Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Coincidence with Nandan Nilekani (CEO of Infosys) 16/11/06




This was sooo random !! How can you expect something in the middle of the day...when you are not expecting anything...nice rhyming ;-)...hahah !! It was a weekend and we had a cool AIESECer Saad from NYC and the most motivated AIESEC member here at Yale, Sally. We were walking on the sideways and going to this amazing fest being organized by South Asian Society called as Roshni. So we are walking and this man passes by me in opposite direction. We looked into each other eyes for a click and he moved away his glare and we just moved, this all happened in a click almost. Something struck my mind! Do I know him?? Have I met him somewhere?? Who is he?? Sally who was this guy?? "I don't know" says Sally. I have seen him somewhere!! I guess I know him. Sally - "Go Ask him!" I was like "No, I don't know him, I donno". Saad says man go ask him he will be gone then...run fast and ask him. I don't know what happened to me and why did I run...I ran back and stopped the guy and asked him "Have we met before?" ..he says confidently "No". Me- "Are you from India?" He says "Yes!" Me- "Are you Nandan Nilekani?"and he nods !!! Fukkkkkk I met Nandan Nilekani walking on the street. My face suddenly grew big and smiled like never before in last few days I guess ;-)..hahahha !! Sally and Saad came running and I introduced them and myself. I asked "How come you are in Yale? I mean in New Haven?" He says" Well my daughter studies here..She is a freshman." Wow !!! That's amazing to know !! So Nandan Nilekani's daughter is in Yale ...isn't that cool?? ;-) He name is Jahanvi ! He was in kind of a hurry so we said bye and I thanked him.
So then we went to Roshni for the cultural fest. To my surprise he is already sitting there in the front row. So I didn't miss opportunity as well. On Sally's motivation again went ahead and talked to him for like 3-4 mins. Asked him why he got off AIESEC's board. He said a lot of work, so no point if I can't give my best. He asked me What I was doing a Yale and I explained him I came through AIESEC and it has given me so much. It's a great organization. Though there were not too many thoughts that were coming in my mind due to excitement ..hahah ;-).
I still can't believe that it happened and I met him...wow !!

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