Dear Rajandeep,
It was nice to pen down your thoughts and send it across to the batch. Though most of my batchmates had difficulty deciphering that mail. You will be able to write appreciation mails that people will actually read once you have the Consumer Behaviour Course and read about something called ‘cost of thinking’. Since long letters are an attributed speciality of mine, naturally your letter sparked association with me. For better or worse depends on whether you are a watif or watis. Besides making a batchmate of mine to ask me to reply to your letter. After all everyone loves a good “bhasad”.
A also since our much respected General Secretary is a man of few words and the council prefers to keep mum on batchmails, i take the privilege of replying to your mail and making the “big speech”
First and foremost , welcome to MDi , you have just entered a business school which you will exit as one of the world s top business schools. How do i know? Well cause i ( and the council for that matter) know, my juniors are going to make it one. With your abiltiy and talent ( whichi saw plenty in blitzkreigh) it should be a piece of cake. I will honest though. This a selfish thing on my part of course. It was my dream to exit from the worlds best school even if i had not entered one. So i bored my my batchmates to death with my ppt and letters and letters of turning this place into something bigger. I don’t know if they genuine bought my dream and decided to share it or just got active to shut me up 
(pun intended) but yes we have to thank this council and and its various members for a lot of good thng we have on campus and we will see in the coming days. So like i said i pretty sure you guys will make this place rock internationally. We will see some participation in interational paper contest to start with or placements and such others. I am not worried as i said in any manner as far as talent goes. But i do worry about two aspects. Pride and unity. I was genuinely suprised that none of you guys came back with a strong pg07 rockss kind of thing. I remember during our time a similar challege was put forth by our seniors with their best dancer versus ours, and we yelled and hooted and supported our girl like hell. so get your act together there. kuch Josh dikhao yaar. Humme bhi laage aapne juniors hey!.
The part is of course is if you decide to share this dream then, you must beware distractors. Afterall where ever there is a dream or a man is trying build something , there will hecklers and demotivators trying to dampen your spirit. Learn to hold on to your dream, need not be this one.. let it be your own dream. If learn to do that, i promise you , you will live a life you love and laugh over with satisfaction when you are old. Just as guide against distractors this is what i always remember, ” My dream becoming reality is difficult task, i have to fight to protect it everyday, and perhaps bleed for it. What if i failed.. how would it be different from any other normal day in my life? what would i really lose…on the other hand if i succeeded in making the dream a reality .. if i passed out on my convocation from an institute with greater respect then HBS or Wharton how would my life feel..especially knowing i had played a part in making it reach there. Would it not be worth all the trouble. ” You will discover that most heckers and detractors can’t help doing what they do, so DO NOT HATE THEM OR JUDGE THEM.. one day they will find the courage to believe in themselves and that day they will thank you. It s past time here to nick name poeple ..try and brand them.. people get a kick out of it..because if they can find some else to hate and blame for their problems then they can live with themselves. Don’t fall into that trap. If you become one of the those who gets picked on, thank your stars they find you interesting enough to make you a part of their thinking. And dont judge them for that. let them be.
I have only two pieces of gyaan to give to you:
1. Focus your energy instead in building your dream.. and pick a dream big enough to need all your love and care for the rest of your life and then not a single day will you find yourself beaten or miserable. cos you will be simply too busy to bother with chintu-pintu stuff.
2. Remember to enjoy what you are doing. You will live life only once. If don’t like something and still have to do it. Instead of finding ways to fighting it ( like cheating for fin paper cos you hate fin) accept it and look for ways to enjoy that expirence ( how would i handle my money when i have a music band).
I would like to add a little incentive for you guys. We ( Alumini Committee) ran a contest last year on the identity of a Mandevian
I am throwing in a Dinner with drinks ( if you drink) or a movie if you please to the best three response to this statement :
I am the Mandevian , and the Mandevian is… ( to be completed in 2 to 250 words)
Looking forward to some good responses. Write from your heart. there is no right answer to this one.
That’s all the gyaan for now
Warm Regards
A Mandevian
