It's been nine years...
...since I first set foot in BITS. I don't know why I had this incredible urge to visit the campus this time when I was in India. In any case, I had a standing invitation from Kiran, who lives in Delhi, for a weekend trip to Pilani whenever I was in town. So, we planned it out and my brother and I flew into Delhi on Friday night, the 4th of March.
The next morning, after loitering around Delhi for a short while, we set out for Pilani in Kiran's Zen. The Delhi - Gurgaon - Jaipur expressway was impressive and we zipped along at a fair clip even after we exited onto a state highway. It was about 10 kms away from Chirawa, when we crossed into Rajasthan, that the road suddenly disappeared from under us and a flood of bumpy memories were jolted out from the forgotten reaches of our brains. To cut a long and excrutiatingly slow journey short, it was evening by the time we reached the campus and checked into the VFAST Guest House.
Finally, we set out to rediscover our old habitat and reminisce the best four years of our lives...
(You should start reading the blog from the bottom as that's the order in which I have posted the pics and my notes.)
The next morning, after loitering around Delhi for a short while, we set out for Pilani in Kiran's Zen. The Delhi - Gurgaon - Jaipur expressway was impressive and we zipped along at a fair clip even after we exited onto a state highway. It was about 10 kms away from Chirawa, when we crossed into Rajasthan, that the road suddenly disappeared from under us and a flood of bumpy memories were jolted out from the forgotten reaches of our brains. To cut a long and excrutiatingly slow journey short, it was evening by the time we reached the campus and checked into the VFAST Guest House.
Finally, we set out to rediscover our old habitat and reminisce the best four years of our lives...
(You should start reading the blog from the bottom as that's the order in which I have posted the pics and my notes.)
posted by Pushkin Reddy at 11:18 PM
41 Comments:
Amazing stuff, Pushkin. Thanks a ton for taking me back to campus.
Phani Mitra
I'm glad you liked it! Thanks.
Excellent stuff - sure evoked a sense of nostalgia and some fond memories. It's been 10 years since our batch left BITS (and 14 since we started). This definitely makes me want to go back for a visit.
- Bharath.
SUPER Fantastic stuff!! Loved the pictures!
That was an amazing one Pushkin! Well...though I am still on campus and on the verge of leaving it...I cud still feel the vibes of nostalgia from you! :-)
and there is one more thing I wanted to add....therez another Pushkin in the 2004 batch now...one of my favorite juniors! ;-D
It was a wonderful journey. Every BITSian would have associated beautifully with most of the pics. Well, as much as I would love to, going back to BITS would be difficult now. It has to be with my wingies or with "her". Going back alone would be really really painful. So, me waiting for the right time.
Thanks a lot for a short and sweet journey in time to that haven on earth - BITS, Pilani!
Well, 4 wonderful years; the best times; where we learnt to be independent; where we had to learn to live with the same set of people for good or bad; a tremendous cosmopolitan atmosphere; life was not all about ghoting, etc.
Thanks, once again.
- Ranga (Pappuchor) - 1999??PS???
Pushkin,
That was really great ! Thanks for taking us back to campus.. albiet its just been 10 months since i passed out :-) Bits has managed to change a little even in those ten months :-)
Brilliant!!
And with the way this url's being passed around on YM, site meter's gonna reach its max limit very soon!
awesome!!!....:)...
abhishek (bikini) - '98
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Wonderful account!Pictures spoke a thousand memories :)
Sure was a sweet trip to Pilani.. though you can't really say that it has been ages away from Pilani (2 years and 4 months to quote the actual figure).
I would love to get back to campus and goof around the way I did for 4 years... Hope it happens before the 25 year re-union.
Thanks a load Pushkin.. The pictures were awesome. Why'd you miss MB and ShivG though? Please tell me you have pictures of those stashed away.
Wow! I never expected my tiny little insignificant, one time blog to attract so much attention! I guess I owe it to my friend Hemchand for publicizing it.
Only eight years before there's another Pushkin at BITS!? My name sure is catching on! :-)
Prakash, I've been asking myself that question! Although the old MB hasn't changed at all, I should've taken a few of the new one. I guess I was gawking too much and clicking too less ;-)
We went by ShivG in the night, so it was too dark, and we probably would've been beaten up if we tried to take pics then (if you know what I mean!)
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pushkin
that was nice to see BITS again..thanks a llot for patiently uploading the pictures. Punna rao is a faculty now??...and Dr Mahesh is still there??...
Getting reminded of those days...
thanks again
I never could have imagined one small mail to an internal microsoft bitisian alias on a tuesday evening would start a chain reaction like this. The very next day morning, when I saw a mail on BITSAA-Hyd mailing list about this, I imagined how quickly this traveled. Now you know why Microsoft stock price has been stand still for last 5 years. :)) ...Just kidding. I guess, actual reason is our BITSian enthu and keep it up guys.
Also I think Pushkin is too humble to give me credit here, but the fact still remains that his compilation of this blog is simply outstanding. I came across a lot of guys posting BITS photos on web but no body was creative enough to provide a good commentary that rewound our nostalgic memories.
Pushkin: I am sure you have more pics that you are hiding from us ;-). It doesn't make sense to me, why a person who covered every corner of campus wouldn't include MB and Shiv ji in his tour :))? Now don't give me the crap that you wrote about gawking and darkness. Come on, be a sport! :)
Memories rekindled. Shri - Class of 1994.
Wow! Pushkin... You became popular. This URL seems to making rounds throughout the globe... yesterday a colleague two years senior to us started talking to me about these pics... :) and I was surprised how he got to know about out trip to BITS....
Good Job! Hemu....
Z
Pushkin .. really very nostalgic - In fact .. i was one of them - who went roaming around the entire campus ( - the night we left ) .. touching all the tangible things around ( an act to show how much i am going to miss them all ) which will be very afresh in my memory even after years . I just passed out - in 2004 -
we were among the first batch of girls who changed history - by staying in MAL - which was i suppose " The most scary bhawan " with the guys .
In fact - i was amazed by not reading anything abt that in the blog ( or did i miss it ??? )..
Pushkin,
Great stuff..make you feel you are there..
Anil (79 Batch)
Awesome blog, Pushkin! Great work, it brought back many memories.. mind if i put a link to this on my blog?
~2001A4PS474
Splendid stuff !!
wow! a remainder of tat wonderful journey of all those beautiful days in my life till now....great one..!
Wonderfully presented! Thanks for sharing this with us. Pilani has a special place in my life as I spent my first 21 years there.
Narinder Singh
Singapore
Hey Pushkin,
How come you didn't click a pic of your first year room - 188 SK ?
Hey S.A.! How're u doing? I did take a couple of pics in front of 188 SK while I was talking to my great^7 grandson. I gotta dig them up. Meanwhile, why don't you drop me a mail? I'd love to hear more about what you've been upto.
Thanks !!! Was in India recently but couldnt make it to Pilani but your pics did a great job. I am going to pass this to my batch user group so watch out for a few more eyes! Its been 15 years for us so may be a few more moist eyes.
Appreciate your taking the time to put up a blog about your trip... One, thing - Why the bars in the lower wings ?
Sagar,
Apparently, there had been one too many thefts in the rooms on the ground floor, especially in the new wings. So they decided to barricade the whole ground floor and restrict entry to a few gates. I can only imagine what a tremendous pain in the ass it must be.
Oh!
Well, I just posted your blog to the 86... Yahoo user group.
Once again - thanks !
I'd love to see them. Anyway, i'd mail you if I had your ID. I'm currently doing a PhD in Bioinformatics at the U of Michigan. A few more years to go before I graduate. :)
gr8 stuff !!
the site-url is sure doing rounds on the net ......
i, for one, have added the link on our blog csabits.blogspot.com
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Thanks for the great work. It was like seeing BITS again.
Hey Pushkin,
I saw this blog thru some BITS egroup links - awesome pics of campus! You are the same Pushkin who used to take fiddling lessons with Mara Shea ??! Such a small world!
- Veena Pureswaran (95A3PS045)
Veena, it sure is a small world! :-)
I'm taking a break till the end of summer. Hope to see you soon after.
this is really great. Didnt realize, i had spent almost an hour on the site.
Well done, man.
Three cheers to you..
--Ramnish.
Its just one year since I passed...well close to one year... Your blog managed to capture some of the most beautiful things of the campus. Thanks a lot for that!
Ramya
Oh man! that was mesmerizing...can u believe, these pics of our gud old BITS got me goose pimples all over:)
As I went thru your post, I too had an awesome trip to BITS...kudos to you....
-2001005
Rashi
I landed on this page by accident! I am so glad I did so.. thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures. Sure does bring back some fond memories. Nice to see some high-tech stuff on campus.
Makes me want to make a visit to campus.
- Sunitha
95A7
Pushkin,
Amazing blog and excellent pictures. I am from batch of 74-75. Haven't been to BITs since I passed out.
Quick question: Is the Pappu you mentioned, the son of Kapurji who had a tea stall in Connaught.. This issue came up in our BITS yahoo group.
Thanks.
Anil
Cupertino, CA
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