This too shall pass.

“This too shall pass.” Is a Hebrew saying and is my favourite quote. They say that legends say things and its fools who repeat them but then who said I am not foolish. Let me first get to the origin of this saying. Though there are many sources to its origin, the one that I like to believe (because it has that grip to it) is as follows:


One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah Ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He said to him, "Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it." "If it exists anywhere on earth, your majesty," replied Benaiah, "I will find it and bring it to you, but what makes the ring so special?" "It has magic powers," answered the king. "If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy." Solomon knew that no such ring existed in the world, but he wished to give his minister a little taste of humility. Spring passed and then summer, and still Benaiah had no idea where he could find the ring. On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of the poorest quarters of Jerusalem. He passed by a merchant who had begun to set out the day's wares on a shabby carpet. "Have you by any chance heard of a magic ring that makes the happy wearer forget his joy and the broken-hearted wearer forget his sorrows?" asked Benaiah. He watched the grandfather take a plain gold ring from his carpet and engrave something on it. When Benaiah read the words on the ring, his face broke out in a wide smile. That night the entire city welcomed in the holiday of Sukkot with great festivity. "Well, my friend," said Solomon, "have you found what I sent you after?" All the ministers laughed and Solomon himself smiled. To everyone's surprise, Benaiah held up a small gold ring and declared, "Here it is, your majesty!" As soon as Solomon read the inscription, the smile vanished from his face. The jeweler had written three Hebrew letters on the gold band: _gimel, zayin, yud_, which began the words "_Gam zeh ya'avor_" -- "This too shall pass." At that moment Solomon realized that all his wisdom and fabulous wealth and tremendous power were but fleeting things, for one day he would be nothing but dust.


Just like Solomon, I have also come to the sad realization that all good things come to an end. No this is not a random thought, it’s a sad realization that struck me when I saw the orkut album of one of my seniors at IIT. It was then I remembered that it is my last year at IIT and its gonna end soon. This is the bad things ending and good things beginning side of the story. But when I look around, I see friends, I see people having a laugh about almost anything and just enjoying the life. No I don’t want to leave all this. I don’t want to leave the comfort of the nest that each one of us has slowly built. Why this has to “pass”?

For what its worth, I would like to thank all my friends, batchmates, hostelmates and all the people who have made my life at IITG colorful and enjoyable. Without you I would have never been able to survive 4 years at this place. And now I wish I could stay with you guys forever. But then this too shall pass.

10 ultimate bollywood clichés

1)Kuttey ! Main tera khoon pi jaoonga!

2)Hum gareeb zaroor hain, lekin hamari bhi izzat hai.

3)Apne aap ko kanoon ke haawale kar do.

4)Yeh lo pachchaas hazaar rupiah aur meri beti ko bhool jao. Reply “Aap mujhe khareedna chahcte hain? Mera pyaar bikau nahi hain!”

5)Bhagwan ke liye chhod mujhe! Kuttey, kameeney! “Itni achhi cheez ko bhagwan le liye chhod doon?

6)Injection de diya hai, thodi der mein hosh aa jayega

7)yeh maa Banne waali hai.

8) Maa…!!! Tumhari aakhon mein ansoo..

9) Tamaam sabooton aur gawahon ko madde nazar rakhte huye, mujhrim ko taaze rate hind, dafa 302 ke tahat sazae maut di jaati hai…

10) Bhagwaan mujhe insaf chahiye.

Techniche '07 our final technica quest in IITG

Techniche for me has always been a 3 day work and management and almost zero fun. But this time it was different. This time I had a zing going and participated in many events, I even tried my hand at CS event but as expected, I was not selected. Then I had the chance to launch IIT Radio and became the first IITG RJ. It was total fun and surprisingly people liked me. I got good reviews and enjoyed every bit of it. Though I haven’t heard the complete show myself, I am more than satisfied by the reviews I got. An in between all this, I gave a shot at the par’AD’igm event. It was supposed to be a 4 member team event, but I went in alone and gave the quickest paper of my life. I did about 30 questions in 15 mins and rushed out to complete my radio recording. I got a total of 62 just 2 marks short of the finalists but was happy to defeat 70% of teams present there. so much for the day.

And in the night came the big and the most interesting event. It was the Virtual Stock Market (VSM) time and I went in alone with my official partner lying in comfort of his bed. Well the show started in total chaos with nobody having even the slightest idea of what was going around. We started arbit bidding and I was successful in striking a few good deals. Then came the biggest turn around of the event. It was the entry of my friend Ankit Nagori (Anna) and from here on it was a fish-market, with two of us speaking at the top of our voice and making some pretty awesome deals. Just to give you an idea we bought CCE shares at 1000 and 5 minutes later sold them for 3500. Man it was all crazy. We made like 20 such deals and were leading the over-all standings despite a few SOB’s trying hard to pull us down. I mean why are people jealous of seeing others win. They don’t have the guts to present themselves and take up the challenge. All they can do is to pull others down. Its really frustrating to realize that such people study with us. The back stabbing bastards will spread all sorts of wrong information about you and then come to your room at party time. Well their efforts to make us fall didn’t work and they themselves fell head first. By the morning official results were declared and we were declared as winners. It was good to finally win something in techniche.

However all this was to come to a sour end. Our dream of ending the techniche with a award on-stage was not to be. We were refused to get on stage for our prize and were told “ki bakwaas mat karo, humien bahut kaam hai”. Well thats’ an ironic end to our Techniche careers, when we worked our ass out for 3 years just to see that everything went on smoothly. Its not about the prize, its about respect. What pains me even more is that Anna who started this even 2 years back and has worked more than anybody else in making Techniche ’06 and Techniche ’07 a success was denied a much deserved appreciation. It would have been a befitting to end his techniche on-stage as a winner. Well prize or no prize, on-stage or off-stage Anna will always be the man who made techniche a success. Despite all these highs and lows I would remember Techniche ’07 as my favourite Techniche.

Good Bye Techniche We loved you!!

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