The IIFT Result Day

Well , like any other holiday, today was also a fairly dull day. I was languorously sifting through the newspaper when Tushar called me up. He told me IIFT result was out. Suddenly I felt my skin crawling. The drudgery and monotinity of the day would be broken up in such a manner was totally unexpected. As soon as I hung up the phone I immediately logged on and entered the link. Here opens the home page of the site in a flash. I heard myself speaking peevishly “Damn it !!! why the hell it has opened so fast ? Couldn’t it have taken some more time. Maybe hours or days even “. But yeah the fact was the page has opened up and had the link displaying results emblazoned right on the page. As soon as I clicked the link a PDF opened up . “ Why is the net working so fast today ? “ I quipped. Then I went to the search and entered my name. ‘ 0 Results Found !’ was scrawled across the screen.

My heart sank. It skipped a few beats. And suddenly the whole world was spinning around me. Still with a ‘ Never Say Die ‘ bravado I got up wrenched out the IIFT card from the file and came back to the result page. This time I entered my Roll No. in the search box. But to my horror the result was same. Now I found myself fecklessly trawling the list as if my name would conjure up miraculously. Then I heard a voice “Yash this is not a movie going on . Welcome to the real world !! And the truth is you have been nudged out by your competitors (most of whom i dont evn knw) “ . I winced. “Truth is so brutal , After so much of hard work how could the result be so unfavourable. I constantly was among one of the toppers in the AIMCATs “. I thought .’ I bungled up in CAT and now in IIFT too.’

I wanted to cry but couldn’t. May be a screw-up in engineering entrance exams and two failed intial job interviews made a man out of a boy. But still I told myself ‘ Mr. Yash Vardhan you need to concentrate on the destination . The paths could be different. But the destination has to be the same. ‘ What if 1 path is closed many others are still open.” Don’t know if it was truth or a yet again failed attempt to pep up my sagging mood. And then I slept.

What followed since I woke up from an invigorating slumber at 9 pm was even worse. There was a deluge of commiserative remarks.

“ Koi nahi beta ! We know you worked hard “

“ Chalta hai !!!”

“Sill lot to come “

Etc. etc. I wanted to shout at them on top of my voice and say please stop it but cudn’t . I didn’t want to deprive them of this at least.

Now here I am, shaken a bit , but yeah pretty fine,optimistic(as ever ) and yeah I still stand by what I have always believed……..

“ Whatever god does it does for your own sake!!!!”

Netagiri ( Part - 2)

(Part 1 just below this)

Patil Sr. : ( A Well-Dressed Man indeed :P ) Sir seriously if there is one thing of yours which I would like to imitate it has to be your finicky attitude towards dressing up properly. A Home Minister couldn’t have been more ‘homely’. One who has such an eclectic style of dressing and has got a dress for almost every occasion. A man who has the audacity to brag about the sheer number of dresses he has . . .You know sir we GenX are very upset that you have stepped down after all you were keeping us updated on the latest dressing styles. Look at the mesmerising influence sir even the terrorists were in Cargos and Jeans ( pun intended)

Patil Jr.: ( Jupiter – Vaasi) The moment you dubbed it as ‘ Choti Ghatna’ I racked up my brain to think of where else are such incidents pigeonholed into ‘ Choti Ghatna’ types. But to my dismay couldn’t even find one. This led me to conclude that you might have been referring to Jupiter as given its gigantic size such incidents could there be an order of the day. Sir, even if we ignore the death toll for a sec an incident claiming a loss of whopping Rs. 50,000 crores (both tangibles and intangibles) can't be a 'Chota' one. And if you still stand by your stantement I wonder if Mr.Clean is really that clean....

Mr. Big Name : ( No-Entry Plzzz) Sir this isn’t right …You can’t take the credit from the municipalities this way. They toil around so hard to catch dogs and you are saying that the reason that dogs don’t stray around is that there is a dearth of a martyr. Kya sir aapse yeh umeed nahi thi …

( To be Continued ……..)

Netagiri ( Part- 1 )

(Disclaimer : - On literary front this is undoubtedly one of the worst pieces ever written by me. As suggested by my friends I have trimmed down the language thing so that ‘manoos’ ( I know Mr.Raj you are all ears !!) could easily comprehend it.
Well guys there is nothing much to comprehend in it . The article is nothing but a result of an idle brain.... full of Hindi slangs n netagiri…Not to be taken seriously …Written in a lighter vein …blah..blah ..blah…So guys if you are more waela than me ….i wud say …..Go ahead !!! )

Mr. Raj : ( Man(h)oos ...errr!!! ) He undisputedly figures 1^st on the list after all he considers himself the First Mumbai manoos or manoo (wateve )………..Sir I know, had u not been'falsely' implicated in a case u wud hv surely given those on war a tough time ( Cmon….NSG and MARCOS would have had a tough time handling him not the terrorists). Sir but atleast you could have sent your all eager ‘sena’ to serve Mumbaikars. Why take help from 200 NSGs from Delhi after all they are not the Mumbai Manoos.? When your Sena can tackle lakhs of non-mumbaikars living out there then why not 10 terrorists ?

Naqvi Sahab : (Kya karoon poora naam nahi pata. Pehle to yeh bhi nahi pata tha :P )

Wow !!! Sir you have just found a novel way to hog the limelight. And why not ? When everyone in your fraternity is looking for an excuse to satiate the hunger of interview–mongers then why should you remain behind.. Sir but one thing which somehow zaps me is that our all so ‘respected’ neta was concentrating more on the facial makeup of women than on the carnage out there. Nahi sir yeh achi baat hai……Infact you are a terrific observer indeed…..Sir I usually find girls bemused when it comes to applying make-up (as they have so many shades to choose from ) Hope you could be a great help to them……Sir social service bhi ho jaegi ……lolz

Arjun Ji : ( mujhse quOTA le lo pOTA nahi ) Sir the fervour with which you push for quotas is amazing... So why don't you do something for the other ‘ota’ too? …. This way not only you will revamp your enormously tarnished image but also stand a chance to become our next PM (yahi to aapka sapna hai na ). I know u might argue that POTA doesnt come under your domain , but sir have you ever remained confined to your domain only ?

( Part - 2 uploaded above )