Sunday, June 19, 2016

Kota diaries (written on kota life of my dear friend and roommate Ramji bhai kalvi)

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.”"Vision excellence in carrier education Mission practice persistence and performance ".Upto this point Resonance and I were seeing eye to eye.There were a huge many options for me on one side there was the boisterous presence of Bansal , Resonance ,Carrier"k" of kota stands for three things kachouri,kiraya,koching.They say destiny is always preplanned for everyone and in my destiny it was resonance and Mk Verma."So what was your IITJEE rank with 12th?". "4300 sir ",I said ."Okay so Mr ramji why do you want to try again?". "Sir I want to be like DungaRam Chowdhury IIT air 1 in IITJEE 2003 who happens to be from the same place that I belong."So you are also from jalore,Rajasthan na?so is he a relative to you?"."he is my relative , a distant cousin actually"."Okay then best of luck for your preparations and you must be already knowing how competitive it is ,but donot worry for we will guide you through the process and you need to work hard thats all.You will be finding many reacreations in Kota but you must not give in to the entertainment part instead you should be true to your purpose and follow the classes regularly"."your classes will begin on 13th May and all the best".Well I was tensed and became further tensed after the last line .His last words "all the best" seemed to spur me on unleashing the Areion which ran through the vast green fields of serengeti ready to take the decisive battle to its cresendo.

"Sir the answer is 4.32 sir it is solved in mechanics chapter in HCVerma.Sir Vijay Budhani has not taken into account the area of crosssection while calculating the friction part.Sir the direction would be reverse and as the box will rotate it will assume a shape of a ball that is moving ".Vijay Budhani looked at me and pondered over the idea, the would be IIT kanpurite was caught blank on that. BKM sir looked mighty impressed.Soon after the class Vijay Budhani paid personal attention to me and we too slowly but gradually became good friends for the most part of Kota Odessey.And yes I had another friend of mine named Vikash Jain,he is currently in NIT Warrangal , he was more like me and used to stay put all the time with books only.Among us the three musketters Vijay was the most talkative person he used to talk about women ,life .He was a Bits pilani select too but he wanted to do computer science from IIT KANPUR only.He was the topper of Central Public School Kota putting up a 88 percent in 12th 1% less than me but he was from a different board altogether.He used to tell us stories of how his brother had managed to get IIT Kanpur computer Science after a 3 year toil and now currently he is the topper of IIMAhmedabad.We used to talk of how he used to study and all such things. These conversations used to take place in Chambal garden just near the Chambal River one of the most popular places of Kota.Boys and girls used to visit the garden at alltimes , the wind of the river used to have such a cool and calm effect touching our strained brains and tensed hearts giving relief to both.The mellifluous naussem of the flowers used to transport us to different place altogether where there was no strain and we were all successful and happy.

"why did not you join Bansal?Gaurav Tower is so popular "once Vikash asked .Vijay replied to this by saying "R3 is better pahla R1 me to pahoch ne ki sooch.IIT top 1000 rankers bhare pare hai usme to . Saalo sabko chahiye Rank 1 ."I and vikash both laughed.We often used to talk of every thing when resonance classes were not there .VIjay was particularly good at mechanics ,infact he was a God of it .Mk verma once told "Vijay if you are able to get atleast 100 questions of HC Verma in 2 hours then u are in with a fighting chance of making to the top.And you are nearing it fast."Vikash and I used to stay put all day long with the sheets of Resonance and then we needed to study peter sykes,op tandon,organic chemistry som series,ie irodov ,resnick haliday,arihant series.At times the bad thing was that the boys of hostel at night often used to put off the light by switching of my rooms light from the main switch board.I used to rebuke them a lot for this but the more i said not to do they would do it all the more.

We used to devour the delicious kachouri of Jains and used to drink juice regularly while returning back to our hostels.Sitting in the cool shade of the banyan tree in the Chambal garden we used to memorise the equations of chemistry.Main livelihood of the households of kota come from the revenue generated from the students boarding these houses.Almost all the houses of our locality put big rent boards "If you are not a drinker and are looking for a place to stay and study please move in" some read" 300/- a month rent .please contact 9894567432" .In kota NewYear and Dushera are two main festivals and almost all the coaching institutes make this days memoriable by giving party to all students.It is the sort of merry making that gave some breathing space for otherwise mundane clastrophobic schedule.We used to go to visit nearby temples these days asking for almighty's blessings although Vijay used to say,"I go to temple to see beautiful girls especially the bihari girls they are so easily empressed"but both I and Vikash knew it was only words to say really (although we liked his words) for Vijay was a serious student and at the time of the prayer he seldom looked here and there.

Finally as time passed and the day of exam drew closer the intensity of preparations reached its zenith and as the final doubt clearing capsules were finished we were all ready for the exam.I came out with an Aieee 3400 all india rank ,as competition in Rajasthan is intense as compared to other states so I had to be content with Nit Raipur finally .The last day when i finally moved out of Kota with all the bagandbaggage i found i am leaving behind a host of memories ,the chambal garden ,faces of vikash ,Vijay ,jain ki dukan, putting of lights by truant boys of hostel , the nightlong fights to keep up with scheduleof resonance.,the girl with whom vijay used to make fun of ,the memories lay etched in memory finally forever.The main reason why I went there was though not successful entirely although I learned a lot there yet I had been successful in knowing how life is and the experience have helped me in the previous few years and I think will help in the coming years too.

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