The guy called Nishank

I was just wondering I haven't updated my blog for months. There are two reasons one I am not getting enough time and the second I can't think of any topic on which I can write something meaningful. Suddenly the idea came to my mind.. why dont I write about myself.

Well, Gwalior was the city, and 0300 hrs IST was the time on 27th January 1983 (as per Janam kundali) where a child was launched into this world. Well, no prizes for guessing that the child was me.

The kid started his education journey from a small village called Hanumana in the Rewa District of Madhya Pradesh. As told by his parents, the kid was too fond of schools, and thus his parents started sending him to school at the age of 2-2.5 years, though without officially enrolling him. This was a government run village school so it was not a big problem. But the kid looked to be promising to the teachers (I could recall names of teachers as Ojhaji, Ramayan sir, Radheshyam sir) and the parents were requested to officially enroll him. Here was the problem. Unlike shehri schools culture, the local school didn't have the kindergarten and the school started from the first standard. So the admission was taken in first standard itself. But the parents didn't want to put pressure of studies on the boy, so he had to repeat class I for 2-3 times (exactly याद नही).

The family moved to district headquarter Rewa city. The admission was taken into govt run PK School (named after local princess Praveen Kumari) in the third standard, and subsequently to Saraswati Shishu Mandir (Nehru Nagar) from fifth standard onwards. the progress was good so far, and the boy always stood first in his class.

The family then moved to Guna (another place in MP), and the school was again Saraswati Shishu Mandir, and the standard was seventh. The boy topped his school again in the VIII standard in the MP board exams. The problem of further schooling appeared, as the school was upto VIII standard only, and there were no good hindi medium school in the town. So the boy moved to an english-medium school named Christ H S School which was under CBSE board in IX standard. The parents moved to Nimach (Dist. Mandsaur, north-western tip of MP) which is famous for growing of opium plants. The school was Carmel Convent School (CBSE board).

Being ambitious to become an engineer, the boy moved to Bansal Classes, Kota which is/ was the IIT-JEE coaching institutions. Besides the coaching the studies of XI and XII were done in St Johns Sr Sec School.

The hard labor of two years brought the luck as the boy was ranked 1834 in IIT-JEE 2000. Subsequent to the conselling held at IIT Bombay, Mumbai the admission was finally taken to the four year B. Tech. course in the department of Civil Engineering at IIT Kanpur, Kanpur. The new environment proved to be too struggeling as the first year ended with a CPI (Cumulative Performance Index) of 5.5 on a 10 point scale with one F in the infamous Mechanics of Solids (fondly called MOS). The course was taken by Dr C V R Murthy and about 30% of the class was handed over the F grade. The course was repeated by the boy in the subsequent summers. From then onwards the boy had understood the secrate of success at IIT, and henceforth the performance was getting better and better. Finally on 28th May 2004, the boy received the Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from Prof. S G Dhande the director of IIT Kanpur with a final CPI of 8.0.

The boy entered into the corporate world from July onwards, when he joined an Indian multinational company Larsen & toubro Ltd. - ECC division as GET (Graduate Engineer Trainee). The company credited with landmark structures and projects in India and abroad eg. Lotus temple, Delhi Metro, bridge in the movie 'The bridge on the river Kwai' etc. Firsty posting was made in the hills of Meghalaya. The company was executing the contract of 300-bed hospital named as NEIGRIHMS (North East Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences). This went on for next one and half months. Till this time the new rank of Senior Engineer (Civil) was obtained by the boy. Mr A Dutta and Mr P K Soni were the instrumental persons who helped him gain the valuable experience.

The next movement was made towards Kolkata regional office of the company in Jan 2007. Mr Soni continued to guide the boy here also. After working there for six months the boy finally put in the papers to join the MBA course at Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSOM) at IIT Kharagpur. The tough preparations of four months (Aug-Nov) amid a 12-13 hour working hours had broght the good results finally.

And now after one year of the course the Hmm, the boy is currently doing summer internship cum dissertation project in Futures First Info Services Pvt Ltd at Kolkata, and writting this blog entry.

Hmm, though this is in too brief, but if tommorow I need to write an autobiography, this would certaily be of huge help.