It was a very fast 2008 with a lot of good and bad events around me !!
Expecting 2009 to be a peaceful and a prosperous year for me, for the country and the rest of the world.
I have a certain evergreen list of wishes, which I 'wish' happens every year and I am not going to change my wish list this year too.
And my wishes to you so that your wishes come true in 2009.
Wishing everyone a G R E A T Year Ahead.
Hey Algae.. What is it Pragyan? inquired Ganesh on gmail as I had my Status message as Pragyan 2009.
Since its holiday time, I have loads of time to read blogs, to write blogs, and besides other things, to keep in touch with old friends.
Our Tech Fest.... I replied.
Reminds me of my college days, continued Ganesh, an 2008 pass-out of a prestigious private college in Tamil Nadu. I was a part of the Guest Lecture Team in my college Techfest. Our techfest meant more to us than anything else.
I could see this guy lost in his old days. I could feel the pride in his eyes.
Have a Look at the Pragyan 2009 website, I said as I typed www.pragyan.org
After a few minutes,
Hey, Do you people outsource this website work? asked Ganesh.
Now, It was my turn to feel proud. It was the time to declare with a smiley that it was our Techfest. OURS. We did every bit of it ourselves. The posters. The Website. The Videos. Everything. And we did it like professionals. I didn't say much.
All I said was, we do it on our own. :-) In fact, even I'm partly involved in it.
Oh! So you did it? he was surprised.
Not just me. We work as a big team. Almost every NITTian is involved in the organization of Pragyan.
He wasn't in a mood to project his techfest as something cooler than what Pragyan is. So he continued with the plain truth, Ah, Well... We used to outsource our website work. Even now I guess it is outsourced.
A sense of satisfaction replaced the feeling of pride. I felt more happy than proud to be a part of a culture which believed in the true meaning of a student fest. Students should make it work. The culture of Pragyan. Celebration of Technology..!!
Thats when the proud, satisfied and happy heart of mine wanted to shout - NITT Rocks...!!
PS - Links to the sites.
Pragyan Website
Pragyan Blog
The recent terror attacks in Mumbai and severe floods in Chennai demonstrated the fact that our government is sleeping. It is events such as these which wake these people up and take notice of the lack of infrastructure and equipment to tackle such crises.
As far as Chennai is concerned, this was probably the worst rains the city has witnessed in the recent past. Traffic in this metropolis came to a standstill with many of the roads under knee-deep water following the rains under the influence of the cyclone which had been named 'NISHA'.
The roads are flooded, bus stands paralysed, buses damaged, vehicles stranded, houses flooded, people taking refuge in schools, traffic jams, crops drowned, milk shortage, vegetables rotting, schools closed for five consecutive days probably for the first time in state history, exams postponed, rail service hit,reservoirs seepage, reservoirs flooding.
Every year in the rainy season we face problems and it seems the problems are increasing every year. The government has failed miserably in maintaining it's drainage and seepage systems and has taken no care to pursue proper cleaning of canals and Coovam this year too.
Almost all the cities of the country lack proper civic structures such as drainage systems and proper roads.
Amidst all the commotion, it was the Indian Army which stood out as the true heroes of the country. Whether it was Mumbai or Chennai, it was the army which helped restore normalcy.
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