1)      He is going to see Mona, Veena and Apsara in a single day. He is not talking about any foreign girl, or Indian lady or some damsel from Eden; these are Cinema halls at Patna.

2)      He is going to Catch 11 AM Rajdhani Express to Delhi by leaving from home at 3 PM. He knows more about train timings than Indian Railways.

3)      He can get you all engineering, medical or UPSC entrance exams material at a price one tenth of their original value. May be you are talking to a guy from GMP (Gandhi Maidan Publications).

4)      He is a close relative of a cabinet minister, state minister or for the least an IAS officer.

5)      He has a son who is preparing for the medical entrance exam for last 12 years after completing his +2. Don’t be surprised if he says his brother is still preparing for Bank PO, railways, UDC, LDC and BPSC for last 2 decades.

6)      Only theatre where you can easily get tickets is the one running SRK starrer My Name Is Khan. Rest of the halls are booked over-capacity as they are running Ravi Kissen’s Bhojpuri movie  “Pandit Ji, Batayee na Biyah Kab hoyee” ( Subtitles : Pandit ji.. Please tell, when will I get married?)

7)      He can get you the same Kalashnikov which Osama is seen carrying with so much pride in each of his videos. And for this you won’t get into any troubles like other lesser mortals (read Sanjay Dutt).

8)      Chhath is a bigger festival than Deewali or Navratra.

9)      He knows that Neetu Chandra and Shatrughan Sinha are from Bihar but he is not very sure where Emperor Ashoka, Lord Budha and Bhagwan Mahavir belonged to.

10)   Night Life for him means a night show at a theatre and coming home walking on foot.

11)   He has seen Mamta Kulkarni dancing not only at silver screen but at his own flat.

12)   He went to his college only thrice. First for taking admissions, second for getting his admit card and last time for results. Rest of the time there was some strike.

13)   MasterCard’s Slogan “There are some things money can’t buy” is false. It can buy you everything right from your degree, your Job, your spouse. You name it Dude!!

14) He can tell you which shop at Patna railway station sells best ” Littee – Chokha” but he is not very sure where the ticket counter is. Please don’t lose your mind if he says that he did not know that there is a ticket called platform ticket.

15)   Last but not the Least: Bihar is changing for good and there is nothing that can stop us except ourselves.

Ek bihari.. Sab per Bhaari

Shekhar Suman
JNVK (batch 93-98)

Students have also performed well in the IIT-JEE. Here’s the list of successful students from JNV Katihar:

1. Sahebsarul – 7476
2. Anand Kumar – 1218
3. Vishal Singh – 266
4. Jitender Kumar- 1676
5. Sumit Kumar – 2094
6. Ankesh kumar – 1054

Our heartiest Congratulations to Principal, Iqubal Sir and all the Students and Teachers of JNV Katihar for their success, dedication and hard work.

This is indeed good news and let us take this opportunity to congratulate the Navodaya family for JNVK’s success.

Well done Navodaya Bravos!

I am thankful to A.K. Trivedi sir for providing me this news.

Regards,
Rewa Smriti

I am putting forward some questions for discussions, just for brainstorming, feel free to answer… whatever you feel.

• Do you consider yourself to be a religious person?

• What are the religious activities that you do alone?

• Do you consider religion to be an important marker of your identity?

• Do you think you are ‘secular’?

• What does secularism mean to you?

• So can you be both religious and secular?

Regards
Smriti Bharti

We are planning to organize a GET-TOGETHER @ JNV Katihar in 2010. The Get – Together will have two days program.

The alumni are requested to come forward and Kindly let us know the appropriate Months and dates for GET-TOGETHER and your availability in these two days so that we can PROCEED accordingly.

Kindly comment here.

Regards.

kuch sunne sunaane ko dil chahta hai

hia tumahare mnane ka andaj kuch assa ki

phir se rudh jane ko dil chata hai”

****************************wish u all very very happy new year***************************************

No they are found lying and screaming silently in the darkness and the soul departing them one day with the wishes unfulfilled and untold but should it go on like this forever??????????? Can’t we raise up their voice and bring up this darkness????????

If yes then how……………………………………….???????????

Pranav Mistry at TED; The Sixth Sense – Part 2

Incredible India!

I ponder over the said word and am reminded of the time when I was in class 6th. Our English teacher, Shri Upadhyay Sir, once asked me on the playground at Korha (later it was shifted to Kolasi), “Pranay, can you name the arm that can be used to fight against all ill”? I was dull and poor in English. I knew nothing in English except to say that I didn’t know, and obviously that was my answer. Sir answered, “Education. Education is the powerful tool that can be used to wrestle against all ill… even for… social injustice….Education can be continued in the society through organizations… People come and go but organization survives…. Organization forms from thoughts… You can kill a man but not his thoughts. Thought originates from intellect, and survives through Education…” This all bounced over me and it was just bak-bak at that time.

Today when I am re-calling that event, I can’t help writing about one of my batch mates, Mukun Deo Mandal, a cool, calm, gentle-looking, clean-hearted boy. He belonged to the rural background. His father was an illiterate farmer. Our 7th class exam had got over. School got closed for two months (the summer vacation) and for those two months, we had to perform some noble jobs as a part of our project. I collected some photos of freedom fighters erratically. Most of other students collected different types of Plants, Insects, Butterflies and made herbarium/catalog (beautiful insects were killed and pinned). Deepanawita Sinha taught Oriya to her maid servant. I think it was all nonsense and rubbish actually. Two months later Mukun Deo Mandal came empty hands. He had nothing to show for his project work.

On the last Sunday of every month, we had parents-day. As usual, parents were coming to meet their children. We were given duties as student-volunteers. We were on the announcement table. Mukun Deo Mandal was called and told that his father had come and was waiting for him. He was requested to come to the multipurpose hall and see his father. He went to the hall to attend to his father. As usual, Shri Y K Sinha Sir, the art teacher, opened the ink pad for taking the thumb impression of his father. Surprisingly, his father took pen and duly signed against the column for guardians. Shri Y K Sinha Sir saw the broken letters in the signature and mumbled “Eureka”. His father told that Mukun had taught him the alphabets and digits during the summer vacation, and that now he was able to understand Hindi, and was no more illiterate.

I have been informed by a batch mate that Mukun has become a Govt. school teacher now. I don’t have any contact with Mukun Deo Mandal for the last 12 years, but the gentle and innocent face always swims in my mind and inspires me.

I keep thinking of the different dimensions of the word uttered by Abhishek and try to correlate them with this real-life story.

Author:
Pranaypunj Pankaj
JNV kolasi, katihar
Lecturer, Bhagalpur University,
Bihar

When you imagine you plant a seed n the more detailed n specific your imagination becomes, the more that seed will grow. Imagine the place you would most like to be, the imagine how u could get there; continue to Imagine in greater n greater detail n at some pt. an amazing transformation occurs. The object of your imagination crosses over into reality.

When you imagine you focus your mind on the possibilities n your mind goes to work to make those possibilities happen, when u imagine be sure to imagine the very best for what u can imagine n sets the stage for where you will go.