flashback...

The date:3rd April,2005
The time:Around noon
The venue: Technology Students' Gymkhana,IIT Kharagpur
The occasion:Gymkhana election results

The last 100 votes yet to be counted...I've a slender lead of 11 votes over my opponent in the Vice-Presidential election race...the only Gymkhana post where the IIT community seemed to have come up with no clear verdict...The narrowest victory margin i had heard till then was 1 vote way back in 1963...and somehow i felt this one would create history...A tense atmosphere outside the gymkhana building with every soul eagerly waiting for the suspense to come to an end...the heart was beating an uncountable number of times every second for me...A sudden roar of "Aludaaa" and the long wait was finally over...a rush of people around me and the congratulations started pouring in...never had the ringtone of my mobile phone sounded sweeter,never had those friendly hugs felt warmer!!!Almost a year has passed by and what a year it has been...almost a celebrity status has been conferred on me...a life where you attend 3 meetings a day on an average with the topmost authorities of the institute and answer innumerable phone calls...where you're interviewed by the media during every major student-related activity...where the entire campus looks upto you for a solution to any student-related problem...where you are the only student whom the entire campus claims to know...There have been quite a few requests pouring in for me to share my experience of being at the helm of student affairs in the campus...and hence this post is a prelude to the series of posts that are to follow in the next few days,entertaining these requests...so keep checking and i promise to keep you all posted on the year that was!!!