May 13, 2007

Today, three very new and unusual things happened
Annual function of Soka Gakkai at Seminar Hall, IITD
A clip about IITians
The movie called ' Namesake'

Talking by the order, first unusual thing happened unusually. I went to institute for BSW workshop and some other work. Nothing happened of my work. I just saw, there was a great rush outside seminar hall and I went to help desk and asked whether I can enter. I got permission somehow with the condition of not telling other boys. I was instructed to move to on the first floor and reason was of my being young. Believe me, First time I felt young at that moment. After that, chanting started by some women and girls. It was an annual meet of a group called Bharat Soka Gakkai that means creating values. There were four stories told.

The first one was of a young man getting victory after financial crisis with the help of
chanting and struggles.

Another one was of a girl of DPS poor in study but still struggling and helping her two blind classmates and finally passing 12th, getting gold medal and becoming nursery teacher in DPS.

The third one was of a mother and her daughter not having good relationship with her husband. She started to taking care of her daughter independently without any help from her husband. Her daughter wanted to go abroad to study but could not go due to health problems of her father. In that period of her father's illness, she and her mother developed good relations with her father again. Now, her father is also right, relations also have more love and she has got letter from 2 no. university in US.

The last one was of a women struggling with cancer and finally with the help of chanting and techniques given by this organisation, she has now been able to throw out 90% of her cancer.

I was really impressed by the love, joy, hope, faith, happiness residing in everybody there. Today is mother's day also. There were some examples of mother's devotion towards her child. It brought me in the stage to think about purpose of life and my path that i am following today. My thinking seemed very small today.



The second unusual thing was watching a clip 'about IITians' . I had seen it a year back but now, it seemed to me very fresh and making me realise about the potential of IITians and also the responsibility. I thought whatever I am studying is going to waste because I was just mugging without having any particular motive. I would like to quote few lines of N.R. Narayanmurthy - " It is easy to lose hope in this country. It is very easy to set your aspirations low in this country. But amidst all this, this competition among high quality students, this institute, IIT set your aspirations much higher."



And the third thing was watching a movie ' Namesake'. It was a wonderful movie by Mira Nair casted by splendid performance of Tabu and Irfan Khan. It really tells about the parents dedication to their child. Gogol is the name of Irfan khan's son that he gave after his ideal author named Gogol.