THE NEXT STEP

I have moved down from the cool environs of 12000 plus altitude of Ladakh into the sweltering heat and dust of the plains of Punjab & Haryana, and that too in the month of May. Over the last 2-3 weeks while one was in transit and settling down, the 1985 batch get together took place on 23 May 2009. From the inputs I got from friends, it was a reasonably well attended "do", though basically a 1985 batch get together. The presence of our old teachers like Ms Nijhawan & Mr Chanchal Singh was the highlight of the lunch. As and when more information and snaps are made available they will be uploaded.

Now comes the question whether this lunch was a move forward from the past? I would say "No". A particular batch taking initiative in getting together should inspire others also to get in touch and meet up. We all at our respective batch level need to take initiative to pull our lazy batchmates out of their precious cocoons and shake them up a little bit!!!!!!!!!! We are going to love it when we meet again after soooo many years. But when?? No one knows. Let's hope some one from each batch will take initiative at least of getting their batchmates together at one place. This platform will do all it can to promote any such idea or to advertise any such initiative. Only after such efforts have borne fruits, can one take the initiative of organising a School level alumni get together.

The response to the blog has been quite encouraging so far. One only hopes that people are reconnecting to share a laugh remembering the days gone bye and catching up with old friends. The aim of the blog is to help old students locate their class fellows and not essentially to propagate methodology of staying in touch. I, for one, would definitely like to meet my old class fellows with whom once I shared good times but if others are following some other idea, they may like to share it with others on this blog. "If there are friends who would like to contribute to the blog by writing Posts" they can let me know and I would love to facilitate putting their thoughts & writings on the blog. As it is I am not much of a writer, being in the vocation that I am in and therefore can't carry on being the Lone Ranger.

A word on "Inputs about Batches". There is not much happening on that front. One has spent a lot of time and energy collecting, collating and putting up bits and pieces of information about Alumni in the form that you see. This forum thrives on inputs; be it about names, contact informations, photographs, current status and any news that can help people connect. Any stagnation on account of inputs will kill the Blog. So, please feel free to give inputs about your batchmates and friends even if it is unconfirmed.