In this blog of connect and
disconnect I wanted to share some of my experience about arriving and departure
from one city to another or one country to another. The joy and agony of
connect and disconnect process. Constantly I have been part of this process
since birth. But two factors which primarily bulldoze once to move from one
place to another are education and livelihood factors. While moving almost
all carries the same intuition that one day we will return back to our root. But
very few live up their promise and remaining ones find home in their new place.
Sure there is more than one ingredient which compels us to find home away from
home and nevertheless feeling of world as family also helps to settle. Besides everything
travelling teaches us lot in life. Our knowledge about life massively increases;
we experience variety of lifestyle and ways of doing things in our day to day
life. Apart from learning we get to interact culturally and most important
share/taste food varieties.
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| Twin City: HyderaBad & Secunderabad Andhra Pradesh |
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| Kolkata, City of Joy : West Bengal |
For education, I left my
village at early age to join boarding school in Siliguri, West Bengal. This is the place where I met a teacher whose
teaching changed my life. She is so graceful and her art of teaching is
phenomenon. I treat her both my teacher and also a mother. Twenty year passed and
both of us have never missed to call each other to wish on Birthday and
anniversary events. The boarding food taught me not to be finicky about food.
Food is food and it can never be bad but of course we can categories in taste
i.e. Sweet/sour/tangy/spicy/tasteless. Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived
from books alone. Unfortunately the school did not have affiliation to host
board exams so I happen to leave the city and moved to my home state Uttar Pradesh
(UP) to complete my remaining four years of schooling before hitting college
life. The pain of separation from the city was more than what I had experienced
during I left my village to arrive in this city. Eight years was well spent in
this city. In 2000, I completed 10th standard from Bahraich (small
town in UP) and 2002, 12th standard from Lucknow (capital city of
UP). Meeting different students and people of different IQ really helped me to
set goal viewing the capability and competition to be faced. I always believe
that you are the best judge on your weakness and strength. But in 21st
century we have to change the approach to match the pace of competition. If we work on our weakness and we believe
that it can be turned into strength than dear, you are sadly mistaken! What we end up is with more mature weakness.
So the new approach should be to focus on strength and learn to manage your
weakness. Because it’s your weakness which keeps you sober. However I got
another chance to travel West Bengal capital city Kolkata (city of joy) because
I was allotted college in that state to complete my IT engineering from IIIT.
Well spent four year came to an end in June 2006. This city taught me to manage
my expense. I started taking tuition classes early morning and late evening up
to 10th standard. But point to note is that I had 98% attendance in
my college uniform all 4 years. I am sure many of you will laugh that college
and 98% attendance. I must be a fool but it was only because I knew I will not
get this golden time back in my life again so wanted to make most of it. My
entire students were female. They worked hard and I did justice in teaching
them. Best reward I got while saying good bye to city was that their parent’s
eyes were in tears and they wanted me to ensure that I give them equal replacement
teacher. So travel for the reason of education came to an end. Needless to
mention street foods of Kolkata will beat restaurant.
I had job offer of Satyam
for Oct 2006 but three ideal months was spent by a trip to Dubai which was
sponsored by my cousin brother who had also financed my engineering studies.
The reason to visit Dubai was to explorer market and try for job if possible. I
remember Abraham Lincoln once had said ‘How
many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a
leg doesn't make it a leg.’ Hence
the belief of studying in good college guarantees job shatters. I happen to
meet a popular business jargon ‘EXPERIENCE’
in the initial two week of job hunt in UAE. And then I just left the idea of
searching job and started enjoying the city and its vast culture to full
extent. I returned back India via Karachi (Pakistan) with a night halt as the cheapest
fare was of PIA at that moment. Hurray my brother did not ask me any reason and
gave me some money to survive first two month and travel to Hyderabad (Andhra
Pradesh (AP)) for joining Satyam. Hyderabad is twin city of India i.e.
Secunderabad, Nizam’s princely state. We get pearl ornaments and very good city
with lots of places to visit/excursion. I travelled on New Year day to Chennai
(Tamil Nadu) just happen to stay for 3 month in AP. It was New Year, 2007 &
new place. Many of us think Chennai is rough city and also it not admired by
many for its weather condition. I was used to similar sea coast city i.e.
Kolkata so weather hardly bother me anywhere. I experienced Chennai for
complete 1 year before travelling to Bangalore in Feb 2008 as intra company
transfer. City is not rough that’s what I realised. One needs to adopt the city
way to feel the smoothness. I happen to learn few daily use Tamil words and its
use in day to day helped me gaining many localities people. Impressing local
people is easy as they feel lot about their language and culture so showing
respect gives natural acceptance. They appreciate my interest to pick their
language and in turn I got my way through. It is fantastic city with immense
cleanness all around and very well connected with state transport with cheaper
fare. If you want to see people passion for movies then it is Chennai. I had
experienced the release of ‘Shiva jee’ (blockbuster Tamil movies of greatest
Indian Super start Rajnikant.) Only you need to be careful while travelling in
auto. Or I will suggest better don’t opt for Auto as mode of transport in
Chennai at all. Now I will not bore you with Bangalore story as this is
international city and please experience you self about its weather and its
modernity. I left Bangalore for good on March 10th 2010 and
travelled to place where I am currently at on 31st March 2010.
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| Chennai, Tamil Nadu |
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| Bangalore, Garden city, Karnataka |
Thank You!
Satender Kumar Mall
Twitter: satenderiiit
" If we work on our weakness and we believe that it can be turned into strength than dear, you are sadly mistaken! What we end up is with more mature weakness. So the new approach should be to focus on strength and learn to manage your weakness."
ReplyDeleteThat's catchy. It will definitely leave these modern management gurus thinking who otherwise emphasis more working on the weakness.
The attitude of trying connecting new horizons is very inspirational, and so is your story.
Keep writing such lovely ones.
Your comments are really nice and forward looking. Thanks keep writing.
DeleteSo you traveled all this distance. I didn't know it. It is good, you saw many places and now you have experience and can decide which place you like. Don't stop looking at new places this will keep you awareness high.
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