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Memories of the Mighty Heart

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4th from top left - Manmeet Singh Vig (1979-1998) People often ask me whether I smoke or drink. Whatever answer I give, it never seem to satisfy any of them. I am often being called as occasional liar due to this. I would take an opportunity to answer the question in this blog. As I have mentioned in my introduction that I never had any role model in my life but always make a point to learn from experiences and success stories of people around me. I met one such person in my life whose goodness had a lasting effect in my life. His name was Manmeet Singh Vig . For Manmeet life was like a never ending journey who would bend the rules for sake of his friends. He was funny, talkative, mischievous, career oriented, experimental and someone who likes to live life on the edge. I knew Manmeet right from std-1 till the std X. I saw him grow along me. He was always the funny bone in the class...
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When life comes full circle

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One of the most exciting part of school life were the annual functions. Boys and girls practiced with enthusiasm for the dances, plays and other activities related to annual function. Students would get special consideration for not attending the lectures of teachers while practicing away. Some students who were not interested in attending lectures would often take advantage of this rule to bunk classes. It was 9th grade the final year where we were allowed to have fun unlimited as the next year was the most important year in everyones life. I was always interested in acting in theatre as I was involved in making lots of plays in my colony during different functions. There was a play called “Apan doghe bhramchari” (we both are bachelors) which was in making. Our class teacher Mrs. Vibha was involved in all aspects of making of this play. I always dreamt of acting in school play and this was my last chance to do so. On hearing of Mrs. Vibha directing the play I was ecstatic ...
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STD IX - Election time

As we stepped in 9th grade in 1994 our batch was given the responsibility of maintaining the school discipline. Yes it was time for elections and selection of new ministers. The seniors term ended as they stepped in 10th grade. It was election time, it was time for campaigning. The curiosity began with who all are contesting for the elections. The best chance for any canadite was to earn respect from all the peers in whatever he does. If he excels in studies and other activities would be considered as an additional benefit. One such canadite and everyones favourite was Nripen Sharma . He was clearly the runner for winning the title. Other contender from our class A was Narendra shenoy . He too was a honest guy with back up of good academics. There were couple of girls who were in the running for the post. But since they were in minority as compared to guys no one gave them any chance. The next strategy was to get supporters from fellow peers who would campaign along with them in differ...
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FEVER THE SAVIOR

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It was in spring of 94 that we got an opportunity face the music of the real bad world. During the summer vacations in 94 myself, Atul, Narendra, Sameer, Tejas and Vikas went cycling on yeour mountains in an attempt to go past the hill directly to Sanjay Gandhi national park and moving on to borivili. After lot of unsuccessful trials and returning midway back to thane we achieved the impossible and decided that we would go on the same trial in winter vacations. As usual we decided to assemble in my house early morning at 7.00am and then proceed towards yeour since I stay close to yeour as compared to anyone in our group. We were 7 of us and we had 6 cycles. It was but obvious that one would be accompanying other on single bicycle. The day before we left was my birthday. My dad gifted me with a timex –marlin watch - a watch that I always dreamt of wearing at that point of time. Later in the night I was down with fever. I took all possible medications and went to sleep- hoping for the ...
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Std viii- Love is in the air

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In the rainy season of 1993 as we progressed from Std 7 to Std 8 there was a feeling like entering into adulthood. We no longer had to wear half pants. We all stitched trousers having latest fashion at that point of time. I went for baggy fittings. The class was new, teachers were new, syllabus was new except for friends. Since we all looked different in our trousers it was not the same for girls, which was quite disappointing. There was a general feeling amongst boys that we are now matured and are able to take our own decisions. Most of them started taking decisions. Not about the careers they wanna pursue but which girl they would go for. Almost 90% of them had identified their crushes and started plotting ways to woo them. Most of the boys having crushes on girls were well known hence we all teased & embarrass them in front of the girls during the moral science classes. Love was really in the air . Since almost all had their crushes finalized how can chintu be left behind. Ther...
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