I can go on and on writing about three years in BMM,
these three years I learned many things from projects to festivals &
short-films. I should not forget it taught me how to stay awake all night for
weeks, and still work all day long.
As some BMM student, said, “Those who always think
nothing good happens after mid-night never studied BMM.”
In these three years, you tell me the time and I
might have taken a local-train. The short-film locations, and I still remember my
trip to Lonavala, where our group was broke, and we all decided to travel in a jam-packed
general compartment of our very own Indian Railways to reach our destination.
It taught me, how to be economical and still get done with things.
The most important thing these three years taught me
and which will be useful for my whole life, is something we expect everyone to
be, ‘Objectivity’. I always now look things with a thought that there will
surely be other-side to a particular aspect or subject. Be it politics or any
simple discussion. There are two sides
of every aspect, that’s what our Journalism faculty taught us too!
I could tell you no matter I practise journalism or
not, there’ll always be a thing called as observation, eagerness, curiosity, hunger
for news. I’m now addicted to not following news. There are days when, I’ll
prefer sleeping less but not missing reading my favourite columnists.
These three years has made me more aware, awaken and
also smart up to a certain extent to tackle the capitalist world outside, which
is waiting outside for Journalism graduates to come and join them for moving
the pen on the issues they want me to move. I was always a person full with
idealistic thoughts, and after reading, studying and listening from our faculty
that, the world doesn’t value ideals, but respect how much practical you’re. I’m
now stronger to fight with the world with my objective ideas, views and most
importantly my ideals.
During these three years, I lost many things which
landed me to hospital for operating my fractured hand to me giving statement in
the court of law for doing nothing to my argument with the Railway Police Force
(RPF) for not monitoring the Railway staff for not cleaning the station
premises, which almost landed me to a trouble and resulted, me to stay in
custody of the RPF for three hours.
All experience which I gained in my three years
resulted in me learning something and which I can say has made me very tough.
Tomorrow no-one can come and dominate me to work according to their ideas and
opinions.
If I sit to write every single thing which happened with
me in last three years, I guess not even Microsoft Word will not accept that.
I would conclude it by saying, may your children and
grand-children’s end up studying something like BMM.
