Before i go on and start my rumblings about the few MBA information which i gathered in my entire life, I should probably do a background check to see where i stand right now. I haven’t done this before so this exercise might turn futile as we go ahead with this post.
Ma and Bapi @1975
1982: I was born without much fanfare in a small clinic called Presidency Nursing Home in Ballygunge, Kolkata, India. Not a whole lot of things happened in that year which is carved in my memory
1984: I am so happy. Dad was so kind to book round trip air tickets for the entire family for a vacation in his hometown in Digboi, Assam, India.
* Will skip some years in between as i don’t really know what happened in between. And if I get to some more stuff from my folks, I will come back and edit this post *
1987: I started schooling in a quite well known school in Haldia, West Bengal, India. Every kid has his way of remembering initial school days. My school was quite near to my home. So even during the first standard i was allowed to walk home alone. I still remember that day when i walked from school to my home shitting all over the road because of my bad stomach with tears flowing continuously down my small cute face.
1988: My folks were scared to take me and my brother to any neighbor’s house. We had this innate ability to create a war zone out of a neatly laid house. My mom still recollect my words ” I love the noise of breaking things “. My childhood was pretty exciting with an elder sister and an younger brother to give me company in all our notorious activities.
1990: Though my mom never noticed my initial traits of leadership but i am still quite proud of it. I used to head my colony’s Boi Gang. I am seriously considering to highlight this leadership position in my application to B schools since i applied real world knowledge to achieve successful destruction of my neighborhood like breaking neighbor’s window panes, destroying flower gardens and a whole lot of different stuff. This leadership position was actually thrust upon me since i was about an year elder than the rest of the gang. We used to go for long walks on my behest about our necessity to explore the town to keep it safe from hooligans by leaving our newly bought cricket kit in the ground, only to find later on that they were stolen from the place where we kept it.
1991: Mom tried to enroll me for painting classes and Tabla classes. Both teachers didn’t last even a month. She even tried to enroll me for Badminton coaching camp . Though my brother lasted there for few years i didn’t even last there a day. The coach asked me to take 10 laps of a 600 m track. I knew It was not for me.
1992: Mom went to hospital for four long years and Didi took care of us as Dad ran around the entire country to make Mom better. But in the end Mom’s all back on her legs. Thanks Someone !!
1993: Started gathering a lot of interest on History. Very strange for a person of average intelligence according to my history teacher who used to adore me for the sole reason that i used to counter her arguments. Never capitalized on this interest yet cause this still remains a deep interest. My school life was quite boring with none of the extra curricular activities to boast of. I tired hard to get a place in the school teams ( Cricket, Football, Badminton, Table tennis ) but in the end i found that i don’t even deserve a place in the class teams. No offense to my abilities at that age but it was more due to my soft nature which never allowed me to stand up for myself.
1996: Ripe old age of 14. Learnt the various dimensions of human body with utmost interest with a lot of practical explorations which led to me lot of trouble with my folks but these are the years i would not forget to the sheer amount of hard work we all put across to shape our future. Boards are over your face. We all need to choose the right electives to get the right stream which will enable us to get into an good institution. What a way to shape kid’s future. How much i would love to hate the educational system of our country. Need to work on the extra curricular activities thing to make my resume look good.
I would wait to complete this since i don’t think i would do a good justice to my life documentation by trying to document it in an hour. Alors Crowd !!
