Padmaja's

 When someone asks me about my stay in Kerala, I always say that it was not pleasant at all. Two seconds later, I would be praising Kerala’s natural beauty and appam( a dosa like thing). When I look back, I feel Kerala was the best thing that ever happened to me.  It was my first time, I was staying outside home. Kottayam is not like Chennai, Delhi or Bangalore. It’s a town in southern Kerala where everyone is either addicted to studies or church.  Kerala made me way tougher than I could have possibly imagined. The language barrier, strict rules , hostel regulations , having no one close to give a call, made me independent. Transition from a city to a town is difficult to adapt and we girls had a hard time coping up to that. I don’t understand whether it was Kerala or because it was small town, locals were more interested in knowing what was going on in our lives.  We had to reach hostel even before sunset while our counter-parts in other IIMCs were having the time of thei

Just a few days ago, our equities editor was describing us the Harshad Mehta scam and how it revolutionized the whole stock market. I have always believed that whatever happens happens for our own good. It makes sense too; to believe that everything happens for our good. This defense mechanism tricks our mind into seeing the good side of everything. In most cases, the good things do take a bit time to surface up. I wanted it to apply and see whether it is actually true or not. Does every cloud have a silver lining? To answer that , I started with my love life.  People say love happens only once but I have lost track of the number of times I fell in love. So starting with my first love, he was the kind of guy I thought I was meant to be with. He is a charming guy and had many friends whereas I was the loner. We hardly dated for five months but everything is still so vivid that sometimes it feels like yesterday. Seven years ago, he gave me something that remains with me: the love