REMEDIALS - Are they really our seniors??

        The agriculture and allied subjects purely relay on American based education based system. Here we majorly concentrate upon credit hours and attendance of each subject along with our studies. There is no excuse if any body is irregular to the class or less than 6.00 of CGPA (Overall Grade Point Average after one year). If it is less than 6.00 after one year, person have to repeat the year and same condition applied for the person who is having less than 75% of attendance in a semester. 

        We needed to complete two types of courses. Credited and non -  Credited. The marks we obtained in credited courses are included in our final OGPA (Overall Grade Point Average of all the subject which studied in two years). In case of non-credited courses, we have to complete the course with satisfactory results only. The marks obtained in those subjects doesn't going to affect final OGPA at all.
         Our Master degree subjects are divided as Major subject (Based on department we had chosen), Minor subject (The subject which help to conduct our research in major subject) and supporting subject (The subject which helps commonly to all the major department). Each subject is divided as 3 + 1 (3 theory class + 1 practicle class), 2 + 1 (2 theory class + 1 practicle class), 1 + 1 (1 theory class + 1 practicle class) and all the non-credited courses are either 0 + 1 or 1 + 0 in nature. Another condition is that it should should exceed 16 credit ours per week in any of the semester.

         To get our Master degree we needed to complete 21 credit hours of Major subjects, 9 credit hours of minor subject and 6 credit hours of supporting subjects, 1 Master credit seminar and 20 credit hours of Master research work within a duration of two years. 

          Finally classes were started on a regular basis from next day on-wards. As I entered into the college we were instructed to fix the class time table by discussing with our classmates and teachers. 

         It was early in the morning 9.00 am and I was standing at the corner of the class room and watching what is gong on among my classmates. There are six boy and five girls. Suddenly another girl entered into the class. A liveliness appeared in the class after her entry into the class. She was all set take command over the class.

         "We have to set the class. Give me your opinion about class timings." she said in a ordering tone.  

       I was just wondering who the hell is she? to suddenly enter into the class and taking the command over us.  No one replied to her and gave a confused look. I glared at her. She was 5.10" height with a flare complexion. she had small beautiful eyes with round face.

         "Are yaar! next class is PHT. We need to hurry up. Otherwise AR will kill us" she shouted. Still no one replied.

        She looked towards me hoping for an answer and eventually I replied "We don't know about this procedure. So how can we reply?"

        She was not satisfied with my answer and insisted to reveal our minor courses. Everyone replied that soil science. But I was in confusion. I called to Arjun  Sir and decided to take soil science as minor for time being which is a 3 + 1 course and informed her my decision.

        After deciding the timetable we just moved to PHT class. As class started madam asked about our introduction. I wanted to know about this girl. 

       "Hi! Myself Candy and I am a REMEDIAL student" she introduced her self and sat down. Another two student from my section totally eight students belongs to this REMEDIAL students from this category. Then we are instructed to go to the library to list out the availability of the books to that subject.

        "Hey did you made the list of the books available here?" Candy one who standing behind me asked with the curiosity.

          "Yaa! But I don't know about the syllebus" I replied.

          "Here you take the syllebus." and passed me sheet having course syllebus.

          "Ohh! This is great! I will find out the relevant books based on this"  I replied with happiness.

          "Actually I have some work. Will you please give me the list afterwards?" She pleaded,

          "Of course. No problem" I told her.

        "Thank you. Please do me another favor. Please inform me if there is any class in the afternoon." she said.

          "Ok but how?" I asked.

          "Oh sorry take my number and inform me please." she pleaded me again after handing over her cell number to me.

           "Okey no problem." I said.

           Then she said bye to me and departed. I moved with my friends to the hostel. I had my lunch and I was informed that there was no class in the afternoon. I just slept for two hours. After that I moved out with Vishu and Arjun sir to have roam around the campus.

           "Sir who are these REMEDIAL students?" I asked.

           "How do you came to know about that?" he asked strangely.

           "Today some of my classmates introduced themselves like that" I replied.

        "Remedial student is one who is basically not from Agriculture and its allied science background. They are basically from CBZ background. Some of the Universities allowed them to do their M. Sc. in agricultural subject with the condition that they are going to study the remedial due courses in their 1st year and regular Master degree courses in 2nd year on wards." 

           "What are these remedial courses?" I asked still in confusion.

           "They are the introductory courses to Horticulture." he replied.

        "Then they are actually our classmates not seniors right? Then why should we call them Sir/madam?" 

           He made a face and replied "I never asked you to call them like that."

          (I forgot to tell you readers about an unwritten rule which is followed in all Agricultural and its allied Science Universities throughout India is that Every single junior call Their senor as Sir/Madam)

          That time I was just thinking that how these REMEDIAL can be our senoirs?? At that time I was totally clueless about there will be a big message war going to happen that night between me and candy due to this matter.......

                                                                                 To be Continued.................................

MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT.......

     I never bothered about the girls too much as I wanted to keep them away so that I can concentrate on studies. According to me the girls are the beautiful creatures of god. They are the gems of life without which there will be no life exist on the earth. My parents always used to tell me about the scarification that that a girl do in her whole life time. I always had a advise from my parents that we have to first respect a girl and never run behind the three thing in life. The Female, The Wealth and The Soil. Rather we have to be so much capable that these things should come behind us.

     "May I come in mam?" a sweetest voice I ever heard in my life had strike to my ear drums. That voice made path right into my heart. I turned to look at the door to find out whose that voice is and first time in my life, MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT.
      A beautiful girl standing near the door. She was as beautiful as the full moon in the dark night. Her eyes were brown and beautiful as a lotus flower in the silent lake. she had a long hair which she made into a pony tail. she was curiously looking inside for the permission to enter into the class.
     "Yes please come in." madam allowed her.
     "Thank you mam" she entered into the hall.
     She was searching for the seat to sit. luckily a seat behind me was empty. She sat there. I don't know why but in so many years, first time my heart beat got increased so much. After sitting she came to know one of her classmate Megha also got admission in this campus only. They were chit-chating with each other. I wanted to know her name but didn't get the courage to ask her.
       "Ok folks. Now its time for introductory session. Please introduce yourself to other." Deepa mam asked to all of us. Students started to introduce them selves to all of us. I was not interested in the introduction of all the person except this girl. I wanted to know about this girl. Finally she introduced herself to the class.
      "Hi! Myself Anumeha Sharma. I joined as a M. Sc. Fruit Science student here." An unspoken joy was entered into my heart by knowing that she is also my department only. We are going to sit in the same class.

        My mind unknowingly started to chant that name ANUMEHA which means After the Rain. The nature is so beautiful after the rain. Calm, beautiful and eye catching. every single plant would be happy due to the shower. Even this girl also gave the same feeling inside my heart. I lost myself for a minute.

       But suddenly I realized that I am here to study. So I just suppressed that feelings and diverted my mind towards the study. After that we needed to register the course for he semester to study. So everyone was curious about the course that they are interested. As a genetics student I insisted to take bio-chemestry  as it is basics for the genetics and plant breeding. Then many of our seniors suggested that to don't take biochemestry because the teacher was too strict and may fail in the semester. If some one fails in the exam there is no other way than repeating a whole semester.
         Slowly we started our life which will never give a clue about what is going to be happen in upcoming days....

Mahinda - A Campus with Heart stealing Beauty....

     The clouds are the symbol of dream, the symbol of achievement, the symbol of prestige. Mahinda is such a wonderful campus where you can see and feel the formation of the clouds below your feet and raising in front of you. Nature was showing its true beauty which was faraway from human interruption. That was a true and awesome combination of heart and soul. Every single second was a new experience to me. A land which is far far far away from my home land. Here Nature is having a differently immense beauty. I was just lost myself enjoying that beauty.

     'Hey Uday! Come on man. It's already late. We need to hurry. Otherwise hostel gates will be close.' said Rahul. He was a local boy of Uttarakhand studying in the Vegetable Department. He was a tall lanky guy with high ambition showing in his eyes.
     'Yeah buddy. I am coming. Hey dude. Here Weather is always like this?! ' I asked him.
     'Today is better yaar.. The weather may get more worse than this. you will come to know.' he said.
     'No yaar. The nature is so beautiful here why are saying like that?' I asked him.
     'It's looking cool now but it get more than worse in winter because the temperature fall down below -4 ⁰C.' he said.
       'Ohhhh' that was an unimaginable temperature for me. Then we returned to the hostel and there was an introduction between seniors and juniors. we had or dinner together with our dinner at that night.

 
    It was already two days of after reaching the campus. That day I was roaming in the campus with the friends and enjoying the beauty of the campus. At that time I was getting little familiar with the campus environment. I had also made a good set friends in our batch. We are all M.Sc. students with different departments. There are totally five departments in the campus for M.Sc.. Fruit Science (FSC), Vegetable Science (VEG), Floriculture and Landscape Architecture (FLA), Plantation, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (PMA), Food technology (PHT) and Pathology (PAT). Next day we needed to register to the particular courses.

    

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     Next day it was Introductory class for both B. Sc. and M. Sc. first year students. We all entered the seminar hall to attend that session. Suchitra madam and Deepa madam were giving the introduction to course structure, Credit hours, Number of exams which we need to attend per semester and Marks distribution per exam per course. Then they had an introduction and ice breaking session between all of us students and separated all M. Sc. students as per the respective department. Since I belong to FSC department I came to front seat. I look around me and come to know only girls. There four girls sitting beside me. I introduced myself to them and they told there name to me as Kannika, Neeraja, Megha, Moulya. And suddenly.....         

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Heaven on the earth

     Next day morning 6.15am we reached Mahadwar. The Land of Gods, Devabhumi. This Mahadwar is also known as the Great Door to Land of Hills. It was raining heavy that morning. As we landaed in the Mahadwar, we freshened up ourselves and started to heading towards the our destination called Mahinda. We hired a cab which was a newspaper delivering cab our journey was started. In the beginning of our journey there was a landslide so our journey was delayed by two hours. In between that me and Vishu enjoyed the beautiful view of natural beauty of that place.

     'Dude, this is really heaven on the earth' I said.

    'See the height of those mountain peaks. These mountains are hundred times larger than our native' said vishu.

     'Buddy, this is just beginning of our journey. There is more to come' I said.

     'Let us see dude' he said.

  After two and half hours of delay, the road was cleared and our journey to Mahinda resumed again.  As Steve Maraboli said, 'It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish,' I was thinking that what will be our destiny after two years may be? I got a new friend, moving to a new unknown place, entirely new kind of people, completely different type of culture and life style. In between these I was going to be a PAHADI for next two years.

       The journey was beautiful and breath taking. The complete journey was going through hilly area. One side of the road is deep valley and other side is the mountain peaks that seems to be kissing the sky. By observing this I lost in my deep thoughts. These two are the symbols of the two face of life. Life also have two faces in every situation. For  love there is anger; for destiny there is fear; for pain there is healing; for hurt there is forgiveness; for there is humility; for giving there is taking; for tears there is joy; for rejection there is acceptance; for judgment there is grace; for honor there is shame; for letting go there is keeping. 

      'Hey dreamer, where you lost? come to reality.' said vishu.

    'hhihi! Nothing buddy simply enjoing the view. What a beauty it is!' I said by looking through the window. 

      It was really mind blowing view to anybody who is a keenly worship the beauty of nature. We were travelling through and above the clouds. what a beauty. Nature is always mysterious. It always shows different faces of itself in every single region. I lost my self in that mystery and when our first half of our journey ended I was not realised.

      'Son get down here. We have to catch a different bus from here on-wards.' my father said. It is a place named Vihar which was nearly 20 km away from our final destination. In Vihar we completed our Lunch. Bus was arrived after half an our. The bus was overcrowded and very difficultly we both three got the seet.

      Our journey was again resumed. suddenly I heard a sweet female voice with much angryness arguing with her mother. 'Mumma! Why you kept my bag kept on the floor? Dekho ispe chewing gum Chipak gaya hai. I told you don't keep it on the bus floor. Why don't you here my words.'

     Me and Vishu exchanged look with each other and smiled silently and started to enjoy the view outside. After half an hour of journey we finally reached the Mahinda Horticulture Campus. We get down there and all of us entered the Campus with great aspiration of learning.

      That day we met first time an great inspiration of our life Arjun Sir. He only helped us to select our room and we met our another friend called Mahendra. That ended with small conversation and making the new friends in the Campus.

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Friend - A brother from another Mother

      Friend is always known as brother from another mother. At the beginning of my journey I met him at Railway station. That day I felt that he is my brother from another mother. Until then we just know each other just by name. His name is Vishwas. As his name say, he is person who is really trust-able. He has a lanky body with short hairs, bright eyes with lots of hopes. Since its our second meeting we don't know about each other. That day I was with my father who is also coming with me to see the college environment where I was going to start my P. G. Studies. The journey was started at 3.00 pm afternoon.

     It was a long journey of two days and two nights to reach our first destination Nijamuddin station at Delhi. Since me and my father is in the second class AC and Vishwas is in the sleeper class there was no much conversation happend between me and Vishwas. After reaching Delhi we had to wait for twelve long hours to board our next train to Mahadwar which is located in Uttarakhand.

     After reaching Delhi, we took a cab to Sarai Rohilla train station, where our next train was scheduled at that day night. In the evening of the same day I was sitting on the bench out side the railway station and scrolling down the facebook post.

     'Hey Uday! what are you doing?' he came and asked me.

     'Nothing dude. I am just scrolling through my fb profile. what about you buddy?' I asked him.

    He said 'Nothing yaar. I was getting bored sitting lonely inside so came to talk to you. So where you completed your Under Graduation?'

     I said, 'I am from Siriyur campus, which is your campus?' 

     'Bahar campus.' he said

     'So in this way our long journey starts to a unknown place.' I said ' Let us see what is waiting for us there.'

     'Don,t worry buddy. Now onward I will give a VALIDITY of  TWO YEAR FRIENDSHIP TO YOU' he said. That day I didn't understand what does he meant but the meaning is going to reveal at the end of second year.

      ' Let us see dude.' I replied to him. After that we exchanged our idea about life. We discussed about our goals. We had or snacks at McDonalds near the station. Me, my father and him started our journey to Mahadwar that day night at 9.30pm.