The Transition Phase: College to Corporate

Roaming around on the streets during late hours, 3 am Maggie at Lamboo’s canteen, weekly pizza party, daily political debates, b’day BPLs, unplanned dhaba visits and the list goes on. All this was just a few months back only and now it has become a part of the unforgettable memories. Undoubtedly, everyone would love to get back in this life, if ever get a chance to do so.

at Grad. tea party (Dress code)

While I am still living in these beautiful memories of the near past, the next chapter of my life has already begun, the corporate life. Almost everybody hate this phase (exceptions excluded) most of the time. Routine life, rules, boundaries, responsibilities, deadlines blah blah. For me the beginning is like this: getting up at 5 am, you will definitely say WTF, 3 hrs travel (to and fro), traffic jams, and above all the refinery smell.

After all this, shaadi to hui nhi abhi, so I need to wash my clothes as well. In college time, nobody gives a shit, whatever you wear or even if you don’t wear- :D, but here, no one will recognize you as an officer without proper attires. I almost sleep like I am dead, in the bus while returning back to home. But the story doesn’t end here, after passing all these hazards, the biggest challenge is still left ‘Khana’. Finally, Mumbai dabbawala is the only option I am left with, so no complaints on that. The phase  of transformation is really difficult to cope with. There is so much excitement right now as it is just the beginning, but anxiety doesn’t let you relax either.

At HP MDI (mandatory dress)

I clearly smell few unusual changes in some personal behaviors as well. Earlier, none of my friend use to complain when I didn’t call them, but now they straightaway start abusing. Even some of them started giving missed calls ‘ab tu kamane lgaa he bey’:P. Parents started asking about holiday plans, home visits and surprisingly sometimes they even talk about some girls they might have lined up for their son.

There are many factors which are contrary in college and corporate life styles. But, as Darwin perfectly quoted ‘The survival of the fittest’, one must acquire certain volatility in this dynamic world or else he wouldn’t be the fittest to survive all the time.

Mahesh Dangi

The New IIT Trauma

How many IIT's do we have right now in the country and how many of them are complying with the motive they were established ? I surely don't know your response, but the answer is very simple and it is the wonderful number 'zero'. I believe you don't need any explanation for this as the fresh QS rankings are released few days back and our media has created a huge fuss about our global standings. So I don't feel any need to prove me right. Since water level above our head was nicely zoomed by the media, but surprisingly they didn't talk about any of the possible reasons behind this, which together making sure that we don't touch the double century mark.

So, what is preventing us from climbing up on the ladder? any guesses! sometimes some overwhelmed or stupid Indians speaks before they could think of the impacts their empty words carry. They keep on promising junta to deliver something out of nothing. While quality and delivery such things doesn't matter or even if they matters we can do nothing about it. For example now a days, IIT has become a commodity. Every new party leader is promising new IITs, like it is very similar to availing half kg more rice to the poor's from the older stock. It almost took 50 long years of consistent efforts to establish the brand 'IIT' and now they started mass production of it without looking into the factors gave it a brand value.

We are still lacking infrastructure, 30% faculty posts are still vacant in the older IITs, even we don't have money to fulfill whatever they just promised. Therefore, the only option left is to name some barren land in outskirts of a city as another new IIT. Then our media as usual starts blowing their horns without getting into the depth of any matter. Whenever we make any policy, the pros and cons are always been discussed in the cabinet sessions. Then why not these promises? At least one should give a thought to his empty words before making them a public promise, 'Bas bandar baant challu'. Building a new campus and name it as another IIT doesn't make it a brand. But, they think allotting some crores rupee fund and a piece of land will suffice the promise. In actual, it takes decades to add values to this brand.
Reference of whatever I mentioned above:
Student-Faculty ratio
Poor Infrasturcture
Infra

May be this is the right time to sit and introspect. We know our global standing and how effort fully we earned it. So, if our bells are still not ringing,  then there is something wrong with us. I know you and me can not contribute very significantly to such matters, we are no bureaucrats. Its them, who need to stop being foolish. Until then, we have the only option to wait and pray 'Bhagwan inko satbuddhi de'. Till the time, lest hope for the best!
Anyway thanks for your time and I need a favor from you, please comment in case you feel to do so.

Mahesh Dangi

One Night Stay At Platform 1

For few months I had an engineering degree, but no job. Since I was not earning and had plenty of time , I can sleep wherever its free of cost with any sort of facilities I can get luckily. Before you imagine me becoming a street beggar, I was healthy and enjoying traveling across various cities these days, but this was not the period when I got this lovey chance of spending a night at a railway platform.

It was later when I visited the holy city of Ujjain to accompany my grandfather for a medical issue, I had this opportunity and it was so empathetic that made me right the whole story . It was around 12 pm, all the cheap places of stay were already flooded and I was low on money, so hotel is left out of the question. We (me and grandpa) finally stopped by the railway station which was the only cheap and available safe place we could find for the night stay.

I was hired by a company by then, so I was also a little worried about my social status in case somebody known would see me sleeping there, luckily that did not happen. One bed sheet and a shawl for two people. Since I never slept on such nice bed, I was not feeling like sleeping. Train engines were buzzing and hauling wagons all the time and I was just rolling and turning sides to get a couple of hours rest.

What you must be thinking is 'What made me call this a lovely chance' ? The platform was flooded with homeless and helpless people. I only spent one single night and that was also under some circumstances, but for these people this platform is the only roof. I immediately realized that, what I was looking at is the quality of life for poor India. This is what made me say it a lovely chance.

Few days later I was in Bombay and passing by Antila (Ambani's home). This time I was trying to imagine the contrast between the two scenarios. 600+  people hired just to serve 2-3 Ambani's in such a massive structure while on the other hand millions don't have a home in the same country. I just went blank and felt lost. Stressed my mind to list down all the causes created this skyscraper difference between quality of life of two different man's in the same country. 

Well, it was a wonderful night. Not physically, but at least added an important experience to my life and another blog to my blogger. But, I still couldn't figure out answer to my own question, 'what has created such a huge difference between the living standards of two human beings living on the same demographic zone ? Hopefully some day I will have an answer and a solution as well for this very important issue nobody even cares.

Mahesh Dangi

Weightlifting: The love of my life

Wherever I go, whoever I met, people always give me a very shocking and epic facial expression when they hear me saying ' I am a Weightlifter' in any part of a conversation. First, they will stare at my body structure from top to bottom and then comes the obvious question with some absurd feeling 'In which weight category did you play’? Under 56 Kg my reply.  They will again give a look to my figure :P 

So, you can believe me 'I am a weightlifter' and it gives me immense pleasure, when I say this line to anyone. Weightlifting gave me name, fame, love and above all 'a proud feeling'.  Whenever I evoke any moment of this glorious life I had, I can not found a single moment of regret. Weightlifting gave me memories, which I will cherish lifelong. Huuh, you might be giggling 'esa kiya kya he iss bande ne'.

Well, I didn't play a single game at national's. It’s just the nature of this game made me so helpless and I couldn't do a thing accept loving it wholeheartedly. Lifting is all about challenging yourselves daily to go more & more heavier. Every time you fail a lift, either the weight fall on you or you fall on it. Terrifying, but makes you stronger bit by bit.  Before you think I am a some kind of bugger wanted to twist my body parts. Well, I am a skilled lifter with decent technique and knowledge about this game. Inter-IIT Gold medalist, bronze in Assam state level and holds two records of Inter-IIT sports meet.

There is a weird saying about lifting 'Most games require one ball, while Weightlifters need two' and why not? First you sweat hard enough at least 3 hours on daily basis, then you will sleep empty stomach, if out of body weight category. Even after doing all this, you have only 6 lifts barely 20 sec per lift to put up a show and if unlucky you may loose because of body weight too. But, there is nothing odd, you are a lifter and it is expected of you.

From the way I explained Weightlifting, you might had a thought by now 'what made me love this game'. Its the nature of this game. I know your response 'Uufff again this same bullshit of nature'. So the actual reasons made me fall in love with Weightlifting are: If you love to be challenged by your own ego all the time, want to taste failure on regular basis, want to check whether you can move your ass out of the barbell fallen on you or not. Above all, if you want to live a regret free life, you are welcome to lifting, Weightlifting. But, do check that you have got the required number of balls before committing to become a lifter.

As it says 'the price of victory is high but so are the rewards'. This game will not disappoint you ever. It will always remind you 'either you can be below the barbell or on the top of this world'. I was so lucky to be rescued by my beloved team mates whenever I was trapped below the barbell I worshiped. Probably that is another hilarious record I am holding unofficially across IIT's. I am so thankful to each and everyone who accompanied me in all these moments of madness.

                                                 The moments of pride  
Mahesh Dangi
Links to some of the team videos:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116948288230284532859/posts 

Dramatic women empowerment

It seems like 'women empowerment' phrase has also lost election. I repeatedly heard these quoted words in Rahul baba's speech. But, his women empowerment strategy failed and people chose a more political pragmatic hero over him. I just hoped that time that may be this new Govt may find some strategy to abolish this virtual woman empowerment politics in coming days and 'accha din will come'.

Its been two months now and I am still reading the same news headlines repeatedly. Not pointing to any specific incident, but at least more than 100 major cases of rape, harassment have been reported so far by nationalized media. In earlier days people at least used to protest against UPA in all these cases, but now they don't. They might be feeling shame in doing the same as they choose their favorites themselves. People say previous govt was biased and driven by someone else, so they didn't take any corrective decisions and they were unworthy. But, now who is driving whom. Why Modi is so silent over all these issues.

I always present my viewpoint which is 'people are failing to cope up with this transition phase of westernization, especially in Rural India'. Though, adaptation comes slowly, but can we accept this women empowerment phase currently we are in . What about these terrifying and inhuman activities ruining lives of thousands of woman's . Gradually we are becoming resistive to these satanic things happening around us.

Our representatives visiting other countries, building strong relationship with the rest of the world. What about the relationship our society building with women's. Who will define it. We are getting more hi tech weapons, fighting jets, submarines to secure our premises. Who will secure our inner core. Women empowerment has just become a political drama,  we are only getting sympathy and false promises from these so called Netaa's. There are many other social issues accelerating these days. Collectively they all eating our cultural values, our social status is degrading. We are only strengthening ourselves from outside, but the growth of this inner cavity is just unstoppable.

I am neither a politician nor a social activist, but I just can't quit myself on all this. I can't feel the pride of being an Indian anymore. Its fading gradually and eventually it will vanish, if we don't draw our focus on these inhuman acts and put them on utmost priority. I still just hope that somebody will borrow Harry's wand and fix it soon.

Mahesh Dangi

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Search for STP

Where do I begin and how. It's so confusing, but anyway, I am committed to give it a try. Let's begin with good happenings, India won a 'gold' in Weightlifting ( man's under 56 kg). You must be murmuring, WTF, how it is related to me. are you ? that's another story, I will write on it some other day. Lemme get back to current scenario, I just visited Delhi, Mumbai, Guwahati, Bhopal, Indore, Guwahati again and now back to Mumbai. You might be thinking, I am on some business tour or may be I am a Monk exploring India :P. FYI,  I am none of them, but yeah I am also searching for inner peace of my mind like monks. Graduated a couple of months back from one of the premier institute in India, I must be enjoying my free time at home according to peoples and why not ? after all I am no ordinary guy, many uncles around me think and emphasize on this line. I also imagined that way sometime back in may-june'10, but things changes with time and you know it all.

Enough of this shit, yeah ! you must be thinking what is this STP bullshit. Well, its a term for peace in terms of Chemical Engineering. You are confused or may be putting little extra pressure on your nerve hmmmm. First Weightlifting then Tour de India, some random lines and now Engineering.  Before you close this tab I must relieve your confusion, so it is all started like this. 'Nothing can get straight to me', one of my friend always used to say this to me and he is not judgmental.

December 2013 did not get a core job in campus and IT sector? ohh I rejected them. Suddenly GATE result and huuh got a confusing rank then this tour de India in search of peace (core job) ha ha. Private firms reject me saying I wont stay there for long and PSU's say we don't need iitians. Good communication skills, extra folded brain, huge practicality..blah blah. They don't need all this ohh yeah, they need a high GATE score and I never bothered about it. Actually I never gave it a thought while I was in there (IIT).

(STP- Standard Temperature and Pressure for any system. At this condition system remains at normal atmospheric condition, a sort of desirable condition for some particular systems)

 

So here I am, still searching for the STP and of course making you read this frustrating story of mine. Anyway, since you got here let me say thank you for reading this STP bullshit of mine. This is my first ever blog, so please don't mind suggesting me all that you had in mind while scrolling this page down. 

Mahesh Dangi