Welcome Back!!!

What started as a dream and almost died due to unnatural circumstances is set to be reborn in a much better and bigger avatar. There were times when Phadoogyan touched a daily target of new hits of 100 per day. We, the original founders thought it was a huge success. Then problems began and one by one all but one promoter left the organisation.

Dear readers, I, Phadoo Guru intend to make this venture into a bigger and better success than it was ever before. I hope that you all will help me in this endeavor. Over the next few months, you shall see certain changes on this website. Please bear with us during the downtimes and give us feedback about the new features being added.

Phadoogyan is set to become a student portal and will help students in getting various information and queries solved by various experts in various fields.

Since we are starting afresh and any help/suggestions will help a lot. Looking forward to your co operation.

Regards

Actual Convenor's message...

Greetings

What started as an endeavor to start something constructive for the enhancement of the brand name of this college has now become a rage. Kutumbkam, the oh so young and step brother of the convention has been treated just that, a step brother. Doubting thomases have been in abundance but the presence of enemies has, what can be proverbially described as putting a road block in the path of achievement of such a landmark. More marked than everything else has been the presence of rats in the fest committee, those who left at the first appearance of problems in the path towards making Kutumbkam a reality. But here we are, on the brink of what has now become a juggernaut, wreaking havoc on the expectations of people who thought that this would end in failure and distanced themselves from the beginning, in the middle or near the end. I don’t have a habit of naming such people, but I am sure they will know that this mail is directed to each and every one of those back biting and conniving idiots.

However, apart from all the spite that is there for the fools who thought that Kutumbkam was impossible to hold, there is a feeling of gratitude towards those who helped make this a reality. . First and foremost, Pallab Roy, who has been my support, confidant and unconditional supporter for the entire time.  He even corrected some of my mistakes behind my back and ensured that the fest ran smoothly all the while.  The next in line would be Priyanka Aggarwal, the girl who worked very hard to make all this possible, and if I may say so harder than I worked. Unlike the proverbial jack of all trades, she was actually the master of each one. The next is Disha Gupta, the girl with the golden touch, who walked into sponsorship meetings and did magic to convince the people in charge to agree to sponsor the event. A success rate of almost hundred percent does earn her the title of most envied member in the committee, with the envy coming from my side as well. Next in line, the girl who almost single handedly handled the entire responsibility for the website and saved the committee some precious cash, Monika Agarwal, who has earned my admiration with tenacity and hard work that have exceeded my expectations. Hats off to her as well. Last but not the least, two friends, Abhishek Gupta and Swati Kant, who held their cool and believed in the fest when every one around was losing their faith, I can’t thank either of them enough as well. Needless to say the fest would not have been possible without even one of these awesome people and I would like to put it in writing that it has been an honour to have worked with both of them.

Some more people that I would like to thank are Professor Bhanu Murthy, the present Dean and Dr. Kavita Sharma, the MIB course co ordinator who helped us with the financial aspect when it seemed as though all was lost and became the heroes by giving us a ray of hope when it seemed dark all around. Neither of them can be thanked enough and I hope that they will help the fest to become an even bigger event in the years to come.

Names of all the event managers and volunteers are mentioned in various places and for lack of space I am unable to name each and every one, but my heart felt thanks to each and every one of them.

Talking about the future, it is as uncertain as ever, with the future batches of MIB and MHROD to decide what to do with the fest, whether to make it bigger or let it go down the drain, but well that hopefully will have a more positive ring from the next year onwards.

I wont talk about what the fest has come to mean for me, for no word in the english language can explain the feeling of creating something out of nothing and even ecstasy fails to live up to the expectations that I have from the dictionary. I will rather conclude here, wishing Kutumbkam all the very best for the years to come.

And to conclude, I would like to say that I hope I have been able to give what is termed in the Vedas as Guru Dakshina to my college by ensuring that a precedent for a management fest is set so that Department of Commerce becomes a famous entity in the years to come. And with this I sign out on behalf of the Fest Committee this year………….. Hope to return during Kutumbkam 2011 which will definitely be bigger and better than the one this year.

Regards

Neerav Sood

Success – Attitude or Ability? (To be continued)

Success, one of the most coveted things in this world by one and all. A singer wants nothing more than be world renowned, a genuine applaud is the best sound that a musician may ever want, a performer will perform better when he knows that some one is watching him and a business professional will want a resume worth his while when he or she looks at it a decade down the line from when he started.

The question that arises is what makes success so elusive for the normal professional. Is it as rare as the diamonds which successful actresses adorn on their bodies or more precious than the thrones that cost many thousands of lives to retain? Is it that only people who have great ability succeed in life? If not, why is success so elusive and why can’t every one be successful?

Well, success is not as elusive as it is made out to be. It’s just that greed is more rampant than it ought to be. A son of below poverty line parents may see success as providing his family with two square meals a day, something that remained elusive to him for most of his life. In case that comes via a clerical job or at the helm of an MNC would not be of much concern to him.

Success for a performer may be to the point that people recognize and appreciate his talent, even if he, just like Mirza Ghalib, in his lifetime lives like a pauper. Success to a sportsperson may mean that the nation adores him for that one century that he made to save his home team from embarrassment or to help them win that one big tournament; subsequent oblivion may not matter, ala Hrishikesh Kanitkar, who is till now famous for the win against Pakistan at Sharjah a long time ago.

In the same vein, success to some business professionals may mean getting good emoluments in return of their hard work. In other cases, getting to the top of the corporate ladder signifies the much desirable success.

As everyone may agree, not every writer, singer, actor or even professional gets to be successful. But the issue that I would like to raise is whether it is the ability of a human being or his will to succeed that make him or break him.