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BEFOREWORD “Grandpa.. Have you seen my slam book, mom is not receiving my call”, I woke from my afternoon nap by my grandson’s voice. “Yes it’s in our room have you checked that”, he came with the red slam book and was showing me his collection of friends.. Innocently he asked, “Grandpa tell me about your friends, how were they, did you enjoy with them? Where did you meet them?” This question took me 38-40 years back.. Life is a journey, you get lot of travellers some of them give you memory which lingers for years and years. “Yes! I have 10 best friends , honestly when I first met them on my first B-school day I never thought that they will be my best buddies but trust me son, they are darling to me till today and guess what we named our group “AMIGOS” which means friends in Spanish” I said while adjusting my spectacles. He said more curiously” Oh wow! Cool name Grandy... But tell me more about them, you met them in your B-school how were they exactly?” I drowned into my thoughts.... 3

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BEFOREWORD

“Grandpa.. Have you seen my slam book, mom is not receiving my call”, I woke from

my afternoon nap by my grandson’s voice. “Yes it’s in our room have you checked that”, he

came with the red slam book and was showing me his collection of friends.. Innocently he

asked, “Grandpa tell me about your friends, how were they, did you enjoy with them? Where

did you meet them?”

This question took me 38-40 years back.. Life is a journey, you get lot of travellers

some of them give you memory which lingers for years and years. “Yes! I have 10 best

friends , honestly when I first met them on my first B-school day I never thought that they will

be my best buddies but trust me son, they are darling to me till today and guess what we

named our group “AMIGOS” which means friends in Spanish” I said while adjusting my

spectacles. He said more curiously” Oh wow! Cool name Grandy... But tell me more about

them, you met them in your B-school how were they exactly?”

I drowned into my thoughts....

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Mr. Nice Guy

Shubham Swarup.....

I saw him in the class on the very first day of my college & of course like every

narrow minded person, I also felt funny by looking his round shaped body but when he

started talking in session the whole class including me was stunned by his perfect English ,

good vocabulary and great confidence. I thought about my first perception about him and I

felt guilty and embarrassed. On that day I got a lesson “Don’t judge a book by its cover!”

Shubham had graduated in pharmacy and came to our B-school with ambition of

becoming a good manager. He was very hard-working and quick learner. Inspite of being a

pharmacy graduate he learned finance very quickly. It’s really very difficult to find attitude

of never say quit! But this guy had it, he likes to face challenges and curb them. The second

good thing about him was his simplicity, we will find people who like to boast about

themselves, but he was very humble and down to earth. Though you found him very serious

type of guy but he actually lived every moment with joy, with smile. That’s why we used to

call him Mr. Nice. But every smile has its dark lining. I remember during our college days he

was very emotional and introvert by nature but he always tried to remove those weaknesses.

Of course with all his strengths he had great achievements:-

Sports

Vice- Captain University Cricket team.

Winner of Pharmacy cup 2007-08

Runner up of Pharmacy cup 2008-09 and 2009-10

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Cultural

President of Indian Pharmaceutical Society

President of Photographic society

Academic

Winner of science exhibition at zonal level.

Cleared Procom Quiz with distinction in 2003 & 2004

Certificate of merit in international conference on biotech

Certificate of merit in IPA convention

“This is about my Mr. Nice “ I said; “Hmm that’s really nice grandpa, I am curious

to know about rest !”He said by keeping his slam book aside.

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Study study everywhere...

Subarnarekha Sarkar....

Short height, Bengali look, friendly attitude that’s how we can describe Subarnarekha

Sarkar (Subbu). She never used to take lot of time to make friendship with anyone. A great

sense of humour and decent attitude towards life made her different from average guys like

us. Of course a girl with brain and common sense is a very rare combination but she had both.

From her childhood she had ambition to become an Electronics and Tele-communication

(E&TC) engineer; she pursued her ambition form NAGPUR University. With meritorious

score she became E&TC engineer but she got fade up with that technical field and decided to

pursue management studies. Her ambition was to grow with a company with a challenging

and stimulating position.

She came from the city of joy- KOLKATA. She never liked to bind her life to any

boundaries. She always liked to learn new things and expand her horizon. I have never seen

such confident girl in my life. She had belief on herself and ability of keep going and

growing. The best quality in Subbu was she believed in valuing relations and people which

helped her to make lot of friends. I remember till today, her one line “Give smiles and spread

happiness as much you can and it will come back to you in doubles.”

Well you can take out books from Subbu but you simply cannot take Subbu out from

book. Yes right she liked to read books, especially books of Paulo Coelho and Nicholas

Sparks, ‘The Alchemist’ was her favourite book. Trust me her Bengali genes showed their

existence by her interest in music, though there was no particular favourite singer of her but

she liked to listen music according to her mood. Semi classical, Rock and Bollywood songs

were her favourite category of music.

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Being an E&TC engineer she liked to watch science fiction programs but being a girl

she liked typical romantic movies and cartoon movies ( actually I don’t know why these are

2 different categories) but jokes apart she was an knowledge hunter. And she didn’t even

leave the option of internet. She literally surfed knowledge oriented sites and read them for

hours and hours.

And her attitude paid her bunch of achievements like:-

Academic

Certificate of Merit from CBSE

Best Student Award Winner in College of graduation

Always in top 10 in University during Graduation

Corporate

Selected for L&T InfoTech and Tech Mahindra as Assistant Systems

Engineer and Technical Associate during Campus Drive

Sports

District Level Swimming Champion in 2003

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Shocking hair do

Sumit Mittal.....

Sumit Mittal as from surname you can guess Delhite boy. But he had serious attitude

for any work, a rare combination in people of Delhi. First thing you could notice about him

was his shocking spike hair style. He had hair style like Johnny Bravo that is exactly spiked.

He had graduated from Delhi University and his ambition was to pursue carrier in

Marketing and to become a marketing manager in reputed firm.

If I have to describe his personality I will say he was neither introvert nor extrovert

yeah though this is confusing it’s true. He had very limited friend circle in our class and he

cracked jokes very rarely but still he was a good human being because of his qualities like

maintaining friendship with those who are close to him. Sumit’s hobby was playing Chess

and listening music.

I still remember our OB professor had given us one assignment which was on

personality ; main motto behind that was to analyze our personality and try to remove

weaknesses and like all average student we submitted it and forgot. But Sumit had taken it

more seriously. He actually worked on negative parameters of his personality which were

INTROVERTNESS and his physical problems.

Achievements: -

Academic :-

Got 1st prize in debate competition.

Winner of the poem competition

Winner of writing competition at school.

Sports :-

Runner of chess competition at school level.

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JACK OF ALL… MASTER IN ALL

Vaibhav Sadiwala.....

I think people get remembered either by their physical appearance or by their

qualities. I can remember Vaibhav because of his qualities. What do you want in perfect

management student confidence, attitude, leadership, decent English, versatility? Vaibhav

had all these qualities which naturally helped him to become leader of our group. Vaibhav is

originally from Burhanpur. He pursued his graduation in BBA from Pune University. After

that he worked with Tanishq, the leading jewellery brand as Counter Sales Executive and

after that he came to pursue management studies from our college.

Being Marwari he has good communication skill and great sense of humour which

helped him to remain cheerful in stressful environment and it also helped him to expand his

network in college. Being a corporate experienced person he had some good qualities like

good communication skills and fast learning. These helped him in his academic studies. He

was also a core committee member of Marketing Club. Well another good quality Vaibhav

has was his helping attitude, he always ready for help. As I said he was a good leader which

reflects his team building attitude and he actually knows how to work in team? how to

motivate team members?

Well though he was good in studies he had some dark sides also. He was highly

emotional and his mood fluctuates very rapidly which creates disturbance in his studies I

still remember his viva of Information Systems (IS) ; our professor had conducted a small

viva on cloud computing he called 2-2 students and started taking viva but as Vaibhav wasn’t

good in IS he couldn’t answer those questions properly but he didn’t quit he prove his mettle

with pretty good CGPA. Generally most of the student in B-School has the ambitions like to

get great job or to start his own enterprise but Vaibhav had really different ambition he

wanted to start a college which should be best in each aspect but with affordable fees.

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Really very few people at age of 22-23 think like that. I think this is the virtue which

helped him to stand apart from crowd.

With his strong and firm qualities he was able to capture these achievements

Sports: played professional cricket from the district club of Burhanpur.

Cultural : participated in events like dance, skits, plays etc

Academic :

Having certificates for Hindi and Mathematics all India exams for school,

Represented Garware college in a management fest for HR at Belgaum

(Karnataka)

I can say he was really all-rounder in each aspect for that he can be best describe as

“JACK OF ALL AND MASTER IN ALL”.

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Mumbai cha porga....

Viraj Deshmukh.....

“Hey will you take me in your OB group?” the first sentence he asked me , and we

were really unaware how he become one of the major part of our group. Viraj was a guy with

great personality and sharp mind. He had completed his engineering with flying colours from

Mumbai University and came to our college simply to conquer. He was extremely passionate

about football and very good in quantitative makes him darling of class.

Being a Mumbai guy he was faster than us in studies. Travelling in locals in Mumbai

made him faster. But jokes apart he was extremely good in analytical skills. As I said he

came to our college to conquer he actually tried to do so. He had no particular focus on study

but he was a versatile student he was good in studies also he was good in football. He was a

part of our college football team and represented out college to Hyderabad. Viraj was very

emotional for his parents he always said that he wanted to give his parents everything they

want. He had some hobbies like swimming, football and travelling.

In life trust is very crucial thing & on whom you trust also matters alot. Viraj actually

has this weakness of trusting people blindly. This weakness suffered Viraj very badly I don’t

know how but he removed it slowly. Well all is well that ends well; Viraj had some classic

achievements these were:-

Sports :

State level swimmer. Completed Dharamtar (Alibaug) to Gateway of India

(Mumbai) 36kms in 8 hours 30 mins.

Participated in cricket tournaments at university level (Mumbai University).

Academic

1st class in BE.

Won mathematics competition at district level.

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Bade Bhaiya.....

Rishi Jaitly....

Sometimes in life you come across some persons who have some qualities which you

would like to possess. I met Rishi in my B- School and day by day I came to know different edges of

his character. His sit was just after me, so naturally we share very good memories. Most of these are

about finding different aspects of CASE. He has a charm and intelligence, his intelligence caters all

subjects not like me whose mind only works in some subjects. According to me Rishi was a person

who loved life and enjoyed life as it came. He believed in present so he used it wisely. He strongly

believed that if we manage to improve our present our future will be even better. He was a person

having strong moral values and believed in the morals he had inherited from his parents. He was an

ultimate optimist. Also at the same time he was an opportunist.

Rishi was elder to us which made him a respectable personality in our group. We used to call

him BABA. I don’t know who gave this name but our class liked that name and our Rishi became

BABA.

Also as he liked to make his managerial skills perfect he used to organize and run different

events in Entrepreneur Club. I would say, Rishi was a creative and determined person. He had good

communication skills which helped him in various ways like communicating and presenting himself

very accurately before people.

Speed with decent productivity is what a market demanded at that time. Rishi wanted each

thing at its perfect level. He believed in perfection. I don’t know whether it will be right to comment

this or not but this habit of perfection reduced his productivity. To gain this perfection he used to

work for hours and hours which made him WORKOHOLIC. But he tried to work on these

weaknesses and he was successful in that. After looking into his achievements we can get an overall

idea about his perfection and hard work.

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Sports :- Silver medal District level Karate Championship.

Cultural :-

Participated in many National level Cultural Fests.

Founder and Drummer of Band named Jsaba during Graduation.

Performed at various stages with different music bands

Also was the drummer of IBS Pune Band by the name Rudraksh

Other

Participated in various social welfare events since childhood.

Got appreciation certificate from HRM ministry regarding the same.

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Battein kam.....kaam jyada

Khalilullah...

In our group Khalil was the only person who liked to talk less. I never found him chatting and

spending time with anybody in college after college hours. He was a BBA Graduate from Pune

University and had a decent academic record. Like the old line in English TALK LESS AND

WORK MORE, Khalil liked to study and explore different terms in finance rather than wasting his

time with our useless talks.

His ambition was to become a business man and responsible person. He worked for that by

reading more and more. One think I found interesting about Khalil is that he never quits. He had poor

communication skills but he covered that weakness within 1 year by reading newspaper and by

starting communicating in the class. As he was an introvert we knew very less about him. Khalil liked

reading, listening music and travelling . He had travelled various places of North India. I think

Khalil’s strength was his ability to work hard and a sense of responsibility. He had pretty decent

achievements which helped him to grab his ambitions.

Academic : in my graduation(BBA) he reached up to top 5 student

Other: He received award from the MIT Arts, Commerce and Science College -

Alandi, Pune in participation of AVISHKAR 2011.

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Ms. Gumshuda

Deepatai Ilme

Well well well.... this was our interesting character. Deepatai (Dipika) was totally bindhass

girl. She always loved freedom; freedom of thought, freedom of style, freedom of everything. We

came in her contact at second semester of our course because in first semester she couldn’t attend

college.

Dipika was originally from Bhandara, a small city in Maharashtra. She completed her BCA

from Pune University and with ambition of securing decent position in operations field she joined our

college. Of course because of strange name she got attention in class very fast. Her hobby included

Reading books, travelling and Listening Music. Well because of her bindhass attitude she had number

of friends in our college it helped her to overcome her problem of poor communication skills.

Laziness was the biggest problem in her. She usually tried postponed her assigned work.

She had achievements like

Sports

Participation in 1st Tug-Of-War Championship,Palam,dist.Parbhani ,2007.

“Grandpa, you had great friend circle, you told me about everyone , but you never told about

yourself. Tell me how you were at the time of your B-School . ?” He said. And I got puzzled

but still somehow I started.

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MAIN AISA KYU HOON....

NITISH PANDE...

I personally believe that life flows with its own rules we cannot change or alter it.

From childhood I had dream to become an engineer but fortunately or unfortunately I was not able to

clear cut offs so I decided to pursue BCA from Pune University so from this incident I learned that

decisions have to make with respect to practical aspect rather than what your heart says.

I grew up in small town but fortunately I had best faculty in my school days which helped me

throughout life. When I entered into my B-school my first fear was how will I survive with so much

competitive environment? But again here my AMIGOS helped me. They helped me in every aspect.

Whenever I needed their support they did not say NO. I think I have pretty good presentation skills

which got practiced in my B-school through presentations and other activities. With great AMIGOS

and excellent faculty I made communication skills one of my strong areas which helped me every

time. Humour is the best medicine in stress. This requirement has made my sense of humour strong

which helped me to gather plenty of friends and increase my network. I made reading my hobby to

gather knowledge of different domains though I did not have a niche for any particular writer. I like to

read anything which is fresh and interesting. From my school days I have writing as my hobby I used

to write for local newspaper which made base for my writing capabilities. As far as my strengths are

considered flexibility also has some shares. I can adjust with any group of people which helped me to

make myself adaptable. I think I had many weaknesses I cannot express myself to that extent which

required; this made me introvert sometimes.

“NEVER RAISE YOUR VOICE JUST IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF YOUR

ARGUMENTS.”

I hate to boast about my achievements and I am allergic with those persons who boast about

themselves. Well I had ambition to secure a position as a public relations / marketing professional in

order to utilize my administrative, marketing, and interpersonal skills with accuracy and efficiency.

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With some of my strengths I was able to achieve these achievements

Academic: -

Won 1st prize at science exhibition in school for 2003-04.

Gold medal in debate competition at school.

Represented school at district level for science project.

Sports: -

Runner up in table tennis competition in Sinhgad Karandak 2009-10

Corporate :-

Selected for WIPRO as a technical associate in Graduation .

Successfully completed Live Project for Softronikx in C# language.

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AFTERWORD

“Grandpa I never thought you had so many interesting friends, you must have great time with

them. “ he said after listening all these stories. “Of course those 2 years were very special for me. I

simply cannot forget it and though we are apart now we are still in contact via mobile. “ I replied.

“Don’t you miss them? “he asked, “ Undoubtedly I do”.

“Grandpa, then here is the surprise “he said by clapping his hands suddenly door of our

house got opened and my son & daughter in law came with 8-9 old persons I put my glasses on and

was shocked by seeing my all “AMIGOS”. Tears rolled down from old eyes and I started chatting

with my AMIGOS.

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