NITH to POWERGRID

The road connecting college to the corporate world is tiresome but once you reach the gates of your would be office on the first day, the sheer joy of a new beginning overcomes all the hardships you had to face to reach here. While shifting from home to the corporate centre, though the traveler bag you carry is the same which you carried to your college last winters just that the jeans and tees get replaced by formals. Also, now in the absence of friends to share the baggage you have to hire a coolie.
The grass definitely is greener here but you would long to go back to those moonlit summer nights, taking a stroll along the green college ground. The lectures which seemed so repetitive and boring become significant here. Sometimes one feels guilty of not listening to our technical guardians. A classroom full of life, fun and knowledge when converts into a cubical too small to fit in, it feels like running back to the comfortable confines of the college life with same old friends, teachers, campus and hostel life.
The guy sitting next to you is not thinking “Shaam ko main aur Pandu geedi marne jayenge”, but he is keenly assessing your weaknesses, thinking of ways and means to lead you in the rat race. One realizes upon spending ones salary now, that the stuff you so freely handed out to Nescafe, Verka, Juice Bar and Ekta, was not paper but your fathers hard earned money.

From Kapil General Store to Shopping malls,
From Nescafe to café coffee day,
From Verka to Mc Donalds,
From sleeping ‘Mirpur to sleepless Delhi,
From caring friends to competing foes,
From friends who were girls to Girl friends,
From kind teachers to cruel bosses,
From mess food to messy food,
From LIFE to a LIVING.

The transformation has been wonderful.