From quite some time, my blogging habit has been reduced to minimum because of so many reasons known and unknown to me. Today, I got a mail from one of my friends who shared our class photograph with me and asked for names of some of the faces whom he was not able to remember. Luckily I was able to name each of those faces and the excel (in which we were filling the name) was completed. Oops “Excel” again, Looks like, software engineers do everything in excel these days ;-). God save all of us.
Ok so here comes the nostalgic photograph whose hard copy (I mean printed copy) is lying somewhere in my albums which I have hardly seen more than a dozen times in last 4 years, thanks to my laziness. But had I seen it more often, the photograph would have lost its importance and the nostalgic flavour it has got now.
IIT Roorkee Electrical - Class of 2003
And here comes the name of each and every person in the photograph (as far as we 2 guys were able to figure out)
Bottom Row (Left to Right) - Vinay Pant, Dr. G.K. Singh, Dr. Rajendra Prasad,Dr. J. D. Sharma, Dr. A.K. Pant, Ankit Srivastava (Baba), Dr. H. O. Gupta, Dr. H. K. Verma, Dr. M.K. Vasantha, Dr. S.P. Gupta, Dr. S.P. Srivastava, Dr. Pramod Agrawal, Dr. Bharat Gupta,Dr. R.P. Maheshwari.
First Row (Left to Right) - Anshu Sarje, Divyanjali Satyarthi, Mayank Gupta (That’s Me),Vimal Kumar, Sanchit Jain, Vishal Chaudhary, Shishir Singh, Ankur Garg (Prof), Jawed Akhtar, Ajay Gupta, Gyanendra Kumar (Chotu) ,Sourashish Roy (Soura), Kumar Vishal (KV), Abhinav Nag (Nagu), Satish Singh, Sumit Chachra, Hansraj.
Second Row (Left to Right) - Ashutosh singh, Dheeraj Verma, Himanshu Sahni, Arun Kumar Singh (AKS), Vikram Kumar, Saurabh Srivastava (T), Vikas Kumar, Rupak Das Gupta, Binod Kumar Singh, Amit Pal, Rochak Bhattarai, Gyan Singh, Dipak, Bappaditya Mandal, Ankur Goenka, Bodhaditya Bhattacharya, Aakrosh Ratan, Devashi Tandon (Tandoo).
Third Row (Left to Right) - Ankur Prakash, Jitendra Kumar, Mithilesh Gohivar, Mahendra Kumar, Sachin Nikhare, Pranav Singh, Pushkal Jain (Pushky), Tapan Kumar Roy, Chandra Shekhar, Abhishek Kumar, Diwakar ,Gasigwa Landfried, Arvind, Pramod Mishra, Shailendra Verma,Tathagat Deb Goswami ,Rajat Ahuja.
Last Row (Left to Right) - Jean Bosco, Gaurav Gupta, Ashirwad Sahu, Amit Kumar, Satish Chandra Gupta, Sampreet Singh, Manoj Kumar Chaudhary.
Ok so a long list. It may be boring for you if you are not in the list but for everyone else, I hope this will be more of a nostalgic quiz trying to figure out the name of each and every face. Certainly it took me some time to figure out the name of some of the faces but in the end it was a very satisfying experience – Thanks to my good memory :-)
The photograph took me back to memory lane. 4 years we spent together – studying, playing, fighting, teasing and what not. And after 4 years, the destiny scattered them in every nook and corner of this planet.
This blog post is just an attempt to remember all those wonderful people who stayed together for 4 years with a common thread known as IIT Roorkee and also cherish all the happy and sad moments they spent together. Ok…So No more senti-menti now, finishing the post at this juncture hoping to get the comments section filled with buzz from all the members in the photograph. :-)
Lastly I can't stop myself from humming these beautiful lines:-
Oh When I look back now,
Those days seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
I would always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life...
~Mayank
PS – I have tried my best to avoid typographical errors in name. If there are some mistakes, please let me know, I will be happy to correct it.