NISHA RAJAGOPALAN

19th April 2008 6:30pm Chennai

sometimes you try hard to make a day as you wish it to be like ... but it never works out ... when you realise that things are not in your hand then you leave few things to your fate and to let ur fate decide the right time ... but you still don't give up but live on a hope and wait for an opportunity ..and the right time

i have been waiting patiently till 19th april ...it turned out to be a day i have been looking forward to in recent years ...i wuz in chennai on my business trip and even on saturday i had to stay back in chennai for my work ... it all turned out to be my day despite all odds ...as i said when it's your time things happen for you ...and IT WUZ ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN I HAD AGAIN GIVEN UP TO THE FATE AND FATE HAD GIVEN UP FOR ME ...

a friend of mine was scheduled to sing and incidently i was in chennai ...
somehow i managed to find it out ... thanks to "The Hindu" news paper ...and GRT hotel staff who helped me where and how to find cultural events in chennai ...

it was scheduled to start at 6:30pm in the evening ...i wuz trying hard to wind up my work in time but i could not ... but i decided to take a break for 2 hours ... our office is in guindy ... all i knew wuz that the concert is in west mambalam ... what it meant to me wuz that it wuz somewhere in chennai ...geographically chennai is just one place for me and moving around in chennai, i leave it to others ...

i had called up a cab which came as usual little late and when we started off i just realised i misplaced the address and I somehow managed to still get it from hotel ... but since this wuz just not enough and to add to frustrations we got stuck in traffic jam in T nagar... the cab driver had no presence of mind and he also wuz not familiar of that area ... we asked quite a few people on the way how to get there... i wuz showing all my frustration by shouting at the driver as i thought i's just not gonna not make it and i wuz thinking we would land there just when it would be over ...and finally we reached to the venue ... we were late by almost an hour ...

we reached there ... the concert wuz still on ...though we missed one hour we we could still manage to hear the concert for remaining one hour ...

it wuz great to hear her ... i wuz just thrilled to be part of audience ...
the best part of the show wuz when organiser stood up and praised her lavishly ... it wuz indeed heartening to hear good words about her ... she deserves it ... and even more more than that ...
i find it strange when i find there are also critics for her ... people should realise what they are doing ... at an age she sacrifices so much to be what she is ... at an age when people normally are at begining of their careers she is so much ahead ...at an age where we still learn and she has already mastered an art ...at an age where there are only few people who strive to do best in keeping traditions alive generations after generations and she is just one of those few ....they need to encourage talent which keeps up our indian tradition ... we should only do all that motivates them to do well ...and grow further ... as they do the toghest job in the present times to keep up indian traditions ...

there are a lot of things I admire in her ...she is an electronics and communications engineer ... any one in that age would look forward
to career in IT but she took up her hobby as her career and doing great ... she is so young to be where she is now ... she looks very determined to scale heights and to grow and make her own mark in this area... i just love what she does ... im proud to be associated with her in some way ...i would do all that to encourge her ...i would attend all her concerts when im in chennai ... for i know im doing least i could do to help her achieve her goals ... and contribute to keep up indian traditions ...

NISHA RAJAGOPALAN, I wish you a good luck and hope you scale all heights and define new heighs ... just to let you know when we say we are proud to be indians, we look up to people like you ...!!!...