Dear Sarah
Some times you will wonder - How/Why the hell did my Papa get into this CAT coaching arena ?
Then - look at this board from my school ..
1994 A Grad ( was my school mentor ) 1996 A Grad( is my closest of friends ) 1999 A Grad ( i helped in mentoring him a little bit )
Half a Dozen school topper B C grads in the 6 batches our batch had an impact on..3 ISB Grads... mentored by Nikhil uncle Amit Uncle and Mayukh uncle who - by the way seems to have accumulated more degrees than all 3 of us combined :D
And there were many who never made the board but are titans in their field.. Chetan Bihani - SP JAIN ( probably the only ISC guy that year to score 6 perfect 90s and still get pipped to the post! .. Monojit Banerjee - C Bhavya Shah - FMS..Saptarshi - L Manraj Jubal - C
And yet one man walked the halls of SJC who towered above all the above like a Giant and we could only hope to look at the benchmarks he set us and never emulate them ..
The only man I have known who could whack a cricket ball out of the park , draw a perfect eye diagram , manage a music band , rock the stage with mesmerising oratory and make the girls swoon - all in the course of a single day :) - while at the same time breathing on the heels of the academic toppers of his batch... He did not chase the IITs.. but lectures there now ...
Did I have a choice ?
GBS was correct .
Those who can - Do !!
Those who cant - Teach !!
:)
P.S. Please note the name Anindya Banerjee (1995 ) . He was in our class in Class 2 ( late entry ) but then was bumped up with a double promotion .. Would have been interesting in our ICSE Boards/ ISC Boards if he had been in our batch. My name may not have been in the pic below .. Sometimes a part of what we achieve is Destiny!
P.P.S.. -- Look at 2002 of the JOY Pic - Your Chachu was a hot favourite that year and he lost to somebody I had mentored for some time as my House member.. There is something called a Butterfly Effect :)
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