Born Manager

When he left our school, in class VI and shifted to Kanpur, I never thought we would meet again. We were not exactly langotia friends but I always some how remembered him. There were many reasons for that.

To begin with, we shared something thing very important - the name. And to add to that, he had the one of the most rarest of the surnames I had ever heard of. Also, he was the part of shortest brigade in the class. Finally, till a year before his house was bang opposite to the school.

As destiny would have it, our paths crossed once again. We both cleared IIT-JEE same year. Through grapevine, we already knew about each other's selection, and were looking forward to meet again after seven years. He found me first. More rub of the luck, as his room was five rooms across mine in Hall III.

I still remember the day we met again. There was no electricity in the campus, and we were being ragged by a senior. He expressed his desire to open a chemicals related company. He had only the faint idea how, but definitely yes. The senior rubbished his claim, I smiled but realized in coming four years that he would own a company for sure, much sooner than later.

The Festival Coordinator of Antaragni ,1998( IIT-K's cultural festival) today jointly owns the wonderfully doing Qualtech Consultants with the third guy who was being ragged alongside us that night - Anant Mishra.

Of course, his fixation for slightly younger girls than his actual age comes to an abrupt end now, as he has found his soul mate who would soon be his life partner. Though to be fair to him, he has always claimed that he is as young as those pretty-young-things, which we firmly refuse to believe.

A very Happy Birth Day to Manish Kankani.