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जबरदस्त व्यक्तिमत्व. आमच्या श्रुतीने तिच्या सुमधुर आवाजात त्याची ओळख करून दिली, अप्रतिम, प्रसिद्ध, तरुण, भारदस्त व्यक्ती RJ संग्राम.. सगळ्या नवीन प्रवेश घेतलेल्या विद्यार्थ्यांना पर्वणीच होती आज. संग्राम ने आज पर्यंत अनेक शिखरं स्व कर्तृत्वाने पार केली आहेत, अनेक पुरस्कार हि मिळवले आहेत. तर अशा संग्राम ची रणधुमाळी सुरु झालेलं एका प्रश्नाने. त्याने विचारलं सर्व श्रोत्यांना कि असा कुठला प्रश्न तुम्हा सर्वांना अजून अनुत्तरित आहे, किंबहुना शाळेत ह्या बद्दल शिकवलंच गेले नाही. ताबडतोब उत्तरांची सरबत्ती सुरु झालीच. हि नवीन विद्यार्थ्यांची पिढी फारच हुशार आहेच, पटापट विविध उत्तर दिली हि पण संग्राम नी सगळीच खोडून काढली, हशा पिकवला, भन्नाट मराठीत त्याच वाकचातुर्य दाखवून दिल. हार्डवर्ड विश्वविद्यालयात संशोधन झालेली एक महत्वाची गोष्ट हि सांगितली ज्यात प्रत्येकाचा आनंद कसा महत्वाचं आहे, किंवा प्रत्येकाने आनंदाने राहणे कस गरजेचं आहे हे समजावून सांगितलं. माणूस आणि जनावरतील फरक काय आहे हे हि विचारलं सगळ्यांना. सगळयांनी उस्फुर्तपणे भाग घेतला आणि भरभरून उत्तरे दिली. प्रचंड आणि विविधांगी वाचन आहे संग्रामच, स्पष्ट दिसत होत.

असा आठवणीत साठवण्यासारखा दिवस होता आज संग्राम मुळे आणि अर्थातच SIT ची अविरत काम करणारी चमू, ज्यांच्या मुळेच आम्हा सर्वांना संग्राम ला पाहता आणि ऐकता आलं. असा असावा Induction चा एक दिवस, भन्नाट.

धून बदलके तो देखो...

Yes, we hear this uniquely sung tagline by BigFM singers at our Pune Radio Stations everyday. The stress on the word Dhun is out of this world, and fills the day with sparkles. The rock-solid idea behind this tag line is by RJ Sangram. For me, he is the eminent personality and great RJ, his voice, his spontaneous talks / chats are good to listen, for self-motivation and they are energetic, for sure. I meet him everyday on air, virtually, and today I got a chance to see him live at my Symbiosis. Loved it. Sharing space along with all aspiring engineering youngsters gave me a feeling of being young and “cherry on cake” was presence of Sangram amongst us. He came and he conquered... Experienced more than an hour of interactions only, heard thoughts of young minds and students participation was really mesmerizing. He initiated the discussion with a simple question for the audience including students, staff, faculty members etc. Rather his theme for today’s talk was about a question, that question which everyone felt important in their lives and was remained unanswered since the school days. He asked to shoot the answers about “Which is that one question which everyone felt the need that school should have covered, focused and discussed etc.?”. And the floor was filled with varied answers by students at large. It was really hilarious, entertaining as well as learning experience and we were waiting for the right answer from Sangram. The answers ranged from respect, love, passion, satisfaction and what not. He was really on fire, using great mix of typical Marathi and English, not only language per say but the references from literature, looks like he is a vivacious reader. Next question from him in the series was “whats the difference between human beings and animals?” again there was a heap / mountain of answers from participants. He then narrated one of the most useful case studies from the Hardvard University, which involved collection and monitoring of behaviour and data for a year from three categories of partakers, a group of members who were the winners of lottery or alike, the second group of members who met with a fatal incidence and the last once was termed as control group who neither were winners of lottery nor they met with fatal incidence, normal people. The study was about happiness from all these three groups and he quoted the actual figures too.

Overall mix of questions, interactions, laughter, importance of push-ups, focus on meaning of students names (very interesting side observed), and finally the take away was utmost importance of happiness in one’s life, always, no matter what the situation is. What a day, to listen to him live, really a thoughtfully designed induction program indeed by induction-team and marketing-team members of my SIT. His presence added colors for sure, and made a difference too, in my life and in freshers too.

लगोरी....

तर आज काय झालं कि माझा आजचा कामाचा दिवस होता, सुट्टी नव्हती. त्यामुळे मी नेहेमी प्रमाणे उठले, दूध भाजी आणि बाकी स्वयंपाकाची तय्यारी करून ठेवली आणि व्यायाम करायला सुरवात केली. तेवढ्यातच आमच्या मावशी आल्या. व्यायाम आटोपला कि मग मी सगळ्यांसाठी चहा केला. आंघोळीचं पाणी पण गरम केलं,घडाळ्याकडे लक्ष हि होत माझं. मला दिसत होत ७.४० मिनिटे झाली आहेत, तरीही मी आपली आरामात फक्त बसले होते, मावशींशी, वेदशी गप्पा मारत होते. ७. ४६ मिनिटांनी अचानक लक्षात आले कि मी काय बसले आहे, आज मला कचेरीत जायचे आहे, आणि मग जी तारांबळ उडाली म्हणून सांगते, देवा. माझं आवरलं नव्हतं, डब्बा भरला नव्हता, अचानक गडबड झाली. दोन तांबे कस्से तरी ओतले आणि झटकीपट तय्यार झाले एकदाची. पाहते तर काय माझा डब्बा भरून तय्यार होता. मी तो तस्साच उचलला आणि वेळेत पोचले कचेरीत. आज मीटिंग मुळे जेव्हा २. १५ मिनिटाने जेव्हा डब्बा उघडला तेव्हा मी उडालेच. इतका व्यवस्थित भरला होता तो, टचकिनी ओलावलेच डोळे. अगदी आई भरते ना डब्बा तस्सा. मला नं, का कुणास ठाऊक, पण, काही तरी कुडुम लागतं तोंडी लावायला. तेही दिल होत. कित्ती लक्ष ठेवतात बघा मावशी. आणि डोळे भरून येण्याचं कारण म्हणजे न सांगता त्यांनी डब्बा भरला. अहाहा. सहीच. लोणचं, चिवडे (दोन प्रकारचे), पोळी भाजी, काकडी,आणि न्याहारी सुद्धा, मोठी लगोरीच जणू (डब्ब्यांची).

खूप मज्जा आली.

Narendra Rahul...

 Narendra Rahul is the name of a newly admitted student at business school, I met him yesterday and started feeling awesome about him starting from listening to his name.

He is an engineer from E&TC branch, passed out from Vishakapattanam. His first love is mimicry, he started doing it from 8th standard it seems and already completed 175 shows successfully till date. RJ was his another passion and profession, worked for 3 years successfully already. He is one of the successful entrepreneur and elected / serving as innovation-chairman for AP Government. His venture is to grow 25 plants on palm size place / kind of vertical gardening ("one of its kind" gardening without soil and completely driven via mobile app,with recycled water etc.) and he is supplying exotic vegetables daily in kgs to Taj group of hotels. Winner of international level award and having patents already on his name. He is into business related to honeybees too and next week launching special tissue papers having seeds in it, so that if someone will throw it after use, will not go waste. He is into tree-plantation drives too.

He is a passionate trekker, cooks authentic south Indian food and planning to start a production of special vegetable which will not only heal the fracture naturally but prevent / give strength to bones naturally.

From next semester onwards he is planning to conduct uniform measurements for all new entrants in his college within 30 seconds per student using laser technology concept, going for patent on it too. As of now the students need to wait for long time in queue for giving measurements and this may remove the gender specific issues while taking measurements. OMG. And there are so many other ventures he talked about.

And yeah extremely important, he takes interns every year and to my surprise engineering colleges from AP pay him / his company money to give internship to their students. Never ever heard of this unique concept before. Shocked to listen to everything, really. God bless him always.