Utsaha 27-01-08

Utsaha ended pretty ordinarily, nothing royal as it should have been be. I heard that sponsors were not happy about the footfalls that was expected. The care taker at Abhay prashal ( location where utsaha was held) explained the reason , he said in all the promotional campaigns , nothing has been told about what people should look forward when they come. Obviously, u dont enter places where you dont even know what's happening. By the number of marketing and promotional theories we have learned, this was something to be done right. The other reason could be the Big Bazaar Mega Sale for 3 days. Even i wanted to go to Big Bazaar to buy an Eye dark circle remover for the lady i spent some time with in utsaha, lekin bahot lambi line thi.

Utsaha - 26-01-08

Utsaha is a marketing fest organized by IIM Indore. It is a two day fest organized in the middle of the city; the best thing about this is it is open for general public, as in different games for family people and all. I liked the concept when i first heard about it, but somehow couldnt give my name earlier for any event . Just 4 days before , there came a sort of opening for one project. I applied for it. We prepared a game for it . Personally, i feel it was a stupid game ; Anyways we reached the venue today morning at around 10.45, again with a hangover and less sleep, thought i wud come back at around 4 or something when crowd will start coming and things will start getting hectic. Somehow i cudnt come back as people started pouring in suddenly and there were only 3 of us at that time on our stall. In short, i cudnt run away. The game is like , we tell people wish for certain available tours provided by us ( domestic, international etc .) and then allowing them to throw dice and if it matches to what they thought and said, they could move forward with increased points.
So, the first question i had to ask was, Sir aap duniya ghoomna chahenge ki india mein hi ghoomna pasand karenge. I never really thought such a simple question can evoke so many emotions in so many different people .
If a person said abroad, then i asked why . They said:
Ek baar meri wife ko India ke bahar ghoomane le jaana hai . (Aged around 50 may be, with his wife standing beside him )
Abhi tak toh jaa nahin paaye, aapke game mein hi chale jaate hain , aap toh IIM waale ho, aap hi hamen ghoomaoge( Aged around 45 ). He lost the game, but he was so happy about playing the game and greeting me.
Abhi final year engineering chal raha hai , job mil gayi hai , ab toh jaana hi hai ek baar ghoomne( Aged around 21)

Their responses were so genuine, i really hope i could be so genuine to people and myself. It was worth a day talking to all of them. So much love, so much hope and aspirations. And we just keep cribbing about placements comparing with A,B,C.

Another beautiful thing that happened to me was Sizzling brownie and icecream at CCD on my way back :)