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Each year of schooling logically leads to the purpose of the next phase of life with a refreshed perspective of things we perceive to achieve. So a path shall be clearly set and well defined with boundless freedom and limitless potential to steer our lives. So has to be yesterday, so shall be today and so shall be each day to the rest of our lives. The decisions we make steers our life, and this never ceases to be true.
Decisions we make may fill us with either commend or contempt. The act that will always be commendable is to swerve every decision towards the path garnered with new learnings and wisdom to excel oneself.
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Coming to the Indian School of Business was no less than a decision to commend myself and my fellow batch mates. Today, it is easy to look back and benchmark how long I have come. Indeed with a new perspective, new insights, and knowledge in the infrastructure industry, has changed me not only as a well-nurtured professional but also as a person. Today, if I look around towards the path I have traveled, I see a culmination of excellent academics and a wonderful relationship with my peers. Apart from the accrual of wonderful insights and knowledge shared by professors, ISB provided us with an absolutely wonderful raft of leadership from peers of different verticals, age group, and geographic regions. However, one thing became common to all of us that we learned to excel, we learned the value of what we have and how we can use it for ourselves, family colleagues and certainly for nation-building. Indeed it was very well quoted by Prof. Rajendra Shrivastava – “In this trying times, we have to be future-ready because there is no known solution to the future. After all, the future itself is unknown today. And, while tough times may come and go, tough people do not.”
Receiving a graduation certificate through an e Graduation ceremony has been nothing less than a proud and fortunate moment for all of us. While I witnessed the first-ever in the history of humankind, the so-called “E-Graduation Ceremony,” I got stuck with a thought. We all know how this pandemic has hit everyone in an unprecedented manner. So, I believe that people who have access to education in these trying times are equally fortunate to have access to online classes, online portals, e-libraries, and proper gadgets to surf out through this billowing wave to follow our dreams.
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However, at the same time, some students and people do not have the pleasure of any of this. Even in the good old days with insufficient resources, they had inadequate resources to fulfill their aspirations. So, today as a fresh graduate, we not only need to create new and more evolved normal but also to help bring upliftment to the issues which were not normal even before this pandemic. This is the moment to use our education and make this world a better place. Nonetheless, there are many more significant issues. However, today I would like to address only the educational reach to the poor. And I will always do more than what I can serve to help the ones who don’t have access to such divine upliftment.
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