Ol' time Friends

MTU Friends

I joined Achalesh Sir's class for GRE in my third year of BE and in a small period of half an year, he influenced me for my lifetime. Every evening, those days, was booked for something new to learn and loads of laughter and fun! Almost once every week, Achalesh Sir would take the whole class out for icecream! I've never met another teacher who's been exceptionally friendly and approachable yet extraordinarily professional while teaching. I admire him categorically and remind him every chance I get, how much his efforts in those days, mean to me right now and always will!

From what I know, Achalesh sir is in Mississauga (Greater Toronto Area in CANADA) right now and is working as a QA consultant and a teacher. He's married to Smita with a sweet daughter Ananya.

Achalesh Amar

                      Achin Narang

        

First week of college, I see this guy and say to my friend 'Now who is this cute looking guy..anyone know his name?' 'Achin' it was, as I later found out. We became friends in fourth year of my undergrad and I discovered that he's as good a person as he looks! ;) Too bad, I discovered that only in the last year! ;) We've communicated more through passing chits in the class, than actually talking. Whenever I think of him, I can picture him sitting in the class, pretending to concentrate and stroking his hair once every 5 minutes!

I once possessed a habit of replying to people's emails immediately, applauding their sweet 'gestures', highlighting their 'positives' instead of 'negatives' in front of others and staying out of gossipy politics. But then at some point in life, I started losing it. There was, as it seemed to me, no one to notice such efforts that one makes. Thank God at this point I met Ajay who emphasized to me the importance of these efforts by exemplifying, instead of lecturing.

I have dramatically improved as a person in this 'what?-hey-poof!'ly short time that I've had with him as a friend. Ajay has been a mentor to me whenever I found myself in a 'God-what-am-goin-to-do-now!' panic attacks, he's been a cheerleader whenever I sunk in a crabby 'Life-sucks-big-time!' mood, he's been a proofreader for my various written endeavours (including this website! So you know who to blame if you still find any spelling or grammatical errors), he's been an abyss when I needed to just blurt out something in order to throw it out of my system and he's been a reflection of my parents when he's said 'No Parul! Not you! I don't expect this from you!' if I've shaken even a little in my virtues.

I've received few of the most exasperatingly heartfelt compliments from him which I'll cherish all my life, the best being, 'Parul you beat me when it comes to expressing'!! :))

           Ajay Sundaram

                    Alankar Sharma

        

S.T.U.D . witty . spontaneous

Alankar Sharma, ala, S-T-U-D. The first few talks with him and I knew that he had an ego as mighty as mine. My judgement confirmed when we didn't talk to each other for an entire year, waiting for each other to take the initiative of saying 'sorry'. It was only when I was coming to States that we resolved things and rekindled our friendship once again. The next day, things came back to as they were an year back. And this break, surprisingly, made our friendship stronger.

Remember the commercial of that 'long lasting extra power battery' which is supposed to go on and on tirelessly, beating every other brand in the market? Well, that's Alok. I've never seen or met a person who's face can reflect such a plethora of expressions so effortlessly. I have no clue what this guy is doing in the computer science field! He just had to be into something creative! He paints, he writes beautiful poems, he's into dramatics and he has a way with words!! He can make you smile and he can make you cry. He's the puppeteer when you're with him.

I had always hung out in a group with him but my interaction with him scaled up mostly during the 'PARKing' classes that we took in the second semester! ;) and other common classes that we took in the third semester! All his antics, his silly jokes, his mimicry, his expressions, his mails makes me laugh insanely! Not to mention the typical signoff of his mails that says 'Agar ek Mishra doosre Mishra ke liye blah blah nahi karega toh kaun karega'!!

Alok Mishra

    

                 Anupama Sundaram

        

charming . pleasing . gracious

If I had to pick a woman who has everything a 'complete woman' should have, Anupama would top my list. How she manages to be so consistently pleasing and cheerful to everyone around her, so dedicated to her house and her work, so supportive and encouraging and so fun loving all at the same time is beyond my comprehension.

It's funny that I can't even picture her gloomy or irritable! Needless to say I've never seen even a streak of this emotion in her, or in people when they are around her!

genuine . WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get!) . responsible

I wish I had talked with Anita earlier..gosh! How much time I wasted! It was just through Ajay and Alok that I came to know Anita and it's amazing how quickly we struck a common frequency and begun associating with each other. She's an uncompromisingly responsible person when it comes to her work as well as an exasperatingly enthusiasatic person when she's there to have fun in a group! In one line - an enticingly simple female!

               Anita Samuga

                    Anshu Bhatia

        

simple . sweet . cheerful

Whenever I picture Anshu, I see her giggling or laughing. She's the first friend I had made after coming to MTU. We used to stay together almost always and had our share of inside jokes on which we could laugh endlessly. It used to be almost impossible for us to stop laughing once we started. (The habit which has lead me out of the class several times during my high school days.) Our all timer inside joke was the 'papa bear-mamma bear-baby bear' one, even the mention of which still bursts me up!

Ashish understands women like no other guy I know does. And he has this knack of making them feel so comfortable around him that at times they'd forget they're around a guy. He is also the only guy in my life who never pampered my ego. He's treated me as his basketball buddy, his prime target for playing pranks and his favorite object for teasing and leg-pulling. But then, he's also the guy who came all the way to Allahabad when I had to take my GRE test, just for my morale support. And who was standing outside with my favorite flowers and a bunch of balloons in his hand ready to celebrate my score, when I came out after taking the test. I'm so glad to have shared this most wonderfully consistent relation of my life with a guy like him!

Beena and I have been roommates (and friends) for almost two years now and I wouldn't know a person who doesn't like her. She's just too adorable and sweet to everyone!! When it comes to caring for someone, she beats one and all!! We disagree a lot, we argue a lot and even end up not talking to each other for a while. But then truce is always a smile or a look away! :))

Ashish Mishra

                            Atul Dube

        

dependable . sensitive . caring

Sometime in the beginning of my third year of undergrad, I met this pleasing and amiable guy, Atul Dube in a marriage party. He had taken GRE and since I was planning to, I was introduced to him by my parents as a prospective 'source of guidance'. He was living in Jabalpur and we corrosponded almost daily through emails. It was amazing how good friends we both became, just through text exchange! Atul guided me constantly and patiently though the arduous journey from GRE to admission procedure to Visa. I remember him telling me in my tensed days 'Don't worry, we're going to pull this through!'.

Atul is another guy who'd say what I'm about to speak, while I'm still selecting words in my head. I remember him calling me from US on April 1st, and after half an hour of casual conversation mentioning 'Do you remember something else bout today, besides it being the fool's day?'. And even before I could start my 'Damn-how-could-I-forget-Gee-I'm-terribly-sorry..' speech, comforted me by saying 'It's ok! I know you're so lousy in remembering birthdays. So I thought I'll call and grab your wishes myself!

I still remember him all excited at the New Jersey airport, waiving at me and cheering, with flowers and chocolates and lots of other good stuff, as I was rolling my cart, and stepping for the first time on US ground. He even rememebred to get a camera and capture my entry in US on his roll. A month later he sends me a huge box with a CD walkman and camera and blah blah things with a note that said 'It's the least I can do to make you feel at home, outside home!'. He's been, and still is my all time dependable buddy!

Beena and I are opposites in personality. And I'd like to believe that this is why we are such good friends now. She's shy like a child. In a group with unknown people, she'll be so quite you'd begin to wonder if she ever speaks to anyone. She'll just smile and nod! :)) But ask me and Manasi! We know the better of her! ;)

Beena and I have been roommates (and friends) for almost two years now and I wouldn't know a person who doesn't like her. She's just too adorable and sweet to everyone!! When it comes to caring for someone, she beats one and all!! We disagree a lot, we argue a lot and even end up not talking to each other for a while. But then truce is always a smile or a look away! :))

                 Beena More

                        Chad Harvey

        

mischievous . always upto something . full of surprises

The first day of Summer Youth Programs and I see this counselor with his eyebrow pierced wearing a tshirt that said 'My other girlfriend is a supermodel' !! Since it was just six counselors working during the first week, it didn't take us more than a day or two to become friends. Among the kids was this guy (another name for 'TROUBLE' !) whose whole group used to call me 'mom' and they had made Chad's life miserable shouting 'Stay away from mom...Stop flirting with mom'!!

Chad could never see me at peace with myself. He just HAD to hide my shoes somewhere, scare me from behind or pick me up and put me upside down in front of all the kids! And then he had the nerve to go around and tell each of the counselor 'Her nick name is 'Nasty parul' coz she's...' duh... I better not write it here!! And the next thing I know, every counselor is calling me 'nasty parul'!

Deeba Ansari

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cheerful . ebullient . exuberant

Deeba has been my confidant in countless mischiefs during my undergrad years. Few which I can openly discuss (now) are whistling and giggling during class and putting the blame on the 'guys' of the class; competing for and smiling innocently (while batting our eyelids) at a senior on whom we both had a crush (ahem..ahem) ; hooting in the movie theatre ; hogging food like we've never eaten before ; saving that cute junior (with a CBZ) from ragging and then taking him aside for a 'one-to-one poilte introduction' and being the torch bearers in any kind of activity that involves getting out of the house.

I still remember Khare Sir's classes during which Deeba would make it a point to sit either next to me or exactly behind me and would giggle and nudge her elbow against me when Sir would look at me and teach. Inspired by her, the whole class had started teasing me and they'd all giggle whenever Sir would look at me and ask 'Right?'. It was an ordeal putting a straight face and answerign him 'yes'. And the moment he'd turn towards the board, we al would burst into muffled laughter. And boy, did Deeba enjoy it or what!

devoted . sensible . graceful

It's not much that I have interacted with Dee, but in as much as I did, I found her to be a very determined woman with a sensible head over her shoulders. She knows what she wants, and how to get it. I haven't seen her involving herself in the usual girl gossips. It seems to me that she'd rather spend her time with a good book than wondering what does person x do when he is not with person y.

                    Diana Palsetia

Divya Agarwal

Gagan Narang

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I always knew Gagan (of the 'Ceat Shoppe' fame) but formally met him at Namrata's b'day party during my HS. He was the 'hot property' of town those days. We became friends after that and he'd always accuse me for not calling him up ever. It was always and always and always that he'd call up and I'd invariably be like ...'Well...you know I'd have called you in a day or two if only you hadn't...' and he'd be like 'Hear yourself! Have you heard a lie more blatant that that?'. We used to laugh and laugh joking bout his 'sardar' friend (I better not print his name here) and his antics! Gagan would always tell me ' Such young age and so many responsibilities! And as if they were any less, the reponsibility of looking for a proper groom for you is also on my shoulders! '

Gagan is in India these days, happily married!

Grima Shrivastava

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If there was one girl I faught most with when I was a little kid, it was Garima. She lived in the alternate house in my row which made 'making up' after fights more convenient. She was an year elder to me,though it hardly made a difference for me. We played together every evening until her dad gor transferred to Indore and I started losing touch with her. And then I heard she's getting married! Whoa! That was sure a news! Sumana, Geeta and I attended her marriage in Jabalpur. And just as her marriage news had started to sink in, she sent me a picture of the sweetest kid I had seen. Yah, that was her own baby boy!

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Geeta Pant

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bubbly . sprightly . hilarious

My childhood chum! Whenever I think of early years of my life, I can't pass without recollecting those few but memorable interactions with Geeta. This tomboyish girl (atleast in those days) possessed the most contagious laughter and a bold and outgoing 'don't-mess-with-me' attitude. I got specially close with her while attending our common friend "Garima's" marriage. Unfortunately, we lost track of each other at some point after that and I'd so like to rekindle my friendship with her. I'm sure whenever we meet, even after years as it is right now, we'd take less than a moment to start back from where we left.

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energetic . endlessly enthusiastic . emotional

Juhi is a bundle of contagious energy and enthusiasm! She'd dance for 5 hours at a stretch and would still be ready and (physically) able to dance for another five! Needless to mention, I love dancing with her! Another thing bout her that takes me by awe is her 'razor sharp memory'! (She used to remind me of my friends' and relatives' birthdays a week ahead!) And boy, is she popular or what? It's not possible to walk out with her and not bang into someone she's known or been friends with.

For her innovative ideas and excellent haggling skills, I never forgot to take her out shopping with me! :))

Juhi Chachondia    

Jyoti and Renuka

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I started interacting with Jyoti (Gandhe) and Renuka (Deshpande) only in the last semester of my undergrad and though I never got a chance to know them up close but some small yet sweet incidents have left their mark on my mind. I can never forget them teaching us (Juhi and me) so patiently and dedicatedly just a day before the exam, we all sitting under the tree cracking jokes and playing 'Killer' during the Internal/External Viva , waiting for the bus for about an hour in the college one evening and singing songs on the top of our voices in frustration, rushing to see the result all nervous and anxious and then saying 'You see mine...no you tell me mine..', discussing and laughing over 'friends' dailogues (with jyoti) and teasing renuka for her devotee M***** from Mech!!! ;)

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I first met Kartik on the evening of 'Freshers introduction' at MTU when he threatened me that he's going to make me dance at the function. And I distinctly remember him hooting 'someone told us you dance very well!' from behind the crowd and then rushing to play the music.

Except for his obsession of messing with me, nothing much has changed since that day. Not even his habit of addressing me as 'payroll'. Each time I meet him, he just HAS to find something and pull my leg for it; may it be my 'bebe' jacket, my bowling score or some guy in the CS dptt. Also, his passion for cars and good food is a secret for none of us! He's again one of those people who I've never seen gloomy or dull! An awesome person to be around with!

               Kartik Shah

Kishore Dehulia

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polite . pleasing . chivalrous

Ever heard of the guy who takes off his coat and places it on the puddle for the girl to walk over? That's Kishore. An extremely pleasing guy with matching mannerisms. Very caring and very protective too. I can never forget his sweet gesture (at the time of our senior's farewell party) which came unexpectedly, though pleasantly. He's the kind of guy who'd go out of his way to help you and to make you comfortable. (Yeah! It's surprising but they still make this kind of guys up somewhere!)

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consistent . outgoing . practical

Manasi has been the first roommate I've ever had in my life and she's the only person with whom I've stayed this long (almost two years now), apart from my family.

Surprisingly, we've never ever faught. Perhaps coz we've never had that touchy 'you-didn't-take-me-with-you' kind of a relationship. We've never interferred with each other's space and have totally respected the other's privacy. I love having intelligent discussions with her and questioning her point of view. Since we're both strongly opinionated, we've sometimes had argumentative discussions on topics from 'how creditably/condemningly xyz director has handled the subject of the movie to 'importance of money in one's life' and 'legalization of abortion' for hours, without reaching any final conclusion.

             Manasi Deodhar

Martin Rutyna

        

It all began when Martin asked me out in second semester. A 'date' never materialized but we ended up being good friends. He's a hell of a fun to be with. I call him, for some old joke that I now don't remember, 'The Devil' and he responds with a 'Yeah.. yeah..Miss. Angel' ! He usually reserves for me a seat next to him in the class so that he can look at his watch and roll his eyes when I enter the class late and scribble in my notebook and pass funny comments during the class

It doesn't take a lot for me to guess who's the culprit if I find a face with horns drawn on my unattended notebook, HW paper or assignment paper..or a note 'Hi Angel' scribbled on the same. :)

I also owe him big time for introducing me to his awesome friends in Greenbay who've become a routine weekend company for me now.

vivacious . friendly . very caring

You need to do just one single thing to start liking her! - Meet her. She'd talk to you, hear you and within moments make you so comfortable that you'd forget that you're meeting her for the first time. And the tradition continues for as many times you meet her. She's full of surprise gestures for people close to her! I remember her taking me out for a lavish lunch followed by ice cream, before she left Houghton. She fits perfectly in my 'elder sister' image - caring ; encouraging ; protective.

Another chord that we strike is dancing! I remember the party when we both danced for 3-4 hours straight without bothering who's watching who's not, till the DJ had to finally shut the music to get us off the floor.

Namritha Ravinder

                       Neil Doshi

        

energetic . fun loving . generous with compliments

Tall, dark and handsome. That's Neil. Very sporty and athletic! His passion for bowling, pool, cricket, balderdash and (ahem..excuse me) shapely girls is not a secret that we have to keep! I came to know him closely only when I worked with him as a co-counselor for summer youth programs in summer, 2002. It was three months of unadulterated FUN! Kids, movies, beaches, swimming, games, parties and as if this was any less, we were getting paid for that! :)

I love playing all card games and Balderdash with him!! And I simply love looking at his face expressions when just before starting to play,someone asks "How do you play this game?"!!

I also owe him big time for introducing me to his awesome friends in Greenbay who've become a routine weekend company for me now.

fun to be with . disciplined . dedicated

I never got a chance to know Niharika closely but all that I know of her is enough for me to like her and to add her in this list. Each time you meet her, she'll be ready with some joke she hasn't told you before. Typically tomboyish with a love for cars, she's also, I feel, a very solemn person. A person I'd have loved to know better!

From what I know:

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Niharika Kothari

Nitin Kalra

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caring . diehard romantic . passionate

Alright. So he's breathtakingly handsome and good looking! And he's got the most polished way of talking with people. Most girls I know drool over him and most guys I know envy him. He'd go to any length to help a friend. And no matter how hard you try, you'd still fail to make him shout at you. He's a perfect gentleman. What else would a girl wanna know bout a guy like him! Probably his telephone number! ;)

Nitin and I were best friends during my HS and later during the early years of my undergrad too. He's the guy who introduced me to my then-favorite and now-can't-live-without perfume 'Fire n Ice'. I hear that he looked for the right perfume for me all over town and when he finally found the one he thought 'just suits my personality', he met with a minor accident and spilled it all over the road. He was naturally not bothered bout his bruises but bout the perfume and didn't sit calm till he got me nother one two days later.

He's spoilt me obscenely with flowers, chocolates, gifts and compliments every chance that he got!! And he's come to my rescue in every problem, big or small, that I've had. And though we're both busy in our own worlds now, he remains to be a friend who'd always always be special to me.

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smart . chic . friendly

The first thing through which I related to Niyati was her sense of dressing up. Any trendy outfit in the stores of Houghton was either in her or my closet. We enjoy shopping together, but it also creates a nuisance coz anything for which she'd say 'Hummn..I like this top', I'd usually say 'Gee..you know what? I already have it!' and she'd be like 'Damn Parul! Ok let me look for something else. I don't want both of us to be wearing the same thing in this small town'. I also love being her teammmate while playing Scattegories! She fights for our points like a wild cat! (Even when I goof up by subconsciously contradicting my own team..! )

What I particularly love about my relation with her is that even when we talk after ages, we never blame each other for 'not calling for so long' or 'not making an effort to meet'. We are effortlessly able to take it from where we left the last time. And yeah, she's one person with whom I don't have to think before being honest. She gives people enormous space to be human.

Niyati Naik

Prachi Soni

Though I've been out of touch with Prachi since a long time, I like to remember her for the relation that I shared with her during my school days and early years of BE. Whenever I think of my last two years of High School, I can't think of a single incident which excludes Prachi. In school while the strictest teacher in the staff (Mrs. Shrivastava) was teaching, she'd whisper in my ears, 'do you wanna listen to a joke? but it's clean...' I'd say 'Gosh no!'. But she'll start anyway. And as usual I'd start giggling. She'd start giggling too which'd make things worse for me. By the climax of even the dumbest jokes, I'd be red and I'd be half inside my desk trying to hide myself from the teacher. And then my teacher would say 'Parul Mishra! What's so funny here? Would you please step outside the class?'. And as I get up to go out, she'd whisper again, 'you go, I'm coming! I'll tell you another one outside!!'

We've studied for each exam in these years and the first year of BE together. We've done some craziest things together too which if I mention here, we can both get into trouble. We had nick names for almost every guy we've ever known and boy! Have we played pranks on each other or what! All in all, she is the only person who's been able to bring out the wild side in me, even if for a short period of time.

Piyush Rathi

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sensitive . caring . very hardworking

Piyush was the first close friend I made in Houghton, Michigan. And now when I look back, I feel glad that I met him coz it's just too hard to imagine my first semester here, without him. We used to study together in his lab, we used to cook together at my place, go to Taco Bell or Dairy Queen and share a Banana Split, take swing dance lessons, work out in the gym, go for walks, sing songs together, play pool...duh! We did a helluva lot for one semester!

He is an awesome singer and whenever I listen to the song 'Diye jalte hain' I instantly get reminded of him. He's stayed awake with me till early in the morning on several nights, helping me grade homeworks that needed to be submitted the next day; he's managed to cheer me up each time that I missed home and he's made me listen to all his 'ganda' jokes!! Bottomline : The best thing about my first sem in MTU was my friendship with him! :)

   Rakshit Ghura

        

funny . naughty . 'senti sardaar'

Rakshit Ghura was a part of my GRE class and I had reasons for my apprehensions to talk to him. Anybody, after staying the victim of a guy's bold (though innovative) eave teasing and background songs (his all time fav was - 'Kya ada kya jalwe tere Paro..') for two entire years, is justified to carry them. But two conversations with this guy later, I shed all my reservations. He's the cutest and the most adorable sardaar living on the face of this earth. He effortlessly and most innocently snatches away one's right to stay gloomy by just being around. And he's too good at it.

Raman Nigam

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Piyush was the first close friend I made in Houghton, Michigan. And now when I look back, I feel glad that I met him coz it's just too hard to imagine my first semester here, without him. We used to study together in his lab, we used to cook together at my place, go to Taco Bell or Dairy Queen and share a Banana Split, take swing dance lessons, work out in the gym, go for walks, sing songs together, play pool...duh! We did a helluva lot for one semester!

Sometimes I feel, God perhaps forgot to give Raman to me as a real brother, and so he arranged for it later. I remember him taking me to a restaurant, buying me an icecream and putting forth his desire of making me his sister. He had come to study in our Univ leaving his sisters back home, to whom he was very close and wanted to share the same special relation with me. Later that 'restaurant-lunch-icecream' thing became a weekly routine. :))

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                Rashmi Kumar

        

polite . caring (as I hear!). comforting

I know Rashmi just as much as one would know a person by hanging out in the same group. But since we've hung out for almost two years now, that gives me enough to form an opinion bout her and include her in 'my friends' list.

Rashmi, I feel, is the kind of person you'd like to go to, when you're in some kind of a problem and need someone to listen you out, comfort you and assure you that things would get back to how they were. She has this characteristic to make you feel very comfortable in her company to an extent that you might, for a brief moment, forget that this is just the first or the second time you are talking to her.

Just as I mentioned, I haven't had many chances to interact one-to-one with her except an evening when we biked together and few other times here and there. But at the end of the day, I'm gonna remember Rashmi for 'Perkins', 'Balderdash' and 'Scattegories'!

I met Rinku in Sep 2001 during the dance practice for 'Parade of Nations' in MTU. I guess we clicked coz she seemed to enjoy the whole dance thing - from the practice to the main event just as much as I did. She's the most friendly and genuinely cheerful person one can meet! She makes friends almost instantly and makes efforts to keep them! In all - gem of a person!

Rachna Goel (Rinku)

Saket Sinho

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Saket Sinho. Too strong a name to be elaborated. Nevertheless I'll try. All it takes for this guy to stand by something and to fight fiercely for it is to 'believe' in it. His friends are his life. And he couldn't care less about the rest of the world. I haven't met a crazier guy in my life. (Raman comes close though).

Saumil Shah. Very subtle person. Friendly but subtle bout it. Witty but subtle bout it. Got the idea?

We used to hang out in the same big 'ol gang last year until he shifted to Wisconsin Rapids for his internship. By the time he was done, I came to the same city, same Co. and the same team where he worked and carried further his work in JD Edwards.

I love telling him my senseless jokes, only for the "I-will-kill-you" reaction that he gives me after listening to the whole joke patiently! :))

Saumil Shah

          Shraddha Sharma (Dimpy)

        

Dimpy and I are as different as two persons can be. Guess that's the reason why we became best friends in school. She's been a party to each of my teenage mischiefs and escapades! We've bunked classes in school together (and got caught..and punished for it later ..! :p); we've had some major accidents together riding our 'never-rides-less-than-40km/h' kinetic honda's; we've had our first all-by-ourselves trip (to Jaipur) together; we've been victims of dozens of senseless rumours together and last but not the least - We even managed to fall for the same guy! (Thankgod we grew over it within a week!)

We use to, in those days, possess the most 'in style' line of clothing and accessories, usually a common set between us. No wonder people found our sense of dressing identicle. :)

I have spent so much time with Dimpy and her parents, that I find comfort referring to her family as my own. I've faught the most with her and I guess that's why I find myself (still) tightly bound to her.

committed . loving . affectionate

Sumana is the first friend I ever made. I met her when I was 4 and she was 5. My entire childhood has been associated with her. We've played together when we were young...she's taught me Higher Maths when I was in school...I've taught her few 'ways of the world' when we were in college...and I even managed to hook her up (during our school days) with her now husband - Gaurav!!

I hardly remember a time when she's called me 'Parul'. It's always something as weird as 'Paulzee' or 'Pauls'...or..uhh..lemme not even begin mentioning them all.

We've shared and kept some of the craziest secrets of each other till date and she's always gonna be one friend who I completely feel at ease with and who's very very close to my heart! Thankfully she's come to States and we've been meeting up very often lately- more than what we used to when we were both in India but in different cities!

Sumana (Pathak) Sharma

Vishesh Kumar

        

Very intellectual, sincere and pleasing person, as much as I know of him. We've interacted mostly in group but he's still been able to leave me with an impression of being a very unassuming person who's always ready to help others.

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