REUNION 2009 - PREFACE

There has been many a saturday since February 2005. None of those 250(atleast) saturdays have been more soul-filling as this one. Its rare to have a home away from home. It is tough because even if you have bought a swanky new villa, you need people whom you love to fill it up with. Not to forget the innumerable memories associated with it. Every tree, every bench, every classroom and every lab.

We felt as if a monument of immense pride and history lost forever when we found that the canteen/hostel was lost to chennai corporation. The college never owned it was a different story. There we stood, gaping over the college grounds over which now stands a lawn, volleyball court and a basket ball court. The old football ground which it used to be was converted into a corridor of mirror-facade buildings.

Between 2005 and 2009, I've been to college a couple of times. Every time I've been there I would be lost and would be looking at something else. I would feel as if 10,000 plus years of human evolution happening in a very short time. The walls though are still the same will boast a new paint. The reception area would look entirely different. The staffs unrecognizable. The students to put it simple not from Tamilnadu. Therefore I have a feeling that I don't belong here, this is a corporate firm which may demand my identity at any time and may throw me out for loitering.

So it was meant to be that on one day, time would freeze and a portal to the past would open. I did not have any high hopes on what would happen over the day, as an organizer I never had. All I would ask for myself is to get things in place, trust in my people and the other things will get aligned automatically. We had Ganesh/Ramya and Babuji from singapore. Jaga from US flowing down for this specific purpose. Not to forget that Shaik has to travel overnight from Bangalore as well. The rest of us were Chennai vaasis bound with several complex layers that life could take us to.

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