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A place for me............

Nikhil is a sanskrit term meaning 'complete' and hence the name of this blog....it has nothing to do with my self-perception...nobody can be complete..and definitely not me...

The idea of creating a blog had been in mind for quite sometime but somehow it never clicked .... But recently i learnt about blogs by students like me getting very popular and the final straw was my freind Shubham creating his blog ... in fact i would have delayed the creation of this blog for another day had he not coaxed me into creating it now...

I am fond of writing ... I have a load of my texts packed in a file in my drawer...and I have been writing since quite long.. if I remember correctly ..from around class 8th...I write poems, articles and short stories too...I feel that lest for my fascination for technology and my upbringing that has propelled me into engineering (and now MBA), I probably would have carved a future for myself in journalism...
And even now I aspire to become an amateur columnist some day...Some of my other ambitions in life are entreprenuership.. preferably in the technological arena and an eventual jump into public life (read social service ..and may be politics).....

well thats quite a lot ...will write more later
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  1. Wondering Wanderer3:05 AM

    hi nikhil,
    known u for the past 1 year.. sometimes i feel that i shud hav known u during the BIT days also.. coz we share many common interests and opinions.. from IT to politics, to philosophy and so on..
    i admire ur clarity of vision and enthusiasm abt life.. gr8 qualities to hav..
    i wonder if i will ever meet a more IT savvy guy than u.. who else can e-mail the next day's schedule to himself before sleeping at night??
    finally, ur assertiveness and combative spirit(which has led to the famous nickname "boiler") reminds me of a sidduism-
    u "can fight the rattle-snake and give it the first 2 bites."

    ur "next door neighbour"
    the jackal

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