Refreshing old ties….

On last Tuesday we had alumni meet of Engineering College, Koptown…. (That is Kopargaon). It was a Pleasant surprise when I received a mail from Prof Nagarhalli informing that some of the professors are coming to Bangalore and asked me to meet them. I replied with my mobile number for them.

On Sunday I got call from the team that reached in Bangalore informing about the event planned. It was after long time in fact for the first time after graduation that we were to see the professors…

The main curiosity was about whom all are there in Bangalore from kopargaon…. I knew about presence of only my batch mates that too were 4-5 people only. So we had no idea about how many people we were to see at the event.

We were surprised to see about 20 seniors present and some came with family too. We were the junior most among all those present. We had a formal “Intro” then some small speeches, updates about current developments and activities going on in the college. This was followed by establishment of a small committee for co ordination among all Kopargaon students in Bangalore.

In the end we had dinner together and then dispersed after some time. The event lasted for about 3 hours…

This event gave me some new experiences….
First thing was that I got to know some Kopargaon people in Infy... hitherto unknown to me…

Secondly it was about the change of behaviors towards each other…that is professors and students… because the professors that came were not the ones in student’s favorite list… they were the ones with a “Maarroon thevanaar” reputation during college days…. I m sure the response would have been different during college if someone had asked us to go and meet these people. But here was a different scene.

That was because they had not come as professors but they were representatives of the college… and it was the love for the institution that had brought everyone for the event… even after 13-14 long years…..