Finished teaching an amazing YES!+ for students of Thapar University on monday, 24th Jan 02012. Nitish, Chunky, Ashmita, Harshit, Shivam, Rashleen, Anmol, Vishakha, Tavishi, Sharvi, Mahima and many more volunteers were involved in the course organising. Chunky drove me to Patiala in Pranav’s car. He has become quite good at disciplined driving after all my scoldings during the previous trip . I had the tastiest papaya halwa made in jaggery ( no white sugar!) by Ashmita . Missed visiting Isha’s house as I had case related work at Chandigarh during the day on monday.

All the new participants were super wonderful people. I remember the names of some. Nihit, Mahima, Ankit, Neeraj, Kulbir, Rajwinder,Atika, Mohit, Varun, Preetika, Harman, Umesh, Surya are a few that I can recollect. I remember each one by face though

The venue this time was first floor hall of COS building. This is a much better hall compared to the one on ground floor, albeit smaller but sufficient for an average sized course. My breakfast used to be freshly pressed carrot juice from the fruit shop in the shopping complex. You end up with a full glass for mere 10 rupees !!..I used to gulp atleast two, sometimes three glasses! Thapar students should not be having any other drinks

Thapar hostels are amongst the most eloquently architectured college-hostels, expressing abundance and strength. 14 feet high room-ceilings are a rarity from the constructions of early and mid 20th century that you wont find in any modern day architecture. It was quite interesting to listen to Dr. O.P. Pandey explain the construction days of the campus. Much of the design and construction he was directly involved with.

Nitish and Chunky have trained themselves into well groomed YES!+ volunteers managing the nitty-gritty of course organizing quite flawlessly.  Both of them pass-out at the end of this term. Thapar YES!+ will experience a sudden void in their absence. New team is inexperienced but their enthusiasm and HIS grace will make sure they pick things up very fast !

More later…

love,
Jai Gurudeva!