A Note of Thanksgiving


It’s time to give a vote of thanks. Thanks to all those people who have made me what I am today. For today I am extremely happy and see a fresh new life ahead. Till yesterday I felt as though I was approaching the edge of a cliff just knowing that there is a deep trench ahead, its depth unfathomable and if I fall, I knew that I was going to get hurt badly. But no longer. Ok…am breaking the suspense. Have got through TISS - an institute where I have been longing to go for the past couple of years and do something which I wish to do from the bottom of my heart – Labor Relations. Finally that has happened and I am all set to go.

But hey…You just can’t go like that. True. There are many stakeholders in this success of mine and I need to give them a part of the pie. So this space is for them. Let’s do it the memento style.

First of all I would like to thank my Manager Uday who gave me the liberty to come back from US after losing an account just because I didn’t want to stay there. It was for certain that if I stayed there I wouldn’t have been able to appear for TISS. Thanks Uday.

Thanks to the entire PeopleSoft team at Patni which during my preparation helped me keep faith in me. Thank you Sanjay for taking the pains to understand why I was keen on doing HR. Your relentless pushing and prodding has helped me a lot in coming up with better, rational and convincing answers. I know that you still are not convinced and do not still consider my domain as something that offers potential challenges. I hope to demystify all your concerns and give you a satisfying reply in the next 2 years. Thank you all.

Thank you Preethi, for pitching in at the right time and helping me take the decision of rejecting the much coveted onsite opportunity, stay back and give TISS when the whole lot of people around me asked me to go. Thanks dear. (Very big thanks for letting me know that there is something called TISS…you deserve a large piece of the pie for that).

Thank you appa and amma for giving me the freedom to do something of my choice. I respect the freedom and will continue to cherish that freedom in the next 2 years. Thanks Renjini (my sister) for keeping alive the hopes in appa and amma’s mind.

Thank you Datta, for inspiring me to do IR. You have been there mentoring me throughout the last 3 years. Thank you for listening patiently to all my crap, immature statements about HR and for guiding me.

And now…..time has come to thank the main stakeholder. I don’t know what name I shall give him. Friend, philosopher, guide, critic, mentor….he has been that and much more than that.; a person who has been with me for the past 3 years and who has been solely responsible for shaping me the way I am today. Our relationship took off on a high met with a low and then has come back on a high completing one full circle. I don’t know how to thank you. I sincerely wish that you have a great life ahead. Love you and your bulging eyes with which you see a completely different life around. The most creative, innovative, pragmatic, eclectic and iconoclastic person whom I have ever met in my life – Rahul S. Thank you my friend for those golden words “Why don’t you go for HR and try giving TISS” even though it was over 2 rounds of booze.

Thanks to SAI Vihar bar for always being there as our last bastion of companionship when everything else in the world ditched us. Thanks to those rounds of Kingfisher which shook us up and made us think about life in a new direction.

Thanks Vijay Mallya…Has anyone got his number…:)