Time To Clap
On Sunday, I went to Pratibha Poshak's scholarship distribution program. Their initiative aims to provide scholarship to the needy but meritorious students across Karnataka. The program is funded by the Infosys Foundation. A few of the students who got scholarships also spoke at the event. This is what one of them had to say.
" Last year when I got the scholarship from the hands of Mrs Sudha Murthy..that night I had a dream. That when I graduate, I have to join Infosys. And today, I am happy to tell you that I have been placed in the company. I have refused offers from companies like IBM and Accenture, so that I can realise my dream".
Time to clap. Another speaker at the event was a Padmashri award winner and director of the IISc, Dr Balaram, who also gave an inspiring speech about how a generation breaks away from poverty. Time to clap. But not everyone spoke in English. There were a few who spoke in Kannada, a language that I find difficult to understand. But then, from the loud uproar of claps, I guess their speeches were inspiring too. And whenever, I heard such a loud applause, I understood that it was the time to clap.
" Last year when I got the scholarship from the hands of Mrs Sudha Murthy..that night I had a dream. That when I graduate, I have to join Infosys. And today, I am happy to tell you that I have been placed in the company. I have refused offers from companies like IBM and Accenture, so that I can realise my dream".
Time to clap. Another speaker at the event was a Padmashri award winner and director of the IISc, Dr Balaram, who also gave an inspiring speech about how a generation breaks away from poverty. Time to clap. But not everyone spoke in English. There were a few who spoke in Kannada, a language that I find difficult to understand. But then, from the loud uproar of claps, I guess their speeches were inspiring too. And whenever, I heard such a loud applause, I understood that it was the time to clap.
posted by Neel Arurkar | 7:43 AM
13 Comments:
Their words must have come from deep inside..!Inspiring
I love graduation speeches and for a long time I used to collect those inspirational quotes.
Hope you had a great time and got some inspiration from the atmosphere, depsite the language barrier.
Glad to know someone who has his/her dream realise. It sure feels great (on top of the world... infact :))
"Time to Clap"... Nice pic.
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Hul :Yup. Really inspiring.
Lavinia : Yeah. Had a nice time. Btw, the Students Amenities Centre at IISc is really cool.
Uma : Btw, I am also mentoring a kid who is in FY diploma Mech Engineering
Gangadhar : Thanks. I got the pic from http://gq1nyc.blogspot.com/
FMOE : Yup. There were many other dream fulfilled speeches and what you read was just one of them.
Thats inspiring!! Hmm, maybe I should dream about heading Microsoft or something!!!!!
Hope they all cherish the dreams which have come true :)
Nice pic!!!
And nice to know u r mentoring
Good one there Neel :)
And that pic was way to funny too
Take care
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Art : Thanks
Arz000n : Thanks. The pic was lifted from another blog(link abvoe)
Karen : Thanks. Indeed scholarships do help.
Where are you couldnt place you in the crowd :-)
Bhagya : :-)
Well..... buddy, didn't understand your title till you started talking about the kannad language. I haven't read all of your blogs but this one certainly was a nice one.
Thanks Sarang. Bookmarked you!
lol time to clap! I have hardly been to a function where I didnt u'stand the language...but Im not too fluent in Tamil so when I go to such a function and listen to speeches in heavy Tamil, I follow the crowd LOL! I mean when they r laughing I laugh too...hahaha!
Keshi.
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