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Has your flight every got cancelled? Yes, maybe and you felt really bad when that happened. When that happened the airlines booked you in another flight. Has it ever happened that the flight you were booked into ALSO got cancelled? Well, that happened to me yesterday on returning from SJR @Roorkee. I took 28 hours to reach Mumbai from Roorkee. I am sure some of the US/UK batchmates would have reached earlier. That should have really pissed me off. But you know what? It didn’t. The spirit (I like the Hindi word “Suroor”) of meeting all friends and visiting the campus was so high that nothing mattered. “Will I recognize anyone?" was the question that repeatedly did rounds in my head, "Has the University changed after so many years?" (I still don’t feel like calling it IIT), "Does the UOR spirit still lingers?" and many such thoughts were put to rest the moment I laid my eyes on the first set of classmates who had flown from around the world for t...

Acceptance (Antonym of Disclaimer):  In the true spirit of our era in Roorkee (the reason for mentioning 'our era' is solely to save the current batches), I have blatantly topo-ed from one of my earlier blog... :-) ------------------------------------------  "Will I recognize anyone?" was the question that repeatedly did rounds in my head (like the rounds we used to make around Sarojini Bhawan), "Will my batchmates still remember me?", "How has everyone changed in so many years?", "Does the UOR spirit still lingers?" and many such thoughts were put to rest the moment I laid my eyes on the first set of classmates who had flown from around the world for the Bodi cup which was effectively a reunion after 23 years of our batch of University of Roorkee that passed out in 1993. While I might be telling others that I am from IIT, Rookee, somehow I still get the real feel when I loudly mouth UOR or University of Roorkee and I kn...