and feasible. We'll talk about that and proceed as soon as possible. In fact, Ashish and me had a talk on the similar subject and on the same night, while having late night ( may be very late) supper after our meet eve was over. ( Maybe with slowed tongues)

Well, I think that we should start with our friends first. Helping somebody is not always and should not be always in monetary terms. Along with that what we can do is to set up a forum where we can find out about how we can leverage everybody's potential to give hand to anybody else. With due respect to your suggestions, lets think on this as well. After all, charity begins at home!!

Well my dear friends, we were talking about Mr. Nagure. Do you remember he used to say ' Te mulag' for ' That boy' ? In mind he intend to say ' To Mulgaa" but would end with saying ' Te mulag'. Not ' aa' at the end but a silent ' g'. Remember? Ah.. i cannot explain further with letters.

And remember him teaching us ' Pyramus and Thisbie' ? Oh god, he thought that it was the only lesson to teach in an academic year and so continued to do so for a very long time.

Remember another english teacher Mr. Ranvir? Used to always shout ' John F Kennedy aaplya bhashnamadhe mhanala .... well, Kay mhanala kunas thauk. He never told that very clear. And he would pronounce ' Jaan' for ' John' and ' kyannedy' for ' kennedy'. Ha Ha Ha !!

Dear friends its a Monday morning so i have to stop here. I have already received a couple of suspicious, staring glances coming tangential to upper border of my monitor, from my dear wife.

' Tangential ? ' ' A Tangent ?' Can you define a tangent now Mr. Vipul Sagre? Mr. Parulekar?
Menon ? Tatpathi?
Come on guys you are the favorite ones of Mr. Pethe and you have to keep him thinking so.

To be continued .....

GuruDakshina

Hello Dileep,

Congratulations for creating this blog. For the past 25 years, we never had a thought of doing this. How badly we missed you.

Thank you for understanding our contribution. Frankly, its simple policies that make a big difference.

Over the past few years, I have tried recollect good old memories just by the sight of people who resembled my dear ones. To give a small example, I once searched for Shilpaja Pungaokar, when I saw a teenager who was her complete lookalike!

I also made it a point to visit every single friend who called me on my phone; that’s when they visited cities where I worked, be it Mumbai, Pune, Nasik and now, Goa.

Today, I'm returning from a hostel for street children in Kolhapur and am emotionally charged after meeting this 5year girl, Bhagyashree. Probably named because she had been lucky.

Two years back, our friend Rajesh and I were returning back home after a jog at the Shivaji University campus. We came across this insane woman who was moving around with her child. Realizing the emergency situation of an infant at the hands of this helpless woman; we immediately swung into action and sent her to this hostel.

What I realised later, was that this task took us over a few months to implement. The people involved in helping were not Rajesh and me, but Rajesh, his friend from Police Dept., my earlier Boss, who was a Director at The Times of India group, HRH Malojiraje, my cousin of Sakal Papers, Resident Manager at Radio Mirchi Kolhapur, a few NGO's, Leena Menon etc. to name a few. The list is long, I don't want to publicize, but what I intend to point out, is, 'Team effort '.

Remember, our 'we are like that only ' attitude should be long time forgotten.

I wish to now draw your attention on our first ever Meet in 25years. Though not the first, for some few of us. Ashish Mutha , Jabeen, Satish Naik, Poornima and Rajesh were the first ones to add inertia to our present circle of friends.

Let us now utilize our friendship to get back to those teachers from our College and try to help them (not the private tuition teachers), maybe through contribution to Staff welfare fund. We can even use our good work to employ the children of the Peon's of our College. We can get our children to plant tree saplings in our Campus.

Any more ideas? Do let me know.

Or, how do we start implementing the 3 points that I mentioned above!

I Remember ...

Thanks Pornima. You set a very wide counter to pick the gems of memories from.

Well, i remember every little thing. The only thing stopping me from putting all those in a one go, is a length of one post. It would certainly make some of our friends feel like tired while reading such a long post. So what would i do that i will break those memories in singles and start posting one by one. This will please our friends. It will keep inviting them to our blog regularly as well.

Alright friends, I remember the tiny but beautiful building of our college. In fact it became beautiful in our minds later on. Wasn't appealing at the time when we were there with our parents to seek admission. I remember the nice little entrance from main road too.

And I remember the very first day of our college. Colorful crowd, ecstasy on everybody's face, little anxiety, more enthusiasm. Groups formed at the small open space adjacent to our college building. Boys and girls greeting their schoolmates who joined the same college. Surprisingly, i didn't enjoy and hence may be do not remember other higher education institution's first day.

There were two groups mainly. Boys and girls who came from English medium schools like st. Xavier and Holy cross and others who came from Marathi medium schools. I have no idea about how and when girls were mixed up with each other but I remember that Xavier guys showed a spirit and broad mind to absorb the Marathi medium friends then. Thanks to them. That relieved either a' nincompoop' in shy, reserved boys or a' prejudice' in bold, extrovert boys who were from Marathi medium. Marathi medium boys on the other hand too, showed a noble mind to absorb Xavier guys as well.

Remember the word ' nincompoop' ? Mr. Nagure teaching us the fourth lesson in our English textbook with this word as a title? Remember him saying ' Conjurer' in a typical fashion while teaching another lesson? Ah ... don't strain too much. Just enjoy. There is much more to come.

To be continued ....

What do you remember about New College?

Hi guys...Yeah.. it has been 25 years already...Even though we think that how can I remember something that existed 25 years back, we still do. Scientists say that our brain connects a particular memory to each thing in our life. so What exactly u remember about New College?

U have to be honest about it...The first thing you remember when you were in 11th & 12th in new college...!

Let me start with myself..When I think of New college..11th & 12th Science..I remember the time 10.45am on our practical days..I hated Chemistry practs, I also hated our college open on Sundays...I still don't know why I was there coz see where I am ended now... he he he...!!

Please do share your memory.

Where Time Stopped

Dear Friends,

The meet eve was very delightful, refreshing and as memorable as the countless memories of our college days. Yes, i can understand that 25 years is a very big span of time and that would certainly leave its impressions on our memories. But when everyone of us entered the hall and met with the old and dear friends of his or her, time had to honor one's feelings and apparently almost stopped. Going further, I would say, time also cashed the opportunity to refresh and hence enjoy the memories of its own.
We must thank very sincerely to Jabin, Pournima and Aashish for their consistent efforts to make the meets like this happen very successfully. Special thanks to Shriprasad with these guys for his regular and very keen follow up. Thanks to those all who have directly or indirectly contributed to make this event happen. Keep it up guys.Good going.
And thank you very much for each of us who irrespective of his or her busy time,attended the meet and graced the occasion. Thanks guys. Those, who couldn't attend the event, unwillingly though, please spare a day for next one.
Hey guys, this blog is for all of us. And there is a keen request from all of us that one should follow the discipline while posting on the blog and maintain the decorum. So please cooperate to keep the good momentum going which we ourselves have started for the betterment of ours only.
Thanks again friends. Keep in touch. God bless you all.!!!